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[SaintessHeart]

There is too much speculah on this one, ranging from crashing at sea to hijacking to Vexx's colleagues using AWACs to pull it into Diego Garcia.

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Sometimes planes crash without being found for years. This just happens, and remains the most likely reason here. Unless we spend money tracking every plane globally by satellite, there will always be planes going missing. Sometimes people are just surprised that we aren't omnipotent yet.

[serenade_beta]

My sister actually got fooled by that Bermuda Triangle scam. *facepalm*

[Yu Ominae]

Looks like a new revelation indeed.

If hijacked, I wonder where the plane went off to.

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by serenade_beta

My sister actually got fooled by that Bermuda Triangle scam. *facepalm*

Lolis get fooled by that kind of stuff all that time.

[Wigwams]

the world has been searching the wrong area for 1 week, thats valuable time lost on the correct area... who knows what happened to that plane if it did a water landing/crash...

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by Wigwams

the world has been searching the wrong area for 1 week, thats valuable time lost on the correct area... who knows what happened to that plane if it did a water landing/crash...

As I said, it is not unheard of that a crash gets missed for years. The recovery of the wreck is not an inevitability. People like to think technology is omnipotent, but the fact is there are financial limits. Even the idea that there are communication dead zones over the ocean is a surprise to people. Some really believe that every plane has a satellite phone...

[Roger Rambo]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

Sometimes planes crash without being found for years. This just happens, and remains the most likely reason here. Unless we spend money tracking every plane globally by satellite, there will always be planes going missing. Sometimes people are just surprised that we aren't omnipotent yet.

If this was just a plane crashing and disappearing I don't think this would be nearly as confusing of a case as it has been. Planes that just crash into the ocean usually don't continue to emit signals from some of their components for 5-7 hours post the Transponder going out indicating that the plane was still in flight.


The investigators certainly seem to think the plane having gone somewhere into the Indian ocean...and it's kinda hard to imagine what regular accident could have resulted in that given it's intended flight path.

[JokerD]

US to relinquish key oversight role for Internet

[SaintessHeart]

Originally Posted by JokerD

US to relinquish key oversight role for Internet

Time to get off the internet?

While I admit that the internet stores plenty of garbage, there is none that stink more than that of those that are politically motivated, be it hubris from the Asian governments or the warmongers running the Western ones.

Castro has a point, though its impact on the world could be....somewhat interesting.

[SeijiSensei]

Just so it's clear what is at stake here, we are talking about the Domain Name Service, which has been managed by private entities under US government contract since the 1990s.

US control of the DNS has been a major point of contention in the rest of the world for well over a decade. Just to take one example, Muslim countries were upset when ICANN decided to establish ".xxx" as a top-level domain for porn. Similar concerns arose when ICANN created an entire new system of top-level domains, so that Disney could register .disney.

The usual concerns have to do with fragmentation of the "name-space," but I doubt that will happen. Governments already have many powerful tools to control and censor their citizens use of the Internet. Less control over the DNS by the US doesn't really change that.

While I can see how the Snowden revelations might have further undermined American credibility when it comes to the Internet, I don't find it surprising that, relevant or not, they helped propel this decision. If I were a foreign citizen, I wouldn't have a GMail account either. I bet the release of the Snowden documents has given new impetus at Google to start getting those barges they patented out beyond the 200-mile limit.

[Cosmic Eagle]

Originally Posted by Vallen Chaos Valiant

As I said, it is not unheard of that a crash gets missed for years. The recovery of the wreck is not an inevitability. People like to think technology is omnipotent, but the fact is there are financial limits. Even the idea that there are communication dead zones over the ocean is a surprise to people. Some really believe that every plane has a satellite phone...

Buy a satellite phone everyone....I think one is like what, only 5K

[maplehurry]

U.S. intelligence officials suspect the pilots.

U.S. intelligence officials are leaning toward the theory that "those in the cockpit" -- the pilots of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 -- were responsible for the mysterious disappearance of the commercial jetliner, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the latest thinking told CNN on Saturday.

[Silver-Throne]

Anyone heard of SOPA ? I`ve heard it`s on the process.

[konart]

Not sure were to post this - here or Ukrainian conflict:

Nato web sites are under attack (UPDATE)
http://www.lithuaniatribune.com/6520...ack-201465204/

[Roger Rambo]

Originally Posted by maplehurry

U.S. intelligence officials suspect the pilots.

That's honestly the most plausible explanation. External hijackers requires a particularly elaborate and sophisticated group of hijackers who'd know enough about the plane systems to guarantee they'd all be shut down (holding the pilot at gunpoint doesn't matter if you can't read the cockpit settings to figure out if something is actually off).

...course then there's the question of if it was the pilots acting alone, what was the motivation? This is extremely elaborate for a pilot suicide, and I'm not sure any research has revealed these guys to have any extremist backrounds...yet.

[sa547]

Originally Posted by Fireminer

Is Singapore the gloomiest place to live?

It's no wonder why, for no reason except for troubles rocking the industry, a cryptocurrency evangelist/CEO killed herself by jumping off a building.

Also, as much as my relatives insist that in America there would be financial security for life -- as long as one would have to juggle three jobs, pay the 1040 and the upkeep for everything else in a suburban home and to show relatives back in the third-world about the wonders of being an American green-card holder until cremated -- I felt more secure and happier in a country where I can be my own boss and get to interact with more people, as long as I have to be smart enough not to get into trouble with either side of the law. And politicians and mobile phone robbers.

[Xellos-_^]

SEPANG, Malaysia — As the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stretched into a 10th day, the Malaysian authorities on Monday identified the plane’s first officer as the last person in the cockpit to speak to ground control. But the government added to the confusion about what happened during those key minutes by withdrawing its assertion that the radio signoff had come after a crucial communications system was disabled.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/18/wo...t.html?hp&_r=0

the malaysia government is making the keystone cops look competent.

[Vallen Chaos Valiant]

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

the malaysia government is making the keystone cops look competent.

At this point, I am putting the majority of the blame on all the miss-information on their absolute incompetence. It's not that they want to hide any conspiracy; it's just that they are stupid, and that in order to hide their stupidity they think they can make up facts just to offer info to the media.

"They are asking questions we should have answers for!"
"But we don't know the answers!"
"Just pretend we do! Make something up!"

[konart]

State Duma deputies and politicians ask Obama and EU politicians to extend the sanctions

http://translate.google.com/translat...tika%2F1055390


Well.... what, lol?