So if they look at a traffic graph and see SIP usage is extremely high, and RTP / other traffic is basically nonexistent, then it is really quite suspicious.
Isn't the point of REINVITE to do just this? As I understand it, that tells the endpoints to alter the call parameters, including making their own arrangements for handling RTP traffic so the server doesn't have to touch it.
But I also think that you have a point that the best fix would be to change police procedure in order to force them to justify each use of the device.
Technical solution - put a counter in the taser to record the number of "shots". Let the police officer use their taser as much as they like, but whatever their counter reads is how many times they get tasered at the end of the shift.
The long Torx driver (I made mine with a conventional Torx driver, a bit of 6mm rod and some careful cutting and welding) gets the screws out. You've still got to get the case halves apart, ideally without breaking the front cover.
Uh, the original Macintosh was pretty damn interesting.... ... and completely locked-down in every respect. You could write your own software - if you used Apple's tools. You could design your own peripherals - *if* they plugged into a slightly non-standard serial port. Expansion? Forget it. Steve Jobs was incredibly hostile to the idea of anyone opening up their Mac and "improving" it, to the extent that the case was designed to be impossible to open without special factory jigs to press the right plastic clippy bits.
The true modern successor to the Apple II was the PC, although the BeBox came a close second. Geek Port, anyone?
Really nothing better than raising your own beef, calling in the mobile slaughter, shooting said cow and a few days later having a freezer full of wonderful lean beef.
Strongly agree. That's what we do, and it's a hell of a lot better than supermarket-bought meat. Sheep too, if you like lamb. In fact, you've just put me in the mood for some lamb chops...
Beer - yea I said it, American regional and microbrews smack down the UK. Hell, I'll take a Molson Canadian over English beers. Bodington's is my favorite from the UK
Boddingtons? So, you like Miller then too? As far as I can tell, Boddingtons isn't actually a beer but is in fact some sort of industrial cleaning product left over from washing out hop tubs.
Beef, American beef is maybe second to some Japanese super pricey beef but we have bison here too.
I guess if you like bland, greasy beef then American beef may be acceptable. There's a reason why they're called "Aberdeen Angus" cattle.
Pizza - deep dish, New York style
Tried it, didn't like it. Dull, soggy bread. Crap sauce. Good cheese though. Maybe you should go to a city with a decent Italian population.
Bacon. I've had bacon in 8 different countries, midwestern US bacon is the best, second best would be in northern BC and the Yukon
I must admit, I haven't tried American bacon. All bacon is good, so it's not really worth comparing.
And finally, grains. American breads are superior to anything in the UK. More grains grown here and superior varieties.
And one day, you'll figure out what to do with them.
They're pretty dangerous even if you do wear a seatbelt, and if you're wearing a seatbelt they make no difference to any injuries you would receive in an accident.
From picking up the pieces of a few accidents, I'd say that airbags are pretty much best at generating serious injuries from an unpromising minor shunt, and writing off the car. It's probably no coincidence that when the airbags go off lots of expensive and difficult-to-replace interior parts are destroyed.
I don't want to discourage you, but remember that HAM is just analog sound. It doesn't really offer much more than that. ... except for the various digital modes, fast- and slow-scan TV, digital modes that let you communicate around the world with less than one watt of transmit power, and all manner of other fun things. No, not much at all.
There are many conditions where ABS absolutely makes braking distance far worse.
Like what, exactly?
And contrary to popular misconceptions, on dry, flat road surfaces, locking your brakes provides for maximum brake potential
Er, what? Perhaps in some other universe with a very, very different set of laws of physics. Do you know the difference between static and kinetic friction?
A good driver without anti-lock brakes can often out brake an anti-lock system by up to 20% in ideal conditions.
[citation needed]. In wet and slippy conditions, ABS will *always* reduce the braking distance compared to what the driver will manage on their own, simply because it can control all the brakes independently and maintain them right on the point that the wheel starts to slip. With cadence braking, your brakes spend roughly half the braking time doing nothing at all.
Next time you get into your car, press and hold the brakes - hard (do so at your own risk). Now press the pedal to the floor.
On the only automatic vehicle I have handy, this causes the gearbox to drop into neutral and the engine to drop back to idle until you take your foot off the throttle and brake, and put the gear lever back into park. However, running up the engine against the torque converter is usually the standard way of checking the sprag clutch.
By law brakes are not required to stop a moving vehicle while accelerating at full throttle. The law only requires brakes to hold a vehicle at rest while at full throttle.
How is that even supposed to work? You can't run the engine up to full power with the car sitting still *and* have it in gear. If you do it with a manual car, you would need to rev the engine and then let out the clutch - and the engine would stall. If you do it with an automatic, the torque converter will slip long before the brakes let go.
If the brakes on a modern car cannot stop it against the full power of the engine, they are faulty and the car should be repaired or scrapped. It's really that simple.
Really though, even here in America if you are attentive, you'll see that major intersections and other public areas have government owned cameras
Around Glasgow (and presumably other cities) you'll find that most traffic light-controlled junctions have a CCTV camera on the top of one of the light poles, watching the junction. These do not get recorded unless there's some specific reason to do so, and are very rarely monitored. The whole point of them is that if the sensors for the ATC start reporting traffic problems (a queue building up and not dissipating) or if there's an accident reported, someone working at the traffic control centre can watch the junction and manually tweak the lights - or even just turn them off and let the police control traffic.
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This is the UK we're talking about. They have a camera on every street corner.
Since when? If it was outside the central business district of a major city, the chances are there wasn't a CCTV camera within a couple of miles radius.
The whole "Britain has elventy bajillion CCTV cameras" was a story *entirely made up* by a right-wing tabloid. The figure was derived by counting up all the council- and privately-owned CCTV cameras in a half-mile stretch of the main street of a particularly nasty area of London, and multiplying by the total length of all the roads in Britain. For it to be even *nearly* right, there would have to be a camera every 50 metres or so along *every* road. The track to my house would have three cameras all to itself...
the insane British libel laws ... as opposed to the insane American libel laws, where anyone can say anything they like about you - true or untrue - and there is no legal way to stop them. In the UK, you're only allowed to say what you like about someone if it's actually true.
The insane part is that the original judge decided that something that was substantially true was in fact untrue.
Well, yes and no. Peugeot have had fully throttle-by-wire engines for at least 15 years, fitted to various Pugs, Citroens, Volvos and other vehicles. The Bosch injection pump and ECU crop up in other vehicles, I just happen to know my way around French ones. Mercedes have used the same (or a very similar) setup for about as long. Now, I guess it's possible that it is purely the combination of sensitive electronics and a higher density of Toyotas with drive-by-wire, but it certainly sounds more like it's bugs in Toyota's software.
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So if they look at a traffic graph and see SIP usage is extremely high, and RTP / other traffic is basically nonexistent, then it is really quite suspicious.
Isn't the point of REINVITE to do just this? As I understand it, that tells the endpoints to alter the call parameters, including making their own arrangements for handling RTP traffic so the server doesn't have to touch it.
broken windshield when they are facing huge blow of wind
It won't break the windscreen, just sandblast it. Great for bathrooms, not so good for visual approaches.
A pure count is perhaps a little too easy to lie around.
Not really. The count is only cleared at the end of the shift, after the officer has received that many taserings.
I bet that'll put them off being trigger-happy.
But I also think that you have a point that the best fix would be to change police procedure in order to force them to justify each use of the device.
Technical solution - put a counter in the taser to record the number of "shots". Let the police officer use their taser as much as they like, but whatever their counter reads is how many times they get tasered at the end of the shift.
The majority of my interest lies in the wireless communication side of the field -- i.e. ham radios and CB
Join your local amateur radio club. Get your licence.
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The long Torx driver (I made mine with a conventional Torx driver, a bit of 6mm rod and some careful cutting and welding) gets the screws out. You've still got to get the case halves apart, ideally without breaking the front cover.
The Apple Macintosh didn't have SCSI. Later models did, but even then many of them had strange connectors.
Uh, the original Macintosh was pretty damn interesting....
... and completely locked-down in every respect. You could write your own software - if you used Apple's tools. You could design your own peripherals - *if* they plugged into a slightly non-standard serial port. Expansion? Forget it. Steve Jobs was incredibly hostile to the idea of anyone opening up their Mac and "improving" it, to the extent that the case was designed to be impossible to open without special factory jigs to press the right plastic clippy bits.
The true modern successor to the Apple II was the PC, although the BeBox came a close second. Geek Port, anyone?
... the one-eyed man gets to play some *evil* practical jokes.
Really nothing better than raising your own beef, calling in the mobile slaughter, shooting said cow and a few days later having a freezer full of wonderful lean beef.
Strongly agree. That's what we do, and it's a hell of a lot better than supermarket-bought meat. Sheep too, if you like lamb. In fact, you've just put me in the mood for some lamb chops...
Beer - yea I said it, American regional and microbrews smack down the UK. Hell, I'll take a Molson Canadian over English beers. Bodington's is my favorite from the UK
Boddingtons? So, you like Miller then too? As far as I can tell, Boddingtons isn't actually a beer but is in fact some sort of industrial cleaning product left over from washing out hop tubs.
Beef, American beef is maybe second to some Japanese super pricey beef but we have bison here too.
I guess if you like bland, greasy beef then American beef may be acceptable. There's a reason why they're called "Aberdeen Angus" cattle.
Pizza - deep dish, New York style
Tried it, didn't like it. Dull, soggy bread. Crap sauce. Good cheese though. Maybe you should go to a city with a decent Italian population.
Bacon. I've had bacon in 8 different countries, midwestern US bacon is the best, second best would be in northern BC and the Yukon
I must admit, I haven't tried American bacon. All bacon is good, so it's not really worth comparing.
And finally, grains. American breads are superior to anything in the UK. More grains grown here and superior varieties.
And one day, you'll figure out what to do with them.
And for christ sake, VOTE.
Vote for who, exactly? Every party in the UK has policies which are the exact opposite of what I want.
Name one food that the US manages to do better than the UK in. Just one.
They're pretty dangerous even if you do wear a seatbelt, and if you're wearing a seatbelt they make no difference to any injuries you would receive in an accident.
From picking up the pieces of a few accidents, I'd say that airbags are pretty much best at generating serious injuries from an unpromising minor shunt, and writing off the car. It's probably no coincidence that when the airbags go off lots of expensive and difficult-to-replace interior parts are destroyed.
Not giving kids sex education is like turning off the airbags when they go driving.
Airbags are pretty dangerous. I'd rather my child wasn't driving a car full of bombs.
The higher speed analogue modems used codecs derived from G3RUH's gaussian-filter codec.
And which make a 56k dialup modem look fast.
Speed isn't the point. In any case, without amateur radio you wouldn't even have 56k modems. You'd still be stuck with 1200/75.
I don't want to discourage you, but remember that HAM is just analog sound. It doesn't really offer much more than that.
... except for the various digital modes, fast- and slow-scan TV, digital modes that let you communicate around the world with less than one watt of transmit power, and all manner of other fun things. No, not much at all.
There are many conditions where ABS absolutely makes braking distance far worse.
Like what, exactly?
And contrary to popular misconceptions, on dry, flat road surfaces, locking your brakes provides for maximum brake potential
Er, what? Perhaps in some other universe with a very, very different set of laws of physics. Do you know the difference between static and kinetic friction?
A good driver without anti-lock brakes can often out brake an anti-lock system by up to 20% in ideal conditions.
[citation needed]. In wet and slippy conditions, ABS will *always* reduce the braking distance compared to what the driver will manage on their own, simply because it can control all the brakes independently and maintain them right on the point that the wheel starts to slip. With cadence braking, your brakes spend roughly half the braking time doing nothing at all.
Next time you get into your car, press and hold the brakes - hard (do so at your own risk). Now press the pedal to the floor.
On the only automatic vehicle I have handy, this causes the gearbox to drop into neutral and the engine to drop back to idle until you take your foot off the throttle and brake, and put the gear lever back into park. However, running up the engine against the torque converter is usually the standard way of checking the sprag clutch.
By law brakes are not required to stop a moving vehicle while accelerating at full throttle. The law only requires brakes to hold a vehicle at rest while at full throttle.
How is that even supposed to work? You can't run the engine up to full power with the car sitting still *and* have it in gear. If you do it with a manual car, you would need to rev the engine and then let out the clutch - and the engine would stall. If you do it with an automatic, the torque converter will slip long before the brakes let go.
If the brakes on a modern car cannot stop it against the full power of the engine, they are faulty and the car should be repaired or scrapped. It's really that simple.
Really though, even here in America if you are attentive, you'll see that major intersections and other public areas have government owned cameras
Around Glasgow (and presumably other cities) you'll find that most traffic light-controlled junctions have a CCTV camera on the top of one of the light poles, watching the junction. These do not get recorded unless there's some specific reason to do so, and are very rarely monitored. The whole point of them is that if the sensors for the ATC start reporting traffic problems (a queue building up and not dissipating) or if there's an accident reported, someone working at the traffic control centre can watch the junction and manually tweak the lights - or even just turn them off and let the police control traffic.
This is the UK we're talking about. They have a camera on every street corner.
Since when? If it was outside the central business district of a major city, the chances are there wasn't a CCTV camera within a couple of miles radius.
The whole "Britain has elventy bajillion CCTV cameras" was a story *entirely made up* by a right-wing tabloid. The figure was derived by counting up all the council- and privately-owned CCTV cameras in a half-mile stretch of the main street of a particularly nasty area of London, and multiplying by the total length of all the roads in Britain. For it to be even *nearly* right, there would have to be a camera every 50 metres or so along *every* road. The track to my house would have three cameras all to itself...
the insane British libel laws
... as opposed to the insane American libel laws, where anyone can say anything they like about you - true or untrue - and there is no legal way to stop them. In the UK, you're only allowed to say what you like about someone if it's actually true.
The insane part is that the original judge decided that something that was substantially true was in fact untrue.
Well, yes and no. Peugeot have had fully throttle-by-wire engines for at least 15 years, fitted to various Pugs, Citroens, Volvos and other vehicles. The Bosch injection pump and ECU crop up in other vehicles, I just happen to know my way around French ones. Mercedes have used the same (or a very similar) setup for about as long. Now, I guess it's possible that it is purely the combination of sensitive electronics and a higher density of Toyotas with drive-by-wire, but it certainly sounds more like it's bugs in Toyota's software.