By not even reprimanding this officer, and by ultimately blaming inadequate but correctable video displays, the Pentagon is materially announcing that misreading computer consoles is an accepted, large risk that higly-trained crewmen cannot be expected to avoid, and which absolves Captain, crew, and computer from all responsibility. It provides a comprehensive table of techniques, which include Bayesian, frequentist, maximum likelihood, evidential, pattern-matching, associative, syntactic, and heuristic methodologies. Regarding their opinions on statistical reliability estimation and life in general, I cannot say. I believe that was not the intended meaning. Certification is the administrative act of releasing a potentially hazardous product for sale or use.
Certification IS one or zero.
The trial is expected to last about two weeks. Through his lawyer, Jack Beech, Burleson denies the charges but has declined further comment. Pretrial motions were scheduled to be heard today, followed by jury selection, Garrison said. A virus is a computer program, often hidden in apparently normal computer software, that instructs the computer to change or destroy information at a given time or after a certain sequence of commands. USPA officials claim Burleson went into the comapny's offices one night and planted a virus in its computer records that would wipe out sales commissions records every month.