Location via wifi assumes the location of the service coincides with the "service address" of the provider. The big guys share the "service location" of customers. The smaller ISPs may report the business address of the ISP. (When on a wifi access point at a local burger chain; if I do a phone located on my phone it reports the regional office address of the burger chain.)
Location of a wifi access point is easier to spoof or just be reported erroneously than a GPS location via cellular WAN.
E911 is not universal. The jurisdiction has to pony up the money for the equipment and service charge to implement it. Usually it is the rural or suburban areas that would benefit the most that don't have it.
EPA and OSHA limits are only changed after lengthy hearings and debates and only gain force of law when a bill passes both houses of congress and is entered into the federal register. The ACGIH tables are updated frequently and companies that actually do work with hazardous materials follow the ACGIH guidelines. Why when it isn't required by law? Because it protects their workers which is cheaper than killing people. And, the courts have shown that failing to control a "known hazard" makes a company liable for huge penalties even if no "legal limit" was exceeded.
These days the most common culprit for releasing nasty stuff to the environment are small quantity users who stuff the fingers in the ears and go "LaLaLa" if you mention something may be hazardous. Consider the small auto shop. What do you think happens to the solvent in the "parts cleaner" when it gets loaded up with gunk? You either get trichloroethane down the sink drain or dumped on the ground out back.
When you change the oil in your lawnmower, where does the old oil go? BTW, new motor oil is quite benign. But, used motor oil has lead, cadmium, and a soup of VOCs from partially burned fuel in it.
Face it, Hilary Clinton plays her privileged elite card all the time.
Any regular person who conducted official, classified, business via an insecure private email account would be prosecuted and sent to jail. Any regular employee that deleted (destroyed) electronic records in defiance of legally mandated public record retention regulations would be censured and at least fired of not prosecuted and jailed.
You may disagree, but the blatant disregard for following the rules that the rest of us are forced to follow by the Clinton scam master couple has me seriously considering voting Trump for "Clown in Chief".
Shhhhhh. You don't want people to realize that every tunnel system in existence leaks and requires pumping out so it doesn't fill up. And there are automatic traffic stop lights that trigger when the air flow in or the water pumping out stops.
The system of having an underwater roadway suspended from floating pontoons sounds a whole lot cheaper to install than extensive hyperbaric work in caissons to install a tunnel on the floor of a waterway. You would only need short sections of underwater tunnel anyway. Just enough to allow for a shipping channel. The rest of the transit could be floating pontoon roadway as has been used for decades. On the other hand, having the whole span underwater minimizes storm effects on the roadway.
How deep would the underwater section need to be? Hmmm, the record for keel depth is 28.5 meters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batillus-class_supertankers
Are we missing any other factors? http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/9780784407707.ch06
Putting a hefty margin of error on it; go for a nominal 50 meter depth. What is the water depth in the proposed channel?
If you consider the depth of some of the fjords in Norway; it becomes patently obvious why you would consider floating subsurface tunnels. It is too bloody deep to put one on the floor of the ocean in many places.
"Norway's Hardangerfjord drops to 2,624 feet (800 m) below sea level, while the depth of Sogn Fjord (also Norway) measures 4,290 feet (1,308 m) deep, and Canal Messier in Chile is 4,167 feet (1,270 m). The great depth of these submerged valleys is due to their glacial origins.Oct 31, 2013" http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Fjord
A very interesting proposition. Very much a problem in dynamic engineering.
It seems that the cited article is touting a solution in search of a problem.
How many computers that process secure information have wireless keyboards? How many computers that process sensitive information and have wireless keyboards are within 250 feet of an area where a person can set up a surreptitious sniffer system? Yep, the keyboard issue is really a non issue. Especially as wireless keyboards, in reality, have a range that is less than three meters. My bright idea of hooking the laptop up to the big screen TV and using a wireless mouse and keyboard from the couch across the room turned into a study in lag and lost connection. The system worked great if you pulled up a char right in front of the TV but not from across the room.
Now, the real issue is why any company would use a Zigbee system for a home security installation. Surely no one with ulterior motives would hack a system designed to switch your lights on and off when it was used for a security installation. That sounds as secure as the old HSPA driven home security systems that only had four micro-switch settings for encryption. A $7.95 Radio Shack controller would let you switch it on and off and you only had four encryption settings to try for a brute force attack.
You have to admit, "Zigbee" has a buzzier feeling than the systems for home automation that have been around for decades. Anyone remember the infamous spamming by www.x10.com ?
Since hobby drones are already forbidden from flying out of line of site and are forbidden from flying over emergency responders (among other areas hobby drones are forbidden); shooting down hobby drones would be a better solution. Commercial drones have the operator required to check notices for aviators where they would be given the no fly limits.
I'm not sure a legally mandated tech solution would be called for since a hobby drone over a fire is a violation of federal law and could be prosecuted easily. A commercial drone would know better and risking the suspension of the drone license at a minimum.
As drones are mandated to certain frequencies for controls; why not simply jam those frequencies from fire fighting equipment so it is impossible to fly a drone over their operations without crashing. The only downside is small lightweight drones crashing.
BTW, hobby drones are limited as to weight low enough they aren't much of a hazard if they crash (Max. 55 lbs - about the mass of a medium size dog - Border Collie with a propeller backpack anyone?). Commercial drones must display a registry number so you can find out who the idiot operator is if one encroaches where they shouldn't.
Naa, Digital Research has already shot themselves in the foot when they couldn't support a bailout of IBM after they had a computer in production but didn't have an OS, DRDOS was an attempt to grab the side market after Microsoft had the big contract.
I think I still have a copy of QDOS. Quick and Dirty Operating System was sold in the postage stamp advertisements in the back of computer magazines. A good OS for the hobby experimenter as it was so cheap. Then Bill Gates bought it to fulfill his contract for PC-DOS 1.0
Over a decade ago; I got talked into beta testing a new social media phenomenon.
Ok, first I objected to having to load ANOTHER' client on my computer to test out this "twitter" thing. The first iterations really were a memory hog of a TSR program. And, why do you want to know what everyone on your contact list tweets regardless of subject? Yep, the first iterations hadn't included hashtags yet. With the 252 character limit on tweets the first beta had; the system was worthless for carrying on a conversation and everyone on your contacts was inundated with your conversation and only one sided if they weren't subscribed to both parties.
The current climate of Twitter seems to be the way to comment via smartphone... often snidely. I flip through my twitter feed every once in a while when bored. Occasionally I run across a topic that actually deserves some research.
I bought an Xbox360 mainly for the media box functions and occasionally to game. Microsoft nerfed the media box function a month after I bought the Xbox. I don't trust Microsoft not to nerf the Xbox ONE's capability on a whim. Once burned, twice shy.
The huge crux is that there are people that believe a person should be free to do anything they want as long as it doesn't infringe on another. And there are other people that believe in totalitarian control and people only being allowed to do things approved by government bureaucracy.
Whose business is it whether a given individual keeps a shotgun under the bed or a handgun in the dresser or a rifle in the back of the closet? Some believe it is their business because of what you MIGHT do with firearms. Others believe it is only your actions that become subject to legal limitation and not what you MIGHT be able to do if you were a nut job.
Well, yeah, a firearm is a "push the button and done" form of suicide.
But, that study was in the microcosm of California. That last time I was looking at California statistics; it was that the largest percentage of suicides were termed "single car accidents". Interesting that California has 57 times the suicide rate with a handgun than the general population. I wonder if you did the same statistical analysis on an area that doesn't have the entrenched anti-gun culture of California politics coupled with the extreme firearms driven rampant gang violence of the major cities in California you would get similar results?
Considering the draconian hoops a person has to jump through to purchase a handgun in California; not surprising it takes extreme motivation to want to own one. I wonder if the statistical conclusion of California would be different if done in an area of the country where firearm ownership is not considered an aberration. Lovely use of a global conclusion based on a limited and specific statistical universe.
No, the NRA did not lobby to stop government research on gun violence. Several senators did get a stop order given to the Centers for Disease Control from doing repeated studies on gun violence in an attempt to force studies to show gun ownership as a mental aberration.
The research into gun violence is under the purview of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The federal agencies keep statistics on actual crime rates and don't try to force conclusions based on an uber-liberal bias.
"Eliminate? No. But reduce heavily yes. Strict gun control laws do work. Compare any and all countries who have strict gun control laws to America. Who has more gun violence?"
Hmm, considering the South American countries with the most restrictive gun laws tend to be the ones with the most violent crimes... Check your statement again as it invites comparison with Venezuela. I have a feeling you are trying to compare what are commonly considered "first world" countries and not countries with bans on personal firearm ownership regardless of social organization.
One interesting thing, if you like playing with statistics, is comparison of violent crime rates separated by gun control laws within the U.S. If you eliminate the areas with draconian gun control laws in the U.S. the U.S. gun violence rate compares with all the other first world countries. It is probably fallacious to link the very restrictive gun control laws to being the cause of gun violence and not the overcrowded urban poverty driving the drug and gang violence that pushes the U.S. violent crime statistics so high.
Hmmm, all the touted improvements are for things I turned off immediately after downloading the Windows 10 fix for Windows 8 malware. The whole of Win8 acted like malware.
Hmmm, the article ignores the fact that a retinal scan is changed by cataracts, glaucoma, log term diabetes, retinal detachment, macular holes, macular degeneration, or massive beta radiation exposure.
I wonder if using IR laser scan instead of red laser scan as the first generation of the tech did would sense living tissue based on temperature?
There was another "blue meteor" incident a couple of months ago. From what I can see is that the problem with things hitting people on the head only really occurs with frequency on the flight path coming into aircraft repair facilities.
BTW... blue meteor... when the external holding tank valve has a slow leak and the blue toilet water freezes on the outside of the aircraft. It thaws and drops off when descending for a landing in warmer ground air.
A rare but documented problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(precipitation)
"Hobby" drones don't require a license. A hobby drone cannot be operated over another person's property, must stay in line of sight, are forbidden from coming near airports (without permission) or areas where people congregate (festivals, sporting events, etc.). A hobby drone is severely limited as to payload capacity,
These are the type of drones that often cause problems with improper operation. Remember when SoCal had to abort firefighting aircraft because of so many idiots flying camera drones over the fire?
Commercial drone use only recently had regs firmed up. You have to have a licensed and qualified drone operator who is versed in the regulations governing aircraft flight. The FAA has backed off the requirement be a "licensed pilot" for commercial drone use. That was an interim reg until they put into regs what training requirement has to be met to be a "drone operator".
As civilian drone use becomes more prevalent; the issue of flight path and who is responsible for the flight path and condition of the drones comes into play. To do automated deliveries; who is the "drone operator" for 7-11 deliveries that has legal responsibility for the aircraft? Do they send some pimple faced part time employee to a weekend "drone school" then hang him out to dry when a poorly maintained aircraft takes out someones Beemer at a stop light? Deliveries would have to follow roadways unless they have permission for overflight of developed properties... Hey, if they over fly your property is it legal to shoot down the trespassing aircraft and sieze the cargo?
Churches.... Reminds me of an old joke... The Southern Baptist Convention is totally against pre-marital sex because it could lead to drinking, card playing, and (heaven forbid) dancing.
Rant away. It goes back to prohibition. When prohibition was repealed; many states made liquor sales "local option". In other words, the local people decide if they want liquor sales in their jurisdiction.
Personally, I think adults should be expected to behave in an adult manner. On the flip side, I'm a huge believer in local government instead of draconian controls from massive bureaucracy. I'm willing to drive to the next county over for a bottle of rum if I like and politic for legalizing in my county when the issue comes up.
Texas, like Mississippi, still has "dry counties". In Mississippi, anything beyond beer has to be sold in a licensed facility that does not allow anyone below 21 years old to enter. I can't remember what county Nagodoches, Texas, is in but when I was there on a business trip a few years ago; you had to "purchase a membership" in a private club to be able to buy an alcoholic beverage.
It isn't worth it for Walmart or 7-11 to try and change local laws and would aggravate the local church ladies to no end if they tried.
"I vehemently disagree about the praise for the 3.5mm headphone jack. The same problems it had in the '80s are still with us today. It wears out ridiculously fast. I've had to find the "sweet spot" on an untold number of 3.5mm jacks. You either have to twist the plug to the perfect angle or apply pressure on the correct side, or else you get no sound or severely diminished sound. Plugs that can do both audio and a microphone seem to suffer this fate even faster."
Try cleaning the socket. And if you habitually keep a device in a lint filled pocket; consider getting one of the headphone hole covers so popular in several Asian countries. Plain or bling, the covers also keep moisture out if you use your phone out in the weather. Unless you allow the contacts to get dirty or corroded; you won't have a problem with a headphone jack.
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Yes, we all need childishly featureless interfaced scripted apps instead of useful well crafted applications.
Location via wifi assumes the location of the service coincides with the "service address" of the provider. The big guys share the "service location" of customers. The smaller ISPs may report the business address of the ISP. (When on a wifi access point at a local burger chain; if I do a phone located on my phone it reports the regional office address of the burger chain.)
Location of a wifi access point is easier to spoof or just be reported erroneously than a GPS location via cellular WAN.
E911 is not universal. The jurisdiction has to pony up the money for the equipment and service charge to implement it. Usually it is the rural or suburban areas that would benefit the most that don't have it.
EPA and OSHA limits are only changed after lengthy hearings and debates and only gain force of law when a bill passes both houses of congress and is entered into the federal register. The ACGIH tables are updated frequently and companies that actually do work with hazardous materials follow the ACGIH guidelines. Why when it isn't required by law? Because it protects their workers which is cheaper than killing people. And, the courts have shown that failing to control a "known hazard" makes a company liable for huge penalties even if no "legal limit" was exceeded.
These days the most common culprit for releasing nasty stuff to the environment are small quantity users who stuff the fingers in the ears and go "LaLaLa" if you mention something may be hazardous. Consider the small auto shop. What do you think happens to the solvent in the "parts cleaner" when it gets loaded up with gunk? You either get trichloroethane down the sink drain or dumped on the ground out back.
When you change the oil in your lawnmower, where does the old oil go? BTW, new motor oil is quite benign. But, used motor oil has lead, cadmium, and a soup of VOCs from partially burned fuel in it.
Face it, Hilary Clinton plays her privileged elite card all the time.
Any regular person who conducted official, classified, business via an insecure private email account would be prosecuted and sent to jail. Any regular employee that deleted (destroyed) electronic records in defiance of legally mandated public record retention regulations would be censured and at least fired of not prosecuted and jailed.
You may disagree, but the blatant disregard for following the rules that the rest of us are forced to follow by the Clinton scam master couple has me seriously considering voting Trump for "Clown in Chief".
Shhhhhh. You don't want people to realize that every tunnel system in existence leaks and requires pumping out so it doesn't fill up. And there are automatic traffic stop lights that trigger when the air flow in or the water pumping out stops.
The system of having an underwater roadway suspended from floating pontoons sounds a whole lot cheaper to install than extensive hyperbaric work in caissons to install a tunnel on the floor of a waterway. You would only need short sections of underwater tunnel anyway. Just enough to allow for a shipping channel. The rest of the transit could be floating pontoon roadway as has been used for decades. On the other hand, having the whole span underwater minimizes storm effects on the roadway.
How deep would the underwater section need to be? Hmmm, the record for keel depth is 28.5 meters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batillus-class_supertankers
Are we missing any other factors? http://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/9780784407707.ch06
Putting a hefty margin of error on it; go for a nominal 50 meter depth. What is the water depth in the proposed channel?
If you consider the depth of some of the fjords in Norway; it becomes patently obvious why you would consider floating subsurface tunnels. It is too bloody deep to put one on the floor of the ocean in many places.
"Norway's Hardangerfjord drops to 2,624 feet (800 m) below sea level, while the depth of Sogn Fjord (also Norway) measures 4,290 feet (1,308 m) deep, and Canal Messier in Chile is 4,167 feet (1,270 m). The great depth of these submerged valleys is due to their glacial origins.Oct 31, 2013"
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Fjord
A very interesting proposition. Very much a problem in dynamic engineering.
It seems that the cited article is touting a solution in search of a problem.
How many computers that process secure information have wireless keyboards? How many computers that process sensitive information and have wireless keyboards are within 250 feet of an area where a person can set up a surreptitious sniffer system? Yep, the keyboard issue is really a non issue. Especially as wireless keyboards, in reality, have a range that is less than three meters. My bright idea of hooking the laptop up to the big screen TV and using a wireless mouse and keyboard from the couch across the room turned into a study in lag and lost connection. The system worked great if you pulled up a char right in front of the TV but not from across the room.
Now, the real issue is why any company would use a Zigbee system for a home security installation. Surely no one with ulterior motives would hack a system designed to switch your lights on and off when it was used for a security installation. That sounds as secure as the old HSPA driven home security systems that only had four micro-switch settings for encryption. A $7.95 Radio Shack controller would let you switch it on and off and you only had four encryption settings to try for a brute force attack.
You have to admit, "Zigbee" has a buzzier feeling than the systems for home automation that have been around for decades. Anyone remember the infamous spamming by www.x10.com ?
Since hobby drones are already forbidden from flying out of line of site and are forbidden from flying over emergency responders (among other areas hobby drones are forbidden); shooting down hobby drones would be a better solution. Commercial drones have the operator required to check notices for aviators where they would be given the no fly limits.
I'm not sure a legally mandated tech solution would be called for since a hobby drone over a fire is a violation of federal law and could be prosecuted easily. A commercial drone would know better and risking the suspension of the drone license at a minimum.
As drones are mandated to certain frequencies for controls; why not simply jam those frequencies from fire fighting equipment so it is impossible to fly a drone over their operations without crashing. The only downside is small lightweight drones crashing.
BTW, hobby drones are limited as to weight low enough they aren't much of a hazard if they crash (Max. 55 lbs - about the mass of a medium size dog - Border Collie with a propeller backpack anyone?). Commercial drones must display a registry number so you can find out who the idiot operator is if one encroaches where they shouldn't.
Naa, Digital Research has already shot themselves in the foot when they couldn't support a bailout of IBM after they had a computer in production but didn't have an OS, DRDOS was an attempt to grab the side market after Microsoft had the big contract.
I think I still have a copy of QDOS. Quick and Dirty Operating System was sold in the postage stamp advertisements in the back of computer magazines. A good OS for the hobby experimenter as it was so cheap. Then Bill Gates bought it to fulfill his contract for PC-DOS 1.0
Over a decade ago; I got talked into beta testing a new social media phenomenon.
Ok, first I objected to having to load ANOTHER' client on my computer to test out this "twitter" thing. The first iterations really were a memory hog of a TSR program. And, why do you want to know what everyone on your contact list tweets regardless of subject? Yep, the first iterations hadn't included hashtags yet. With the 252 character limit on tweets the first beta had; the system was worthless for carrying on a conversation and everyone on your contacts was inundated with your conversation and only one sided if they weren't subscribed to both parties.
The current climate of Twitter seems to be the way to comment via smartphone... often snidely. I flip through my twitter feed every once in a while when bored. Occasionally I run across a topic that actually deserves some research.
Naaa, I don't trust it.
I bought an Xbox360 mainly for the media box functions and occasionally to game. Microsoft nerfed the media box function a month after I bought the Xbox. I don't trust Microsoft not to nerf the Xbox ONE's capability on a whim. Once burned, twice shy.
The huge crux is that there are people that believe a person should be free to do anything they want as long as it doesn't infringe on another. And there are other people that believe in totalitarian control and people only being allowed to do things approved by government bureaucracy.
Whose business is it whether a given individual keeps a shotgun under the bed or a handgun in the dresser or a rifle in the back of the closet? Some believe it is their business because of what you MIGHT do with firearms. Others believe it is only your actions that become subject to legal limitation and not what you MIGHT be able to do if you were a nut job.
Well, yeah, a firearm is a "push the button and done" form of suicide.
But, that study was in the microcosm of California. That last time I was looking at California statistics; it was that the largest percentage of suicides were termed "single car accidents". Interesting that California has 57 times the suicide rate with a handgun than the general population. I wonder if you did the same statistical analysis on an area that doesn't have the entrenched anti-gun culture of California politics coupled with the extreme firearms driven rampant gang violence of the major cities in California you would get similar results?
Considering the draconian hoops a person has to jump through to purchase a handgun in California; not surprising it takes extreme motivation to want to own one. I wonder if the statistical conclusion of California would be different if done in an area of the country where firearm ownership is not considered an aberration. Lovely use of a global conclusion based on a limited and specific statistical universe.
No, the NRA did not lobby to stop government research on gun violence.
Several senators did get a stop order given to the Centers for Disease Control from doing repeated studies on gun violence in an attempt to force studies to show gun ownership as a mental aberration.
The research into gun violence is under the purview of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The federal agencies keep statistics on actual crime rates and don't try to force conclusions based on an uber-liberal bias.
"Eliminate? No. But reduce heavily yes. Strict gun control laws do work. Compare any and all countries who have strict gun control laws to America. Who has more gun violence?"
Hmm, considering the South American countries with the most restrictive gun laws tend to be the ones with the most violent crimes... Check your statement again as it invites comparison with Venezuela. I have a feeling you are trying to compare what are commonly considered "first world" countries and not countries with bans on personal firearm ownership regardless of social organization.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
One interesting thing, if you like playing with statistics, is comparison of violent crime rates separated by gun control laws within the U.S. If you eliminate the areas with draconian gun control laws in the U.S. the U.S. gun violence rate compares with all the other first world countries. It is probably fallacious to link the very restrictive gun control laws to being the cause of gun violence and not the overcrowded urban poverty driving the drug and gang violence that pushes the U.S. violent crime statistics so high.
Hmmm, all the touted improvements are for things I turned off immediately after downloading the Windows 10 fix for Windows 8 malware. The whole of Win8 acted like malware.
Hmmm, the article ignores the fact that a retinal scan is changed by cataracts, glaucoma, log term diabetes, retinal detachment, macular holes, macular degeneration, or massive beta radiation exposure.
I wonder if using IR laser scan instead of red laser scan as the first generation of the tech did would sense living tissue based on temperature?
There was another "blue meteor" incident a couple of months ago. From what I can see is that the problem with things hitting people on the head only really occurs with frequency on the flight path coming into aircraft repair facilities.
BTW... blue meteor... when the external holding tank valve has a slow leak and the blue toilet water freezes on the outside of the aircraft. It thaws and drops off when descending for a landing in warmer ground air.
A rare but documented problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_ice_(precipitation)
Check the FAA rules on drones.
"Hobby" drones don't require a license. A hobby drone cannot be operated over another person's property, must stay in line of sight, are forbidden from coming near airports (without permission) or areas where people congregate (festivals, sporting events, etc.). A hobby drone is severely limited as to payload capacity,
These are the type of drones that often cause problems with improper operation. Remember when SoCal had to abort firefighting aircraft because of so many idiots flying camera drones over the fire?
Commercial drone use only recently had regs firmed up. You have to have a licensed and qualified drone operator who is versed in the regulations governing aircraft flight. The FAA has backed off the requirement be a "licensed pilot" for commercial drone use. That was an interim reg until they put into regs what training requirement has to be met to be a "drone operator".
As civilian drone use becomes more prevalent; the issue of flight path and who is responsible for the flight path and condition of the drones comes into play. To do automated deliveries; who is the "drone operator" for 7-11 deliveries that has legal responsibility for the aircraft? Do they send some pimple faced part time employee to a weekend "drone school" then hang him out to dry when a poorly maintained aircraft takes out someones Beemer at a stop light? Deliveries would have to follow roadways unless they have permission for overflight of developed properties... Hey, if they over fly your property is it legal to shoot down the trespassing aircraft and sieze the cargo?
Churches....
Reminds me of an old joke... The Southern Baptist Convention is totally against pre-marital sex because it could lead to drinking, card playing, and (heaven forbid) dancing.
Rant away.
It goes back to prohibition. When prohibition was repealed; many states made liquor sales "local option". In other words, the local people decide if they want liquor sales in their jurisdiction.
Personally, I think adults should be expected to behave in an adult manner. On the flip side, I'm a huge believer in local government instead of draconian controls from massive bureaucracy. I'm willing to drive to the next county over for a bottle of rum if I like and politic for legalizing in my county when the issue comes up.
Just a democratic opinionated old fart....
Texas, like Mississippi, still has "dry counties". In Mississippi, anything beyond beer has to be sold in a licensed facility that does not allow anyone below 21 years old to enter. I can't remember what county Nagodoches, Texas, is in but when I was there on a business trip a few years ago; you had to "purchase a membership" in a private club to be able to buy an alcoholic beverage.
It isn't worth it for Walmart or 7-11 to try and change local laws and would aggravate the local church ladies to no end if they tried.
Get some shirts with pockets. Hard to crack a phone in a shirt pocket unless you do a face plant trying to qualify for Jackass air time.
"I vehemently disagree about the praise for the 3.5mm headphone jack. The same problems it had in the '80s are still with us today. It wears out ridiculously fast. I've had to find the "sweet spot" on an untold number of 3.5mm jacks. You either have to twist the plug to the perfect angle or apply pressure on the correct side, or else you get no sound or severely diminished sound. Plugs that can do both audio and a microphone seem to suffer this fate even faster."
Try cleaning the socket. And if you habitually keep a device in a lint filled pocket; consider getting one of the headphone hole covers so popular in several Asian countries. Plain or bling, the covers also keep moisture out if you use your phone out in the weather. Unless you allow the contacts to get dirty or corroded; you won't have a problem with a headphone jack.