I notice progressives use this argument only when such a move supports their goals/viewpoints. More cherry picking hypocrisy from the left.
And the right is quite happy to have companies discriminate against groups they don't approve of - now shoe, meet other foot...
I'd say there's enough hypocrisy for a generous serving to all sides.
The only option was the cut open the case and the wires simultaneously. To do that required a shaped charge. This is the only detonator that the FBI has come accost that couldn't even be disarmed by its creator for a reason.
Wonder if the newer explosives propelled water-cutting jackets could have cut the wires/detonators without triggering the TNT...
"invented" / "hacked" In the interview he said it was something he threw together in 20 minutes, so clearly not something groundbreaking / super involved, so probably more journalistic interpretation rather than his own claim. If he did use the word invention? He's a kid.
But props for curiosity and hacking at tech. 99+% these days are reduced to passive consumers. I did pretty much the same, ripping the radio part out of a clock radio and using the trigger wire from the clock board (that used to power/turn on the radio part) to switch a relay so I could instead turn on my big stereo system.
as to the power sources - clearly the original clock was mains powered with a battery backup to keep the clock going and possibly powering a buzzer, so that you don't oversleep if there was/is a power failure. Pretty much standard for alarm clocks / clock radios...
A hoax bomb that he showed off to his relevant teacher, AFAICT, pretty much directly in the morning.
Didn't leave somewhere half-hidden for someone to find, but kept with him
Apparently didn't show anyone else until requested to do so after the alarm went off during class.
No blocks of clay (C4/Semtex) or cardboard tubes (dynamite).
Yes, that sounds JUST like the actions of a bomb hoaxer... NOT.
A boy was trying to impress his female teacher. Really you guys can't see this as what it is. A boy bringing a shiny red apple to his female teacher hoping she will smile at him like he's a man, not a boy?
WOW! A homemade clock to impress her and she thinks he made a bomb.
From the articles I've read - he brought it in to show his engineering teacher, who AFAICT appears to be male, and recognized that it was indeed just a clock.
The female teacher was in a later class and she was only shown the clock because of her request, since the alarm had gone off during class.
City councilman Johnny Khamis dismissed such criticism: "This is a public street. You're not expecting privacy on a public street."
This argument did not work for Google Maps, who have been forced by various state and municipal governments to blur the license plates and faces of people captured.
But I guess they aren't the government... if the government does it, it's fine.. (???)
Maybe the dear councilman will lead by example and equip his vehicle(s) with GPS transceivers that log to a public web site whenever the vehicle(s) is/are running? I'd even be understanding and OK with if it was geo-fenced to exclude private land, like big farms etc w/o public access.
under US law, the advertising companies do not have standing, since their work is not being manipulated. The publishers, though, may have, as their copywritten material is being modified, and therefore a derivative work created. However, that, in itself, does not create a copyright law violation. This is complex and the outcome likely depends on which case, in the US, gets to the supreme court first.
French law? No clue. Their copyright law might be very, very different.
They have no, and have never had any, control of how their pages are rendered at the viewing side. Remember "Works best with $foo" ?
My browser might not even support graphics, Javascript, Flash, etc
I request page $bar - that doesn't automatically mean I'm required to also get any and all resources linked to in it. What I do with the HTML code of $bar is MY decision, whether manually in a text editor, through external scripts, or through a plug-in I've installed in my browser.
First of all, incarceration after arrest is not "prison"; it's jail.
Not really. That's mainly a USA-specific distinction, and he was imprisoned in Sweden.
We have the same distinct inion Sweden, both the term and the facility. Before trial you're in 'häkte' quite often solitary and with restricted communications/news input. These are typically nuilt into bigger police stations. Sweden is often criticized for the long periods of time persons can be kept there.
After sentencing you go to 'fängelse', of which there are different styles. Unless you serve your time on monitored house arrest, possibly even with allowance to travel to work.
During the gulf war public use was actually turned off so the military could have better access.
Huh? GPS satellites are not wireless access points with a limited number of users supported -- they broadcast a signal that anyone can receive (the number of users has zero impact on other users).
I assume GP has confused, and was referring to, the turning off of SA (selective availability), that when on deteriorates the precision of civilian receivers - thus improving the precision availble to the military units that couldn't get proper military grade receivers but instead had civilian receivers. As you say, number of users/receivers has no effect on the system, as they're just listening - just like FM radio sets...
Burn it. In Russia in the 90s they used to sell kit that could destroy a computer remotely in case the mob or the police visited. Maybe they have the same for the iphone?
Ooooh, I sense a business opportunity - thermite cases! Shouldn't be any less safe to walk around with than the phones themselves, given the batteries. Must just not make the trigger too sensitive...
The fat woman was actually an actress wearing a fat suit.
Why ? I can't imagine it would be too hard to find a genuinely fat person to take the job.
No, but a bit harder for her to do the control as 'normal sized'... I assume the study wanted the same person in both tests to eliminate as many other variables as possible.
1 cup of flour is trivially measured by volume: Just grab the "1 cup" cup from your set of measuring cups, scoop up flour from your storage container, level. You're done.
Is that flour fluffy or compacted - how compacted was the contents due to transport vibrations/settling? (yes, you do get about the same if you do it the same way, but what if you don't scoop but instead pour from the package?)
If you're using measuring cups, you can make a batch of cookie dough without using a scale or having to look at the actual measurement.
Guess what - the same thing applies if you have metric measuring cups and metric recipes (haven't seen any call for something like 138g, just like you're unlikely to see calls for 2,17 cups, they're typically tuned to reasonable values in whatever system they originate. Very few recipes are THAT inflexible to not allow that...)
US recipes usually don't use "cups" of butter, they use "sticks" of butter. If you live where butter isn't sold in US sticks (113.4 grams), you're screwed.
For butter/margarine we use, like 200/225/250g (never seen a value not a multiple of 25g, like you're unlikely to see anything but easy fractions of 'stick') - and that can be had by cutting off a chunk from the package (typically 500g or 1kg), 4/4.5/5 scale lines wide (lines on the wrapper placed every 50g)
> Fahrenheit scale simply makes more sense
Really? Water freezing and boiling, two rather important things for man, at 32 and 212 compared to 0 and 100?
I'll give you that putting the human body temp at ~100 is somewhat reasonable, but the rest? Why not use some other unit size and put freezing and boiling water at more memorable values, it's not that the factor 1,8 compared to C or K is somehow magical or derived from something special...
It is NOT more sensible - it is just that you grew up with it and are used to it. To me, negative temperatures are clearly cold - the more the worse, positive single digits from cold to chilly, comfortable--a bit warm 515--25, uncomfortably warm ~30, F'in hot ~40, above that? I'm not going anywhere not AC'd... And that is just as 'natural' and intuitive to me as the F scale is to you, because I grew up with it. And of course, those temperature spans are my preferences based on local climate abd experience (just like I doubt a Texan and an Alaskan have the same temperature span for 'shorts and T-shirt' weather)
It will be interesting to see what our government thinks about it, since it is still in swedish law. But since they had to pay the EU fines for having delayed the implementation of the directive I can't imagine they will be too upset.
Since it was invalid, will we be getting the fines, for nor timely implementing it, back?
So, to be clear, the United States democractically elected government passed a law, that applies only to United States citizens. A bunch of foreign bankers have decided that they don't like that law, and so they are overruling it.
The U.S. is a member of WTO (that bunch of [not just foreign] bankers) - and quite happy to wield it against other nations. Now with the boot on the other foot - not so happy. But it IS good to see that not abiding by the rules they agreed on by being a member of WTO does have consequences for the U.S. too, not just 'lesser' nations...
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I notice progressives use this argument only when such a move supports their goals/viewpoints. More cherry picking hypocrisy from the left.
And the right is quite happy to have companies discriminate against groups they don't approve of - now shoe, meet other foot... I'd say there's enough hypocrisy for a generous serving to all sides.
No, real men edit inodes, by hand, with a magnet.
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Magnets, schmagnets. Butterflies... or emacs... :-)
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In an aircraft engine?
Rambo came out in 1982 - Reagan was elected in 1980.
And the book [First Blood, David Morrell] was published in 1972...
The only option was the cut open the case and the wires simultaneously. To do that required a shaped charge. This is the only detonator that the FBI has come accost that couldn't even be disarmed by its creator for a reason.
Wonder if the newer explosives propelled water-cutting jackets could have cut the wires/detonators without triggering the TNT...
But props for curiosity and hacking at tech. 99+% these days are reduced to passive consumers. I did pretty much the same, ripping the radio part out of a clock radio and using the trigger wire from the clock board (that used to power/turn on the radio part) to switch a relay so I could instead turn on my big stereo system.
as to the power sources - clearly the original clock was mains powered with a battery backup to keep the clock going and possibly powering a buzzer, so that you don't oversleep if there was/is a power failure. Pretty much standard for alarm clocks / clock radios...
A hoax bomb that he showed off to his relevant teacher, AFAICT, pretty much directly in the morning. Didn't leave somewhere half-hidden for someone to find, but kept with him Apparently didn't show anyone else until requested to do so after the alarm went off during class. No blocks of clay (C4/Semtex) or cardboard tubes (dynamite). Yes, that sounds JUST like the actions of a bomb hoaxer... NOT.
A boy was trying to impress his female teacher. Really you guys can't see this as what it is. A boy bringing a shiny red apple to his female teacher hoping she will smile at him like he's a man, not a boy?
WOW! A homemade clock to impress her and she thinks he made a bomb.
From the articles I've read - he brought it in to show his engineering teacher, who AFAICT appears to be male, and recognized that it was indeed just a clock. The female teacher was in a later class and she was only shown the clock because of her request, since the alarm had gone off during class.
City councilman Johnny Khamis dismissed such criticism: "This is a public street. You're not expecting privacy on a public street."
This argument did not work for Google Maps, who have been forced by various state and municipal governments to blur the license plates and faces of people captured.
But I guess they aren't the government... if the government does it, it's fine.. (???)
Maybe the dear councilman will lead by example and equip his vehicle(s) with GPS transceivers that log to a public web site whenever the vehicle(s) is/are running? I'd even be understanding and OK with if it was geo-fenced to exclude private land, like big farms etc w/o public access.
Kinda doubt it though...
under US law, the advertising companies do not have standing, since their work is not being manipulated. The publishers, though, may have, as their copywritten material is being modified, and therefore a derivative work created. However, that, in itself, does not create a copyright law violation. This is complex and the outcome likely depends on which case, in the US, gets to the supreme court first.
French law? No clue. Their copyright law might be very, very different.
They have no, and have never had any, control of how their pages are rendered at the viewing side. Remember "Works best with $foo" ? My browser might not even support graphics, Javascript, Flash, etc
I request page $bar - that doesn't automatically mean I'm required to also get any and all resources linked to in it. What I do with the HTML code of $bar is MY decision, whether manually in a text editor, through external scripts, or through a plug-in I've installed in my browser.
To those two also add rather strict rules on testing and what's allowed to be mounted on / modified etc...
Plenty of other smallish single board computers with more horsepower out there. It's not like you're forced to buy a RPi...
Maybe in the US - other countries don't have such a distinction between jail and prison - they are synonyms in such a country.
Sweden has the distinction. During investigation, pre trial -> häkte. Post trial serving a sentence -> fängelse
First of all, incarceration after arrest is not "prison"; it's jail.
Not really. That's mainly a USA-specific distinction, and he was imprisoned in Sweden.
We have the same distinct inion Sweden, both the term and the facility. Before trial you're in 'häkte' quite often solitary and with restricted communications/news input. These are typically nuilt into bigger police stations. Sweden is often criticized for the long periods of time persons can be kept there. After sentencing you go to 'fängelse', of which there are different styles. Unless you serve your time on monitored house arrest, possibly even with allowance to travel to work.
One thing I question - 73,011 cams in 256 countries? There are only 190-200... even counting random psudo countries I don't think there are 256...
There looks to be 255 'territorial' top level domains ("country code" TLDs) - not all of which are acknowledged as countries in say, the UN.
During the gulf war public use was actually turned off so the military could have better access.
Huh? GPS satellites are not wireless access points with a limited number of users supported -- they broadcast a signal that anyone can receive (the number of users has zero impact on other users).
I assume GP has confused, and was referring to, the turning off of SA (selective availability), that when on deteriorates the precision of civilian receivers - thus improving the precision availble to the military units that couldn't get proper military grade receivers but instead had civilian receivers. As you say, number of users/receivers has no effect on the system, as they're just listening - just like FM radio sets...
We need a solution to car navigation in tunnels? You just continue straight ahead until you emerge from the tunnel.
There are places in the world that have intersecting tunnels...
Burn it. In Russia in the 90s they used to sell kit that could destroy a computer remotely in case the mob or the police visited. Maybe they have the same for the iphone?
Ooooh, I sense a business opportunity - thermite cases! Shouldn't be any less safe to walk around with than the phones themselves, given the batteries. Must just not make the trigger too sensitive...
The fat woman was actually an actress wearing a fat suit.
Why ? I can't imagine it would be too hard to find a genuinely fat person to take the job.
No, but a bit harder for her to do the control as 'normal sized'... I assume the study wanted the same person in both tests to eliminate as many other variables as possible.
1 cup of flour is trivially measured by volume: Just grab the "1 cup" cup from your set of measuring cups, scoop up flour from your storage container, level. You're done.
Is that flour fluffy or compacted - how compacted was the contents due to transport vibrations/settling? (yes, you do get about the same if you do it the same way, but what if you don't scoop but instead pour from the package?)
If you're using measuring cups, you can make a batch of cookie dough without using a scale or having to look at the actual measurement.
Guess what - the same thing applies if you have metric measuring cups and metric recipes (haven't seen any call for something like 138g, just like you're unlikely to see calls for 2,17 cups, they're typically tuned to reasonable values in whatever system they originate. Very few recipes are THAT inflexible to not allow that...)
US recipes usually don't use "cups" of butter, they use "sticks" of butter. If you live where butter isn't sold in US sticks (113.4 grams), you're screwed.
For butter/margarine we use, like 200/225/250g (never seen a value not a multiple of 25g, like you're unlikely to see anything but easy fractions of 'stick') - and that can be had by cutting off a chunk from the package (typically 500g or 1kg), 4/4.5/5 scale lines wide (lines on the wrapper placed every 50g)
> Fahrenheit scale simply makes more sense Really? Water freezing and boiling, two rather important things for man, at 32 and 212 compared to 0 and 100? I'll give you that putting the human body temp at ~100 is somewhat reasonable, but the rest? Why not use some other unit size and put freezing and boiling water at more memorable values, it's not that the factor 1,8 compared to C or K is somehow magical or derived from something special... It is NOT more sensible - it is just that you grew up with it and are used to it. To me, negative temperatures are clearly cold - the more the worse, positive single digits from cold to chilly, comfortable--a bit warm 515--25, uncomfortably warm ~30, F'in hot ~40, above that? I'm not going anywhere not AC'd... And that is just as 'natural' and intuitive to me as the F scale is to you, because I grew up with it. And of course, those temperature spans are my preferences based on local climate abd experience (just like I doubt a Texan and an Alaskan have the same temperature span for 'shorts and T-shirt' weather)
Makes me wonder who has access now and does not want competition?
Even if that [hypothetically] isn't an issue, security through obscurity is no security...
It will be interesting to see what our government thinks about it, since it is still in swedish law. But since they had to pay the EU fines for having delayed the implementation of the directive I can't imagine they will be too upset.
Since it was invalid, will we be getting the fines, for nor timely implementing it, back?
Undercover - in a cruiser?! Are the criminals all blind?
So, to be clear, the United States democractically elected government passed a law, that applies only to United States citizens. A bunch of foreign bankers have decided that they don't like that law, and so they are overruling it.
The U.S. is a member of WTO (that bunch of [not just foreign] bankers) - and quite happy to wield it against other nations. Now with the boot on the other foot - not so happy. But it IS good to see that not abiding by the rules they agreed on by being a member of WTO does have consequences for the U.S. too, not just 'lesser' nations...