Comment The real problem here (Score 2) 131
Electronics that don't have battery compartments and no standards for rechargeable batteries that they contain.
Electronics that don't have battery compartments and no standards for rechargeable batteries that they contain.
Not too sad. Most Heathkit stuff being built by it's owners, means that it is also repairable by it's owners (and other owners as it passes hands). Especially with Ham Radio equipment, there are active communities that collect/repair them.
>Dude was drama-queening on the interwebs,
If you call complaining about not being able to ever see your daughter drama; FTA
"Jerry had a fairly troubled past, and had been suicidial before those final few days of his life," Sandy said. "His ex-wife, who is the mother of his disabled 20 year old daugther, took a lot of his money for support and never let Jerry see his daughter.
Password: Admin
It's also interesting to see how high the UIDs are
Kinda like how your UID is high??
Thanks for posting. Sorry you got modded down.
it is not at all clear that the error had anything to do with a focus on "individual abilities".
If you RTFA, there was a single point of failure isolated to a specific tool used to grind the mirror, and the subsequent mistakes made by management dealing with the error (i.e. when the mirror was on the bed of nails).
If there was the remotest chance their $millions worth of plane and PR could be brought down by your phone no one would be allowed them.
Slashdot has had an influx of non-tech ignoramuses. The fact is that there are distinct and well known reasons why there is electronics ban. Besides interfering with navigation, they can potentially interfere with communications with the control tower.
Electronic devices were designed not with airplanes in mind, but rather with a minimum amount of care that a consumer device requires.
FTA;
I don't buy that there is any interference issue, at least not in general,
The problem is we don't want airplane systems to withstand EMI "in general," we demand "perfect" operations so there can be a "perfect" safety record. Not just "in general" safe.
It would have been more informative to call the internal circuitry "filters" rather than "magnetics," which is conceptually more accurate.
That said, this has to be great advertising for Molex.
Let me clear up the ambiguos advice that preceded this post. Get YOUR OWN machine!
Where is the schematic for this thing??
Linux is a bit huge
The word is bloated. Which is difficult for embedded solutions to handle, and could well garner an audience for those that need a small footprint (and they're looking for an embedded programmer).
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