Devial

Good on you for being able to admit that. That takes real character.

English Translation of the article:

A car finishes its race in the municipal swimming pool of La Ciotat in the middle of swimmers

The driver and her 5-year-old daughter are unharmed, no visitor to the pool of Bouches-du-Rhône were injured.

A luxury sedan hit the bay window of the municipal swimming pool of La Ciotat (Bouches-du-Rhône) on Thursday, December 11, before crashing into the pool where swimmers were present, says HERE Provence. Fortunately, the car didn't hit any swimmer, that's "Miraculous" According to the mayor of La Ciotat in ICI Provence. The town hall of La Ciotat has published the impressive photos of this spectacular accident.

A 38-year-old woman and her 5-year-old daughter, who were in the vehicle, got stuck in the submerged cabin. Two lifeguards and a guest quickly pulled them out of the vehicle. They are unharmed but have been transported to the hospital in La Ciotat. A guest, present at the time of the accident, was lightly injured by the breaking glass.

Propaganda should be challenged not for the people making it, but for the people seeing it.

In your world, all the hateful and harmful propaganda just goes completely unchallenged, and undecided/uninformed people will subsequently see the propaganda and think "I've seen this 5 times already, and no one has ever said this is wrong, so it must be right".

Nazis need to be told at every turn that their ideas are wrong and dumb as shit, so that the people listening can hear how dumb and idiotic they are.

Maybe because harmful or hateful propaganda SHOULD be openly challenged and contradicted, lest undecided people think it must be true, because no one is saying otherwise.

Yeah, correcting harmful/hateful propaganda is so annoying, isn't it ? We should just let harmful and hateful propaganda stand completely unchallenged, lest we annoy the people making it, you're right.

Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pigeon. No matter how good you are at chess, the pigeon will knock over all the pieces, crap on the board and then strut around like it won anyway

It happened once, to one aircraft, and it's solvable with a software update.

You're more likely to be struck by lightning the next time you leave your house than to run into this problem on a flight, and that was before the software update.

A bit IS represented by one or zero. A bit can take the state of charged or not charged. That's what a bit physically is. In low level code, those states are represented by binary numbers.

Or do you think there's a actual physical numbers 0 and 1 floating around in your RAM ?

Read that sentence again. They didn't say bits represent 0s and 1s, they said bits are represented BY 0s and 1s, which is entirely correct.

Physically speaking, in a modern silicon based PC, bits are the presence or absence of electrons in an electron well. That presence or absence is often represented by binary numbers, because it makes the math easy, though it can also be represented in other ways, such as "HI" and "LO". Or in a Boolean mathematics the bits would represent the values "True" and "False".

The statement from the article is entirely correct.

This isn't a scientific journal or news paper. It's a main stream article by the BBC, intended to be consumed, and understood, by people who have zero knowledge of how computers, bits or binary numbers work, so I really don't see the issue here.

It's not going to be become a major problem. We have radiation hardened computing hardware, and ways to deal with single event effects, we've in fact got a lot of practice doing these things, because guess what: Satellites also need working computing hardware, and they're exposed to orders of magnitude more radiation than aircraft.

Manufacturers will just have to start taking it into consideration more in the future, and ensure that the flight computers have redundant ECC memory.

To address your two points, where did people get the idea that the word porn implies artistic merit or consent?

I didn't say merit (or consent, though I assume that one's a typo), I said artistic intent. Which every creative work by definition has. And I don't consider CSAM to be a creative work. It's just abuse, created opportunisticly with no real artistic or creative consideration.

Also, there is nothing ethically wrong with porn in a vacuum, so categorising this material as a sub-category of something that isn't inherently ethically wrong in my opinion makes it a bad term. The term CSAM clearly and strictly delineates it from consensual porn.

CP can stand for a lot of things but it's common parlance now. CSAM just causes confusion.

Ah yes. The Acronym with MORE common definitions somehow causes less confusion. That makes perfect sense. Of course. That explains why so many people in this thread were confused by it. Oh no wait. They weren't.

Also really? Now you're stooping to the old "why so mad bro?". You're the one having a meltdown, I'm wasting time at work by sharing an opinion.

You're the one who got upset enough about me using a common abbreviation, that no one in the thread was remotely confused by, to kick off this entire shit. You decided you needed to pedantically comment on this. I'm simply defending myself from your pedantic grammar nazi shit.