"Tracing the US opioid crisis to its roots"
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Not exactly, the power is stored in an inductor and fed to the load, the inductor being topped-up by switching the unregulated rail on-and-off thousands of times a second.
What's abnormal about that statement is that it is now considered normal.
MCAS used only the one sensor, this decision made so as to avoid recertification.
http://www.b737.org.uk/mcas.htm
“Are we vulnerable to single AOA sensor failures with the MCAS implementation or is there some checking that occurs?”
https://www.aviationtoday.com/2019/11/02/boeing-ceo-outlines...
The browser was about garnering mind-share™, making sure you see ‘Microsoft Internet Explorer’ when you boot up the computer. That why some people used talk about getting on to the ‘Microsoft Internet’ presumably using the Microsoft TCP/IP © :]
http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/122106/PLEX...
“ Here is final copy of the memo we sent to BillG for think week about what we should do to get to 30% browser share. Pls do not distribute broadly.”
“ Clone and Supernet Netscape. PSD needs to get serious about cloning Netscape. We must have a plan to clone all the features they have today, plus new ones they will add between now and our next release”
“We will bind the shell to the Internet Explorer so that running any other browser is a jolting experience. Shell/Browser user model becomes the same.”
Maybe it's because people spend too much time exchanging msgs in forums such as this, instead of having meaningfull exchanges with real people. Even walking down the street, they have their noses buried in a device.
Searching for 'linux' off the main screen and you're lead to a selection of 3 Operating Systems, Windows, Windows, Windows. Are MS paying the to keep alien OSes off Lenovo hardware?
If the brain was stimulated by inputs from the surrounding environment then YES!
Synapses firing ..
> .. what physical laws explain it ..
Physics ..
> .. and by what mechanism does it emerge from mere electrical impulses?
Through the senses and acting on the environment through muscles triggered by synapses firing.
NO!
> Where does consciousness come from?
Emergent properties of a functional brain.
“The WHO identified burial rites for the dead as one of the contributing factors in the disease’s spread. The burial rites included family members washing and oiling the corpse, and sometimes physically modifying it for burial .. Additionally, the practice of moving the body to be buried in a different village impeded efforts to quarantine certain areas.”
How about running the OS in a Virtual Machine, that evaporates on exit and you get a new clean image on each invocation.
“All the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Humpty together again”
“In mid-November 2019, Wisconsin-based Virtual Care Provider Inc. (VCPI) was hit by the Ryuk ransomware strain.”
In 2020, this is not acceptable in terms of “computer” security, where opening an email attachment or clicking on a malicous link can totally compromise your business. The planets chief software architect has a lot to answer for.