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Also, the UPS cargo 747-44AF/SCD had inadequate cockpit/cargo air-handling separation, fire suppression, cargo-cockpit/airframe firewalling, lacked EVAS, isolated oxygen supplies and didn't have per-cargo-container fire detection and suppression.

The thing with using FPGA's in systems (they're great for low-volume, high-priced items where ASICs would be too costly) is they end up just emulating logic which could be more cheaply implemented as actual execution units (as many modern FPGA's things like cache, ROM, ALUs, etc.). That is, it's expensive flexibility that isn't really all that useful. Sure you could reconfigure a "computer" from doing database things to suddenly add more GPU cores to play games, but how useful or power/cost efficient would that be? Sure it's nice to cut down on ASICs and upgrading them after the fact, but it seems like more like category development than offering practical advantages to solve a real problem. Maybe a super-fast HPC-on-a-chip would be possible, but I don't see that we're storage or compute constrained, however we maybe bandwidth and latency constrained in terms of shrinking clusters to a single rack of ridiculously power-hungry reprogrammable chips.

Instead of infinitely customizable, arbitrary logic, you might have a crap-ton of simplified RISC cores with some memory and lots of interconnected bandwidth or something in-between FPGA and MPPA.

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“Citizens may resist unlawful arrest to the point of taking an arresting officer's life if necessary.” Plummer v. State, 136 Ind. 306. This premise was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case: John Bad Elk v. U.S., 177 U.S. 529. The Court stated: “Where the officer is killed in the course of the disorder which naturally accompanies an attempted arrest that is resisted, the law looks with very different eyes upon the transaction, when the officer had the right to make the arrest, from what it does if the officer had no right. What may be murder in the first case might be nothing more than manslaughter in the other, or the facts might show that no offense had been committed.”

“An arrest made with a defective warrant, or one issued without affidavit, or one that fails to allege a crime is within jurisdiction, and one who is being arrested, may resist arrest and break away. lf the arresting officer is killed by one who is so resisting, the killing will be no more than an involuntary manslaughter.” Housh v. People, 75 111. 491; reaffirmed and quoted in State v. Leach, 7 Conn. 452; State v. Gleason, 32 Kan. 245; Ballard v. State, 43 Ohio 349; State v Rousseau, 241 P. 2d 447; State v. Spaulding, 34 Minn. 3621.

“When a person, being without fault, is in a place where he has a right to be, is violently assaulted, he may, without retreating, repel by force, and if, in the reasonable exercise of his right of self defense, his assailant is killed, he is justified.” Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1.

“These principles apply as well to an officer attempting to make an arrest, who abuses his authority and transcends the bounds thereof by the use of unnecessary force and violence, as they do to a private individual who unlawfully uses such force and violence.” Jones v. State, 26 Tex. App. I; Beaverts v. State, 4 Tex. App. 1 75; Skidmore v. State, 43 Tex. 93, 903.

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