I'd think such a device would generate tons of nasty EMF interference. Generating high voltage and then a nice big arc will pretty much output a lot of power on quite a few frequencies.
Could their be a chance it could screw up navigation or even make the controls on a fly by wire plane act crazy (like pitch all the way up or down, or stop the engines or something equally bad)?
If you want to say that you think GW Bush likes to have tea parties with stuffed animals nobody is going to stop you.
Make a politically incorrect joke and get sentenced to 37 months in Federal PMITA prison.
Those evil laws are the same laws that keep me from taking GIMP, making a few changes, closing the source, slapping DRM on it, changing the name to Uber PhotoMax 6000, and selling it at Best Buy for $85 a copy.
Even if you could, you'd be lucky to sell that for 85 cents!
"Most common definitions of terrorism include only those acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to a lone attack), and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants. "
1. The RIAA and MPAA create fear 2. Ideological goal: support of their intellectual property regime which no longer fits with today's market 3. Targetting/disregarding safety of non-combatants: How many mothers, grandmothers, and even people without any Internet access at all have been sued?
Since eBay suspended his account for 30 days until he convinced them he was innocent and that was his sole source of livelihood, they had and have great power over him and abused it greatly.
With their VERO program it is always the un-American guilty until proven innocent/shoot first and ask questions later when it comes to pulling auctions, but to actually suspend his ACCOUNT (!) thus denying him the ability to buy and sell at all is even more outrageous!
Annoy a VERO member enough, and get banned! The new McCarthyism.
I'd love to see the message they sent him saying why his account was suspended.
He should sue eBay too.
He also should get on with other auction sites so he has a backup (albeit smaller than from eBay) source of income.
What is the point of being self-employed if some company like eBay can suspend and "fire" you by banning you?
Had he been permanently banned he'd be in a world of hurt, as would anyone associated with him, since they ban the address, household, credit card and anything and everything and anyone and everyone at all connected with a banned account and person. They have a very strong BLACKLIST, even very savvy people have been re-banned when caught. As have innocent people married to or living with an "undesirable".
eBay needs to STOP suspending and banning accounts and people over allegations, and only do it for ABUSE. The DMCA does not require account termination unless there is repeated INFRINGEMENT (not mere allegations).
What even weirder is they banned him even though they had re-instated his auctions, which means they did it based on allegations even they thought were baseless at the time!
They "lost" but didn't even get a slap on the wrist.
They are getting away with OOXML and other proprietary standards, and IE is still the default browser and can't be removed, and Netscape is still dead.
It's official copyright violation is worse than terrorism, a bootleg of Britney Spears will get taken down and the account holder banned, but Osama Bin Laden is OK with them!
So until some bountiful and clean power source can be delivered cheaply, electric utilities are pressured to extend the generating capacity we already have.
Surprisingly enough, California even has a nuke plant!
www.sce.com/songs/
P.S. Will an admin please fix commenting. "It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment" errors - on NON-ANONYMOUS comments. After 2 minutes it should be allowing non-anon posts, but isn't.
as do many others. They also have discount for allowing a disconnector to be wired into your A/C compressor/condenser fan circuit where it can be turned off for just an hour - it won't let a house get too hot, but that is enough to help shave the peaks.
Which saves them a lot of money, since you must size your generating capacity to your peaks, or else end up like California with rolling blackouts.
If China stops giving us lead contaminated toys and cheap knockoffs of good products, yeah, the US would have higher prices, no more DVD players for $35, but the US would actually be able to start making things again and the rebirth of manufacturing would greatly help us.
What does the US make anymore? Do we make anything other than movies and Microsoft Windows?
Which is good for you, because the cops would seize and smash both your computers, and your body.
And perhaps lock you up for 10 years.
Just like the DMCA here, working around intentional brokenness is illegal (unlike the old school, "it's just broken" brokenness) and thus dangerous. Albeit we are currently less brutal, our courts will only take and sell off everything you own and only give you 5 years.
Admittedly there is a lot of bad things to be said about the government here, but you made your post and are not (unless you are paranoid) expecting to go to prison (or worse) for making it.
Now imagine saying something equally anti-government about the Chinese regime in China...
Their easy solution. Get rid of alcohol. Then there won't be ANY drunk drivers.
Get rid of cars. Just as practical. Heck with the fact prohibition has been tried and failed (and built the mob) and gas is going to $4/gallon (on its way to possibly being unavailable at any price), it may be MORE practical.
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Could they use a taser on a plane?!
I'd think such a device would generate tons of nasty EMF interference. Generating high voltage and then a nice big arc will pretty much output a lot of power on quite a few frequencies.
Could their be a chance it could screw up navigation or even make the controls on a fly by wire plane act crazy (like pitch all the way up or down, or stop the engines or something equally bad)?
Mace might work better, or even a nightstick.
A quote from the UNIX haters book:
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/whinux/your-time.html
Linux is Only Free If Your Time is Worthless
which living multi-cellular organism that has genes linked to humans do you prefer?
Politicians.
I have yet to find a diet that makes my legs shorter.
Add 3000 calories of pure sugar to your diet each and every day.
Then you get diabetes, and they chop off part of your legs, and there you go!
If you want to say that you think GW Bush likes to have tea parties with stuffed animals nobody is going to stop you.
Make a politically incorrect joke and get sentenced to 37 months in Federal PMITA prison.
Those evil laws are the same laws that keep me from taking GIMP, making a few changes, closing the source, slapping DRM on it, changing the name to Uber PhotoMax 6000, and selling it at Best Buy for $85 a copy.
Even if you could, you'd be lucky to sell that for 85 cents!
From Wikipedia:
"Most common definitions of terrorism include only those acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to a lone attack), and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants. "
1. The RIAA and MPAA create fear
2. Ideological goal: support of their intellectual property regime which no longer fits with today's market
3. Targetting/disregarding safety of non-combatants: How many mothers, grandmothers, and even people without any Internet access at all have been sued?
Legal terrorism, indeed.
Since eBay suspended his account for 30 days until he convinced them he was innocent and that was his sole source of livelihood, they had and have great power over him and abused it greatly.
With their VERO program it is always the un-American guilty until proven innocent/shoot first and ask questions later when it comes to pulling auctions, but to actually suspend his ACCOUNT (!) thus denying him the ability to buy and sell at all is even more outrageous!
Annoy a VERO member enough, and get banned! The new McCarthyism.
I'd love to see the message they sent him saying why his account was suspended.
He should sue eBay too.
He also should get on with other auction sites so he has a backup (albeit smaller than from eBay) source of income.
What is the point of being self-employed if some company like eBay can suspend and "fire" you by banning you?
Had he been permanently banned he'd be in a world of hurt, as would anyone associated with him, since they ban the address, household, credit card and anything and everything and anyone and everyone at all connected with a banned account and person. They have a very strong BLACKLIST, even very savvy people have been re-banned when caught. As have innocent people married to or living with an "undesirable".
eBay needs to STOP suspending and banning accounts and people over allegations, and only do it for ABUSE. The DMCA does not require account termination unless there is repeated INFRINGEMENT (not mere allegations).
What even weirder is they banned him even though they had re-instated his auctions, which means they did it based on allegations even they thought were baseless at the time!
UNBELIEVABLE!
http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_120602_illegalbush.html
Microsoft fought the gov't and won.
They "lost" but didn't even get a slap on the wrist.
They are getting away with OOXML and other proprietary standards, and IE is still the default browser and can't be removed, and Netscape is still dead.
It's official copyright violation is worse than terrorism, a bootleg of Britney Spears will get taken down and the account holder banned, but Osama Bin Laden is OK with them!
Someone got sentenced to 37 months in Federal prison for making a joke like that.
One can change the blade pitch to offset a sudden increase in wind speed.
Weird that it is the Air Force doing it, instead of a joint op.
Perhaps we need a sixth Force, a US Cyber Forces, to go with Army/Air Force/Navy/Marines/(Coast Guard).
Sad that they are about a decade (or more) behind the times, glad to see they are catching up.
Hope they realize "all computers" includes more than Windoze!
Of course you install X on a server.
How else do you run Webmin?
So until some bountiful and clean power source can be delivered cheaply, electric utilities are pressured to extend the generating capacity we already have.
Perhaps we should look into nuclear again?
(ducks)
too high of a demand can cuase blackouts and wtf are you going to do when your power shuts off pretty much RANDOMLY in your house around that time?
Fire up a generator.
Surprisingly enough, California even has a nuke plant!
www.sce.com/songs/
P.S. Will an admin please fix commenting. "It's been 4 minutes since you last successfully posted a comment" errors - on NON-ANONYMOUS comments. After 2 minutes it should be allowing non-anon posts, but isn't.
Nevada Power offers a time-of-use billing.
http://www.nevadapower.com/conservation/home/home_rebates/time_of_use.cfm
as do many others. They also have discount for allowing a disconnector to be wired into your A/C compressor/condenser fan circuit where it can be turned off for just an hour - it won't let a house get too hot, but that is enough to help shave the peaks.
Which saves them a lot of money, since you must size your generating capacity to your peaks, or else end up like California with rolling blackouts.
Luckily, Las Vegas only had one.
Huh?
If China stops giving us lead contaminated toys and cheap knockoffs of good products, yeah, the US would have higher prices,
no more DVD players for $35, but the US would actually be able to start making things again and the rebirth of manufacturing would greatly help us.
What does the US make anymore? Do we make anything other than movies and Microsoft Windows?
And you're not Chinese.
Which is good for you, because the cops would seize and smash both your computers, and your body.
And perhaps lock you up for 10 years.
Just like the DMCA here, working around intentional brokenness is illegal (unlike the old school, "it's just broken" brokenness) and thus dangerous. Albeit we are currently less brutal, our courts will only take and sell off everything you own and only give you 5 years.
Admittedly there is a lot of bad things to be said about the government here, but you made your post and are not (unless you are paranoid) expecting to go to prison (or worse) for making it.
Now imagine saying something equally anti-government about the Chinese regime in China...
Wow, I didn't know the Chinese gov't/Xinhua posted here on Slashdot...
Their easy solution. Get rid of alcohol. Then there won't be ANY drunk drivers.
Get rid of cars. Just as practical. Heck with the fact prohibition has been tried and failed (and built the mob) and gas is going to $4/gallon (on its way to possibly being unavailable at any price), it may be MORE practical.
Maybe Hans Reiser and his fans are behind these protests.
Since it takes our attention from the fact he was just convicted of killing his wife.
They do mention DOS.
As well they should.
I've personally worked with a DOS machine, in a business, this year. Didn't think I'd still see DOS in 2008.