You realize, don't you, that the most failsafe method of preventing another terrorist hijacking is to allow people that are legally owned to carry a firearm to do so on planes?
The fact is, people are now aware of the fact that terrorists are motivated to take down a plane; previously, it was simply thought that they would demand a random and they'd be set free - either after the USMC or SOCOM took the terrorists out, or the ransom is paid.
The argument that "a firearm will cause a plane to crash" is complete nonsense; Its surprising that the planes of WWII managed to continue flying after having been shot quite a few times with.50 cal fighter bullets as well as larger AA flak. And having armed citizens onboard a plane - or at least the potential for them - would deter terrorists fairly well, I think: they'd realize their chances of being shot and failing their mission are further deminished.
However, you're still right: terrorists will probably never again use airliners as weapons against us again; that plan required stealth.
Furthermore, the government needs to take less additional 'precautions' and just:
a) use the resources they have more efficiently (ie, get rid of some of the beaurocrats) b) address the biggest problems first (ie, the borders - specifically the southern border)
This is the UK health system we're talking about here, though. It's more a political machine than a medical one, rife with incompetence and politically motivated decisions.
They probably just told him that to advert a lawsuit disaster.
Actually, forensic data recovery (on a limited scale, when you know roughly what you're looking for and where to find it) is pretty damn easy. A pregrad-level CS or IT student should be able to figure it out on their own without too much trouble; there are many guides and manuals to do so.
Anyway, he wasn't even talking about forensic data recovery. He wsa talking about making a disk image and then doing something along the lines of mounting it later and parsing for pertinent data...
Yeah, but who's workstation is it? Sally Deskclerk or Michael Sysadmin?
All a person needs is a single in, time, and patience. If they're working from the inside with no concrete time table, they likely have the time and patience.
From that single point of access (preferably, on the workstation of - at least - a developer), they can derive access to any system that person has access to, and can then fairly easily escelate priviledges from there. No system is invulnerable, and often enough simply having a user-level account on a sensitive machine is enough to compromise the system enough to be a concern for the admin and an advantage to the user.
My personal favorite disposal method involves the discharge of small arms.
Though, failing that, a sledge does the job quite nicely - and it's great relief when you're pissed all to hell at your idiot bosses. Keeps you from losing it and doing something drastic like quiting...
I find it very hard to believe that this sentiment is repeatedly echoed here on Slashdot.
A couple things:
- Does nobody on slashdot have a spouse and/or child? A single-seat vehicle is not only impractical, it's pretty much useless. Sure, it's fine for daily commuting (as far as capacity is concerned) for maybe 90% of the population, but anyone that has kids and needs to go shopping needs at least 3 seats worth of space. Look around you sometime: you'll notice many people have children.
- These small electric cars are basically 4-wheeled, caged motorcycles. Basically, they're an unagile motorcycle with a slow and inadequate top speed and a protective role cage (which will likely do more harm than good in a collision due to the fact that you won't be able to fly out of the way of harm). Other drivers won't see you, and unlike a motorcyle, it's quiet, so they won't be able to hear you either.
There's a local nursing home which is supposedly haunted. I've never been there, but know someone that works there, and it positively creeps him out.
It's an older building, one of the first hospitals in the area. It's now a nursing home (as already stated). It's got three wings: the main wing, south wing, and west wing, forming an L shape. The whole building (being a nursing home) has had the doors and windows wired to detect escapees.
The west wing is permanantly closed off. It's been like this for about 10 years. According to my friend Brandon, the employees won't even go near the wing's entrance at night. He (and another friend who used to work there) said there'd be weird shit that would go on randomly at night: door alarms would go off, lights would mysteriously get turned on, and various other odd stuff like that. Typical "haunted" stuff.
Supposedly the west wing used to be used to house crazy people, back before such things took more of a "subdued" treatment approach.
The current influx of H1B workers came in under Clinton's reign of terror. You just weren't paying attention. The economic fallout we suffered circa 2000 was due to 8 years of politically-motivated economic sabotage, artificial market stimulation (releasing much of our petrolium reserves), and various other nonsense.
If I wanted to trace my film through the pirate networks, I would do that in conjunction to sending out the DVDs with mixed-up scenes. The scenes would be otherwise identical except for filmed artifacts (hair brushes, car keys, bullet holes - whatever) that were digitally inserted to look realistic. It would be benign and unnoticeable, as they'd look like belonging, and by simply moving (say) a bullet hole a little bit left or right in the camera shot, you can get a lot of combinations without much digital manipulation. (It'd also be easy to check on the production side to figure out which person leaked the copy.)
Please, that really doesn't dignify an intelligent response... but I digress.
If they continue to 'buy tuna' I would "have" to either let them starve or give them money to buy the tuna. Instead, I should be letting them fish for me, and I'll build his house with the time I would've spent fishing for him. Voila, an instant doubling of societal productivity!
No, you idiot. There's hardly -any- interest (on the little that is actually a loan, that is). It's much, much lower than inflation and in many respects doesn't have to be paid off for many years. Yet they're still been defaulting on their loans when they come due, and basically taking the money and running. Mexico does this all the time, too.
But the majority of the money we're sending Africa isn't loans; it's simple aid. Billions of dollars worth. They, of course, just take that and run, too.
Precisely. MS wants their 360 to be a livingroom peripheral hooker. You'll be able to put your data in, but you'll pay for it dearly, and you won't be able to get it back.
Catch 22: It doesn't benefit Microsoft unless it benefits consumers and other companies accept it, but it doesn't benefit consumers and other companies unless it doesn't compete and, indeed, bolster's MS's portfolio.
The same argument could be used against giving them food: give them food, and they won't care to (or at least have to) learn how to produce it themselves.
You're right. "The west" should stop it right now, starting by cutting off all the aid money we've been sending there for decades. And those who think I'm kidding, I'm not: I'm dead fucking serious.
And if you think I'm still kidding, or I'm being a prick: pay better attention. Western aid has been the single biggest catalyst to conflict in Africa, aside from Islamic extremism. Get rid of the aid money, and most of the greedy dictators will be much more apparent and easier for locals to dispose of.
Yeah, thaqt kind of got me. I would've thought high tensile strength would've been important as well, as otherwise I'd think it'd be pretty easy to crack the stuff, even with "mere" bullets.
Concrete has high compressive strength and low tensile strength. A mere 7.62x39mm round (what the AK variants use) can shoot through such a cinderblock in one or two shots. Concrete has a similar effect. However, they can both support quite a few pounds per square inch.
Er, if it's anything like the 1918 pandemic, smokers will be at lower risk (I think) than everyone else of dying, as their immune systems are already somewhat depressed. The 1918 flu killed mainly people in the peak of their immune fitness, 16-38.
Well, Biblical "end times" are supposed to be rife with anarchy, disease, famine, and natural disasters. Looks like we -might- be on the pinacle of such events, if indeed things start getting worse.
On the other hand, there's a group of people that thinks the book of Revelations in the Bible is merely a very insightful template for the eb and flow of government: a very dramatic example of how a typical government falls appart and a new one comes into its place, including the political/social impressions of the events as well.
Wait, what does a Christian's perspective on condoms have to do with the willingness of blacks/homosexuals to commit sodomy (either with or without a condom)? If they don't, that's their own fault, and has not a fucking thing in the world to do with Christians anywhere.
Not only that, but an influenza epidemic (er, pandemic) has much, much more potential to do damage than any of the other things you mentioned. The key word here is "potential", and that's exactly what is trying to be avoided by the active combat being done against this flu strain. AIDS is on a decline throughout the world (well, except in Africa). TB, Cholera, Typhoid and Malaria are diseases that are well known and have become mostly stabilized throughout the world, but are still receiving large amounts of attention (Malaria is still a very real problem, for the most part). We're simply playing catch-up with this flu variant which is potentially an extinction-level event for humanity. If it jumps the race barrier, there's really little we'd be able to do to keep our societies integral, what with half the world's populations dying in a matter of weeks.
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It's simple, really.
Their membership is probably mostly ugly people.
The guys that use the service won't get laid, generally, because they're socially inept: ugly guys can still get laid if they have charm.
Ugly women can too, when the person is desperate.
However, ugly women won't shag charmless guys.
So, they just need to hire 'escorts' for those charmless saps - and that's what appears to have happened here.
You realize, don't you, that the most failsafe method of preventing another terrorist hijacking is to allow people that are legally owned to carry a firearm to do so on planes?
.50 cal fighter bullets as well as larger AA flak. And having armed citizens onboard a plane - or at least the potential for them - would deter terrorists fairly well, I think: they'd realize their chances of being shot and failing their mission are further deminished.
The fact is, people are now aware of the fact that terrorists are motivated to take down a plane; previously, it was simply thought that they would demand a random and they'd be set free - either after the USMC or SOCOM took the terrorists out, or the ransom is paid.
The argument that "a firearm will cause a plane to crash" is complete nonsense; Its surprising that the planes of WWII managed to continue flying after having been shot quite a few times with
However, you're still right: terrorists will probably never again use airliners as weapons against us again; that plan required stealth.
Thank you. That's exactly it.
Furthermore, the government needs to take less additional 'precautions' and just:
a) use the resources they have more efficiently (ie, get rid of some of the beaurocrats)
b) address the biggest problems first (ie, the borders - specifically the southern border)
This is the UK health system we're talking about here, though. It's more a political machine than a medical one, rife with incompetence and politically motivated decisions.
They probably just told him that to advert a lawsuit disaster.
Yep, exactly right.
Don't be fooled by this... it's just yet another attempt to hold onto the societal esteem of women and debase the importance of men.
If we can clone humans, what do we need the wombs of women for?
Actually, forensic data recovery (on a limited scale, when you know roughly what you're looking for and where to find it) is pretty damn easy. A pregrad-level CS or IT student should be able to figure it out on their own without too much trouble; there are many guides and manuals to do so.
Anyway, he wasn't even talking about forensic data recovery. He wsa talking about making a disk image and then doing something along the lines of mounting it later and parsing for pertinent data...
Yeah, but who's workstation is it? Sally Deskclerk or Michael Sysadmin?
All a person needs is a single in, time, and patience. If they're working from the inside with no concrete time table, they likely have the time and patience.
From that single point of access (preferably, on the workstation of - at least - a developer), they can derive access to any system that person has access to, and can then fairly easily escelate priviledges from there. No system is invulnerable, and often enough simply having a user-level account on a sensitive machine is enough to compromise the system enough to be a concern for the admin and an advantage to the user.
My personal favorite disposal method involves the discharge of small arms.
Though, failing that, a sledge does the job quite nicely - and it's great relief when you're pissed all to hell at your idiot bosses. Keeps you from losing it and doing something drastic like quiting...
Yep. I know three people that have been similarly fucked over by this idiotic law.
I find it very hard to believe that this sentiment is repeatedly echoed here on Slashdot.
A couple things:
- Does nobody on slashdot have a spouse and/or child? A single-seat vehicle is not only impractical, it's pretty much useless. Sure, it's fine for daily commuting (as far as capacity is concerned) for maybe 90% of the population, but anyone that has kids and needs to go shopping needs at least 3 seats worth of space. Look around you sometime: you'll notice many people have children.
- These small electric cars are basically 4-wheeled, caged motorcycles. Basically, they're an unagile motorcycle with a slow and inadequate top speed and a protective role cage (which will likely do more harm than good in a collision due to the fact that you won't be able to fly out of the way of harm). Other drivers won't see you, and unlike a motorcyle, it's quiet, so they won't be able to hear you either.
Who the hell is ScuttleMonkey, and what did he do with the CmdrTaco Gang? He's the only one I've seen posting stories lately....
There's a local nursing home which is supposedly haunted. I've never been there, but know someone that works there, and it positively creeps him out.
It's an older building, one of the first hospitals in the area. It's now a nursing home (as already stated). It's got three wings: the main wing, south wing, and west wing, forming an L shape. The whole building (being a nursing home) has had the doors and windows wired to detect escapees.
The west wing is permanantly closed off. It's been like this for about 10 years. According to my friend Brandon, the employees won't even go near the wing's entrance at night. He (and another friend who used to work there) said there'd be weird shit that would go on randomly at night: door alarms would go off, lights would mysteriously get turned on, and various other odd stuff like that. Typical "haunted" stuff.
Supposedly the west wing used to be used to house crazy people, back before such things took more of a "subdued" treatment approach.
How's that, exactly?
The current influx of H1B workers came in under Clinton's reign of terror. You just weren't paying attention. The economic fallout we suffered circa 2000 was due to 8 years of politically-motivated economic sabotage, artificial market stimulation (releasing much of our petrolium reserves), and various other nonsense.
Exactly.
If I wanted to trace my film through the pirate networks, I would do that in conjunction to sending out the DVDs with mixed-up scenes. The scenes would be otherwise identical except for filmed artifacts (hair brushes, car keys, bullet holes - whatever) that were digitally inserted to look realistic. It would be benign and unnoticeable, as they'd look like belonging, and by simply moving (say) a bullet hole a little bit left or right in the camera shot, you can get a lot of combinations without much digital manipulation. (It'd also be easy to check on the production side to figure out which person leaked the copy.)
Please, that really doesn't dignify an intelligent response... but I digress.
If they continue to 'buy tuna' I would "have" to either let them starve or give them money to buy the tuna. Instead, I should be letting them fish for me, and I'll build his house with the time I would've spent fishing for him. Voila, an instant doubling of societal productivity!
No, you idiot. There's hardly -any- interest (on the little that is actually a loan, that is). It's much, much lower than inflation and in many respects doesn't have to be paid off for many years. Yet they're still been defaulting on their loans when they come due, and basically taking the money and running. Mexico does this all the time, too.
But the majority of the money we're sending Africa isn't loans; it's simple aid. Billions of dollars worth. They, of course, just take that and run, too.
Precisely. MS wants their 360 to be a livingroom peripheral hooker. You'll be able to put your data in, but you'll pay for it dearly, and you won't be able to get it back.
Catch 22: It doesn't benefit Microsoft unless it benefits consumers and other companies accept it, but it doesn't benefit consumers and other companies unless it doesn't compete and, indeed, bolster's MS's portfolio.
Is this guy for real?
The same argument could be used against giving them food: give them food, and they won't care to (or at least have to) learn how to produce it themselves.
You're right. "The west" should stop it right now, starting by cutting off all the aid money we've been sending there for decades. And those who think I'm kidding, I'm not: I'm dead fucking serious.
And if you think I'm still kidding, or I'm being a prick: pay better attention. Western aid has been the single biggest catalyst to conflict in Africa, aside from Islamic extremism. Get rid of the aid money, and most of the greedy dictators will be much more apparent and easier for locals to dispose of.
The muzzle velocity difference isn't probably going to be too significant. IIRC, surplus 54R has a pretty fast burn.
.50 cal a "Browning Sniper Rifle" (IIRC), but I'd be willing to bet it was actually a Barrett rifle, not Browning.
THey also called the
Yeah, thaqt kind of got me. I would've thought high tensile strength would've been important as well, as otherwise I'd think it'd be pretty easy to crack the stuff, even with "mere" bullets.
Concrete has high compressive strength and low tensile strength. A mere 7.62x39mm round (what the AK variants use) can shoot through such a cinderblock in one or two shots. Concrete has a similar effect. However, they can both support quite a few pounds per square inch.
Er, if it's anything like the 1918 pandemic, smokers will be at lower risk (I think) than everyone else of dying, as their immune systems are already somewhat depressed. The 1918 flu killed mainly people in the peak of their immune fitness, 16-38.
Well, Biblical "end times" are supposed to be rife with anarchy, disease, famine, and natural disasters. Looks like we -might- be on the pinacle of such events, if indeed things start getting worse.
On the other hand, there's a group of people that thinks the book of Revelations in the Bible is merely a very insightful template for the eb and flow of government: a very dramatic example of how a typical government falls appart and a new one comes into its place, including the political/social impressions of the events as well.
Wait, what does a Christian's perspective on condoms have to do with the willingness of blacks/homosexuals to commit sodomy (either with or without a condom)? If they don't, that's their own fault, and has not a fucking thing in the world to do with Christians anywhere.
Not only that, but an influenza epidemic (er, pandemic) has much, much more potential to do damage than any of the other things you mentioned. The key word here is "potential", and that's exactly what is trying to be avoided by the active combat being done against this flu strain. AIDS is on a decline throughout the world (well, except in Africa). TB, Cholera, Typhoid and Malaria are diseases that are well known and have become mostly stabilized throughout the world, but are still receiving large amounts of attention (Malaria is still a very real problem, for the most part). We're simply playing catch-up with this flu variant which is potentially an extinction-level event for humanity. If it jumps the race barrier, there's really little we'd be able to do to keep our societies integral, what with half the world's populations dying in a matter of weeks.