Not penetrates the skin but when traveling through the body. Special Forces troops evaluating the Armalite AR-15 in Vietnam noticed the affect and it overcame their skepticism.
Is that documented, or rumor? I'm not a gun nut myself, but a good friend did some serious research into this, and found plenty of evidence of this "tumbling" being deliberate deception. Many who fought in Vietnam believed it strongly, but that doesn't mean it's true.
Such rounds are far more lethal than traditional military ammunition.
Again, lethality is not a feature in modern warfare. A dead soldier takes one enemy out of the fight, while a non-lethal casualty takes more than one. Safety rounds are more "mall ninja gear" than something effective for winning wars (and in recent conflicts, the ability to penetrate a wall and still stop an enemy has become valued by troops, but I don't know if the statistics back that up). Rifles aren't pistols: a rifle bullet has plenty of energy to take a man out of the war.
he 5.56 or.223 boat tail round that the M16 or AR uses tumbles once it penetrates the skin.
This is totally a myth - deliberately spread to soldiers in Vietnam who were very disappointed by the early M16s (and for some good reasons). The army distributed little brochures and everything, but it was a lie.
"Dum dum", or more generally, safety rounds were banned by the Geneva convention for the same reason most weapons are on the banned list: they aren't good weapons for war. Nothing was banned just out of compassion or anything - a bunch of stuff was banned because it sucked for the target and is wasn't effective in the first place.
Remember, a non-lethal casually is preferred over lethality in war, as it takes more that 1 enemy out of the fight.
Microsoft lacks the power to do that shit any more, and they know it. They're not betting the company on the success of the Windows phone. They're hoping people will develop apps for Android and iPhone (and Windows) using C#. As someone who prefers C# to Java, I really want to see this happen seamlessly.
First, kudos to the new/. owners for not linking a Forbes/startswithabang (fartswithabang?) article.
Dark matter and dark energy were the missing mass of the universe. Yawn.
Nope. The mass of the universe universe is 70% dark energy, 25% dark matter, 5% familiar matter. But only about half of that 5% can be accounted for by direct observation - the rest is "missing". TFA claims that the radio burst let researchers find a very dim (radio) galaxy that would not have otherwise been found - the matter is "missing" simply because you have to point a very good telescope at exactly the right part of the sky for a long time to find it.
The irony is: unobtrusive ads are what made Google big. I remember when actual punch-the-monkey banners were common, and Google made its big breakout, by realizing the value of unobtrusive ads. The ads Google placed around search results didn't suck. The ads Google sold to place on other websites didn't suck. They were mostly text only, and there was no reason to block them. Times have changed.
This is why I rip all my DVDs and Blurays. I just want a directory.mkv files. No messing with physical media, trailers, or any such nonsense.
Yes, it would be easier to torrent, but it just feels off to torrent something that I'm holding the disc for. Plus I like the quality of my rips (e.g., I like English subs for all my movies, so I can watch in a noisy environment if I need to, but not turned on by default) .
You do realize the GOP is doing this as well right?
Sure they're still doing this a bit, though not as much these days. But that's the old expectation: the right are the stern moral scolds, the left picks your pocket. Now the left has become the stern moral scolds (for a different set of morals, of course), and the right is more and more likely to pick your pocket.
The baselines are moving, and both annoying behaviors are common on both sides right now. The voters have noticed, of course: the current US primaries are all about the disconnect between the establishment and the base - on both sides.
It's just a matter of which freedoms. In general, the Rs want to control your moral freedoms, and the Ds want to control your economic ones.
I would have agreed with that years ago, before the Ds got into banning violent video games, throwing a guy in jail for making a film critical of Mohammed, and similar shenanigans. Meanwhile, the Rs have grown distant from conservatism, and don't seem particularly protective of economic freedoms these days. It's all the Big Money Donor Party now.
NSA? Any game cracker could crack this phone. The security is fundamentally flawed, as TFS point out. I'm sure the FBI could do it themselves - but that wouldn't set a precedent.
Note that none of this is relevant to later iPhones.
To put this in perspective, that change in password would make anything found on the phone inadmissible in any trial as it indicates the chain of custody was broken.
There is no trial here - the guy is dead. There is no 4th amendment case here - the have a warrant. None of that is relevant.
This is about the FBI forcing Apple to take one small step towards a backdoor. A trivial step that Apple will have a hard time justifying refusing. The FBI likely doesn't care about the contents of the phone, or has already broken it - this is about strategic goals, not the case at hand.
This phone (5c) is insecure. More recent phone may not be, but this one is.
The FBI is asking for a trivial effort from Apple - an OS patch that amounts to changing one opcode. Any PC game hacker could do this in a day. The FBI could do this in a day, if they actually cared about what's on the phone, and maybe they already have.
This is not a request for a backdoor. This is a step along the path to that, one the FBI has pretty good grounds for. I'm glad Apple is resisting, because I don't like where that path leads, but the FBI may have the legal right of it.
Higher tax rates don't necessarily mean higher government funding - the more you make, the more choice you have in how, where, and when you get paid. Funding benefits more from a growing economy, over time, in any case - we've never, under any tax structure, manged more than 20% of GDP as federal revenue for long. The difference between a 2% and 4% growth rate is a much larger factor over the decades.
Our problem with bridges and roads and other clearly legitimate government spending is that it's less than 20% of the federal budget, perhaps less than 10% depending on what you count. The money is there. Five or ten times the money is there. It's not a question of having the money.
oney just naturally leads to power, but those who get power by other means, in order to later make themselves rich are the most useless scum on earth.
Let me put this a different way, with a bit of historical insight.
Four roads to power have been tried at the scale of nations in history: 1) Money 2) Military success 3) Ability to directly control the "leaders" through threats 4) Success within a permanent hierarchy, religious or otherwise
(Never confuse "power" with "title" - the titular leaders of a country may or may not be the ones in power.) Of these, it sucks the least for money to be the road to power. There must be something better, but it hasn't been tried. America's biggest failings to govern have mostly been times when 3 started to replace 1.
The effective tax rate of all taxes and fees is well below 50%, at least in the US.
I've had a marginal tax rate over 50%, in the US. You may not realize that beyond a certain income level (still well below the 1%) you start losing your deductions. With every dollar you earn, your deductions drop a few cents. This can become a10% or so effective marginal tax rate. The Obamacare tax adds another ~4% marginal tax rate. Add state taxes and your 28% nominal tax rate can pass 50%, without being in the 1%.
My solution was to move out of California. I make a bit less money, but it's not like I was keeping the extra. Yes, I'm free not to work but that doesn't fund the state!
Taxes should be seen as a way to fund needed government programs, and not as an instrument of social justice, as the two goals often pull in opposite directions.
Which is fine until you mix tabs and spaces to get that just-perfect indentation of some line, as always ends up happening. (Plus, your editor could set the width of leading spaces to whatever you wanted it to, if it actually mattered).
The court can compel you to do many things, sadly. But if state compels a 3rd party to search you, that's still the state searching you, and they still need a warrant.
Makefiles: the greatest argument ever made by mankind that tabs should be forever banned. (Or spaces, either way, but only one sort of leading whitespace should be syntactically legal in any given programming language.)
Do you believe that once they have the software to circumvent protections they will use it only when absolutely necessary? No, this is going to be freely available to everyone in law enforcement, their husbands/wives, friends and well some random torrent server. It will make passwords and protection a moot point overnight. Rightly destroying any credibility they have built.
The FBI already knows how to decrypt this phone (and there's not likely anything of value in it), they just want Apple to do it to build the path towards a mandatory backdoor. The 5c wasn't designed with much security. But then, I don't trust major corporations with any sort of security in the first place. Seems a bit silly, to me.
Apple should just lock up the usb firmware update process on the next piece of hardware
It's locked on the last piece of hardware, for that matter. Apple at least seems to be trying, though rolling their own secure environment just sounds like a bad plan.
Oh, I give 0 fucks about Apple's rights. I care about my rights, and even your rights, but the world's largest corporation can take care of itself. The government has gone crazy-overboard with data gathering, and this current crusade for backdoors is just another step over the line. But they're not asking Apple to install a backdoor in the iPhone encryption, they're asking for data on this specific guy's phone. I think Apple's correct to push back, don't get me wrong, but the only reason I care is the step along the slippery slope to insisting on that backdoor next time.
Do the presidential candidates know what encryption is and how technology commonly uses it?
Some of them just dodged the question. I like the way Cruz answered, even if I don't fully agree: Apple has a point in not wanting to do this wholesale, but law enforcement has an actual warrant, and that how the Fourth Amendment is supposed to work.
Anything that prevents wholesale warrantless data gathering is good IMO, but with a warrant, and not some BS secret warrant from a secret court but a legitimate warrant? There's not a Fourth Amendment case to be made here. Forcing someone to decrypt their own shit violates the Fifth, irredeemably so IMO, but that not this.
I hope Apple wins because of slippery slopes, not the specific details of this case.
A further note here. Remember that video of the guy who asked Neil Armstrong about the "fake moon landings" and got decked for his idiocy? Remember that one plane hit the pentagon, and also caused casualties. I worked with former military guys on 9/11 who lost friends there. I don't recommend telling any of them that the military helped in faking 9/11 - you'll be limping away. It's so against military culture to do anything like this - against their buddies, or against the American people.
The government's not smart enough to pull this off. The military simply wouldn't. A conspiracy without a believable conspirator is total nonsense.
You have something hit in the fucking side by a plane, and *somehow* it starts collapsing into its own footprint bottoms up, in ways you need trained professionals to set up lest you "accidentally all across the street". Then you have the unattached building that wasn't hit that just goes down as well out of nowhere.
That was my first reaction to the news feed. But it was clear even the second time I watched it that the floors above where the plan hit fell as a unit and pancaked the floors below one-by-one.
(The "unattached building" was on fire for hours - it fell exactly as expected, as all heat protection is time-rated.)
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Not penetrates the skin but when traveling through the body. Special Forces troops evaluating the Armalite AR-15 in Vietnam noticed the affect and it overcame their skepticism.
Is that documented, or rumor? I'm not a gun nut myself, but a good friend did some serious research into this, and found plenty of evidence of this "tumbling" being deliberate deception. Many who fought in Vietnam believed it strongly, but that doesn't mean it's true.
Such rounds are far more lethal than traditional military ammunition.
Again, lethality is not a feature in modern warfare. A dead soldier takes one enemy out of the fight, while a non-lethal casualty takes more than one. Safety rounds are more "mall ninja gear" than something effective for winning wars (and in recent conflicts, the ability to penetrate a wall and still stop an enemy has become valued by troops, but I don't know if the statistics back that up). Rifles aren't pistols: a rifle bullet has plenty of energy to take a man out of the war.
I'd bet they'd be set up for 1km or so for small arms - somewhere beyond the point where anyone is hitting on purpose.
he 5.56 or .223 boat tail round that the M16 or AR uses tumbles once it penetrates the skin.
This is totally a myth - deliberately spread to soldiers in Vietnam who were very disappointed by the early M16s (and for some good reasons). The army distributed little brochures and everything, but it was a lie.
"Dum dum", or more generally, safety rounds were banned by the Geneva convention for the same reason most weapons are on the banned list: they aren't good weapons for war. Nothing was banned just out of compassion or anything - a bunch of stuff was banned because it sucked for the target and is wasn't effective in the first place.
Remember, a non-lethal casually is preferred over lethality in war, as it takes more that 1 enemy out of the fight.
Microsoft lacks the power to do that shit any more, and they know it. They're not betting the company on the success of the Windows phone. They're hoping people will develop apps for Android and iPhone (and Windows) using C#. As someone who prefers C# to Java, I really want to see this happen seamlessly.
First, kudos to the new /. owners for not linking a Forbes/startswithabang (fartswithabang?) article.
Dark matter and dark energy were the missing mass of the universe. Yawn.
Nope. The mass of the universe universe is 70% dark energy, 25% dark matter, 5% familiar matter. But only about half of that 5% can be accounted for by direct observation - the rest is "missing". TFA claims that the radio burst let researchers find a very dim (radio) galaxy that would not have otherwise been found - the matter is "missing" simply because you have to point a very good telescope at exactly the right part of the sky for a long time to find it.
The irony is: unobtrusive ads are what made Google big. I remember when actual punch-the-monkey banners were common, and Google made its big breakout, by realizing the value of unobtrusive ads. The ads Google placed around search results didn't suck. The ads Google sold to place on other websites didn't suck. They were mostly text only, and there was no reason to block them. Times have changed.
This is why I rip all my DVDs and Blurays. I just want a directory .mkv files. No messing with physical media, trailers, or any such nonsense.
Yes, it would be easier to torrent, but it just feels off to torrent something that I'm holding the disc for. Plus I like the quality of my rips (e.g., I like English subs for all my movies, so I can watch in a noisy environment if I need to, but not turned on by default) .
You do realize the GOP is doing this as well right?
Sure they're still doing this a bit, though not as much these days. But that's the old expectation: the right are the stern moral scolds, the left picks your pocket. Now the left has become the stern moral scolds (for a different set of morals, of course), and the right is more and more likely to pick your pocket.
The baselines are moving, and both annoying behaviors are common on both sides right now. The voters have noticed, of course: the current US primaries are all about the disconnect between the establishment and the base - on both sides.
It's just a matter of which freedoms. In general, the Rs want to control your moral freedoms, and the Ds want to control your economic ones.
I would have agreed with that years ago, before the Ds got into banning violent video games, throwing a guy in jail for making a film critical of Mohammed, and similar shenanigans. Meanwhile, the Rs have grown distant from conservatism, and don't seem particularly protective of economic freedoms these days. It's all the Big Money Donor Party now.
NSA? Any game cracker could crack this phone. The security is fundamentally flawed, as TFS point out. I'm sure the FBI could do it themselves - but that wouldn't set a precedent.
Note that none of this is relevant to later iPhones.
To put this in perspective, that change in password would make anything found on the phone inadmissible in any trial as it indicates the chain of custody was broken.
There is no trial here - the guy is dead. There is no 4th amendment case here - the have a warrant. None of that is relevant.
This is about the FBI forcing Apple to take one small step towards a backdoor. A trivial step that Apple will have a hard time justifying refusing. The FBI likely doesn't care about the contents of the phone, or has already broken it - this is about strategic goals, not the case at hand.
This phone (5c) is insecure. More recent phone may not be, but this one is.
The FBI is asking for a trivial effort from Apple - an OS patch that amounts to changing one opcode. Any PC game hacker could do this in a day. The FBI could do this in a day, if they actually cared about what's on the phone, and maybe they already have.
This is not a request for a backdoor. This is a step along the path to that, one the FBI has pretty good grounds for. I'm glad Apple is resisting, because I don't like where that path leads, but the FBI may have the legal right of it.
Higher tax rates don't necessarily mean higher government funding - the more you make, the more choice you have in how, where, and when you get paid. Funding benefits more from a growing economy, over time, in any case - we've never, under any tax structure, manged more than 20% of GDP as federal revenue for long. The difference between a 2% and 4% growth rate is a much larger factor over the decades.
Our problem with bridges and roads and other clearly legitimate government spending is that it's less than 20% of the federal budget, perhaps less than 10% depending on what you count. The money is there. Five or ten times the money is there. It's not a question of having the money.
oney just naturally leads to power, but those who get power by other means, in order to later make themselves rich are the most useless scum on earth.
Let me put this a different way, with a bit of historical insight.
Four roads to power have been tried at the scale of nations in history:
1) Money
2) Military success
3) Ability to directly control the "leaders" through threats
4) Success within a permanent hierarchy, religious or otherwise
(Never confuse "power" with "title" - the titular leaders of a country may or may not be the ones in power.) Of these, it sucks the least for money to be the road to power. There must be something better, but it hasn't been tried. America's biggest failings to govern have mostly been times when 3 started to replace 1.
The effective tax rate of all taxes and fees is well below 50%, at least in the US.
I've had a marginal tax rate over 50%, in the US. You may not realize that beyond a certain income level (still well below the 1%) you start losing your deductions. With every dollar you earn, your deductions drop a few cents. This can become a10% or so effective marginal tax rate. The Obamacare tax adds another ~4% marginal tax rate. Add state taxes and your 28% nominal tax rate can pass 50%, without being in the 1%.
My solution was to move out of California. I make a bit less money, but it's not like I was keeping the extra. Yes, I'm free not to work but that doesn't fund the state!
Taxes should be seen as a way to fund needed government programs, and not as an instrument of social justice, as the two goals often pull in opposite directions.
Which is fine until you mix tabs and spaces to get that just-perfect indentation of some line, as always ends up happening. (Plus, your editor could set the width of leading spaces to whatever you wanted it to, if it actually mattered).
The court can compel you to do many things, sadly. But if state compels a 3rd party to search you, that's still the state searching you, and they still need a warrant.
You do realize that "backdoors" have nothing to do with the current phone unlock case, though, right?
Says one who never writes makefiles
Makefiles: the greatest argument ever made by mankind that tabs should be forever banned. (Or spaces, either way, but only one sort of leading whitespace should be syntactically legal in any given programming language.)
Do you believe that once they have the software to circumvent protections they will use it only when absolutely necessary? No, this is going to be freely available to everyone in law enforcement, their husbands/wives, friends and well some random torrent server. It will make passwords and protection a moot point overnight. Rightly destroying any credibility they have built.
The FBI already knows how to decrypt this phone (and there's not likely anything of value in it), they just want Apple to do it to build the path towards a mandatory backdoor. The 5c wasn't designed with much security. But then, I don't trust major corporations with any sort of security in the first place. Seems a bit silly, to me.
Apple should just lock up the usb firmware update process on the next piece of hardware
It's locked on the last piece of hardware, for that matter. Apple at least seems to be trying, though rolling their own secure environment just sounds like a bad plan.
Oh, I give 0 fucks about Apple's rights. I care about my rights, and even your rights, but the world's largest corporation can take care of itself. The government has gone crazy-overboard with data gathering, and this current crusade for backdoors is just another step over the line. But they're not asking Apple to install a backdoor in the iPhone encryption, they're asking for data on this specific guy's phone. I think Apple's correct to push back, don't get me wrong, but the only reason I care is the step along the slippery slope to insisting on that backdoor next time.
Do the presidential candidates know what encryption is and how technology commonly uses it?
Some of them just dodged the question. I like the way Cruz answered, even if I don't fully agree: Apple has a point in not wanting to do this wholesale, but law enforcement has an actual warrant, and that how the Fourth Amendment is supposed to work.
Anything that prevents wholesale warrantless data gathering is good IMO, but with a warrant, and not some BS secret warrant from a secret court but a legitimate warrant? There's not a Fourth Amendment case to be made here. Forcing someone to decrypt their own shit violates the Fifth, irredeemably so IMO, but that not this.
I hope Apple wins because of slippery slopes, not the specific details of this case.
A further note here. Remember that video of the guy who asked Neil Armstrong about the "fake moon landings" and got decked for his idiocy? Remember that one plane hit the pentagon, and also caused casualties. I worked with former military guys on 9/11 who lost friends there. I don't recommend telling any of them that the military helped in faking 9/11 - you'll be limping away. It's so against military culture to do anything like this - against their buddies, or against the American people.
The government's not smart enough to pull this off. The military simply wouldn't. A conspiracy without a believable conspirator is total nonsense.
You have something hit in the fucking side by a plane, and *somehow* it starts collapsing into its own footprint bottoms up, in ways you need trained professionals to set up lest you "accidentally all across the street". Then you have the unattached building that wasn't hit that just goes down as well out of nowhere.
That was my first reaction to the news feed. But it was clear even the second time I watched it that the floors above where the plan hit fell as a unit and pancaked the floors below one-by-one.
(The "unattached building" was on fire for hours - it fell exactly as expected, as all heat protection is time-rated.)
Been on /. too long to be goatse trolled. (Every wonder why every URL in a comment has the destination auto-displayed by Slashcode? Entirely because of links to goatse.cx)