Another problem with 10mm Auto is that it wore out weapons quickly, namely the FBI's MP5s. There were numerous problems with wear, and HK decided that 10mm Auto MP5s were too much hassle, so they stopped producing them. Still, an FBI agent's standard weapon when they want "extra firepower" is a 10mm Auto MP5, however they must train with 9mm MP5s to keep from trashing the actual duty weapons. FBI SWAT has moved to the.223 cal M4 though.
Bubble tea at local coffee shop: $3. Tip for the smart and stunningly beautiful girl working there: $1. Gas to drive out to the lake outside of town: $.50. Getting said smart and beautiful girl from the coffee shop to come lay on the roof of my station wagon to watch the Perseid meteor shower with me after she got off work: Priceless.
This infects the idiots that jailbreak their iPhones so they can say "LOL I'm soo 1337, I h4x0r3d my iPhone and it works fiNEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN..."
AT&T must have changed their policy on unlocking. My friend, who has been an AT&T customer for several years, asked them for the unlock code for his phone because he was traveling to Europe to visit family. AT&T staunchly refused, because he got the phone with a 2-year contract, and the contract had not yet expired. I had a spare AT&T phone lying around that was not under contract, but since he hadn't used it before, they refused to unlock that one for him too. I let him borrow my [subsidized] T-Mobile phone that they happily unlocked for me after 90 days.
As Admiral Kirk taught us when facing Khan, when you inject prefixes over a datastream like a comm channel to another Starfleet vessel, you can take command of their consoles and lower their shields.
Adaptive optics and deformable mirrors with microactuators already exist to account for atmospheric effects and scintillation. We use them in laser weapon platforms like MTHEL, SSHCL, and ABL.
I don't know man, my daily driver has an odd number of cylinders and can smoke a Mustang from a stoplight...its a turbocharged 2.4L 5-cylinder Volvo station wagon with ECU and intake modifications bringing it to 275hp. My friend's Volvo S60R Evolve has a twin-cooled turbo 2.5L 5-cylinder engine with an Evolve exhaust system and ECU bringing it up to 420hp. He has fun scaring Porsche drivers in his sedan.
There are armor piercing pistol rounds available to civilians. The 7.62x25mm Tokarev round is capable of penetrating standard issue LE body armor and is even effective as a light anti-armor round against vehicles. It was originally a WW2 high-power pistol and submachinegun round.
9mm NATO rounds have a hotter charge and higher impact energy than standard 9mm Luger rounds, even though the bullet and case geometry are the same. Winchester makes them but only sells to law enforcement. The FBI uses these in their training MP5s. I do not know what the enhanced ballistic properties of 9mm NATO are though. I don't know about the anti-armor effectiveness of the 10mm Auto round the FBI uses either, but I do know that they are very high power, and that they seriously beat up the standard issue 10mm MP5s so badly that they try to avoid using them because HK doesn't make parts for them anymore.
The clones were really good machines, and that was a problem for Apple. I have a PowerComputer PowerCenter Pro with a 416MHz G3 CPU upgrade in it, and that is a nice little box even today. My favorite oddball Mac is my Motorola Starmax 4000/160. It was the closest thing to blending a PC and a Mac. Accessories were cheap, and the machines were well built and reliable. I can certainly see why Apple became afraid.
"Apple's license says that you can only run Mac OS X on Apple hardware. Thus, the copy from disk to RAM on non-Apple hardware is an unauthorized copy."
Paraphrasing Armageddon, "Apple hardware, Dell hardware, its all made by Foxconn!"
Air traffic control radars receive encoded data from aircraft via transponder. If I squawk 1200 on my transponder, then I show up as an airplane flying VFR on ATC's radar. However, if I squawk 7700 (general emergency) and IDENT, the ATC radar will light up like a christmas tree and say "holy crap, this airplane is in trouble!" This is all done through radar. Someone could certainly build a trojan into a radar system that would screw it up when it receives a certain encoded message.
You're right that it is common for maintenance, but its not as hard when equipment is being *replaced* instead of *added.*
The camera is one thing, then you need the cables, the recorder, etc. An A&P needs to amend the weight and balance sheet for every aircraft modified and add an appendix to the manual with all the data for the camera system. The AOM for every aircraft has a weight and balance sheet specific to that airframe. Alterations to the aircraft require recalculation and signoff by an A&P. This is because not every aircraft is identical; there are manufacturing defects and repairs that make them all unique. The math isn't hard, getting the mechanic to have to do all the work and paperwork is expensive though. Changing the CG and useful load (which is exactly what adding a camera system would do) is not a trivial task. Remember what a PITA it was to get armored cockpit doors...
Off the top of my head, here's some of the "out of warranty" drives I have at home.
WD 30GB IDE drive, 8 years old, works fine. Seagate 120GB IDE drive, 4 years old, works fine. Maxtor 6.4GB IDE drive, 10 years old, works fine. (from Powermac G3) IBM 12GB IDE drive, 8 years old, works fine. IBM 3.5GB IDE drive, 12 years old, works fine. (from Thinkpad 380XD) IBM 4x4GB SCSI DASD array, 10 years old, works fine. (from AS/400) IBM 4x9GB SCSI DASD array, 10 years old, works fine. (from AS/400) Seagate 4.3GB SCSI drive, 13 years old, works fine. (several, from old SparcStations) Seagate 1.2GB IDE drive, 15 years old, works fine. Seagate 41MB IDE Type 17 drive, >20 years old, works fine. (from Zenith 386) Seagate 420MB SCSI drive, 20 years old, works fine. (from SGI Iris Indigo) Seagate 1GB SCSI drive, 17 years old, works fine. Rodime 210MB SCSI drive, 20 years old, works fine. (several, from HP workstations) Conner 40MB SCSI drive, >20 years old, works fine. (several, from old Macs)
I can count on one hand the number of drives I've had go bad on me:
Seagate 800MB IDE (completely died) WD 640MB IDE drive (developed some bad sectors, still mounts, about 80% readable, can't boot) Seagate 2.5GB IDE drive (developed bad sectors, still mounts, about 50% readable, can't boot)
The fact that people put up with hardware that basically instantly fails is a joke.
Engine failure, hydraulic failure, structural damage, landing gear failure...the list of things that an autopilot is worthless for goes on and on. If a real pilot doesn't fly the airplane when any of those situations occur, everyone on board dies.
"Now its impressive that this desktop system has 1/37th of the power of the lowest machine on the super computer list... but does that really make it a super computer?"
Careful, make sure you read the law in detail. In Kansas it is also legal to open-carry, however the state law permits cities to pass municipal ordinances restricting open-carry.
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Manned state ranges in Missouri check all your ammo with a magnet before they even let you in.
Another problem with 10mm Auto is that it wore out weapons quickly, namely the FBI's MP5s. There were numerous problems with wear, and HK decided that 10mm Auto MP5s were too much hassle, so they stopped producing them. Still, an FBI agent's standard weapon when they want "extra firepower" is a 10mm Auto MP5, however they must train with 9mm MP5s to keep from trashing the actual duty weapons. FBI SWAT has moved to the .223 cal M4 though.
What do sheep get dunked in?
"Very little, since you're dealing with very low quality heat."
And that's why in the really good systems, the only acceptable option is Monster Heat, the finest quality heat available, and its even gold plated.
Different programs perform differently on different computers!
Bubble tea at local coffee shop: $3.
Tip for the smart and stunningly beautiful girl working there: $1.
Gas to drive out to the lake outside of town: $.50.
Getting said smart and beautiful girl from the coffee shop to come lay on the roof of my station wagon to watch the Perseid meteor shower with me after she got off work: Priceless.
Best evening of the year.
Kansas City International Airport has had free wifi for a couple of years now.
This infects the idiots that jailbreak their iPhones so they can say "LOL I'm soo 1337, I h4x0r3d my iPhone and it works fiNEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP NEVER GONNA LET YOU DOWN..."
The kiddies need to get a clue.
AT&T must have changed their policy on unlocking. My friend, who has been an AT&T customer for several years, asked them for the unlock code for his phone because he was traveling to Europe to visit family. AT&T staunchly refused, because he got the phone with a 2-year contract, and the contract had not yet expired. I had a spare AT&T phone lying around that was not under contract, but since he hadn't used it before, they refused to unlock that one for him too. I let him borrow my [subsidized] T-Mobile phone that they happily unlocked for me after 90 days.
I do not know of a triband UMTS radio either.
As Admiral Kirk taught us when facing Khan, when you inject prefixes over a datastream like a comm channel to another Starfleet vessel, you can take command of their consoles and lower their shields.
Adaptive optics and deformable mirrors with microactuators already exist to account for atmospheric effects and scintillation. We use them in laser weapon platforms like MTHEL, SSHCL, and ABL.
I don't know man, my daily driver has an odd number of cylinders and can smoke a Mustang from a stoplight...its a turbocharged 2.4L 5-cylinder Volvo station wagon with ECU and intake modifications bringing it to 275hp. My friend's Volvo S60R Evolve has a twin-cooled turbo 2.5L 5-cylinder engine with an Evolve exhaust system and ECU bringing it up to 420hp. He has fun scaring Porsche drivers in his sedan.
Sony would love to know the secret of NiMH because those batteries don't explode like their Li-Ion ones do.
No, they are not a myth.
There are armor piercing pistol rounds available to civilians. The 7.62x25mm Tokarev round is capable of penetrating standard issue LE body armor and is even effective as a light anti-armor round against vehicles. It was originally a WW2 high-power pistol and submachinegun round.
9mm NATO rounds have a hotter charge and higher impact energy than standard 9mm Luger rounds, even though the bullet and case geometry are the same. Winchester makes them but only sells to law enforcement. The FBI uses these in their training MP5s. I do not know what the enhanced ballistic properties of 9mm NATO are though. I don't know about the anti-armor effectiveness of the 10mm Auto round the FBI uses either, but I do know that they are very high power, and that they seriously beat up the standard issue 10mm MP5s so badly that they try to avoid using them because HK doesn't make parts for them anymore.
The clones were really good machines, and that was a problem for Apple. I have a PowerComputer PowerCenter Pro with a 416MHz G3 CPU upgrade in it, and that is a nice little box even today. My favorite oddball Mac is my Motorola Starmax 4000/160. It was the closest thing to blending a PC and a Mac. Accessories were cheap, and the machines were well built and reliable. I can certainly see why Apple became afraid.
"Apple's license says that you can only run Mac OS X on Apple hardware. Thus, the copy from disk to RAM on non-Apple hardware is an unauthorized copy."
Paraphrasing Armageddon, "Apple hardware, Dell hardware, its all made by Foxconn!"
"you've got decent length, and some upper/lower goodness." ...that's what she said.
There are Winchester drives and 1x cdroms that still work fine today. I doubt that in 25 years ANY of the SSDs built today will work.
Air traffic control radars receive encoded data from aircraft via transponder. If I squawk 1200 on my transponder, then I show up as an airplane flying VFR on ATC's radar. However, if I squawk 7700 (general emergency) and IDENT, the ATC radar will light up like a christmas tree and say "holy crap, this airplane is in trouble!" This is all done through radar. Someone could certainly build a trojan into a radar system that would screw it up when it receives a certain encoded message.
You're right that it is common for maintenance, but its not as hard when equipment is being *replaced* instead of *added.*
The camera is one thing, then you need the cables, the recorder, etc. An A&P needs to amend the weight and balance sheet for every aircraft modified and add an appendix to the manual with all the data for the camera system. The AOM for every aircraft has a weight and balance sheet specific to that airframe. Alterations to the aircraft require recalculation and signoff by an A&P. This is because not every aircraft is identical; there are manufacturing defects and repairs that make them all unique. The math isn't hard, getting the mechanic to have to do all the work and paperwork is expensive though. Changing the CG and useful load (which is exactly what adding a camera system would do) is not a trivial task. Remember what a PITA it was to get armored cockpit doors...
Off the top of my head, here's some of the "out of warranty" drives I have at home.
WD 30GB IDE drive, 8 years old, works fine.
Seagate 120GB IDE drive, 4 years old, works fine.
Maxtor 6.4GB IDE drive, 10 years old, works fine. (from Powermac G3)
IBM 12GB IDE drive, 8 years old, works fine.
IBM 3.5GB IDE drive, 12 years old, works fine. (from Thinkpad 380XD)
IBM 4x4GB SCSI DASD array, 10 years old, works fine. (from AS/400)
IBM 4x9GB SCSI DASD array, 10 years old, works fine. (from AS/400)
Seagate 4.3GB SCSI drive, 13 years old, works fine. (several, from old SparcStations)
Seagate 1.2GB IDE drive, 15 years old, works fine.
Seagate 41MB IDE Type 17 drive, >20 years old, works fine. (from Zenith 386)
Seagate 420MB SCSI drive, 20 years old, works fine. (from SGI Iris Indigo)
Seagate 1GB SCSI drive, 17 years old, works fine.
Rodime 210MB SCSI drive, 20 years old, works fine. (several, from HP workstations)
Conner 40MB SCSI drive, >20 years old, works fine. (several, from old Macs)
I can count on one hand the number of drives I've had go bad on me:
Seagate 800MB IDE (completely died)
WD 640MB IDE drive (developed some bad sectors, still mounts, about 80% readable, can't boot)
Seagate 2.5GB IDE drive (developed bad sectors, still mounts, about 50% readable, can't boot)
The fact that people put up with hardware that basically instantly fails is a joke.
No, but it would be astronomically expensive to STC and redo the weight and balance for EVERY aircraft you want to install the system on.
Engine failure, hydraulic failure, structural damage, landing gear failure...the list of things that an autopilot is worthless for goes on and on. If a real pilot doesn't fly the airplane when any of those situations occur, everyone on board dies.
FD: I am an aerospace engineer and a pilot.
"Now its impressive that this desktop system has 1/37th of the power of the lowest machine on the super computer list... but does that really make it a super computer?"
Just imagine a beowulf cluster of them!
Careful, make sure you read the law in detail. In Kansas it is also legal to open-carry, however the state law permits cities to pass municipal ordinances restricting open-carry.