A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python

Re:A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python by scarejunba on Sunday February 16, 2020 @01:43PM (#22343067)

That's apparent to the guy you're responding to. He's pointing out that the so-called "unclassified" is actually the class "non-secret". A truly "unclassified" object would not have gone through the process of classification. It would not have a class.

Of course in English this is fairly common. The object of price zero is said to have no price. Yet clearly it has a price, it is just zero.

I have to say that's an amusing observation and sort of reveals the type errors that occur when we model real world things in type systems.

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Re:A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python by compuguy on Sunday February 16, 2020 @04:05PM (#22343760)

True, but there are documents that have information that is at multiple levels of sensitivity and/or classification. When you work with such information, having such granularity of classification is a good thing (no matter how awkward it looks).

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Re:A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python by Daviey on Sunday February 16, 2020 @02:19PM (#22343260)

The United Kingdom's previous system for marking school exams (GCSE) had a marking scheme from "A*/A" to "F", and then "U". Where "U" was Ungraded. Clearly it was graded, but as a "U".

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Re:A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python by az656 on Sunday February 16, 2020 @04:03PM (#22343743)

What are they using now? I went through the system not that long ago when it was still A* to U.

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Re:A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python by Daviey on Sunday February 16, 2020 @04:35PM (#22343900)

1-9, https://qualifications.pearson.com/en/qualifications/edexcel...

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Re:A document that the NSA uses for teaching Python by pyuser583 on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:16AM (#22346650)

Did they have E?

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