I came up with at least 4 different ways I could destroy the aircraft with things I could pick up WHILE ON THE AIRCRAFT.
I hope you included the CO2 cartridges and batteries for the strobe light. Located under every seat on the life vest. Not to mention the groovy stuff to quickly inflate the life rafts built into the doors. Oh, and those emergency oxygen cylinders kept in the most forward and aft overhead bins.
I want to make a pair of pants where I can make the fly pop open automatically. Then I'll go commando so my wing-wang will flop out when they touch my crotch.
I can scream "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" at that point.
but it amazes me how a military force from one country can take action based on information from a free service offered by a company in another country.
Something tells me you haven't traveled to many 3rd world countries. Google has probably dodeca-tupled the intelligence gathering capacity of most 3rd world countries.
Fun fact: It's not permitted to walk around outside of the town of Longyearbyen (that is anywhere on Svalbard) unless you are carrying a high-powered rifle. Polar bears are a serious threat in those parts. Stephen Colbert be warned!
MPAA: Pirates are destroying us! People download movies for nothing!
Lawyers: SUE! SUE!
People: Hey, we'll pay if we can stream them online.
ISPs: WAAH! You're using all our bandwidth!
Lawyers: CHARGE HUGE FEES! SUE!
People: Why don't you ISPs and MPAA folks get together and use all that government money we gave you to invest in more bandwidth, allowing you both to make even more money and keep your customers happy?
Lawyers: I don't see how WE can make money off that. KEEP THE GOV'T HANDOUTS! SUE THE CUSTOMER!
2500 X 200 miles per charge (average) = 500,000 mile lifetime.
Fairly respectable, I'd say. I have yet to make a car last 500,000 miles. Maybe they could make it so you could swap your old battery pack with only 1000 charge cycles on it (200,000 miles) to your new car, thus lowering the cost of a new car.
Actually I worked this problem years ago, despite having not found a solution, I was able to determine the problem is fundamentally far simpler than traveling salesman as the nodes are distributed on a sheet with simple calculations.
So what is the solution? Do you sleep with the farmer's daughter or sleep in the barn?
Maybe I'm thinking of a different "traveling salesman" problem.
Who among us (people on/. that is) does not IMMEDIATELY search for all images when someone we know asks us to repair their computer? Especially if that someone is a reasonably attractive female.
Oh, I've had some amazing discoveries there.
And you learn a lot about people by the type of porn they keep.
I am no Mac fan and I will never use this, but Steve Jobs has decided that there are enough users that want or don't care if they are locked down and tied to an ecosystem, as long as that ecosystem is easy enough for them to use.
So Apple will make a heck of a lot of money on this sort of thing from the type of people who want it.
For the rest of us, it gives us a great excuse to say "I know nothing about Apple products" when grandma or the nieces/nephews need help with their iProducts.
On second thought, it's horrible here. You wouldn't like it. Trust me. Stay on the coasts.
Umm...yeah! What he said. It's AWFUL out here living on a little farm and getting to do whatever the hell you want. Why, you have to travel a couple hours to get to a modest-sized city. You city folk would hate it here. Stay where you are.
Anyone who has ever worked in any form of tech support can tell you that most people readily volunteer their password to anyone they think they need help from in the tech community, even though we didn't need it or ask for it.
"Can you show me how to make the font bigger? My password is kitty123."
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I came up with at least 4 different ways I could destroy the aircraft with things I could pick up WHILE ON THE AIRCRAFT.
I hope you included the CO2 cartridges and batteries for the strobe light. Located under every seat on the life vest. Not to mention the groovy stuff to quickly inflate the life rafts built into the doors. Oh, and those emergency oxygen cylinders kept in the most forward and aft overhead bins.
These planes practically bomb themselves!
I want to make a pair of pants where I can make the fly pop open automatically. Then I'll go commando so my wing-wang will flop out when they touch my crotch.
I can scream "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" at that point.
but it amazes me how a military force from one country can take action based on information from a free service offered by a company in another country.
Something tells me you haven't traveled to many 3rd world countries. Google has probably dodeca-tupled the intelligence gathering capacity of most 3rd world countries.
Fun fact: It's not permitted to walk around outside of the town of Longyearbyen (that is anywhere on Svalbard) unless you are carrying a high-powered rifle. Polar bears are a serious threat in those parts. Stephen Colbert be warned!
Exactly.
MPAA: Pirates are destroying us! People download movies for nothing!
Lawyers: SUE! SUE!
People: Hey, we'll pay if we can stream them online.
ISPs: WAAH! You're using all our bandwidth!
Lawyers: CHARGE HUGE FEES! SUE!
People: Why don't you ISPs and MPAA folks get together and use all that government money we gave you to invest in more bandwidth, allowing you both to make even more money and keep your customers happy?
Lawyers: I don't see how WE can make money off that. KEEP THE GOV'T HANDOUTS! SUE THE CUSTOMER!
Exactly. The wife and I don't answer obvious pollster calls. And we have received at least 1 per night for the last month.
Or find you a good hailstorm.
Wait, now my insurance company won't cover me because next hailstorm they'll claim my car was "improved" instead of "damaged". Crap.
I see huge potential in selling this to Tea Party members and other political groups so they don't need to be confused by other points of view!
2500 X 200 miles per charge (average) = 500,000 mile lifetime.
Fairly respectable, I'd say. I have yet to make a car last 500,000 miles. Maybe they could make it so you could swap your old battery pack with only 1000 charge cycles on it (200,000 miles) to your new car, thus lowering the cost of a new car.
Let your loved ones hear you freeze to death!
Next thing you know he'll say Garry Owen was using a cell phone during Laugh-In.
Actually I worked this problem years ago, despite having not found a solution, I was able to determine the problem is fundamentally far simpler than traveling salesman as the nodes are distributed on a sheet with simple calculations.
So what is the solution? Do you sleep with the farmer's daughter or sleep in the barn?
Maybe I'm thinking of a different "traveling salesman" problem.
Where's the No Shit, Sherlock Tag?
Most cars are pretty much run by computer too.
Kid will need a bicycle. Oh, wait...
Who among us (people on /. that is) does not IMMEDIATELY search for all images when someone we know asks us to repair their computer?
Especially if that someone is a reasonably attractive female.
Oh, I've had some amazing discoveries there.
And you learn a lot about people by the type of porn they keep.
I am no Mac fan and I will never use this, but Steve Jobs has decided that there are enough users that want or don't care if they are locked down and tied to an ecosystem, as long as that ecosystem is easy enough for them to use.
So Apple will make a heck of a lot of money on this sort of thing from the type of people who want it.
For the rest of us, it gives us a great excuse to say "I know nothing about Apple products" when grandma or the nieces/nephews need help with their iProducts.
Dammit!
It's going to be hard enough to keep them all virgins until the end of 2012. How am I supposed to convince them to wait longer?
I am SO glad I'm not the only one who thought there was always a band in the radio studio when I was a little kid!
'Cause chicks are more influenced by what other people say is cool.
See: Fashion.
On second thought, it's horrible here. You wouldn't like it. Trust me. Stay on the coasts.
Umm...yeah! What he said. It's AWFUL out here living on a little farm and getting to do whatever the hell you want. Why, you have to travel a couple hours to get to a modest-sized city. You city folk would hate it here. Stay where you are.
Sadly, this was pretty much along the lines of my first thoughts when I read the headline as well.
Anyone who has ever worked in any form of tech support can tell you that most people readily volunteer their password to anyone they think they need help from in the tech community, even though we didn't need it or ask for it.
"Can you show me how to make the font bigger? My password is kitty123."
You don't think I bought my 17-year-old daughter a NEW car, do you?
Exactly. The perfect software/car analogy.
Cost of new car + cost of gas + licensing and taxes + cost of regular maintenance (oil/tires/filters) + cost of unscheduled maintenance.
Of course, I still haven't convinced my teenage daughter that these costs far exceed the cost of the car itself.
This is why I change my porn viewing fetishes randomly every few weeks or so.