Well, if you want to split hairs, the MP7 has a magazine . . . the funny thing is that folks in Germany call them "clips". They also call cell phones "handys", but that is a different matter.
and you're absolutely wrong that I could take out a bunch of innocent folks without feeling a thing, regardless of weapon.
Well, not you, personally, but a kook with a Maschinenpistole can do a lot of damage with very little training. They only get into trouble when it jams, and they need to clear the weapon.
When I first fired a MAC-10.45 ACP, I was surprised how easy that thing handled.
My MP7 fits nicely in a backpack . . . how about your elephant guns . . . ? I'm not concerned about some terrorist trying to navigate a Nitro Express rifle in the aisle of a train from Amsterdam to Paris. The terrorist would probably break his shoulder on the first shot.
With an MP7, you can empty the clip before you say "boo!" to yourself, and take out a bunch of innocent folks, without feeling a thing.
Speaking about serious weapons, that will fit in your backpack . . . look no further than the McMillian Urban Sniper CS5:
A friend of mine, who is a serious shooter, packs his weapons into guitar cases when transporting them. He figures that nobody would steal a guitar case, as opposed to someone who recognized a rifle case.
Which raises an interesting question: How would existing gun laws around the world deal with a rail gun . . . ? It doesn't use gunpowder to deliver the projectile, like a gun does . . . and it doesn't use a bow either, like a crossbow or regular bow.
Will politician be forced to make new laws, when these thing become common . . . ?
It will turn your Kevlar vest into confetti. This is why the authorities everywhere in the world do not want to see fully automatic versions getting into the hands of private citizens and the black market.
This so-called nuclear "waste" will be worth a fortune in the future. Folks in a couple of hundreds of years on will be wondering why the "ancients" simply just buried this valuable fuel.
Forget oil in Texas . . . nuclear fuel in Idaho will be where it's at!
Well, after my last flying experience in the US . ..
I can assure you there are plenty of people out there who own Cessna 172s (the plane this simulator replicates) that dont even HAVE an autopilot function.
I can assure you there are plenty of people out there who own Cessna 172s (the plane this simulator replicates) that dont even HAVE a licensed pilot behind the throttle.
The technology beyond that is basically the same: Fans spin, air goes down, craft goes up. ..
. . . "brain of the pilot turns off".
I think these drone pilots need to ask themselves one simple question: Would you want someone you don't know buzzing their drone in your private backyard" . . . ? The technology of drones is not the problem . . . it's the common manners and respect of certain pilots that is the problem.
I'll take a wild "Leap to Faith", my apologies to Søren Kierkegaard, who probably didn't say that at all, but it is the same problem with guns in the US. A lot of gun folks in the US keep their weapons locked up, and just shoot at targets or empty beer cans in their backyard. But these days, for whatever social reason, a lot of folks think that it is cool to obtain a weapon, and shoot up other folks. This has nothing to do with the technology. The folks shooting up other folks, well, pick your curse word and insert it here.
The US will eventually have more restrictive gun laws, which will mainly affect honest, lawful citizens. These folks barnstorming their neighbors with drones will result in a ban of all RC critters. Yep. It only takes a small minority to ruin fun for everyone else.
Well, I think it is news. Most of "those meddling kids today" spend all their time looking at crap on Facebook and YourBoobs. This kid actually went out and constructed something! I can see my mom know:
Mom: "Kid, what are you building in your bedroom?"
Me: "It's just a flight simulator, Mom."
Mom: "Ok . . . as long as you are not using it to cook crack or smuggle in weed from Mexico, we are fine with that."
Anyway, Slashdot is not about reading the news . . . it's about reading about what other geeks think about the news. I wouldn't mind a story being posted here about the various sizes of Kardashians' asses. Someone would post that he just completed his Ph.D. dissertation on the mathematical models of pseudo celebrity asses.
This guy would be trumped by someone claiming to have earned his doctorate on the physical motion of ass cracks.
. . . and then, the "Lone Liberal Arts Major" would chime in about the esthetics of ass antlers . . .
To summarize, you don't read Slashdot for the news . . . you read it for the wacky commentary about it.
Not to mention the hazards of having 20 lb of plastic and steel falling several feet out of the sky onto who knows what?
Well, as a long-time RC pilot, I see the problem with cheap drones as a "loose nut behind the control." Serious RC folks don't fly over other folks backyards to annoy them. They fly is specially designated areas, or places where no other folks are hanging around.
When one of these "drone pilots" flies his cheap drone into a kid's face and turn in into hamburger meet . . . well, the rest of us will suffer from new laws. As soon as the "Sleeping Giants" of lawyers wake up to this potential, there will be lawsuits coming out your ass.
We will be happy if we can fly a paper plane in our own backyard anymore.
Is it too much to ask from drone pilots, to exercise a bit of discretion, on where they fly . . . ?
I'm thinking that a lot of folks in Europe, will be choosing data centers close to their cities at home. Being that the NSA has unlimited access to all data centers in the US . . . it is not a bad idea.
Is nobody here old enough to remember Space: 1999? In that British science fiction series, nuclear waste stored on the Moon mysteriously ignited and took the Moon on a wild and wacky romp through the universe.
So, let's get on it, and plan a mission to take the Moon to Mars!
A paper on this idea would definitely win an IgNobel, at least.
No, I'll bet if the folks from "CSI: Charlottesville, Virginia took some samples from the lab, they would find that Jefferson was distilling moonshine and cooking meth.
Good 'ole southern gentlemen pastimes.
Note that NASCAR had not been invented yet in Jefferson's times.
What the fuck is sugar being added to dog treats for.
Roll up your shirt sleeve, and take a bite out of your arm. It will taste rather salty. Now, put some ketchup, which is mostly sugar, on your arm, and take another bite. It will taste better.
That is why sugar is added to doggie treats . . . it's their ketchup.
Try this test. Take a chunk of raw beef, slice it in half and cook one of them on an open fire (in an appetizing way so that you'd wanna eat it... don't burn it). Leave the other half raw. Present both halves to a dog and see which one it goes for first. Now repeat this test on a tiger or some other non-domesticated carnivore.
Ok, I tried this experiment. I ate the dog, and then I ate the tiger.
. . . that what it sounds like to me. If there are any gentlemen from Florida on Slashdot, please invite her over for a coffee, and advise her to get some professional help.
Is this the best you can do to try to keep the "scandal" alive? Just because the RDP port is open doesn't mean it's actually RDP running on the port.
I do serious IT work as my job. Obviously, you don't. If one of my sysadmins left that port open, he would be fired. Yes, we run a port scanner on all our servers to make sure that they are clean . . . squeaky clean. This is just standard procedure in most serious IT shops.
Whatever you do in yours . . . well, that will be your problem.
Do you work for General Motors? Reuters? John Deere? DuPont? Exxon Mobile? Pfizer? Ford? IBM? Amazon? HP? General Food? Walmart? Apple? General Electric? AT&T? Boeing? Proctologist and Gamble? UPS? Disney? Lockheed Martin? Oracle? Philip Morris? Macy's? NIke? McDonald's? Staples? Whirlpool? Goodyear Tire and Rubbers (wink, wink)? United States Steel? . . . etc., etc., etc.
If you worked for any big company, and set up your own email server to do company business . . . your testicles would be deep fried and hung up as pinatas. For most dorks in the US, they do not understand what setting up your own email server, of dubious security and audibility. For us IT professionals, Obama issuing another "Executive Administrative" decree that retroactively declares Hilary's email server as safe . . . well, that sounds and smells like shit to me . . .
Maybe Australia should just ban regional locks and require that digital goods be priced within say 5% of the US/EU price. Or maybe apply to join the EU.
Yeah, but the price of joining the EU has just gone up . . . you need to take in a million Syrians to join the EU. But, hey, Australia has plenty of room in the outback. And, although Australia is infested with lots of poisonous toxic critters and varmints, it can't be worse than in Syria.
Actually, these games need to include the political disaster where you get stuck with a crack-smoking mayor, yelling: "Bitch set me up... goddamn bitch!"
Marion Barry and Rob Ford would be perfect role models!
Well, Slashdot had a story not too long ago, that a lot of folks believe that "The Martian" is based on a true story. I'm guessing that some of them are sitting in Congress. So when a funding bill for a NASA trip to Mars comes up, some Congress folks will chime in with:
"Why do we need to fund this again! We already went to Mars! I saw the movie about it!"
Actually, this would be an important topic of research: Lap and Pole Dancing in the Gravity of Mars. If NASA wants to get the general public interested in visiting Mars, the first thing Joe Sixpack will ask is if Mars has blackjack, gambling and lap & pole dancing.
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Also, MP7s do not have a "clip"
Well, if you want to split hairs, the MP7 has a magazine . . . the funny thing is that folks in Germany call them "clips". They also call cell phones "handys", but that is a different matter.
and you're absolutely wrong that I could take out a bunch of innocent folks without feeling a thing, regardless of weapon.
Well, not you, personally, but a kook with a Maschinenpistole can do a lot of damage with very little training. They only get into trouble when it jams, and they need to clear the weapon.
When I first fired a MAC-10 .45 ACP, I was surprised how easy that thing handled.
My MP7 fits nicely in a backpack . . . how about your elephant guns . . . ? I'm not concerned about some terrorist trying to navigate a Nitro Express rifle in the aisle of a train from Amsterdam to Paris. The terrorist would probably break his shoulder on the first shot.
With an MP7, you can empty the clip before you say "boo!" to yourself, and take out a bunch of innocent folks, without feeling a thing.
Speaking about serious weapons, that will fit in your backpack . . . look no further than the McMillian Urban Sniper CS5:
https://www.google.com/search?...
A friend of mine, who is a serious shooter, packs his weapons into guitar cases when transporting them. He figures that nobody would steal a guitar case, as opposed to someone who recognized a rifle case.
Which raises an interesting question: How would existing gun laws around the world deal with a rail gun . . . ? It doesn't use gunpowder to deliver the projectile, like a gun does . . . and it doesn't use a bow either, like a crossbow or regular bow.
Will politician be forced to make new laws, when these thing become common . . . ?
Heckler and Koch MP7: 735 m/s
It will turn your Kevlar vest into confetti. This is why the authorities everywhere in the world do not want to see fully automatic versions getting into the hands of private citizens and the black market.
This so-called nuclear "waste" will be worth a fortune in the future. Folks in a couple of hundreds of years on will be wondering why the "ancients" simply just buried this valuable fuel.
Forget oil in Texas . . . nuclear fuel in Idaho will be where it's at!
In fact, there are a lot of places, Mexico, for instance, that let people sleep an hour or so in the afternoon.
The former US president Ronald Reagen used to nod off during afternoon cabinet meetings.
When Clinton got into the Oval Office, "sleeping with the president" took on a new and different meaning.
Well, after my last flying experience in the US . . .
I can assure you there are plenty of people out there who own Cessna 172s (the plane this simulator replicates) that dont even HAVE an autopilot function.
I can assure you there are plenty of people out there who own Cessna 172s (the plane this simulator replicates) that dont even HAVE a licensed pilot behind the throttle.
The technology beyond that is basically the same: Fans spin, air goes down, craft goes up . . .
. . . "brain of the pilot turns off".
I think these drone pilots need to ask themselves one simple question: Would you want someone you don't know buzzing their drone in your private backyard" . . . ? The technology of drones is not the problem . . . it's the common manners and respect of certain pilots that is the problem.
I'll take a wild "Leap to Faith", my apologies to Søren Kierkegaard, who probably didn't say that at all, but it is the same problem with guns in the US. A lot of gun folks in the US keep their weapons locked up, and just shoot at targets or empty beer cans in their backyard. But these days, for whatever social reason, a lot of folks think that it is cool to obtain a weapon, and shoot up other folks. This has nothing to do with the technology. The folks shooting up other folks, well, pick your curse word and insert it here.
The US will eventually have more restrictive gun laws, which will mainly affect honest, lawful citizens. These folks barnstorming their neighbors with drones will result in a ban of all RC critters. Yep. It only takes a small minority to ruin fun for everyone else.
Well, I think it is news. Most of "those meddling kids today" spend all their time looking at crap on Facebook and YourBoobs. This kid actually went out and constructed something! I can see my mom know:
Mom: "Kid, what are you building in your bedroom?"
Me: "It's just a flight simulator, Mom."
Mom: "Ok . . . as long as you are not using it to cook crack or smuggle in weed from Mexico, we are fine with that."
Anyway, Slashdot is not about reading the news . . . it's about reading about what other geeks think about the news. I wouldn't mind a story being posted here about the various sizes of Kardashians' asses. Someone would post that he just completed his Ph.D. dissertation on the mathematical models of pseudo celebrity asses.
This guy would be trumped by someone claiming to have earned his doctorate on the physical motion of ass cracks.
. . . and then, the "Lone Liberal Arts Major" would chime in about the esthetics of ass antlers . . .
To summarize, you don't read Slashdot for the news . . . you read it for the wacky commentary about it.
Not to mention the hazards of having 20 lb of plastic and steel falling several feet out of the sky onto who knows what?
Well, as a long-time RC pilot, I see the problem with cheap drones as a "loose nut behind the control." Serious RC folks don't fly over other folks backyards to annoy them. They fly is specially designated areas, or places where no other folks are hanging around.
When one of these "drone pilots" flies his cheap drone into a kid's face and turn in into hamburger meet . . . well, the rest of us will suffer from new laws. As soon as the "Sleeping Giants" of lawyers wake up to this potential, there will be lawsuits coming out your ass.
We will be happy if we can fly a paper plane in our own backyard anymore.
Is it too much to ask from drone pilots, to exercise a bit of discretion, on where they fly . . . ?
I'm thinking that a lot of folks in Europe, will be choosing data centers close to their cities at home. Being that the NSA has unlimited access to all data centers in the US . . . it is not a bad idea.
Is nobody here old enough to remember Space: 1999? In that British science fiction series, nuclear waste stored on the Moon mysteriously ignited and took the Moon on a wild and wacky romp through the universe.
So, let's get on it, and plan a mission to take the Moon to Mars!
A paper on this idea would definitely win an IgNobel, at least.
No, I'll bet if the folks from "CSI: Charlottesville, Virginia took some samples from the lab, they would find that Jefferson was distilling moonshine and cooking meth.
Good 'ole southern gentlemen pastimes.
Note that NASCAR had not been invented yet in Jefferson's times.
What the fuck is sugar being added to dog treats for.
Roll up your shirt sleeve, and take a bite out of your arm. It will taste rather salty. Now, put some ketchup, which is mostly sugar, on your arm, and take another bite. It will taste better.
That is why sugar is added to doggie treats . . . it's their ketchup.
he said that if he hit a deer with his car he'd happily take it home and eat it - he had already interacted with it
Please post a link to the tube of "him" . . . "interacting" with a deer.
Try this test. Take a chunk of raw beef, slice it in half and cook one of them on an open fire (in an appetizing way so that you'd wanna eat it... don't burn it). Leave the other half raw. Present both halves to a dog and see which one it goes for first. Now repeat this test on a tiger or some other non-domesticated carnivore.
Ok, I tried this experiment. I ate the dog, and then I ate the tiger.
What do I do now . . . ?
Please advise.
Cows are fractal: http://mndl.hu/2008-02-01-frac...
. . . that what it sounds like to me. If there are any gentlemen from Florida on Slashdot, please invite her over for a coffee, and advise her to get some professional help.
Is this the best you can do to try to keep the "scandal" alive? Just because the RDP port is open doesn't mean it's actually RDP running on the port.
I do serious IT work as my job. Obviously, you don't. If one of my sysadmins left that port open, he would be fired. Yes, we run a port scanner on all our servers to make sure that they are clean . . . squeaky clean. This is just standard procedure in most serious IT shops.
Whatever you do in yours . . . well, that will be your problem.
Do you work for General Motors? Reuters? John Deere? DuPont? Exxon Mobile? Pfizer? Ford? IBM? Amazon? HP? General Food? Walmart? Apple? General Electric? AT&T? Boeing? Proctologist and Gamble? UPS? Disney? Lockheed Martin? Oracle? Philip Morris? Macy's? NIke? McDonald's? Staples? Whirlpool? Goodyear Tire and Rubbers (wink, wink)? United States Steel? . . . etc., etc., etc.
If you worked for any big company, and set up your own email server to do company business . . . your testicles would be deep fried and hung up as pinatas. For most dorks in the US, they do not understand what setting up your own email server, of dubious security and audibility. For us IT professionals, Obama issuing another "Executive Administrative" decree that retroactively declares Hilary's email server as safe . . . well, that sounds and smells like shit to me . . .
Maybe Australia should just ban regional locks and require that digital goods be priced within say 5% of the US/EU price. Or maybe apply to join the EU.
Yeah, but the price of joining the EU has just gone up . . . you need to take in a million Syrians to join the EU. But, hey, Australia has plenty of room in the outback. And, although Australia is infested with lots of poisonous toxic critters and varmints, it can't be worse than in Syria.
Because it's kinda sorta an Über thing . . . do something illegal, and then blame the government because it is not legal.
Actually, these games need to include the political disaster where you get stuck with a crack-smoking mayor, yelling: "Bitch set me up ... goddamn bitch!"
Marion Barry and Rob Ford would be perfect role models!
Well, Slashdot had a story not too long ago, that a lot of folks believe that "The Martian" is based on a true story. I'm guessing that some of them are sitting in Congress. So when a funding bill for a NASA trip to Mars comes up, some Congress folks will chime in with:
"Why do we need to fund this again! We already went to Mars! I saw the movie about it!"
Actually, this would be an important topic of research: Lap and Pole Dancing in the Gravity of Mars. If NASA wants to get the general public interested in visiting Mars, the first thing Joe Sixpack will ask is if Mars has blackjack, gambling and lap & pole dancing.
Definitely worth an Ig Nobel, at least.