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derekmead writes: Having completed intense review of the aircraft's flight systems and functionality, component reliability, two weeks ago Boeing completed testing on the last item on its list, the plane's battery housing. The FAA on Friday approved the new system. That means the 787, which Boeing has continued to build while new battery solutions were developed, will now be able to resume regular flights as soon as workers are able to carry out an overhaul of the planes that need the upgrade.
"FAA approval clears the way for us and the airlines to begin the process of returning the 787 to flight with continued confidence in the safety and reliability of this game-changing new airplane," Jim McNerney, CEO of Boeing, said in a news release announcing the approval.
Police did what they could to take them alive, since a dead person doesn't talk much. In that kind of situation, couldn't they use some kind of anaesthetic bullets? Sure, many people prefer them dead, but taking them alive is a way to collect more relevant information.
I'm not reading here for the news (that is everywhere) either - I'm reading/. for the moderated comments that are certainly not everywhere.. (except yours)
Damien1972 writes: Popularization of the world's strangest coffee may be imperiling a a suite of small mammals in Indonesia, according to a new study in Small Carnivore Conservation. The coffee, known as kopi luwak (kopi for coffee and luwak for the civet), is made from whole coffee beans that have passed through the gut of the animal. The coffee is apparently noted for its distinct taste, though some have argued it is little more than novelty. Now, this burgeoning kopi luwak industry is creating "civet farms," whereby civets are captured from the wild and kept in cages to eat and crap out coffee beans.
zippo01 writes: An explosion ripped through a fertilizer plant Wednesday night in the area of West, Texas, sending a massive fireball into the sky and causing dozens of injuries, officials said.
astroengine writes: World-renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has announced that he was likely wrong about his view that the Higgs boson doesn’t exist — an outcome he doesn’t find very exciting — conceding that he lost a $100 wager. Speaking at the Beckman Auditorium in Caltech, Pasadena, Calif., on Tuesday (April 16), the British physicist gave a public lecture on “The Origins of the Universe,” summarizing new revelations in modern astrophysics and cosmology. After the lecture, Caltech physicist and colleague John Preskill commented on Hawking’s fondness of placing bets when faced with conflicts of physics ideas. Hawking lost a famous wager to Preskill in 2004 in a debate over whether or not black holes destroy information (theory suggests they do not, opposing Hawking's argument). “To love Stephen Hawking is to not always agree with Stephen Hawking,” Preskill quipped. “He’s usually right, but he’s not always right. Sometimes we haven’t been able to resolve our differences and we’ve resorted to making bets it’s sad to say that although Stephen Hawking is without doubt a great scientist, he’s a bad gambler.”
olsmeister writes: Hydrogen Sulfide is a toxic, flammable, foul-smelling gas that some theorize may have been at least partially responsible for some of Earth's mass extinctions, including the Permian-Triassic event, which killed well over half of the species on the planet. Now, thanks to a fortuitous accident, doctoral student at the University of Washington seems to have discovered that very low doses of the gas seems to greatly enhance plant growth, causing plants to germinate more quickly and grow larger. The finding could have far reaching implications for both food and biofuel production.
allwinter writes: Intel earnings have just been published for the last quarter, and they are not looking too good. Their profit declined. The worst part about it is that it will continue to decline, because Intel faces some major challenges that can’t be so easily fixed, and the market might not wait around for Intel to fix them.
Kozar_The_Malignant writes: Students at the University of Iceland have written an Android app that helps you avoid dating your cousins. The app accesses the Icelandic national genealogical database that contains information on all living citizens and their ancestors going back 1,100 years. Tapping two phones together will bring up an alert if you share a common grandparent.
llebeel writes: Gigabyte previewed a mini PC called Brix at a "tech tour" event in London last night, which could see the firm take on the Raspberry Pi.
Boasting what the firm claims is "the same power as a tower PC", the mini computer boasts a choice of Intel Celeron or Core processors as powerful as the Core i7 chip for "low to high power".
However, as yet specs are thin on the ground, but we do know it should launch in the UK within the next month or so..
edjubenville writes: I have been approached by a medical equipment delivery company to develop an online system to manage customer data, delivery schedules and inventory. I am a solo developer with some LAMP stack experience, but no experience with any particular PHP framework.
First question: Which PHP framework (e.g., CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Zend) would you recommend for a job like this if
my focus is on showing them a bare bones prototype as soon as possible? There are implications of security related to HIPAA that I fully don't appreciate yet. The customer requirements are fuzzy because they are replacing an off-the-shelf system that was never a good fit for their business model. I anticipate needing to make a few iterations on the prototype, so I'd like to hit the ground running, and minimize the time per iteration.
Second question: How afraid should I be of liabilities under HIPAA? The database would hold patient contact
information and identify medical supplies associated with those patients. I am wondering if a PHP application
with conventional logins, session management, session timeouts and user access restrictions would
be considered "best practice". Perhaps the liabilities wouldn't fall on me at all, but onto the client if this job is done as a work for hire.
