Found the name of the engineers...
Poor Herr Sünden and Herr Bock.
Posts by Yag
853 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Oct 2010
VW's Audi suspends two engineers in air pollution cheatware probe
Green rectangles are the new rounded rectangles
'Fix these Windows 10 Horrors': Readers turn their guns on Redmond
Thursday 30th July 2015 15:08 GMT
"This work will never be finished."
Read it as : "The torture never stops"
It’s DEJA VU: Customer forgets to tell us about essential feature AGAIN
Windows 10: THE ULTIMATE GUIDE to Microsoft's long apology for Windows 8
NASA briefing in HOURS: 'We are upon the CUSP of finding ANOTHER EARTH'
The French want to BAN .doc and .xls files from Le Gouvernement
Microsoft sets end date on Windows 10 support. Hey, wait, WHAT?
Microsoft dangles $500k cash wad over boffins: Please, pleeease write some HoloLens apps
It's all Uber! France ends its love affair with ride-sharing app
French privacy cops snarl at websites over crap EU cookie warnings
‘Clandestines' prompt British border blockade in France
Thursday 2nd July 2015 14:51 GMT
Re: Slow boat
France can be expected to object, but if the boat is a Royal Navy vessel, that is all they will do.
You know, I'm not really convinced that "la royale" will be a pushover to the real royal navy...
Courtney Love in the crossfire! Paris turns ugly over Uber
Friday 26th June 2015 07:52 GMT 
The whole french taxi situation is a total mess.
They must have a licence to operate, and until recently the number of those licences were limited. This lead to retiring taxis selling theirs for up to 150K€.
As now the taxi consider their licence as an "investment" that can be sold later, they require the state either keep the system "as it" or buy the licence back - for the ludicrously inflated price, of course.
Nowadays, the number of licences is not limited any longer, but there's a catch : the new licences issued by the administration are valid for 5 years, no more, and cannot be transfered.
Of course, the older licences are still unlimited and sellable... Their prices went down to 60-100K however.
Also, I don't know how it works abroad, but in France, it's MORE expensive to call a cab than to find a random one. There's a rule stating that the taxi can (and will) ask the customer for the trip from its current position to the customer's location.
This clearly imply that the french taxis have NO incentive to roam around - it's even the opposite. So they just hang in their depots or around the airports and railroad stations. Good luck finding any taxi out of those locations, unless they just dropped a customer and goes back to their den...
Yeah, I'm still bitter from the 18€ fare for a 5km trip...
I'ld say nuke them from orbit - it's the only way to be sure.
We forget NOTHING, the Beeb thunders at Europe
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Config file wipe blunder caused deadly Airbus A400M crash – claim
Thursday 11th June 2015 12:03 GMT
Which is unfortunate given that it is vastly more expensive than both. Another shit-headed, misbegotten euro-project.
Apple and oranges...
Both C130 and C17 are old planes, their developpement costs have been repaid.
Furthermore, try to land a C17 on the kind of very rugged terrain the Hercs and A400M can handle, hilarity will ensue. Sure, it can handle short and unpaved runways, but not the random pasture the other can use.
Comparision between the A400M and the C130 are more accurate, but if you look closely at the characteristics...
The price is 150M for the A400M, 100M$ for the C130J, but the A400M can carry up to 37t (20t for the C130J). As you need a single A400M instead of two C130J, this seems a far better deal. The A400M is also a bit faster with a similar range...
So no, it is not that clear cut as you seems to think.
Thursday 11th June 2015 07:46 GMT
Re: Lack of imagination when thinking up things that can go wrong.
Very weird.
In the embedded SW I worked on (only 10 years of experience for me, I'm still young :p), the checksums of all SW and configuration tables were checked during startup (Well, only during cold start : if the equipment was turned off for more than 10 seconds, or forced by exiting the dataloading mode). Such problems would have been caught.
Furthermore, most configuration parameters, especially the critical ones, are retrieved at startup, checked and, if detected as faulty (mostly out of range), either replaced by safe (but unoptimised) default values or prevent the use of the system, and report the issue to the flight computers.
Looks like some "SW architects" forgot those little details...
MIT bods' digital economy babblings are tosh. C'mon guys, Economics 101
Les unsporting gits! French spies BUGGED Concorde passengers
Tuesday 9th June 2015 13:29 GMT
Re: Economy of France
>> TGV, Massively subsidised by the taxpayer.
Yes, however, think about all the economic growth it is bringing!
Where? Does it offset the massive subsidies? not so sure...
Furthermore, look at the sorry state of the other lines that lack subsidies. I won't even start about the RER mess (partly operated by the SNCF, partly operated by the local transit authority, a complete clusterfeek of failures and strikes)
High unemployment is not the state's fault, it is the French mentality ... HR think of a workforce like a puzzle
Nope, it's the work laws that are a puzzle. Hiring someone not perfectly fit for the job will prove catastrophic if he reveals being unable to perform properly due to the massive costs associated. I wonder why the HR depts try to minimize the risks...
I guess we'll only agree on the corruption stance of the nordic countries. The latest funny fact is the french prime minister taking one of the official plane with two of his son in order to go see a soccer game in Germany...
Tuesday 9th June 2015 10:07 GMT
Re: Economy of France
an incredible maze of high quality highways even up to an altitude of 1100m
Built by private companies who get 30-year leases from the government to collect the tolls
Not really. They were state built, and cheaply rented for 30 years to those private companies.
Very cheaply.
It was done 5 years ago, and those private companies already earned the cost back.
Foul play from some on the executive branch is probable...
French socialism used to work. Until the socialists were elected.
French right wing are a bunch of self serving thieves, french left wing are a bunch of ideologic nutcases. See the icon about what they deserve.
Tuesday 9th June 2015 10:05 GMT
Re: And how is this surprising
Likewise, France were Allies to the US until the Afghanistan "war" when it didn't suit France.
French forces were in Afghanistan for quite some time. You probably mean the second war against Iraq, based on dubious evidences.
Second, you sounds like GW Bush. Even if the french were not on this war, it doesn't means they were not allies any longer.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
