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GPS Coke Can X-Rayed
carbolic writes "WiFi-Toys.com and Engadget have posted a link to X-ray images of the GPS Coke can that has security people all up in arms. The GPS Coke can looks a little bit like an IED (improvised explosive device). The PDF file posted on security company Blackwater USA's site shows several views of the can and compares it to an IED. And for thoroughness, the PDF shows a regular can of Coke X-rayed, too."
Is this actual demolition/weapons/forensic lingo or is this just supposed to sound 'informed'?
Honestly. There are only a few hundred of these, and people are flipping out. Most of the things flying around are totally inaccurate. The cans come in a box, not your typical vending machine. So if companies are really security concious, they'll check employees with coke packs. Seriously though, how many people that work at those "high-level" (sic) facilities, bring 6/12 packs to work everyday.
Anyone care to explain xray photos in full color? In all the images, the PCBs are green, the coke is brownish, etc... how the hell does an xray machine do color? or are they simply colored after the fact for clarity?
In other places, farmers are not allowed to grow the foods they want to and sell them at whatever price they want.
We call this place the European Free Trade Area. Farmers are paid to *not* grow food and food is destroyed to stablise prices. OTOH world's largest retail chain Wal-Mart, a non EU company, using it's buying power to dictate (i.e. lower) the wholesale price if it's food supplies. What a complete fuck up. Rich landowners are paid by the taxpayers to have their land lie fallow and those that grow get screwed on the price.
There is a political malcontent being stirred up in the center-right press about the cost of East Europeans gaining access to the social security of the EU as though it will bleed our economy dry. Yet these payments are dwarfed by the payouts in farming subsidy ($6bn of which go to 5 people - yes individuals like the Duke of Westminster!) a subject on which they stay quiet (no surprise).
ssshh don't you know there's a war on
war on drugs, war on terror, whatever happened to peace ?
sigh
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To some extent, I can see the usefulness of this information. Back in summer of 2000, I was setting up DSL at my new apartment, and my ISP was going to ship the DSL modem to me.
I came home from work one day to find two ambulances, two fire trucks, and a number of police vehicles throughout the fairly spread out apartment complex. Luckily, they were concentrated toward the front while my apartment was near the back of the complex. I was just able to enter my apartment without crossing the lines. On my way in, I asked an officer what was going on, and he said that there was a suspicious package that they were checking out.
After about an hour, a policeman knocks on my door and asks me to come with him. When we arrived at the center of activity, I found out that the postman had delivered my DSL modem to the wrong address. Not only had he delivered it to the wrong address, but he placed the brown box label-side down on the doorstep of a police officer's apartment. The bomb squad did not know what it was after taking the X-rays, so they fired a water bullet into it. When nothing more happened, they decided it was safe and found my address on the package and got me. One of the bomb squad team told me that they were going to circulate the X-rays because they had never seen X-rays of these things before.
When I got back to my apartment I plugged in the modem and everything worked perfectly. The modem had been double-boxed and bagged, and the outer box took the brunt of the damage.
A few years back, the local Dr. Pepper bottler had a contest where you could randomly win a Dr. Pepper t-shirt if you bought a can of Dr. Pepper from a vending machine. Some random cans in machines were replaced with identical-sized cans that contained a t-shirt, and 50 cents (presumably so that you could buy a real can of Dr Pepper).
The part where they screwed up is that instead of including two quarters, they gave you a half dollar coin. The machines were unable to take a half dollar, so now you were left with a t-shirt and a 50-cent piece, and nothing to drink. Oops.
Nitro Glycerine is highly unstable. It does explode for no apparent reason other than it feels like it. Canning it is not practical or even possible.
:)
Although nitro does make a pretty good explosive. To make it stable, put some sawdust in it and you have a dynamite (IIRC).
I'm not an expert, but I think there's no high power explosive material that isn't a solid. So far I've never heard of a liquid one.
Damn there's so much words like "Explosives" in this post alone, the echelon network will be busy moderating everything here