Since I bought 0.1 Bitcoin (long since used) just to be sure I had an easy way to buy Bitcoin in case I needed to do so for someone hit by ransomware but with no backups.
I hope the IRS doesn't come after me for taxes on my approximate increase from $31 to ~$41 that I used on domain renewals. Oh, and the $1.11 worth still in my account.
Most of the results (despite how the graphs are distorted) are actually really close.
Sunspider differences were actually big with Edge 108ms, Chrome 190ms, Firefox 254ms
Octane had Edge winning with 33489, Chrome second with 31839, Firefox last with 30307. That means Edge was about 10% faster than Firefox, with Chrome splitting the difference. Not huge.
Kraken had Chrome at 938ms, Edge 1160ms, Firefox 1224ms, so around 25% slower for Firefox - enough to be noticeable, depending on what you're doing.
Jetstream had Edge winning with 219, Chrome with 184, Firefox trailing badly at 154, so again a fairly substantial gap. Looking a little at the details, all had around the same throughput and whatever's being measured on latency was the driver for the differences.
For the Oort WebGL graphics, Firefox was best with 10000, Chrome second at 9940, Edge third at 9920. Those are not differences that excite me.
Peacekeeper (no longer maintained) had Firefox first at 4655, Chrome second at 4325 and Edge trailing badly at 3091 - not quite as lopsided as the Sunspider results, but quite the reversal.
For WebXPRT (HTML5+JS), Edge won with 448, Firefox at 402, Chrome at 396. That's 10% faster for Edge, but margin of error for Chrome and Firefox.
And finally for the HTML5 test Chrome had 499, Firefox 462, Edge 460 - again around a 10% difference between slowest and fastest.
The Fine Article asks "Where are they going?" and talks about some other services (SlingTV, Hulu, etc.) but that fails to answer the more important question of "How are they getting there?"
Quite frankly in a huge part of the country your connectivity choices are cable modem (fast), DSL or related (kinda fast sometimes depending on where you are), sometimes a WISP (probably slow and expensive), or 4G tethering (you thought cable was expensive?). Fiber is not an option for most of the country and is AFAIK the only thing that can compete with cable for speed.
So, is this all just talking about eliminating the TV portion of your monthly bill from the cable company?
OK, I'm going to assume you're talking about the drum unit, DR-420 on those. This is actually what transfers the toner to the paper, the fuser is a separate unit that's likely got a programmed "hey, replace this" at 100,000 pages. On a lot of printers with more expensive toner this transfer roller is actually built into the toner cartridge, which is why those toners are more expensive.
The printer may complain when the drum hits its page count, but it should keep printing with no real issues - you can keep using that drum until/unless you start to see a decline in print quality.
List on the DR420 is a little over $100, so yeah, more than a HL-2240 typically costs but even at the high price I see of $110 that means you got a hell of a deal on the printer at ~$40ish. I'll also note that third-party drum units run $18-25.
In any case, most people who get that model printer are never going to come close to cranking 12,000 pages through a $40 laser printer. In fact, if you've run that many pages through I kind of hope you're using cheaper aftermarket toner, because if not then you should've bought a heavier-duty printer with a lower cost per page for toner. When you're looking for a replacement, check how much the toner cartridges cost per page (price/pagecount), plus any drum replacements and whether it ships with a starter cartridge or a full toner cartridge. Still, at 1.8 cents per page for toner I'm pretty sure that Brother's at the low end of the small printer toner cost scale.
The Brother printers used to use this IR beam through the cartridge, but I'm pretty sure that changed about 2 product revisions ago. Now I believe for most of the cartridges it's based on gearing and the number of pages printed, though it may have changed again.
Which model? In my experience the larger ones start asking for replacement of a couple of (effectively) non-replaceable components at 100,000 pages, but even then the printer keeps running with no problems except a display message.
For most of their printers Brother has separate toner and drum units, with the drum units generally lasting 3-5 toner cartridges. The drums aren't cheap, but they're still cheaper than replacing the printer unless you're talking about their cheapest sub-$100 street price machines. Even then using the DR-630 as an example it's $70 on Amazon, fits printers that are regularly on sale for less than $100, and oh, there are third-party versions of it for $20.
My wife has a Cefaly for migraines, which apparently does help at least somewhat. That's perhaps notable because there actually is a version that's FDA approved, though that may just mean that they decided it wasn't going to cook your brain.
If they do a decent job with low- or mid-range devices they might be able to leverage their name in areas where feature phones persisted longest, but I think that's probably a really hard place to make much money. Sure you can sell phones in Africa, but can you sell them with any kind of profit margin and still sell enough volume to make it worthwhile?
Yes, the Very Easy Rodent Oriented Network Index of Computer Archives did go along with Gopher.
Also Archie (file directories for FTP servers, so you could find paths to the file you needed) and Jughead, another gopher search tool.
For the old farts around here, the very earliest days of Yahoo when it was a heirarchical index rather than a search engine (or a white elephant) were similar to what you'd find in these.
The headline here is very misleading, at least for anyone not heavily into Windows-based phones. "Windows Phone" actually refers to anything running 8.1 and earlier; they renamed it to Windows 10 Mobile with Windows 10. In Android terms, this would be a lot like complaining if Google were to stop supporting Hangouts on Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.x) or if Apple were to stop supporting whatever their equivalent is on iOS 6 (iPhone 3GS). Those companies do still support those devices, right?
Because of this name change, the headline while technically accurate manages to imply that Microsoft is dropping Skype from all of the Microsoft mobile devices which isn't true. They're dropping support for it on devices that haven't been upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile, and while I haven't paid that much attention since the release, last year Microsoft was saying that they intended to have upgrades available on all devices running Windows Phone 8 and higher.
So, if they followed through with that (or even just most of it), the people that will be affected should either A) Go ahead and install the damn update on your 2-year-old phone or B) Suck it up and go out and replace your 3+ year old phone.
I have a couple of ThinkPads that I use, one of which (T510) I upgraded to Windows 10 as my less-used guinea pig system. Very obvious post-install: the hardware Mute button (with its LED indicator) no longer worked under Windows 10.
That's not creepy at all, now is it? At least I can sticker over the cameras except if I'm doing a videoconference.
I'm still using Windows 7 on my daily driver, but when I had a handy spare SSD to install in another system, I first yanked my current drive, installed Windows 10 on that SSD, activated it, then put my original drive back. That should "reserve" my activation for a future upgrade if I so desire, while leaving my current setup completely untouched.
This is also something you can do if you haven't upgraded to an SSD yet - get one ASAP, pull your drive out, install Windows 10 using a USB flash drive created with the Media Creation Tool, activate it with your current product key. THEN you image your current hard drive across to the new SSD, stomping the Windows 10 install.
It's a nice simple argument to make to a judge as well:
"Your Honor, if you approved a subpoena for records and the response was 'We searched and found nothing responsive,' would you accept that response if you knew that the search consisted of nothing but looking at a list of filenames? After all, that's a search - a very poor one, but a search nonetheless."
Is that ridiculous rate worse than what they expected? Being the best choice is not the same as being a good choice - the phrase "best of a bad lot" came from somewhere, and I think you could likely apply that to an inkjet printer without being off-base.
I'm not heartbroken by the end of 32-bit distros in a year or two, though I do still run a few 32-bit bootable Linux images on old systems being used as remote desktop terminals.
That said, at least in the Intel-compatible world just about any x64 hardware out there will also run i386 32-bit just fine. You probably don't even have to take out the extra non-usable RAM though I confess I've never tried. Hardware to test a 32-bit build should be no harder to come by than hardware to test an x64 build.
Another scenario which is probably much more likely is PHI is kept on a secured server. Client computer becomes infected. PHI was never compromised. Does that still trigger a notification?
Precisely this. I'll use 3 examples from current clients.
First client uses a vendor-hosted EMR system that they access via RDP connection to the vendor servers. There's literally almost nothing on their local network anymore except their timeclock software and web browsers. Even document scans go directly from the scanner to the remote using TSScan or the like. If someone infects a machine on their local network, does it trigger a breach notification?
Second client (actually several) uses a mixture of local desktops and terminal services, but everything patient-related is done within the EMR client software, which cleans up after itself when closed. The only patient data that might be on desktops is anything cached locally by the EMR package during that session. The items most likely to be troublesome would be EOB PDFs received from insurance companies, which are accessible from billing user logins. Does a desktop ransomware infection trigger a breach notification?
Third client migrated to a fully-hosted browser-based EMR package and again saves very little locally - everything's "in the cloud" for them except incidental office documents. Does a local PC infection trigger a breach?
We've been fairly fortunate in what customers ended up infected with and have actually arranged things so there's very little impact if customer end-users end up infecting a local desktop via streaming a radio station or the like, but if customers have to report breaches for infections even on systems that don't have patient data stored or accessible that's going to turn into a real headache.
The cost for this is basically an administrative time charge, and is regulated by the states with a base cost, a cost per page, and I believe generally a maximum charge. You can find more information on the per-state charges here: http://www.lamblawoffice.com/medical-records-copying-charges.html
This is an area that's kind of in flux - as practices have moved to EMRs, many of them have only scanned in key items from records - the rest is still in a manila folder either on a shelf in the office or if you haven't been seen in a while in a box at an offsite storage facility. What they're charging for when you request a full copy is to retrieve those records (whereever they may be), copy or scan them, and send that copy along to you. Depending on the chart, etc. that might well be an hour or two of staff time (occasionally more) so offices are allowed to charge but are regulated by state laws/regulations as to how much they charge.
For practices that are fully electronic it may be simpler, but even then some EMRs don't provide a good way to dump the entire chart - you have to print/PDF all of the notes/records, then separately go in and print any attached or scanned documents one at a time.
Finally, if you're moving to a new practice ask the staff at the new practice to request your chart from the old one - I could be wrong, but I don't practices charge each other the same way they charge patients both as a reciprocal thing and because frankly they're not set up for charging other practices.
This is the interesting thing that kind of jumped out at me, perhaps because I've been known to tether a tablet to a phone via Bluetooth for lower power consumption.
This is starting to move towards the Personal Area Network, where you have one device with Internet access (phone or Core) sharing it via Bluetooth with other devices you're wearing (watch, Google Glass, etc.).
But in 25 years things have improved quite a bit, and there are things in old-style VB that I can't imagine having come back. I honestly don't remember which version of VB some of them were in (3? 4? 6?)
DoEvents anyone? On Error Resume Next? On Error Goto?
Datto's been around for a while and has some very nice products for onsite and online backup for businesses. They're not inexpensive, but one of the big things they offer is continuity - if you're using one of their appliances for online backup and a server goes down, you can spin up the most recent backup of that server as a VM on their hardware, with all connections tunneled back through the backup device on your network.
Basically, ServerA has a hardware failure. Whoever's handling backups fires up the online backup image (or in-office depending on the size of appliance), the local backup appliance grabs the IP of the down server and tunnels all traffic to/from that local IP out to the remote VM. Not an ideal way to run, but functional for keeping at least core things going.
Motorola had a whole series of phones that you could connect USB Mini headphones to, though I don't recall whether they'd eliminated the 3.5mm jack (I thought they had, but can't remember what model phone I had then....).
USB mini to 3.5mm adapters suddenly became important.
I have one and use it on a daily basis, but primarily as a SIMless podcast player using PocketCasts (which I still hope to see one last update for....).
The lack of apps is the big thing, and a couple of the ones you mention may become more problematic in the near future
possibly the Waze app (I haven't heard anything, but it's owned by Google and they're unlikely to be spending any developer time on it)
Is there such a thing as a good text or code editor on WP? I haven't found one.
Edge edges on being usable, and UC Browser and Surfy make attempts, but overall the browser situation on WP is pathetic. Before MS killed Project Astoria I had hopes that at least Dolphin would consider porting to Windows, but now why bother? And with that, on the Windows Phone side I resign myself to options that feel comparable to the built-in browser back in the Froyo days or even earlier.
There are other more niche apps I'd like to have which either aren't available or can't be available due to the security model - things like SMS, call log and decent location tracking.
As for other aspects, for a Microsoft phone running Outlook it has a terrible time with calendar sync - I'll add a calendar entry on an Android tablet, it'll sync to my company Exchange server, show up on my Android phone, then show up on the Windows phone hours later after the event and only when I actually open the calendar app to see why I didn't have a notification on there. While the keyboard is better than it appears at first, it still has some gaping holes (such as not showing the "secondary" characters available by swiping on the keys).
I don't feel bad about having purchased the phone and might do it again under the same circumstances - it was $80 and I got a free 1-year subscription to Office365 with it, and my previous phone was showing signs of dying - but with the current status of Windows Phone and the application environment I can't imagine the scenario in which I'd actually buy one to use as a daily driver.
I wouldn't be surprised to see many variations of vertical hydroponic farms on south-facing windows of buildings in the future, whether on a per-unit basis or in some cases in a vertical atrium-style space. On a small scale leafy greens, carrots and related crops would be the only ones that make sense due to pollination concerns, but I could also see larger setups being feasible with south-facing atriums full of hydroponic crops with some level of access for bees.
In some ways this complements the trend of rooftop gardens/lawns in urban areas.
Unlikely that the Secret Service would comply with a Sheriff telling them to put guns down. You may be correct that there might be consequences later in a court hearing, but it'd be the Secret Service explaining "No way were we going to disarm on the orders of Joe Smith of Podunk County, Redstate."
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Since I bought 0.1 Bitcoin (long since used) just to be sure I had an easy way to buy Bitcoin in case I needed to do so for someone hit by ransomware but with no backups.
I hope the IRS doesn't come after me for taxes on my approximate increase from $31 to ~$41 that I used on domain renewals. Oh, and the $1.11 worth still in my account.
Most of the results (despite how the graphs are distorted) are actually really close.
Sunspider differences were actually big with Edge 108ms, Chrome 190ms, Firefox 254ms
Octane had Edge winning with 33489, Chrome second with 31839, Firefox last with 30307. That means Edge was about 10% faster than Firefox, with Chrome splitting the difference. Not huge.
Kraken had Chrome at 938ms, Edge 1160ms, Firefox 1224ms, so around 25% slower for Firefox - enough to be noticeable, depending on what you're doing.
Jetstream had Edge winning with 219, Chrome with 184, Firefox trailing badly at 154, so again a fairly substantial gap. Looking a little at the details, all had around the same throughput and whatever's being measured on latency was the driver for the differences.
For the Oort WebGL graphics, Firefox was best with 10000, Chrome second at 9940, Edge third at 9920. Those are not differences that excite me.
Peacekeeper (no longer maintained) had Firefox first at 4655, Chrome second at 4325 and Edge trailing badly at 3091 - not quite as lopsided as the Sunspider results, but quite the reversal.
For WebXPRT (HTML5+JS), Edge won with 448, Firefox at 402, Chrome at 396. That's 10% faster for Edge, but margin of error for Chrome and Firefox.
And finally for the HTML5 test Chrome had 499, Firefox 462, Edge 460 - again around a 10% difference between slowest and fastest.
The Fine Article asks "Where are they going?" and talks about some other services (SlingTV, Hulu, etc.) but that fails to answer the more important question of "How are they getting there?"
Quite frankly in a huge part of the country your connectivity choices are cable modem (fast), DSL or related (kinda fast sometimes depending on where you are), sometimes a WISP (probably slow and expensive), or 4G tethering (you thought cable was expensive?). Fiber is not an option for most of the country and is AFAIK the only thing that can compete with cable for speed.
So, is this all just talking about eliminating the TV portion of your monthly bill from the cable company?
OK, I'm going to assume you're talking about the drum unit, DR-420 on those. This is actually what transfers the toner to the paper, the fuser is a separate unit that's likely got a programmed "hey, replace this" at 100,000 pages. On a lot of printers with more expensive toner this transfer roller is actually built into the toner cartridge, which is why those toners are more expensive.
The printer may complain when the drum hits its page count, but it should keep printing with no real issues - you can keep using that drum until/unless you start to see a decline in print quality.
List on the DR420 is a little over $100, so yeah, more than a HL-2240 typically costs but even at the high price I see of $110 that means you got a hell of a deal on the printer at ~$40ish. I'll also note that third-party drum units run $18-25.
In any case, most people who get that model printer are never going to come close to cranking 12,000 pages through a $40 laser printer. In fact, if you've run that many pages through I kind of hope you're using cheaper aftermarket toner, because if not then you should've bought a heavier-duty printer with a lower cost per page for toner. When you're looking for a replacement, check how much the toner cartridges cost per page (price/pagecount), plus any drum replacements and whether it ships with a starter cartridge or a full toner cartridge. Still, at 1.8 cents per page for toner I'm pretty sure that Brother's at the low end of the small printer toner cost scale.
The Brother printers used to use this IR beam through the cartridge, but I'm pretty sure that changed about 2 product revisions ago. Now I believe for most of the cartridges it's based on gearing and the number of pages printed, though it may have changed again.
I used to have a bunch of little snippets in files that I could send to our office printers.
Things like INSERT QUARTER, etc. - whatever would fit on the little one-line displays.
Which model? In my experience the larger ones start asking for replacement of a couple of (effectively) non-replaceable components at 100,000 pages, but even then the printer keeps running with no problems except a display message.
For most of their printers Brother has separate toner and drum units, with the drum units generally lasting 3-5 toner cartridges. The drums aren't cheap, but they're still cheaper than replacing the printer unless you're talking about their cheapest sub-$100 street price machines. Even then using the DR-630 as an example it's $70 on Amazon, fits printers that are regularly on sale for less than $100, and oh, there are third-party versions of it for $20.
My wife has a Cefaly for migraines, which apparently does help at least somewhat. That's perhaps notable because there actually is a version that's FDA approved, though that may just mean that they decided it wasn't going to cook your brain.
If they do a decent job with low- or mid-range devices they might be able to leverage their name in areas where feature phones persisted longest, but I think that's probably a really hard place to make much money. Sure you can sell phones in Africa, but can you sell them with any kind of profit margin and still sell enough volume to make it worthwhile?
Yes, the Very Easy Rodent Oriented Network Index of Computer Archives did go along with Gopher.
Also Archie (file directories for FTP servers, so you could find paths to the file you needed) and Jughead, another gopher search tool.
For the old farts around here, the very earliest days of Yahoo when it was a heirarchical index rather than a search engine (or a white elephant) were similar to what you'd find in these.
The headline here is very misleading, at least for anyone not heavily into Windows-based phones. "Windows Phone" actually refers to anything running 8.1 and earlier; they renamed it to Windows 10 Mobile with Windows 10. In Android terms, this would be a lot like complaining if Google were to stop supporting Hangouts on Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.x) or if Apple were to stop supporting whatever their equivalent is on iOS 6 (iPhone 3GS). Those companies do still support those devices, right?
Because of this name change, the headline while technically accurate manages to imply that Microsoft is dropping Skype from all of the Microsoft mobile devices which isn't true. They're dropping support for it on devices that haven't been upgraded to Windows 10 Mobile, and while I haven't paid that much attention since the release, last year Microsoft was saying that they intended to have upgrades available on all devices running Windows Phone 8 and higher.
So, if they followed through with that (or even just most of it), the people that will be affected should either A) Go ahead and install the damn update on your 2-year-old phone or B) Suck it up and go out and replace your 3+ year old phone.
I have a couple of ThinkPads that I use, one of which (T510) I upgraded to Windows 10 as my less-used guinea pig system. Very obvious post-install: the hardware Mute button (with its LED indicator) no longer worked under Windows 10.
That's not creepy at all, now is it? At least I can sticker over the cameras except if I'm doing a videoconference.
I'm still using Windows 7 on my daily driver, but when I had a handy spare SSD to install in another system, I first yanked my current drive, installed Windows 10 on that SSD, activated it, then put my original drive back. That should "reserve" my activation for a future upgrade if I so desire, while leaving my current setup completely untouched.
This is also something you can do if you haven't upgraded to an SSD yet - get one ASAP, pull your drive out, install Windows 10 using a USB flash drive created with the Media Creation Tool, activate it with your current product key. THEN you image your current hard drive across to the new SSD, stomping the Windows 10 install.
It's a nice simple argument to make to a judge as well:
"Your Honor, if you approved a subpoena for records and the response was 'We searched and found nothing responsive,' would you accept that response if you knew that the search consisted of nothing but looking at a list of filenames? After all, that's a search - a very poor one, but a search nonetheless."
Is that ridiculous rate worse than what they expected? Being the best choice is not the same as being a good choice - the phrase "best of a bad lot" came from somewhere, and I think you could likely apply that to an inkjet printer without being off-base.
I'm not heartbroken by the end of 32-bit distros in a year or two, though I do still run a few 32-bit bootable Linux images on old systems being used as remote desktop terminals.
That said, at least in the Intel-compatible world just about any x64 hardware out there will also run i386 32-bit just fine. You probably don't even have to take out the extra non-usable RAM though I confess I've never tried. Hardware to test a 32-bit build should be no harder to come by than hardware to test an x64 build.
Precisely this. I'll use 3 examples from current clients.
We've been fairly fortunate in what customers ended up infected with and have actually arranged things so there's very little impact if customer end-users end up infecting a local desktop via streaming a radio station or the like, but if customers have to report breaches for infections even on systems that don't have patient data stored or accessible that's going to turn into a real headache.
The cost for this is basically an administrative time charge, and is regulated by the states with a base cost, a cost per page, and I believe generally a maximum charge. You can find more information on the per-state charges here: http://www.lamblawoffice.com/medical-records-copying-charges.html
This is an area that's kind of in flux - as practices have moved to EMRs, many of them have only scanned in key items from records - the rest is still in a manila folder either on a shelf in the office or if you haven't been seen in a while in a box at an offsite storage facility. What they're charging for when you request a full copy is to retrieve those records (whereever they may be), copy or scan them, and send that copy along to you. Depending on the chart, etc. that might well be an hour or two of staff time (occasionally more) so offices are allowed to charge but are regulated by state laws/regulations as to how much they charge.
For practices that are fully electronic it may be simpler, but even then some EMRs don't provide a good way to dump the entire chart - you have to print/PDF all of the notes/records, then separately go in and print any attached or scanned documents one at a time.
Finally, if you're moving to a new practice ask the staff at the new practice to request your chart from the old one - I could be wrong, but I don't practices charge each other the same way they charge patients both as a reciprocal thing and because frankly they're not set up for charging other practices.
This is the interesting thing that kind of jumped out at me, perhaps because I've been known to tether a tablet to a phone via Bluetooth for lower power consumption.
This is starting to move towards the Personal Area Network, where you have one device with Internet access (phone or Core) sharing it via Bluetooth with other devices you're wearing (watch, Google Glass, etc.).
But in 25 years things have improved quite a bit, and there are things in old-style VB that I can't imagine having come back. I honestly don't remember which version of VB some of them were in (3? 4? 6?)
DoEvents anyone? On Error Resume Next? On Error Goto?
Datto's been around for a while and has some very nice products for onsite and online backup for businesses. They're not inexpensive, but one of the big things they offer is continuity - if you're using one of their appliances for online backup and a server goes down, you can spin up the most recent backup of that server as a VM on their hardware, with all connections tunneled back through the backup device on your network.
Basically, ServerA has a hardware failure. Whoever's handling backups fires up the online backup image (or in-office depending on the size of appliance), the local backup appliance grabs the IP of the down server and tunnels all traffic to/from that local IP out to the remote VM. Not an ideal way to run, but functional for keeping at least core things going.
Motorola had a whole series of phones that you could connect USB Mini headphones to, though I don't recall whether they'd eliminated the 3.5mm jack (I thought they had, but can't remember what model phone I had then....).
USB mini to 3.5mm adapters suddenly became important.
I have one and use it on a daily basis, but primarily as a SIMless podcast player using PocketCasts (which I still hope to see one last update for....).
The lack of apps is the big thing, and a couple of the ones you mention may become more problematic in the near future
There are other more niche apps I'd like to have which either aren't available or can't be available due to the security model - things like SMS, call log and decent location tracking.
As for other aspects, for a Microsoft phone running Outlook it has a terrible time with calendar sync - I'll add a calendar entry on an Android tablet, it'll sync to my company Exchange server, show up on my Android phone, then show up on the Windows phone hours later after the event and only when I actually open the calendar app to see why I didn't have a notification on there. While the keyboard is better than it appears at first, it still has some gaping holes (such as not showing the "secondary" characters available by swiping on the keys).
I don't feel bad about having purchased the phone and might do it again under the same circumstances - it was $80 and I got a free 1-year subscription to Office365 with it, and my previous phone was showing signs of dying - but with the current status of Windows Phone and the application environment I can't imagine the scenario in which I'd actually buy one to use as a daily driver.
I wouldn't be surprised to see many variations of vertical hydroponic farms on south-facing windows of buildings in the future, whether on a per-unit basis or in some cases in a vertical atrium-style space. On a small scale leafy greens, carrots and related crops would be the only ones that make sense due to pollination concerns, but I could also see larger setups being feasible with south-facing atriums full of hydroponic crops with some level of access for bees.
In some ways this complements the trend of rooftop gardens/lawns in urban areas.
Unlikely that the Secret Service would comply with a Sheriff telling them to put guns down. You may be correct that there might be consequences later in a court hearing, but it'd be the Secret Service explaining "No way were we going to disarm on the orders of Joe Smith of Podunk County, Redstate."