Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

Re Vulcanair P68 I have just read a translation from French where a carbon monoxide emergency disabled pilot/passengers, causing a mishap. It’s a possibility. The slcause of the fatal accident where footballer Sala and his pilot were killed flying from France to Cardiff proved to be carbon monoxide poisoning entering cabin from engine fumes, on a different aircraft model.

Absolutely implicated an RAF drone, but it seemed the aircraft had already developed progressive control issues before it came to Wexford coast and the elevator train tab was found separated some distance away, point to that as the likely cause. The second last transmission was strange “Echo India Alpha Oscar Mike with you..,” Transmissions often got partly clipped, and this one certainly was. As a private pilot the only time I would give the full ref call-sign eg, EI AOM, was eh, on start-up at Dublin Airport as in “EI AOM requesting start-up to commence flight plan with with your routing west”. Once my identity was established it would be abbreviated to Oscar Mike. Commercial airliners use airline call signs combined with flight numbers and whatever this was, say Shamrock 143, and they don’t deviate. It’s as if the Viscount crew were so consumed by control issues that they were merely reading the aircraft registration written on the control yoke.

Duffy with a serious look of pleasure etched on his face listening to the woes & misery throes of Mary Coughlan tonight.

As many of ye know, I had to change my user handle recently from Ghoulfinger to “Riley Helpless Grapevine”. The latter being an apt username considering the frustration I experienced for lack of a simple line of code. As I learning web development for a couple of months I’ve become aware what probably is the underlying issue in this regard on Boards and I posted it in feedback in hope the busy admins tack action.

Due to a perceived site security scare from a thread that came up a while back, I had been trying to change my email from what was myname@domain.com to a new anonymous one I created in a hurry, and which password I lost, so I wanted to alter it back again. No chance, as text rapidly filled the page and blocked and further action.

“Email verification required” filled up my screen ad finitum and would not stop, preventing any further action in my part.

Anyone knowing even basic JavaScript will be familiar with the infinite loop. It would appear to be a very simple line of code missing from the JS to stop this happening here on the site.

I’ll give a demo here for those unfamiliar . It is stuff the simplicity of which Duffy or Darcy could grasp. I don’t know what Boards name the variable involved in the loop, but for arguments sake I will put it here as “emailVerify” 

So let’s imagine, for simplicity, part of it is scripted something like this:

var emailVerify = true;

while (emailVerify) {console.log (“Email verification required”);}

A quick explanation for those who know nothing about JS, the var stands for “variable”, the recognisable name the coder decides to give. Next line “while” tells it to run when it is “true”, and the stuff in the curly brackets instructs the relevant message to actually appear on the screen. But the message will keep repeating unless something is added to turn it off. 

The above would run an infinite loop as like happened in my case. 

It can be resolved very simply by a little addition inserted before closing bracket, eg:

var emailVerify = true;

While (emailVerify) {console.log (“Email verification required”);

emailVerify = false;}

The last line changes the status of the variable after showing message once puts the brakes on the loop and presents the message recurring ad Infinitum on the screen and blocking up all further use of Boards. It tells it to stop because it is no longer valid to keep putting the message on the screen.

And yes, this missing script definitely doesn’t fuel my confidence in the site inadvertently revealing my ID. 

Simple as that really, although there’s obviously a lot more script involved; but even Joe or Ray could grasp this simple stuff and make it work. I could train the cat only he wouldn’t see the point of bothering. Boards didn’t employ enough folk to run through all the “what ifs” and this is the result.