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Another deadly 737 Max control bug just found!

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Domagoj T:
Aren't dividends paid out of profit?

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Domagoj T on March 19, 2020, 06:19:09 pm ---Aren't dividends paid out of profit?

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On profit ALREADY made. It has to be evaluated through a rather complex accounting process (yuck I don't like it), so current and future losses can't determine what the current dividends are at any given time.

Domagoj T:
I don't like accounting either, so I'll just accept that dividends must be paid, as much as I don't like it. Doesn't change the sentiment that I wouldn't give them a penny for bailout.

In other news, Boeing somehow managed to do it again. This time it's not 737 related, but 787. Potentially just as deadly, though.
https://www.flightglobal.com/systems-and-interiors/faa-addresses-potential-data-display-fault-in-787-avionics/137403.article
If you leave the 787 (8, 9 and 10 variants) turned on for more than 51 days they will start to display, what FAA mildly puts, "misleading attitude, altitude, airspeed and engine operation data". Basically, the fundamental flight data the pilots (and autopilot) see is wrong.
Now, it might seem like an edge case, after all who leaves the plane turned on for more than 51 days, right? Well, it does actually happen, but regardless, the bug should not have been there more so because that exact type of bug has been encountered (in aviation) at least twice before.
First time I'm aware it was encountered was in 2004 when air traffic control lost radio communication with all 400 of the planes in southwestern USA. Luckily no one died that day.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/lost-radio-contact-leaves-pilots-on-their-own
The second time is the doozy, though. If you left your airplane turned on for 248 days, you would lose all electrical power, regardless of what was the plane doing at the time (that is you could lose power mid flight). It's the same time keeping overflow mishandling. Now would you care to guess what airplane was afflicted with this bug? If your guess is Boeing 787, you get a cookie.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/01/787_software_bug_can_shut_down_planes_generators/

BravoV:
So they use windoze ? Also watch the article's date ...  :-DD

https://www.cnet.com/news/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-days/

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Domagoj T on March 20, 2020, 07:30:55 am ---Doesn't change the sentiment that I wouldn't give them a penny for bailout.

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I understand the frustration, but I'm not sure I quite agree here. The purpose of private companies is to make profits - and distribute them.
If there's an exceptional situation in which some companies' future is at stake, I don't think the fact they made profit before it happened justifies not helping them in times of big trouble like this. It has almost nothing to do.

The only way you could discuss this IMHO is if a company makes large profits AND doesn't invest enough when it would be needed (meaning, net result is "artificially" high as the company cuts on investments). But you can't blame a company here for not making investments - they are just losing money for sudden lack of activity. Completely different thing.

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