Flying across the country will subject you to about 4,000 microrem. The TSA scanners, about 5 microrem. Independent (non-TSA affiliated) tests of over 700 scanners showed all were at or below their radiation targets.
And I bet TSA regularly tests and certifies their scanners making this documentation available . . . not.
Since this agency has repeatably mislead and lied to the public and continues to do so, forgive me for not taking their word about the safety of their scanners.
Citation - preferably a manufacturer's data sheet of something that is actually in production and tells me how many of these I'll need for what application.
The manufacturers do not typically give enough information to estimate this beyond minimum and maximum values however the significant wearout mechanism involves an electrochemical reaction at high cell voltage; for every 0.2 volt increase in cell voltage, lifetime degrades by 10 times. In practice that means that lifetimes of 10 to 100 years are very feasible where other considerations become more important.
Same way it does in Japan, Australia and pretty much every other first world nation that's not the USA: It reduces the number of guns in circulation, making it less likely you (or your little kids) will be shot.
So removing access to firearms from civilians in America will also lower the proportionally high assault rate via other means like knives, clubs, fists, etc. How does that work?
The odds are much higher that you will use that weapon against your own family than that you will ever use it in any way that actually protects them from harm.
That statistic came from a survey where a defensive gun use was *only* counted if the firearm was used and the attacker was shot (or killed, I don't remember). It discounted a vast majority of incidents where either no shot was fired but the firearm deterred the attacker or the attacker was merely wounded.
So if I use a firearm for protection from an attacker and do not discharge it, it does not count. Wait, what?
Unless I'm reading it incorrectly, that has no bearing on anything other than a school zone?
That is right. And how easy is it to travel through a school zone without knowing it? And "school zone" includes more than just what most people would consider schools.
I believe there is at least one other state where it is lawful to conceal carry without a permit but I'm a bit lazy so I didn't look that up - I'm going by memory from an article in the Sun Journal. So long as one isn't stomping around in school zones with a conceal weapon then I'm not seeing where that law would make this unlawful.
There are now several states which allow concealed carry without a permit and even more states which allow lawful open carry.
Now BATFE is not going out on raids to enforce this but when asked, they specifically pointed out that it is unlawful as far as they are concerned.
It's not impossible that Maine would make an unconstitutional law but it's unlikely that they did not do their homework first as this law has been a long time coming and has gone through the ringer a few times as it was hashed out, worked, reworded, and then finally finished a few years after it was first proposed (IIRC).
The state laws are not in question here; it is the federal law.
The USSC upheld the revised act after they added an interstate clause hook to it but this aspect of the law has not been successfully challenged and I am sure the DOJ is careful to prevent cases where that might happen.
And honestly that's thrilling to me: This means we could very well see cars as light as those from the 80's; at first we'll see SUVs and full-sized vehicles able to lose hundreds of pounds and gain some gas mileage to the point the manufacturers will be forced to re-design things further down the chain until sub-2000-pound vehicles happen regularly again at the cheap end.
The ironic part about this is that manufacturers deliberately *add* weight to their vehicles so that they can meet lesser requirements for mileage.
My neighbor and I had the same "light" pickup truck built around 2002 but he sold his and bought the new current replacement for it. Close examination of the two vehicles showed that his was made just heavier enough to remain in the "work" vehicle catagory for newer vehicles with a lower required mileage. So the government is encouraging heavier vehicles which are less fuel efficient.
That is usually what I do when using a VPN tunnel to my home system from a fixed location. I adjust my firewall which also protects access to my VPN server to only allow VPN access from my IP or IPs.
You no longer need a permit to conceal carry in Maine provided it is lawful for you to own a firearm. Yup... You may still want a permit if you travel (I do and have mine) because this doesn't extend to other states as of yet.
Technically both situations you describe are still unlawful under federal law. As far as BATFE is concerned, the Gun Free School Zones Act requires that you have a permit issued by the State in which you are carrying making unlicensed carry unlawful in any state and licensed carry unlawful if the license is from a different state despite reciprocity.
The Wikipedia entry on the subject has a nice letter from the BATFE describing the situation as they see it:
Quote from the same wikipedia article "top speed of 78 miles per hour", "0-60 time of around 18 seconds". The EPA range measuring was different at that time, but 95 miles do not make usable vehicle for most people (whatever nonsense fans say about average being the same as maximum required). Sure it is enough for few enthusiasts, but you can't sell millions of cars per year to enthusiasts only.
This was back when the 300 mile range of the Tesla was unavailable and they did not discontinue selling them because of the range; they were discontinued because they could neither sell them in the US anymore or even maintain them without the large format battery cells. If they were no competition, then why would the oil companies deliberately make the batteries unavailable by buying the patents?
However, Lithium batteries still have big room for improvement, and are going to be better in few years. Lithium batteries were mostly experimental technology in 1997.
Back then, NiMH cells had lots of room for improvement and one of those improvements was the use of large format battery cells which is what the patents were used to stop.
The 2.5mm version is commonly used for microphone connections and there is even a standard spacing between the 3.5mm jack and the 2.5mm jack for this application.
It is also unnecessary 99.9% of the time. Nearly all RS232 devices and hosts will work just fine with TTL voltages (+5V/GND).
The problem is that RS-232 defines a minimum voltage swing of +/-3 volts and anything within that range undefined. That some level shifters work with TTL levels, which incidentally are *not* +5V and ground but more like +0.8 and +2.2 volts worst case, is more an of accident; some level shifters were deliberately designed to operate with an open input which would be encountered with a cable that does not carry optional pins like for handshaking.
It gets worse when products specify RS-232 "compliant" signalling but have a non-inverted output. That would make for fine TTL or CMOS levels to communicate with another sort of RS-232 device but now a standard level shifter cannot be used to make it truely RS-232 because they are all inverting. Either an inverter before the level shifter is needed or a custom non-inverting level shifter which is what I normally whip up out of discrete parts. And note that they have to go to extra lengths to make this screw up; they have to add an inverter in place of a level shifter at the UART output.
If you freeze someones assets, how do you propose they retain legal representation to defend against the crimes they are charged with?
You do what our local Missouri courts do not far from Ferguson which is mentioned in the article. If the person cannot afford an attorney and can prove it, the court appoints one but only if the judge thinks you will go to jail for months or more. If you can in theory afford an attorney but civil assets forfeiture prevents it, then too bad.
Having been pulled over for *wearing my seatbelt* where the cop contradicted himself and lied in court multiple times but the judge did not care, I have personal knowledge that local justice here in Missouri is not.
I once had a disagreement with someone with regards to the security of SSDs versus rotating magnetic media: I was saying that you can use something like Eraser or sdelete to overwrite every block of an SSD, and the person I was disagreeing with claimed that 'wouldn't do anything' and it was impossible to completely erase an SSD; would someone please clear that up for me? I can't see how writing random data to every block of an SSD woudl fail to securely erase it.
SSDs remap every sector so in order to erase every one by overwriting, every sector must be written to in order to force the remapping to write to every physical sector. Despite the remapping you have to write to every virtual sector to indicate that the old data is obsolete or trim can be used if you trust it. Then even more sectors need to be written to in order to overwrite any over-provisioning. Even this is not enough if before the process, a physical sector is reallocated because of damage although hard drives suffer from this as well.
But on that same subject: an SSD is more time-consuming and difficult to 'erase' securely, especially considering that with a traditional HDD you can put it through a degausser and completely erase it in a matter of seconds; with an SSD, you'd either have to overwrite it, or literally dismantle it and carefully smash every single flash memory unit on it in order to be 100% sure it's unrecoverable.
Degaussing a modern hard drive is pretty difficult because of the high coercivity of the media. The write head can only do it because it is so close to the surface which allows for an intense magnetic field. A typical degaussing electromagnet like one would use for degaussing a CRT, screwdriver, audio tape, or VCR tape is not nearly strong enough.
Also degaussing a hard drive which uses embedded servo tracks, which is all of them now, destroys the hard drive anyway so you might as well take a hammer to it.
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And I bet TSA regularly tests and certifies their scanners making this documentation available . . . not.
Since this agency has repeatably mislead and lied to the public and continues to do so, forgive me for not taking their word about the safety of their scanners.
Why would Harry Reid care? He is quite shielded from the environment he helps create.
It would be cheaper to drop it into an oceanic subduction zone.
The manufacturers do not typically give enough information to estimate this beyond minimum and maximum values however the significant wearout mechanism involves an electrochemical reaction at high cell voltage; for every 0.2 volt increase in cell voltage, lifetime degrades by 10 times. In practice that means that lifetimes of 10 to 100 years are very feasible where other considerations become more important.
So removing access to firearms from civilians in America will also lower the proportionally high assault rate via other means like knives, clubs, fists, etc. How does that work?
That statistic came from a survey where a defensive gun use was *only* counted if the firearm was used and the attacker was shot (or killed, I don't remember). It discounted a vast majority of incidents where either no shot was fired but the firearm deterred the attacker or the attacker was merely wounded.
So if I use a firearm for protection from an attacker and do not discharge it, it does not count. Wait, what?
Using lead solder in plumbing is not a problem unless the water has a low ph like the river water they switched to.
I would vote for Steve Jobs as president. Err, wait. You said Ballmer. Never mind.
That is right. And how easy is it to travel through a school zone without knowing it? And "school zone" includes more than just what most people would consider schools.
There are now several states which allow concealed carry without a permit and even more states which allow lawful open carry.
Now BATFE is not going out on raids to enforce this but when asked, they specifically pointed out that it is unlawful as far as they are concerned.
The state laws are not in question here; it is the federal law.
The USSC upheld the revised act after they added an interstate clause hook to it but this aspect of the law has not been successfully challenged and I am sure the DOJ is careful to prevent cases where that might happen.
That was a flaw in the Clipper chip. It was possible to forge a false law enforcement key.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The ironic part about this is that manufacturers deliberately *add* weight to their vehicles so that they can meet lesser requirements for mileage.
My neighbor and I had the same "light" pickup truck built around 2002 but he sold his and bought the new current replacement for it. Close examination of the two vehicles showed that his was made just heavier enough to remain in the "work" vehicle catagory for newer vehicles with a lower required mileage. So the government is encouraging heavier vehicles which are less fuel efficient.
That is usually what I do when using a VPN tunnel to my home system from a fixed location. I adjust my firewall which also protects access to my VPN server to only allow VPN access from my IP or IPs.
Technically both situations you describe are still unlawful under federal law. As far as BATFE is concerned, the Gun Free School Zones Act requires that you have a permit issued by the State in which you are carrying making unlicensed carry unlawful in any state and licensed carry unlawful if the license is from a different state despite reciprocity.
The Wikipedia entry on the subject has a nice letter from the BATFE describing the situation as they see it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Which under the third party exception is all of it. You are technically correct which is the best kind of correct.
This was back when the 300 mile range of the Tesla was unavailable and they did not discontinue selling them because of the range; they were discontinued because they could neither sell them in the US anymore or even maintain them without the large format battery cells. If they were no competition, then why would the oil companies deliberately make the batteries unavailable by buying the patents?
Back then, NiMH cells had lots of room for improvement and one of those improvements was the use of large format battery cells which is what the patents were used to stop.
And it will include both patent protection and DRM to prevent unauthorized use.
The 2.5mm version is commonly used for microphone connections and there is even a standard spacing between the 3.5mm jack and the 2.5mm jack for this application.
The problem is that RS-232 defines a minimum voltage swing of +/-3 volts and anything within that range undefined. That some level shifters work with TTL levels, which incidentally are *not* +5V and ground but more like +0.8 and +2.2 volts worst case, is more an of accident; some level shifters were deliberately designed to operate with an open input which would be encountered with a cable that does not carry optional pins like for handshaking.
It gets worse when products specify RS-232 "compliant" signalling but have a non-inverted output. That would make for fine TTL or CMOS levels to communicate with another sort of RS-232 device but now a standard level shifter cannot be used to make it truely RS-232 because they are all inverting. Either an inverter before the level shifter is needed or a custom non-inverting level shifter which is what I normally whip up out of discrete parts. And note that they have to go to extra lengths to make this screw up; they have to add an inverter in place of a level shifter at the UART output.
Only if they get a permit to sue.
The same reason PETA protesters throw paint on women wearing furs but not bikers wearing leather.
At least here in Missouri, the cities do not implement community service as an option.
They aren't. It is just another big lie marketing campaign.
You do what our local Missouri courts do not far from Ferguson which is mentioned in the article. If the person cannot afford an attorney and can prove it, the court appoints one but only if the judge thinks you will go to jail for months or more. If you can in theory afford an attorney but civil assets forfeiture prevents it, then too bad.
Having been pulled over for *wearing my seatbelt* where the cop contradicted himself and lied in court multiple times but the judge did not care, I have personal knowledge that local justice here in Missouri is not.
Or use full disk encryption and destroy the key to render all data on the device inaccessible.
SSDs remap every sector so in order to erase every one by overwriting, every sector must be written to in order to force the remapping to write to every physical sector. Despite the remapping you have to write to every virtual sector to indicate that the old data is obsolete or trim can be used if you trust it. Then even more sectors need to be written to in order to overwrite any over-provisioning. Even this is not enough if before the process, a physical sector is reallocated because of damage although hard drives suffer from this as well.
Degaussing a modern hard drive is pretty difficult because of the high coercivity of the media. The write head can only do it because it is so close to the surface which allows for an intense magnetic field. A typical degaussing electromagnet like one would use for degaussing a CRT, screwdriver, audio tape, or VCR tape is not nearly strong enough.
Also degaussing a hard drive which uses embedded servo tracks, which is all of them now, destroys the hard drive anyway so you might as well take a hammer to it.