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Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by gtirloni »

dspillett wrote: post #276
gtirloni wrote: post #269

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The popup is about any cookies, right? Cookies are a basic building blocks of websites. If you login to a legit website, there's a cookie in your browser for that.

> The popup is about any cookies, right? The popup is, yes. But the legislation they are pretending to be compliant with isn't. For basic session-level cookies that are essential to the operation of some sites, no legislation requires consent. The issues are third party tracking, long term use stalking, etc. But those that want to stalk you want you to believe that the legislation is against even session maintenance…

Got it, those are good points. Thanks.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 »

Somebody spent a few hours programming the FMS with lat-longs as few, if any, of the waypoints would be in the directory, likely offline.

Then there's a long phone call to, likely Seattle, Center to get the flight route accepted into the system. There's a possibility the ATC computers couldn't take all the way points, in which case they would need an airspace reservation where they could do the pattern.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by mensetmanusman »

americanmotto wrote: post #176
mach1ne wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t mean to be negative, but most people certainly don’t try their best. Many are only working for the paycheck and don’t attach their sense of success to their professional output.

Agree. I've said for ~10 years now, that it seems the American Dream has transitioned from "Anything is possible as long as you work hard enough." to "Do as little as work possible to get the same paycheck." Something has definitely changed in the culture.

Executives from corporate America led by people like Welch treated workers like cogs, which eventually taught employees to treat employers transactionally.

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Post by varenc »

chrismorgan wrote: post #200
knodi123 wrote: post #178

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> What’s even the point of the popup then? Complying with idiotic bureaucratic regulations. Nobody wants to be popping that thing up, but if they don't, they can get reamed by the EU.

The trouble is that popups like this don’t even comply with the relevant legislation. (Which is the ePrivacy Directive after the 2009 amendment, though people largely ignored this part of it until the advent of the GDPR which came into force in 2018. Simplified, ePD says “most cookies must be opt-in”.) If anything, putting such wildly non-compliant popups should make you more liable to punishment, because it undermin…

I suspect if you access the site from an EU IP address you’ll see an option besides “Accept All”. The layout [0] even seems to leave room for where this other button might be.

edit: looking at the code I even see references to a “Reject All” button as well as an XHR request to a geolocation endpoint.

edit2: I set a breakpoint in their code and changed by country to "FR" and sure enough, I now see a "Reject All" button! Screenshot: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/09wcuy4yh3qqoaw/reject_a...

[0]: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/vw2khgjnyrnqucb/f

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by FabHK »

Question: On the western side, the top-left side of the crown, it looks like two curves were flown, both more than 90 degrees. Wouldn’t it have been possible, instead, to fly straight (and then fly the „crown“ the other way around)? Wouldn’t that have been marginally prettier?

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Post by losteric »

americanmotto wrote: post #176
mach1ne wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t mean to be negative, but most people certainly don’t try their best. Many are only working for the paycheck and don’t attach their sense of success to their professional output.

Agree. I've said for ~10 years now, that it seems the American Dream has transitioned from "Anything is possible as long as you work hard enough." to "Do as little as work possible to get the same paycheck." Something has definitely changed in the culture.

MBAs instead of promote-from-within. Bringing along egotistical bean-counter superiority with typically vastly inferior performance. Seeing this trend in big tech has me very bearish - the non-tech MBAs just can't execute on long-term big bets that require the deep understanding/cross-cutting coordination that comes with career insiders.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by varenc »

aendruk wrote: post #139

Screenshot: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmcjrYXR934QZqBuMHioRdcZEmo... On small displays this is otherwise obstructed by a cookie popup that offers only an “accept all” button. What’s even the point of the popup then?

> What’s even the point of the popup then?

If you're in the EU you'll see a "Reject All" option. To confirm this, set a breakpoint in their JS, change your country to an EU one, and the option to "Reject All" cookies appears: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/09wcuy4yh3qqoaw/reject_a...

Here's a screenshot of where I set the breakpoint and changed my country to France: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ju41dpj14pn4onh/bp.png

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by userbinator »

gcanyon wrote: post #211
supernova87a wrote: post #46

I find it just really endearing that at companies, regardless of how many other issues they have or the dysfunctions and bland corporate culture, there are people who keep the pride of purpose and "olden days / traditions" in their memory and do things like this. Or are able to call on institutional memory of something bygone, that reappears once in a while. (whether it's a big gesture like this or small cultural day…

As this involved an extra hour(?) of flight time, it cost thousands of dollars. It also required filing a particular flight plan, and probably coordination between Boeing and Atlas. So it seems safe to say that it required approval at a pretty high level. And given everything else that happened surrounding the delivery, that doesn't seem strange at all.

"thousands of dollars" may seem like a lot to an individual, but to a company like Boeing, it's tiny. They probably spend far more on explicit advertising than this.

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Post by userbinator »

anonymous_sorry wrote: post #228
sho_hn wrote: post #192

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I'm sad you are getting downvoted for this. This was my first thought as well. You are not a party pooper and you live in reality. I like the atmosphere/branding of aviation and prefer flights over train travel as an experience, but after my wife recently wrote an article about the handling of emission information by the sector and I read many of the more science- and engineering-focused studies she is referencing in…

If I'd expressed it this eloquently I suspect I'd have been less downvoted! I would totally think this cool if there were no climate emergency. But the needless and frivolous extravagance feels so tone deaf to me.

There is no "climate emergency". It's mainly propaganda from those in power to further their desire for an authoritarian dystopia.

Re: Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

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Post by phendrenad2 »

schoen wrote: post #121
px43 wrote: post #114

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They could also just spoof the ADS-B data right?

I doubt their normal on-board systems have a feature to do that, or that the pilots would feel confident in doing so in terms of the FAA's possible reaction.

If Boeing wants to draw a 747 logo in the sky for the last 747 ever made, the 747, the symbol of american design, and they don't want to actually drive the plane around in loops, I'm sure the FAA would sign off on some foolery. But kudos to them for doing it live.
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