On your previous message, you got what the news failed to. The cars were all Honda, Acura being a division of Honda.
Really, I wouldn't be surprised if it's what you're thinking. It may not be the trigger detection, but all kinds of other pesky things. It does seem to take close proximity to the passenger door handle. Otherwise, they'd just roll through parking lots to see which cars unlock.
It would be really embarrassing for Honda if it turned out to be a simple ultrasonic emitter would trip up a sensor and unlock the door.:)
It does seem like overkill to use a foam padded case, where you could just throw them on a cart. Well, assuming your office is so big that you couldn't just carry them.
Nah, you have the honeymoon period right after marriage, which can last anywhere from minutes to years. For most, it's just a few days. After that, sex is strictly solo or with mistresses and prostitutes.
Oh for fucks sake, won't anyone consider the poor married blokes who need a wank once in a while.. Online smut is lot cheaper than a fine strumpet.
I'd prefer my odds on a rocket. If all goes well, I'll be visiting another freakin' planet. If it doesn't go well... well... it'll be a pretty quick ending.
Lets not get into semantics of fact versus fiction.. Just because we've never seen a wormhole, and have no evidence one could even exist, doesn't mean that there isn't one..
You can replace wormhole with all kinds of things. It's a lot of fun.:)
Ya, there's something that can be done. The government is being very hush-hush about it. Until now, only those "in the know" have been told.
Just under the surface of Mars is a vast quantity of water ice.
In the Cydonia region of mars, there is an ancient pyramid. Deep within the pyramid is an alien device which will turn the water ice into a Earth-like breathable atmosphere.
There is a catch though. There are agents already on-planet who will stop at nothing to keep you from activating the machine.
It would take a madman to even consider it. More specifically, a madman who's mind has already been scrambled by a dramatically failed lobotomy. That man may be you.
Real pictures, real gold, real pollution, wrongly implicated source.
Every nation has waste, and most have electronic trash. It doesn't all come from the US, as implied.
Here's an excellent example. This Article says the waste comes from the United States and Europe. If you zoom in a little to read the label, it comes from "World Bank" 9032, which is in Sudan. So scrap electronics in Africa (as portrayed by the other photos) did originate in Africa.
There's actually a really strong market for reduction of electronic waste, where they do recycle precious and scrap metals from them. That market depends on skilled workers using real equipment, not scavenger kids processing them by hand, and losing valuable scrap in the dirt.
I had RoadRunner a long time ago. I had a Linux firewall box between the modem and my switch that ran the house. At the time, you were allowed one machine. This was before the plethora of consumer NAT boxes hit the market.
Their DNS servers were awful at the time. Literally, 10 to 15 seconds to get a simple name resolution for popular sites.
I started up bind on the firewall, because the other machines were up and down all the time. I just started it, and didn't think much more about it. That was intentional, usually because I was making changes all the time.:) After a couple weeks, I found my connection was down. I called support, and after a long phone call they finally told me my account was suspended for a violation of the ToS. It took a few more phone calls to find someone who knew why.. They found that I was accepting connections on port 53 and cut me off. Their logic was "It's a server. Buy commercial service, or it stays off.". My logic was "This is the fix to make the service work right". I lost.
I finally agreed to stop bind, and they had my residential service back on the next day {sigh} I ended up setting up a box at work to resolve from. At least they weren't blocking it from leaving their network.
I've heard of people getting cut off for having consumer NAT boxes listening on port 80, even though it was just the management interface for the box.
It seems they've all softened the rules, but ya, if you say "I'm running servers from here", that's a huge red flag and they will say "You need commercial service."
What the hell is he doing with 209TB and racks of machines anyways? It sounds like he's downloading all the porn on the Internet repeatedly.
Well... The GFI outlet should be that one *and* one closer to the breaker box.
The outlet can trip and stop itself.. If the liquid (or whatever crud) reaches the cabling, there's nothing but the breaker to stop the short. In the case of your normal bathroom or kitchen, there's usually an outlet elsewhere that is in line before it. For most people who I've had to reset the GFI for, it's been an outlet in the garage up fairly high on the wall.. In one house, it was in a bedroom closet.
I don't know why people call me to fix their electrical problems, I'm not an electrician. I can search a house and find the GFI outlet. Well, after I've asked them "What did you do to cause it?" Where I live, the answer can simply be "thunderstorm". The power surges will sometimes trip them.
That's the big one... Your local building code is almost certainly not identical to mine. Well, unless you live within just a few miles. There are federal, state, county, and sometimes city codes.
If you look at the instructions for anything electrical at home improvement stores, there's always a blurb that says have a local contractor who knows the local codes do the install.
There was a particular type of insulation I was using for a project. It was a roll of foil faced fiberglass. I moved about 20 miles, and couldn't find it at the stores in the new area. As it turns out, it's against code there, but was fine in the other one..
I also noticed that the blue EPS board wasn't stocked in that store. They told me local codes changed, and it was no longer permitted. That stuff was great for some projects.
Counter top outlets in general are a bad idea.. If they're on the surface, they're bound to get something down in them.
Every kitchen I've seen has plenty of outlets along the walls, and some on the vertical side of cabinets...
As for sitting furniture, it's an amazingly bad idea. I'm just picturing a couch.. Kids spilling drinks. The dog pissing on it. Toddlers finding amazing new places to stick metal objects. Hell, drunk friends spilling drinks on them while watching football or in the case of this audience, playing a heated game of D&D.
If there isn't a wall outlet close enough to where you (he) wants them, have one installed. Contractors are more than happy to install anything you want within the guidelines of local building codes.
For the furniture manufacturers, they become stupid additions to their line. If they sell internationally, they'd need to offer all the different outlets. If the consumer chooses not to use them, now the customers have the annoyance of dead outlets.
For movers, they no longer are just skilled at moving heavy objects from Point A to Point B, they have to be electricians. That's assuming they're to be hard wired, and not just plugged in somewhere.
And never leave it to the consumer to consider the total power load on a circuit, they'll always get it wrong.. I can just imagine an entire livingroom with a couch, loveseat, and other assorted chairs, all plugged into one outlet strip on one socket, with god knows what plugged into every outlet. They already fuck it up bad enough with chained outlet strips on poorly designed home wiring..
When we have some extra cash to bring a contractor in, we're going to have a good bit of our home rewired. Despite a couple dozen circuit breakers in the box, half the house is on one circuit. At least we're aware of it, and are careful not to overload it. As I've found over the years, this is normal. It's like the construction crew waits for the inspector to sign off on the electrical, and then throws everything else on one long circuit.
They were cargo vans without side windows. The rear window was obscured by gear in the back. The mirrors were (hopefully) adjusted for the tech who drove them, but not for me moving it to where I was installing gear.
Ummm.. I worked with a plumbing company for a while.. There was a whole lot of shit, literally. I was lucky, I just did their IT work. I could talk to the techs who had done messier jobs from a distance. If their blue uniform is now brown, don't get too close.:)
It was entertaining, and absolutely disgusting, watching them clean out of of the tank trucks. It registered something like 10k pounds overweight, because of the sewage sludge that had built up in the bottom of the tank. At least the guy who went in to clean it got to wear a biohazard suit and respirator.
I only had to deal with the trucks while I was wiring up their GPS tracking. It was the first chance I had to drive a 10 speed truck. (private property, CDL be damned). The drivers were gone for the day, and the other staff present were afraid to try to drive it up to the shop. The work/cargo vans were harder to drive. Their blind spot is anything but in front of them.
I would so totally pay $20 to watch it live online.
Apparently charging people to watch suicide or homocide or otherwise physically severely injured or death is illegal in most countries. Well, unless it has to do with large crowds, multi-million dollar player contracts, and something called "sport"
Ya, that's what I figured.. I'll watch the videos tomorrow. Someone else posted the video of how the guitar got there.:)
Putting it on a resupply launch would have been expensive, and taken up rather valuable space, so I assume he brought it with him...
Awww, I just had to go watch the video. NASA wanted it here for morale, and he played it. It says it's made over 50,000 orbits around the planet. That's going to be one heck of a piece of music memorabilia someday.
Ultralights still fall under a rather strict set of restrictions. (FAR Part 103)
One seat. Less than 5 gallons of fuel. Empty weight of less than 254 pounds. Top speed of 55 knots. Max stall speed of 24 knots. They can only be operated during daylight hours, and over unpopulated areas. All operations have to be in uncontrolled airspace.
That pretty much ensures you won't be doing any sort of cross country flying. You won't be flying into any airport other than your home airport, which can't be in controlled airspace.
I'd be curious to know how the electric glider you mention fell within the rules. It most likely classified as experimental instead of ultralight. Those have their own set of rules.
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On your previous message, you got what the news failed to. The cars were all Honda, Acura being a division of Honda.
Really, I wouldn't be surprised if it's what you're thinking. It may not be the trigger detection, but all kinds of other pesky things. It does seem to take close proximity to the passenger door handle. Otherwise, they'd just roll through parking lots to see which cars unlock.
It would be really embarrassing for Honda if it turned out to be a simple ultrasonic emitter would trip up a sensor and unlock the door. :)
I'm not sure if you're trolling or not. Lets assume you're not.
This should do it,
It does seem like overkill to use a foam padded case, where you could just throw them on a cart. Well, assuming your office is so big that you couldn't just carry them.
Nah, you have the honeymoon period right after marriage, which can last anywhere from minutes to years. For most, it's just a few days. After that, sex is strictly solo or with mistresses and prostitutes.
Oh for fucks sake, won't anyone consider the poor married blokes who need a wank once in a while.. Online smut is lot cheaper than a fine strumpet.
May the FSM embraces you with his noodly appendages
Nah, no one would ever make a movie on that. It's a stupid premise. :)
I'd prefer my odds on a rocket. If all goes well, I'll be visiting another freakin' planet. If it doesn't go well ... well ... it'll be a pretty quick ending.
Lets not get into semantics of fact versus fiction.. Just because we've never seen a wormhole, and have no evidence one could even exist, doesn't mean that there isn't one..
You can replace wormhole with all kinds of things. It's a lot of fun. :)
Ya, there's something that can be done. The government is being very hush-hush about it. Until now, only those "in the know" have been told.
Just under the surface of Mars is a vast quantity of water ice.
In the Cydonia region of mars, there is an ancient pyramid. Deep within the pyramid is an alien device which will turn the water ice into a Earth-like breathable atmosphere.
There is a catch though. There are agents already on-planet who will stop at nothing to keep you from activating the machine.
It would take a madman to even consider it. More specifically, a madman who's mind has already been scrambled by a dramatically failed lobotomy. That man may be you.
Ahhh, sea kittens.. I just had a bowl of these myself.
Real pictures, real gold, real pollution, wrongly implicated source.
Every nation has waste, and most have electronic trash. It doesn't all come from the US, as implied.
Here's an excellent example. This Article says the waste comes from the United States and Europe. If you zoom in a little to read the label, it comes from "World Bank" 9032, which is in Sudan. So scrap electronics in Africa (as portrayed by the other photos) did originate in Africa.
There's actually a really strong market for reduction of electronic waste, where they do recycle precious and scrap metals from them. That market depends on skilled workers using real equipment, not scavenger kids processing them by hand, and losing valuable scrap in the dirt.
Yup, yup, and yup.
I had RoadRunner a long time ago. I had a Linux firewall box between the modem and my switch that ran the house. At the time, you were allowed one machine. This was before the plethora of consumer NAT boxes hit the market.
Their DNS servers were awful at the time. Literally, 10 to 15 seconds to get a simple name resolution for popular sites.
I started up bind on the firewall, because the other machines were up and down all the time. I just started it, and didn't think much more about it. That was intentional, usually because I was making changes all the time. :) After a couple weeks, I found my connection was down. I called support, and after a long phone call they finally told me my account was suspended for a violation of the ToS. It took a few more phone calls to find someone who knew why.. They found that I was accepting connections on port 53 and cut me off. Their logic was "It's a server. Buy commercial service, or it stays off.". My logic was "This is the fix to make the service work right". I lost.
I finally agreed to stop bind, and they had my residential service back on the next day {sigh} I ended up setting up a box at work to resolve from. At least they weren't blocking it from leaving their network.
I've heard of people getting cut off for having consumer NAT boxes listening on port 80, even though it was just the management interface for the box.
It seems they've all softened the rules, but ya, if you say "I'm running servers from here", that's a huge red flag and they will say "You need commercial service."
What the hell is he doing with 209TB and racks of machines anyways? It sounds like he's downloading all the porn on the Internet repeatedly.
Did someone forget their meds again?
It's ok, they were just jumping a meteor through the Earth... again...
Well... The GFI outlet should be that one *and* one closer to the breaker box.
The outlet can trip and stop itself.. If the liquid (or whatever crud) reaches the cabling, there's nothing but the breaker to stop the short. In the case of your normal bathroom or kitchen, there's usually an outlet elsewhere that is in line before it. For most people who I've had to reset the GFI for, it's been an outlet in the garage up fairly high on the wall.. In one house, it was in a bedroom closet.
I don't know why people call me to fix their electrical problems, I'm not an electrician. I can search a house and find the GFI outlet. Well, after I've asked them "What did you do to cause it?" Where I live, the answer can simply be "thunderstorm". The power surges will sometimes trip them.
That's the big one... Your local building code is almost certainly not identical to mine. Well, unless you live within just a few miles. There are federal, state, county, and sometimes city codes.
If you look at the instructions for anything electrical at home improvement stores, there's always a blurb that says have a local contractor who knows the local codes do the install.
There was a particular type of insulation I was using for a project. It was a roll of foil faced fiberglass. I moved about 20 miles, and couldn't find it at the stores in the new area. As it turns out, it's against code there, but was fine in the other one..
I also noticed that the blue EPS board wasn't stocked in that store. They told me local codes changed, and it was no longer permitted. That stuff was great for some projects.
Counter top outlets in general are a bad idea.. If they're on the surface, they're bound to get something down in them.
Every kitchen I've seen has plenty of outlets along the walls, and some on the vertical side of cabinets...
As for sitting furniture, it's an amazingly bad idea. I'm just picturing a couch.. Kids spilling drinks. The dog pissing on it. Toddlers finding amazing new places to stick metal objects. Hell, drunk friends spilling drinks on them while watching football or in the case of this audience, playing a heated game of D&D.
If there isn't a wall outlet close enough to where you (he) wants them, have one installed. Contractors are more than happy to install anything you want within the guidelines of local building codes.
For the furniture manufacturers, they become stupid additions to their line. If they sell internationally, they'd need to offer all the different outlets. If the consumer chooses not to use them, now the customers have the annoyance of dead outlets.
For movers, they no longer are just skilled at moving heavy objects from Point A to Point B, they have to be electricians. That's assuming they're to be hard wired, and not just plugged in somewhere.
And never leave it to the consumer to consider the total power load on a circuit, they'll always get it wrong.. I can just imagine an entire livingroom with a couch, loveseat, and other assorted chairs, all plugged into one outlet strip on one socket, with god knows what plugged into every outlet. They already fuck it up bad enough with chained outlet strips on poorly designed home wiring..
When we have some extra cash to bring a contractor in, we're going to have a good bit of our home rewired. Despite a couple dozen circuit breakers in the box, half the house is on one circuit. At least we're aware of it, and are careful not to overload it. As I've found over the years, this is normal. It's like the construction crew waits for the inspector to sign off on the electrical, and then throws everything else on one long circuit.
Every time I've checked, the moon has been in orbit around the Earth. Do you know something the rest of us don't?
We aren't really just actors on the Truman Show, are we?
Maybe I exaggerated a little bit. :)
They were cargo vans without side windows. The rear window was obscured by gear in the back. The mirrors were (hopefully) adjusted for the tech who drove them, but not for me moving it to where I was installing gear.
There are plenty of service jobs which require local talent. Add HVAC, and CDL licensed truck drivers to your list.
Ummm.. I worked with a plumbing company for a while.. There was a whole lot of shit, literally. I was lucky, I just did their IT work. I could talk to the techs who had done messier jobs from a distance. If their blue uniform is now brown, don't get too close. :)
It was entertaining, and absolutely disgusting, watching them clean out of of the tank trucks. It registered something like 10k pounds overweight, because of the sewage sludge that had built up in the bottom of the tank. At least the guy who went in to clean it got to wear a biohazard suit and respirator.
I only had to deal with the trucks while I was wiring up their GPS tracking. It was the first chance I had to drive a 10 speed truck. (private property, CDL be damned). The drivers were gone for the day, and the other staff present were afraid to try to drive it up to the shop. The work/cargo vans were harder to drive. Their blind spot is anything but in front of them.
I would so totally pay $20 to watch it live online.
Apparently charging people to watch suicide or homocide or otherwise physically severely injured or death is illegal in most countries. Well, unless it has to do with large crowds, multi-million dollar player contracts, and something called "sport"
How about a pressure sprayer loaded up with thinned paint? :)
Ya, that's what I figured.. I'll watch the videos tomorrow. Someone else posted the video of how the guitar got there. :)
Putting it on a resupply launch would have been expensive, and taken up rather valuable space, so I assume he brought it with him...
Awww, I just had to go watch the video. NASA wanted it here for morale, and he played it. It says it's made over 50,000 orbits around the planet. That's going to be one heck of a piece of music memorabilia someday.
Thanks drcgan for posting this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoMCrkdee8s
The only thing is, he may have already had the 6 string there. Sending up a 12 string to make it "correct" is a really expensive venture.
Ultralights still fall under a rather strict set of restrictions. (FAR Part 103)
One seat. Less than 5 gallons of fuel. Empty weight of less than 254 pounds. Top speed of 55 knots. Max stall speed of 24 knots. They can only be operated during daylight hours, and over unpopulated areas. All operations have to be in uncontrolled airspace.
That pretty much ensures you won't be doing any sort of cross country flying. You won't be flying into any airport other than your home airport, which can't be in controlled airspace.
I'd be curious to know how the electric glider you mention fell within the rules. It most likely classified as experimental instead of ultralight. Those have their own set of rules.