This isn't about meta data, that's the beauty of it. A polygraph indicates a subjective lie, meaning you are telling what YOU think is a lie. If you truly believe you did nothing illegal than the polygraph will indicate a truthful response when you say "No" to the question "Have you illegally downloaded music?"
The President and First Family was not there! The agents on duty would know this. If they had shot this man on the front lawn the headline would have been "Mentally ill Person KILLED needlessly by the Secret Service". Since he wasn't carrying anything, and weapon would have to be small, at most a bomb strapped to him, and the Prez no even there they made the right call. If you want to play what-if the Prez was home, I suspect there would be more agents on duty and they would react more aggressively.
Give credit where it's due. The quote is from one of Tom Lehrer's songs, I've forgotten the title and I don't have a record player for the albums, but I will be downloading them.
" As long as it's not government mandated" Here is Massachusetts we already have politicians working on legislation and the tech doesn't even exist yet.
" there are still plenty of normal mechanical only 1911's and.38 specials" They'll solve this in the legislation by restricting sale and transfer. If you have one you'll be OK but you won't be able to buy, sell, or transfer one.
OK this may be a scam. But passive RFID devices have been around for a while now. They get their power from a transmitted signal and then reply. These are common. Why wouldn't this work on the Bluetooth frequencies? I'm sure the Bluetooth transmitter has a much lower output but that's a matter of sensitivity not possibility.
The questions are unusual, I would have loved to hear the rationale behind them. One I like to ask, and was often asked why, was "What kind of car do you drive?" I found it a good personality indicator when other factors where taken into account. Such as income level, career level, family situation, age, and a number of other little things I pick up during the interview. It was also a great way to turn it into a conversation which tells you a lot more than an interview will.
First, a "panic" button already exists. It's called speed dial. Set it to dial 911 if you press and hold 1 for whatever amount of seconds is required. Second, at least around here, the PD gets the cell location info on a 911 automatically, and the address on a land-line. So from this standpoint this whole post is unworthy of being posted. My voice dial takes it a step further and assumes anything it doesn't understand is a 911 call. This makes it sooo much fun when I say call it it responds with "Calling 911".
As for the calling 911 because you didn't get your nuggets. Really??? Does this really deserve discussion. How about we just act like adults. The whole world is going to hell and you're trying to justify stupid behavior. Try being a little less PC. Besides, it's not a criminal act to forget the nuggets, their omission would need to be deliberate. I doubt the people at McDonald's care enough about you to want to piss you off by doing this deliberately. Besides I've yet to see a McDonald's manager who, when dealt with reasonably, didn't just say "sorry here are your nuggets, and here's a coupon for some free one next time", or "sorry here's you money back". These stupid calls come from people who need to be noticed and think they are better than average and can't accept that like most people, myself included, the world will continue, you will live and die, without being noticed by all but a few, and being important to even less. Get over yourelve, just because one stupid person got a reality show doesn't mean you deserve one too.
"You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!"
You have a point. IF you are driving a very short distance and it's all on a highway it's not worth it. But where does this happen? My nearest on-ramp is more that 4 miles (more than 8 round trip) away and all single lane residential 30-35 mph (no passing). The highway is minimum 2 lanes, usually 3, sometime 4, and slower traffic is supposed to keep right. If they do that then passing isn't a problem. The problem comes when self righteous people don't keep right because they feel they have the right to slow everyone else down, usually to 55 because they want to enforce "more economical" driving on everyone else. BTW you can be cited for "Failure to keep right" I wish this was enforced. Try driving slow on the left on the Autobahn, you'd become unpopular very fast. And has anyone studied the difference in gas mileage doing 65 vs.75 on a modern vehicle? When I bought my new vehicle in 2012 I did. I commute to work every day, same stretch of highway. I did a week of 55, a week of 65, and a week of 75, and I couldn't measure the difference is gas usage. I was actually trying to see if I could really get what the manufacturer said was the highway mph, I never got closer than 1.1 mph under. But I did see a major difference if I was constantly slowing down and speeding up because people were driving in the left lanes (3 lanes) and weren't passing. And before someone says anything, I was able to maintain speed by going into the office later in the day to avoid the traffic.
Lead, Follow, or get the F!@# out of the way.
BS, it's price fixing, either specifically or just an "understanding" among providers. In my town we have Verizon FIOS, Verizon DSL, Comcast, and RCN. So with 3 major providers of high-speed internet (DSL isn't high-speed) there should be some competition. But no, the cost is the same as in areas that have only one cable provider and Verizon DSL. This doesn't fit with a fair market, and it's not because of deregulation which would be nothing but government price fixing. We already have price fixing, we don't need to add government and increase our costs with government fees and taxes. Add to this that when you work out a speed/feature comparison the cost of all three are surprisingly (sarcasm) close.
I worked at a company that lived off it's US government contracts, and they were all HHS. And maybe it's just HHS, but the whole way they do contracts is messed up, in my opinion. If it wasn't for a few people in the contracting community the abuse and waste would be so bad nothing would get done. And everyone knows it, but no one says anything because rocking the boat is the easiest way to get tossed out. I saw a web site developed with no technical oversight of the subcontractor, no milestones set, very limited testing, and then days before being turned up, canceled by the government. Development, equipment, facilities, all for nothing. But everyone got paid. The preceding is my opinion and in no way represents anything...
Or inside the passenger compartment. Don't get me wrong, batteries burn too. But we shouldn't close our eyes to the real world. Almost any flammable gas or vapor is "safe" if it's in an open or well vented area. You just don't get the concentration levels you need to make it dangerous. But in the right environment, like the enclosed area inside a car, even sawdust (airborne) is a big problem. Remember, hydrogen is odorless and colorless, a leak could result in a flammable or explosive concentration inside a vehicle before anyone even notices. And before someone says it, sure add an odor, I'm sure that will do wonders for the efficiency of a fuel cell.
Facebook is a business. Facebook is not a "right". You choose to subscribe. They may be dominant, but they are not a monopoly. It's a free market. If you don't like what Facebook did go somewhere else. The number of "Friends" someone has on Facebook is inversely proportional to how much I want to be one of them (this last is a personal opinion, you don't get to argue about it). Social media is a government plot to get you to give away information they can't legally take (ok, now I'm trolling).
Definitely political, and they are outright lying.
I can call my insurance provider any time and they can tell me exactly what my year-to-date and policy-to-date out of pocket is. Or at least what it should be since they can't confirm that I actually paid my share to the care provider.
"No OS problems? No hangs or bluescreens with W95 or W98? That's unusual. " Windows 95 and 98 in the last 5 year??? I pretty much stay with the current version of the OS, at least what shipped OEM with the desktop/laptop, so no 95/98 in the last 5 years. I also don't do home networks, businesses know that reliability is more important than a user being able to change a system setting. Frankly most of the problem business systems I've seen were because of poor implementation, noone pays attention to details anymore.
As for bloat, remember a Windows install include a lot of junk most people don't use and includes support for far more hardware and software, again rarely used. I've created Windows Embedded images with a full GUI that fit on a 256MB cfash.
It's in the Metro-west area of Massachusetts. We were also one of the initial trial sites for FIOS and still get the higher speed FIOS offering before most others. But frankly I'd prefer a lower price.
My town has Comcast cable, RCN cable, Verizon DSL, and Verizon FIOS. The three companies all provide voice, Internet, and TV services. Both RCN and Verizon have their own copper for voice and offer VoIP through their data services. Comcast only does voice as VoIP. All of these are available throughout the town, this was a requirement when the town approved the installation of their copper/coax/fiber (except Verizon copper which pre-dated town control of the poles and buried services). But for some reason, despite the much higher level of competition having all these services should result in, pricing is identical to the local towns and cities that do not have this. And before someone says it, no they are not sharing the infrastructure. There are two sets of coax, two sets of copper, fiber for FIOS, and fiber interconnect for RCN's distributed nodes. RCN doesn't scramble their non-pay channels but still tells you you have to have a cable box for each TV, FIOS and Comcast do scramble. My point is, how can this not be price fixing. The coax goes back something like 15 years, the initial investment is long since paid for. When the town approved RCN to run their own cable they were told it would create competition with the existing Comcast cable TV service and Verizon phone service, reducing costs to town residents. Never happened.
The Linux/Windows argument has gone on a long time with radicals on both sides screaming how their choice is easier and better. But the bottom line is that which is easier depends on which you know better, and which is better depends on what you're doing with it.
Maybe I have an advantage having worked with many different systems; DEC/PDP1170, UNIX, PET, Apple (the original, the II and the IIe), Mac (again original and current), IBM/DOS, MSDOS, Windows (all versions, including no-GUI embedded windows), Linux (several variants), NeXTSTEP, OS/2 (which was way better than the original Windows, IBM seriously screwed up).
I've managed over 150 Windows desktops/laptops in a business environment with multiple locations using nothing more than a couple low end Domain Controllers, AD and GPOs. And over 5 years I had 2 failed desktop drives, one failed server drive (in a RAID array), 1 failed desktop power supply, and 1 failed server power supply. No OS or MS Office problems. Fully automated updates. After the install, only ever went to a desktop for the hardware failures I listed. I wouldn't want to try this with Linux.
On the other hand, I've used Linux variants for FTP servers, NAS servers, WiFi devices, Bulk SIP testing systems (w/RTP streams), Asterisk, and more. I'd say they all took longer to get set up just right, after that they just kept working.
Mostly I use Linux for single use servers that needed to get the most out of the hardware, but hardware is getting cheap. Windows Storage Server can be a good NAS, but I can run FreeNAS on low end hardware and get the same performance. On the other had I tried to build a cheap home NAS using desktop level components (all purchased at Micro Center). Just a Saturday afternoon project. I tried both the FreeNAS (which I'd used before) and OpenFiler ISO install, and 3 RAID cards later I find that the 4x2.5" hot-swap bay I'm using is interfering with the drive detection. Had I used Windows it would have been up and running without problems.
My point is its more about what you need to get from the system that what OS its running. A lot of business Apps and Games are only available in Windows, so the choice is made for you.
BTW before you say the desktop is easier to use in Linux you may want to say which Linux and which GUI (plus add-ons) you're talking about. The many possible Linux/GUI combinations means your average office worker can take their Windows skills elsewhere, not so much with Linux. The world isn't made up of IT people, we're a minority. A really good OS wouldn't even have a Control Panel.
Why is it when I post with Chrome it takes out all my line feeds, guess I should use IE.
Thank you, a reasonable person at last, my thoughts exactly.
A friend of mine once told me "I can always tell when you're carrying", which was pretty much all the time unless a Bar, Beach, or Federal building was involved, because he said I was just a little bit quieter and reserved. I knew what my responsibility was and how far something could go. I take my right to carry a firearm very seriously. And I never mistake that right as somehow releasing me from my responsibility to the human race to treat others as I would have them treat me.
Even if the stat was correct, which I sincerely doubt, how would you like to be the 1 in 10000 that gets beat to death because they can't out run their attacker. I'm pretty sure some hopped-up drug addict could out run me.
As for when it's appropriate to use deadly force, and that's the only kind there is with a gun, if I remember my training correctly (give me a break it was 25 years ago), minimum reaction distance, the distance required to properly draw aim and fire a handgun when an attacker is moving toward you, was 15ft. The instructor cited this as am FBI stat, but I never saw it in print. So if you're 15ft or less away and you are clearly a threat to my life or the lives of my family... well I'd rather face a jury than go to the funeral of a loved one. It's shameful that in today's world, because of the F-ed up system, I no longer feel I can step in and protect a stranger in the same manner. I guess if you (the hypothetical you) were clearly about to be stabbed by a knife wielding drug addict I'd just have to wait until he plunged the knife in before shooting him.
As for the original topic, just wonderful (sarcasm). Picture this. I own a gun, an M1 Garand (a big scary Army gun..I mean "rifle"), my bleeding-heart neighbor doesn't like guns so he geotags my house, now every criminal out there that wants to steal a gun knows where to go, even though they really don't want a Garand. Just wonderful.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for tagging anyone whose been convicted of a felony, violent, sexual, or otherwise (ya you white-collar criminals too). But this will just lead to more crime.
On the other hand this would mean I can create an app to geotag everyone that someone thinks is 'scary'. And at $.99 per copy I bet it'll add up to some nice cash.
How about if the gun owner had kept the guns out of the hands of her know-to-be-unstable son? Wouldn't that have resulted in a 0% chance of her guns being used? Note that I'm not saying a 0% change of a tragedy, the kid was a disaster waiting to happen and people knew it and didn't try to stop it. I didn't blame the car when the drunk driver killed my cousin, I didn't blame the Bar, the distillery, other drivers, the car manufacturer, or the fact that cars are easily available. No, I blamed the driver!!! Also his license had already been suspended. I don't know where he is today, but I know he isn't rotting in jail as he should be.
On another note, more people are injured or killed in car accidents where speeding is a factor than are injured or killed by firearms. How about we require a governor limiting speed to 65MPH in all cars? This has been technologically viable since 1985 when wide scale use of electronic control systems became reality.....and yes I'm kidding.
BTW this isn't a new idea, I remember reading about a similar system with a wrist transmitter and grip receiver decades ago. I bet it's failure rate would be lower than a finger print reader, but where is it today? VC don't put money into this kind of thing because they know it’s not going anywhere.
How is this an ACLU issue? These are the people who are supposed to stand up for our rights, as in Constitutionally guaranteed rights. Do they really have so little to do stopping the violation of our rights that they need to go into this? As someone whose rights have been violated and seen the ACLU pick and choose their involvement based on what will have the greatest impact, supposedly. I'm appalled to see them getting involved in a consumer issue that has nothing to do with an individual's or groups rights. Sorry but you don't have a "right" to security updates. It's a free market economy, you have a "right" not to use a product or service.
I'm not offering an opinion on if the carriers should or didn't do something. I’m only commenting on the ACLU acting like a big money, sleazy, class-action lawyer and not the champion of our rights they claim to be.
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This isn't about meta data, that's the beauty of it. A polygraph indicates a subjective lie, meaning you are telling what YOU think is a lie. If you truly believe you did nothing illegal than the polygraph will indicate a truthful response when you say "No" to the question "Have you illegally downloaded music?"
The President and First Family was not there! The agents on duty would know this. If they had shot this man on the front lawn the headline would have been "Mentally ill Person KILLED needlessly by the Secret Service". Since he wasn't carrying anything, and weapon would have to be small, at most a bomb strapped to him, and the Prez no even there they made the right call. If you want to play what-if the Prez was home, I suspect there would be more agents on duty and they would react more aggressively.
Give credit where it's due. The quote is from one of Tom Lehrer's songs, I've forgotten the title and I don't have a record player for the albums, but I will be downloading them.
" As long as it's not government mandated" Here is Massachusetts we already have politicians working on legislation and the tech doesn't even exist yet. " there are still plenty of normal mechanical only 1911's and .38 specials" They'll solve this in the legislation by restricting sale and transfer. If you have one you'll be OK but you won't be able to buy, sell, or transfer one.
OK this may be a scam. But passive RFID devices have been around for a while now. They get their power from a transmitted signal and then reply. These are common. Why wouldn't this work on the Bluetooth frequencies? I'm sure the Bluetooth transmitter has a much lower output but that's a matter of sensitivity not possibility.
The questions are unusual, I would have loved to hear the rationale behind them. One I like to ask, and was often asked why, was "What kind of car do you drive?" I found it a good personality indicator when other factors where taken into account. Such as income level, career level, family situation, age, and a number of other little things I pick up during the interview. It was also a great way to turn it into a conversation which tells you a lot more than an interview will.
First, a "panic" button already exists. It's called speed dial. Set it to dial 911 if you press and hold 1 for whatever amount of seconds is required. Second, at least around here, the PD gets the cell location info on a 911 automatically, and the address on a land-line. So from this standpoint this whole post is unworthy of being posted. My voice dial takes it a step further and assumes anything it doesn't understand is a 911 call. This makes it sooo much fun when I say call it it responds with "Calling 911". As for the calling 911 because you didn't get your nuggets. Really??? Does this really deserve discussion. How about we just act like adults. The whole world is going to hell and you're trying to justify stupid behavior. Try being a little less PC. Besides, it's not a criminal act to forget the nuggets, their omission would need to be deliberate. I doubt the people at McDonald's care enough about you to want to piss you off by doing this deliberately. Besides I've yet to see a McDonald's manager who, when dealt with reasonably, didn't just say "sorry here are your nuggets, and here's a coupon for some free one next time", or "sorry here's you money back". These stupid calls come from people who need to be noticed and think they are better than average and can't accept that like most people, myself included, the world will continue, you will live and die, without being noticed by all but a few, and being important to even less. Get over yourelve, just because one stupid person got a reality show doesn't mean you deserve one too.
"You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!" You have a point. IF you are driving a very short distance and it's all on a highway it's not worth it. But where does this happen? My nearest on-ramp is more that 4 miles (more than 8 round trip) away and all single lane residential 30-35 mph (no passing). The highway is minimum 2 lanes, usually 3, sometime 4, and slower traffic is supposed to keep right. If they do that then passing isn't a problem. The problem comes when self righteous people don't keep right because they feel they have the right to slow everyone else down, usually to 55 because they want to enforce "more economical" driving on everyone else. BTW you can be cited for "Failure to keep right" I wish this was enforced. Try driving slow on the left on the Autobahn, you'd become unpopular very fast. And has anyone studied the difference in gas mileage doing 65 vs.75 on a modern vehicle? When I bought my new vehicle in 2012 I did. I commute to work every day, same stretch of highway. I did a week of 55, a week of 65, and a week of 75, and I couldn't measure the difference is gas usage. I was actually trying to see if I could really get what the manufacturer said was the highway mph, I never got closer than 1.1 mph under. But I did see a major difference if I was constantly slowing down and speeding up because people were driving in the left lanes (3 lanes) and weren't passing. And before someone says anything, I was able to maintain speed by going into the office later in the day to avoid the traffic. Lead, Follow, or get the F!@# out of the way.
BS, it's price fixing, either specifically or just an "understanding" among providers. In my town we have Verizon FIOS, Verizon DSL, Comcast, and RCN. So with 3 major providers of high-speed internet (DSL isn't high-speed) there should be some competition. But no, the cost is the same as in areas that have only one cable provider and Verizon DSL. This doesn't fit with a fair market, and it's not because of deregulation which would be nothing but government price fixing. We already have price fixing, we don't need to add government and increase our costs with government fees and taxes. Add to this that when you work out a speed/feature comparison the cost of all three are surprisingly (sarcasm) close.
I worked at a company that lived off it's US government contracts, and they were all HHS. And maybe it's just HHS, but the whole way they do contracts is messed up, in my opinion. If it wasn't for a few people in the contracting community the abuse and waste would be so bad nothing would get done. And everyone knows it, but no one says anything because rocking the boat is the easiest way to get tossed out. I saw a web site developed with no technical oversight of the subcontractor, no milestones set, very limited testing, and then days before being turned up, canceled by the government. Development, equipment, facilities, all for nothing. But everyone got paid. The preceding is my opinion and in no way represents anything...
Or inside the passenger compartment. Don't get me wrong, batteries burn too. But we shouldn't close our eyes to the real world. Almost any flammable gas or vapor is "safe" if it's in an open or well vented area. You just don't get the concentration levels you need to make it dangerous. But in the right environment, like the enclosed area inside a car, even sawdust (airborne) is a big problem. Remember, hydrogen is odorless and colorless, a leak could result in a flammable or explosive concentration inside a vehicle before anyone even notices. And before someone says it, sure add an odor, I'm sure that will do wonders for the efficiency of a fuel cell.
Facebook is a business. Facebook is not a "right". You choose to subscribe. They may be dominant, but they are not a monopoly. It's a free market. If you don't like what Facebook did go somewhere else. The number of "Friends" someone has on Facebook is inversely proportional to how much I want to be one of them (this last is a personal opinion, you don't get to argue about it). Social media is a government plot to get you to give away information they can't legally take (ok, now I'm trolling).
Attempting suicide is unlawful, committing suicide is not.
Definitely political, and they are outright lying. I can call my insurance provider any time and they can tell me exactly what my year-to-date and policy-to-date out of pocket is. Or at least what it should be since they can't confirm that I actually paid my share to the care provider.
"No OS problems? No hangs or bluescreens with W95 or W98? That's unusual. " Windows 95 and 98 in the last 5 year??? I pretty much stay with the current version of the OS, at least what shipped OEM with the desktop/laptop, so no 95/98 in the last 5 years. I also don't do home networks, businesses know that reliability is more important than a user being able to change a system setting. Frankly most of the problem business systems I've seen were because of poor implementation, noone pays attention to details anymore. As for bloat, remember a Windows install include a lot of junk most people don't use and includes support for far more hardware and software, again rarely used. I've created Windows Embedded images with a full GUI that fit on a 256MB cfash.
It's in the Metro-west area of Massachusetts. We were also one of the initial trial sites for FIOS and still get the higher speed FIOS offering before most others. But frankly I'd prefer a lower price.
My town has Comcast cable, RCN cable, Verizon DSL, and Verizon FIOS. The three companies all provide voice, Internet, and TV services. Both RCN and Verizon have their own copper for voice and offer VoIP through their data services. Comcast only does voice as VoIP. All of these are available throughout the town, this was a requirement when the town approved the installation of their copper/coax/fiber (except Verizon copper which pre-dated town control of the poles and buried services). But for some reason, despite the much higher level of competition having all these services should result in, pricing is identical to the local towns and cities that do not have this. And before someone says it, no they are not sharing the infrastructure. There are two sets of coax, two sets of copper, fiber for FIOS, and fiber interconnect for RCN's distributed nodes. RCN doesn't scramble their non-pay channels but still tells you you have to have a cable box for each TV, FIOS and Comcast do scramble. My point is, how can this not be price fixing. The coax goes back something like 15 years, the initial investment is long since paid for. When the town approved RCN to run their own cable they were told it would create competition with the existing Comcast cable TV service and Verizon phone service, reducing costs to town residents. Never happened.
The Linux/Windows argument has gone on a long time with radicals on both sides screaming how their choice is easier and better. But the bottom line is that which is easier depends on which you know better, and which is better depends on what you're doing with it. Maybe I have an advantage having worked with many different systems; DEC/PDP1170, UNIX, PET, Apple (the original, the II and the IIe), Mac (again original and current), IBM/DOS, MSDOS, Windows (all versions, including no-GUI embedded windows), Linux (several variants), NeXTSTEP, OS/2 (which was way better than the original Windows, IBM seriously screwed up). I've managed over 150 Windows desktops/laptops in a business environment with multiple locations using nothing more than a couple low end Domain Controllers, AD and GPOs. And over 5 years I had 2 failed desktop drives, one failed server drive (in a RAID array), 1 failed desktop power supply, and 1 failed server power supply. No OS or MS Office problems. Fully automated updates. After the install, only ever went to a desktop for the hardware failures I listed. I wouldn't want to try this with Linux. On the other hand, I've used Linux variants for FTP servers, NAS servers, WiFi devices, Bulk SIP testing systems (w/RTP streams), Asterisk, and more. I'd say they all took longer to get set up just right, after that they just kept working. Mostly I use Linux for single use servers that needed to get the most out of the hardware, but hardware is getting cheap. Windows Storage Server can be a good NAS, but I can run FreeNAS on low end hardware and get the same performance. On the other had I tried to build a cheap home NAS using desktop level components (all purchased at Micro Center). Just a Saturday afternoon project. I tried both the FreeNAS (which I'd used before) and OpenFiler ISO install, and 3 RAID cards later I find that the 4x2.5" hot-swap bay I'm using is interfering with the drive detection. Had I used Windows it would have been up and running without problems. My point is its more about what you need to get from the system that what OS its running. A lot of business Apps and Games are only available in Windows, so the choice is made for you. BTW before you say the desktop is easier to use in Linux you may want to say which Linux and which GUI (plus add-ons) you're talking about. The many possible Linux/GUI combinations means your average office worker can take their Windows skills elsewhere, not so much with Linux. The world isn't made up of IT people, we're a minority. A really good OS wouldn't even have a Control Panel. Why is it when I post with Chrome it takes out all my line feeds, guess I should use IE.
Thank you, a reasonable person at last, my thoughts exactly. A friend of mine once told me "I can always tell when you're carrying", which was pretty much all the time unless a Bar, Beach, or Federal building was involved, because he said I was just a little bit quieter and reserved. I knew what my responsibility was and how far something could go. I take my right to carry a firearm very seriously. And I never mistake that right as somehow releasing me from my responsibility to the human race to treat others as I would have them treat me.
Even if the stat was correct, which I sincerely doubt, how would you like to be the 1 in 10000 that gets beat to death because they can't out run their attacker. I'm pretty sure some hopped-up drug addict could out run me. As for when it's appropriate to use deadly force, and that's the only kind there is with a gun, if I remember my training correctly (give me a break it was 25 years ago), minimum reaction distance, the distance required to properly draw aim and fire a handgun when an attacker is moving toward you, was 15ft. The instructor cited this as am FBI stat, but I never saw it in print. So if you're 15ft or less away and you are clearly a threat to my life or the lives of my family... well I'd rather face a jury than go to the funeral of a loved one. It's shameful that in today's world, because of the F-ed up system, I no longer feel I can step in and protect a stranger in the same manner. I guess if you (the hypothetical you) were clearly about to be stabbed by a knife wielding drug addict I'd just have to wait until he plunged the knife in before shooting him. As for the original topic, just wonderful (sarcasm). Picture this. I own a gun, an M1 Garand (a big scary Army gun..I mean "rifle"), my bleeding-heart neighbor doesn't like guns so he geotags my house, now every criminal out there that wants to steal a gun knows where to go, even though they really don't want a Garand. Just wonderful. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for tagging anyone whose been convicted of a felony, violent, sexual, or otherwise (ya you white-collar criminals too). But this will just lead to more crime. On the other hand this would mean I can create an app to geotag everyone that someone thinks is 'scary'. And at $.99 per copy I bet it'll add up to some nice cash.
How about if the gun owner had kept the guns out of the hands of her know-to-be-unstable son? Wouldn't that have resulted in a 0% chance of her guns being used? Note that I'm not saying a 0% change of a tragedy, the kid was a disaster waiting to happen and people knew it and didn't try to stop it. I didn't blame the car when the drunk driver killed my cousin, I didn't blame the Bar, the distillery, other drivers, the car manufacturer, or the fact that cars are easily available. No, I blamed the driver!!! Also his license had already been suspended. I don't know where he is today, but I know he isn't rotting in jail as he should be. On another note, more people are injured or killed in car accidents where speeding is a factor than are injured or killed by firearms. How about we require a governor limiting speed to 65MPH in all cars? This has been technologically viable since 1985 when wide scale use of electronic control systems became reality.....and yes I'm kidding. BTW this isn't a new idea, I remember reading about a similar system with a wrist transmitter and grip receiver decades ago. I bet it's failure rate would be lower than a finger print reader, but where is it today? VC don't put money into this kind of thing because they know it’s not going anywhere.
How is this an ACLU issue? These are the people who are supposed to stand up for our rights, as in Constitutionally guaranteed rights. Do they really have so little to do stopping the violation of our rights that they need to go into this? As someone whose rights have been violated and seen the ACLU pick and choose their involvement based on what will have the greatest impact, supposedly. I'm appalled to see them getting involved in a consumer issue that has nothing to do with an individual's or groups rights. Sorry but you don't have a "right" to security updates. It's a free market economy, you have a "right" not to use a product or service. I'm not offering an opinion on if the carriers should or didn't do something. I’m only commenting on the ACLU acting like a big money, sleazy, class-action lawyer and not the champion of our rights they claim to be.