Do these plastic anti-scanning bags which are used to protect electronic components and hard drives from powerful x-raying machines not work against these x-raying machines in the U.S.?
This machine can look through a car's engine block so I'm gonna guess "no."
Also on medical X-rays, metal is completely opaque and shows up as bright white. This machine can see through most of the car's engine block from above 8-(
Getting? It was ridiculous eight years ago. At this point, they've crossed the line into gross criminal negligence, reckless endangerment, and willful malfeasance.
This. They're driving around exposing unknowing, innocent bystanders to x-rays powerful enough to penetrate steel. This is not an exaggeration.
I don't know what kind of trailer you're talking about, but the metal in a standard shipping container is MUCH thicker than the metal in a soda can. The thinnest metal is in the side walls and roof and it's at least 2mm of heavy, solid steel. A soda can's thickness is much less, about the same as a human hair.
These X-ray machines are a massive health risk, this is one of those things that people will look back at in the future and think "Wow, WTF were these primitive morons thinking?"
Using real names is a terrible idea, it can come back to bite you in the ass. See Slashdot poster Michael Crawford, who was minding his own business and posting journals on here and on K5. Some low-life asshole troll on K5 looked up the IRL identity of a woman he posted about who was mentally unstable, long story short the troll riled up this woman to the point that she cut off all access to Michael, the only decent friend she had, and was nearly institutionalized, which would have caused child protective services to pick up her kid (who at one point wasn't getting the medical treatment she needed because her mom went into paranoid lockdown).
If I posted under my real name I couldn't talk about...most of the stuff I talk about on here. I'd have to keep it clean and family & corporate friendly like a Facebook page, and that would be boring and no fun.
I'd agree with making posting AC much harder, but not eliminating it. Make AC posters fill out 10 captchas before posting or something. That way if you really need to post something anonymously you still can, but you can't make shitty first posts as an AC and trolling will require more effort.
I hope you're joking but I have an idea that would make trolling and shilling much harder: Make new users more sensitive to karma loss - after the first couple of downmods double the karma loss, and if they keep getting downmodded triple it - they'll go straight to karma hell if they start posting shit right out of the gate. The effect stays until they get enough karma to trigger the bonus. That way trolls and shills would have to karma whore for a long time before they can even start trolling or shilling.
Limit the number of times you can mod any particular user. Borrowing phrasing from another site: "You have downmodded hairyfeet too many times lately. Please moderate other users instead." Then if he keeps downmodding against meta-mod checks, he simply loses his mod points entirely.
Good idea, they should implement this right away, it would kill off downmod-stalking in one fell swoop.
You also fell right in line with all the other sheep. Free thinkers don't really want to be pandered to. Apparently you object to politicians being honest, and want to be pandered to.
Well maybe I missed the point, but did you ever consider that I might like an honest politician who isn't an asshole?
Nope just tested again, in a completed torrent containing a directory ending in "." it says that the folder and the files inside are at 0%, and says that another file in the same folder isn't complete when I've verified multiple times with another client that this torrent is 100% complete. This is in Deluge 1.3.3.
It's not in the bug tracker so I'll have to report it.
It will be a sad day when I have to switch to capacitive touch. You gain multi-touch which isn't terribly useful, and lose accuracy and the ability to use gloved fingers and regular plastic styluses (styli?) on the screen. Ideally I'd prefer resistive touch but it seems like it's being phased out entirely, which makes even less sense considering Apple's patents on various multitouch gestures.
I'll have to see if Deluge has fixed the problem where it chokes on filenames with certain characters in it that stopped me from migrating to it last year.
I have the exact same problem as the GP and changing torrent clients is a metric shitload of work, so while there are many ways to script a solution, one that involves changing clients is the least preferable.
I agree with him and I do sysadmin and software & web development. Feel free to deprive me of all the royalties I receive from people using my products.
TPB can fit on a flash drive right now, when they shut the tracker down a few years ago it was around 20GB compressed, I figure it can't be more than 40GB right now, and there are 64GB flash drives on the market, although they are expensive.
If the goal is to save lives, the money would be better spent offering defensive driving & advanced handling courses for random drivers, and that wouldn't destroy civil liberties at all.
If you've been modded down too many times - even if your karma never goes below Excellent and you get the Disable Advertising option - you'll stop getting mod points. That happened to me, but I often let them expire so I can't complain.
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Do these plastic anti-scanning bags which are used to protect electronic components and hard drives from powerful x-raying machines not work against these x-raying machines in the U.S.?
This machine can look through a car's engine block so I'm gonna guess "no."
Also on medical X-rays, metal is completely opaque and shows up as bright white. This machine can see through most of the car's engine block from above 8-(
You do realize they have covert, unmarked x-ray vans with which they scan parked cars, parked by the sidewalk that has people on it, en masse?
Getting? It was ridiculous eight years ago. At this point, they've crossed the line into gross criminal negligence, reckless endangerment, and willful malfeasance.
This. They're driving around exposing unknowing, innocent bystanders to x-rays powerful enough to penetrate steel. This is not an exaggeration.
Considering that the walls, roof and floor of an 18 wheeler trailer is not metal, xrays penetrate just fine.
LOLWUT?
There might be some cargo trailers with fiberglass sides but standard shipping containers are made entirely of plain old steel, always.
I don't know what kind of trailer you're talking about, but the metal in a standard shipping container is MUCH thicker than the metal in a soda can. The thinnest metal is in the side walls and roof and it's at least 2mm of heavy, solid steel. A soda can's thickness is much less, about the same as a human hair.
These X-ray machines are a massive health risk, this is one of those things that people will look back at in the future and think "Wow, WTF were these primitive morons thinking?"
Using real names is a terrible idea, it can come back to bite you in the ass. See Slashdot poster Michael Crawford, who was minding his own business and posting journals on here and on K5. Some low-life asshole troll on K5 looked up the IRL identity of a woman he posted about who was mentally unstable, long story short the troll riled up this woman to the point that she cut off all access to Michael, the only decent friend she had, and was nearly institutionalized, which would have caused child protective services to pick up her kid (who at one point wasn't getting the medical treatment she needed because her mom went into paranoid lockdown).
If I posted under my real name I couldn't talk about...most of the stuff I talk about on here. I'd have to keep it clean and family & corporate friendly like a Facebook page, and that would be boring and no fun.
I'd agree with making posting AC much harder, but not eliminating it. Make AC posters fill out 10 captchas before posting or something. That way if you really need to post something anonymously you still can, but you can't make shitty first posts as an AC and trolling will require more effort.
I hope you're joking but I have an idea that would make trolling and shilling much harder: Make new users more sensitive to karma loss - after the first couple of downmods double the karma loss, and if they keep getting downmodded triple it - they'll go straight to karma hell if they start posting shit right out of the gate. The effect stays until they get enough karma to trigger the bonus. That way trolls and shills would have to karma whore for a long time before they can even start trolling or shilling.
Limit the number of times you can mod any particular user. Borrowing phrasing from another site: "You have downmodded hairyfeet too many times lately. Please moderate other users instead." Then if he keeps downmodding against meta-mod checks, he simply loses his mod points entirely.
Good idea, they should implement this right away, it would kill off downmod-stalking in one fell swoop.
LOL beaten XD
You also fell right in line with all the other sheep. Free thinkers don't really want to be pandered to. Apparently you object to politicians being honest, and want to be pandered to.
Well maybe I missed the point, but did you ever consider that I might like an honest politician who isn't an asshole?
Nope just tested again, in a completed torrent containing a directory ending in "." it says that the folder and the files inside are at 0%, and says that another file in the same folder isn't complete when I've verified multiple times with another client that this torrent is 100% complete. This is in Deluge 1.3.3.
It's not in the bug tracker so I'll have to report it.
It will be a sad day when I have to switch to capacitive touch. You gain multi-touch which isn't terribly useful, and lose accuracy and the ability to use gloved fingers and regular plastic styluses (styli?) on the screen. Ideally I'd prefer resistive touch but it seems like it's being phased out entirely, which makes even less sense considering Apple's patents on various multitouch gestures.
I'll have to see if Deluge has fixed the problem where it chokes on filenames with certain characters in it that stopped me from migrating to it last year.
I have the exact same problem as the GP and changing torrent clients is a metric shitload of work, so while there are many ways to script a solution, one that involves changing clients is the least preferable.
I agree with him and I do sysadmin and software & web development. Feel free to deprive me of all the royalties I receive from people using my products.
If the Powers That Be would provide those, I wouldn't need to download a copy from the Pirate Bay.
There's a cracking group called The Powers That Be, and you can find torrents for their files on The Pirate Bay :-P
TPB can fit on a flash drive right now, when they shut the tracker down a few years ago it was around 20GB compressed, I figure it can't be more than 40GB right now, and there are 64GB flash drives on the market, although they are expensive.
If the goal is to save lives, the money would be better spent offering defensive driving & advanced handling courses for random drivers, and that wouldn't destroy civil liberties at all.
Lets get govt off our backs and into our beds, shall we? Vote Ron Paul!
LOL good sig material, and good summary of why Ron Paul isn't your friend if you're a civil libertarian.
He's anti-gay-rights and anti-abortion, I wouldn't call that half-way decent social policy by first-world standards.
I am not joking, the ad I saw on that page, in the middle of the article, was a big flashing "IMMIGRATE TO USA!"
LMAO XD
If you've been modded down too many times - even if your karma never goes below Excellent and you get the Disable Advertising option - you'll stop getting mod points. That happened to me, but I often let them expire so I can't complain.