In my opinion, I think you should be permitted to carry anything you can legally carry in any public place on an airplane.
Also, the TSA should become an educational service for airline employees. Train all airline staff how to defend the plane, give them the ability to arrest and detain unruly passengers. Lock the cockpit, make it bullet proof,and arm the pilots.
Once you do that, any terrorist would be INSANE to try anything on a plane. You'll have passengers who have pocket knives, multi-tools, etc on them. Airline staff that can actually do something, and armed pilots in a protected location who can all stop the "bad guys".
Empower the passengers and crew, because for everyone who won't do anything, there that many who would do something as simple as stick out a foot, slide out their carry on bag or smack 'em with their Macbook to thwart it.
Really, screw Android, and Screw iOS..... I want to see MeeGo come out, and do well. I want to see the companies making all of this fancy Android stuff start using MeeGo. According to some pages I have seen, it can run Android apps, and I absolutely love the interface.
If the OSS community embraced it, and built a Yum repo with mobile OSS Apps, it could dominate.
The lock down in iOS, and fragmentation in Android are the weak points in the two. If the community worked with the MeeGo foundation to make it real easy for OSS apps to work with it, we would all have a safe harbour to run to.
They have cars that can drive and park themselves.... why not build cars that can use this technology to avert collisions and correct mistakes made by humans.
Likewise, this system should have a limit that finds a safe place to park and shut down if it finds itself correcting a lot.... face it, getting shitty drivers off the road is as important as getting distracted drivers off the road.
Want to ban something? Ban shitty drivers, and do something about it. If the phone, cigarettes, drunkenness, newspaper, knitting needles, public displays of affection affect your driving (or mine!) you need to get off the road and make it safe for others.
What we need as a stop gap are routers that support IPv6, and IPv4 that don't start out at $800. (yeah, I checked)
Routers should be able to connect to an IPv6 or IPv4 uplink, and hand out IPv4 and/or IPv6 to the internal network.
This would solve a lot of the issues ISPs are having with switching to IPv6. Don't have a computer that supports it? Buy one of these routers.
So, the initiative needs to start at companies who manufacture SOHO networking equipment. Most of the changes are software upgrades too.... I mean.... OpenWRT supports it on routers that don't support it out of the box. I wish they would get a contract with a manufacturer to build and sell a router that ships with OpenWRT...it could be called the OpenRouter, or RoWRTer.
What would be a pretty cool chip would be an 8-core chip with 4 x86_64 cores, two graphics cores, and two Cell cores. (perhaps IBM + AMD working together)
After that, build a custom Linux with MeeGo as the front end / launcher.... It would be cool if game console makers embraced Open Source for everything up to launching the games....and if they don't want their SDK open source, that's fine, just make the Operating System so it can launch the games, then get out of the way. Run it on two cores (for better functionality with Multimedia capabilities, ebook reading, etc.) and use the rest of the cores (2 x86_64, 2 Graphics and 2 Cells) for gaming.
As for the other hardware, Composite, Component, HDML, VGA, WiFi, Ethernet, and a headphone jack.(maybe bluetooth for wireless controllers and the ability to use bluetooth headsets)..blu-ray, card reader, and USB.
This is all off the top of my head, and would be a pretty cool gaming console, which would truly capture the home entertainment medium and make most people looking for gadgets, consoles, or HTPCs drool appropriately.
Stick it in a USPS Flat Rate box and mail it back to FBI HQ, and when they come looking for you for sending an undisclosed electronic device that could be a bomb to them, ask "why would you leave a bomb on my car?"
The number 1 feature it lacks..... the ability to fully support TIFF, AI and PSD files that my colleagues are working with.
Face it, there are a lot of features of those file formats that GIMP cannot import. Such as Adjustment Layers, Vector Layers, Blending Options, Nested Layer Groups, etc.
Mozilla should just use the libavcodec installed on the system and be done with it....that way, you have the free version distributed with Ubuntu (the one with the restricted modules disabled -- that should also come with Mozilla on all platforms) and you can simply enable restricted extras or install anything that includes the restricted libavcodec modules to make the rest work.
It would provide the consistent user experience they are looking for, as well as the ability to play a whole host of audio/video formats that it doesn't yet play.
That's why I wish you could install CUPS + gimpprint/HPLIP/etc. as a printer driver for windows and let it handle the rest. Linux printing used to be pretty painful, but for the last 5 years or so, it's been a walk in the park compared to the Windows printer driver nightmares I have been facing.
(things involving rebuilding the print spooler, USB Printing support, deleting certain registry keys and changing values for others)
With the same printers under Ubuntu, I just plug it in, add a new printer in the control center and it works.... even network printers!
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In my opinion, I think you should be permitted to carry anything you can legally carry in any public place on an airplane.
Also, the TSA should become an educational service for airline employees. Train all airline staff how to defend the plane, give them the ability to arrest and detain unruly passengers. Lock the cockpit, make it bullet proof,and arm the pilots.
Once you do that, any terrorist would be INSANE to try anything on a plane. You'll have passengers who have pocket knives, multi-tools, etc on them. Airline staff that can actually do something, and armed pilots in a protected location who can all stop the "bad guys".
Empower the passengers and crew, because for everyone who won't do anything, there that many who would do something as simple as stick out a foot, slide out their carry on bag or smack 'em with their Macbook to thwart it.
I got an HTC Vogue with Win Mobile as a "free" upgrade from Verizon.
Really, screw Android, and Screw iOS..... I want to see MeeGo come out, and do well. I want to see the companies making all of this fancy Android stuff start using MeeGo. According to some pages I have seen, it can run Android apps, and I absolutely love the interface.
If the OSS community embraced it, and built a Yum repo with mobile OSS Apps, it could dominate.
The lock down in iOS, and fragmentation in Android are the weak points in the two. If the community worked with the MeeGo foundation to make it real easy for OSS apps to work with it, we would all have a safe harbour to run to.
They have cars that can drive and park themselves.... why not build cars that can use this technology to avert collisions and correct mistakes made by humans.
Likewise, this system should have a limit that finds a safe place to park and shut down if it finds itself correcting a lot.... face it, getting shitty drivers off the road is as important as getting distracted drivers off the road.
Want to ban something? Ban shitty drivers, and do something about it. If the phone, cigarettes, drunkenness, newspaper, knitting needles, public displays of affection affect your driving (or mine!) you need to get off the road and make it safe for others.
I've timed myself a few times.... after the Chinese buffet, it's 17 min. from consumption to... final processing.
I guess this explains why there are so many mothafuckin' snakes on this mothafuckin' plane.
Mod Parent up... my poor eyes.
Meh. No Bruce Campbell in that graphic.
What we need as a stop gap are routers that support IPv6, and IPv4 that don't start out at $800. (yeah, I checked)
Routers should be able to connect to an IPv6 or IPv4 uplink, and hand out IPv4 and/or IPv6 to the internal network.
This would solve a lot of the issues ISPs are having with switching to IPv6. Don't have a computer that supports it? Buy one of these routers.
So, the initiative needs to start at companies who manufacture SOHO networking equipment. Most of the changes are software upgrades too.... I mean.... OpenWRT supports it on routers that don't support it out of the box. I wish they would get a contract with a manufacturer to build and sell a router that ships with OpenWRT...it could be called the OpenRouter, or RoWRTer.
What would be a pretty cool chip would be an 8-core chip with 4 x86_64 cores, two graphics cores, and two Cell cores. (perhaps IBM + AMD working together)
After that, build a custom Linux with MeeGo as the front end / launcher.... It would be cool if game console makers embraced Open Source for everything up to launching the games. ...and if they don't want their SDK open source, that's fine, just make the Operating System so it can launch the games, then get out of the way. Run it on two cores (for better functionality with Multimedia capabilities, ebook reading, etc.) and use the rest of the cores (2 x86_64, 2 Graphics and 2 Cells) for gaming.
As for the other hardware, Composite, Component, HDML, VGA, WiFi, Ethernet, and a headphone jack.(maybe bluetooth for wireless controllers and the ability to use bluetooth headsets)..blu-ray, card reader, and USB.
This is all off the top of my head, and would be a pretty cool gaming console, which would truly capture the home entertainment medium and make most people looking for gadgets, consoles, or HTPCs drool appropriately.
Carnivorous swamp beasts often make a very good meal of forty visiting tourists.
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Stick it in a USPS Flat Rate box and mail it back to FBI HQ, and when they come looking for you for sending an undisclosed electronic device that could be a bomb to them, ask "why would you leave a bomb on my car?"
The number 1 feature it lacks..... the ability to fully support TIFF, AI and PSD files that my colleagues are working with.
Face it, there are a lot of features of those file formats that GIMP cannot import. Such as Adjustment Layers, Vector Layers, Blending Options, Nested Layer Groups, etc.
He uses an EMACS mode to post on Slashdot.
Pigs fly over my city all the time... mostly the southern part.
I use OpenDNS + iptables.... what is this Windows Firewall you speak of? Does it run under WINE?
I wouldn't be surprised. While at drill this weekend, I learned that one of our people got activated, and her CO told her in a Facebook message.
These types of things, as well as poor computer security practices in security agencies bother me.
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Damn you EMACS!
Mozilla should just use the libavcodec installed on the system and be done with it....that way, you have the free version distributed with Ubuntu (the one with the restricted modules disabled -- that should also come with Mozilla on all platforms) and you can simply enable restricted extras or install anything that includes the restricted libavcodec modules to make the rest work.
It would provide the consistent user experience they are looking for, as well as the ability to play a whole host of audio/video formats that it doesn't yet play.
OK, so if the news here doesn't interest you, go read news elsewhere.... or better yet, do something that matters enough to be news worthy.
People complaining about news.... stuff that matters less than stuff that hardly matters.
That's why I wish you could install CUPS + gimpprint/HPLIP/etc. as a printer driver for windows and let it handle the rest. Linux printing used to be pretty painful, but for the last 5 years or so, it's been a walk in the park compared to the Windows printer driver nightmares I have been facing.
(things involving rebuilding the print spooler, USB Printing support, deleting certain registry keys and changing values for others)
With the same printers under Ubuntu, I just plug it in, add a new printer in the control center and it works.... even network printers!
I bet the iPaq could too..... or any other tablet released prior to the iPad.... (I have a WebDT sitting here)
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