They've re-invented the handcart!
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I used to move cases of beer with one of these things at the party store I worked at as a kid. Big deal, so it didn't have a built in gyroscope. That the Segway hardly justifies the $2,960 price difference.
This won't enjoy the huge success Betamax did in comparison.
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In the U.S. you can't legally buy that super shorty without getting a Class III license. This takes about a year of background checks, after which you give up your 4th Amendment rights - the ATF can inspect your home at any time.
***end clueless***
One thing I hate more than movies that provide gun disinformation (13 shot Desert Eagles, the ceramic "Glock 9", etc.) is people who don't even own NFA weapons telling people the wrong information.
You don't need a license as an individual to purchase a Super Shorty in the USA, although you might in a few states that don't allow that type of AOW (Any Other Weapon, its federal classification). For instance, in my home state the Super Shorty is considered merely a pistol which just happens to be 12 gauge. The year of background checks is hogwash, there are background checks conducted while the Form 4 transfer is being approved (your prints and photos are run by the FBI), but they (NFA branch, the branch of ATF who oversees such transfers) have 90 days to approve or deny a transfer, by law.
On the subject of giving up your 4th Amendment rights, you don't. ATF has no authority to come by after you own an NFA (that is to say National Firearms Act) weapon "any time they want". As an individual you're not subject to any inspection. If they want to come in, they need a warrant (at least that was the case before the bad terrorism laws passed recently, another subject).
**more clueless**
And even then, you can't buy a Class III weapon that was made after 1986
**end clueless**
Sure you can, if by "Class III" weapon you mean the correct term, "NFA weapon". NFA, or National Firearms Act weapons, include machine guns, short barreled shotguns, short barreled rifles, silencers and Any Other Weapons, or AOWs. Also Destructive Devices but we won't go into that here. May 19, 1986 was the date the Firearm Owners Protection Act went into effect. While it had many positive provisions for firearm owners, its big negative was that on that date no more machine guns could be made or registered for individual use, freezing the number of legal ones for individuals forever in the USA. It did not stop, however, the manufacture of any other types of NFA weapons for individuals. Thus, silencers, SBRs, SBS, AOWs (like the Super Shorty), and even some DDs can all be made new for individuals.
Oh yeah, to keep it on topic, I once touched a minigun used in The Matrix.:)
Having recently been in Norway this was a topic of discussion (friends had smuggled some back from Sweden). It's the taurine that's a problem in Norway. They have some very diligent health nannies there - some dyes for foods that are legal in the USA aren't legal in Norway.
If they were sitting on the street using a sensitive mic (read: passive device) to hear sound coming OUT the window of a suspect's home, A-OK. Intrusion into the home by an ACTIVE device, on the other hand, would be considered just that, an intrusion. And obviously the placement of a passive bug inside would require a physical intrusion to the premises.
Once the (read: any useful) technology is available to help the handicapped it'd be politically incorrect to not have it installed in all public buildings. That'd be one freaking huge pay day for the company and a totally non-competitive market to boot.
Apparently you've never played with the current night vision technology. Even the Gen III passive starlight stuff is IR sensitive and can spot a cigarette butt at 100 yards. A pulsing IR LED source (like the beacons used for helicopter pilots' night vision) would be ridiculously easy to sniff with off the shelf equipment. My TV remote control looks like the f**king SUN through old cheap crapola Russian night vision. U.S. stuff is light years ahead. Even though you can't see it, the IR illuminates (for lack of a better word) stuff around it (like when I bounce my TV remote off the wood paneling because I'm too lazy to aim it properly). You would need line of sight with something in the room, but not necessarily the IR LED itself. A bug to detect the IR and then send it out RF could be ridiculously small and placed very inconspicuously.
We were in Detroit fo the hearing today!
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2600 v. Ford Motors
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Of course, since my pal didn't bother bringing pertinent info, like the defendant's real name, or the location, judge hearing it, etc. we got a wonderful tour of the Detroit court/police buildings downtown.
On topic, we ended up at the records department at the City County building after being bounced from one building to another attempting to find the hearing. While there we found that the public access records department computers had outbound internet access (you simply exited the mainframe terminal emulator session and then did a search for iexplore* - apparently removing the icons and start menu stuff was considered "security"). From there we were able to get far more information about what was going on than we could get from any of the Detroit clerks.
Slashdot and 2600 were both filtered sites on their system, alas.
Aren't chips built using a photographic proces for the microcircuits? If so, isn't this image stored in hard copy format somewhere, perhaps a lot larger, so people can argue about the design at meetings?
If so, you could probably make some big ass chips in short order (using the image shrunk down and projected onto some material that would only let metal stick to areas that get light, or no light, whatever).
All you'd need is one computer to produce a whole hell of a lot more.
This reminds me of "without tools, how did they make the first tools?"
The typical geek admin *I* know is armed to the teeth with "Object Linking and Embedding Tools" like the AR-15 and AK-47. In fact, I never met so many gun freaks since I started working in this field. (I should have started sooner!)
A new hero would emerge from the darkness....
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All of the circuit-board-etching-pocket-protector-wearing Radio Shack dweebs would be GODS.
As with movie sequels to big hits, there is a "guaranteed return on a sequel" formula at work here. Basically it is counted upon that with name recognition you will make X amount of money no matter what sort of turd you squeeze onto the market. If it's not a turd, so much the better, and so much more money.
Echelon's already doing the monitoring, and the archive capability is built in. I'm really surprised there isn't 7 years worth of backup tape already. Perhaps this is a "decoy fuss" like Carnivore.
Echelon reputedly covers every square foot of the planet intercepting all forms of electronic communication. It makes anything the FBI's budget can come up with look like a Speak 'n Spell.
Because Carnivore is totally domestic (there's no "wink and nod" agreement with the Brits to spy for us to make it "legal", like Echelon) the discussion should be on the class action lawsuit ISP users should file to stop its use or to disclose the full capabilities of it in its current incarnation.
I believe the Digital Telephony and Wire Act made government backdoors into new comm technology a requirement, but the net was already old tech when that was passed.
Domestic spying is illegal, and a buck from every user on a major ISP would be enough to fund the legal procedings to force the government's hand on this. They work for us, and they must prove that everything is above board.
They'll crack it so fast it'll make your head spin
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If you're the target of a Federal investigation and they really want you, they have all the flops in the world to devote to cracking your data. If it's a local bust, don't expect them to know what a hard drive IS, but they may hire a consulting company to do the work for them...
It would sure be nice to have a convenient database of my target's purchases, and maybe even more importantly, purchase times and locations. It would save me hundreds of hours of surveillance time.
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I used to move cases of beer with one of these things at the party store I worked at as a kid. Big deal, so it didn't have a built in gyroscope. That the Segway hardly justifies the $2,960 price difference.
This won't enjoy the huge success Betamax did in comparison.
***clueless said***
:)
In the U.S. you can't legally buy that super shorty without getting a Class III license. This takes about a year of background checks, after which you give up your 4th Amendment rights - the ATF can inspect your home at any time.
***end clueless***
One thing I hate more than movies that provide gun disinformation (13 shot Desert Eagles, the ceramic "Glock 9", etc.) is people who don't even own NFA weapons telling people the wrong information.
You don't need a license as an individual to purchase a Super Shorty in the USA, although you might in a few states that don't allow that type of AOW (Any Other Weapon, its federal classification). For instance, in my home state the Super Shorty is considered merely a pistol which just happens to be 12 gauge. The year of background checks is hogwash, there are background checks conducted while the Form 4 transfer is being approved (your prints and photos are run by the FBI), but they (NFA branch, the branch of ATF who oversees such transfers) have 90 days to approve or deny a transfer, by law.
On the subject of giving up your 4th Amendment rights, you don't. ATF has no authority to come by after you own an NFA (that is to say National Firearms Act) weapon "any time they want". As an individual you're not subject to any inspection. If they want to come in, they need a warrant (at least that was the case before the bad terrorism laws passed recently, another subject).
**more clueless**
And even then, you can't buy a Class III weapon that was made after 1986
**end clueless**
Sure you can, if by "Class III" weapon you mean the correct term, "NFA weapon". NFA, or National Firearms Act weapons, include machine guns, short barreled shotguns, short barreled rifles, silencers and Any Other Weapons, or AOWs. Also Destructive Devices but we won't go into that here. May 19, 1986 was the date the Firearm Owners Protection Act went into effect. While it had many positive provisions for firearm owners, its big negative was that on that date no more machine guns could be made or registered for individual use, freezing the number of legal ones for individuals forever in the USA. It did not stop, however, the manufacture of any other types of NFA weapons for individuals. Thus, silencers, SBRs, SBS, AOWs (like the Super Shorty), and even some DDs can all be made new for individuals.
Oh yeah, to keep it on topic, I once touched a minigun used in The Matrix.
Having recently been in Norway this was a topic of discussion (friends had smuggled some back from Sweden). It's the taurine that's a problem in Norway. They have some very diligent health nannies there - some dyes for foods that are legal in the USA aren't legal in Norway.
...be able to connect to a competitor with their old hardware.
I had the exact same thought as Taco and I haven't seen the Dark Crystal since it was released.
It's bad enough they do 40mph with the left turn signal on in the fast lane of REAL highways. You want to bring them HERE?!
If they were sitting on the street using a sensitive mic (read: passive device) to hear sound coming OUT the window of a suspect's home, A-OK. Intrusion into the home by an ACTIVE device, on the other hand, would be considered just that, an intrusion. And obviously the placement of a passive bug inside would require a physical intrusion to the premises.
Once the (read: any useful) technology is available to help the handicapped it'd be politically incorrect to not have it installed in all public buildings. That'd be one freaking huge pay day for the company and a totally non-competitive market to boot.
Apparently you've never played with the current night vision technology. Even the Gen III passive starlight stuff is IR sensitive and can spot a cigarette butt at 100 yards. A pulsing IR LED source (like the beacons used for helicopter pilots' night vision) would be ridiculously easy to sniff with off the shelf equipment. My TV remote control looks like the f**king SUN through old cheap crapola Russian night vision. U.S. stuff is light years ahead. Even though you can't see it, the IR illuminates (for lack of a better word) stuff around it (like when I bounce my TV remote off the wood paneling because I'm too lazy to aim it properly). You would need line of sight with something in the room, but not necessarily the IR LED itself. A bug to detect the IR and then send it out RF could be ridiculously small and placed very inconspicuously.
Of course, since my pal didn't bother bringing pertinent info, like the defendant's real name, or the location, judge hearing it, etc. we got a wonderful tour of the Detroit court/police buildings downtown.
On topic, we ended up at the records department at the City County building after being bounced from one building to another attempting to find the hearing. While there we found that the public access records department computers had outbound internet access (you simply exited the mainframe terminal emulator session and then did a search for iexplore* - apparently removing the icons and start menu stuff was considered "security"). From there we were able to get far more information about what was going on than we could get from any of the Detroit clerks.
Slashdot and 2600 were both filtered sites on their system, alas.
Aren't chips built using a photographic proces for the microcircuits? If so, isn't this image stored in hard copy format somewhere, perhaps a lot larger, so people can argue about the design at meetings?
If so, you could probably make some big ass chips in short order (using the image shrunk down and projected onto some material that would only let metal stick to areas that get light, or no light, whatever).
All you'd need is one computer to produce a whole hell of a lot more.
This reminds me of "without tools, how did they make the first tools?"
The typical geek admin *I* know is armed to the teeth with "Object Linking and Embedding Tools" like the AR-15 and AK-47. In fact, I never met so many gun freaks since I started working in this field. (I should have started sooner!)
All of the circuit-board-etching-pocket-protector-wearing Radio Shack dweebs would be GODS.
As with movie sequels to big hits, there is a "guaranteed return on a sequel" formula at work here. Basically it is counted upon that with name recognition you will make X amount of money no matter what sort of turd you squeeze onto the market. If it's not a turd, so much the better, and so much more money.
...that the National Guard wasn't called out.
Echelon's already doing the monitoring, and the archive capability is built in. I'm really surprised there isn't 7 years worth of backup tape already. Perhaps this is a "decoy fuss" like Carnivore.
Echelon reputedly covers every square foot of the planet intercepting all forms of electronic communication. It makes anything the FBI's budget can come up with look like a Speak 'n Spell.
Because Carnivore is totally domestic (there's no "wink and nod" agreement with the Brits to spy for us to make it "legal", like Echelon) the discussion should be on the class action lawsuit ISP users should file to stop its use or to disclose the full capabilities of it in its current incarnation.
I believe the Digital Telephony and Wire Act made government backdoors into new comm technology a requirement, but the net was already old tech when that was passed.
Domestic spying is illegal, and a buck from every user on a major ISP would be enough to fund the legal procedings to force the government's hand on this. They work for us, and they must prove that everything is above board.
If you're the target of a Federal investigation and they really want you, they have all the flops in the world to devote to cracking your data. If it's a local bust, don't expect them to know what a hard drive IS, but they may hire a consulting company to do the work for them...
It would sure be nice to have a convenient database of my target's purchases, and maybe even more importantly, purchase times and locations. It would save me hundreds of hours of surveillance time.