You're assuming that the stolen car still has the correct plates on it.
Also, even with a three hour window, you're looking at almost 200 miles in any direction. Looking for one car in 40,000 square miles is a pretty good approximation of needle in a haystack.
Oh, I get it. The police will use this to say "We spotted a stolen car/kidnapped kid in your area in the last few hours. We will now search your house to make sure they're not there." Instant probable (or at least possible) cause.
Well sure, there's nothing in the name that only requires them in airports. Think about TSA checkpoints at every bus station, train station, metro stop, border crossing and toll booth. How big is that budget? All for your safety, of course.
I'm on the list as well, and share the same name as a certain famous comedian. I asked an agent what the problem was and was told "Oh, you've probably got the same name as someone." I even went so far as to go through TSA's grievance site https://trip.dhs.gov/ with no luck.
The weird thing is that it is different from airline to airline. On United, I can check in online, but my wife can't. On Frontier, I can't check in online but she can't.
I guess I should have taken HER name when I got married, and not the other way around.
I agree, and I think this is where Open Source software gets it right, because they have to. There's no "office", so everyone is a telecommuter. Any of the problems with telecommuting are solved by the the distributed development model.
-create a release roadmap, assign the tasks to the people in the group. -create some sort of tracker for all the tasks in the roadmap, and if you're really anal, require weekly notes/software drops be added to the tracker to show progress. -create a development environment in which all of this is possible. Don't require everyone to log on to "the server" to work/build, don't require everyone to need to see the requirements, or docs, or whatever else. Give them the problem, let them get to it, and ask questions when they need to. That's it.
Companies don't want to do this, because it changes the way they do things.
Can anyone explain if this situation is legal (or at least ethical)? I work for a government contracting company, and am classified as an exempt worker. The company may pay overtime at their discretion, and has changed the policy repeatedly over the years.
It started as "paid overtime", then to "paid overtime up to a limit (20 hours per week)", now "paid overtime minus the first 5 hours up to 20 hours a week." The reason they are doing this is because there's so much management/other people who don't charge directly to a program, they need more time to offset the "overhead" rates.
I see it as I'm exempt, but I'm not, since they pay overtime, but they choose not to pay overtime.
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Absolutely. Anecdotal evidence from last weekend. I took a trip from Denver to Rapid City, South Dakota to look at the monuments and such. Google Maps says the trip is 400 miles, about 6 hours 30 minutes of drive time.
Ticket price: $250 a piece for my wife and me. Flight was scheduled to depart at 10 a.m. Left the house at 7 to drive the the airport (45 minutes + parking and walking to the terminal, call it an hour). Check in was pretty easy. I'm on the TSA watch list (still, even after filling out the form two months ago), so we couldn't check in online. So figure another 45 minutes for ticketing, security and getting to the gate. Wait around until 10, plane takes off on time. Flight time is one hour. Wait around to get off the plane and get bags (figure another 30 minutes, it' a small plane and small airport). Another hour from Rapid City to the condo. So in total, 5 hours and change.
If we'd driven my car, at 25 mpg, gas at $4 per gallon, 800 miles/25mpg*4 = $128 for gas total. So the flight saved one hour and cost 4x as much. And that's on Frontier. Wait until July, when we fly to Michigan on United ($500 each per ticket).
Exactly. If I leave all the auto-updates enabled on all my programs, who's to say how much bandwidth I use? And how do I tell that I'm about to go over anyway?
I could see an evil company: 1. institute a bandwidth cap. 2. install a download trojan that keeps downloading stuff to keep the pipe saturated. 3. charge for going over your cap. 4. Profit!
I disagree. What killed the railroad was the suburb. Even today, to get to the nearest light rail line in Denver (shared public transportation line along commercial freight line), I have to drive five miles. Then I can take the train downtown for $3 one way. Or, I can keep driving the 10 miles to downtown and pay for parking. If I'm taking my wife along (which I usually am), anything cheaper than $10 for parking is saving money and time.
What's more, now that I've committed almost an hour to drive to train station, I'm more inclined to keep driving rather than waiting to catch an intercity train (Amtrak) somewhere.
The problem is the same in the opposite direction. Even if goods are shipped by rail, they won't get that close to their final destination. So they have to be trucked. If the trip distance isn't that far, there's more incentive to just truck it the whole way and avoid an extra transfer from rail to truck.
Seconded. After twiddling with VPN settings in Anti-Virus 2007, which featured a firewall that they didn't ever mention, it decided to upgrade to 2008. Guess what? It didn't move my additional rules over and I had to redo them.
I can't believe I have to respond to this, but most languages have a visibility scope modifier to method signatures. In Java and C (for example), you can declare a method "private" to only allow to allow access it from within the enclosing class. There are other levels of access to establish how accessible you want your method to be. PHP has no scoping ability. Everything is global.
To the GP, if you've already created unit tests for the functionality of the loop, it should be trivial to refactor the tests to match the refactored code. After all, you haven't changed the behavior of the code, just its organization and appearance. Furthermore, by extracting the unit of work into a method, you're creating a single point of maintenance for your code, rather than multiple instances of the same logic.
The bug you mention is already present. If your method can't handle unexpected data ranges, the method needs to handle it, not the calling method. You'd be more likely to catch it quicker if it was extracted.
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Sounds like a problem with cron, not with the script. Integration, not unit test.
Sounds good, as long as on the first screen there's an option for "None of these mental midgets."
But how would the media have election night coverage? "Bush has a 5% lead, unless he doesn't?"
Is that like arguing "We already have guns, all this would do is start using them?"
You're assuming that the stolen car still has the correct plates on it.
Also, even with a three hour window, you're looking at almost 200 miles in any direction. Looking for one car in 40,000 square miles is a pretty good approximation of needle in a haystack.
Oh, I get it. The police will use this to say "We spotted a stolen car/kidnapped kid in your area in the last few hours. We will now search your house to make sure they're not there." Instant probable (or at least possible) cause.
Not to mention that this is actually like the Telecom Immunity Bill. It "grants" legal status to an un-Constitutional act.
If ignorance of the law is no excuse, why do we need lawyers?
In a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory behind a door that said "Beware of the tiger"
Of course. And death!
Well sure, there's nothing in the name that only requires them in airports. Think about TSA checkpoints at every bus station, train station, metro stop, border crossing and toll booth. How big is that budget? All for your safety, of course.
You could make that argument about pretty much every government agency. That's the nature of government.
I'm on the list as well, and share the same name as a certain famous comedian. I asked an agent what the problem was and was told "Oh, you've probably got the same name as someone." I even went so far as to go through TSA's grievance site https://trip.dhs.gov/ with no luck.
The weird thing is that it is different from airline to airline. On United, I can check in online, but my wife can't. On Frontier, I can't check in online but she can't.
I guess I should have taken HER name when I got married, and not the other way around.
I agree, and I think this is where Open Source software gets it right, because they have to. There's no "office", so everyone is a telecommuter. Any of the problems with telecommuting are solved by the the distributed development model.
-create a release roadmap, assign the tasks to the people in the group.
-create some sort of tracker for all the tasks in the roadmap, and if you're really anal, require weekly notes/software drops be added to the tracker to show progress.
-create a development environment in which all of this is possible. Don't require everyone to log on to "the server" to work/build, don't require everyone to need to see the requirements, or docs, or whatever else. Give them the problem, let them get to it, and ask questions when they need to. That's it.
Companies don't want to do this, because it changes the way they do things.
Anything not supported by reality can still be supported by the government.
So what about the CIA's attempts at assassinating Castro, Ngo Dinh Diem, Rafael Trujillo, et. al.?
Can anyone explain if this situation is legal (or at least ethical)? I work for a government contracting company, and am classified as an exempt worker. The company may pay overtime at their discretion, and has changed the policy repeatedly over the years.
It started as "paid overtime", then to "paid overtime up to a limit (20 hours per week)", now "paid overtime minus the first 5 hours up to 20 hours a week." The reason they are doing this is because there's so much management/other people who don't charge directly to a program, they need more time to offset the "overhead" rates.
I see it as I'm exempt, but I'm not, since they pay overtime, but they choose not to pay overtime.
slogan: Why Go into Wal-Mart When You Can Buy It From Someone in the Parking Lot?
Absolutely. Anecdotal evidence from last weekend. I took a trip from Denver to Rapid City, South Dakota to look at the monuments and such. Google Maps says the trip is 400 miles, about 6 hours 30 minutes of drive time.
Ticket price: $250 a piece for my wife and me. Flight was scheduled to depart at 10 a.m. Left the house at 7 to drive the the airport (45 minutes + parking and walking to the terminal, call it an hour). Check in was pretty easy. I'm on the TSA watch list (still, even after filling out the form two months ago), so we couldn't check in online. So figure another 45 minutes for ticketing, security and getting to the gate. Wait around until 10, plane takes off on time. Flight time is one hour. Wait around to get off the plane and get bags (figure another 30 minutes, it' a small plane and small airport). Another hour from Rapid City to the condo. So in total, 5 hours and change.
If we'd driven my car, at 25 mpg, gas at $4 per gallon, 800 miles/25mpg*4 = $128 for gas total. So the flight saved one hour and cost 4x as much. And that's on Frontier. Wait until July, when we fly to Michigan on United ($500 each per ticket).
And now, Paper may beat Scissors as well.
Exactly. If I leave all the auto-updates enabled on all my programs, who's to say how much bandwidth I use? And how do I tell that I'm about to go over anyway?
I could see an evil company:
1. institute a bandwidth cap.
2. install a download trojan that keeps downloading stuff to keep the pipe saturated.
3. charge for going over your cap.
4. Profit!
I disagree. What killed the railroad was the suburb. Even today, to get to the nearest light rail line in Denver (shared public transportation line along commercial freight line), I have to drive five miles. Then I can take the train downtown for $3 one way. Or, I can keep driving the 10 miles to downtown and pay for parking. If I'm taking my wife along (which I usually am), anything cheaper than $10 for parking is saving money and time.
What's more, now that I've committed almost an hour to drive to train station, I'm more inclined to keep driving rather than waiting to catch an intercity train (Amtrak) somewhere.
The problem is the same in the opposite direction. Even if goods are shipped by rail, they won't get that close to their final destination. So they have to be trucked. If the trip distance isn't that far, there's more incentive to just truck it the whole way and avoid an extra transfer from rail to truck.
Roger Rabbit was right!
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Seconded. After twiddling with VPN settings in Anti-Virus 2007, which featured a firewall that they didn't ever mention, it decided to upgrade to 2008. Guess what? It didn't move my additional rules over and I had to redo them.
I'm not renewing when the subscription expires.
Is this anything like "Why don't they make the whole plane out of the black box?"
You have 6 friends?
I can't believe I have to respond to this, but most languages have a visibility scope modifier to method signatures. In Java and C (for example), you can declare a method "private" to only allow to allow access it from within the enclosing class. There are other levels of access to establish how accessible you want your method to be. PHP has no scoping ability. Everything is global.
To the GP, if you've already created unit tests for the functionality of the loop, it should be trivial to refactor the tests to match the refactored code. After all, you haven't changed the behavior of the code, just its organization and appearance. Furthermore, by extracting the unit of work into a method, you're creating a single point of maintenance for your code, rather than multiple instances of the same logic.
The bug you mention is already present. If your method can't handle unexpected data ranges, the method needs to handle it, not the calling method. You'd be more likely to catch it quicker if it was extracted.