Because you are only accessing a 'local' node and the change is applied instantly because you are connected to where the change occurs.

If you VPN to some other geographic location far away in their hierarchy, your account may not be available for some time.

It also may get updated quickly to start with, but then its cached and tge cache will exist for some time until it expires.

The cache could potentially be cleared, but when there are potentially millions of cache locations it could be in, you arent purging them all instantly.

Large distributed systems hide ALL of this from you by alway directing you to the same group/cluster where cache can be managed efficiently without global performance impacts.

You cant delete the evidence but keep the data.

The pictures have to be available to challenge the data. ALPR are wrong A LOT, and people get falsely accused often.

You either keep the data so the defense cand defend itself fairly, or you immediately throw out the license plate data AND ALL DERIVATIVES CAPUTRED AFTER AS A DIRECT OR INDIRECT result. Meaning anyone can claim any data collected after ALPR data was accessed must be thrown out as tainted, since the ALPR data gave you a hint to look further in a specific direction.

It absolutely 100% reflects EXACTLY what your internal culture is. Otherwise they would be demonstrating how that sort of behavior, and this specific instance were addressed by leadership to make it clear thats not acceptable.

But no one did anything did they. It was entirely acceptable, and theyve been promoted

Yet that is literally how Pontiac schemes work until they collapse...

Should be trained to actually fly the aircraft, not set the GPS and forget it.

Navigation by alternate methods isn't even a little bit hard if you can handle pretty basic math and have charts. With electronic charts this should be no problem, you estimate your location based on land marks or ATC and then plot your bearing - or let ATC direct you. None of the avionics you require to navigate with your brain are GPS based. VOR, ILS, a compass and a guess within a few hundred miles of your current position and you should be able to figure it out, even in IFR weather.

If they had the close runways because the pilots were incapable of landing on their own with visual references or standard ILS, they are in no way qualified to be in an airliner. W T F

GeForce Now is not Stadia.

Stadia was custom thing requiring development build for stadia.

GFN is just a VM with access to Nvidia hardware running Windows and using the standard Steam client (or Xbox for pc, epic store). When it first came out, literally every game on steam was available, though some weren't working right. GFN had to modify it to only allow certain steam games to appease devs who for some reason didnt approve.

Its not as low latency as local steam link, but as a dad/former gamer, its not so baggy that its the reason I get pwned, its still me.

I wouldn't do iRacing or CoD on it, but fortnite against kids is solid on a good internet connection.

The downside is the one game I really want to play on it doesn't use cloud saves, so its not seamless in that game (to be fair, my last save was close to 1gb in size :/

Congrats asswipes, Ive already canceled my YouTube.tv sub because I missed the last F1 race because of this bullshit.

Just canceled my Disney+ sub because I have to pay extra there to get ESPN to get F1 ...

FUCK YOU RICH ASSHOLES.

I'll just go outside instead, and enjoy my $180/month for other things.

I could give not 1 flying fuck why, you are both ridiculously profitable, fuck you greedy assholes. Both of you are trying to blame the other guy, yet profitable is not in anyway a problem you have.

I hope ya'll die the most painful death, you deserve it.

"If confronted with a gnome login gui, how do you make the system useful again?"

Alt-F1 (or whatever it is in Linux - I only use certified UNIX systems, which Linux will never be)

Or you know, build robust apps that don't have one cloud provider as a single point of failure.

This wasn't a root dns failure of TLD servers, so it wasn't by any means an unsolvable problem.

But that takes effort, and to be fair, if the company cared about reliability, they wouldn't be on AWS anyway. Not that AWS isn't generally reliable, its a great service for many things, but when you outsource everything to someone else because its hard - and don't understand that you're still actually responsible for the 'hard' parts - well thats on you and its why you should have done it yourself first.

The shit you outsource to AWS is actually the EASY part. Putting all that stuff together into a working architecture is and always has been the difficult part. Keeping rack servers running is a pretty well understood process at this point, its not hard to keep racks of running computers, it just takes people who know how to build your automation and understand that time is more expensive than cpu cycles.

It's reasonable when you consider they have to "support" those drives via their various support channels.

You put in a drive with incompatible firmware, then start asking for support because an issue with the firmware comes up, it directly costs them money.

Im not arguing the cost is valid, but if you've ever dealt with large commercial product support you would completely understand why its logical.

No you cant just refuse support to those people because
A. You will still contact them and waste resources to confirm an unsupported drive
B. Most states require vendors to honor warranty/support for modified products unless the vendor can PROVE the modification is the source of the problem.
C. Even after proof, some customers would continue to argue and add legal costs
D. Finally the customer will trash talk the vendor online and word of mouth, right or wrong ... costing the vendor even more money

Or they could just block your cheap drive and not have you as a customer and lose less money cause you're a tight wad.

You're not the customer they are interested in, you're a potential cost rather than profit.

Fun fact - I prefer just filling out that bland web form rather than trying to talk on the phone to someone or an AI.

That was one of the great things about the web, people didn't have to deal with that slow process anymore, you could just got fill out the form without talking and be done.

I DON'T WANT YOUR UPSELLING AGENT.

I haven't wanted it for the last 30 years, I don't want an AI powered one for the next 30 years

Turning them off and landing in an empty field or on the Hudson, or rolling off the end of the runway may be preferable to the plane burning itself up in flight. It's extremely unlikely it was entirely unforced error and the pilot/copilot did something malicious.

Obviously it wouldn't be preferable ever at this airport, but there is an assumption that the pilots arent actively trying to down the aircraft.

There are thousands if not millions of ways a pilot can actively sabotage the aircraft. They are the one group on the plane that is trusted not to. It's nearly impossible to prevent it without removing them entirely from the plane. And all the passengers too ...

Sometimes, not very often ... the pilot is a problem.

No.

No breaks or excuses.

You cant bolt security on after the fact. The entire protocol and application MUST take security into account from the start.

Trying to add security on after the fact is how we ended up with ActiveX on web pages and VBA in documents and NEVER WERE ABLE TO MAKE IT SECURE.

To make web browsers secure, they pretty much all started over (website, firefox) because trying to strap it on was impossible.

You dont typically use avgas in fuel trucks at large airports like this as most ICE engines are on small aircraft that dont fly in large airports for all sorts of reasons.

You dont fly your little Cessna single engine into an airport with 787s landing or taking off. Thats a nightmare/disaster in the works. The Cessna would be like a leaf in a hurricane.

They drive to a gas pump AWAY from the jet wash that will destroy them.

Larger prop driven aircraft are powered by turboprop engines - they use jet fuel as well, not areas.

It's not impossible of course, but pretty unlikely.

Nope, you can absolutely roll off the end of the runway at any speed except full stop. Take off is always a choice.

The landing in the other hand is governed by physics, mostly gravity. If you dont leave orbit, landing is mandatory, its only a question of when and what it looks like. The aircraft will be on the ground eventually.

It may be a good landing, it may be a fiery crash, but you absolutely are going to land.