The FAA has for decades has sponsored a very effective error reporting system among pilots, controllers, etc. If the pilot, controller etc is part of or witnesses an operational error, the pilot, controller can report the circumstances and proposed solution within 10 days to ... NASA. NASA returns a confirmation of receipt to the pilot, who thereafter cannot be disciplined by the FAA for fault in the incident (if there is any - you just show up to the hearing and waive the NASA form around). NASA accumulates the data for the FAA anonymously and reports its findings of trends in errors to the FAA. NASA is used to manage the data because no sane pilot or controller would trust the FAA. NASA, having no regulatory authority in the area, has no dog in the hunt. NASA's anonymous data is public.
The system has been extremely successful in spotting important and common errors and fixing them. The incentive is its anonymity combined with its get out of jail free card. The running joke is at the end of every commercial flight, the last item on the post shutdown checklist is "FILE ASRS FORM) - the name of the reporting form. The pilots sit there and think of every little thing that went wrong and send in the forms.
You can be sure that right after that Air France A380 clipped the Delta CJR at Kennedy a few days ago, a veritable snow storm of forms arrived at NASA.
There are limits - if you crash the plane, kill people, kill yourself, destroy multi-million dollar aircraft, you don't get out of jail free simply by filing an ASRS form, but on the other hand, you probably have much bigger personal problems (death, for example) anyway.
Also, there is an annual limit on how many times a year you can get out of jail (not how many forms you file, but how many times you can block discipline by filing the forms). But that limit doesn't destroy the incentive to file the forms, because most operational errors are not formally detected or pursued by the FAA in any case (to small to bother with). So you file like mad and hope for the best.
If medicine had a system with similar incentives, the flood of error reporting would be amazing. Picture some error in the operating room. Every single person in there, not just the doc who screwed up, but every other person, the other docs, the nurses, etc. would all be scrambling to get their get out of jail free cards filed. Proposed solutions, many of which in the case of NASA have been adopted by the FAA, etc.
The medical version could include immunity from lawsuits combined with some compensation fund for the patient, up to some limit (you might exclude actually killing the patient).
You would need a whole new bureaucracy to handle the snowstorm of error forms.
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Eliminates the cookie stealing privacy concerns. Yes, the advertisers will need direct access to your web servers, and yes, they will have to put logging software on your servers to make sure you don't cheat, but so what.
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The answer comes from the Pilots
The FAA has for decades has sponsored a very effective error reporting system among pilots, controllers, etc. If the pilot, controller etc is part of or witnesses an operational error, the pilot, controller can report the circumstances and proposed solution within 10 days to ... NASA. NASA returns a confirmation of receipt to the pilot, who thereafter cannot be disciplined by the FAA for fault in the incident (if there is any - you just show up to the hearing and waive the NASA form around). NASA accumulates the data for the FAA anonymously and reports its findings of trends in errors to the FAA. NASA is used to manage the data because no sane pilot or controller would trust the FAA. NASA, having no regulatory authority in the area, has no dog in the hunt. NASA's anonymous data is public.
The system has been extremely successful in spotting important and common errors and fixing them. The incentive is its anonymity combined with its get out of jail free card. The running joke is at the end of every commercial flight, the last item on the post shutdown checklist is "FILE ASRS FORM) - the name of the reporting form. The pilots sit there and think of every little thing that went wrong and send in the forms.
You can be sure that right after that Air France A380 clipped the Delta CJR at Kennedy a few days ago, a veritable snow storm of forms arrived at NASA.
There are limits - if you crash the plane, kill people, kill yourself, destroy multi-million dollar aircraft, you don't get out of jail free simply by filing an ASRS form, but on the other hand, you probably have much bigger personal problems (death, for example) anyway.
Also, there is an annual limit on how many times a year you can get out of jail (not how many forms you file, but how many times you can block discipline by filing the forms). But that limit doesn't destroy the incentive to file the forms, because most operational errors are not formally detected or pursued by the FAA in any case (to small to bother with). So you file like mad and hope for the best.
If medicine had a system with similar incentives, the flood of error reporting would be amazing. Picture some error in the operating room. Every single person in there, not just the doc who screwed up, but every other person, the other docs, the nurses, etc. would all be scrambling to get their get out of jail free cards filed. Proposed solutions, many of which in the case of NASA have been adopted by the FAA, etc.
The medical version could include immunity from lawsuits combined with some compensation fund for the patient, up to some limit (you might exclude actually killing the patient).
You would need a whole new bureaucracy to handle the snowstorm of error forms.
Simple Fix
The simple fix is: - ads will have to be served from your domain, not the advertisers.
Eliminates the cookie stealing privacy concerns. Yes, the advertisers will need direct access to your web servers, and yes, they will have to put logging software on your servers to make sure you don't cheat, but so what.
I use the hosts file to block ads. I can unblock your domain, but I will never unblock doubleclick.
Easy peasy, really.