I suppose if the ex lives in a backwater country where he can get away with obvious and ongoing intentional slander, the "rent-a-thug" thing is probably an option.
Problem is, she's dealing with an asshat with an agenda. And those can be persistent. He's obviously willing to invest time and resources into his smear hobby, and this may simply validate his effort. "I must be really pissing her off if she's going to these lengths to try to stop me, lets see what she does if I do THIS...." That may simply encourage him, and cause him to change tactics at the same time to try to avoid her efforts and get her more upset. "paybacks" is a reward unto itself.
It could also give him actual real dirt to put up on his fake web sites. Short video clips from security cameras, doctored or real photos of bruises, that may end up looking a lot worse than the content he already has posted up, and could boost his page rankings considerably. So then it comes down to who's willing to go farther before blinking. And this guy must not have much of an alternate life if this is his hobby, so that makes it a very risky game to join him on and start escalating.
it's better to react to an error than try to ignore it. Though I think I'd prefer a log entry to a core dump. I prefer to write bulletproof code, and I frequently benefit from it. Just this morning in fact I got a warning email that a directory create failed on a script. It wasn't a shell crash, it was an authentic "assertion failed" routine of mine getting called to fire off an email, when an rm -d returned nonzero.
It was something that "should never fail". ("so why bother testing the return code?") Unless someone (like um... me) changes a folder name up a few levels. (oops) But instead of a crash in flames, or a "why the heck isn't the script updating those files??" (half hour later, find "because it's ignoring an error") I get a warning, and I fix it. and all is well.
Why are they obligated to continue a service if they are no longer wanting to continue the service? Did they say it would last forever?
An excellent question, to which I haven't seen an answer yet. Did their TOS promise anything forever? I doubt it. BUT... did their TOS say they may, at any point in the future, discontinue the service and offer no refund or release for future content? Maybe. Maybe not.
Not that many read the fine print, but the point is that most people, especially kids, are very short-sighted, and expect things they like to last forever. If you're going to kill off something that kids have come to expect, it'd at least be a good idea to be nice about it instead of just yanking the plug.
Open source the server so someone else can take over the project. More than likely someone will. Otherwise, all that investment people have put into their virtual bits turns to crap overnight, and that's totally unnecessary. and cruel to some.
They could have fun with it even, send it out with a bang instead of a whimper. Make it possible to give your pet a "going away party" or something. What they're getting right now isn't too far off from the family dog getting hit by a car. Ya I know it's just bits, to you and me, but not to a lot of others. They've got an emotional attachment to those bits.
. look at the penetration rates in even poor countries like Pakistan.
Islam doesn't reject science. Muslim countries crave the fruits of science like nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
The modern and affluent parts of those countries aren't where the majority of the jihadists are coming from. They're being recruited from and in parts of the country that are at least "backwater" by any modern nation's description.
I probably should have used the term "mujtahids" instead of "cleric". It's the mujtahids that are issuing the fatwas to command their assembly do things like go kill a cartoon artist.
As for "blame", I don't see it as being as cut-and-dry as that. The people are being people, their behavior is expected. The crazy mujtahids are being crazy mujtahids, same goes for them. The problem is the country's condition. It favors the nutjobs. They get into power, they stay in power, because the average education level of the population allows it.
And it's a bit of a race. Can the power hungry religious leaders get their power heavily entrenched before the people wise up? See china. See North Korea. The people have lost there, they wised up too late and are now puppets of their government. China's control is still up for grabs I think, but NK is just scary. The world isolated them, and that allowed the govt to basically brainwash most of their population. So the Chinese don't want the control but don't have a lot of choice, the NK think everything's just grand and that it's Them vs The World (and they're WINNING!), and the Pakistanese are still basically sheep, unquestioningly doing whatever their clerics tell them to.
Just being a muslim country doesn't guarantee that fate. Look at Saudi Arabia. Much higher average of "modern" citizens. They're still a theocracy/monarchy, but they're chilling out and adjusting rapidly to fit in with the modern world, and they've really benefitted from it, as a country and as a people. It's unfortunate that has to be the exception rather than the rule. I think if anything, it's the acceptance of the people, not the controlling parties, that is their throttling factor. So for them it only takes a few generations to bring about radical change and huge improvement.
So it's a pretty complex issue, there's no one "deciding factor" to blame. The whole process of modernizing a population depends on the cooperation of many aspects of the country in question.
You just left out the part where it's your DUTY to kill blasphemers.
MOST religions had that as a pillar at some point in the past. Christians are a great example.
The difference isn't so much how the religion started, or what's written, but what really matters is how the followers behave. More specifically, how the "religious authority" handle and guide their flock. Compare a catholic bishop to a muslim (jihadish) cleric and that's your difference. The people are easy to control, it's how the authority figures wield their power and control their faithful. You can't really blame the people, it's human nature. The problem is there are too many power-hungry / nutjob clerics warmongering the members of their religion. Look at what catholic popes did in the past, think Crusades. Catholics, and most other major religions, have outgrown that and are actually more interested in the well-being of their followers than using them as a tool to an agenda now.
It's just islam's turn to grow up and evolve. The problem I think is the basic conditions of the people. Uncivilized control can't easily exist inside a civilized and modern society. The easiest way to "fix" them is to bring them into the 19th if not the 20th century. Then the problem of the nutjob clerics will go away on its own and islam will become a much more positive religion, on the average. Sanctions and isolation are not the solution, instead they prolong the problem.
Bletchley Park could have probably gotten by without any one or two of the code breakers,
While most of the work they did could have gone on fairly uninterrupted with the loss of any one particular person, there are some specific counter-examples. Tuttle took over researching a german goof in using their Lorenz set that had stumped a team there for three months, and single-handedly identified a 41 character patten that led to the breaking of Lorenz. Without his accident/brilliance, Lorenz either would have lasted much longer, or possibly never been broken by Bletchley. (that member that was interviewed speculated the Lorenz's early break had shortened the war by 2 years, saving 20,000,000 lives)
While this is the only specific example I can quickly quote, I would wager there are at least a handful of other points in Bletchley's history that hinged on a single member coming through with a hail-mary for the team.
Its entirely possible that the interference was so strong that even getting in the car your fob would not allow it to start.
That would be an interesting thing to investigate, as there are arguments in both directions.
1. power rises and drops with the square of the distance. If you are double the distance, the received power is 25%. So if your fob is transmitting 100 milliwatts, if you're standing 5 feet from the antenna and the pirate station is a block away, (say 500ft) you'd beat a transmitter with a fundamental power of over 400 watts. An incredibly crappy transmitter may have 3rd order at 10% of fundamental. I doubt very much a pirate station hidden in an air conditioner is putting out 4kw on VHF.
2. the car antenna is probably optimized for receiving from the fob from a distance outside the car, so fob reception is probably worse inside the car than certain places outside the car.
3. I didn't see anything about range complaints. This problem would obviously be occurring in a very specific area of town centered around that building. Probably within a block or less, and was likely more of a nuisance for people, not able to unlock their car until they got closer to it. (I'm used to being able to hit my autostart a block away, and a lot of people unlock their car as soon as they're within visual sight of it)
4. 104.7 x 3 = 314.1, which is actually just below and outside one of the unlicensed low power bands in use by some car remotes. In theory it shouldn't interfere even on 3rd, unless again the transmitter was quite crappy and spraying out unwanted splatter or sideband.
5. again lacking information, would be interesting to have more data on the kit confiscated. Some of those units are actually very high quality. There's a market for it, and people that are doing it not for money (this was music 24/7, no commercials) typically have a larger amount of pride in their work. I would actually expect fairly high quality gear. Although it may simply have been out of alignment. Nearby large metal objects (like air conditioners) can really screw up transmitters. I will assume though that the transmitter itself was in the AC unit and that there was a proper aerial antenna mounted to it.
You don't use your key much, do you? The alarm is disarmed when the key is used to unlock the car, whether you push the unlock button or not.
Depends on the alarm. ALL aftermarket plus the majority of factory alarms won't disarm with the door key alone. A slim-jim does basically the same physical thing as the door key, and you don't want that disarming your alarm. Installing a chipped key detector in the door is expensive, they save that for the ignition on factory alarms.
In most cases you will set off the alarm when using a key instead of your remote. From there it depends on your alarm. Most aftermarket have a hidden button somewhere you have to press a user-defined pattern into to disarm the alarm. (you don't just press or hold the button unless it's a very cheap alarm) Mine's that way. The older factory ones you just have to put up with the noise till you drive home and disconnect the battery. Newer factory alarms have a chip in the key that the ignition lock will read, which disarms the alarm and enables the ECU so it will start. For the newer key/fob combos, the key's chip is read directly with electrical contacts, without need for good batteries in the fob, so you can use your car if the battery is dead.
Most of the more "polite" newer cars give you a short grace to get in the car and turn the ignition before setting off the alarm when you unlock the door.
it's just a reminder that "correlation is not the same as causation". In simpler terms, when you notice that you have a Y when you are studying an X, it doesn't mean Y contributed to X. Sometimes it means X contributed to Y. (and sometimes they mutually reinforce each other)
It'd be like finding a link between eating doritos and smoking pot, and thinking the doritos were contributing to the pot smoking. That one's a bit more obvious, but in any event you can't just automatically assume Y is causing X without more thorough research. And it looks like that's just what they did. So it wasn't wasted time.
"We believe the orders are without merit, a waste of German taxpayers' money and we will fight it vigorously"
Sounds like someone that has a complete lack of respect for the law in general. "We don't agree with the law, we don't want you trying to enforce the law on us, and we're going to fight it even though it's law."
I do hope the German court decides to haul them out back behind the woodshed and explain how legislature, laws, and law enforcement work.
airport/time capsule are overkill for most home networks, but not mine. I pound the piss out of my router on a daily basis, every day of the week. Servers, email, web, backups, torrents, and more.
I had been running an ancient asante but it finally bit the dust, power surge on the WAN jack. So I tried a netgear, a dlink, and a netgear, none of which could run for more than a week without something going wrong with them. Finally bit the bullet and bought an airport extreme.
Had one problem... my LAN is a very unusual design for multiple internal networks, and requires the router be on a specific IP address or I will have to run around and reconfigure many machines and even some scripts. The airpot doesn't offer a way to specify the IP, it just makes itself one addy below the DHCP start pool.
BUT, it allows me to export the entire configuration, as XML, where I can edit it with amazingly fine detail, and re-upload it. So, it lacked a convenience, but then pulled a home-run in flexibility. I have never seen another router that lets me edit its config backup. (among those that can export/import configs) At least not with default firmware.
Anyway, the airport is extremely reliable. I have to reboot the network about once a month anyway, because my switches (netgear) and occasionally my modems start having problems. (I've also had to replace the junk dsl and cable modems provided by my isp with better units)
Apparently my network makes their ports bleed or something...
iirc, first thing they did when they got into the prison control room was blast out all the cameras. You might want to watch that one again. Maybe make the cameras more blaster-proof. (or less obvious looking / hidden)
Defense turrets around the power core
I don't think you want a turbo laser shootout going on around your power core in the first place. If they make it that far you're probably already toast. (even ships getting blown up in there is probably bad) Instead, how about stationing the turrets IN the access tunnels, where certain low-profile ships will have no room to maneuver and dodge your shots.
The vendor on his video link goes into detail about all the checks that are done, and at one point says "a minute to do this, a minute to verify that, a minute to check this..." etc.
The main article then states that "a single officer may check 1400 a day". OK, time for maths! There are 480 minutes in an 8 hour day, assuming no breaks for potty or lunch. We'll assume the officer is equipped with a sandwich and depends. But he obviously is spending LESS than "a minute" reviewing the entire citation so lets go down to seconds.
28800 seconds in his breakless-day, / 1400 citations, means the officer is averaging no more than 20 seconds per citation review. If we add up the vendor's recommended "minutes" to be about 3 per citation, the officers are being pushed to spend 16% of the expected time reviewing and approving these citations.
This is the police department's fault. If an officer is approving more than 500 citations a day, he's spending less than a minute on each review and is either not being given adequate time to do his job, or is just plain pencil-whipping/shortcutting to be lazy or work his quota/metrics.
if somebody asked me to hire my own boss, I'd recommend myself and if not, I'd find another place to work.
Some of us don't want to be managers. I sure don't want my boss's job. I'm a tech and fix stuff. He's a pencil pusher and firewalls against stupid and hostile customers. I couldn't stand to do his job.
pair of reporters who were interviewing him posted a photo which included metadata on the photo's location.
oopsie! someone really wasn't thinking... also makes you wonder why they would post the raws, or why their photoshopping tools maintain that. I really wouldn't expect photoshop to preserve gps metadata.
That video wasn't very clear. It didn't look like the catfish really "beached" itself, it was more of a lunge from the water's edge. When I hear "beached" I'm thinking mostly or completely out of the water like you see killer whales going up on shore and taking sea lions and seals off the dry beach. These birds were practically wading in the shallows.
Also, it looked like every time they got a pigeon, it managed to get free within a few seconds and get back up on shore?
I prefer this video, a snapper snagging a pigeon: Snapping turtle eats bird Much clearer outcome. (those snappers have an insane strike speed, as well as a very unexpectedly long range)
Once you get the source code, you can do whatever you want with it, within the bounds of the GPL. You can give it away for free, package it up and resell it (modified or unmodified), or never give it away to anyone!
Three things I'd like to throw in here. First, you'd think that after a few dickish maneuvers of making source hard to get, someone that got the source from him would post it up somewhere so anyone could have it (whether or not they bought the author's binary) I suppose the author may try to go after you for some sort of copyright violation, but that would only go as far as he was willing to pay his lawyer to bog down a court in the mud for. (which, depending on his money to burn and determination, may be annoying or expensive enough for the poster to just give up on, losing to "unaffordable justice")
Second, the purchaser could make most any small modification that changes the binary's crc, and then repost that for anyone to download. I imagine that would piss off the author even more and be more likely to initiate a lawyer-pissing-contest, but again it would be legal up to the point of justice being unaffordable to the poster.
And lastly, I wonder where the legal status would be for "I compiled and posted it as is with no modifications", creating a crc-idential binary that would be very easily argued to have been compiled (since you have the source) so I wonder if a judge could be convinced that the poster violated the author's right of exclusive distribution? I suppose "in theory" the poster would be safe and again be looking at an "affordable justice" outcome, but I'm not certain, maybe some modification (to the source, to cause a difference in the binary) would be legally necessary?
The sharp edges on those dinosaur cases seemed to demand a blood sacrifice every time I worked inside one of those cases.
I made my sacrifice last Friday on one of those lovely stamped steel EMI covers on the top of a laptop's motherboard, manufactured circa 2000. And it wasn't even unscrewed from the computer!
Still have a bit o duct tape on the left thumb to hold the gash closed. Amazing how clean and deep of a cut raw stamped steel can saw into your flesh!
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I suppose if the ex lives in a backwater country where he can get away with obvious and ongoing intentional slander, the "rent-a-thug" thing is probably an option.
Problem is, she's dealing with an asshat with an agenda. And those can be persistent. He's obviously willing to invest time and resources into his smear hobby, and this may simply validate his effort. "I must be really pissing her off if she's going to these lengths to try to stop me, lets see what she does if I do THIS...." That may simply encourage him, and cause him to change tactics at the same time to try to avoid her efforts and get her more upset. "paybacks" is a reward unto itself.
It could also give him actual real dirt to put up on his fake web sites. Short video clips from security cameras, doctored or real photos of bruises, that may end up looking a lot worse than the content he already has posted up, and could boost his page rankings considerably. So then it comes down to who's willing to go farther before blinking. And this guy must not have much of an alternate life if this is his hobby, so that makes it a very risky game to join him on and start escalating.
it's better to react to an error than try to ignore it. Though I think I'd prefer a log entry to a core dump. I prefer to write bulletproof code, and I frequently benefit from it. Just this morning in fact I got a warning email that a directory create failed on a script. It wasn't a shell crash, it was an authentic "assertion failed" routine of mine getting called to fire off an email, when an rm -d returned nonzero.
It was something that "should never fail". ("so why bother testing the return code?") Unless someone (like um... me) changes a folder name up a few levels. (oops) But instead of a crash in flames, or a "why the heck isn't the script updating those files??" (half hour later, find "because it's ignoring an error") I get a warning, and I fix it. and all is well.
An excellent question, to which I haven't seen an answer yet. Did their TOS promise anything forever? I doubt it. BUT... did their TOS say they may, at any point in the future, discontinue the service and offer no refund or release for future content? Maybe. Maybe not.
Not that many read the fine print, but the point is that most people, especially kids, are very short-sighted, and expect things they like to last forever. If you're going to kill off something that kids have come to expect, it'd at least be a good idea to be nice about it instead of just yanking the plug.
Open source the server so someone else can take over the project. More than likely someone will. Otherwise, all that investment people have put into their virtual bits turns to crap overnight, and that's totally unnecessary. and cruel to some.
They could have fun with it even, send it out with a bang instead of a whimper. Make it possible to give your pet a "going away party" or something. What they're getting right now isn't too far off from the family dog getting hit by a car. Ya I know it's just bits, to you and me, but not to a lot of others. They've got an emotional attachment to those bits.
The modern and affluent parts of those countries aren't where the majority of the jihadists are coming from. They're being recruited from and in parts of the country that are at least "backwater" by any modern nation's description.
I probably should have used the term "mujtahids" instead of "cleric". It's the mujtahids that are issuing the fatwas to command their assembly do things like go kill a cartoon artist.
As for "blame", I don't see it as being as cut-and-dry as that. The people are being people, their behavior is expected. The crazy mujtahids are being crazy mujtahids, same goes for them. The problem is the country's condition. It favors the nutjobs. They get into power, they stay in power, because the average education level of the population allows it.
And it's a bit of a race. Can the power hungry religious leaders get their power heavily entrenched before the people wise up? See china. See North Korea. The people have lost there, they wised up too late and are now puppets of their government. China's control is still up for grabs I think, but NK is just scary. The world isolated them, and that allowed the govt to basically brainwash most of their population. So the Chinese don't want the control but don't have a lot of choice, the NK think everything's just grand and that it's Them vs The World (and they're WINNING!), and the Pakistanese are still basically sheep, unquestioningly doing whatever their clerics tell them to.
Just being a muslim country doesn't guarantee that fate. Look at Saudi Arabia. Much higher average of "modern" citizens. They're still a theocracy/monarchy, but they're chilling out and adjusting rapidly to fit in with the modern world, and they've really benefitted from it, as a country and as a people. It's unfortunate that has to be the exception rather than the rule. I think if anything, it's the acceptance of the people, not the controlling parties, that is their throttling factor. So for them it only takes a few generations to bring about radical change and huge improvement.
So it's a pretty complex issue, there's no one "deciding factor" to blame. The whole process of modernizing a population depends on the cooperation of many aspects of the country in question.
MOST religions had that as a pillar at some point in the past. Christians are a great example.
The difference isn't so much how the religion started, or what's written, but what really matters is how the followers behave. More specifically, how the "religious authority" handle and guide their flock. Compare a catholic bishop to a muslim (jihadish) cleric and that's your difference. The people are easy to control, it's how the authority figures wield their power and control their faithful. You can't really blame the people, it's human nature. The problem is there are too many power-hungry / nutjob clerics warmongering the members of their religion. Look at what catholic popes did in the past, think Crusades. Catholics, and most other major religions, have outgrown that and are actually more interested in the well-being of their followers than using them as a tool to an agenda now.
It's just islam's turn to grow up and evolve. The problem I think is the basic conditions of the people. Uncivilized control can't easily exist inside a civilized and modern society. The easiest way to "fix" them is to bring them into the 19th if not the 20th century. Then the problem of the nutjob clerics will go away on its own and islam will become a much more positive religion, on the average. Sanctions and isolation are not the solution, instead they prolong the problem.
While most of the work they did could have gone on fairly uninterrupted with the loss of any one particular person, there are some specific counter-examples. Tuttle took over researching a german goof in using their Lorenz set that had stumped a team there for three months, and single-handedly identified a 41 character patten that led to the breaking of Lorenz. Without his accident/brilliance, Lorenz either would have lasted much longer, or possibly never been broken by Bletchley. (that member that was interviewed speculated the Lorenz's early break had shortened the war by 2 years, saving 20,000,000 lives)
While this is the only specific example I can quickly quote, I would wager there are at least a handful of other points in Bletchley's history that hinged on a single member coming through with a hail-mary for the team.
maybe they're getting ready to change names from "Prenda Law" to "Pretenda Law"?
That would be an interesting thing to investigate, as there are arguments in both directions.
1. power rises and drops with the square of the distance. If you are double the distance, the received power is 25%. So if your fob is transmitting 100 milliwatts, if you're standing 5 feet from the antenna and the pirate station is a block away, (say 500ft) you'd beat a transmitter with a fundamental power of over 400 watts. An incredibly crappy transmitter may have 3rd order at 10% of fundamental. I doubt very much a pirate station hidden in an air conditioner is putting out 4kw on VHF.
2. the car antenna is probably optimized for receiving from the fob from a distance outside the car, so fob reception is probably worse inside the car than certain places outside the car.
3. I didn't see anything about range complaints. This problem would obviously be occurring in a very specific area of town centered around that building. Probably within a block or less, and was likely more of a nuisance for people, not able to unlock their car until they got closer to it. (I'm used to being able to hit my autostart a block away, and a lot of people unlock their car as soon as they're within visual sight of it)
4. 104.7 x 3 = 314.1, which is actually just below and outside one of the unlicensed low power bands in use by some car remotes. In theory it shouldn't interfere even on 3rd, unless again the transmitter was quite crappy and spraying out unwanted splatter or sideband.
5. again lacking information, would be interesting to have more data on the kit confiscated. Some of those units are actually very high quality. There's a market for it, and people that are doing it not for money (this was music 24/7, no commercials) typically have a larger amount of pride in their work. I would actually expect fairly high quality gear. Although it may simply have been out of alignment. Nearby large metal objects (like air conditioners) can really screw up transmitters. I will assume though that the transmitter itself was in the AC unit and that there was a proper aerial antenna mounted to it.
I was referring to alarms that use a remote to disarm. Yours is just the basic car key?
Depends on the alarm. ALL aftermarket plus the majority of factory alarms won't disarm with the door key alone. A slim-jim does basically the same physical thing as the door key, and you don't want that disarming your alarm. Installing a chipped key detector in the door is expensive, they save that for the ignition on factory alarms.
In most cases you will set off the alarm when using a key instead of your remote. From there it depends on your alarm. Most aftermarket have a hidden button somewhere you have to press a user-defined pattern into to disarm the alarm. (you don't just press or hold the button unless it's a very cheap alarm) Mine's that way. The older factory ones you just have to put up with the noise till you drive home and disconnect the battery. Newer factory alarms have a chip in the key that the ignition lock will read, which disarms the alarm and enables the ECU so it will start. For the newer key/fob combos, the key's chip is read directly with electrical contacts, without need for good batteries in the fob, so you can use your car if the battery is dead.
Most of the more "polite" newer cars give you a short grace to get in the car and turn the ignition before setting off the alarm when you unlock the door.
it's just a reminder that "correlation is not the same as causation". In simpler terms, when you notice that you have a Y when you are studying an X, it doesn't mean Y contributed to X. Sometimes it means X contributed to Y. (and sometimes they mutually reinforce each other)
It'd be like finding a link between eating doritos and smoking pot, and thinking the doritos were contributing to the pot smoking. That one's a bit more obvious, but in any event you can't just automatically assume Y is causing X without more thorough research. And it looks like that's just what they did. So it wasn't wasted time.
It's well-known that removing Windows makes your computer more secure.
Sounds like someone that has a complete lack of respect for the law in general. "We don't agree with the law, we don't want you trying to enforce the law on us, and we're going to fight it even though it's law."
I do hope the German court decides to haul them out back behind the woodshed and explain how legislature, laws, and law enforcement work.
why have six when you can have two?
airport/time capsule are overkill for most home networks, but not mine. I pound the piss out of my router on a daily basis, every day of the week. Servers, email, web, backups, torrents, and more.
I had been running an ancient asante but it finally bit the dust, power surge on the WAN jack. So I tried a netgear, a dlink, and a netgear, none of which could run for more than a week without something going wrong with them. Finally bit the bullet and bought an airport extreme.
Had one problem... my LAN is a very unusual design for multiple internal networks, and requires the router be on a specific IP address or I will have to run around and reconfigure many machines and even some scripts. The airpot doesn't offer a way to specify the IP, it just makes itself one addy below the DHCP start pool.
BUT, it allows me to export the entire configuration, as XML, where I can edit it with amazingly fine detail, and re-upload it. So, it lacked a convenience, but then pulled a home-run in flexibility. I have never seen another router that lets me edit its config backup. (among those that can export/import configs) At least not with default firmware.
Anyway, the airport is extremely reliable. I have to reboot the network about once a month anyway, because my switches (netgear) and occasionally my modems start having problems. (I've also had to replace the junk dsl and cable modems provided by my isp with better units)
Apparently my network makes their ports bleed or something...
iirc, first thing they did when they got into the prison control room was blast out all the cameras. You might want to watch that one again. Maybe make the cameras more blaster-proof. (or less obvious looking / hidden)
I don't think you want a turbo laser shootout going on around your power core in the first place. If they make it that far you're probably already toast. (even ships getting blown up in there is probably bad) Instead, how about stationing the turrets IN the access tunnels, where certain low-profile ships will have no room to maneuver and dodge your shots.
The vendor on his video link goes into detail about all the checks that are done, and at one point says "a minute to do this, a minute to verify that, a minute to check this..." etc.
The main article then states that "a single officer may check 1400 a day". OK, time for maths! There are 480 minutes in an 8 hour day, assuming no breaks for potty or lunch. We'll assume the officer is equipped with a sandwich and depends. But he obviously is spending LESS than "a minute" reviewing the entire citation so lets go down to seconds.
28800 seconds in his breakless-day, / 1400 citations, means the officer is averaging no more than 20 seconds per citation review. If we add up the vendor's recommended "minutes" to be about 3 per citation, the officers are being pushed to spend 16% of the expected time reviewing and approving these citations.
This is the police department's fault. If an officer is approving more than 500 citations a day, he's spending less than a minute on each review and is either not being given adequate time to do his job, or is just plain pencil-whipping/shortcutting to be lazy or work his quota/metrics.
Some of us don't want to be managers. I sure don't want my boss's job. I'm a tech and fix stuff. He's a pencil pusher and firewalls against stupid and hostile customers. I couldn't stand to do his job.
oopsie! someone really wasn't thinking... also makes you wonder why they would post the raws, or why their photoshopping tools maintain that. I really wouldn't expect photoshop to preserve gps metadata.
well, last I checked, humans were animals?
hmmm...
Wow those scrappers sure can go to great lengths to fence their scrap!
That video wasn't very clear. It didn't look like the catfish really "beached" itself, it was more of a lunge from the water's edge. When I hear "beached" I'm thinking mostly or completely out of the water like you see killer whales going up on shore and taking sea lions and seals off the dry beach. These birds were practically wading in the shallows.
Also, it looked like every time they got a pigeon, it managed to get free within a few seconds and get back up on shore?
I prefer this video, a snapper snagging a pigeon: Snapping turtle eats bird Much clearer outcome. (those snappers have an insane strike speed, as well as a very unexpectedly long range)
Three things I'd like to throw in here. First, you'd think that after a few dickish maneuvers of making source hard to get, someone that got the source from him would post it up somewhere so anyone could have it (whether or not they bought the author's binary) I suppose the author may try to go after you for some sort of copyright violation, but that would only go as far as he was willing to pay his lawyer to bog down a court in the mud for. (which, depending on his money to burn and determination, may be annoying or expensive enough for the poster to just give up on, losing to "unaffordable justice")
Second, the purchaser could make most any small modification that changes the binary's crc, and then repost that for anyone to download. I imagine that would piss off the author even more and be more likely to initiate a lawyer-pissing-contest, but again it would be legal up to the point of justice being unaffordable to the poster.
And lastly, I wonder where the legal status would be for "I compiled and posted it as is with no modifications", creating a crc-idential binary that would be very easily argued to have been compiled (since you have the source) so I wonder if a judge could be convinced that the poster violated the author's right of exclusive distribution? I suppose "in theory" the poster would be safe and again be looking at an "affordable justice" outcome, but I'm not certain, maybe some modification (to the source, to cause a difference in the binary) would be legally necessary?
I made my sacrifice last Friday on one of those lovely stamped steel EMI covers on the top of a laptop's motherboard, manufactured circa 2000. And it wasn't even unscrewed from the computer!
Still have a bit o duct tape on the left thumb to hold the gash closed. Amazing how clean and deep of a cut raw stamped steel can saw into your flesh!