The shooting, just outside the King Faisal airbase near al-Jafr where the men worked, was initially ascribed by Jordanian authorities to the men's failure to acknowledge instructions from guards to halt as their vehicles approached the gates of the base.
Show-and-tells of Samsung's new voice controlled television set also proved glitchy at times, with misunderstood commands and the system refusing to acknowledge instructions if unapproved words were added to requests.
Humans also recognize basic hand signals and, perhaps most important for the police, acknowledge instructions with eye contact or a nod.
Altman was then instructed to contact Newark Liberty International Airport, and he acknowledged the instruction.
Alonso is then called in for fuel and tyres, and after he acknowledges the instruction, Briatore is heard to say: "Anyway, we had nothing to lose," to which Symonds replies: "Exactly," as Alonso rejoins 20th, and last.
It later transpired that, in acknowledging the instruction to contact Newark, Altman had read back the wrong frequency (127.8 MHz instead of 127.85); an error that the controller did not correct.
Mr. MacIntosh said the pilot of the Continental plane apparently did not immediately acknowledge receiving the instruction from the control tower.
At 7 30 p.m., Mr. Carnahan acknowledged the instructions.
Michael Watkins, mission manager for Curiosity (formally, the Mars Science Laboratory) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), explains that this system has extremely low capacity and is designed for receiving (and sometimes acknowledging) terse instructions to carry out a day's tasks.
Mr. Thomas acknowledged these instructions in writing.
Johnson knew that he wanted to become an entrepreneur when he retired from basketball, but he realized that "what made me a great basketball player wouldn't make me a great CEO". His first step was to take his ego out of the game and acknowledge that he needed instruction.
