Actually Streets and Trips has a lot of features that Google maps and I bet Bing maps lack for trip planning.
For example you can tell it when you are going to leave, your MPG, fuel tank size, and how many hours you want to drive a day. Streets and Trips will suggest refueling points and stopping points.
I wish the online maps "Google" would put those features in and allow you to push the trip to your mobile device.

Modern airliners use FBW the pilot does not move the control surfaces he moves a joystick and a computer decides what to do.
Even the example you gave was pilots ignoring the electronics systems and not the electronics systems failing.

Simple
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

"In 1929, he became the first pilot to take off, fly and land an airplane using instruments alone, without a view outside the cockpit. Having returned to Mitchel Field that September, he assisted in the development of fog flying equipment. He helped develop, and was then the first to test, the now universally used artificial horizon and directional gyroscope. He attracted wide newspaper attention with this feat of "blind" flying and later received the Harmon Trophy for conducting the experiments. These accomplishments made all-weather airline operations practical."

And yes it was the Jimmy Doolittle. If you do not know about him you should read up on him.

Because.
1. Yes it is a language.
2. A lot more people know PHP well than know Perl well. Notice that I said that PHP has many of the same proble,s as Perl but also has a larger base of programers

Russia worried about privacy? Yeah....
Just makes it easier for them to get their own citizens data, easier to tax and demand bribes from companies doing business in Russia, and hopefully makes it easier to spy on other nations because some of their personal data could end up in Russia.
Anyone that thinks that Russia is open or pro privacy is living in a fantasy world.

You are apparently unfamiliar with "twilight". And probably Summer Solstice.

I hear amateur fireworks.

Since the state of Michigan loosened restrictions on the sale of fireworks, every yahoo with a lighter has started setting them off, beginning sporadically the weekend before the holiday.

Any holiday.

Coal is baseload solar is not a replacement for baseload. The only good renewable replacement for baseload is hydro "the original baseload source of power". Wind is a marginal replacement for baseload but you really need large natural gas peaking plants to back up wind.

" He ended up with a lot of bad health effects, but kept alive until he was 75, eleven years later."
He died of heart problems. If you read the health effects they are claiming many of them seem just normal for a older person at that time. The rest might could also have been caused by chemical issues more than radiation. Heavy metals are for a large part things you want to avoid putting into your body.
The cateracts could be an issue but I know a lot of 70 year olds that have them that have never been near any source of ionizing radiation except normal background "pretty low here in Florida btw", and the Sun which does put out a good bit of UV.

It is not cool and hip.
The real answer is that Perl can be hard to maintain unless you enforce strict programing standards and it is not easy to find really skilled Perl programers. A less than top notch Perl programer means problems down the road for sure.
PHP, Python, and Ruby are all popular choices. PHP probably has the biggest talent base but has many of the same problems as Perl.
Python and Ruby are easier to maintain but harder to find coders for.
 

"NSA planting backdoors in american products : don't buy american products then! Consider who is least likely to pull this sort of trick to spy on you, germans, chinese, russians, japanese, ..."
None of the above.
hard to hide the building of underground complexes. "planes/satellites : build underground"
Hard to do that with a large factory or lab and you can buy the guards off in some cases."secret agents sneaking in : locked bunkers, armed guards, scary prisons"
Not a perfect solution one could use free optics "old fashioned bugs : sweep the room, use faraday cage shielding"
  backdoors, man in the middle attacks, and codebreaking."wiretapping : encryption"

Ummm..... Just what do you think nations do? There is not a single nation that does not spy on some other nation.
Sweden, Germany, France, and the UK all have special SIGINT aircraft. The US, China, Russia, Israel, the EU, Pakistan, and India all have spysats.
What are you 12 or have you never read any history?

This is now at level of E!.
Modeling debut? Good grief.

From the headline, I thought this was a story about damage to a smartphone.