B52s are made by Boeing and still in service I believe? OK, so the B777 might not look _too_ similar, but if you're not expecting a civilian flight, you might make that mistake.
Depends how much they knew about the thing they were shooting at. I mean, Boeing make military aircraft too. Are B52s still in service? What does one of those look like from 10km away or on a radar?
"There is no such thing as a former KGB man" - Vladimir Putin. He was Lieutenant Colonel when he left in '91. I don't think you spend 15 years in the KGB and get to that rank without learning a thing or to about 'playing games'.
Unless the aircraft is destroyed out right by the explosion, it'll be damaged and start to crash. I would hope that the onboard monitoring would notice that damage and start warning the pilots, which is a really good cue to start uploading your black box data. Anything where the black box actually survives, there's something to notice 'things going wrong'.
Circles are a good notion, and one I like. I don't mind using my real name, but even so - am still a _bit_ edgy about getting 'googled up' by a prospective employer as a result.
However, I also know people who - for example - have had messy breakups with exes, and don't want said ex tracking them down again.
On the flip side though, there are people who are victims of domestic abuse, are relocated witnesses, wish to make comment from within an oppressive regime, have been high profile victims of crime, or are just 'ordinary' famous. They also want to use the internet, and have good reasons not to want to 'go public'.
Slightly different beasts I think. R is a really impressive analysis tool. Python is a scripting language. The latter is quite a bit more versatile, but... probably isn't the right tool to solve the problem outlined in the OP.
There's always always a balance. The police have powers to investigate the innocent. They're innocent because they're - legally - innocent until _proven_ guilty. Which means - by definition - the police are always targeting 'the innocent'. There's a bunch of rules to limit this, including not least a system of warrants - to do certain things to people, you need to be able to convince a judge that they're sufficiently dirty to be worth further investigation. But they're still - in the literal sense - still innocent at that point, because you haven't proven their crime in a court of law.
It's not a perfect system by any means, but it mostly works - _generally_ the bad people get caught and punished, and the good people are protected. But sometimes there are abuses, and part of the point of any system of justices is that it has to accept the inevitable - that sometimes you'll get it wrong.
But it's generally accepted to be one of the least bad options.
Most tyres mix units. I have 220/50/R17 on mine - width in mm, depth in percentage ratio, and wheel radius in inches. This might seem utterly daft, until you realise that it makes dimension transposition quite difficult - you'll (almost!) always be able to sort the units into numeric order and get consistent results.
If you're doing 2000 liners, Perl also lets you do things like object oriented code, modularisation etc. It may not be the best tool at that job, but it's a pretty versatile one that scales quite well.
You can write bad code in any language. Perl is just more tolerant. That's a feature. It means you have more scope for writing _good_ code, with decently formatting, structure and idioms.
You don't have to do that of course, and you can continue playing with obfuscated code. But really - that's not the fault of the language you're using.
I don't agree. C is great for hooking syscalls into the OS and does work extremely fast... however it's also incredibly unfriendly for the tasks that most people need to do. I'd start with something higher level, and drop down to C if you really need to squeeze the last little bit of performance out.
I think Perl gets a bad reputation for letting people get away with 'ugly' code. I'd counter argue that writing bad code is possible in any language - part of what a developer should be doing is writing _good_ code, and Perl gives the tools you need to allow that. (and the 'ugly' code still generally works, which is good enough if you just need a 2 line one off).
I still use it today, because I was starting to outgrow baseline shell scripting - back when you didn't have 'bash' available, on everything, and were stuck with ksh or sh. If one had to install an 'extra' then why not be Perl.
It still has a very wide base of support - I'm rarely stuck for finding an interpreter to run code. (Although I do sometimes end up with some quite old perl versions). It has a lot of extra code available from CPAN, and it will support everything from a very simple shell script program, all the way to object oriented multithreaded code.
Perhaps not the _best_ tool for a specific task, but a versatile one that's pretty good at anything. If I really need to eke out a fine slice of performance, it's time to whip out the C or machine code. For everything else, algorithms matter way more, and so Perl is plenty.
I disagree. Humans are fundamentally self centered, selfish and tribal. Not all of them, but enough that we have many examples in history of... really unpleasant things happening. Some are decent folk, but these are not the ones ruthless enough to rise to the top. This is why you need a code of laws to establish baselines of acceptable behavior, and a collective system for rejecting the worst examples.
This applies as much to employment law as criminal law.
Without tenure, you're free to go work somewhere else if you find the current environment too oppressive.
Not if the oppression is at the level of an entire school district and you need both your income and that of your SO to make your household's ends meet. Worse, not if the oppression is at the level of an entire state school system.
Just because you're tenured, doesn't mean you _have_ to stay. But frankly - this would be a moot point if US employment law was vaguely sensible. Tenure is one extreme that's just unnecessary if you apply a sensible framework of laws protecting against unfair dismissal.
Which in turn, is something that's extremely difficult - especially for a non technical user. You can probably approximate it with TOR, but that has it's own price.
I can't say I'm surprised. Do not track settings that are optional on the part of the sites you're visiting are simply never going to work - the ones that'd honour it are also the sites you wouldn't be particularly worried about in the first place.
Targeted advertising and profiling is big business, and the big revenue stream for the 'free' content providers. It really comes as no surprise - pretty fundamentally you get what you pay for. If you're paying nothing in monetary terms, then you'll be paying in privacy instead.
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B52s are made by Boeing and still in service I believe? OK, so the B777 might not look _too_ similar, but if you're not expecting a civilian flight, you might make that mistake.
Depends how much they knew about the thing they were shooting at. I mean, Boeing make military aircraft too. Are B52s still in service? What does one of those look like from 10km away or on a radar?
"There is no such thing as a former KGB man" - Vladimir Putin.
He was Lieutenant Colonel when he left in '91. I don't think you spend 15 years in the KGB and get to that rank without learning a thing or to about 'playing games'.
Unless the aircraft is destroyed out right by the explosion, it'll be damaged and start to crash. I would hope that the onboard monitoring would notice that damage and start warning the pilots, which is a really good cue to start uploading your black box data. Anything where the black box actually survives, there's something to notice 'things going wrong'.
Circles are a good notion, and one I like. I don't mind using my real name, but even so - am still a _bit_ edgy about getting 'googled up' by a prospective employer as a result.
However, I also know people who - for example - have had messy breakups with exes, and don't want said ex tracking them down again.
On the flip side though, there are people who are victims of domestic abuse, are relocated witnesses, wish to make comment from within an oppressive regime, have been high profile victims of crime, or are just 'ordinary' famous. They also want to use the internet, and have good reasons not to want to 'go public'.
Slightly different beasts I think. R is a really impressive analysis tool. Python is a scripting language. The latter is quite a bit more versatile, but ... probably isn't the right tool to solve the problem outlined in the OP.
Well, you can. You get to vote. Or move to another country. Or declare independence. I understand that's worked out well occasionally.
There's always always a balance. The police have powers to investigate the innocent. They're innocent because they're - legally - innocent until _proven_ guilty. Which means - by definition - the police are always targeting 'the innocent'. There's a bunch of rules to limit this, including not least a system of warrants - to do certain things to people, you need to be able to convince a judge that they're sufficiently dirty to be worth further investigation. But they're still - in the literal sense - still innocent at that point, because you haven't proven their crime in a court of law.
It's not a perfect system by any means, but it mostly works - _generally_ the bad people get caught and punished, and the good people are protected. But sometimes there are abuses, and part of the point of any system of justices is that it has to accept the inevitable - that sometimes you'll get it wrong.
But it's generally accepted to be one of the least bad options.
Loads of people die in hospitals. Who knew? Dangerous places those hospitals.
If only you had healthcare free at the point of need.
World's biggest game of tetris....
Most tyres mix units. I have 220/50/R17 on mine - width in mm, depth in percentage ratio, and wheel radius in inches. This might seem utterly daft, until you realise that it makes dimension transposition quite difficult - you'll (almost!) always be able to sort the units into numeric order and get consistent results.
Q: How do you know you're tallking to a mensa member?
A: They'll have already told you.
If you're doing 2000 liners, Perl also lets you do things like object oriented code, modularisation etc. It may not be the best tool at that job, but it's a pretty versatile one that scales quite well.
And you still get bad code. How about we stop blaming a language for what's clearly a wetware problem?
You can write bad code in any language. Perl is just more tolerant. That's a feature. It means you have more scope for writing _good_ code, with decently formatting, structure and idioms.
You don't have to do that of course, and you can continue playing with obfuscated code. But really - that's not the fault of the language you're using.
I don't agree. C is great for hooking syscalls into the OS and does work extremely fast... however it's also incredibly unfriendly for the tasks that most people need to do. I'd start with something higher level, and drop down to C if you really need to squeeze the last little bit of performance out.
I think Perl gets a bad reputation for letting people get away with 'ugly' code. I'd counter argue that writing bad code is possible in any language - part of what a developer should be doing is writing _good_ code, and Perl gives the tools you need to allow that. (and the 'ugly' code still generally works, which is good enough if you just need a 2 line one off). I still use it today, because I was starting to outgrow baseline shell scripting - back when you didn't have 'bash' available, on everything, and were stuck with ksh or sh. If one had to install an 'extra' then why not be Perl. It still has a very wide base of support - I'm rarely stuck for finding an interpreter to run code. (Although I do sometimes end up with some quite old perl versions). It has a lot of extra code available from CPAN, and it will support everything from a very simple shell script program, all the way to object oriented multithreaded code. Perhaps not the _best_ tool for a specific task, but a versatile one that's pretty good at anything. If I really need to eke out a fine slice of performance, it's time to whip out the C or machine code. For everything else, algorithms matter way more, and so Perl is plenty.
I disagree. Humans are fundamentally self centered, selfish and tribal. Not all of them, but enough that we have many examples in history of ... really unpleasant things happening. Some are decent folk, but these are not the ones ruthless enough to rise to the top. This is why you need a code of laws to establish baselines of acceptable behavior, and a collective system for rejecting the worst examples.
This applies as much to employment law as criminal law.
Without tenure, you're free to go work somewhere else if you find the current environment too oppressive.
Not if the oppression is at the level of an entire school district and you need both your income and that of your SO to make your household's ends meet. Worse, not if the oppression is at the level of an entire state school system.
Surely this is true in any industry?
Just because you're tenured, doesn't mean you _have_ to stay. But frankly - this would be a moot point if US employment law was vaguely sensible. Tenure is one extreme that's just unnecessary if you apply a sensible framework of laws protecting against unfair dismissal.
And you might know that 'never start a sentence with an "And"' is more like a guideline than an actual rule.
Which in turn, is something that's extremely difficult - especially for a non technical user. You can probably approximate it with TOR, but that has it's own price.
I can't say I'm surprised. Do not track settings that are optional on the part of the sites you're visiting are simply never going to work - the ones that'd honour it are also the sites you wouldn't be particularly worried about in the first place. Targeted advertising and profiling is big business, and the big revenue stream for the 'free' content providers. It really comes as no surprise - pretty fundamentally you get what you pay for. If you're paying nothing in monetary terms, then you'll be paying in privacy instead.