As opposed to what? Accusing them of having WMD and attacking their country? If the Russians want to build a 6-person space capsule, who is stopping them?
Or by "give them a chance" do you mean "give them a container-ship full of greenbacks collected from American taxpayers?"
I would challenge any advocate of the "thrown free" argument to explain a single situation in which a body could be "thrown free" from a car in a way that would result in less injury than remaining restrained in the vehicle, even ignoring the hazard from landings.
I've studies aspects of automobile safetey, and in particular those related to motor racing. This doesn't make me an expert, but:
The chances of being thrown out of the window of a vehicle during an accident without injury are so slim they are effectively non-existent. Being thrown out through the front or rear windscreen almost always leads to significant injury, often facial. To be popped out of an open side window like a pea from a peashooter, without touching the sides (so to speak) is very unlikely.
The only way you have any noticable chance of being thrown clear uninjured during an accident is if you are in an open-cockpit vehicle like a beach buggy or regular convertible. Even in this case, you are still more likely to be injured than if you remained belted into your seat. Being ejected to land face-first on the pavement at 50 miles per hour is usually not advisable.
The only two instances I can think of in which it might be more dangerous to be belted in, is if
you are driving an open-cockpit vehicle without a roll-bar and the vehicle rolls onto it's back
the vehicle catches on fire and the seatbelt buckle fails, trapping you
In the first case, driving an open-cockpit vehicle with no roll bar is an act of stupidity and illegal in most places. In the second case, we live in the real world (not hollywood). Despite witnessing a number of vehicular accidents, I've never seen one erupt in flames either on the road or on the track.
Racing drivers "have accidents for a living", or almost so. I can't think of too many of them who refust to wear belts.
I read about this yesterday and I think the story doesn't have a ton of value beyond it being a freak show type thing.
They should put this ass on prime-time television. They should spend 30 minutes making the viewers know exactly how stupid he is, and how much he's going to suffer in the months to come. They should point out that he will probably suicide in less that a year, but that first, he and his wife will have to eat Dolly, the sweet brown Boxer.
And they should urge the viewers not to send him one red cent because if they do, he'll just pass it over to his "associates."
Then, maybe, there would be a slight reduction in the number of greedy idiots who sign up to assist well-spoken West Africans steal money from the National Bank of Ooogabooga-land!
Bayesian filters (or similar) on the SMTP servers, analyzing and SPAM-rating e-mail on a line-by-line basis, as it is inbound to the server.
Packet-by-packet connection throttling of all connections to the SMTP server, based on the current SPAM-rating of the open connection.
All mail will get through. There are no false-positive or false-negative issues to deal with. There are no freedom-of-speech issues to deal with. But SPAM works only because of VOLUME and this will drastically reduce the volume of SPAM that a server can send, making spamming unprofitable.
Not my idea -- someone else suggested the scheme a while back. I wish I could remember/locate a reference.
There are very active research programs going on in a number of defense groups concerning rail guns...
Technically, this is not a rail gun, it is a coil gun. I admit the distinction is frequently blurred, but while both are electro-magnetic in operation, they are significantly different in method of operation.
the whole "push the button, no thats the reset button, the larger button" does not take hold.
My Mom quickly grasped how to use that big, blue power-switch button. To start each new game of Solitaire she'd power off, re-boot (and SCANDISK), then Start-> Run-> Games-> Solitaire....
No, because the PINs would probably be stored in the same unsecure manner that the other credit card information was. This is why PINs in general and/or 3 digit auth codes will be ineffective. What's needed here is better site security, not better credit card security.
They could combine the CC# and PIN, generate a hash, and store that. When a PIN was entered for a CC, the hash could be re-generated and checked against the hash on file. If the hashes were compromised, it would not give up the PINs. Not exactly a new idea, is it?
If someone has made some use of your wife, which she may not have desired but which has not damaged her property nor deprived her of its use, does she have a legal cause of action against them?
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Or by "give them a chance" do you mean "give them a container-ship full of greenbacks collected from American taxpayers?"
Check out the Dotcom web-page...
I'll get THX-1138 and sell it to George Lucas...
The chances of being thrown out of the window of a vehicle during an accident without injury are so slim they are effectively non-existent. Being thrown out through the front or rear windscreen almost always leads to significant injury, often facial. To be popped out of an open side window like a pea from a peashooter, without touching the sides (so to speak) is very unlikely.
The only way you have any noticable chance of being thrown clear uninjured during an accident is if you are in an open-cockpit vehicle like a beach buggy or regular convertible. Even in this case, you are still more likely to be injured than if you remained belted into your seat. Being ejected to land face-first on the pavement at 50 miles per hour is usually not advisable.
The only two instances I can think of in which it might be more dangerous to be belted in, is if
- you are driving an open-cockpit vehicle without a roll-bar and the vehicle rolls onto it's back
- the vehicle catches on fire and the seatbelt buckle fails, trapping you
In the first case, driving an open-cockpit vehicle with no roll bar is an act of stupidity and illegal in most places. In the second case, we live in the real world (not hollywood). Despite witnessing a number of vehicular accidents, I've never seen one erupt in flames either on the road or on the track.Racing drivers "have accidents for a living", or almost so. I can't think of too many of them who refust to wear belts.
And they should urge the viewers not to send him one red cent because if they do, he'll just pass it over to his "associates."
Then, maybe, there would be a slight reduction in the number of greedy idiots who sign up to assist well-spoken West Africans steal money from the National Bank of Ooogabooga-land!
- Bayesian filters (or similar) on the SMTP servers, analyzing and SPAM-rating e-mail on a line-by-line basis, as it is inbound to the server.
- Packet-by-packet connection throttling of all connections to the SMTP server, based on the current SPAM-rating of the open connection.
All mail will get through. There are no false-positive or false-negative issues to deal with. There are no freedom-of-speech issues to deal with. But SPAM works only because of VOLUME and this will drastically reduce the volume of SPAM that a server can send, making spamming unprofitable.Not my idea -- someone else suggested the scheme a while back. I wish I could remember/locate a reference.
Technically, this is not a rail gun, it is a coil gun. I admit the distinction is frequently blurred, but while both are electro-magnetic in operation, they are significantly different in method of operation.
Certainly in this country (Barbados) it is the muzzle velocity that counts. <550 fps and it isn't a "firearm".
So you need a back-pack power supply or better battery technology. The weapon is still viable.
...forget the rest!
Just wait. They soon will be.
My Mom quickly grasped how to use that big, blue power-switch button. To start each new game of Solitaire she'd power off, re-boot (and SCANDISK), then Start-> Run-> Games-> Solitaire....
They could combine the CC# and PIN, generate a hash, and store that. When a PIN was entered for a CC, the hash could be re-generated and checked against the hash on file. If the hashes were compromised, it would not give up the PINs. Not exactly a new idea, is it?
...Vaporware?
/\d+/-gigabyte poker-chip drive are items you will never see.
This, the digital "film" for standard 35mm cameras, and the
Supports Ethernet and Token Ring simultaneously?
This sort of thing is coming.
It isn't a matter of if, simply a matter of when.
OK, I suppose half a million of us will all have to chip in a buck to bail his arse out of Jug. So where do I send the dollar?
I just tried it twelve times in a row. No success.
My definition of "does not work" is when you try it repeatedly with no success.
Pity it doesn't work.....
You mean that's changed?
If someone has made some use of your wife, which she may not have desired but which has not damaged her property nor deprived her of its use, does she have a legal cause of action against them?
No. Now the Screen Actors Guild will demand that no CG actors be used in movies unless membership fees are paid to the SAG on their behalf.