Posts by Gorio

While they wine and dine cross-party this the headline to search for: "Labour accepts £12m in donations and perks from defence contractors"

This is how our democratic (cough cough) government works!

Interesting how some people comment without reading the article, some even shooting themselves by pure ignorance. The Pirate Party are a serious force and this article shows that even on copyright they deserve to be heard. Reading the full report the Pirate Party seem to have the moral high ground in finding a good balance between rights and responsibility. At the very least this article shows they are no joke!

Interesting that the Geneva Sound System Model XS DAB+ Wireless, FM/DAB+, Alarm Clock, Speakers, Amplifier. All-in-One did not make the review. With up to 10 hours battery in a minute carry case I cannot imagine why such a great piece of kit was overlooked. After testing it against a number of the models listed here it is the one I have ended up buying.

Facts

12:41am MH370 takes off bound for Beijing.

1:07am Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ARCAS) was functioning normally at the start of the flight

Communications systems (ARCAS) were disabled by someone with specialist knowledge

Pilots are not normally trained to disable these systems

1:19am co-pilot signs off with Malaysian ground control

No contact is then made with the Vietnamese ground control who would take over responsibility for monitoring the flight in their airspace

This is a very good spot to divert a plane so whoever did this knew what they were doing

1:22am Transponder was “switched off”

1:35am Military radar (very sophisticated in this area) “shows the pane climbing to 45,000ft

Plane turns west

Pane falls sharply to 23,000ft before it climbs again to 35,000ft

1:45am Plane is reported to have dropped to 5,000ft (possible in an attempt to evade radar)

Malaysian villagers report bright lights and noise consistent with a large plane flying low on a westerly course

All these actions are “deliberate by someone on the plane” – Malaysian Transport Minister

UK firm Inmarsat now had the only reliable contact with the plane

2:15am Inmarsat shows MH370 off course & over the Malacca Strait

8:11am Inmarsat detects a faint signal from the plane, this is the last known contact

Because only one satellite detected contact its coordinates cannot be accurately plotted

MH370 is now missing

US, China, UK & other nations heavily monitor the Western Philippine (South China) Sea

They use radar & satellites that can spot drones & detect small explosions

US states no explosion was detected

Plane was headed in the direction of the Andamar & Nicobar islands but the radar there functions as on an as needed basis so was almost certainly turned off

The plane could have flown as far as Kazakstan/Uzbekistan/Tajikistan/Afganistan/Pakistan or south east Iran

Another route could have taken it from Jakarta to hundreds of miles off the Australian north coast (personal comment – this is not the route I think it probably took)

Over 600 airports large enough for a Boeing 777 to land at are in the area it could have flown to

Though unlikely a Boeing 777 could land on a wide straight road or disused airfield, many exist particularly in counties involved in the Vietnam war

If the plane stayed below 5,000ft it could have evaded civilian radar

An oil worker Mike McKay claimed to have spotted “an aircraft on fire” but a very thorough search of this area has found nothing

A plane of this size crashing normally results in a lot of debris

The Black Box only has a range of 2,000 to 3,000 meters

The cockpit is supposed to be locked at all times

A fire axe is in a hidden location for emergency use only, however a pilot would have time to enter an emergency message if an axe was used on the door

A pilot changes the Transponder code to 7500 for Mayday, that did not happen

In an emergency you could expect passengers to turn on cell phones to make emergency calls, if the flight was flying at low altitude they may have got a signal, none made calls

No known terrorist groups have claimed responsibility

It is not a possibility that the plane could have been hijacked by a mobile phone

The plane would normally have taken off carrying fuel for around 7 hours 30 minutes in flight

A country's air-defence radar coverage is a military secret, in this case some data has been released

After the final blip is received from MH370's satcomms, the plane's systems were powered down within one hour after last contact

20 passenger on-board worked for Freescale Semiconductor

Freescale's statement says 12 of its missing employees are Malaysian nationals, with the other eight from China

Mitch Haws Freescale Semiconductor's VP global communications & investor relations said "These were people with a lot of experience and technical background and they were very important people,"

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. “is an American company that produces and designs embedded hardware, with 17 billion semiconductor chips in use around the world”

Freescale work in hi-tech from radars, remote controlled systems, tech warfare etc

This is their website: http://www.freescale.com/

“RF power standard products meet the requirements for applications such as avionics, HF through L- and S-Band radar, communications, missile guidance, electronic warfare, and identification, friend or foe (IFF)”

The above quote is from their website: http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/taxonomy.jsp?code=RF_AEROSPACE_DEFENSE_POWER_TRANS

Much more could be said about this but they do deal in military contracts

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a U.S. corporation and subject to the export regulations and laws of the U.S.

Thus they cannot export to: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria without a US license

Freescale worked on computer viruses & anti-virus software

Freescale did work on Stuxnet diagnosis after it had been discovered

Two Iranian male passengers, Pouria Nour Mohammad Mahread and Delavar Syed Mohammad Reza using fake passports were on the flight but had no obvious links to terrorist groups

Afghanistan is heavily monitored by satellite & radar so we can discount it flew over this nation

Note 3 order cancelled at least my Note 2 does not suffer from this idiocy, however I did have to check it was not April Fools day, this is stupidity. Did Betamax teach tech companies nothing?