Solar panel by day, wind trap by night!

One boeing aircraft may look much like another at 10km distance. And boeing make military aircraft as well as civilian. *shrug*. It _could_ all just be a horrific accident.

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.