Maybe then people will finally come to realize what the iPhone really costs.
And maybe China will call it's loans. Oh yes, yes, Pepe' is finding out that we don't just say shit, when we have no idea what we are talking about.
Meanwhile, the popcorn - it is so damn good
We may gleefully end the world, and if we do, I'm just hoping that my lawn chair is far enough way from the closest blast to catch a few seconds before I'm crisped. Thermonuclear boomies are actually quite beautiful to watch.
always be careful what you wish for Pepe', you may get it.
Android collects and sends text messages to state actors much better than that fucking overpriced hipster shit that Apple sells. Tak that - Apple Fanbois!
Now we may be pulled over for not making enough noise.
Haha, that would be worth the story the first time it happens.
I was once pulled over for going the exact speed limit. There is a street locally where speeding has been a real problem. So one evening I was heading home and took that street. I saw a township policeman following me, so I set the cruise control at 25, and continued down the road that way, since it is really easy to speed on that road. My speedometer is calibrated. After a half mile the lights come on. So I pulled over. As soon as he got to the window, he saw I was just an old white dude, and of no real interest. He asked me if I had had anything to drink, I replied just my 5th cup of coffee that day, of which I had in my hand. So a little later I was on my way. In the end, we have become so used to people ignoring speed limits that someone traveling at them is automatically suspicious.
Oh. Wow. Here I was thinking it was because they stall if they idle for more than a dozen seconds...
Pretty much this. If I'm out riding on my Big Twin Honda, I come to a stop, and just let the thing idle. Meanwhile, the Harley guys are busy jacking off their throttles.
H-D is caught in a weird dillemma, A lot of their user base is extremely conservative,( as in no changes) and some are even pissed about them coming out with the revolution series of engines.
That's what I would buy if I were to get a Harley, but the post purchase maintenance costs are pretty steep. So I'm happy with my bike.
Wasn't that a hoot? Trying to copyright the sound a poorly designed engine makes. That 45 degree angle, single crankshaft pin was a design compromise from years ago that makes for a pretty unbalanced engine, which is why they vibrate so damn much.
The potato-potato-potato-potato sound is distinctive, but it is a testament to early 20th century design that should have been gone a long time ago.
I love the way Harley bikes look, so it was a matter of finding something else that suited. I ended up getting a later model VTC 1100 Shadow Spirit. Smooth ride, chopped looks, and instead of potato-potato-potato, it's a steady budabudabudabuda.
I'm taking the word of the experts that the danger is higher with electric cars because of their silence. I don't think they are asking for more noise than already exists from ICE cars, so you won't be disrupting the quiet on the street.
I think its more of a meme that the electrics are so quiet. My old school ICE Jeep is so quiet you can barely hear it. the engine. I suppose if you ran about 2 gears too low you could get some noise. But anything below 2K rpm, it's darn near silent. Tire noise is the main and loudest component.
The day may come when we all have to have sirens on our vehicles.
And to think when I was a youngster, I got pulled over for making too much noise in my Mach 1. Now we may be pulled over for not making enough noise.
...with a Samsung Galaxy Notes 7! This smartphone has been carefully designed with privacy in mind: it incorporates a very low level phone formatting mode to erase completely not only data, but also chemical substances that could compromise user's privacy.
I mean, I'm not going to argue that it makes some kind of logical sense that cars that make noise would alert people to their presence more readily than silent ones, but after you factor in the number of pedestrians that are wearing earbuds or headphones, or too busy chatting on their phone to pay attention to what is around them, I honestly don't know if this kind of change would make any difference unless you make the electric cars *louder* than ICE vehicles.
I've stopped students from walking into the path of buses. If you cant hear the whine of their tires, and theengine, and especially the weird wubwubwubwub noise they make as they slow down, nothing will work.
A better idea is to have a sensor on their smartphone that tesxts them "Hey Asshole, you're about to get run over by that bus you are gonna step in front of!"
Fucking this. I live close to a stop sign, currently maybe once an hour I hear some asshole on his Harley. Last thing I want is to hear a bunch of assholes in naturally quiet cars blasting the Star Wars theme, or Banana Phone, or some fart they think is funny.
Why not move to the country? You can be grumpy there a lot easier.
Hopefully we can choose the sound. I'd love the old Crispy critters cereal theme song or an old Fairbanks-Morse hit and miss engine. This might be the thing that really puts these cars on the map.
Unless it involves specific realistic threats, online "bullying" is protected speech. There is no law against insults and teasing. You have no right to not be offended. If you don't like it, then close the browser tab.
I found the definition https://news.illinois.edu/blog..."The participants, 700 children and 38 teachers, also were provided with a definition of bullying that included physical behaviors such as pushing or hitting, verbal abuse such as saying mean things or calling other people names, and relational aggression, such as excluding a classmate from play.
Ugh. This is offensive in itself. It reeks of safe spaces where no one can disagree with you, and an exceptionaly tight control of expression.
Saying mean things? Jeebuz that's weak. That means that a person can be bullied by a different person writing to a different person.
Bullying has physical consequences, and there is a wealth of neurological data to support that.
Life itself has physical consequences. I was bullied, with no help from parents or school. Some times you are just in a situation whether you want to be or not. Children should learn that. Instead, we seem to be inculcating them with the idea that there should be no negativity in their life. Like it or not, sometime you gotta grow a set.
You have the right to bear arms. But not the right to shoot people, just because you have a gun.
The same thing with free speech. Bullying isn't protected by free speech, as it is a form of attack
The problem of course, is define bullying. People think that is easy, but there are dozens.
I owuld define it as an actual physical threat, which is already a actionable matter. Other's define it as calling someone names like idiot or moron. Others define it as disagreement. Others as any unkind behavior.
Is "Go die in a fire!" bullying? Is "Go step on a Lego" bullying? Is "Jamie, that's the worst idea I've ever heard!" bullying? Is Jamie - don't be stupid!" Bullying? Is " Jamie, I just don't think you belong in our social group" bullying? Is "Jamie - you're a moron!" bullying?
Children need to be taught to take care of themselves. A child who feels bullied needs to know this stuff.
As well, I cringe a little bit when we hear the stories about some teenager that commits suicide because of the internet. Did it really happen that way? Children have committed suicide forever, and it might be convenient to blame it on the internet, but unfortunately there was almost certainly something wrong with the poor child long before one of the kids in class called them a name. I had a classmate commit suicide. she was cute as a button, and quite popular. But she was depressed. Another committed suicide because his girlfriend split up with him. Drove his car off a cliff. But at base, he was depressed.
Back before the Internet, dealing with bullies only required a little courage
Nonsense. Victims do not "deserve" to be bullied because they are cowards. "Courage" has little to do with it. Bullies pick on kids that are smaller, younger and weaker. "Standing up to them" may work in the movies, but it almost never works that way in real life, where a punch to a bully often means more torment that ever.
Oddly enough, back in Junior High, the hot trick was finding a larger kid that wouldn't fight you, and harass them. One of those kids was me. My parents had taught me that it took a bigger man to walk away from a fight.
In the end, however, I got to be a "bigger man" several times each day.
And the school was no help. Upon reportingg this to the administrators, all I got was a threat of suspension even after noting that I was being hit. So I knew I was in that by myself. So I decided one day that this ends here.
A nice fall afternoon, and with some extra time at lunch we were allowed outside for 20 minutes.
Here comes some asshole bully and his friends...
Fred: "Hey Olsoc! Bill here say you told him I was a fuckin sissy!"
Me: "Nope"
Bill: "You calling me a liar Olsoc?"
Me: You're a fucking liar Bill! What are you going to do about it?"
Bill was a little surprised, but he had to be tough. So he took a swing and connected. That was the only thing he connected. After a flurry of rage fueled punches, he was on the ground.
Me: "Who's next?"
They all walked away, muttering, and I was surrounded by applause. Fortunately, the shop teacher was there, and he took me aside and told me that I wasn't supposed to solve problems with violence, and "Good job, man! Now get to class." Never got turned in, and Mr bully had a hellava shiner all that week. In one of those weird Junior High things, we became friends.
But the bullying stopped right there and never returned.
Even for ingestion or radium though, it is levels that matter. That's the part people miss. Just to say it 'causes cancer' is meaningless without levels. To say it 'makes its way to the bones' sounds scary until you realize how much is actually required to significantly increase your risk of cancer. Sunlight causes cancer as well. The point is that risk perception of the public regarding radioactivity is tremendously skewed. Mostly due to FUD and much due to ignorance.
The person displaying the most ignorance here is you Mr D From 63! Why are you so interested in levels when you first quoted 1000 times background as no big deal, without any reference to alpha beta or gamma radiation.
Sunlight causes cancer as well.
That you even try the ridiculous deflecting move of equating Sunshine with Radium show either exceptional ignorance, or exceptional misunderstanding or plain old dumb malice. It's like arguing my point with my point. Ionizing radiation causes cancer so you try to refute it with another ioniozing radiation causes cancer deflection. But it doesn't equate in the least. Good day sir. You might have learned something, but you choose to already know everything.
My comment still stands, I have not met nor worked with any NucE's with your callus attitude. You said what you said, and that tells us much.
I certainly would not work around you with radioactive materials, as you draw a safety conclusion from residual radiation, and from only a small remainder of what wasoriginally there, as well as th exposure to the young man in a shed.
So now allow me to make comments on quoted material that you wrote:
"The only reason this was ever a story is public ignorance and tremendously skewed risk perception of radioactive exposure at these levels.
So this should not have been reported at all? Tell me what the radiation levels were inside the shed. Tell me what they were before Hahn's mother removed the neutron gun - it's contents, the radium and thorium pellets. Ad David Hahn related, The funny thing is, they only got the garbage, and the garbage got all the good stuff.”
Your assesment that this was still a story that should have not been reported?
You wrote:
What if he had more dangerous toxins like those found in a can of insecticide or certain common petroleum products at his disposal? We wouldn't want that either would we.
If he was contaminating the shed with toxins to the point that it needed severe cleanup measures, then the situation would be the same. If he had a bag of say, Paris green and a bag of radium, that kind of makes your attempt at deflection a little awkward. HEalth hazards are health hazards.
Now it isn't likely at all that any normal worker would ever put radium in a bag, but careless ones like Mr Hahn were not above doing seriously stupid things.
What is more, you have the big benefit of hindsight. Since you consider this as "The only reason this was ever a story is public ignorance and tremendously skewed risk perception of radioactive exposure at these levels." I guess you would have just charged right in.
So do you have a good assessment of how this case was mishandled, and how you would have handled it?
Meanwhile, you bear a striking attitude to the table that was probably shared by the late Mister Hahn.
Blame that nonsense on the old science and technology propaganda from the 1950's/60's/70's and even into the 80's. They promised everything from flying cars to controlling absolutely everything in your home at the touch of a button. These ideas have ingrained themselves into the proceeding generations, and the result is utterly useless shit like Phillips Hue, Nest, and this nonsense.
I rather think it is/was just the search for the "next big thing". Smartwatches didn't work. The Internet of Things is an unfolding disaster.
We are in between the big things, and I'm curious what it will be.
You have two representations of fact that I have not seen elsewhere. One is that his mother threw his items in the trash.
From the Harper's article at http://harpers.org/archive/199... P
"David’s mother, alerted by Ken and Kathy and petrified that the government would take her home away as a result of her son’s experiments, had ransacked the shed and discarded most of what she found, including his neutron gun, the radium, pellets of thorium that were far more radioactive than what the health officials found, and several quarts of radioactive powder. “The funny thing is,” David now says, “they only got the garbage, and the garbage got all the good stuff.”"
The other that he used stolen detectors.
From the same article:
"Another year, David was expelled from camp when—while most of his friends were sneaking into the nearby Girl Scouts’ camp—he stole a number of smoke detectors to disassemble for parts he required for his experiments. “Our summer vacation was screwed up when we got a call telling us to pick David up early from camp,” his stepmother recalls with a sigh.
As well, he was arrested in 2007 for stealing smoke detectors.
As I have seen the story presented, he may have committed fraud in order to acquire the detectors mainly to mask his age, but he did not steal them. The other is you assertion that his mother threw out "most" of his items. The story as presented is that he was pulled over by a policeman and some items were found that led to the complete excavation of the family's yard. Now perhaps his mother threw out items prior to the discovery by authorities.
Sometimes we are presented with innacurate stories.
Every major operating system requires security updates including Windows, linux, Android, iOS, OS X, and the rest. You will not find a non-trivial piece of operating system software that does not require security patches from time to time.
Then they might think of not brgging about the need for monthly security updates. Reminds me of the local ads that bray about "Our biggest sale ever! Prices have never been lower!" Pointless marketing talk, and coming from marketers, almost always a lie.
In addition the combination of needing those monthly or more often security updates, with the system screwups that Microsoft is famous for, means exactly this:
You ar ebuying a machine that the Operating System fucks up more than the bad guys.
If Microsoft wanted to update the OS with the latest security patches 3 times a day and you had no choice, not too bad. But since they fuck up people's computers with regularity. You are signing up for an OS that in my professional opinion, doesn't work. Once upon a time, you could do a pretty good job by turning off updates until you found out what was getting bricked, then wait for a fix, and update later. Now? Sorry, you signed up for the big dose of fail.
For some of us, we have computers to do work with, and our tasking is not to simply get the computer to work.
Wait. Wait. It depends on what your definition of "is" is.
What is, is. What is not, is not. That which is, is, and what is not, is not. Therefore, that which is not, is not that which is, nor is that which is, that which is not.
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Maybe then people will finally come to realize what the iPhone really costs.
And maybe China will call it's loans. Oh yes, yes, Pepe' is finding out that we don't just say shit, when we have no idea what we are talking about.
Meanwhile, the popcorn - it is so damn good
We may gleefully end the world, and if we do, I'm just hoping that my lawn chair is far enough way from the closest blast to catch a few seconds before I'm crisped. Thermonuclear boomies are actually quite beautiful to watch.
always be careful what you wish for Pepe', you may get it.
Android collects and sends text messages to state actors much better than that fucking overpriced hipster shit that Apple sells. Tak that - Apple Fanbois!
Thank god you weren't black. It could have ended a lot worst. Imagine the headlines.
There would be people saying " Of course the Officer shot him. He should have been exceeding the speed limit like everyone else!"
Now we may be pulled over for not making enough noise.
Haha, that would be worth the story the first time it happens.
I was once pulled over for going the exact speed limit. There is a street locally where speeding has been a real problem. So one evening I was heading home and took that street. I saw a township policeman following me, so I set the cruise control at 25, and continued down the road that way, since it is really easy to speed on that road. My speedometer is calibrated. After a half mile the lights come on. So I pulled over. As soon as he got to the window, he saw I was just an old white dude, and of no real interest. He asked me if I had had anything to drink, I replied just my 5th cup of coffee that day, of which I had in my hand. So a little later I was on my way. In the end, we have become so used to people ignoring speed limits that someone traveling at them is automatically suspicious.
Oh. Wow. Here I was thinking it was because they stall if they idle for more than a dozen seconds...
Pretty much this. If I'm out riding on my Big Twin Honda, I come to a stop, and just let the thing idle. Meanwhile, the Harley guys are busy jacking off their throttles.
H-D is caught in a weird dillemma, A lot of their user base is extremely conservative,( as in no changes) and some are even pissed about them coming out with the revolution series of engines.
That's what I would buy if I were to get a Harley, but the post purchase maintenance costs are pretty steep. So I'm happy with my bike.
They tried, but ultimately failed. http://articles.latimes.com/20...
Wasn't that a hoot? Trying to copyright the sound a poorly designed engine makes. That 45 degree angle, single crankshaft pin was a design compromise from years ago that makes for a pretty unbalanced engine, which is why they vibrate so damn much.
The potato-potato-potato-potato sound is distinctive, but it is a testament to early 20th century design that should have been gone a long time ago.
I love the way Harley bikes look, so it was a matter of finding something else that suited. I ended up getting a later model VTC 1100 Shadow Spirit. Smooth ride, chopped looks, and instead of potato-potato-potato, it's a steady budabudabudabuda.
I'm taking the word of the experts that the danger is higher with electric cars because of their silence. I don't think they are asking for more noise than already exists from ICE cars, so you won't be disrupting the quiet on the street.
I think its more of a meme that the electrics are so quiet. My old school ICE Jeep is so quiet you can barely hear it. the engine. I suppose if you ran about 2 gears too low you could get some noise. But anything below 2K rpm, it's darn near silent. Tire noise is the main and loudest component.
The day may come when we all have to have sirens on our vehicles.
And to think when I was a youngster, I got pulled over for making too much noise in my Mach 1. Now we may be pulled over for not making enough noise.
Why not just get a date .... oh, sorry, I forgot, this is Slashdot!
And you might go to jail if you touch real boobies!
...with a Samsung Galaxy Notes 7! This smartphone has been carefully designed with privacy in mind: it incorporates a very low level phone formatting mode to erase completely not only data, but also chemical substances that could compromise user's privacy.
Well done, sir!
I mean, I'm not going to argue that it makes some kind of logical sense that cars that make noise would alert people to their presence more readily than silent ones, but after you factor in the number of pedestrians that are wearing earbuds or headphones, or too busy chatting on their phone to pay attention to what is around them, I honestly don't know if this kind of change would make any difference unless you make the electric cars *louder* than ICE vehicles.
I've stopped students from walking into the path of buses. If you cant hear the whine of their tires, and theengine, and especially the weird wubwubwubwub noise they make as they slow down, nothing will work.
A better idea is to have a sensor on their smartphone that tesxts them "Hey Asshole, you're about to get run over by that bus you are gonna step in front of!"
Fucking this. I live close to a stop sign, currently maybe once an hour I hear some asshole on his Harley. Last thing I want is to hear a bunch of assholes in naturally quiet cars blasting the Star Wars theme, or Banana Phone, or some fart they think is funny. Why not move to the country? You can be grumpy there a lot easier.
Hissing or fake engine noise.
You should be able to upload your own WAV file to the car
Sure - now get the music industry involve with suing car owners.
Unobtrusive white noise should be mandated.
As a hearing impaired person will this require someone sitting on the hood of the car signing "Vroom" Vroom"?
Hissing or fake engine noise.
Hopefully we can choose the sound. I'd love the old Crispy critters cereal theme song or an old Fairbanks-Morse hit and miss engine. This might be the thing that really puts these cars on the map.
Bullying isn't protected by free speech
Unless it involves specific realistic threats, online "bullying" is protected speech. There is no law against insults and teasing. You have no right to not be offended. If you don't like it, then close the browser tab.
I found the definition https://news.illinois.edu/blog... "The participants, 700 children and 38 teachers, also were provided with a definition of bullying that included physical behaviors such as pushing or hitting, verbal abuse such as saying mean things or calling other people names, and relational aggression, such as excluding a classmate from play.
Ugh. This is offensive in itself. It reeks of safe spaces where no one can disagree with you, and an exceptionaly tight control of expression.
Saying mean things? Jeebuz that's weak. That means that a person can be bullied by a different person writing to a different person.
"They have no physical intrinsic power."
Bullying has physical consequences, and there is a wealth of neurological data to support that.
Life itself has physical consequences. I was bullied, with no help from parents or school. Some times you are just in a situation whether you want to be or not. Children should learn that. Instead, we seem to be inculcating them with the idea that there should be no negativity in their life. Like it or not, sometime you gotta grow a set.
You have the right to bear arms. But not the right to shoot people, just because you have a gun. The same thing with free speech. Bullying isn't protected by free speech, as it is a form of attack
The problem of course, is define bullying. People think that is easy, but there are dozens.
I owuld define it as an actual physical threat, which is already a actionable matter. Other's define it as calling someone names like idiot or moron. Others define it as disagreement. Others as any unkind behavior.
Is "Go die in a fire!" bullying? Is "Go step on a Lego" bullying? Is "Jamie, that's the worst idea I've ever heard!" bullying? Is Jamie - don't be stupid!" Bullying? Is " Jamie, I just don't think you belong in our social group" bullying? Is "Jamie - you're a moron!" bullying?
Children need to be taught to take care of themselves. A child who feels bullied needs to know this stuff.
As well, I cringe a little bit when we hear the stories about some teenager that commits suicide because of the internet. Did it really happen that way? Children have committed suicide forever, and it might be convenient to blame it on the internet, but unfortunately there was almost certainly something wrong with the poor child long before one of the kids in class called them a name. I had a classmate commit suicide. she was cute as a button, and quite popular. But she was depressed. Another committed suicide because his girlfriend split up with him. Drove his car off a cliff. But at base, he was depressed.
Back before the Internet, dealing with bullies only required a little courage
Nonsense. Victims do not "deserve" to be bullied because they are cowards. "Courage" has little to do with it. Bullies pick on kids that are smaller, younger and weaker. "Standing up to them" may work in the movies, but it almost never works that way in real life, where a punch to a bully often means more torment that ever.
Oddly enough, back in Junior High, the hot trick was finding a larger kid that wouldn't fight you, and harass them. One of those kids was me. My parents had taught me that it took a bigger man to walk away from a fight.
In the end, however, I got to be a "bigger man" several times each day.
And the school was no help. Upon reportingg this to the administrators, all I got was a threat of suspension even after noting that I was being hit. So I knew I was in that by myself. So I decided one day that this ends here.
A nice fall afternoon, and with some extra time at lunch we were allowed outside for 20 minutes.
Here comes some asshole bully and his friends...
Fred: "Hey Olsoc! Bill here say you told him I was a fuckin sissy!"
Me: "Nope"
Bill: "You calling me a liar Olsoc?"
Me: You're a fucking liar Bill! What are you going to do about it?"
Bill was a little surprised, but he had to be tough. So he took a swing and connected. That was the only thing he connected. After a flurry of rage fueled punches, he was on the ground.
Me: "Who's next?"
They all walked away, muttering, and I was surrounded by applause. Fortunately, the shop teacher was there, and he took me aside and told me that I wasn't supposed to solve problems with violence, and "Good job, man! Now get to class." Never got turned in, and Mr bully had a hellava shiner all that week. In one of those weird Junior High things, we became friends.
But the bullying stopped right there and never returned.
Even for ingestion or radium though, it is levels that matter. That's the part people miss. Just to say it 'causes cancer' is meaningless without levels. To say it 'makes its way to the bones' sounds scary until you realize how much is actually required to significantly increase your risk of cancer. Sunlight causes cancer as well. The point is that risk perception of the public regarding radioactivity is tremendously skewed. Mostly due to FUD and much due to ignorance.
The person displaying the most ignorance here is you Mr D From 63! Why are you so interested in levels when you first quoted 1000 times background as no big deal, without any reference to alpha beta or gamma radiation.
Sunlight causes cancer as well.
That you even try the ridiculous deflecting move of equating Sunshine with Radium show either exceptional ignorance, or exceptional misunderstanding or plain old dumb malice. It's like arguing my point with my point. Ionizing radiation causes cancer so you try to refute it with another ioniozing radiation causes cancer deflection. But it doesn't equate in the least. Good day sir. You might have learned something, but you choose to already know everything.
I certainly would not work around you with radioactive materials, as you draw a safety conclusion from residual radiation, and from only a small remainder of what wasoriginally there, as well as th exposure to the young man in a shed.
So now allow me to make comments on quoted material that you wrote:
"The only reason this was ever a story is public ignorance and tremendously skewed risk perception of radioactive exposure at these levels.
So this should not have been reported at all? Tell me what the radiation levels were inside the shed. Tell me what they were before Hahn's mother removed the neutron gun - it's contents, the radium and thorium pellets. Ad David Hahn related, The funny thing is, they only got the garbage, and the garbage got all the good stuff.”
Your assesment that this was still a story that should have not been reported?
You wrote:
What if he had more dangerous toxins like those found in a can of insecticide or certain common petroleum products at his disposal? We wouldn't want that either would we.
If he was contaminating the shed with toxins to the point that it needed severe cleanup measures, then the situation would be the same. If he had a bag of say, Paris green and a bag of radium, that kind of makes your attempt at deflection a little awkward. HEalth hazards are health hazards.
Now it isn't likely at all that any normal worker would ever put radium in a bag, but careless ones like Mr Hahn were not above doing seriously stupid things.
What is more, you have the big benefit of hindsight. Since you consider this as "The only reason this was ever a story is public ignorance and tremendously skewed risk perception of radioactive exposure at these levels." I guess you would have just charged right in.
So do you have a good assessment of how this case was mishandled, and how you would have handled it?
Meanwhile, you bear a striking attitude to the table that was probably shared by the late Mister Hahn.
Blame that nonsense on the old science and technology propaganda from the 1950's/60's/70's and even into the 80's. They promised everything from flying cars to controlling absolutely everything in your home at the touch of a button. These ideas have ingrained themselves into the proceeding generations, and the result is utterly useless shit like Phillips Hue, Nest, and this nonsense.
I rather think it is/was just the search for the "next big thing". Smartwatches didn't work. The Internet of Things is an unfolding disaster.
We are in between the big things, and I'm curious what it will be.
You have two representations of fact that I have not seen elsewhere. One is that his mother threw his items in the trash.
From the Harper's article at http://harpers.org/archive/199... P "David’s mother, alerted by Ken and Kathy and petrified that the government would take her home away as a result of her son’s experiments, had ransacked the shed and discarded most of what she found, including his neutron gun, the radium, pellets of thorium that were far more radioactive than what the health officials found, and several quarts of radioactive powder. “The funny thing is,” David now says, “they only got the garbage, and the garbage got all the good stuff.”"
The other that he used stolen detectors.
From the same article: "Another year, David was expelled from camp when—while most of his friends were sneaking into the nearby Girl Scouts’ camp—he stole a number of smoke detectors to disassemble for parts he required for his experiments. “Our summer vacation was screwed up when we got a call telling us to pick David up early from camp,” his stepmother recalls with a sigh.
As well, he was arrested in 2007 for stealing smoke detectors.
As I have seen the story presented, he may have committed fraud in order to acquire the detectors mainly to mask his age, but he did not steal them. The other is you assertion that his mother threw out "most" of his items. The story as presented is that he was pulled over by a policeman and some items were found that led to the complete excavation of the family's yard. Now perhaps his mother threw out items prior to the discovery by authorities.
Sometimes we are presented with innacurate stories.
Every major operating system requires security updates including Windows, linux, Android, iOS, OS X, and the rest. You will not find a non-trivial piece of operating system software that does not require security patches from time to time.
Then they might think of not brgging about the need for monthly security updates. Reminds me of the local ads that bray about "Our biggest sale ever! Prices have never been lower!" Pointless marketing talk, and coming from marketers, almost always a lie.
In addition the combination of needing those monthly or more often security updates, with the system screwups that Microsoft is famous for, means exactly this:
You ar ebuying a machine that the Operating System fucks up more than the bad guys.
If Microsoft wanted to update the OS with the latest security patches 3 times a day and you had no choice, not too bad. But since they fuck up people's computers with regularity. You are signing up for an OS that in my professional opinion, doesn't work. Once upon a time, you could do a pretty good job by turning off updates until you found out what was getting bricked, then wait for a fix, and update later. Now? Sorry, you signed up for the big dose of fail.
For some of us, we have computers to do work with, and our tasking is not to simply get the computer to work.
1995 was 20 years ago, not 30
1995?
Wait. Wait. It depends on what your definition of "is" is.
What is, is. What is not, is not. That which is, is, and what is not, is not. Therefore, that which is not, is not that which is, nor is that which is, that which is not.