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Comment Neither. (Score 1) 686

It's just the way it is. Somehow, there are certain types of jobs that are more likelly to be filled with a specific gender. I beleive this is result of a extremely complex combination of education, genetics and culture.
I'm a pilot. In this job being a women will make your life extremely easier. There is a consensus in the industry that women are better at managing aircrafts systems. In my own experience, I'm sure that is very true. But, I'm also sure women often don't like the job of flying airplanes around. It's just a job for them. Maybe that's the reason women's landings are rougher on passengers. Maybe that's why women will never do something out of the manual, because it's just a job, they aren't even thinking, they are just machines doing what they are supposed to do. When they have to make decisions not covered by a manual they always ask others to decide from them. Usually the manual is right, so... women are in fact better pilots.
But if you do something because it's a job, someone else will do it for fun and much better than you.

Comment Re:I would rather have a Boeing that is late... (Score 1) 334

It is true that Airbus airplanes are more dangerous than Boeing counterparts in general. But, if you take only airplanes with correct maintenance, Boeing airplanes are dangerous as Airbuses. The thing is, Airbus products are cheaper and that leads to cheap buyers, the end of the story you already know. Composite materials are a bad choice right now. It's very hard to evaluate fatige in the long run because they start to break from the inside out. Magnaflux and x-ray are not effective on composite materials and you would need one hell of MRI to really verify fatige in those parts. The 787 does not bring anything really new to the table besides high maintenance costs, honeywell has been selling similar avionics for years to embraer. Boeing had the chance to bring Airbus down and now it's taking a bite from Embraer and Bombardier on regional airplanes (737,3)

Comment It will take a lot more. (Score 5, Interesting) 203

I'm a pilot (A320 rating) and a software developer for a major brazilian airline. Unmaned aircrafts are remote controlled. Airbus and Boeing NG airplanes can, in fact, fly with almost no human intervention. But they only do that with very very specific scenarios and cannot solve any situation that is not predicted. In fact, there is no auto-pilot in the market right now that can keep a plane flying with 26kts+ of wind, it cannot predict the wind movement because it just can't learn how the wind gusts are behaving. 26kts winds are nothing, any private pilot can land a cessna skylane with that situation. IRS systems fail, VOR/NDB usually fail, ILS also. It is NOTuncommon to a pilot land a plane "tech-blind". That's just a simple scenario, there are thousands of situations where learning stuff on the spot is required. There is no computer in the market right now that can predict a wind-shear, thing that barely experienced pilots can. Students try to make a car drive by itself and that thing usually is too slow, unreliable, and just do wrong things. It will take decades of AI development to make a computer actually fly an airplane. Yes, I'm a A320 pilot and software developer, if you are too skeptical I can send my code you can check on ANAC website (FAA-like in brazil).

Comment Saver than Diebold (Score 1) 324

The bottom line is that SSL, A3 certificate and mutual authentication is a save. Saver than using voting machines, I'm sure. This methods are much saver than paper and pen voting. There may have problems with this kind of technology but make no mistakes, a peace of paper is way less secure than this.

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