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Oh yes: in the latest incarnation. Very good.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Yerrs...
speramus in juniperus
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If you are bored, there is the making of Danny MacAskill's Imaginate film on Dave at the moment...
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While trying to troublshoot why Outlook could not consume the feed of my blog post I desided to do a Wirshark trace while checking my feeds.
I then selected the follow tcp stream from the otpions and when viewing the header info this jumped out at me.
X-hacker: If you're reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header.
What is this ?
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That's normal (for WordPress, anyway). It's been there for years.
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But is it bad ?
I just want to understand what it is and why it is there.
Possibly a site subscribed to the feed ?
It also had a pingback and when viewed the contents of the php file it was possibly a base64 hex string.
Not sure what it is though.
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It's a joke from WordPress. Or maybe they're serious. Who knows.
But WordPress puts it there, it's perfectly normal.
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ok then that rules that out for Outlook not being able to get the feed for months.
I'll have to check the massive Blocked list later when I have more time.
I will also have to have a closer look at their API.
Thanks for the Info.
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here is a respone i got from them When I asked.
Nope. Nothing to worry about there. That's just a little message we hide. We figure that if someone is poking around that deeply in the feed, they might be the kind of person who would be interested in applying for a job at Automattic.
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Why isn't there an automated system that slows the train down?[^]
There was a similar incident earlier this year in Europe (France?), again, why aren't there system's in place that basically control the train 100%? I can't even imagine a reason for an operator except as a fallback to a failure of the technology.
Marc
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There's ETCS, but yes, improvements seem necessary (and doable - self-driving cars are a thing, self-driving trains should be easier).
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Marc Clifton wrote: why aren't there system's in place that basically control the train 100%?
Autopilot, like most plains? Where the driver is merely an ornamental figure?
..impossible, there'd be no-one to blame in case of accidents. You need people on the workfloor.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Interestingly enough, or maybe not... commercial aircraft do have what is called an 'autothrottle' which is separate from the autopilot.
This allows the pilot to fly it via the stick without having to concentrate on the throttle as well(the 'autopilot' looks after the control surfaces).
It's usually used on descent to landing and switched off just before landing(a small button on the control stick).
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Because we haven't had a disaster expensive or deadly enough to overcome the rail industries "ZOMG!!!!!!! That would cost zillions!" reaction yet. It doesn't help that the systems I've read about are all full auto-pilot/automatic switching systems that would need to be installed on every train, passenger and freight, and at every rail switch in order to be effective.
For preventing conductor wasn't paying attention and went too fast accidents a much simpler solution consisting of a maximum speed governor and a GPS/inertial (for routes with tunnels) tracking system would be sufficient. It would also be something that could be added to trains individually, probably only to passenger or high risk freight initially, instead of needing to be deployed everywhere all at once.
Cynically speaking this is a liability because it would mean much less money to be made by the companies pushing regulators to mandate the use of their product.
As always, perfection is the enemy of good enough. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: a much simpler solution consisting of a maximum speed governor and a GPS/inertial (for routes with tunnels) tracking system would be sufficient.
Exactly what I was thinking. And certainly for the NYC Metro rail system, which has had 2 (or was it 3?) major accidents this year, freight isn't an issue because these trains are "light rail" and freight never runs on them. At most, they share the track with Amtrak, and again, in the Hudson / NY / Boston areas, Amtrak and freight do not share the same track.
The only thing I'd add is some sort of radar collision detection gear - that's a bit more problematic because many of these trains don't have the engine up front, so putting these devices on the cars and communicating to the engine would make things a bit more complicated.
Marc
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SoMad wrote: Santiago, Spain.
Ah yes. Thanks for the correction.
Marc
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It was in Spain, Santiago de Compostela.
There are special sensors that help, but at the end it all depends on the "pilot"...
A GPS assisted and a beacon system should be easy and not so much expensive to implement, and at least it would avoid this kind of problems.
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What I don't understand is why someone that has a job, where there are 2 things to do, use the accelerator and the brake is incapable of doing his job. The guy doesn't even need to steer it.
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It seems he may have fallen asleep on the job. He admitted to being sleepy in radio communications earlier in the trip. That leads to the question of if he did a stupid and didn't get enough sleep on his normal schedule, or was a last minute replacement and normally worked a shift where he'd've been sleeping when the accident occurred.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I think a dead man switch wouldbe enough to counter this. Operator falls asleep -> train stops. Simple as that. Ok, probably there should be some additional system to prevent the next train from crashing into the standing one.
The good thing about pessimism is, that you are always either right or pleasently surprised.
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The less you have to do to concentrate on the task at hand, the more likely you are to drift off to another dimension.
I know that when I am stuck in a long line of traffic cruising along at some rediculously low speed I'm ready to fall alseep after 10 minutes, but if I drive (or better yet, ride the motorcycle) fast (ie over the speed limit, the more the better) my concentration level is way better because you have to react to more things in a lessor time frame.
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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And the train driver sits there and comtemplates
"What I don't understand is why someone that has a job where there is one thing to do, write code, is incapable of doing their job."
Or have you never had a bug?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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