Actually, it would be *our* numbering and lettering systems would be obsolete. There would be evolutions of it, and other systems. With a little luck, someone would be able to translate it.
Most people can't translate a QR code. Even if they did, what will it contain?
In 10 years, the site is rewritten in another programming language. In 100 years current format URLs are obsolete. In 1000 years, it's a curiosity of antiquity. In 10,000 years, having similar marks would probably look like common association of some ancient group. If it does get widespread adoption, it would probably be viewed as a mark of the working class, or maybe the slave class. If it has little adoption, it may be considered to mark of a cult, the rich or the royalty. But why would the royals be buried with the commoners?
I seem to remember something about another project, where they wanted to put USB drives on tomb stones. That's not a long-term solution. It's barely a short term one. As someone else said, put a box of floppies there. That'll last forever. I think I have a floppy drive in the storage room, by the old laserdisc and betamax players. Or did I throw those out with the AT keyboards?
You should be aware, the FAA does care an awful lot about anything that might be installed on an aircraft. Commercial aircraft? Very very concerned.
You missed the obvious "RF" equipment. The radio and transponder.
But, it's not just RF. What if the installer of the uncertified equipment were to make a subtle mistake? Like run an unfused wire from the battery, put through a hole that has no grommet? Or it uses a power connector that isn't FAA approved.. In case you can't see where I'm going, think dead short and electrical fire mid-flight.
It's all fun and games, until the flaming wreckage comes crashing through the roof of a school, or something of that sort. Sometimes those pesky rules are made for a reason, even if we don't like them.
That's one of those distinctions that's always bothered me. I've worked for ISPs for years. I've never handled end user residential accounts. For most people, I can't tell them ISP, or they'll start asking me if I can make their home connection faster.
I'm really tired of explaining most nuances anyways. I usually dumb it down to "I do big computer stuff, and no, I won't fix your computer."
It won't come out until next year, but an Asgard ship happened to pop out of a wormhole just in time to be there to picked up Apollo 13, and set it on the right trajectory. We prefer to think humans did something.:)
Oh ya. Don't try to apply Occam's Razor, it'd bring you back around to the truth.:)
We'll see when (or if) they make it to market. I'm still surprised that they haven't really been flogging the possibility of their next generation consoles. They make good money with them. It's probably all financial. They lost money on their consoles, and made money with the games. If they can keep the current consoles in use for as long as possible, they make more money.
I'm anxious about the PS4 eventually coming out, mostly because there's one game I want to play (Wipeout HD). I can't justify the cost of the console *and* the game, just to play the one silly game. When the newer console comes out, the price on the PS3 will drop.:)
Sony could be considering a joint venture too. Competition is always good, if you can hold both the #1 and #2 slots.
I know the PS3 has all kinds of neat functionality, but I'm not well versed in it. From what I understand, it natively runs a BSD fork, with the ability to spawn off others. I know they restricted access from one of the cores with the OtherOS option (when it was available), but I'm sure if they're doing it themselves, they could provide full hardware access.
Or, maybe the PS4 will be a Linux based box, providing emulation for the PS3 and earlier games.
I'd still wager it'd be the first guess, having a share in both of the top selling set top boxes.
I've seen that done in other industries. The same company under different names will "compete" for the customers, and if the customer chooses either one, the company wins. It's better to have 50% of the market, rather than 33%. Well, Sony has 38% right now, but still. 50% sounds much more appealing to any bean counter. It's even better if the Steam box can hit the Microsoft and Nintendo market harder. They could realistically take >50% of the market, and the cash income would be huge for the newer boxes, rather than all the dated boxes that are being sold now.
The only question would be, can they get it out for Christmas sales? I don't believe Microsoft nor Nintendo are even planning to his this Christmas' shopping crowd. They have about 3 and a half months to do it for this year. Valve itself has the selling power to get to at least 100k homes without much extra advertising.
At one shop I ran for years, I set the bar for dress code. I'd usually wear vendor T-shirts, shorts, and sandals. I live where it's hot. There's no reason to be uncomfortable. Winter wear was usually t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers.
I really appreciated the fact that I didn't spend any money on shirts for work, for years.:)
But, if your boss wants people dressed to a certain level, wearing what you want isn't going to earn you any extra favors.
:) A lot of people say that. It does suggest that you are already wanting the new position. It can also give the impression to your supervisor/manager that you want his job. That's where it's very important to know your audience. You don't want to alienate your coworkers, or be a threat to your manager.
You should always dress the part, for who you are, and your position. Unless specifically told otherwise, senior management always wears at least a dress shirt and slacks..
I've found, the CEO will ask a senior IT person to fix their computer. He's signing your paycheck, he gets "special" treatment. The same goes for other C and Director level people.
I've always dressed the part for the days planned activities. If we're moving servers, it's T-shirt, blue jeans and tennis shoes. If we're in meetings, a button up shirt, slacks, and dress shoes.
The only part I skip is the ties. They're fine if I'm always standing/sitting. They're not so useful leaning into server racks, or crawling under a desk.... and the long coat is *only* for cool/cold weather. Once you're in the nice climate controlled office, the coat gets hung up. Unless you're up north, and the heat is set to a balmy 55F. At one office I had, the heat didn't work very well. During the winter, most of the office was about 60F. My office was 45F (not by choice). Wearing the long coat brought on some comments, which I replied "When the heat works properly, I'll take the coat off." It was never fixed, so I wore the coat most of the day.
I thought of sending FOIA requests off to every agency. It's quite a list, if you want to see who knows about you. You have to assume that some simply aren't going to respond with the truth.
I have a good idea of who knows about me, because of stories I've published, and some real world events that happened just after. Like, I was getting tagged for mandator secondary screening every time I flew for a while. I wrote a news story with a slightly censored copy of my boarding pass. It didn't show my name, but it still had the bar codes, so it wasn't a big stretch to think the information would be found. After that, I was treated normally. I'll get the TSA agent with a wild hair up his butt about patting people down. At least my boarding passes stopped saying "SSSSS" (tag for "SCREEN THIS GUY!"), so it was just normal abuse, rather than targeted abuse.
I'd have to guess it wasn't a direct cause and effect situation. Just because I ran the story, they didn't unflag my name. Whoever put it there would have investigated me further, found that I'm harmless, and then removed me. If I wasn't harmless, I would have probably been moved from the mandatory secondary screening list, to the no-fly list.
4 days = 345600 seconds 4,100 MB * 4 million = 16,400,000,000 MB Converting to Mb for bandwidth purposes = 131,200,000,000 Mb That would average to 379,629 Mb/s, or 370Gb/s
Well, that is still impressive. I'm sure they were serving it off of tens of thousands of machines, spread across many CDN nodes, which would have lowered the impact on the Internet at large.
I just wouldn't want to see their data services bill.:) I'm sure a few someones got filthy rich off of that.
It's always friends and family who say "he was a nice quiet boy", when the news crew is interviewing them about the bodies he had stuffed in the freezer. LEO "harmless" is usually more accurate. They'd prefer to suspect someone, rather than assume innocence.
Ya, I've seen that. Bolt cutters are quicker, if you have them.:) In high school, we found most of the cheap dial master locks can be opened by just repeatedly tugging on them.
Most cheap cabinets, if you don't care about it, you can just force the lock with a big flat screwdriver and pliers. It won't disengage the lock like you'd want. It turns the whole lock assembly, which rotates the latch on the back, just like the key would do. They basically have two flat surfaces, and the hole matches. If it's stamped sheet metal, the metal will bend. If it's wood, the wood will splinter.
I think there are some that are better padlocks (two latches per side, both sides latch), so the soda can trick would be far more difficult.
You don't always have to open the padlock though. If the hasp ring is fixed, you can pop it with a screwdriver. If it can rotate, the prybar can usually pop the rivets or screws that are retaining the hasp. Again, it's all in how much you care about keeping it in the original condition.
You could always do like I do, and make most of your Facebook information, disinformation.:) I change my employer and location to various government facilities. Sometimes people get confused at the more obscure ones. Sometimes, it's just an arbitrary city and bogus employer. Most of my posts are for my own entertainment.
I don't know what someone would be looking for there, but they're not going to find much factual stuff.
I'm not sure, that may qualify me more to be watched. Or I already am, and have been put on the list "harmless people with strange sense of humor"
I definitely prefer to buy in bulk. It's a lot cheaper than buying a box here, and a box there. Well, unless you go to a retail store and they just multiply the per-box price, by the number in the case. If I had a bit of spare cash, I'd have a few thousand extra rounds.
I just consolidated down part of my collection, to use more common ammo. I'm sticking with 5.56x45 NATO,.45 ACP, and.30-06.
I want to get an AR-10 also, so that'd be one more ammo (7.62x51 NATO), but worth it. Practically though, I need to move first, to somewhere with enough land where I can target shoot at the house. I'd want an long shooting area, to practice at the far extent of the weapon's ability. I don't know of any good outdoor ranges near me, so I'm SOL at the moment. I can get a nice tight group with the AR-15 (5.56 NATO), at the far extent of the indoor rifle ranges. I usually put the target all the way out, so the bottom is just touching the backstop.
I'm really surprised at the "bolts" some of the cheap safes use. Some are a piece of bent metal. Some are a single bolt on one side. The one I just got, it has an internal hinge, and 4 bolts on one side. It's not perfect, but it's not bad.
I'd prefer multiple bolts on all sides.
But, with the right equipment and enough time, no safe is "secure". Kind of like you see in movies, if the door is so great that it would take a long time, go through the wall or the floor.:) Once in a while you see in the news where someone tunnels under a vault, and takes weeks getting through the floor. Sure, it took weeks, but they wouldn't have had the opportunity to do the same to do the door.
Actually, you can look up the minimum fire rating for thickness. My implication was something like 3/4" steel plate, with 4" concrete, and another 3/4" steel plate.
The first layer of 3/4" plate will deter most would be thieves. The 4" of concrete would slow brute force attackers, as would the interior 3/4" plate.
You'd need to build an offset hinge solution to allow the door to swing free of the 5.5" thick door with interior hinges.
You'll only get "certified" fire ratings, where they are mass produced, and deliverable to a testing site. Testing custom built safes, like a bank would use, is a bit more difficult.
Buying a $2000 safe for a couple thousand dollars worth of rifles and ammo, doesn't exactly make sense. Knowing that I spent a few hundred bucks to build a safe able to withstand most brute force attacks (short of C4 charges along the front edges), I'd be willing to bet that it's safe. Anyone willing to use C4 on it will probably end up spending more money on the explosives to open the safe, than the value of the contents.
No safe is 100% resistant to attacks. Consider what the "Bunker Buster" bombs are for. They will go through many feet of steel reinforced concrete, and destroy anything inside. The only safe that I know of, that is virtually impossible to penetrate, is Cheyenne Mountain. Even that, with the appropriate ground troops and demolitions, may get through, or may collapse the mountain on top of themselves.
It all depends on what you're trying to secure. $20? Stick it in a $15 money box. A $500 gun, stick it in a $200 safe. My rifles and other assorted things need something bigger, and that calls for a larger safe, which unfortunately can cost more than the value of what I'm storing.
I've actually been considering turning an entire spare room into a "safe room" or "panic room". It's not because I feel that I'll be overwhelmed by superior forces. It would be good if a tornado came through, which does happen here. In that case, a "vault" with multiple strong bolts and a swing-in door would be ideal. Swing-out doors can be problematic, if the main house roof collapses.
Just about anywhere in the US, if a child takes your weapon and does something with it, you are liable. There was a huge push for all gun owners to buy locks, locking cables, or safes.
Really, if someone walked into my house, found that I kept a loaded firearm in my nightstand drawer, and did anything with it, it'll still come back to me. If the someone is 5 years old, and shoots himself or a friend accidentally, I would be in serious trouble. If the someone were a burglar and committed another crime, I'd be questioned, but eventually found innocent.
BTW, that wasn't a hint to where I keep my weapons. My nightstand doesn't have drawers.:)
I guess you missed the part where I figured out how to pick locks when I was 8 years old. I didn't know anyone who knew how to do it, and there was no Internet back then to teach me. I just took the time to look at it, figure out how it works, and get in. As I recall (it's been a whole lot of years), I had locked a hotwheels car in it, and wanted it out.:) It had the same style lock as most cheap lockboxes, cabinets, and desk drawers. 3 or 4 loose pins, and almost as useful as a piece of scotch tape over the latch.
Maybe I'm brighter than most children, or I was more determined to get in, and we only got 3 TV channels, all of which were horrible. Well, and 2 PBS stations that came in about 25% of the time. Oh, how I don't miss OTA TV broadcasting in rural areas.:)
I was actually surprised that the little "safe" I just picked up is actually a pretty sturdy safe. Judging by my back pain from moving it, and that was before I tossed the ammo into it, it's not going anywhere.:) All I "need" is a locked cabinet to keep a stack of AR-15 and pistol magazines in. I just need it, because if I'm going to the range, I don't want to load a few hundred rounds into the magazines. If the day ever comes that I need it, I doubt anyone will agree not to attack while I load up my weapons.
The little one that I mentioned was what I stored it in. Technically, I could be around the actual locking part in about 5 minutes, with a good pair of tin snips, and a power drill. (drill for the starter hole, snips to make a big hole). It's not really for security though. It was to keep them out of sight, and to keep casual hands off of them. I just didn't like it, because I couldn't really see into it when it was open. I knew the inventory in my head. I'd reach around until I felt something like what I expected. The new one, I can clearly see everything with the door open.
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Actually, it would be *our* numbering and lettering systems would be obsolete. There would be evolutions of it, and other systems. With a little luck, someone would be able to translate it.
Most people can't translate a QR code. Even if they did, what will it contain?
http://www.iseedeadpeople.com/grave.cfm?id=19582921985
[Warning: that was for illustrative purposes. The domain is actually a spammy ad page]
That would be ... well ... completely useless.
In 10 years, the site is rewritten in another programming language. In 100 years current format URLs are obsolete. In 1000 years, it's a curiosity of antiquity. In 10,000 years, having similar marks would probably look like common association of some ancient group. If it does get widespread adoption, it would probably be viewed as a mark of the working class, or maybe the slave class. If it has little adoption, it may be considered to mark of a cult, the rich or the royalty. But why would the royals be buried with the commoners?
I seem to remember something about another project, where they wanted to put USB drives on tomb stones. That's not a long-term solution. It's barely a short term one. As someone else said, put a box of floppies there. That'll last forever. I think I have a floppy drive in the storage room, by the old laserdisc and betamax players. Or did I throw those out with the AT keyboards?
You should be aware, the FAA does care an awful lot about anything that might be installed on an aircraft. Commercial aircraft? Very very concerned.
You missed the obvious "RF" equipment. The radio and transponder.
But, it's not just RF. What if the installer of the uncertified equipment were to make a subtle mistake? Like run an unfused wire from the battery, put through a hole that has no grommet? Or it uses a power connector that isn't FAA approved.. In case you can't see where I'm going, think dead short and electrical fire mid-flight.
It's all fun and games, until the flaming wreckage comes crashing through the roof of a school, or something of that sort. Sometimes those pesky rules are made for a reason, even if we don't like them.
That's one of those distinctions that's always bothered me. I've worked for ISPs for years. I've never handled end user residential accounts. For most people, I can't tell them ISP, or they'll start asking me if I can make their home connection faster.
I'm really tired of explaining most nuances anyways. I usually dumb it down to "I do big computer stuff, and no, I won't fix your computer."
It won't come out until next year, but an Asgard ship happened to pop out of a wormhole just in time to be there to picked up Apollo 13, and set it on the right trajectory. We prefer to think humans did something. :)
Oh ya. Don't try to apply Occam's Razor, it'd bring you back around to the truth. :)
We'll see when (or if) they make it to market. I'm still surprised that they haven't really been flogging the possibility of their next generation consoles. They make good money with them. It's probably all financial. They lost money on their consoles, and made money with the games. If they can keep the current consoles in use for as long as possible, they make more money.
I'm anxious about the PS4 eventually coming out, mostly because there's one game I want to play (Wipeout HD). I can't justify the cost of the console *and* the game, just to play the one silly game. When the newer console comes out, the price on the PS3 will drop. :)
Sony could be considering a joint venture too. Competition is always good, if you can hold both the #1 and #2 slots.
I know the PS3 has all kinds of neat functionality, but I'm not well versed in it. From what I understand, it natively runs a BSD fork, with the ability to spawn off others. I know they restricted access from one of the cores with the OtherOS option (when it was available), but I'm sure if they're doing it themselves, they could provide full hardware access.
Or, maybe the PS4 will be a Linux based box, providing emulation for the PS3 and earlier games.
I'd still wager it'd be the first guess, having a share in both of the top selling set top boxes.
I've seen that done in other industries. The same company under different names will "compete" for the customers, and if the customer chooses either one, the company wins. It's better to have 50% of the market, rather than 33%. Well, Sony has 38% right now, but still. 50% sounds much more appealing to any bean counter. It's even better if the Steam box can hit the Microsoft and Nintendo market harder. They could realistically take >50% of the market, and the cash income would be huge for the newer boxes, rather than all the dated boxes that are being sold now.
The only question would be, can they get it out for Christmas sales? I don't believe Microsoft nor Nintendo are even planning to his this Christmas' shopping crowd. They have about 3 and a half months to do it for this year. Valve itself has the selling power to get to at least 100k homes without much extra advertising.
As I read into some other things I've seen on it, that is actually what they're planning.
At one shop I ran for years, I set the bar for dress code. I'd usually wear vendor T-shirts, shorts, and sandals. I live where it's hot. There's no reason to be uncomfortable. Winter wear was usually t-shirt, jeans, and sneakers.
I really appreciated the fact that I didn't spend any money on shirts for work, for years. :)
But, if your boss wants people dressed to a certain level, wearing what you want isn't going to earn you any extra favors.
You should always dress the part, for who you are, and your position. Unless specifically told otherwise, senior management always wears at least a dress shirt and slacks..
You haven't been in this position, have you?
I've found, the CEO will ask a senior IT person to fix their computer. He's signing your paycheck, he gets "special" treatment. The same goes for other C and Director level people.
I've always dressed the part for the days planned activities. If we're moving servers, it's T-shirt, blue jeans and tennis shoes. If we're in meetings, a button up shirt, slacks, and dress shoes.
The only part I skip is the ties. They're fine if I'm always standing/sitting. They're not so useful leaning into server racks, or crawling under a desk. ... and the long coat is *only* for cool/cold weather. Once you're in the nice climate controlled office, the coat gets hung up. Unless you're up north, and the heat is set to a balmy 55F. At one office I had, the heat didn't work very well. During the winter, most of the office was about 60F. My office was 45F (not by choice). Wearing the long coat brought on some comments, which I replied "When the heat works properly, I'll take the coat off." It was never fixed, so I wore the coat most of the day.
Well, they did move the Slashdot servers over to Cardiff. That damned rift does all kinds of weird things.
It's definitely photoshopped. They took out Jesus riding the unicorn. :)
I thought of sending FOIA requests off to every agency. It's quite a list, if you want to see who knows about you. You have to assume that some simply aren't going to respond with the truth.
I have a good idea of who knows about me, because of stories I've published, and some real world events that happened just after. Like, I was getting tagged for mandator secondary screening every time I flew for a while. I wrote a news story with a slightly censored copy of my boarding pass. It didn't show my name, but it still had the bar codes, so it wasn't a big stretch to think the information would be found. After that, I was treated normally. I'll get the TSA agent with a wild hair up his butt about patting people down. At least my boarding passes stopped saying "SSSSS" (tag for "SCREEN THIS GUY!"), so it was just normal abuse, rather than targeted abuse.
I'd have to guess it wasn't a direct cause and effect situation. Just because I ran the story, they didn't unflag my name. Whoever put it there would have investigated me further, found that I'm harmless, and then removed me. If I wasn't harmless, I would have probably been moved from the mandatory secondary screening list, to the no-fly list.
Well, if you do the math....
4 days = 345600 seconds
4,100 MB * 4 million = 16,400,000,000 MB
Converting to Mb for bandwidth purposes = 131,200,000,000 Mb
That would average to 379,629 Mb/s, or 370Gb/s
Well, that is still impressive. I'm sure they were serving it off of tens of thousands of machines, spread across many CDN nodes, which would have lowered the impact on the Internet at large.
I just wouldn't want to see their data services bill. :) I'm sure a few someones got filthy rich off of that.
It's always friends and family who say "he was a nice quiet boy", when the news crew is interviewing them about the bodies he had stuffed in the freezer. LEO "harmless" is usually more accurate. They'd prefer to suspect someone, rather than assume innocence.
Ya, I've seen that. Bolt cutters are quicker, if you have them. :) In high school, we found most of the cheap dial master locks can be opened by just repeatedly tugging on them.
Most cheap cabinets, if you don't care about it, you can just force the lock with a big flat screwdriver and pliers. It won't disengage the lock like you'd want. It turns the whole lock assembly, which rotates the latch on the back, just like the key would do. They basically have two flat surfaces, and the hole matches. If it's stamped sheet metal, the metal will bend. If it's wood, the wood will splinter.
I think there are some that are better padlocks (two latches per side, both sides latch), so the soda can trick would be far more difficult.
You don't always have to open the padlock though. If the hasp ring is fixed, you can pop it with a screwdriver. If it can rotate, the prybar can usually pop the rivets or screws that are retaining the hasp. Again, it's all in how much you care about keeping it in the original condition.
You could always do like I do, and make most of your Facebook information, disinformation. :) I change my employer and location to various government facilities. Sometimes people get confused at the more obscure ones. Sometimes, it's just an arbitrary city and bogus employer. Most of my posts are for my own entertainment.
I don't know what someone would be looking for there, but they're not going to find much factual stuff.
I'm not sure, that may qualify me more to be watched. Or I already am, and have been put on the list "harmless people with strange sense of humor"
I actually didn't do the math on what I have, and didn't really want to post the real value.
Here's a purchase I made last year from Sportsman's Guide.
The current price is a little bit more, but not bad.
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=862719
I definitely prefer to buy in bulk. It's a lot cheaper than buying a box here, and a box there. Well, unless you go to a retail store and they just multiply the per-box price, by the number in the case. If I had a bit of spare cash, I'd have a few thousand extra rounds.
I just consolidated down part of my collection, to use more common ammo. I'm sticking with 5.56x45 NATO, .45 ACP, and .30-06.
I want to get an AR-10 also, so that'd be one more ammo (7.62x51 NATO), but worth it. Practically though, I need to move first, to somewhere with enough land where I can target shoot at the house. I'd want an long shooting area, to practice at the far extent of the weapon's ability. I don't know of any good outdoor ranges near me, so I'm SOL at the moment. I can get a nice tight group with the AR-15 (5.56 NATO), at the far extent of the indoor rifle ranges. I usually put the target all the way out, so the bottom is just touching the backstop.
I'm really surprised at the "bolts" some of the cheap safes use. Some are a piece of bent metal. Some are a single bolt on one side. The one I just got, it has an internal hinge, and 4 bolts on one side. It's not perfect, but it's not bad.
I'd prefer multiple bolts on all sides.
But, with the right equipment and enough time, no safe is "secure". Kind of like you see in movies, if the door is so great that it would take a long time, go through the wall or the floor. :) Once in a while you see in the news where someone tunnels under a vault, and takes weeks getting through the floor. Sure, it took weeks, but they wouldn't have had the opportunity to do the same to do the door.
Actually, you can look up the minimum fire rating for thickness. My implication was something like 3/4" steel plate, with 4" concrete, and another 3/4" steel plate.
The first layer of 3/4" plate will deter most would be thieves. The 4" of concrete would slow brute force attackers, as would the interior 3/4" plate.
You'd need to build an offset hinge solution to allow the door to swing free of the 5.5" thick door with interior hinges.
You'll only get "certified" fire ratings, where they are mass produced, and deliverable to a testing site. Testing custom built safes, like a bank would use, is a bit more difficult.
Buying a $2000 safe for a couple thousand dollars worth of rifles and ammo, doesn't exactly make sense. Knowing that I spent a few hundred bucks to build a safe able to withstand most brute force attacks (short of C4 charges along the front edges), I'd be willing to bet that it's safe. Anyone willing to use C4 on it will probably end up spending more money on the explosives to open the safe, than the value of the contents.
No safe is 100% resistant to attacks. Consider what the "Bunker Buster" bombs are for. They will go through many feet of steel reinforced concrete, and destroy anything inside. The only safe that I know of, that is virtually impossible to penetrate, is Cheyenne Mountain. Even that, with the appropriate ground troops and demolitions, may get through, or may collapse the mountain on top of themselves.
It all depends on what you're trying to secure. $20? Stick it in a $15 money box. A $500 gun, stick it in a $200 safe. My rifles and other assorted things need something bigger, and that calls for a larger safe, which unfortunately can cost more than the value of what I'm storing.
I've actually been considering turning an entire spare room into a "safe room" or "panic room". It's not because I feel that I'll be overwhelmed by superior forces. It would be good if a tornado came through, which does happen here. In that case, a "vault" with multiple strong bolts and a swing-in door would be ideal. Swing-out doors can be problematic, if the main house roof collapses.
Just about anywhere in the US, if a child takes your weapon and does something with it, you are liable. There was a huge push for all gun owners to buy locks, locking cables, or safes.
Really, if someone walked into my house, found that I kept a loaded firearm in my nightstand drawer, and did anything with it, it'll still come back to me. If the someone is 5 years old, and shoots himself or a friend accidentally, I would be in serious trouble. If the someone were a burglar and committed another crime, I'd be questioned, but eventually found innocent.
BTW, that wasn't a hint to where I keep my weapons. My nightstand doesn't have drawers. :)
I guess you missed the part where I figured out how to pick locks when I was 8 years old. I didn't know anyone who knew how to do it, and there was no Internet back then to teach me. I just took the time to look at it, figure out how it works, and get in. As I recall (it's been a whole lot of years), I had locked a hotwheels car in it, and wanted it out. :) It had the same style lock as most cheap lockboxes, cabinets, and desk drawers. 3 or 4 loose pins, and almost as useful as a piece of scotch tape over the latch.
Maybe I'm brighter than most children, or I was more determined to get in, and we only got 3 TV channels, all of which were horrible. Well, and 2 PBS stations that came in about 25% of the time. Oh, how I don't miss OTA TV broadcasting in rural areas. :)
I was agreeing with you. :)
I was actually surprised that the little "safe" I just picked up is actually a pretty sturdy safe. Judging by my back pain from moving it, and that was before I tossed the ammo into it, it's not going anywhere. :) All I "need" is a locked cabinet to keep a stack of AR-15 and pistol magazines in. I just need it, because if I'm going to the range, I don't want to load a few hundred rounds into the magazines. If the day ever comes that I need it, I doubt anyone will agree not to attack while I load up my weapons.
The little one that I mentioned was what I stored it in. Technically, I could be around the actual locking part in about 5 minutes, with a good pair of tin snips, and a power drill. (drill for the starter hole, snips to make a big hole). It's not really for security though. It was to keep them out of sight, and to keep casual hands off of them. I just didn't like it, because I couldn't really see into it when it was open. I knew the inventory in my head. I'd reach around until I felt something like what I expected. The new one, I can clearly see everything with the door open.