The idiotic red light cameras are not owned or operated by the state or county or city.
They are owned and operated by a division of Lockheed Martin. Most of the ticket goes to them, not the local government. This flies in the face of conventional common-law tradition by allowing an organization that isn't a government to issue tickets.
Sure a person can citizen arrest someone, but a traffic ticket isn't a citizen arrest. Nor do you have any recourse in court with the company.
That's what really bothers me about them. Plus the fact that in many places that they've put them in, they lower the time the yellow light is on. Sometimes when going the speed limit and someone is right behind you, there is a choice between running the yellow/red and stopping, causing a wreck. What would you choose? I'd run the yellow/red...that's what the yellow is for. Now if I do that I might get a ticket from an automated machine owned by a corporation and I have no recourse. Of course if it was a human...I'd be able to talk to him about it...or go to court and take my chances with it being thrown out. But no...red light cams take that right away.
I cracked the case on my Titanium trying to put in the Airport card. And replacing the hard disk in them is...well...a bitch.
The old Powerbook G3s and iBooks are a dream. Putting RAM in the new and old G3s, G4s and iBooks is really easy though. So is putting Airport in the old iBooks.
There are better articles on ogrady's powerpage
www.ogrady.com
and xlr8yourmac
www.xlr8yourmac.com
About what a pain it is replacing the HDs in those beasts.
I love my Titanium...but man it's a pain when you pull the bottom off.
I've been told by local cops that all they need is a 100 dollar bill on a citizen and they can take anything they want.
Story goes that 90 odd percent of US 100 dollar bills have at some point been in contact with cocaine or heroin. All they have to do is test the bill, chances are it's got some coke of smack on it, then they can take your car, computers...whatever they want under the Property Seizure rules.
There should be ZERO possibility of mistaken interrogations. In fact, without a warrent there shouldn't be workplace interrogations by the police.
With the amount of money the Federal and State law enforcement organizations get for crime databases...there is no reason why this mistaken identity garbage should happen. Not only are the police stopping and questioning people at thier workplace...they are mistakenly invading homes and shooting people because of failures with 911 systems or just plain screwups. It's not right and it needs to stop.
If the Police get to run around in black smocks and refuse to identify themselves to the public, why should the public have to put up with crap like this?
If the cops came to my work and wanted to talk to me about mistaken identity based on photos taken by street cameras and then plastered on the pages of US News and World Report. I'd sue the living hell out of the Corporation that sold the cameras to the City, the City and I'd go after the City Council members that didn't vote against it with a recall. If they were apointed, I'd sue them.
These are as bad as the idiotic "red light" cameras that are popping up like mushrooms.
I don't break laws (other than speeding) and I don't cheat on or have an Ex...and I don't want these damned things on the street.
From talking to Apple goons last month, they fully expected MS to allow other platforms to connect to XP and.NET.
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Same here.
I've supported Macs in Education for six years. 1400 500-5000 series machines, 500-600 Power Mac G3s and iMacs. I can count the number of machines I've had to send to a Apple Service Center on my hands.
As for home, I did have an early iMac DV go south within a month of buying it. But I had a new one within an hour.
I think you are being paranoid, if those missed spots on the map are accurate.
Looks like Northern Florida...west of King Harbor and Pensacola, central North/South Carolina, southern Minnesota/north Iowa, and the west Texas boarder area.
Nothing fun there. South Central Utah, Colorado and Nevada are the sites that are suspected to be "sensative".
Let's see...what's the CEP of GPS? A couple meters in the best of conditions?
"The rocket fired from Vandenberg was carrying a global positioning satellite beacon that guided the kill vehicle toward it."
1. WTF is a globla positioning satellite beacon? I thought GPS needed an atomic clock to work. Sounds like FUD to me.
"While the missile launched from Vandenberg on July 14 did spit out a single Mylar balloon as a symbolic decoy, that scarcely challenged the kill vehicle's capacity to select the correct target -- particularly because there was no GPS beacon on that shiny balloon."
2. From what I've seen about decoys...they are usually Mylar or another metalic fabric in the size and shape of the warhead they are covering for. If I remeber right, it wasn't till the late 60s that the US and Soviets even had the tech to send up decoys.
The whole 2 Senators from a state, and House members based on population is a throw back to the old Big State vs. Small State battles as the US Consitution was written.
The fact that a South Dakota member of the Senate can become Senate Majority leader shows that the system works the way it was intended.
Senate and House leaders are elected by thier peers for thier post, except for President Pro Tempe of the Senate, which is based on senority.
I think...It's been 10 years since H.S. Government class.
LeMay was the main reason the President made sure that the release of atomic weapons was always a Civilian responsability vs. it being in the hands of the military.
There's alot about LeMay in Black Sun, the history of the Hydrogen bomb and in books about the 8th Air Force.
From what I've seen and heard about him, he was a serious nut that had no qualms about going toe to toe with Russia or China. He favored a joint US/Soviet nuclear strike on China in 68-69 when the Soviets brought up the idea of taking out China's nuclear weapon infrastructure. He favored an invasion of China in '50 and later when they took some small islands from Taiwan. He favored invasion of Cuba in '62 and a first strike against the Soviet Union.
The Soviets did do alot of work on FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System) in the 60s,
http://www.rocketry.com/mwade/lvs/r36o.htm
"The Global Rocket 1 (GR-1) requirement of 1961 called for a system to place a large nuclear warhead equipped with a deorbit rocket stage into a low earth orbit of 150 km altitude. The warhead could approach the United States from any direction, below missile tracking radar, so little warning was available. Not only could such a missile hit any point on earth, but the enemy would also be uncertain when it would be deorbited onto target. The main disadvantage was lower accuracy of the warhead in comparison to an ICBM. "
"Flight trials of the system were conducted 1965 to 1972. Since orbiting of nuclear weapons was a violation of international treaty, the Soviet Union conducted all tests on a 'fractional orbit' basis - i.e. the test warheads were deorbited after less than one orbit of the earth. The system was in service at 18 siloes at Baikonur from 1969 to 1983. "
I count 28 tests from 1961 through 1971.
So yes, the Soviets did orbit nuclear weapons. The US also worked on these projects, but I've got food poisoning and am not going to look through Encyclopedia Astronautica for a link, I though the US FOBS was based on the Titan II and the 9 MT warhead they carried.
There's alot on Soviet and US combat space craft there too, links at the bottom of the page.
"Arsenal ship was a joint Navy / DARPA program to acquire a moderate cost, high firepower demonstrator ship with low manning as soon as possible. The Arsenal Ship was planned to restore the naval support of the land battle, the modern day equivalent of the firepower that battleships provided during World War II and in Korea. The plan was to produce the demonstrator ship for initial operational capability (IOC) by the year 2000. Based on successful demonstration, a total force of four to six Arsenal ships would be funded. The goal was to develop an Arsenal Ship (AS) functional design by the end of FY97. This timeline from concept design (FY96) through fabrication (FY00) represented half the development time of previous naval vessels of this complexity. The Arsenal Ship would contains four times the VLS cells found on a CG-52 class ship, have a fixed unit sailaway price of $450 million, and a life-cycle cost 50% less than that of a naval combatant."
So for the layman - It was a ship that carried alot of cruise missiles (Tomahawk Land Attack Missile), an advanced gun-system and was mostly below the water line, with only a senor mast and navigation bridge and helipad above water.
"The ship would have the equivalent ordnance--about 500 vertically launched weapons from a wide variety of the military's inventory--of about four or five Aegis cruisers and destroyers. Employing the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) "remote magazine" launch concept, the arsenal ship would provide additional magazine capacity for Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (TBMD) and Air Supremacy missiles. "
It would have a crew of roughly fifty and would have been 500-800 feet long.
The arguement that liberal gun laws will cause more terrorist acts is...idiotic.
1. Terrorist Acts are not caused by firearms.
2. Nations with strict firearms laws can also have massive terrorist acts. Israel, Japan, UK, Germany, Russia, Eastern China. All have strict gun ownership laws and all have been the targets of terrorist acts.
3. The US has to be concerned about actual terrorism, it's happened in NYC, OKC, and came close to happening in LA on the Y2K. It's happened to US Embassies in Africa, and US military housing in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
Read some about IDF preperations and you will see that they plan for unconvental warfare.
The same way that Abortion, Gun-Control, Salmon, Education, Roads, and Drunk-Driving Laws are.
Get a group togeather, form a non-profit and send out nasty letters to anyone that will listen. Bitch and moan loud enough and people will listen.
In the late 1970s in the US, there was little enforcment of drunk-driving laws. It's because of a grass-roots effort by MADD that things happened.
In the early 1980s people (including my Mother) bitched and whined loud enough in Eugene OR that the U.S. Department of Defense didn't place a radio tower in the town. Yes...some hippies in Eugene stopped the DoD during the Cold War, if they can do that...don't tell me that you can't DMCA a campaign issue.
If your local or Federal reps don't do what you want, vote against them.
Organize against them.
From working with people, I'll make the statement that a "person" is smart, but people are stupid. People decide things like "Hitler would make a good Chancellor." Or "Windows is a really good OS for our workplace."
I vote, and I'm of the mind that if you don't vote, you don't get to bitch about what happens.
I said it was an idea, much like what your Montana Milita did in the early 90s. You can also print your own money like they did and drive around with no plates on your cars.
Or you simply don't work and thus have no income to be taxed.
I've not followed the case outside of the headlines I've seen here, but I'm going to comment on the "taxes footing the bill".
The reason our (Americans) taxes are footing the bill is because it's a Federal Issue, not a local or state government issue. And also remeber that as a Corporation, Adobe is also paying taxes...and thus they are also footing the bill.
If you don't want your Federal Taxes going to things like the FBI...you have a number of alternatives.
1. Don't pay your taxes.
2. Move somewhere that doesn't subscribe to DMCA or whatever idiotic agreement Adobe is using to justify this to the Federal Government.
3. Vote in Local and Federal Elections
4. Don't support the companies that do this kind of thing.
When the Radeon came out in September of '00 and then when people added Radeons...there was a fan on the video card, so then it had a fan.
If you look over the xlr8yourmac and macnn archives...you will find people bitching about the "noise" from thier Cube if they had a Radeon.
Of course one little video card fan is nothing like the 747-ish sounds that emit from some PC cases and thier 4-11 fans. My Windows 2000 box has 7 fans and my Linux box has 8. My iMac has none, my G3 tower has 1.
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The idiotic red light cameras are not owned or operated by the state or county or city.
They are owned and operated by a division of Lockheed Martin. Most of the ticket goes to them, not the local government. This flies in the face of conventional common-law tradition by allowing an organization that isn't a government to issue tickets.
Sure a person can citizen arrest someone, but a traffic ticket isn't a citizen arrest. Nor do you have any recourse in court with the company.
That's what really bothers me about them. Plus the fact that in many places that they've put them in, they lower the time the yellow light is on. Sometimes when going the speed limit and someone is right behind you, there is a choice between running the yellow/red and stopping, causing a wreck. What would you choose? I'd run the yellow/red...that's what the yellow is for. Now if I do that I might get a ticket from an automated machine owned by a corporation and I have no recourse. Of course if it was a human...I'd be able to talk to him about it...or go to court and take my chances with it being thrown out. But no...red light cams take that right away.
It's wrong.
The laptops got kind of nasty.
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I cracked the case on my Titanium trying to put in the Airport card. And replacing the hard disk in them is...well...a bitch.
The old Powerbook G3s and iBooks are a dream. Putting RAM in the new and old G3s, G4s and iBooks is really easy though. So is putting Airport in the old iBooks.
http://www.macworld.com/2001/05/features/powerb
There are better articles on ogrady's powerpage
www.ogrady.com
and xlr8yourmac
www.xlr8yourmac.com
About what a pain it is replacing the HDs in those beasts.
I love my Titanium...but man it's a pain when you pull the bottom off.
Yep. The property seizure rules are nuts.
I've been told by local cops that all they need is a 100 dollar bill on a citizen and they can take anything they want.
Story goes that 90 odd percent of US 100 dollar bills have at some point been in contact with cocaine or heroin. All they have to do is test the bill, chances are it's got some coke of smack on it, then they can take your car, computers...whatever they want under the Property Seizure rules.
Crazy...and totally a story...
There should be ZERO possibility of mistaken interrogations. In fact, without a warrent there shouldn't be workplace interrogations by the police.
With the amount of money the Federal and State law enforcement organizations get for crime databases...there is no reason why this mistaken identity garbage should happen. Not only are the police stopping and questioning people at thier workplace...they are mistakenly invading homes and shooting people because of failures with 911 systems or just plain screwups. It's not right and it needs to stop.
If the Police get to run around in black smocks and refuse to identify themselves to the public, why should the public have to put up with crap like this?
If the cops came to my work and wanted to talk to me about mistaken identity based on photos taken by street cameras and then plastered on the pages of US News and World Report. I'd sue the living hell out of the Corporation that sold the cameras to the City, the City and I'd go after the City Council members that didn't vote against it with a recall. If they were apointed, I'd sue them.
These are as bad as the idiotic "red light" cameras that are popping up like mushrooms.
I don't break laws (other than speeding) and I don't cheat on or have an Ex...and I don't want these damned things on the street.
US Court of Appeals.
http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/
Then the US Supreme Court, which may or may not hear it.
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
My G4 Titanium 400 is just as fast at Word, IE, Excel, Outlook, FTP, etc as the 1000 and 1133 P3s in the office.
It's a hell of a lot more stable than WinNT 4 or Win2000 too. And it's only 100 bucks more than the 733MHz IBM A21s that we bought at the same time.
The price/performance ratio is in line with X86.
Heh.
It says PowerPC on the cardboard. So I think it's a PowerMac. Sort of.
You know that grandmas and college students like the name iMac more than PowerMac.
From talking to Apple goons last month, they fully expected MS to allow other platforms to connect to XP and .NET.
Same here.
I've supported Macs in Education for six years. 1400 500-5000 series machines, 500-600 Power Mac G3s and iMacs. I can count the number of machines I've had to send to a Apple Service Center on my hands.
As for home, I did have an early iMac DV go south within a month of buying it. But I had a new one within an hour.
G4 Titanium 400 with 384 MB of RAM and a dual-boot OS 9.1/10.0.4. Airport, DVD, Firewire, 15.2 inch screen - everything I need in a laptop.
And I have an iBook (Tangerine 300) running just 9.1 and 96MB of RAM. Works well as a sit around and surf machine.
My work got some IBM A21s in, pretty nice for a Windows PC, not sure how well Linux or BSD works on it though.
Actually, it's a Burton DJ bag.
S P? CU=B25263030&PN=DJ+BAG
http://www.burton.com/MENS_GEAR/BAGS/PR_PACKS.A
I carry my G4 Titanium, Visor Prizim, cola, Cel phone and CDs for work in it.
It's a nice tough bag with alot of pockets and pouches with good padding and a nice strap.
I think you are being paranoid, if those missed spots on the map are accurate.
Looks like Northern Florida...west of King Harbor and Pensacola, central North/South Carolina, southern Minnesota/north Iowa, and the west Texas boarder area.
Nothing fun there. South Central Utah, Colorado and Nevada are the sites that are suspected to be "sensative".
I read that this morning.
Let's see...what's the CEP of GPS? A couple meters in the best of conditions?
"The rocket fired from Vandenberg was carrying a global positioning satellite beacon that guided the kill vehicle toward it."
1. WTF is a globla positioning satellite beacon? I thought GPS needed an atomic clock to work. Sounds like FUD to me.
"While the missile launched from Vandenberg on July 14 did spit out a single Mylar balloon as a symbolic decoy, that scarcely challenged the kill vehicle's capacity to select the correct target -- particularly because there was no GPS beacon on that shiny balloon."
2. From what I've seen about decoys...they are usually Mylar or another metalic fabric in the size and shape of the warhead they are covering for. If I remeber right, it wasn't till the late 60s that the US and Soviets even had the tech to send up decoys.
The whole 2 Senators from a state, and House members based on population is a throw back to the old Big State vs. Small State battles as the US Consitution was written.
The fact that a South Dakota member of the Senate can become Senate Majority leader shows that the system works the way it was intended.
Senate and House leaders are elected by thier peers for thier post, except for President Pro Tempe of the Senate, which is based on senority.
I think...It's been 10 years since H.S. Government class.
Oh yea he did imagine such things.
LeMay was the main reason the President made sure that the release of atomic weapons was always a Civilian responsability vs. it being in the hands of the military.
There's alot about LeMay in Black Sun, the history of the Hydrogen bomb and in books about the 8th Air Force.
From what I've seen and heard about him, he was a serious nut that had no qualms about going toe to toe with Russia or China. He favored a joint US/Soviet nuclear strike on China in 68-69 when the Soviets brought up the idea of taking out China's nuclear weapon infrastructure. He favored an invasion of China in '50 and later when they took some small islands from Taiwan. He favored invasion of Cuba in '62 and a first strike against the Soviet Union.
The Soviets did do alot of work on FOBS (Fractional Orbital Bombardment System) in the 60s,
http://www.rocketry.com/mwade/lvs/r36o.htm
"The Global Rocket 1 (GR-1) requirement of 1961 called for a system to place a large nuclear warhead equipped with a deorbit rocket stage into a low earth orbit of 150 km altitude. The warhead could approach the United States from any direction, below missile tracking radar, so little warning was available. Not only could such a missile hit any point on earth, but the enemy would also be uncertain when it would be deorbited onto target. The main disadvantage was lower accuracy of the warhead in comparison to an ICBM. "
"Flight trials of the system were conducted 1965 to 1972. Since orbiting of nuclear weapons was a violation of international treaty, the Soviet Union conducted all tests on a 'fractional orbit' basis - i.e. the test warheads were deorbited after less than one orbit of the earth. The system was in service at 18 siloes at Baikonur from 1969 to 1983. "
I count 28 tests from 1961 through 1971.
So yes, the Soviets did orbit nuclear weapons. The US also worked on these projects, but I've got food poisoning and am not going to look through Encyclopedia Astronautica for a link, I though the US FOBS was based on the Titan II and the 9 MT warhead they carried.
There's alot on Soviet and US combat space craft there too, links at the bottom of the page.
http://www.rocketry.com/mwade/index.htm
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/arsenal_sh ip.htm
"Arsenal ship was a joint Navy / DARPA program to acquire a moderate cost, high firepower demonstrator ship with low manning as soon as possible. The Arsenal Ship was planned to restore the naval support of the land battle, the modern day equivalent of the firepower that battleships provided during World War II and in Korea. The plan was to produce the demonstrator ship for initial operational capability (IOC) by the year 2000. Based on successful demonstration, a total force of four to six Arsenal ships would be funded. The goal was to develop an Arsenal Ship (AS) functional design by the end of FY97. This timeline from concept design (FY96) through fabrication (FY00) represented half the development time of previous naval vessels of this complexity. The Arsenal Ship would contains four times the VLS cells found on a CG-52 class ship, have a fixed unit sailaway price of $450 million, and a life-cycle cost 50% less than that of a naval combatant."
So for the layman - It was a ship that carried alot of cruise missiles (Tomahawk Land Attack Missile), an advanced gun-system and was mostly below the water line, with only a senor mast and navigation bridge and helipad above water.
"The ship would have the equivalent ordnance--about 500 vertically launched weapons from a wide variety of the military's inventory--of about four or five Aegis cruisers and destroyers. Employing the Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) "remote magazine" launch concept, the arsenal ship would provide additional magazine capacity for Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (TBMD) and Air Supremacy missiles. "
It would have a crew of roughly fifty and would have been 500-800 feet long.
The arguement that liberal gun laws will cause more terrorist acts is...idiotic.
1. Terrorist Acts are not caused by firearms.
2. Nations with strict firearms laws can also have massive terrorist acts. Israel, Japan, UK, Germany, Russia, Eastern China. All have strict gun ownership laws and all have been the targets of terrorist acts.
3. The US has to be concerned about actual terrorism, it's happened in NYC, OKC, and came close to happening in LA on the Y2K. It's happened to US Embassies in Africa, and US military housing in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.
Read some about IDF preperations and you will see that they plan for unconvental warfare.
The same way that Abortion, Gun-Control, Salmon, Education, Roads, and Drunk-Driving Laws are.
Get a group togeather, form a non-profit and send out nasty letters to anyone that will listen. Bitch and moan loud enough and people will listen.
In the late 1970s in the US, there was little enforcment of drunk-driving laws. It's because of a grass-roots effort by MADD that things happened.
In the early 1980s people (including my Mother) bitched and whined loud enough in Eugene OR that the U.S. Department of Defense didn't place a radio tower in the town. Yes...some hippies in Eugene stopped the DoD during the Cold War, if they can do that...don't tell me that you can't DMCA a campaign issue.
If your local or Federal reps don't do what you want, vote against them.
Organize against them.
From working with people, I'll make the statement that a "person" is smart, but people are stupid. People decide things like "Hitler would make a good Chancellor." Or "Windows is a really good OS for our workplace."
I vote, and I'm of the mind that if you don't vote, you don't get to bitch about what happens.
Every vote counts, except in Florida.
I know it's bad.
:)
It's from NASA. Email me and I'll give you the full story.
There's a defunct military school in Virgina that has both translations on it's documents.
I'd post my standard reply that I have at home, but it's at home
I didn't say it was a GOOD idea.
I said it was an idea, much like what your Montana Milita did in the early 90s. You can also print your own money like they did and drive around with no plates on your cars.
Or you simply don't work and thus have no income to be taxed.
It was an idea, not a good one.
I've not followed the case outside of the headlines I've seen here, but I'm going to comment on the "taxes footing the bill".
The reason our (Americans) taxes are footing the bill is because it's a Federal Issue, not a local or state government issue. And also remeber that as a Corporation, Adobe is also paying taxes...and thus they are also footing the bill.
If you don't want your Federal Taxes going to things like the FBI...you have a number of alternatives.
1. Don't pay your taxes.
2. Move somewhere that doesn't subscribe to DMCA or whatever idiotic agreement Adobe is using to justify this to the Federal Government.
3. Vote in Local and Federal Elections
4. Don't support the companies that do this kind of thing.
The Cube was indeed fanless.
When the Radeon came out in September of '00 and then when people added Radeons...there was a fan on the video card, so then it had a fan.
If you look over the xlr8yourmac and macnn archives...you will find people bitching about the "noise" from thier Cube if they had a Radeon.
Of course one little video card fan is nothing like the 747-ish sounds that emit from some PC cases and thier 4-11 fans. My Windows 2000 box has 7 fans and my Linux box has 8. My iMac has none, my G3 tower has 1.