Maybe I can meet BS at the cheesecake factory after all. I might be flying into JFK and the city has been described as a big machine. I wish I had my Black Lives Matter hoodie so I could walk north from Columbia (Need Another Seven Astronauts) and into Harlem and emerge unscathed. Love to go cracking with Suzanne Vega and ask her why her re-recordings of her first few albums are no longer available. Perhaps a bunch of us can get together and buy her entire back catalog and make a gift of it to her at Lilith Fair sometime.

Yeah, and I noticed that someone mentioned GEnx and didn't realize that the only airline to never have had a fatal crash since the early days of aviation - QANTAS (ref. Rainman) - flies the Dreamliner with GEnx engines, so is potentially vulnerable. Well, forewarned is fourarmed, like Napoleon, and I doubt the Indians lost their most populous nation status with one plane crash.

Nah, Mr Freeze did some programming courses in his spare time, and left a dead man switch to take out a place that is usually pretty hot. Ask the gynecologist - Raj and whatshername's father.

Remind me not to use those when I build my artificial ventilator.

I think it's more likely that the Pakistanis did it with Russian cracks. Not discounting the possibility that the Atlantans, not ET, made sure that there was a witness. Of course one can't discount the possibility that the black box was located under his seat, that part being the most likely to survive such a crash. That Navy gun-sight footage of a big silvery Tic Tac could be an indication that the USA can now build a rounded one, rather than the usual triangular shape vehicles.

I guess it was just the right time for it. :^)

Don't be quite so cynical, please. TI famously invented the integrated circuit, the rest of the industry ripped them off for decades making variants of their iconic LSI logic chips. They eventually forced, through legal means, the rest of the industry to cough up some dough. It's great to see them enter the fray again. I own the domain tso.tech, which has been stolen from me. I will reclaim it though. TSO doesn't just stand for Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, it also stands for Texas Seiko Oceania. I hope to lure Texas and Seiko to Oz.

P.S. Like that virus spread by USB sticks that went out looking for uranium hexafluoride centrifuges some years ago.

Maybe the plane caught a virus, like in that movie Independence Day, or maybe the engines were controlled by SCADA or something similar, with holes built in to the hardware. Pointless speculation? Maybe it all started in the entertainment system, and someone put a rootkit on a DVD or BluRay disk, like Sony BMG did back in the day to some of their CDs. Then it could have worked its way around the system looking for some engine control hardware to sabotage.

Does anyone know what type of engines were on the 787? There are apparently two options - Rolls Royce or General Electric. Both big efficient turbofans. The differences may matter.

Here Here, and make it UV stabilized as well.