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At least some of the future owners money helps to employ the people who built it
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Best not sail it anywhere near Somalia... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's probably faster then the pirate's boats
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Probably a tad bigger as well.
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Not necessarily - they use fast motorboats and an aluminum ladder.
They've taken some big ships in the past too - right up to an including oil tankers.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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My idea was that this yacht will probably be faster than an oil tanker  But even if not, there will probably be grim looking armed guards on board and integrated defense systems like tazers, smoke generators and, of course, lasers!
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Very unlikely.
Commercial shipping (and that basically means non-military vessels) are banned worldwide from having weapons on board (governments don't want Kawasaki sailing into harbour and capturing New York )
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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okay.. then just tazers on the hull and smoke generators 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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You can't possibly be that naïve. I'm sure this ship will include a 'security staff' (former SEAL's and such) with appropriate *cough* non-lethal *cough* "restraint devices" fully-approved by all the governments in question.
More likely the current user will be asked one sunny morning: "Sir. We have the option of live skeet shooting this morning, should you choose to do so." "Excellent!"
Software Zen: delete this;
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This has room for two helicopters and has a mini-submarine.
Did you trade it for the mini-sub?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.1 new web site.
I know the voices in my head are not real but damn they come up with some good ideas!
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A mini-sub with freakin' laser beams. 
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Perfect for laundering money.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I assume it comes with its own copy of the Internet?
Marc
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I'd take it back those pads will never take my CH-47 Chinook, it's false advertising
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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2 pads are plenty.
1 for you to escape from (while holding the hot babe hostage)
and
1 for Bond to give chase from (to save and bed the hot babe)
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: to save and bed the hot babe
Queue scene: Blofeld waving fist in the air - "Damn you Booond!"
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Quote: “To test every combination of workstation modes at one second per test would take of the order of 100 years, without considering all the other parameters,” the CAA said.
According to the report on the last NATS failure[^].
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I think I'll just be heading to the Caribbean whilst they get the kinks out.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Welcome back in 100 years...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Please, someone has to tell that dunce that he can have as many machines running tests in parallel as he likes or can afford.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Unfortunately
Many of the tests involve flying an aircraft through a sector, and this takes
many minutes, not a second
So unless you can have parallel dimensions in which to fly aircraft, the software testing they have in place will just have to suffice.
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Once upon a time I got air defense training with a whole trailer full of analog electronics from the early 1960s, plugged right inbetween the radar antenna and the fire control equipment. Just think what kind of things you could simulate and test automatically with modern equipment.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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In the linked pdf it says they do have a bunch of equipment for testing. "NATS test labs have extensive representative hardware, including a full SFS set-up"
So i'm still going to presume that it is not possible to test everything that extensively. Surely if they could, they would.
In this case it's not even that the systems weren't tested, its that the test they had run had returned positive. (ie, they weren't tested well enough to begin with)
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At the same time, this is the exact reason why I don't trust all kinds of autonomous devices, automated cars or similar. The real world is almost infinitely complex and what tests can guarantee the correctness of learning algorithms under all circumstances?
I am also convinced that robots will be one of the next revolutions in technology.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Anthony Mushrow wrote: Many of the tests involve flying an aircraft through a sector, and this takes many minutes, not a second
Now this is some high level BS !! Unless communication is made using pidgeons - and even for that there must be an iPigeonSimulation, there are signals involved, and signals can be simulated. Or recorded and replayed.
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