Not quite.

MAS is owned by the Malaysian Government holdings company (either wholly or majority, I cant remember which) and the airline has recently had another period of unprofitably. This is less about assuring the Malaysian people of anything and more about trying to do damage control to the rest of the world. Sadly they're doing it in SE Asian style which is more about maintaining face than fixing issues.

In addition to this, MAS is getting a lot of competition from Malaysia's low cost airline Air Asia and anything else that could eat into the MAS's revenue is detrimental to the Malaysian Govt so they're dialling the damage control up to 11.

JBOD

I have no idea why people would run RAID at home without a rock solid backup solution. Even using RAID 5 or 6 to protect against an individual disk failure leaves you wide open to a controller failure (especially if it's software RAID), I've seen consumer grade RAID controllers fail a lot. Seeing as you dont need the speed RAID provides, JBOD protects you against a controller failure but leaves you open to losing a disk, but would you rather lose a fraction of your pron, erm.. sorry, home media collection or the lot of it.

I ran 2 x 1 TB drives in RAID 1 for a while and all it did was conflict with the audio driver (both were inbuilt into my mobo).

Yep, two storage devices. Once you've got the data onto your backup device, you only have to keep it synced up some how. Personally I'd use a NAS but 4TB would be plenty for me.

I agree with you completely. I live in the backwards state of Western Australia and sunrise has only just gone back to being around 5 in the morning and all the birds and retards are getting up at that time of the morning.

We've had a few referendums on daylight savings and despite the obvious benefits (more light after work to do things, no longer being 3 hours (and 20 years) behind the eastern states). I believe the reasons it was rejected last time was because the cows would fade and the curtains wont know what time to get milked.

Partner with Koingesseggessegesgeg... Because eventually they'll have to fill out a form to block them and no-one will be able to spell it.

This, aircraft fatalities are so rare that any single crash is international news, 300+ people die on Western Australian roads each year, there was a fatal truck crash near Yangebup last week... I doubt half the people in Perth, Western Australia would be aware of it.

Because some company using a tragedy to peddle their wares that have dubious value and are not even remotely guaranteed to work is closer.

Pot, meed kettle.

FLYHT are scum. Their products have been rejected by the aviation industry because they don't add value but add additional cost (satellite data connections aren't cheap), are just as prone to failure as current methods (relies on instrumentation or manual activation) and have additional points of failure (a dial on demand satellite connection, when a flight disappears from radar and the pilots cannot be raised on the radio and the transponder is gone... WTF makes me think a dial on demand satellite connection will work). And now they're using a tragedy to try to peddle their crud.

I read the article, it's nothing but attacks on the aviation industry and badly used thought terminating cliche's like "tell that to the families". Its the kind of thing an angry pre-pubescent child would write when their parents ground them.

Because we get all that from RADAR.

The problem the aviation industry has is that you, the customer want to pay less for flights, not more.

If an aircraft disappears from RADAR and you cant raise the pilots on the radio, such a system would in all likelihood be out of commission as well.

Costs to acquire are often not the highest costs. Same with this, it may cost $100K to purchase, but how much to keep running?

I read the article, the technology is flawed in two ways.
1, it depends on the instrumentation or pilots detecting something going wrong. One of the leading theories in the AF447 accident was that an instrument was reporting incorrectly.
2. it depends on satellite communication (which isn't cheap) and MH370 disappeared from RADAR and radio communications. What makes you think a dial on demand satellite connection would work.

Besides this, much like the summary the article is full of half baked assumptions, attacks on the aviation industry, emotive language and thought terminating cliche's in the place of fact or at least tests and results. The aviation industry rejected their devices before because they dont add any real value due to the flaws I mentioned above. They are essentially trying to use a tragedy to sell something of dubious value whilst people are too emotional to think critically. I think FLYHT are scum.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

In a few years, you'll get a new loan for a new Audi. By then we'll be up to elevnety thousand G.

Signed,
VAG's planned obsolescence department.

I don't know who views a phone as a status symbol any more.

It sounds like you don't know many people.

Oddly enough, it seems you're doing the projection here. You seem to think everyone has the exact same values as you. This is not correct. People do consider their phones to be status symbols, much the same as Zara Jeans and D&G handbags. This is why they line up every year to get the latest model. Phones to many a fashion accessories and occupy the same slot as other fashion accessories for these people, so yes, they are status symbols. How many purses did Michael Kors sell last year, I'd be very supprised if it wasn't a multiple of 150 million, they're still status symbols, not strong ones like Rolls Royce but for people who buy them they are an indication of status... The same with Iphones.

I don't consider phones to be status symbols, but I know enough people to understand that this is my view (I own an old Galaxy Nexus) but here you've pretty much demonstrated you don't get out much, you definitely don't understand how mundane people work.

smart phones aren't used for status symbols.

Yes they are, I'm just going to do the copy/paste from the other comment I made about this.

The culture of one-upmanship and keeping up with the joneses is alive and well in western societies. A lot of people are constantly trying to get better toys than their peers and neighbours. Frank buys a ride on mower, not Bob and Steve have to have one. Steve gets a new Accord Euro, so Bob has to get a BMW 320 and not to be out done, Frank has to get a Mercedes CLA. Same with kids getting huge fart-cannon cat-backs (exhausts) to make their crapwagon sound louder.

Phones are considered status symbols by a lot of vain people, they aren't very good status symbols but they are still status symbols for a great many people. This is why they rush to show everyone their new phone, mundane people don't care about how much RAM it's got or the new features like us geeks and every other mundane person knows it. They only care about showing everyone their new toy.

There's a joke explaining the difference between a normal person and a douchebag.
Normal Person: Excuse me for a second, I have to get my jacket out of my car, I left my phone in there.
Douchebag: Excuse me for a second, I have to get my Northface out of my Lexus, I left my Iphone 5 S in there.

Erm, thanks for not reading my, or the OP's post.

We didn't say don't take them with you, we said don't wander around with them out. Thieves look for easy targets and people too engrossed in their Idevice are extremely easy targets.

It's a basic self preservation measure, like not accepting candy from strangers.

Hey, but you're proving my point for me. A lot of first worlders don't have a clue about how to act in a country where theft is prevalent.

You're making the assertion that I dont know.

Sorry, but if your only defence is to hold up your hand and shout "Y'all dont know me" shows a serious dearth of both a point and creativity.

You and the OP, to which I'm still not convinced aren't the same person (you both have the same writing styles and the same argument) haven't managed to argue, let alone counteract a single one of my points.

I award you zero points, and may god have mercy on your soul.

As per your response, they were very good guesses.

Your earlier post gave a lot away. So they were quite educated guesses. You clearly don't remember what it was like to be a kid, nor do you have them.

BTW, the only kind of attack-ish thing I did was point out that at one point in your childhood, you would have misbehaved. Given the way you responded, I'd say that was a good bet too.

Warden: We need to stop these drones.
Mayor: Get me the army.
/phone rings.
Officer: Bonjour, armee l'quebec.
Mayor: We need your best Anti-Air regiment, double time.
Officer: Sir, this is the Canadian army, we don't have anti-air weapons. Sorry aboot that.