The reporter said that the injuries that were sustained were 2nd degree burns because the people didn't get out the way quick enough.
But what if you can't get out of the way? If you are trapped you could easily sustain 2nd or 3rd degree burns over quite a bit of your body - and that sort of thing is potentially lethal.
This device is non-lethal in the sense that a bullet is non-lethal. I shoot someone in the hand they probably don't die. I shoot someone in the head and they will probably die.
Exactly.. that was the first thought that I had. It seems that various people in the process of submitting this story don't have a clue of how successful such schemes can be.
Every now and again I see jobs advertised for tower climbers. And they typically state that don't even think about applying if you have never done it before. They must get a lot of people applying you think that climbing a tower is easy.
Mike Rowe did an episode of Wind Farm technician. Fascinating show. And proved that I'd hate to do it. It wasn't the climbing the ladder, or standing on top of it that was the problem. The nacelles are only just big enough to fit the generator and leave enough room for a midget to crawl around and do the servicing.
The big laugh in that episode was one of the techs telling a story of a snake in the nacelle. Apparently it had crawled in there during construction when the nacelle was on the ground and then rode it all the way to the top.
I can't find a link to the actual video, but it was Season 3 episode 31, "Wind Farm Technician".
Have you ever found it faster to type the name of the program you're looking for? Press the Win key and start typing. Don't even need to waste time by using a mouse.
This assumes you can remember the name of what it is you are looking for. Different people remember things differently. I am more of a visual person, so I was happier with muscle memory to navigate between folders in order to get to something. And with everything organised hierarchically it was easy to get to what I wanted.
I do like the way MS redid things for W7 when I can remember the name of what it is I am looking for. But this deprecates browsing a system to see what is there. And that brings you smack into the area of discoverability which can be the bane of command line systems.
If the politicians have an agenda filled full of self interest, yet can lie to your face with out giving away anything, then there is nothing that a voter can do to better the system. You could vote people out based on previous actions, but the incoming politicians are just as likely to have their own agenda.
Yes I am being cynical, but I see very few politicians that don't have an obvious agenda based on self interest. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, "Those that want to be in control shouldn't be allowed to".
The NSA has its own fab. They can make their own chips if they so choose. Depending on the level of security needed I'm sure they will.
They may have their own fab.. but from TFA..
“The plan was to buy commercial components, layer them together and get a secure solution,”
You have to be able to trust the entire supply chain. In addition, they are talking about 3rd parties building these (who won't access to NSA systems).. so why should I trust a 3rd party any more than I trust any other telecoms supplier?
The design of the phone itself may be super-secure, but for it to be genuinely secure you need to have absolute faith in the integrity of the company building the thing.
Lol so the very fact that there is a universe, in which we can contemplate the laws of physics, is itself a phenomenon that the standard models can't yet explain? Nice. Seems like a minor hole:)
Hell.. I don't even think there is an understanding as to what gravity is. And thats a lot less existential than "existence/non-existence"
Why should he have to do that? Why isn't it sufficient to add the user to the 'lp' group? There's no reason that printing should require root access at all.
Why does an administrator have to add anyone to anything in order to do a commonplace task on a machine that is really a commodity item?
Not that I have read his rants but I get where he is coming from.
Every time someone makes that argument I think of stories like The Road Not Taken (summary: aliens show up, detect no FTL drives on earth, conclude we'll be an easy target, land, try to take over using matchlock weapons, get slaughtered, humanity realizes what a bunch of idiots we've been for not figuring out FTL travel on our own, galaxy is fucked....)
There was an Asimov (I think) story along vaguely similar lines.
Umm.. that was Arthur C Clarke and the story was Rescue Party and the aliens detected TV/Radio waves when the Sun was about to go supernova, and the humans departed the solar system using sub light ships.
America has also got rid of pennies insofar as they are not accepted by coin-operated machines such as vending machines and parking meters.
I've seen a few vending machines that take $1 coins in the US. First in Chicago years ago and then in SC last year. The use of $1 coins is spotty for some unknown reason, and I'd say that $2 notes are even less used. About the only place I have seen them is when you buy a ticket to get into Monitcello in Charlottesville, VA - only because it was Jefferson's estate and that his face is on the bill.
I forgot to say that the US informally has the mindset to ditch pennies. All those trays of pennies next to the cash registers in shops that allow you to "place a penny/take a penny" are grass roots effort to implement rounding of bills to the closest number.
You don't need to sell the public on this idea, they already do it!
Australia got rid of 1 and 2c pieces years ago and that didn't kill us at all.
That doesn't mean you people don't advertise things at 99 cents, just that you total up the bill and then round to the nearest 5 cents. Sometimes you win (all of 2 cents on a single bill) and sometimes you lose (again, all of 2 cents on a single bill).
We also ditched $1 and $2 paper currency for $1 and $2 coins. That was also a good move in getting rid of those ratty dollar bills. The US cold easily do the same thing as you already have $1 coins in circulation. About the only people who will notice a change are the strippers who will now have use their coin slots.
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I have started using regex's as the basis for my passwords. Love to see some one crack ^[A-Z0-9]+\([a-z!]+\)$
The trouble is that now I have regex's ..
The reporter said that the injuries that were sustained were 2nd degree burns because the people didn't get out the way quick enough.
But what if you can't get out of the way? If you are trapped you could easily sustain 2nd or 3rd degree burns over quite a bit of your body - and that sort of thing is potentially lethal.
This device is non-lethal in the sense that a bullet is non-lethal. I shoot someone in the hand they probably don't die. I shoot someone in the head and they will probably die.
Exactly .. that was the first thought that I had. It seems that various people in the process of submitting this story don't have a clue of how successful such schemes can be.
The key is most jobs suck because, hey, they're jobs.
I know jobs have their own suck factors. I'm sure being a jockey sucks in its own way, but I'm not physically suited to be a jockey.
Every now and again I see jobs advertised for tower climbers. And they typically state that don't even think about applying if you have never done it before. They must get a lot of people applying you think that climbing a tower is easy.
Mike Rowe did an episode of Wind Farm technician. Fascinating show. And proved that I'd hate to do it. It wasn't the climbing the ladder, or standing on top of it that was the problem. The nacelles are only just big enough to fit the generator and leave enough room for a midget to crawl around and do the servicing.
The big laugh in that episode was one of the techs telling a story of a snake in the nacelle. Apparently it had crawled in there during construction when the nacelle was on the ground and then rode it all the way to the top.
I can't find a link to the actual video, but it was Season 3 episode 31, "Wind Farm Technician".
Have you ever found it faster to type the name of the program you're looking for? Press the Win key and start typing. Don't even need to waste time by using a mouse.
This assumes you can remember the name of what it is you are looking for. Different people remember things differently. I am more of a visual person, so I was happier with muscle memory to navigate between folders in order to get to something. And with everything organised hierarchically it was easy to get to what I wanted.
I do like the way MS redid things for W7 when I can remember the name of what it is I am looking for. But this deprecates browsing a system to see what is there. And that brings you smack into the area of discoverability which can be the bane of command line systems.
If the politicians have an agenda filled full of self interest, yet can lie to your face with out giving away anything, then there is nothing that a voter can do to better the system. You could vote people out based on previous actions, but the incoming politicians are just as likely to have their own agenda.
Yes I am being cynical, but I see very few politicians that don't have an obvious agenda based on self interest. To paraphrase Douglas Adams, "Those that want to be in control shouldn't be allowed to".
The NSA has its own fab. They can make their own chips if they so choose. Depending on the level of security needed I'm sure they will.
They may have their own fab .. but from TFA ..
“The plan was to buy commercial components, layer them together and get a secure solution,”
You have to be able to trust the entire supply chain. In addition, they are talking about 3rd parties building these (who won't access to NSA systems) .. so why should I trust a 3rd party any more than I trust any other telecoms supplier?
I hope not in China for the obvious reasons.
The design of the phone itself may be super-secure, but for it to be genuinely secure you need to have absolute faith in the integrity of the company building the thing.
Lol so the very fact that there is a universe, in which we can contemplate the laws of physics, is itself a phenomenon that the standard models can't yet explain? Nice. Seems like a minor hole :)
Hell .. I don't even think there is an understanding as to what gravity is. And thats a lot less existential than "existence/non-existence"
Why should he have to do that? Why isn't it sufficient to add the user to the 'lp' group? There's no reason that printing should require root access at all.
Why does an administrator have to add anyone to anything in order to do a commonplace task on a machine that is really a commodity item?
Not that I have read his rants but I get where he is coming from.
Basket?
Or how about "Never outsource your core functionality?
I particularly like this part:
DDOS (Dedicated Denial of Service)
What ?!?! No MSDOS????!?
/ducks
This has no place on /.
Then what is this /. section called politics for then?
When I glanced at that headline I actually parsed it as
"US persecutors have a sealed indictment .."
Well maybe that's more truthful ;-)
Now if only I had some iGas to power it....
For that you will want to invest in a bean heavy diet.
Sometimes when I read
“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
which appears as a nice and cutesy rainbows and unicorns saying, I get the impression that it actually means
"Fuck off. You don't belong here and we'll subvert anything you try to do that impacts what we want to do"
In an angry, anti-establishment, "we know better than you" superior way.
Note that I do believe in a free Internet.
Every time someone makes that argument I think of stories like The Road Not Taken (summary: aliens show up, detect no FTL drives on earth, conclude we'll be an easy target, land, try to take over using matchlock weapons, get slaughtered, humanity realizes what a bunch of idiots we've been for not figuring out FTL travel on our own, galaxy is fucked....)
Harry Turtledove spun that short story out to a complete series of books: Worldwar/Colonization/Homecoming
There was an Asimov (I think) story along vaguely similar lines.
Umm .. that was Arthur C Clarke and the story was Rescue Party and the aliens detected TV/Radio waves when the Sun was about to go supernova, and the humans departed the solar system using sub light ships.
Aside from that you got it pretty well right.
It is inexcusable to let people pass judgement in matters they don't comprehend.
I'm pretty sure that the 20th Century Judges fully comprehend[1] the 20th Century laws that are the basis these types of cases.
[1] For the average judge. I know there are outliers in either direction.
America has also got rid of pennies insofar as they are not accepted by coin-operated machines such as vending machines and parking meters.
I've seen a few vending machines that take $1 coins in the US. First in Chicago years ago and then in SC last year. The use of $1 coins is spotty for some unknown reason, and I'd say that $2 notes are even less used. About the only place I have seen them is when you buy a ticket to get into Monitcello in Charlottesville, VA - only because it was Jefferson's estate and that his face is on the bill.
Replying to my own post.
I forgot to say that the US informally has the mindset to ditch pennies. All those trays of pennies next to the cash registers in shops that allow you to "place a penny/take a penny" are grass roots effort to implement rounding of bills to the closest number.
You don't need to sell the public on this idea, they already do it!
Australia got rid of 1 and 2c pieces years ago and that didn't kill us at all.
That doesn't mean you people don't advertise things at 99 cents, just that you total up the bill and then round to the nearest 5 cents. Sometimes you win (all of 2 cents on a single bill) and sometimes you lose (again, all of 2 cents on a single bill).
We also ditched $1 and $2 paper currency for $1 and $2 coins. That was also a good move in getting rid of those ratty dollar bills. The US cold easily do the same thing as you already have $1 coins in circulation. About the only people who will notice a change are the strippers who will now have use their coin slots.
You are taking the wrong pills. Please only take the pills we want you to.