A few years ago, one of my sons’ soccer team finished in the second to last spot and so they were relegated to a lower tier. I knew that the team above was “cheating” by playing too many players from out of their district. Our Club President said “prove” it to me and I’ll do something about it. Well, it’s amazing how much public information is out there such as where the boys attend school, phone numbers they tell people on unprotected Twitter and Facebook accounts, etc. I felt dirty knowing all this information about young adults. In the end, even though we had the proof, we didn’t do anything about it.
Flight data recorders, also known as “black boxes” are actually orange in color. They were once black, like the other avionics boxes on the aircraft until it was decided that it would be easier to find them.
I wonder if he had spent more money on security, drivers, personal assistants, etc., whether that would have protected them more from unsavory people in their lives and these extra staff might have given the police more leads in the case. And why wouldn’t they have invested in better security and monitoring of their home? Crazy.
I find it interesting that Ireland is the lowest taxed country yet they have bet the farm on providing a haven for companies to avoid paying taxes back home. It’s a gamble they’ve made which seems to paying off but I’ve heard that if other countries closed this loophole they it would absolutely devestate the Irish economy.
Rural Japan? Wow, that must be amazingly different from the U.S. I’ve often thought about offering my services to different countries to experience what it’s like living there.
Fun fact. Some flight data recorder (black box) manufacturers use a method like this to compress the data on the recorder. They record a base, full frame of data and then take delta frames and use Huffman (variable length) coding to reduce the amount of stored data.