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FYI: In the Off-Topic section there is now an updated report on the ongoing Boeing situation:
Boeing quality whistleblower John Barnett is found shot dead
To recap, in the OT section the articles on the Boeing situation are as follows:
• 1/7/24: …
"or when line falls"
That type of automatic shutoff switch has been around for many years. With respect to PG&E here in Northern CA they were set to shut off when sensing abnormal conditions, then automatically retry a couple of times to see if…
@David_Snowball - Tell Chip that I'm so very happy that my technical career dealt with the physical and electronic component side of things (the lowest level of the seven-layer "OSI" model), and not the upper levels on the software side.
Sometimes…
@BaluBalu - I believe that you are correct- I seem to recall reading somewhere that the 2021 prosecution was deferred on the condition that Boeing cleaned up their act, which of course they promised to do, and which of course they did not bother to …
@rforno - You're right about 'big forest fire' but I don't know how anyone can really know what areas might be at risk anymore. I certainly wouldn't have thought that an area like the Texas panhandle, mostly sage and semi-desert, would be in danger …
To be honest, with the unpredictable climate induced weather changes, I'd be very nervous about any utility which has power lines capable of starting a fire. California, Oregon, Hawaii, Texas...
"Hearing aids help, but nothing I know of can counteract background noise (whether a crowd or a rowdy table in a restaurant)."
• Exactly
"There is only so much that hearing aids, really high-tech amplifiers, can accomplish."
• Exactly
"understandi…
This incident is more likely than not to be a United Airlines maintenance issue- the 777 has been around a long time and as a general rule the wheels have tended to remain fixed to the aircraft.
What is very peculiar it that the flight departed SFO…
And also edited excerpts from this report from NPR:
WASHINGTON — More than two months after a door plug panel blew off a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet in midair, the top federal safety investigator says Boeing still has not provided key information that cou…
Come on, @Crash- how on earth can we elect a national president if each state can decide who can run there? That's just ridiculous. Texas and it's sycophant follower states would "disqualify" Biden in ten seconds.
And what would logically follow? I…
Quite some time ago one of our MFO stalwarts suggested that "Technology and Unemployment", a paper by Robert M. Solow, might be insightful. I downloaded the paper in pdf format, but the text was so cramped and the format so uninviting that I left it…
Supreme Court to hear arguments in Trump immunity case in April
Following are edited excerpts from a current NPR report:
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments the week of April 22 in a high-stakes dispute over whether former President Do…
I'll bet they're swearing, all right. How on earth do you "underestimate" the size of a software collection? That info is surely available down to the nearest gigabyte, someplace. "Underestimate" = "Oh hell... I guess, maybe..."
Not a great beginni…
@Crash - You see, here on MFO, the community opinion on many aspects of financial houses. Have you noticed a whole lot of complaints about the Schwab site? If not, perhaps your opinion may be suspect.
When you log in, go directly to your account su…
No, Berkshire has no control over PG&E rates, and I surely wasn't implying that they did. I'm simply pointing out that Berkshire's complaints about the "regulatory climate" as being responsible for the financial disaster that is now PG&E are…
SF Chronicle: Pacific Gas and Electric Co. residential electricity rates rose by another 20% on Jan. 1. The rate increase added about $34.50 to monthly bills for typical households. That’s about $414 more per household for all of 2024 compared to la…
