Back when I was in my early teens, the telephone system was almost completely copper to everything. A friend and I got this great idea to send a spike through the line to fry the phone on the other end. It worked within the same town. But I guess there were better protections in place once you got out of the local area. They may have started switching to fiber for long distance around that time too. We never used it maliciously, just tested it on each other's numbers.
I'm not sure why this story is that big of a deal. Once someone has physical access, this sort of vandalism is pretty simple. It's not like most consumer electronics are going to have protections built in for this kind of thing.
Meh, 80's cars were pretty damn anemic and certainly had issues. But I put 320K mile on my 85 Cadillac Seville before I traded it in. I didn't get much for it, but it still ran fine. The drain line for the sunroof got clogged and it dumped half a gallon of water on me after a hard rain. So that was my excuse for getting rid of it. The damn car wouldn't die. I hit four deer in that car on four separate occasions. The most damage was one of the plastic tabs that held the grill in place cracked. I hit a patch of ice at 80 mph at one point and spun off the road into a ditch. That put a couple inch dent in the chrome rocker panel cover under the door sill.
I've had pretty good luck with GM cars in general, so that's usually what I buy. I had an Audi once. And after the warranty expired, everything went wrong with it. The transmission went out, a head warped, and electrical fire, etc. All before 60K miles. Everyone else that I knew that had one, never had an issue.
Actually this stock jeep will smoke a Vette - even a Z07
No, it won't. A ZO6 has a 0-60 time of 3 seconds (2.95 I believe). Your link states "the 6.2-liter's 707 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque could help the Grand Cherokee breach 60 mph in less than four seconds". Even that's unlikely as the Jeep probably weighs a thousand pounds more than a ZO6, and has all the aerodynamics of a brick in comparison. The Dodge Challenger Hellcat automatic has a 0-60 time of 3.6 seconds. I don't think the Jeep will be faster.
I don't know how old you are, but there was actually punishment for misbehaving when I was in school. In elementary school, our principal had a cricket bat looking paddle that had holes drilled in it and the bright red letters on it spelled out "The Board of Education". He had it on the wall behind his desk. There were maybe half a dozen times during the year that it actually got used. It was rare enough that everyone knew about it in the school and was the main topic of discussion on the playground for a couple of days afterward. Of course the meeting with "The Board of Education" was the least of your worries. Most of us were more afraid of the punishment we'd get when we got home.
I'm sure there was what could be considered actual physical abuse back then too. But I don't think it was a prevalent as we're led to believe it was. The fear of punishment was a strong motivator for not behaving too badly, or at least not so openly. There was typically one, maybe two, at most, kids that occasionally caused problems in class when I was a kid. The teachers usually had some way of embarrassing them or punishing them to behave. But that sort of thing isn't allowed any longer. When my daughter was in elementary school, there were no less than half a dozen kids who were constantly being suspended or put on some sort of sticker program in any given year. In a class of thirty, having six to ten kids acting up is pretty damn counter productive if you ask me.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should beating our kids for the hell of it, but in some cases corporal punishment seems to be an effective solution. I have to think it's better to do that when they're young than to have a child with no real boundaries get in trouble with the law when they get older.
...as of thousands to millions of years ago, anyway? Speed of light, and all.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Here's a list of the nearest galaxies
If a civilization reached this level 200,000 years ago (the approximate amount of time humans have been on this planet), there are six galaxies that are close enough for us to be able to observe from our vantage point.
Yes, of course. If there was ONE murder, ONE larceny, and ONE rape every year, then we could shift resources away from police and prisons. Duh
One per household? Per block?, City? Country? Planet?
I'm pretty sure most, if not all countries have less than one murder, larceny and rape per household and block. Some cities and even countries probably qualify. Scale matters.
Unlike modern phones, some of those probably will just need the ashes blown out and a new wood case and will probably be fully functional again.
When I was young, we had one of those bakelite rotary phones. That was a hell of a tough phone. I'm pretty sure the handset would be considered a deadly weapon by today's standards. My sister and I laughed like crazy when we saw someone in a spy movie kill someone with the same model phone we had.
Yes I've been a gamer since the early days (Intellivision) but seeing the crap being sold as games these days, plus the social media shit on top of it all - I can't understand the appeal of it all. I mean, you want toÂTweetÂyour fuckingÂachievements? In my days, the only achievement you had was being able to finish a game, which was pretty hard for most games. These days you have infinite lives, infinite retries, time rewinding, etc. You shouldn't even be proud to finish the damn game at all.
Listen up whipper snapper, in my day do you know what happened when you "finished" a game? Mostly you died. There was no finish. It simply got to the point where too many things happened too fast for damn near anyone to deal with, or it simply wore you down until you made a mistake. Eventually games came along with a set number of levels. Do you know what happened when you got through them all? You got to start over at level one again, except it was much harder the second time through. If you were really lucky the color palette was slightly different too. And if you made it through all of the levels again, it got even harder, until you lost. Games back then had these number things we called scores. That's how you knew who won.
I'm sure the OP was making a joke. However Mazda, I believe, had an engine a few years ago that could stop with one of the pistons at the top of the compression stroke. Then restart the engine by firing the spark plug in that cylinder. I don't know if it ever made it into production, but it's a pretty cool idea.
I used to get the TSA "approved" locks. But realized years ago what a joke it was. Most of the time they either didn't put the lock back on the suitcase, or simply hooked it on and never bother to actually re-lock it. I found slips of paper in my luggage on several occasions that stated they had to cut the lock. I suppose it was too much effort to even check if they could unlock it.
I ended up having my luggage returned twice with the lock simply hooked on the zippers, but not latched. Usually on my next flight the lock was missing when I picked up my bag. So it either fell off from not being latched, or they simply didn't bother to even put it back. I haven't even bothered with a lock in ten years or so. Perhaps it's gotten better since then.
not to mention having to wash that shit off my car.
My father taught drivers ed in the 60's. He always told his students to try to avoid hitting people on bicycles because the spokes would scratch the hell out of your paint.
Oh please! What do you think Moses used? And the company that made them is still in business.
I know, right! Sure, those old tablets were thick and heavy, but the batteries never wore out. And you never had issues reading them in direct sunlight either. They don't have enough gpu power for UHD movies though.
Once the machines eliminate all those pesky humans, they won't be polluting any longer. And the machines can burn all the dinosaur remains, and eventually human remains they want, as machines don't care about breathing.
What we SHOULD HAVE done, is to revamp that A-10 production lines,
That would be great if those lines hadn't been disassembled decades ago. The last A-10 rolled off the line in 1984. Fairchild Republic, the company that made the A-10 has also been defunct since the early 2000's.
You didn't read the rest of the story, which states "In order to make the comparison fair, the A10 will be fuelled with paraffin wax and weedkiller, have a large number of anvils bolted to it, and will be dragging a large boat anchor. 'We hope this at least evens the odds a bit so the F35 will look OK', a Pentagon spokesthing was quoted as saying".
Sadly the A-10 will still come out on top as it can probably run on paraffin. It's also maneuverable enough that the pilots will turn the boat anchor into a weapon and swat enemy fortifications with it just before purging the boiling wax on their position. And still have enough fuel to loiter longer than the JST.
Shouldn't we be comparing the efficiency of 6 warthogs vs. Just 1 F35? That would be a better like-cost comparison
It doesn't matter. A single A-10 would probably come out ahead of half a dozen F-35's when it comes to close air support. The A-10 can fly slower and loiter for much longer. It's also much more maneuverable and reliable. Plus it can take a hell of a beating and still remain airborne. The twin engines are set up high on the airframe so it doesn't ingest gravel on less than pristine runways, and can be flown if one of those engines gets hit. I don't know how much ordnance the JST can carry, but I'd guess an A-10 can carry more as it wasn't built to maintain a stealth profile either.
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Back when I was in my early teens, the telephone system was almost completely copper to everything. A friend and I got this great idea to send a spike through the line to fry the phone on the other end. It worked within the same town. But I guess there were better protections in place once you got out of the local area. They may have started switching to fiber for long distance around that time too. We never used it maliciously, just tested it on each other's numbers.
I'm not sure why this story is that big of a deal. Once someone has physical access, this sort of vandalism is pretty simple. It's not like most consumer electronics are going to have protections built in for this kind of thing.
And we can use it as a form of ID.
Let me know how that works for you, with the TSA.
A judge in the USA has ruled in favour of the obvious? Has someone contacted the devil yet?
They did, but his email account was set to auto-reply and stated something about shoveling snow.
So we're all just like Pig-Pen from the Peanuts cartoon strips.
Meh, 80's cars were pretty damn anemic and certainly had issues. But I put 320K mile on my 85 Cadillac Seville before I traded it in. I didn't get much for it, but it still ran fine. The drain line for the sunroof got clogged and it dumped half a gallon of water on me after a hard rain. So that was my excuse for getting rid of it. The damn car wouldn't die. I hit four deer in that car on four separate occasions. The most damage was one of the plastic tabs that held the grill in place cracked. I hit a patch of ice at 80 mph at one point and spun off the road into a ditch. That put a couple inch dent in the chrome rocker panel cover under the door sill.
I've had pretty good luck with GM cars in general, so that's usually what I buy. I had an Audi once. And after the warranty expired, everything went wrong with it. The transmission went out, a head warped, and electrical fire, etc. All before 60K miles. Everyone else that I knew that had one, never had an issue.
Actually this stock jeep will smoke a Vette - even a Z07
No, it won't. A ZO6 has a 0-60 time of 3 seconds (2.95 I believe). Your link states "the 6.2-liter's 707 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque could help the Grand Cherokee breach 60 mph in less than four seconds". Even that's unlikely as the Jeep probably weighs a thousand pounds more than a ZO6, and has all the aerodynamics of a brick in comparison. The Dodge Challenger Hellcat automatic has a 0-60 time of 3.6 seconds. I don't think the Jeep will be faster.
I don't know how old you are, but there was actually punishment for misbehaving when I was in school. In elementary school, our principal had a cricket bat looking paddle that had holes drilled in it and the bright red letters on it spelled out "The Board of Education". He had it on the wall behind his desk. There were maybe half a dozen times during the year that it actually got used. It was rare enough that everyone knew about it in the school and was the main topic of discussion on the playground for a couple of days afterward. Of course the meeting with "The Board of Education" was the least of your worries. Most of us were more afraid of the punishment we'd get when we got home.
I'm sure there was what could be considered actual physical abuse back then too. But I don't think it was a prevalent as we're led to believe it was. The fear of punishment was a strong motivator for not behaving too badly, or at least not so openly. There was typically one, maybe two, at most, kids that occasionally caused problems in class when I was a kid. The teachers usually had some way of embarrassing them or punishing them to behave. But that sort of thing isn't allowed any longer. When my daughter was in elementary school, there were no less than half a dozen kids who were constantly being suspended or put on some sort of sticker program in any given year. In a class of thirty, having six to ten kids acting up is pretty damn counter productive if you ask me.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we should beating our kids for the hell of it, but in some cases corporal punishment seems to be an effective solution. I have to think it's better to do that when they're young than to have a child with no real boundaries get in trouble with the law when they get older.
...as of thousands to millions of years ago, anyway? Speed of light, and all.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Here's a list of the nearest galaxies
If a civilization reached this level 200,000 years ago (the approximate amount of time humans have been on this planet), there are six galaxies that are close enough for us to be able to observe from our vantage point.
Yes, of course. If there was ONE murder, ONE larceny, and ONE rape every year, then we could shift resources away from police and prisons. Duh
One per household? Per block?, City? Country? Planet?
I'm pretty sure most, if not all countries have less than one murder, larceny and rape per household and block. Some cities and even countries probably qualify. Scale matters.
The GP works at AMD.
Unlike modern phones, some of those probably will just need the ashes blown out and a new wood case and will probably be fully functional again.
When I was young, we had one of those bakelite rotary phones. That was a hell of a tough phone. I'm pretty sure the handset would be considered a deadly weapon by today's standards. My sister and I laughed like crazy when we saw someone in a spy movie kill someone with the same model phone we had.
Yes I've been a gamer since the early days (Intellivision) but seeing the crap being sold as games these days, plus the social media shit on top of it all - I can't understand the appeal of it all. I mean, you want toÂTweetÂyour fuckingÂachievements? In my days, the only achievement you had was being able to finish a game, which was pretty hard for most games. These days you have infinite lives, infinite retries, time rewinding, etc. You shouldn't even be proud to finish the damn game at all.
Listen up whipper snapper, in my day do you know what happened when you "finished" a game? Mostly you died. There was no finish. It simply got to the point where too many things happened too fast for damn near anyone to deal with, or it simply wore you down until you made a mistake. Eventually games came along with a set number of levels. Do you know what happened when you got through them all? You got to start over at level one again, except it was much harder the second time through. If you were really lucky the color palette was slightly different too. And if you made it through all of the levels again, it got even harder, until you lost. Games back then had these number things we called scores. That's how you knew who won.
I'm sure the OP was making a joke. However Mazda, I believe, had an engine a few years ago that could stop with one of the pistons at the top of the compression stroke. Then restart the engine by firing the spark plug in that cylinder. I don't know if it ever made it into production, but it's a pretty cool idea.
A recentÂPew Research SurveyÂshows that the common man has very little understanding of basic science.Â
No kidding, from the summary:
ÂHe was accused of attempting to transfer technology about a "pocket heater" to China.Â
How stupid, you can by pocket heaters from Wal-Mart, in the sporting good department. Hell, they're probably made in China already anyhow. ;-)
I used to get the TSA "approved" locks. But realized years ago what a joke it was. Most of the time they either didn't put the lock back on the suitcase, or simply hooked it on and never bother to actually re-lock it. I found slips of paper in my luggage on several occasions that stated they had to cut the lock. I suppose it was too much effort to even check if they could unlock it.
I ended up having my luggage returned twice with the lock simply hooked on the zippers, but not latched. Usually on my next flight the lock was missing when I picked up my bag. So it either fell off from not being latched, or they simply didn't bother to even put it back. I haven't even bothered with a lock in ten years or so. Perhaps it's gotten better since then.
not to mention having to wash that shit off my car.
My father taught drivers ed in the 60's. He always told his students to try to avoid hitting people on bicycles because the spokes would scratch the hell out of your paint.
Oh please! What do you think Moses used? And the company that made them is still in business.
I know, right! Sure, those old tablets were thick and heavy, but the batteries never wore out. And you never had issues reading them in direct sunlight either. They don't have enough gpu power for UHD movies though.
Have fun with all the other nasty STDs you'll end up with.
Why, has his hand been sneaking out while he's asleep or something?
Why not add a sixth for 120% efficiency /s
Actually you can do that with just 5. You need to flip the two inside layers around and they can convert the light from the florescent ceiling lights.
no but this gem, i believe
I was not thinking a lot
I like this one:
"I didn't really stop and think what kind of email system will there be."
Isn't this why they have a staff to make these decisions and procedures in place as to how the "email system" should be?
Clinton said she used the private server out of convenience
Oh, so we should all be able to make these kinds of decisions for our own convenience. Obviously that's the most important consideration.
Once the machines eliminate all those pesky humans, they won't be polluting any longer. And the machines can burn all the dinosaur remains, and eventually human remains they want, as machines don't care about breathing.
You are not a fool if you doubt the causes for [deity] But you are indeed a fool if you doubt the existence of [deity], because it is real.
But religious folks are the crazy ones, right?
What we SHOULD HAVE done, is to revamp that A-10 production lines,
That would be great if those lines hadn't been disassembled decades ago. The last A-10 rolled off the line in 1984. Fairchild Republic, the company that made the A-10 has also been defunct since the early 2000's.
You didn't read the rest of the story, which states "In order to make the comparison fair, the A10 will be fuelled with paraffin wax and weedkiller, have a large number of anvils bolted to it, and will be dragging a large boat anchor. 'We hope this at least evens the odds a bit so the F35 will look OK', a Pentagon spokesthing was quoted as saying".
Sadly the A-10 will still come out on top as it can probably run on paraffin. It's also maneuverable enough that the pilots will turn the boat anchor into a weapon and swat enemy fortifications with it just before purging the boiling wax on their position. And still have enough fuel to loiter longer than the JST.
Shouldn't we be comparing the efficiency of 6 warthogs vs. Just 1 F35? That would be a better like-cost comparison
It doesn't matter. A single A-10 would probably come out ahead of half a dozen F-35's when it comes to close air support. The A-10 can fly slower and loiter for much longer. It's also much more maneuverable and reliable. Plus it can take a hell of a beating and still remain airborne. The twin engines are set up high on the airframe so it doesn't ingest gravel on less than pristine runways, and can be flown if one of those engines gets hit. I don't know how much ordnance the JST can carry, but I'd guess an A-10 can carry more as it wasn't built to maintain a stealth profile either.