Why would anyone goof around trying to find a rock to break open your cheap $10 padlock
Because they know it will work.
Oh yes, because someone who has no thefts planned will just be casually strolling down the street at 2 AM and see the master lock on your toolshed and decide "you know what? I have had enough of the straight and narrow, time to steal some hedge trimmers".
You were the one who posited the "casual thief" in the first place:
The whole point of locks is a DETERRENT, they are not pure security. They will keep out casual thieves, who will go onto the next house that has no locks at all.
If he's seen this video, he now won't go the next house, because he knows he can defeat the lock in five seconds.
If I was a thief, and you gave me a free choice between an unlocked shed and one locked with a lock I knew I could defeat in five seconds, I'd probably go for the locked one on the basis that it was more likely to have something worth nicking inside.
The whole point of locks is a DETERRENT, they are not pure security.
Don't remember anyone saying otherwise...
They will keep out casual thieves
Not now they won't. Now a casual thief who's forgotten to bring his bolt cutters - and who isn't specifically looking out for a Master lock, by the way - will spot one and know that he can just tap it with a rock.
I'm having a hard time imagining a) exactly how your setup works and b) how it's any simpler than what's in the video.
When the attached arm rotates the disc and reaches the flat spot, it will remain upright long enough for the camera to take a picture. The arm then pushes the disc over to tumble the die then brings it back up for the next picture.
I'm sure that sounds like it explains it clearly and concisely to you... but it doesn't. How is the "can" affixed to the disc? How does the disc make the can move in such a way as to tumble the die? How do you keep the camera's snap interval in sync with the tumbler?
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An anonymous reader sends the story of another prison where inmates are learning the basics of programming, despite having no access to the vast educational resources on the internet.
Wow, you don't say. Just like I did for the first 20 years of my life. Amazing.
Well, how are they supposed to make sure they're safeguarding their own citizens, and not some other country's, unless they know exactly who everyone is?
Oh look, none of my otherwise up-to-date browsers display that glyph, despite it being from 2014. So what do websites have to do to give their users what they want (which is apparently emojis)? That's right, web fonts and/or Javascript libraries to render them.
Other swarm robotics research has looked at alternative resources such as alcohol, light and sound to simulate pheromones and swarm behaviour. However, these are complex and expensive methods compared to COS-phi, which simply combines the LCD screen and USB camera with an open-hardware micro-robot and an open source localisation system.
Oh, yeah, sure, those are other methods are really complex. All this this needs is to constrain the robots to roaming around on top of an LCD screen. That's practical.
Just because nature does something one way, doesn't mean it's the best way.
The length is relevant because all of that dust, seen straight on, blocks a lot of light. Stack enough window panes (less than you'd think, probably) on top of each other and eventually you won't be able to see anything through them at all.
Then it's just a question of how wide a comet's tail can get, in order to get sufficient coverage of the star's shape as seen from Earth. And since the tail can be 720x longer than the star's diameter, I don't think it's much of a leap to think that it could spread out enough in the other two dimensions to do this.
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Why would anyone goof around trying to find a rock to break open your cheap $10 padlock
Because they know it will work.
Oh yes, because someone who has no thefts planned will just be casually strolling down the street at 2 AM and see the master lock on your toolshed and decide "you know what? I have had enough of the straight and narrow, time to steal some hedge trimmers".
You were the one who posited the "casual thief" in the first place:
The whole point of locks is a DETERRENT, they are not pure security. They will keep out casual thieves, who will go onto the next house that has no locks at all.
If he's seen this video, he now won't go the next house, because he knows he can defeat the lock in five seconds.
If I was a thief, and you gave me a free choice between an unlocked shed and one locked with a lock I knew I could defeat in five seconds, I'd probably go for the locked one on the basis that it was more likely to have something worth nicking inside.
Well, that and the price difference.
Want a 500gb SSD? Can't get one for below £100 here. Want a 500Gb HDD? Can't get one for over £40.
They're "approaching" parity like Antarctica is approaching South America.
in 2017, they're expected to drop to 17 cents per gig
which is still 3x higher than current HDD prices.
That is all.
The whole point of locks is a DETERRENT, they are not pure security.
Don't remember anyone saying otherwise...
They will keep out casual thieves
Not now they won't. Now a casual thief who's forgotten to bring his bolt cutters - and who isn't specifically looking out for a Master lock, by the way - will spot one and know that he can just tap it with a rock.
how to open a new #3 Master Lock using a small brass hammer — in under 90 seconds.
The entire video is 72 seconds long. The actual defeating of the lock takes a grand total of five seconds.
So yeah, technically that is under 90 seconds. But you're really understating it.
PS Slashdot ate some of that paste up because it had < and > in it. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Wikipedia sez:
/* These state variables must be initialized so that they are not all zero. */
uint32_t x, y, z, w;
uint32_t xorshift128(void) {
uint32_t t = x ^ (x > 19) ^ t ^ (t >> 8);
}
Aren't the initial values of x,y,z,w the seed?
and vary in body size, from premature babies through to teens.
As opposed to adults, who are all exactly the same size?
Or are they expecting to have these kids on the X-ray table long enough to have a growth spurt halfway through?
xorshift sucks because you can't seed it.
Can't you?
Dice-O-Matic wins this one.
Looks fun and all, but I don't see how'd be able to get statistics on just one die with it.
I'm having a hard time imagining a) exactly how your setup works and b) how it's any simpler than what's in the video.
When the attached arm rotates the disc and reaches the flat spot, it will remain upright long enough for the camera to take a picture. The arm then pushes the disc over to tumble the die then brings it back up for the next picture.
I'm sure that sounds like it explains it clearly and concisely to you... but it doesn't. How is the "can" affixed to the disc? How does the disc make the can move in such a way as to tumble the die? How do you keep the camera's snap interval in sync with the tumbler?
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No, that's the desert scenes in Capricorn One you're thinking of.
Get your can to Mars.
I was asked how they would save energy, and that's all my answer covered.
Russia could move to wipe out the humiliation it suffered at the hands of NASA when it lost the 1960s race to the moon
Second comes right after first!
Swallow the Doctor
Is this the sequel to Nympho Nurses?
An anonymous reader sends the story of another prison where inmates are learning the basics of programming, despite having no access to the vast educational resources on the internet.
Wow, you don't say. Just like I did for the first 20 years of my life. Amazing.
We had these things called "books"...
Well, how are they supposed to make sure they're safeguarding their own citizens, and not some other country's, unless they know exactly who everyone is?
What's the Unicode for "tinfoil hat"?
The additional code to load them for display on the web
...is no more than the existing code to display any other glyph in a font. But in any case, perhaps U+1F595 Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended might be more to your liking.
Oh look, none of my otherwise up-to-date browsers display that glyph, despite it being from 2014. So what do websites have to do to give their users what they want (which is apparently emojis)? That's right, web fonts and/or Javascript libraries to render them.
How exactly does a space elevator "save" energy for lifting loads to orbit?
The same way using a ladder saves energy over using a jetpack.
Other swarm robotics research has looked at alternative resources such as alcohol, light and sound to simulate pheromones and swarm behaviour. However, these are complex and expensive methods compared to COS-phi, which simply combines the LCD screen and USB camera with an open-hardware micro-robot and an open source localisation system.
Oh, yeah, sure, those are other methods are really complex. All this this needs is to constrain the robots to roaming around on top of an LCD screen. That's practical.
Just because nature does something one way, doesn't mean it's the best way.
Nope. I think there was a 2.5mm variant floating around for a while, but it never caught on.
The length is relevant because all of that dust, seen straight on, blocks a lot of light. Stack enough window panes (less than you'd think, probably) on top of each other and eventually you won't be able to see anything through them at all.
Then it's just a question of how wide a comet's tail can get, in order to get sufficient coverage of the star's shape as seen from Earth. And since the tail can be 720x longer than the star's diameter, I don't think it's much of a leap to think that it could spread out enough in the other two dimensions to do this.
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