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Comment Personalised AI video would be good.. (Score 1) 28

I would like my browser to take note of my preferences and alter any video of celebrities to portray them to me in a way that would horrify them ( If I dislike Taylor Swift it would alter any video so she had a comically fat arse, if I dislike Kim Kardashian it would alter any video so she did not have a comically fat arse).
Maybe I just miss Spitting Image.

Comment Re: Clearly our society is in decline (Score 2) 122

Boomers got lucky and were in the right place at the right time. They thought it was because they worked hard.

Gen X were told that working hard would bring rewards, but saw that it didn't and became bitter.

Millennials were told that working hard would bring rewards and that Gen X cynicism was why Gen X was not rewarded. They were exploited even more than Gen X.

Comment Re: These switches require affirmative operation (Score 1) 90

Do we know if they changed state to Cutoff or is the black box recording that some computer claims that the switches changed state to Cutoff?

If one crewmember did manually set the switches to Cutoff, why does it take ten seconds for this to be noticed and the switches set back to Run?

Comment Re: Shame on the WSJ for the clickbait headline! (Score 1) 90

I am curious about the two pilots' conversation and the timing.

What is the first guy reacting to when he asks "why did you cut the fuel?". Is he looking at a 'fuel flow' readout? Is he just feeling the engines die and lose thrust? Is he looking at the fuel cutoff switches in the cutoff position?

How long after fuel cutoff does this conversation take place?

Why does it take ten seconds from fuel cutoff until the switches are set to 'Run'?

If one crewmember selected 'cutoff' on the fuel switches, I cannot believe it took the other guy, with his aircraft losing power from both engines, ten seconds to check the state of the fuel cutoff switches and put them back to 'Run'.

I can imagine a software glitch cutting off fuel to both engines, puzzled crew looking at fuel cutoff switches that are physically in the 'Run' position while the engines are obviously starved of fuel and taking ten seconds to try flipping from Run to Cutoff to Run in desperation.

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