Isn't the point of protection to absorb the impact? That's why bubble-wrap is squishy. If this instantly turns solid, wouldn't that mean that the g-forces, the energy of the impact is not absorbed by it and is thus transferred to the item inside?
I'm not sure I get it, either... But, consider what happens if you drop a laptop: odds are that the point of impact will be fairly small (i.e. one of the corners will reach the ground before the rest of the machine) - if the machine is surrounded by a material that's very nearly solid and which conforms well to the shape of the laptop, it will transfer the impact to the laptop - but over a larger surface area.
I worked at Circuit City once and as part of the interview they asked me if there had been any incidents of shrinkage (or something, I can't remember what exactly they said, this was ten years ago...) at any of the places I had worked... I had no idea what they were asking...
We'll see a "reboot" of Spiderman where Norman Osborn will be replaced with Scrooge McDuck. Spiderman will need help and will call in either Darkwing Duck or the Gargoyles.
Disney was around at that time. They've been slaughtering Grimm's Tales since 1923. (Trust me, Grimms Fairy Tales are much better in their original form...)
And since the Constitution only protects against *unreasonable* search and seizure, there is nothing wrong here.
It's just a goddamned piece of paper.
That's all it ever was, really. It is only the efforts of people to support the document's intent, and their opposition of people who would subvert it, that has ever made it anything more.
"Sargassum is a genus of brown (class Phaeophyceae) macroalga (seaweed) in the order Fucales. Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs. However, the genus may be best known for its planktonic (free-floating) species."
"You can have my laptop when you pry it from my cold dead fingers."Ã
Very well, if that is your final answer.
A man with a small briefcase comes into the room. He opens it, and dawns (sic) surgical gloves, pulling out a small glass vial and syringe. "This won't take but a moment sir."
Ah, no. See, that's how it was under the old regime - some clown would drag out the "cold dead fingers" line and the border guards would respond by killing the poor dope. They don't do that any more. They figured out it was overkill as a response to such a simple act of defiance.
I think if that happened to me on an outbound flight, I would be inclined to sue for several million dollars in lost revenue to encourage DHS to use some common sense.
Step 1: mail each of your laptops to a different state governor before you leave on your trip.
Step 2: Attempt to carry a firearm across the border, get arrested by the FBI. Step 3: Get transferred to the same FBI building as your laptops. Step 4: Initiate a terrorist action from inside the FBI. Step 5: Profit!
Yeah, that's really all you need - just get inside the building. It's like in "Independence Day"...
If you claim certain contents of your laptop's hard drive are original works of authorship created by yourself, couldn't you place a password on the account and sue them for circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work when they bypass the password?
Sure. Good luck with that.
(It's interesting to me that "Good luck with that" is one of those phrases which is has become stuck, perhaps permanently, with a meaning beyond its literal interpretation. It's like an idiom, except that the overall effect is that one who might want to use the phrase in a straightforward manner will find their effort thwarted by the alternative interpretation. It's much like "Who ya gonna call?" in that regard.)
...do they seriously catch any significant number of criminals this way?
RTFA.
One successful search the government cites from recent years: In 2006, a man arriving from the Netherlands at the Minneapolis airport had digital pictures of high-level al-Qaida officials, video clips of improvised explosive devices being detonated and of the man reading his will. The man was convicted of visa fraud and removed from the country.
People in stores get treated like criminals because an astonishingly high number of them are, in fact, criminals. 10% "shrinkage" is not uncommon in stores that take no steps to prevent it. This is interpreted to mean that 10% of the people walking through the door are there to steal. Not entirely statistically correct, but close enough for amatures.
With statistics like that, do you really blame store owners from instituting policies that seem to treat everyone like a criminal? And even with the sorts of receipt-checking and package searching policies in place they are still left with at least 3% shrinkage. Some of this is employee theft.
Damn, that just boggles the mind! I mean, I could see someone sneaking out of the local Target with a few DVDs - but an employee? Where would you put it?
I worked at Circuit City once and as part of the interview they asked me if there had been any incidents of shrinkage (or something, I can't remember what exactly they said, this was ten years ago...) at any of the places I had worked... I had no idea what they were asking...
That piece of paper may be a "financial instrument" AKA stock, bond or check that is worth something. That in turn might be used to fund drugs or heaven forbid, "terrorism". It might also be a piece of tissue that can be used, you know, to wipe your arse AKA "bio-hazard". Either way, they have to protect the [artificial man-made] nation from the evil bogeyman.
Of all the security checkpoints in all the border crossings in all the world, he had to walk into this one...
>>...normally placed safely in the checked luggage.. > You're apparently using a definition of "safely" with which I was previously unaware.
Checking baggage is safe-- that is, safe for the crew and passengers. It's just not safe for guitars.
Yeah, ever since the TSA hired that "McGraw" fellow there have been a lot of incidents of smashed guitars in the luggage... Apparently the TSA is looking the other way because this is supposedly helping to curb terrorism...
Because if they don't upgrade, then in another year or two the 10.4 OS that came with their PowerMac will no longer be able to run various programs (like the eventual Firefox 4). It's forced obsolescence.
That's been one of the frustrating things about my Powerbook... It started on OS 10.3 and I was perfectly happy running 10.3 - except that all the applications I wanted to use (inlcuding things like VLC, Firefox, Fink, etc.) started requiring 10.4.
I think PowerPC machines still have some time left: after all, they can still be upgaded to 10.5, that should buy them some time as far as application support is concerned.
Of course, anybody who bought a PowerPC after the switch to Intel was announced should have known what they were getting into. My wife did that - and to some extent it was unavoidable.
Unless you predict the wrong future, in which case you end-up like Atari or Commodore (bankrupt).
Commodore was especially good at this. I mean, remember the Commodore laptop? The Commodore 16? The Plus 4? They had tons of bad ideas after their one big hit.
But then Apple fixed the problem by simply cloning the entire Palm and calling the result the "iPhone".
Palm? Oh right, they're the company that cloned the entire Apple Newton and called the result the "Pilot."... just illustrating how idiotic your statement was.
Can I just say how totally ridiculous these two statements are?
I mean, the Pilot was so far from being a Newton clone... Newton was overstepping what the hardware could actually accomplish. Pilot was much less capable, but the OS was well-fitted to the hardware and the hardware was well-fitted to realistic expectations of usage and battery life. The Pilot was pocketable - and Graffiti, while it did require training of the user - was reliable and quick as a method of input. It was one of the first cases of a computer being both truly portable and truly useful.
And then, saying the iPhone is a clone of the Palm? That's ridiculous. What I do find very interesting and actually a bit cool is that (non-phone) PDAs in the vein of Palm and PocketPC were basically dead - and yet Apple has been quite successful in selling theirs, by marketing it as a continuation of the iPod line. But anyway... Palm from the era of the iPhone's creation was... very unlike the iPhone. At best you had the late PalmOS Treos - running an OS several years old, emulating an m68K processor, with underlying assumptions throughout the OS tuned toward the needs of PDAs from the previous decade. The Treo's web browser was pretty good for a phone in 2005, but it had all kinds of flaws. The iPhone had a much better OS and a much better web browser. To the extent that iPhone and (PalmOS) Treo are anything alike, the iPhone is far superior. If you want to think of the iPhone as a clone of other PalmOS devices, that's a bit silly, too - iPhone has a whole different approach to input (doing away with the stylus or keyboard and the notion of writing on the device) That being the case it seems silly to say the iPhone is a "clone" of Palm. It's very different and a whole lot better than anything from the PalmOS era.
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Isn't the point of protection to absorb the impact? That's why bubble-wrap is squishy. If this instantly turns solid, wouldn't that mean that the g-forces, the energy of the impact is not absorbed by it and is thus transferred to the item inside?
I'm not sure I get it, either... But, consider what happens if you drop a laptop: odds are that the point of impact will be fairly small (i.e. one of the corners will reach the ground before the rest of the machine) - if the machine is surrounded by a material that's very nearly solid and which conforms well to the shape of the laptop, it will transfer the impact to the laptop - but over a larger surface area.
Yes, I think he used the word correctly, even giving link to it.
Man, you're no fun at all.
ZaMoose got it. Do people not remember that movie any more?
They were concerned about your tiny penis.
Who isn't?
We'll see a "reboot" of Spiderman where Norman Osborn will be replaced with Scrooge McDuck. Spiderman will need help and will call in either Darkwing Duck or the Gargoyles.
Or Iron Man could team up with Gizmoduck!
Disney was around at that time. They've been slaughtering Grimm's Tales since 1923. (Trust me, Grimms Fairy Tales are much better in their original form...)
Klingon?
Nyet, they were a Russian inwention.
You do know Disney owns a PLETHORA of media companies. Many of which do some pretty gruesome stuff.
Jefe, do you know what a plethora is?
And since the Constitution only protects against *unreasonable* search and seizure, there is nothing wrong here.
It's just a goddamned piece of paper.
That's all it ever was, really. It is only the efforts of people to support the document's intent, and their opposition of people who would subvert it, that has ever made it anything more.
Sargassum
"Sargassum is a genus of brown (class Phaeophyceae) macroalga (seaweed) in the order Fucales. Numerous species are distributed throughout the temperate and tropical oceans of the world, where they generally inhabit shallow water and coral reefs. However, the genus may be best known for its planktonic (free-floating) species."
You, too, are welcome.
Canada is the top country of origin when flying into the US, so it affects a large number of people.
-Malloc
Well, of course it is! You don't see another country up above it, do you?
That's what these are for.
Then there's taping it to your skin under a band-aid or nic/nitro/etc. patch.
Or the pill bottle attached to your keys (though that might be searched).
How do those spy coins look from a side view?
Does an SD card trigger the metal detector at a checkpoint?
As I recall, pocket change doesn't need to go through the X-Ray at the airport... I wonder if that's true at customs?
Oh, and don't forget, there's always "body cavities" as a hiding place - much less suspicious-looking, unless they actually search you. XD
"You can have my laptop when you pry it from my cold dead fingers."Ã
Very well, if that is your final answer.
A man with a small briefcase comes into the room. He opens it, and dawns (sic) surgical gloves, pulling out a small glass vial and syringe.
"This won't take but a moment sir."
Ah, no. See, that's how it was under the old regime - some clown would drag out the "cold dead fingers" line and the border guards would respond by killing the poor dope. They don't do that any more. They figured out it was overkill as a response to such a simple act of defiance.
Now they just amputate the hand.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820183245
Huh. Good luck with that.
They will still make you take off the bunny slippers and run them through the x-ray
Suddenly I am wishing I had a pair of bunny slippers with a skeleton that would show up on X-Ray. XD
I think if that happened to me on an outbound flight, I would be inclined to sue for several million dollars in lost revenue to encourage DHS to use some common sense.
Sure. Good luck with that.
Step 1: mail each of your laptops to a different state governor before you leave on your trip.
Step 2: Attempt to carry a firearm across the border, get arrested by the FBI.
Step 3: Get transferred to the same FBI building as your laptops.
Step 4: Initiate a terrorist action from inside the FBI.
Step 5: Profit!
Yeah, that's really all you need - just get inside the building. It's like in "Independence Day"...
If you claim certain contents of your laptop's hard drive are original works of authorship created by yourself, couldn't you place a password on the account and sue them for circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a copyrighted work when they bypass the password?
Sure. Good luck with that.
(It's interesting to me that "Good luck with that" is one of those phrases which is has become stuck, perhaps permanently, with a meaning beyond its literal interpretation. It's like an idiom, except that the overall effect is that one who might want to use the phrase in a straightforward manner will find their effort thwarted by the alternative interpretation. It's much like "Who ya gonna call?" in that regard.)
RTFA.
Man, those credit card people are tough!
People in stores get treated like criminals because an astonishingly high number of them are, in fact, criminals. 10% "shrinkage" is not uncommon in stores that take no steps to prevent it. This is interpreted to mean that 10% of the people walking through the door are there to steal. Not entirely statistically correct, but close enough for amatures.
With statistics like that, do you really blame store owners from instituting policies that seem to treat everyone like a criminal? And even with the sorts of receipt-checking and package searching policies in place they are still left with at least 3% shrinkage. Some of this is employee theft.
Damn, that just boggles the mind! I mean, I could see someone sneaking out of the local Target with a few DVDs - but an employee? Where would you put it?
I worked at Circuit City once and as part of the interview they asked me if there had been any incidents of shrinkage (or something, I can't remember what exactly they said, this was ten years ago...) at any of the places I had worked... I had no idea what they were asking...
How exactly is my paper going to be dangerous?
That piece of paper may be a "financial instrument" AKA stock, bond or check that is worth something. That in turn might be used to fund drugs or heaven forbid, "terrorism". It might also be a piece of tissue that can be used, you know, to wipe your arse AKA "bio-hazard". Either way, they have to protect the [artificial man-made] nation from the evil bogeyman.
Of all the security checkpoints in all the border crossings in all the world, he had to walk into this one...
>> ...normally placed safely in the checked luggage..
> You're apparently using a definition of "safely" with which I was previously unaware.
Checking baggage is safe-- that is, safe for the crew and passengers. It's just not safe for guitars.
Yeah, ever since the TSA hired that "McGraw" fellow there have been a lot of incidents of smashed guitars in the luggage... Apparently the TSA is looking the other way because this is supposedly helping to curb terrorism...
Vote Grimlock
There, fixed.
Because if they don't upgrade, then in another year or two the 10.4 OS that came with their PowerMac will no longer be able to run various programs (like the eventual Firefox 4). It's forced obsolescence.
That's been one of the frustrating things about my Powerbook... It started on OS 10.3 and I was perfectly happy running 10.3 - except that all the applications I wanted to use (inlcuding things like VLC, Firefox, Fink, etc.) started requiring 10.4.
I think PowerPC machines still have some time left: after all, they can still be upgaded to 10.5, that should buy them some time as far as application support is concerned.
Of course, anybody who bought a PowerPC after the switch to Intel was announced should have known what they were getting into. My wife did that - and to some extent it was unavoidable.
Unless you predict the wrong future, in which case you end-up like Atari or Commodore (bankrupt).
Commodore was especially good at this. I mean, remember the Commodore laptop? The Commodore 16? The Plus 4? They had tons of bad ideas after their one big hit.
You could go the symbian [...] way.
If you like running a steaming pile of shite on your phone...
Well, if you're moving from PalmOS 5, how bad can it be? XD
But then Apple fixed the problem by simply cloning the entire Palm and calling the result the "iPhone".
Palm? Oh right, they're the company that cloned the entire Apple Newton and called the result the "Pilot." ... just illustrating how idiotic your statement was.
Can I just say how totally ridiculous these two statements are?
I mean, the Pilot was so far from being a Newton clone... Newton was overstepping what the hardware could actually accomplish. Pilot was much less capable, but the OS was well-fitted to the hardware and the hardware was well-fitted to realistic expectations of usage and battery life. The Pilot was pocketable - and Graffiti, while it did require training of the user - was reliable and quick as a method of input. It was one of the first cases of a computer being both truly portable and truly useful.
And then, saying the iPhone is a clone of the Palm? That's ridiculous. What I do find very interesting and actually a bit cool is that (non-phone) PDAs in the vein of Palm and PocketPC were basically dead - and yet Apple has been quite successful in selling theirs, by marketing it as a continuation of the iPod line. But anyway... Palm from the era of the iPhone's creation was... very unlike the iPhone. At best you had the late PalmOS Treos - running an OS several years old, emulating an m68K processor, with underlying assumptions throughout the OS tuned toward the needs of PDAs from the previous decade. The Treo's web browser was pretty good for a phone in 2005, but it had all kinds of flaws. The iPhone had a much better OS and a much better web browser. To the extent that iPhone and (PalmOS) Treo are anything alike, the iPhone is far superior. If you want to think of the iPhone as a clone of other PalmOS devices, that's a bit silly, too - iPhone has a whole different approach to input (doing away with the stylus or keyboard and the notion of writing on the device) That being the case it seems silly to say the iPhone is a "clone" of Palm. It's very different and a whole lot better than anything from the PalmOS era.