Yeh right. And how many unlisted dialups do they use? Or for that matter, private leased lines that are remotely accessible through the providers private network?
Not that such is trivial to crack, but it's all connected. Some stuff is just easier to reach.
But those plastic grips and aerodynamic/ergonomic stocks look menacing, they must be bad!
I don't own any guns. I do, however, like the idea of being able to buy one, if I feel it necessary. I doubt I'll ever worry about the mechanics of exotic ammunition, though.
What you did, was illustrate how much of an ass you are... ok, so coating lead bullets in teflon does nothing. Duh. In reality, though, apparently most, if not all that are coated like that, can cut through certain bullet-proof vests.
Now, I suppose I could go nuts and memorize all the different trade names for bullets, since like any product, there are probably variations on the theme, some of which really work, others of which are hype. Hollow points, metal (steel? copper?) jackets, bullets designed to fragment in certain ways, or designed to do the most damage against certain types of targets...
But why? I needed to be able to express the idea of a bullet that can penetrate "bullet proof" vests, and I did so, in a manner that would allow 99.9% of people to understand me. I didn't propagate any myths about why they work, I didn't go into the subject at all. Going into the subject, if I had known anything about it, would have confused the point I was trying to make. Too bad you're a retard with few social skills, and an inability to see past irrelevant details. I suppose it didn't help, as far as you were concerned, that you mistook me for someone that is pro-gun control/anti-gun ownership, but hey... morons like yourself often alienate silent supporters... it's why you're having such a hell of a time, even with a Constitutional ammendment to back you up. But I tell you what, you go back to your mountain cabin, and study up on all the various types of ballistic ammunition, and I'll comment on whatever I damn well see fit, whether or not I choose to interject pointless details that you somehow feel add to the discussion.
Even ignoring enviromental conditions that would throw it off, how possible would it be for someone to interfere with it? If I were a criminal, I would certainly consider jury-rigging a device that jams the wedding ring RF transmitter, and turns off my victims gun. Hell, the cops would just think he/she didn't act quickly enough...
Only a layperson, I've never seen documentation to suggest that anyone has ever died from a gunshot wound other than bloodloss, brain/heart/spinal damage.
But I do know that it's a fact, that any normal gun doesn't have enough energy to push you back, let alone explosively like you see in movies. If it did, the person firing the gun would also be knocked back just as far. Rubber bullets only kill when they hit you in the head, and crunch a skull bone. And then, I would think it could happen only at close range.
People hit in their bullet proof vest only die under a few conditions. The first, is that the vest doesn't hold up, for instance with teflon coated bullets, or other ammunition. The second, is the doughnut chugging cop, who happens to have a heart attack, when jolted (or possibly even before being hit, being shot at would be stressful, I think).
Now, while I don't believe this happens very often, let alone in a gunfight, there is a certain phenomena where the heart will stop if you even tap the person on the chest, doesn't have to be hard enough to leave a bruise. Timing is everything, and if it happens right at the beginning of something called the T wave, it's over. A fraction of a second sooner or later, there is no problem. I can't remember much more, been awhile since I read about it. Would be a neat ninja trick, though, wouldn't it?
I think Unisys holds the patents to those. Or at least the compression algo. But while we're at it, do you think we could unload MIDI on them... I mean, if we are cleaning out all the dumb web ideas, let's get rid of all of them.
Yes, I believe in Free Enterprise too. Being able to offer a cup of water for $1 million USD... and if it isn't a desert, then buy that on credit! You'll be able to pay back the loan, once you sell a few cups of water.
"If you see a product more than a couple of times on e-mail, that means that product is selling," Finn said. "No one would be sending it repeatedly if was not selling."
Ironically, the latest Kinsey survey reports that the average american penis length has increased to an astounding 11.5 inches, Forbes is delcaring that the number of millionaires in the USA has jumped 19,422% since last year due to perfectly legal Nigerian banking loopholes, and this slashdot poster has 19, count them, 19 barely legal blonde sluts hovering around the computer desk at this very minute.
For many tasks... but for checkers/chess, command line wouldn't be horrible at all. Mind you, I'm still thinking about an ncurses display, just that you wouldn't be dragging and dropping the pieces. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't some chess people already play/think in terms of coordinates?
I mean, the whole redhat/mp3 playing thing... that is just brilliant. Young troll-lings take note: See how he blends the reader's naivete about linux, with the average users frustrations at having to learn how to use an OS, or install software. See how he makes it look as if there weren't any number of mp3 players, both for X and the command line... several of which are probably default installs (Wouldn't know myself, and all you redhat weenies can bite me, I use Slack!). Think about this, "mpg123 filename" is as simple as it gets, but this master troll banks on the likely assumption that most windows lamers here at slashdot won't have a clue. It all plays into the FUD that we hear every day about linux, and yet maintains some air of plausibility... I mean, if you knew nothing of linux, except the gossip that it's difficult to use, you could believe him yourself!
But then, that's just the beginning, he follows up with a true masterpiece, including a subtle, yet direct contradiction. Does the PC in the dining room not have "crappy computer speakers" ? Can a cheap Big Lots CD alarm clock have anything much better than those? And for the piece de resistance, when has Walmart, or any retailer for that matter, ever in the history of the compact disc, sold a new album by any performer (dare I call Bon Jovi an artist?) for $8.00 ? It just does not get any better than this, folks. Those with less expertise might never even notice that they've been trolled.
*Applause*
SteweyGriffin, please, marvel us with some more of your brilliant trollery, it's hard to remember that it truly is an artform, some days.
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Still doesn't scale, and if you try to, I expect all kinds of weird large-scale interference problems.
Not that I don't like the concept... personally I'm wondering about smaller scale stuff. Like a helium balloon in my back yard, tethered at 150-300ft. Seems like that might extend my range considerably...
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Yeh, imagine that! Every person in the UK, trying to use a single (or even a few) 802.11 access point.
Neither of us have made a good case. Do not forget, that the cable company's "shared network" is actually any number of shared segments, and often hybrid-fiber (rarely pure fiber though?). Wires (and especially fibers) can carry quite a bit more bandwidth than our small slice of RF spectrum.
I just can't see how wifi can scale past a niche/hobbyist service. It's half as much bandwidth as I would like, if I didn't have to share it. When 500 people within the quarter mile radius start trading mp3's (and god forbid: divx's) it will go downhill really fast.
There's got to be a better way... but I'll be damned if I can see it.
You know, there were several reasons that 10base2 only allowed 30some hosts per segment, but a not insignificant one was that collisions don't increase linearly as you add hosts.
Despite what some believe, 802.11 is basically a single pipe, shared with everyone. This simply isn't the solution you're looking for, even if it is the only one available.
Reminds me too much of idiots who use USB for cd burners and the like. Then they wonder why the mouse cursor is unresponsive.
I'm not a troll... I do sympathize. I want to figure out how to get broadband to everyone too. But this isn't it.
But, you're arguing a bit unfairly. While one explanation is that guys with wooden planks played us for fools, there are possibilities other than graffiti-writing spaceships buzzing the UK.
You see, I actually believe most are hoaxes. Do I believe the few remaining are UFO related? I don't believe anything, except that they are strange phenomena that I would like explained. Uncommon though it is, sometimes the simplest explanation is wrong. Strange things do happen.
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Yeh right. And how many unlisted dialups do they use? Or for that matter, private leased lines that are remotely accessible through the providers private network?
Not that such is trivial to crack, but it's all connected. Some stuff is just easier to reach.
Digital Cable Recievers
And don't forget to do everyone a favor, and help add to the compatibility database...
*grin*
But those plastic grips and aerodynamic/ergonomic stocks look menacing, they must be bad!
I don't own any guns. I do, however, like the idea of being able to buy one, if I feel it necessary. I doubt I'll ever worry about the mechanics of exotic ammunition, though.
Incomplete knowledge. Not false.
What you did, was illustrate how much of an ass you are... ok, so coating lead bullets in teflon does nothing. Duh. In reality, though, apparently most, if not all that are coated like that, can cut through certain bullet-proof vests.
Now, I suppose I could go nuts and memorize all the different trade names for bullets, since like any product, there are probably variations on the theme, some of which really work, others of which are hype. Hollow points, metal (steel? copper?) jackets, bullets designed to fragment in certain ways, or designed to do the most damage against certain types of targets...
But why? I needed to be able to express the idea of a bullet that can penetrate "bullet proof" vests, and I did so, in a manner that would allow 99.9% of people to understand me. I didn't propagate any myths about why they work, I didn't go into the subject at all. Going into the subject, if I had known anything about it, would have confused the point I was trying to make. Too bad you're a retard with few social skills, and an inability to see past irrelevant details. I suppose it didn't help, as far as you were concerned, that you mistook me for someone that is pro-gun control/anti-gun ownership, but hey... morons like yourself often alienate silent supporters... it's why you're having such a hell of a time, even with a Constitutional ammendment to back you up. But I tell you what, you go back to your mountain cabin, and study up on all the various types of ballistic ammunition, and I'll comment on whatever I damn well see fit, whether or not I choose to interject pointless details that you somehow feel add to the discussion.
Fuckwit.
Hmm, so you're telling me that the bullets do work more or less the way I suggested?
Wow, that would be relevant, if the mechanism behind it were a topic of debate. Thanks, Captain Irrelevant!
Even ignoring enviromental conditions that would throw it off, how possible would it be for someone to interfere with it? If I were a criminal, I would certainly consider jury-rigging a device that jams the wedding ring RF transmitter, and turns off my victims gun. Hell, the cops would just think he/she didn't act quickly enough...
Only a layperson, I've never seen documentation to suggest that anyone has ever died from a gunshot wound other than bloodloss, brain/heart/spinal damage.
But I do know that it's a fact, that any normal gun doesn't have enough energy to push you back, let alone explosively like you see in movies. If it did, the person firing the gun would also be knocked back just as far. Rubber bullets only kill when they hit you in the head, and crunch a skull bone. And then, I would think it could happen only at close range.
People hit in their bullet proof vest only die under a few conditions. The first, is that the vest doesn't hold up, for instance with teflon coated bullets, or other ammunition. The second, is the doughnut chugging cop, who happens to have a heart attack, when jolted (or possibly even before being hit, being shot at would be stressful, I think).
Now, while I don't believe this happens very often, let alone in a gunfight, there is a certain phenomena where the heart will stop if you even tap the person on the chest, doesn't have to be hard enough to leave a bruise. Timing is everything, and if it happens right at the beginning of something called the T wave, it's over. A fraction of a second sooner or later, there is no problem. I can't remember much more, been awhile since I read about it. Would be a neat ninja trick, though, wouldn't it?
I think Unisys holds the patents to those. Or at least the compression algo. But while we're at it, do you think we could unload MIDI on them... I mean, if we are cleaning out all the dumb web ideas, let's get rid of all of them.
Didn't mean to be serious... but if they don't work, and never will, then they aren't selling, they're conning. Defrauding.
That this fool loves an advertising medium favored by con artists, speaks for itself.
I guess ascii art is also a primitive pixel rendering system?
Thank god I didn't mention ANSI colors, or you really would have ripped me a new one, huh?
Yes, if I'm so damn free, why can't I sell myself into slavery? This Bill of Rights thing sucks hairy goat nads, it would seem.
Yes, I believe in Free Enterprise too. Being able to offer a cup of water for $1 million USD... and if it isn't a desert, then buy that on credit! You'll be able to pay back the loan, once you sell a few cups of water.
"If you see a product more than a couple of times on e-mail, that means that product is selling," Finn said. "No one would be sending it repeatedly if was not selling."
Ironically, the latest Kinsey survey reports that the average american penis length has increased to an astounding 11.5 inches, Forbes is delcaring that the number of millionaires in the USA has jumped 19,422% since last year due to perfectly legal Nigerian banking loopholes, and this slashdot poster has 19, count them, 19 barely legal blonde sluts hovering around the computer desk at this very minute.
For many tasks... but for checkers/chess, command line wouldn't be horrible at all. Mind you, I'm still thinking about an ncurses display, just that you wouldn't be dragging and dropping the pieces. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't some chess people already play/think in terms of coordinates?
Not to be a smartass, but checkers is indeed one game where a CLI could work. 2 coordinates define your move, after all.
I do agree on the other tasks, though.
Why move if it is the same as windows?
It was renamed to the ClearChannel section. They must have forgotten to remove 'Radio" from the list, is all.
Hell of a troll, if I do say so myself.
I mean, the whole redhat/mp3 playing thing... that is just brilliant. Young troll-lings take note: See how he blends the reader's naivete about linux, with the average users frustrations at having to learn how to use an OS, or install software. See how he makes it look as if there weren't any number of mp3 players, both for X and the command line... several of which are probably default installs (Wouldn't know myself, and all you redhat weenies can bite me, I use Slack!). Think about this, "mpg123 filename" is as simple as it gets, but this master troll banks on the likely assumption that most windows lamers here at slashdot won't have a clue. It all plays into the FUD that we hear every day about linux, and yet maintains some air of plausibility... I mean, if you knew nothing of linux, except the gossip that it's difficult to use, you could believe him yourself!
But then, that's just the beginning, he follows up with a true masterpiece, including a subtle, yet direct contradiction. Does the PC in the dining room not have "crappy computer speakers" ? Can a cheap Big Lots CD alarm clock have anything much better than those? And for the piece de resistance, when has Walmart, or any retailer for that matter, ever in the history of the compact disc, sold a new album by any performer (dare I call Bon Jovi an artist?) for $8.00 ? It just does not get any better than this, folks. Those with less expertise might never even notice that they've been trolled.
*Applause*
SteweyGriffin, please, marvel us with some more of your brilliant trollery, it's hard to remember that it truly is an artform, some days.
Still doesn't scale, and if you try to, I expect all kinds of weird large-scale interference problems.
Not that I don't like the concept... personally I'm wondering about smaller scale stuff. Like a helium balloon in my back yard, tethered at 150-300ft. Seems like that might extend my range considerably...
Yeh, imagine that! Every person in the UK, trying to use a single (or even a few) 802.11 access point.
Think of all the bandwidth you'll finally have!!!
Actually, it would be to break XML, as they have tried to do with other "standards".
Neither of us have made a good case. Do not forget, that the cable company's "shared network" is actually any number of shared segments, and often hybrid-fiber (rarely pure fiber though?). Wires (and especially fibers) can carry quite a bit more bandwidth than our small slice of RF spectrum.
I just can't see how wifi can scale past a niche/hobbyist service. It's half as much bandwidth as I would like, if I didn't have to share it. When 500 people within the quarter mile radius start trading mp3's (and god forbid: divx's) it will go downhill really fast.
There's got to be a better way... but I'll be damned if I can see it.
You know, there were several reasons that 10base2 only allowed 30some hosts per segment, but a not insignificant one was that collisions don't increase linearly as you add hosts.
Despite what some believe, 802.11 is basically a single pipe, shared with everyone. This simply isn't the solution you're looking for, even if it is the only one available.
Reminds me too much of idiots who use USB for cd burners and the like. Then they wonder why the mouse cursor is unresponsive.
I'm not a troll... I do sympathize. I want to figure out how to get broadband to everyone too. But this isn't it.
Not speaking for PhysicsGenius...
But, you're arguing a bit unfairly. While one explanation is that guys with wooden planks played us for fools, there are possibilities other than graffiti-writing spaceships buzzing the UK.
You see, I actually believe most are hoaxes. Do I believe the few remaining are UFO related? I don't believe anything, except that they are strange phenomena that I would like explained. Uncommon though it is, sometimes the simplest explanation is wrong. Strange things do happen.
Duh. A telegram. Anagram is a message delivered by someone in a monkey suit.