You know what you did? You caused a hassle for the police department. You had to get the captain down to your vehicle, taking him away from his duties because you think it's SO much of a hassle to put the top on your vehicle. GROW UP. The government's job isn't to kiss you on the forehead, it's job is to keep you and me safe.
The hassle was caused by the police officer, who was probably looking for drugs. While I can't say whether the grandparent poster looked suspicious, he was right to refuse the search. His reasons were a little convoluted, but I would support him even if he had no reason. You shouldn't have to help the police investigate yourself for unknown crimes without probable cause. It's absurd. I'm really surprised that a policeman would say such a thing. If it takes a captain to affirm that right, then that's what it takes.
you pulling your stunts with your jeep and murderers getting off without any jailtime
Food will become the next major world commodity (aside from fuel). It's easy to make potable water, but trying to compensate year after year of lackluster arable ground is foolish. The United States is one, if not the, top contender for arable land and our rank will only increase as the floodplains of the Asian countries are flooded with ocean water with rising sea levels. Seven billion people have to eat somehow.
Can you cite others who believe this as well? I've not heard this idea before, but now I'm interested in hearing more.
I was sympathetic when I read your post, but then I scanned up to your name, and I recognized you. I agree with the first AC in this. If I had never heard of you I would have agreed, but you're a minor celebrity on this site, and although that's something to be proud of, it is to some extent a bad thing for the community at large.
The value of this site, besides the rare funny joke, is that in a community of 500,000 or so geeks, for each small niche there is a geek for whom that is his focus. He then posts insightful comments and gets modded up.
Don't get me wrong, noteworthy posters on this site can be a good thing, but someone who has something to say about everything (I won't name names but you can check my foe list for names you recognize to see what I'm talking about) actually dilute the SNR on this site.
Again no offense, and I do appreciate your posts, this is just a generalization about this site.
A private house with an unlocked door - Not free and open for use When you broadcast your messages onto my property, does that not change things? If I simply fail to discard the messages you send within earshot, am I at fault? Yes, passive listening is different than active communication, but if we can listen, and you can broadcast messages from your private property to my private property without a problem, why can I not respond?
There are people who work on this very thing. Evil Twins are one of wireless networking's biggest vulnerabilities, and they're why I connect to unsecured WAPs and then immediately connect to my VPN with MS-CHAPv1 authentication disabled.
You're right about the Man-in-the-Middle SSL attacks; getting your username and password is just the beginning, but it's a damn good start.
Internet Explorer has not been improved since the release of Windows XP (with the exception of lame popup blocking and minor security improvements as a part of XP SP2). FireFox undergoes active improvement and supports features (transparent PNGs) that IE does not. I did not make the larger OSS vs Closed Source argument, just that FF is much better today than IE is. And even more so with the release of 1.5.
Open-source Mozilla Firefox 1.5 is out, and it's decidedly less buggy than IE.
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Point well taken. His informal tests show that clothing has much more effect on the bullet than the plastic. I believe that due to the nature of plastic-how it fails-that it would have a minimal effect on bullet penetration.
Mainly, however, I disagree with Mythbusters' stipulation that bullets would only come from an angle. Jumping off of bridges or out of boats are two scenarios that come to mind where a bullet could strike vertically. What I would have preferred they test in addition to the different calibers was different angles and their relative effects on the same caliber bullet.
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The guy was shooting plastic jugs, ferchrissakes!
Full of water. Which is similar to the human body in density. JHPs are designed to expand in such a medium, and they do.
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And if you want to reply to this post as anything other than AC, please do me the favor of dropping the attitude.
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Mythbusters' test assumes firing at an angle, and that the bullet leaves the barrel, travels through air for some distance, then hits the water at that angle. They did not test any other scenario, they did not "prove the myth" (actually in this case disprove by providing a worst-case scenario for the swimmer). As shown in the previous link, a perpendicular strike through water causes uniform bullet expansion, not fragmentation.
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The Box O' Truth doesn't lie. Mythbusters' methods leaves a little to be desired.
Maybe it's time for another trip to NewEnough! All it should take is a nice long textile jacket, overpants, and a lil something to keep the neck warm. I basically drive my car to the airport, grocery store, on long trips, when I'm in too much of a hurry to gear up, and when it's snowy. Gas savings or not, I do it because I love to ride, weather be damned.
They have the best customer service, the best prices, and their product pages are some of the most useful I've seen. It's a company that is run by actual, real-life people, and there's a lot to be said for that.
That said, I wonder why they didn't include the discount for those who commute to work on their (40mpg+) motorcycle? It's Texas, so that should be feasible year-round.
If the public and 'their' politicians believe that the entertainment industry is on the verge of collapse, they'll be much more likely to accept restrictions on use of content that they've paid for.
Nah. We don't really like you enough. Maybe if the entertainment industry does collapse, maybe then we'll realize. But before? Nah. You keep it up with your doomsday predictions... I don't see Universal Studios or Paramount closing up shop, and I don't care about your problem.
Or, why not leave the laptops wide open, but filter all traffic from them on your corporate network except for the port for Terminal Services. The managers would complain about synchronization issues, no doubt, but c'est la vie.
Other than that we just have to keep AV/AS stuff running and up to date, and have scary policies regarding installation of non-approved applications to hopefully cut that down.
But please put Winamp on that list. Let's be realistic too, okay?
The book wasn't given to me or anyone I knew from HP. Of course, we were pre-merger Compaq/DEC. I'm sure the legacy had died well before the time Capellas moved on.
Also, I don't think that the downward spiral can be attributed to the merger, but vice versa. It failed to buoy the companies and their bad decisions/market position.
Also, the Air Conditioning unit not only adds weight, but when it's running it saps power from your engine, lowering your efficiency. But don't roll down your windows--that reduces airodynamics!
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Yes, when MS decided to include WGA in Windows Updates, I decided they needed to be sandboxed from my important data.
Wow. Just wow.
I was sympathetic when I read your post, but then I scanned up to your name, and I recognized you. I agree with the first AC in this. If I had never heard of you I would have agreed, but you're a minor celebrity on this site, and although that's something to be proud of, it is to some extent a bad thing for the community at large.
The value of this site, besides the rare funny joke, is that in a community of 500,000 or so geeks, for each small niche there is a geek for whom that is his focus. He then posts insightful comments and gets modded up.
Don't get me wrong, noteworthy posters on this site can be a good thing, but someone who has something to say about everything (I won't name names but you can check my foe list for names you recognize to see what I'm talking about) actually dilute the SNR on this site.
Again no offense, and I do appreciate your posts, this is just a generalization about this site.
A private house with an unlocked door - Not free and open for use
When you broadcast your messages onto my property, does that not change things? If I simply fail to discard the messages you send within earshot, am I at fault? Yes, passive listening is different than active communication, but if we can listen, and you can broadcast messages from your private property to my private property without a problem, why can I not respond?
There are people who work on this very thing. Evil Twins are one of wireless networking's biggest vulnerabilities, and they're why I connect to unsecured WAPs and then immediately connect to my VPN with MS-CHAPv1 authentication disabled.
You're right about the Man-in-the-Middle SSL attacks; getting your username and password is just the beginning, but it's a damn good start.
Cheap power supply?
Internet Explorer has not been improved since the release of Windows XP (with the exception of lame popup blocking and minor security improvements as a part of XP SP2). FireFox undergoes active improvement and supports features (transparent PNGs) that IE does not. I did not make the larger OSS vs Closed Source argument, just that FF is much better today than IE is. And even more so with the release of 1.5.
Open-source Mozilla Firefox 1.5 is out, and it's decidedly less buggy than IE.
Point well taken. His informal tests show that clothing has much more effect on the bullet than the plastic. I believe that due to the nature of plastic-how it fails-that it would have a minimal effect on bullet penetration.
Mainly, however, I disagree with Mythbusters' stipulation that bullets would only come from an angle. Jumping off of bridges or out of boats are two scenarios that come to mind where a bullet could strike vertically. What I would have preferred they test in addition to the different calibers was different angles and their relative effects on the same caliber bullet.
The installer compresses files.
The guy was shooting plastic jugs, ferchrissakes!
Full of water. Which is similar to the human body in density. JHPs are designed to expand in such a medium, and they do.
.
And if you want to reply to this post as anything other than AC, please do me the favor of dropping the attitude.
Mythbusters' test assumes firing at an angle, and that the bullet leaves the barrel, travels through air for some distance, then hits the water at that angle. They did not test any other scenario, they did not "prove the myth" (actually in this case disprove by providing a worst-case scenario for the swimmer). As shown in the previous link, a perpendicular strike through water causes uniform bullet expansion, not fragmentation.
The Box O' Truth doesn't lie. Mythbusters' methods leaves a little to be desired.
Maybe it's time for another trip to NewEnough! All it should take is a nice long textile jacket, overpants, and a lil something to keep the neck warm. I basically drive my car to the airport, grocery store, on long trips, when I'm in too much of a hurry to gear up, and when it's snowy. Gas savings or not, I do it because I love to ride, weather be damned.
They have the best customer service, the best prices, and their product pages are some of the most useful I've seen. It's a company that is run by actual, real-life people, and there's a lot to be said for that.
That said, I wonder why they didn't include the discount for those who commute to work on their (40mpg+) motorcycle? It's Texas, so that should be feasible year-round.
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Speaking of pr0n, this system would reward those with premature ejaculation by allowing them to get more viewings out of a single DVD.
It ain't Linux, but...
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to control it,
AutoHotkey to unlock it and automate authentication.
If the public and 'their' politicians believe that the entertainment industry is on the verge of collapse, they'll be much more likely to accept restrictions on use of content that they've paid for.
Nah. We don't really like you enough. Maybe if the entertainment industry does collapse, maybe then we'll realize. But before? Nah. You keep it up with your doomsday predictions... I don't see Universal Studios or Paramount closing up shop, and I don't care about your problem.
Not just the light saber comes to mind, but Tennis, baseball, golf, uhm, uh... Croquet...
Just not football!
Or, why not leave the laptops wide open, but filter all traffic from them on your corporate network except for the port for Terminal Services. The managers would complain about synchronization issues, no doubt, but c'est la vie.
Other than that we just have to keep AV/AS stuff running and up to date, and have scary policies regarding installation of non-approved applications to hopefully cut that down.
But please put Winamp on that list. Let's be realistic too, okay?
The book wasn't given to me or anyone I knew from HP. Of course, we were pre-merger Compaq/DEC. I'm sure the legacy had died well before the time Capellas moved on.
Also, I don't think that the downward spiral can be attributed to the merger, but vice versa. It failed to buoy the companies and their bad decisions/market position.
leave it to the French to settle in a swamp below sea level, anyway.
I save my mod points for situations just like this one. They expired 8 hours ago. I am sad.
Also, the Air Conditioning unit not only adds weight, but when it's running it saps power from your engine, lowering your efficiency. But don't roll down your windows--that reduces airodynamics!