Non-IT News Thread
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Indonesia 737 crash caused by “safety” feature change pilots weren’t told of
737 Max safety bulletin revealed changes to system that pilots never knew about.
On November 6, Boeing issued an update to Boeing 737 MAX aircrews. The change, directed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), came because Boeing had never provided guidance to pilots on what to do when part of an updated safety system malfunctioned—the very scenario that the pilots of Indonesia's Lion Air Flight 610 faced on October 29. Not knowing how to correct for the malfunction, the aircrew and their passengers were doomed. All aboard were lost as the aircraft crashed into the Java Sea.
First approved for commercial operation by the FAA on March 8, 2017, the MAX is just beginning to be delivered in large volumes. Lion Air was one of Boeing's primary foreign customers for the MAX, which is also flown by Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, and Air Canada. The Lion Air aircraft lost in the accident was virtually brand new, delivered by Boeing in August; this was the first accident involving an aircraft touted for its safety.
Update: But Boeing never told pilots about one key new safety feature—an automated anti-stall system—or how to troubleshoot its failure. The manual update raised an outcry from pilots in the US.
Allied Pilots Association spokesperson and 737 captain Dennis Tajer told Reuters that his union members were only informed of a new anti-stall system that had been installed by Boeing on 737 MAX aircraft after the Lion Air crash. “It is information that we were not privy to in training or in any other manuals or materials,” Tajer told Reuters.
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Do you win by whining?
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@NerdyDad said in Non-IT News Thread:
"But players can forget buying property. They can't afford that anyway." Sounds about right. Can they add a part about crippling student loans? that would make it authentic, doubly so if they can get a degree in a field that has no job prospects.
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@scottalanmiller No money, everybody is in debt, the person with the most debt starts the game. Instead of buying properties, you buy experiences and that is how you gain points. The person with the most points wins. Places like Chance and Community Chest allows you to interact with other players. The hashtag/pound sign, emoji, and something else are some of the tokens.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Do you win by whining?
The most failed startups wins the game.
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@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Do you win by whining?
The most failed startups wins the game.
Nah, the most social media followers wins.
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This is the most SFT I've ever heard of.... They collect experiences...
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Mohamed Sanu honored Stan Lee with these incredible cleats
https://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2018/11/18/18101422/mohamed-sanu-stan-lee-cleats-falcons -
Just a reminder...
https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/thanksgiving-is-the-least-sexy-holiday.html
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GM poised to close plants in Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, will cut 15% of salaried workers
Big news here in MI this morning.
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@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:
GM poised to close plants in Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, will cut 15% of salaried workers
Big news here in MI this morning.
In Ohio as well. The Lordstown plant that's closing has it's own zip code.
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@bnrstnr said in Non-IT News Thread:
GM poised to close plants in Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, will cut 15% of salaried workers
Big news here in MI this morning.
Wow
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Six4Three exec “panicked” in UK MP’s office, gave up Facebook internal files
App maker had been ordered to not share docs obtained via discovery, but did anyway.
...a California county judge is irked that documents that he ordered kept secret under a protective order have now been shared abroad.
The years-long legal dispute between Facebook and the tiny app company Six4Three has now intersected with an ongoing British investigation into Facebook's privacy practices—resulting in a strange twist.
A new Monday court filing indicates that Six4Three's managing director, Ted Kramer, met with MP Damian Collins in the parliamentarian's London office on November 20. According to the filing, MP Collins told Kramer that he was in contempt of Parliament. There, Kramer "panicked" and began frantically searching his Dropbox account for relevant files obtained under civil discovery. He eventually copied some of them to a USB stick, which he gave to Collins....
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GM axes Volt, Cruze, and Impala for North America in cost-cutting move
GM is cutting jobs and car models despite earning healthy profits.
GM is laying off thousands of workers and closing five plants, the company announced on Monday. The company is aiming to reduce its salaried headcount by 15 percent in the coming months.
The sobering news comes at a time when GM as a whole is doing relatively well. The company is profitable and beat Wall Street's expectations with its most recent quarterly earnings results.
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Chinese customers hate “new car smell,” so Ford files a patent to bake it out
A premium smell to one country is a disgusting distraction to another.
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Report: Uber self-driving team was preparing for CEO demo before fatal crash
Engineers were reportedly encouraged to limit "bad experiences" to one per trip.
We've known since May that serious flaws in Uber's self-driving software contributed to the fatal crash that killed pedestrian Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Arizona, back in March. For example, Uber had disabled emergency braking on its vehicles to make its cars' driving behavior less erratic. A new report from Business Insider's Julie Bort sheds light on why Uber's software may have been so flawed at the time of the March crash.
In early 2018, Uber's Advanced Technology Group—the team developing self-driving cars—was focused on getting ready for a forthcoming demo ride with Uber's recently hired CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi. Business Insider reports that in November 2017, Uber circulated a document asking engineers on the self-driving car team to think about "rider experience metrics." Engineers were encouraged to try to limit the number of "bad experiences" to one per ride.
Two days later, another email went out announcing that Uber was "turning off the car's ability to make emergency decisions on its own like slamming on the brakes or swerving hard."...
...Hard braking was still disabled in March when Elaine Herzberg stepped into the Tempe roadway ahead of an Uber vehicle. According to the NTSB's report, "at 1.3 seconds before impact, the self-driving system determined that an emergency braking maneuver was needed to mitigate a collision." However, "emergency braking maneuvers" were "not enabled." Even worse, "the system is not designed to alert" the safety driver about an imminent collision.
