Until recently I worked for a company which supplied industrial grade computers, including tablets. All the tablets we supplied ran windows. Google need to push hard to break into that market segment and developing a product like this is a good place to start.

Yes.

That might be a good thing. We do that all the time and memories lost from the last are not necessarily a bad thing. If you can restore function and record new memories, that would be a huge improvement.

Thats what backups are for.

Working in Korea once I needed to install a package with apt-get but the file came down empty. I asked around and it turns out that to download anything on the corporate network you had to install this active-x component which looks to see if a storage device is connected to USB. If a device is connected the download still won't work, but you can still make a local copy of the file, plug in the USB key, and copy the file that way, which is what we did on a windows box.

Half measures all over the place.

I have seen this with radar processing chains where different component slew the time at different rates, mostly because of differences in the OS and the time synchronisation software. If one part of the chain suddenly steps its time by a second, downstream components reject its messages.

I thought it was a collapsed lava tube. The lunar surface is pretty heavily pounded so hollow tubes are fairly unlikely, at least accessible ones.

Similar deal in NZ, but it may take a few hours, and it costs nothing. It's a pretty standard way of paying someone if you can't be bothered messing about with cash. Ours doesn't use email though, just bank account numbers (and increasingly phone numbers, but I haven't explored how that works.)

8 months? I've had a smartwatch talking to my phone for nearly 2 years now.

All these parts are centrally tracked. Alarms would go off at Boeing.

Maybe they caught fire.

Yeah thats Palau Langkawi but while the runway is long, everything else is wrong with that destination. The runway is only really usable from the west, and terrain to the east would make an abort for a heavy aircraft problematic. There is only a small hospital on the island, a couple of police stations and a few ambulances. Its not really set up for night operations either. A return to KLIA would have been the standard way to go, its a bit longer but the aircraft was loaded with fuel and may have needed to dump or burn off fuel to land anyway.

Yeah there was an interview with a former chief pilot of Malaysia Airlines, and he seemed pretty convinced the captain stole the plane. In particular, the way the aircraft overflew Penang, which was the captain's home city. A day before the flight his wife and kids had gone back to their house in Penang.

I would still put

0 - Respirate at the top in a pressurised aircraft.

And since the crew did turn west, we need to explain why. Did they have a navigation failure? Thats strange with the Malay peninsula lit up around them.