Thanks to a Bankrupt Russian Airline, Trump May Get the Air Force One Deal He Wanted. Donald Trump loves a good deal. And the United States Air Force just found one for the president, sitting in a Mojave Desert boneyard two brand new Boeing 7. Air Force One aircraft. These two have an interesting origin story, too. This web site uses cookies to improve your experience. By viewing our content, you are accepting the use of cookies. To find out more and change your cookie settings. Cookies, which are files created by websites youve visited, and your browsers cache, which helps pages load faster, make it easier for you to browse the web. Do you know how much data Googles new CAPTCHA collects on youThe two 7. 47 8s were originally ordered by Transaero, a Russian airline that went bankrupt and couldnt pay for them. Aeroflot, the company that acquired Transaero and Russias largest airline, absorbed much of the bankrupt companys fleet but never took ownership of the 7. So Boeing took them back, flight tested them, and put them in storage in the Mojave Desert. Now, they could be the presidents next personal jet. Its not yet a done deal. According to Defense One, the Air Force is expected to announce the purchase of these two 7. B aircraft as soon as this week. In a statement, Air Force spokeswoman Ann Stefanek said, Were working through the final stages of coordination to purchase two commercial 7. Meanwhile, Boeing spokeswoman Caroline Hutcheson said, Were still working toward a deal to provide two 7. Air Forcethis deal is focused on providing a great value for the Air Force and the best price for the taxpayer. Key to the value proposition here is that the Air Force would still have to outfit the new 7. Air Force One requires. These include private conference rooms in the cabin, private quarters for the president, an operating room for medical emergencies, a mid air refueling probe, flares hidden in the wings to deter missile attacks, and a fuselage that can survive a nuclear blast on the ground. Based on a Pentagon budget request, the Air Force has the budget to spend nearly 3. Its so far unclear how much the Air Force would pay Boeing for the two planes recovered from Transaero, and its possible we might never know the price of the deal. But still, Donald Trump must be pleased. The man behind The Art of the Dealbarked loudly after his election last November that the new Air Force One was just too expensive. Never mind the fact that Trump might never get to fly in one of the two new Air Force One aircraft, which are expected to enter service some time between 2. If the deal does go through, however, we can expect the president to take credit. The irony of the fact that the comes from a backdoor Russian source while the Trumps administration is under investigation for colluding with Russia will be lost on no one. Defense One. F CAPTCHA 9. Percent Of Everything. Using a CAPTCHA is a way of announcing to the world that youve got a spam problem, that you dont know how to deal with it, and that youve decided to offload the frustration of the problem onto your user base. As statements go, thats pretty lame. If you ran a high street store, you wouldnt force your customers to mop the floor before you serve them, on account of the people who came in earlier with muddy boots. That mud is your problem, not theirs. The same goes for spam. CAPTCHA bothers me the most because it tries to sugar coat users frustration and make it palatable to site owners. Helping digitise and preserve literature is a worthy goal, but its a task thats utterly at odds with what your users are trying to do at that very moment. Sometimes site owners seem to think they really need CAPTCHAs, having been hurt by spam in the past. Without hard evidence, it can be difficult to persuade them otherwise. Well, heres some good news I recently got chatting to Chris Korhonen of Animoto, whos kindly shared some data that could help you talk your clients around. In case you dont know, Animoto is a web app that allows users to create video compositions from their photos, video clips and music. According to their press releases, their registered user base grew from 3. August 2. 00. 9 to 2 million users in November 2. Roughly speaking, thats 2,4. In Q1 2. 00. 9 they ran a simple experiment, looking at the impact of CAPTCHA on registration completion. This is what their signup form looked like at the beginning of the study Users were directed to the sign up form direct from the homepage before they could interact with the product. As you can see, there was a CAPTCHA at the bottom of the form powered by re. CAPTCHA. With this design, they had a conversion rate of roughly 4. They then removed the CAPTCHA, and it boosted the conversion rate up to 6. In conversion rate lingo, thats an uplift of 3. They replaced the CAPTCHA with honeypot fields and timestamp analysis, which has apparently proven to be very effective at preventing spam while being completely invisible to the end user. To quote Chris We left the test running until the results were statistically significant to a 9. Weve followed the same testing methodology with other bits and pieces removing demographic fields, moving things around, and so on, but nothing has moved things more than a couple of percent. Got any evidence of your own about CAPTCHAs and conversion rates Comments, pleaseEdit 1 For some reason this article has hit the front page of Hacker News and is getting quite a lot of traffic. I should mention that yes, I acknowledge CAPTCHAs are of course sometimes unavoidable. That doesnt mean, however, that we should ever feel good about using them, nor should we fool ourselves that users dont mind them. Edit 2 Links added to articles about honeypot fields and timestamp analysis.
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