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'Black box' is referring to the lack of visibility inside the box and to the fact that you can't tamper with it, what goes in stays in.
by Railsify 4y ago
'Black box' is referring to the lack of visibility inside the box and to the fact that you can't tamper with it, what goes in stays in.
- LarryMullins 4y agoFlight recorders are called black boxes because they originally were black-colored boxes. "Black box" in the sense that you are describing is an unrelated term.
- travisjungroth 4y agoWikipedia agrees! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder#Terminology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_recorder#Terminology
- ignoramous 4y agonb: Wikipedia favours verifiability over truth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:vnt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:vnt > Wikipedia values accuracy, but it requires verifiability. Wikipedia does not try to impose "the truth" on its readers, and does not ask that they trust something just because they read it in Wikipedia. We empower our readers. We don't ask for their blind trust.
- wpietri 4y agoYou sound like you have a problem with that, but I can't fathom what alternative course you'd rather them pursue.
- ignoramous 4y agoIt is just a note. I don't mean it to sound anything other than what Wikipedia itself states. I see a tonne of "Wikipedia agrees" but none of "Wikipedia is a living document" and it isn't its place to be a gospel of truth...
- outworlder 4y agoWikipedia is not and cannot, as per their own policies, be the primary source. 'Wikipedia agrees' is shorthand for 'the sources mentioned by this particular Wikipedia article agree'
- travisjungroth 4y agoYou see none of "Wikipedia is a living document"? I think people are pretty aware. You see a lot more cases of people quoting Wikipedia on a topic than talking about Wikipedia's trustworthiness because it adds a second dimension. It's [Wikipedia, Topic] vs. [Wikipedia]. I might look up 100 different things on Wikipedia. The fact that Wikipedia has all sorts of flaws is something I only needed to learn once.
- andrewflnr 4y agoThe phrase "Wikipedia agrees" succinctly encodes the correct degree of confidence, as opposed to "it's true, see Wikipedia".
- ignoramous 4y agoAn argument can be made, I guess, if one leaves out the exclamation... "Wikipedia agrees!"
- andrewflnr 4y ago
- basementcat 4y agoSome flight data recorders are still housed in black boxes! Here’s one from the back of a 747 in the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA (sorry for my lousy photography) https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApyfVMR9dcxJnUDadgS2DDI_XUFa https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApyfVMR9dcxJnUDadgS2DDI_XUFa The orange box is the cockpit voice recorder. https://www.museumofflight.org/ https://www.museumofflight.org/
- moffkalast 4y agoAnd Valve would sue them if they called it The Orange Box.