And the Max Headroom style was notably copied for the Back To The Future 2 "80s Cafe" scene, with Max Headroom style version of Reagan, Michael Jackson and Ayatollah Khomeini.
I have a theory that if the homepage didn't show 'Featured On Meta' the reputation of the site would be much higher because we wouldn't all be getting a window into the bickering and nitpicking. The bickering and nitpicking is far too prominent on the homepage
The idea behind inertial navigation is to keep track of the missile's position by constantly measuring its acceleration. By integrating the acceleration, you get the velocity. And by integrating the velocity, you get the position.
This sounds like it couldn't possibly work (surely all the little errors compound?) but apparently it's how Apollo navigated
Indeed. Its worse really, it means there was a bug lurking in their product that was waiting for a badly formatted file to surface it.
Given how widespread the problem is it also means they are pushing these files out without basic testing.
edit: It will be very interesting to see how CrowdStrike wriggle out of the obvious conclusion that their company no longer deserves to exist after a f*k up like this.
You are completely right. BTW It wasn't a software update, it was a content update, a 'channel file'.
Someone didn't do enough testing. edit: or any testing at all?
Sounds like it was a 'channel file' which I think is akin to an av definition file that caused the problem rather than an actual software change. So they must have had a bug lurking in their kernel driver which was uncovered by a particular channel file. Still, seems like someone skipped some testing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAEU-Lf60LA