it is clear to me that the Air France crash was caused by icicles forming on the propellors, making them get stuck.
You forgot one thing. The pilot's bible states that before the pilot puts the plane into a steep nosedive they should send a co-pilot or flight attendant out on the wing to try to spin the propellers themselves to break the ice.
When I read TFA I had a knee-jerk reaction to hate on Airbus, as I believe that everything should have a
manual override.
Then I thought of Terrain-following radar and
realized that things are not always that simple. Quote:
Under these conditions terrain-following radar is a necessity, since a human pilot cannot react quickly enough to
changing terrain heights, and is much more likely to cause a crash than an automated system in the same
circumstances.
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Heh, man. That's gotta be the best description of twitter that I've ever heard. +5.
The common theme of twitter, blogs, and social networking is that everybody's talking but nobody's listening.
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...and that's why I hope that the equally obnoxious twitter and social networking fads will die soon after.
Every Slashdotter, deep inside, knows that piracy is wrong and that it screws hard-working people over.
Metallica spend an hour recording tracks for their latest album. Then they leave and go out for hookers and blow while sound engineers spend the next 2 weeks cutting, pasting, and pro-tooling the hell out of the riffs and the cobbling the mess into something which resembles an album. Profit.
"Hard-working" may have been true 20 or even 10 years ago, but piracy caught on just as quality and craft of Big-label music took a nosedive. If I were an actually hard-working and gigging artist then I'd encourage so-called piracy of my tracks and make money selling CD's. I've frequently seen local bands in different cities give away stickers and CDs just to get their name known.
Copyright is a totally different issue to freedom and privacy.
But the overzealous enforcement of copyright issues will inevitable lead to erosions of freedom and privacy. Hyperbolic hypothetical example: In your country, the leadership criminalizes small-time copyright infriengement and delegates its enforcement to a government law-enforcement agency. They find that your 17-year old daughter has been downloading the latest pop hits from TPB and so they will have the authorization to hack into her box to see what else they can find. They find her nude pictures and maybe even a nude webcam video she made for her boyfriend. In addition to copyright infringement, she will also charged with child pornography and subject to excessive punishment.
In short, content providers(among other corporations) get greedy and fuck things up for everyone. They've been inflating prices and riding a gravy train for years. Now that technology's levelling the playing field, they just try to throw money at lobbyists and enact insane law instead of implementing realistic business models. Adapt or die.
I think having an indefinite human element would be a good thing for Google. College students are reasonably smart and many of them would enjoy doing such a simple thing to make a few bucks on the side for beer or textbook money. It's a lot like Slashdot's mod system. Hopefully it will drastically reduce spam pages being in the top results.
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Fresh like a pile of garbage heaped on top of an older, more rotten pile of garbage.
No, but parking tickets or incidents involving alcohol or drugs or making trouble are. Or at least they should be. I would never trust anybody who has obeyed every little bitty law throughout life, especially without knowing the minutae of their upbringing. You wouldn't know their breaking point. Check out crooked FBI agent Robert Hanssen, for example.
There are many important details of his life which would not have shown up in the background check. Based on what the wikipedia said, it's possible he could have made it all the way to the FBI and then betray it just to spite his father, who was an emotionally abusive cop. [/conjecture]
It also said homosexuality could be a security issue under some circumstances."
It also mentioned marital impropriety. The idea behind it, of course, is that closet homosexuals and unfaulthful partners could be blackmailed into giving up sensitive information.
It's also convenient that the folks who fit the acceptable standards also fit in with the conservative "family values" type, lacking important life experience, and are more likely to do what they're told without question.
If you failed the background check, you had no way of learning the reasons. Though you could technically appeal, what would have been the good of that had you not known why.
What you just said makes no sense. The whole point of Java is that you don't have to mess with memory management. You've just admitted that you want to invest more time and complexity in building "mini-projects" by switching to C++. Good for learning, but otherwise practically silly if you're a noob, and you've implied that you are.
As far as Java goes, ignore the command line for now. You don't need it to quickly build decent-performing applications.
I'm also puzzled as to why EldavoJohn mentioned the USAF, but it comes as no surprise to me that a seemingly unrelated government agency is going after these guys.
After all, what does Immigration and Customs have to do with this and this?
We might as well assume that any "Federal" agency can go after whomever they want, "compartmentalization" be damned. After all, what ever became of that whole illegal NSA wiretapping thing?
Everybody has an open-source personality in that they tend to pick and choose the aspects and mannerisms they like and discard those they don't like. Personalities aren't born, they're made.
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it is clear to me that the Air France crash was caused by icicles forming on the propellors, making them get stuck.
You forgot one thing. The pilot's bible states that before the pilot puts the plane into a steep nosedive they should send a co-pilot or flight attendant out on the wing to try to spin the propellers themselves to break the ice.
Nosediving should only be done as a last resort.
Then I thought of Terrain-following radar and realized that things are not always that simple. Quote:
Under these conditions terrain-following radar is a necessity, since a human pilot cannot react quickly enough to changing terrain heights, and is much more likely to cause a crash than an automated system in the same circumstances.
Heh, man. That's gotta be the best description of twitter that I've ever heard. +5.
The common theme of twitter, blogs, and social networking is that everybody's talking but nobody's listening.
...and that's why I hope that the equally obnoxious twitter and social networking fads will die soon after.
Good point. Mod parent up!
Why did that get +5? Firefox throws that shit all the time. Mod parent -1, redundant!
Every Slashdotter, deep inside, knows that piracy is wrong and that it screws hard-working people over.
Metallica spend an hour recording tracks for their latest album. Then they leave and go out for hookers and blow while sound engineers spend the next 2 weeks cutting, pasting, and pro-tooling the hell out of the riffs and the cobbling the mess into something which resembles an album. Profit.
;)
"Hard-working" may have been true 20 or even 10 years ago, but piracy caught on just as quality and craft of Big-label music took a nosedive. If I were an actually hard-working and gigging artist then I'd encourage so-called piracy of my tracks and make money selling CD's. I've frequently seen local bands in different cities give away stickers and CDs just to get their name known.
Shit, was I just troll'd?
Copyright is a totally different issue to freedom and privacy.
But the overzealous enforcement of copyright issues will inevitable lead to erosions of freedom and privacy. Hyperbolic hypothetical example: In your country, the leadership criminalizes small-time copyright infriengement and delegates its enforcement to a government law-enforcement agency. They find that your 17-year old daughter has been downloading the latest pop hits from TPB and so they will have the authorization to hack into her box to see what else they can find. They find her nude pictures and maybe even a nude webcam video she made for her boyfriend. In addition to copyright infringement, she will also charged with child pornography and subject to excessive punishment.
In short, content providers(among other corporations) get greedy and fuck things up for everyone. They've been inflating prices and riding a gravy train for years. Now that technology's levelling the playing field, they just try to throw money at lobbyists and enact insane law instead of implementing realistic business models. Adapt or die.
Noscript on Firefox throws a "potential XSS attempt" warning.
I think having an indefinite human element would be a good thing for Google. College students are reasonably smart and many of them would enjoy doing such a simple thing to make a few bucks on the side for beer or textbook money. It's a lot like Slashdot's mod system. Hopefully it will drastically reduce spam pages being in the top results.
Fresh like a pile of garbage heaped on top of an older, more rotten pile of garbage.
Or 3-boobed women![NSFW!]
Brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbr!
No, but parking tickets or incidents involving alcohol or drugs or making trouble are. Or at least they should be. I would never trust anybody who has obeyed every little bitty law throughout life, especially without knowing the minutae of their upbringing. You wouldn't know their breaking point. Check out crooked FBI agent Robert Hanssen, for example.
There are many important details of his life which would not have shown up in the background check. Based on what the wikipedia said, it's possible he could have made it all the way to the FBI and then betray it just to spite his father, who was an emotionally abusive cop. [/conjecture]
It's only the first star-shaped probe of five to be strategically crashed into Mars' surface!
It also said homosexuality could be a security issue under some circumstances."
It also mentioned marital impropriety. The idea behind it, of course, is that closet homosexuals and unfaulthful partners could be blackmailed into giving up sensitive information.
It's also convenient that the folks who fit the acceptable standards also fit in with the conservative "family values" type, lacking important life experience, and are more likely to do what they're told without question.
If you failed the background check, you had no way of learning the reasons. Though you could technically appeal, what would have been the good of that had you not known why.
Kafkaesque.
HAW! Well done, my friend. Well done.
Personally I'd rather have seen him as a third-trimester abortion. Let's cross our fingers and hope that he gets the hell outta here.
What parent may or may not imply is that it was an inside job with lots of external obfuscation.
I have used Slashdot and got bored with it. Cut and paste trolling isn't cool.
What you just said makes no sense. The whole point of Java is that you don't have to mess with memory management. You've just admitted that you want to invest more time and complexity in building "mini-projects" by switching to C++. Good for learning, but otherwise practically silly if you're a noob, and you've implied that you are.
As far as Java goes, ignore the command line for now. You don't need it to quickly build decent-performing applications.
I'm also puzzled as to why EldavoJohn mentioned the USAF, but it comes as no surprise to me that a seemingly unrelated government agency is going after these guys.
After all, what does Immigration and Customs have to do with this and this?
We might as well assume that any "Federal" agency can go after whomever they want, "compartmentalization" be damned. After all, what ever became of that whole illegal NSA wiretapping thing?
When I read TFA I nearly had a heart attack, as NYCL posted something which has nothing to do with the media industry!
I'm waiting for the ATM that runs Mac OS X!
They already have those in San Francisco. They're called "gAyTMs"
Aside from the oooohs and aaaahs, good sex sounds like "gluck, gluck, gluck...", like repeatedly slapping a filled-up douchebag against the sidewalk.
Everybody has an open-source personality in that they tend to pick and choose the aspects and mannerisms they like and discard those they don't like. Personalities aren't born, they're made.