I can however give you the FBI brief on wounding factors and effectiveness (which can be found on reproduced on various websites and exists on FBI.gov but is inaccessible) which states that a higher caliber rarely makes a difference.
Uhh, the conclusion of that paper says just the opposite.
The critical element is penetration. The bullet must pass through the large, blood bearing organs and be of sufficient diameter to promote rapid bleeding. Penetration less than 12 inches is too little, and, in the words of two of the participants in the 1987 Wound Ballistics Workshop, "too little penetration will get you killed."42, 43 Given desirable and reliable penetration, the only way to increase bullet effectiveness is to increase the severity of the wound by increasing the size of hole made by the bullet. Any bullet which will not penetrate through vital organs from less than optimal angles is not acceptable. Of those that will penetrate, the edge is always with the bigger bullet.
A.22LR fired from a pistol has poor penetration and makes a small hole. The.45 and 9mm are a different story; one is a big slow round and the other is a smaller faster round; you're trading off penetration for wound size. Both are much bigger than a.22LR.
Pretty useless. I knew how to pick locks at age 8. Safe Cracking with a proper stethoscope is rather trivial, if it's mechanical.
For the occasional criminal prodigy child, a Group 1 lock might be required. Cracking one of those is NOT rather trivial. Electronic locks equally secure against manipulation of the lock are also available. Said prodigy might be able to defeat the mechanism on the gun as well.
For the child who has managed to build his own thermal lance... just let him have the gun. He's probably safer with it than he is with the lance.
People in this thread seems WAY to obsessed about the scenario which almost never plays out "someone tries to take my gun" vs the scenario that is all too common "children playing with their parents guns".
There's cheaper and better solutions for that second scenario, namely, a gun safe of some sort in which the gun is kept when not under the direct control of the parents. And teaching the kids not to play with it, but it's probably best not to rely on that alone, especially if other kids are sometimes in the house.
I ride motorcycles and see this sort of thing all the time, whenever a group of motorcyclists hear about somebody dying in an accident, they always start saying how dumb the person was, implying that could never happen to them; it's only other people who make mistakes like getting distracted or losing their temper.
So? Perhaps they're right. Perhaps they never would have done whatever the person did who got killed. It's one thing if the guy was just riding along minding his own business and gets hit by a car who didn't look, but if the guy was lane splitting at 100mph through heavy traffic or something equally risky, others might rightfully discount the chance of that happening to them.
Looking at their page, it looks like the gun is armed by a fingerprint sensor on the watch, and disarmed when the gun moves away from the hand or after a timeout period. This makes the gun poor in most police and self defense scenarios; you now have to draw the weapon, and put your finger on the watch. Holster the gun for any reason and the gun disarms.
For example, the RIAA's lawyers argued that she is responsible for the transitive closure of the people who downloaded the song from her, but if that's the case then whoever she downloaded it from is responsible for her distribution and so she is not.
That's not true. They could be responsible and she could be responsible. In fact, both they and she could be 100% responsible, as the law is neither mathematics nor justice.
The real question is what the goal of copyright law is. If the goal is to encourage innovation and ensure property owners get paid when their work is used, then there's no need for huge punitive damages.
The goal of copyright law is to allow those who bought the law to have complete control over what the rest of us do with any creative work, ever, no matter what the cost to us. Given that, the $1.3 million dollar judgement is quite low.
Suppose you witness a crime, but for various reasons (like wanting to continue breathing) you don't want to report it or testify about it. Suppose further the cops figure out you were a witness, and you're subpoena'd and ordered to testify. Since you didn't report the crime, and not doing so is a crime, you can now simply take the fifth and not testify!
If you're that afraid of your government, you should probably work on fixing it more than hiding from it. That IS your responsibility as a citizen and a human being.
Fixing the government is not a task an individual can realistically hope to accomplish. Hiding from it is somewhat more practical. It's no more being a "pussy" to prefer hiding from the government than it is to prefer avoiding a tornado than standing up to it.
We don't get SNL over here in Australia but it has had a reputation for promoting great comedians since the 70's...
You used present perfect tense. You wanted past perfect tense. Nowadays, SNL has a reputation for not being funny. The only thing which kept them from being completely unfunny recently was Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impressions.
I happen to know that there are simple software/hardware hacks/backdoors on 98% of phones in existence. All of these are built in by the manufacturers at our behest - 'our' being NSA, MI6, CIA, ASIO and DSD of Australia.
Doubt it. Too many people would know about it; not only too many phone company employees, but others; do you think no one has reverse-engineered a phone?
Many phones can take firmware updates over the air, and that can be used to put backdoors in the phones; I believe Verizon has said it has done so at the behest of the FBI in at least one case. But putting a backdoor in every phone out there is just asking for the backdoor to be discovered.
And if you're a Green who realizes that political power oscillating back and forth between the conservatives and the liberals is a control system with feedback seeking balanced policy over time, then what can we make of you?
An idealistic fool.
The problem is the oscillation is only in one dimension. Along other axes (where the two sides agree), things keep getting worse.
Leave all that trash on 2.4Ghz. I want to be able to continue to use 5.1,5.2 and (to a lesser degree, since phones use it too) 5.8. As soon as we get a proliferation of $25 devices on the 5Ghz spectrum, we'll fill those up too.
That Scott Adams is a genius, for finding a way to charge defense-contractor prices for a relatively useless board game?
He put out a game, ostensibly about ethics, where victory depends on your position rather than your knowledge of the subject matter. And managed to sell it to people who presumably wouldn't appreciate the cynicism. He's not just a genius, he's a super-genius.
I should note that you can still just walk out of your job here tommorrow if you choose, you don't have to work your notice period, however if you do then you just wont get paid any remaining holiday leave you haven't used up and are owed for example that's all. Similarly companies can just sack you tommorrow if they want too, but they have to have justification to do it without giving you a bit of notice and hence time to find another job.
It's not symmetric, though. If I get pissed at my boss, clean out my desk, and walk out, I'm a pariah in the industry and will never get a decent job again unless I manage to successfully lie on my resume. If he gets pissed at me and fires my ass with no notice, he'll not have any trouble getting more employees. And that's not just because it's an employer's market, either. It's because it's practical for employers to check up on every previous employer a candidate has, but not practical for employees to check out every ex-employee a protential employer has.
I have yet to see a single report on standard of living, however, which has ever attempted to measure square footage per household member across countries.
Said measure doesn't make the US look bad, so you won't see it in major media. Also, remember the fashion among the intelligentsia is that people should be happy with 400 square feet in their "walkable community".
...they're going to need to have a lot of smart people who don't mind and aren't hampered by their flow of information (both ways) being censored. I don't see that happening. I also don't buy the story that scientific information is perfectly free and it's only narrow political things that are censored.
No, they won't. Nor will you provide intelligent input about pricing.
Nor would the salespeople recognize it; they'd rather make a sale that loses the company money than not make it, as long as they get their commission. Now, if you're rumored to be having sex with Natalie Portman, the salespeople will respect you more. A lot more if you bring her friends over to party with them.
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Seriously, if the IEEE wouldn't stand up to the government on the issue of _editing articles by Iranian authors_ (same law, different application -- and one with much more direct First Amendment implications), you can't expect Sourceforge.net to stand up to them. Make the penalty terrible enough and it doesn't matter how unjust the law is.
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No, they didn't. There weren't any locked-down boxes when Apple built itself. Apple got into the locked-down box thing with the original Macintosh.
In response to your subject line, YES, Microsoft does give you dev tools for Windows. They're the Visual Studio Express editions.
Yep, it's "bc". If bc isn't sufficient, it's "bc -l". If even that won't do it, I move to sage.
And if you're younger than Windows 3.1... GET OFF MY LAWN.
Uhh, the conclusion of that paper says just the opposite.
A .22LR fired from a pistol has poor penetration and makes a small hole. The .45 and 9mm are a different story; one is a big slow round and the other is a smaller faster round; you're trading off penetration for wound size. Both are much bigger than a .22LR.
For the occasional criminal prodigy child, a Group 1 lock might be required. Cracking one of those is NOT rather trivial. Electronic locks equally secure against manipulation of the lock are also available. Said prodigy might be able to defeat the mechanism on the gun as well.
For the child who has managed to build his own thermal lance... just let him have the gun. He's probably safer with it than he is with the lance.
There's cheaper and better solutions for that second scenario, namely, a gun safe of some sort in which the gun is kept when not under the direct control of the parents. And teaching the kids not to play with it, but it's probably best not to rely on that alone, especially if other kids are sometimes in the house.
So? Perhaps they're right. Perhaps they never would have done whatever the person did who got killed. It's one thing if the guy was just riding along minding his own business and gets hit by a car who didn't look, but if the guy was lane splitting at 100mph through heavy traffic or something equally risky, others might rightfully discount the chance of that happening to them.
Looking at their page, it looks like the gun is armed by a fingerprint sensor on the watch, and disarmed when the gun moves away from the hand or after a timeout period. This makes the gun poor in most police and self defense scenarios; you now have to draw the weapon, and put your finger on the watch. Holster the gun for any reason and the gun disarms.
That's not true. They could be responsible and she could be responsible. In fact, both they and she could be 100% responsible, as the law is neither mathematics nor justice.
The goal of copyright law is to allow those who bought the law to have complete control over what the rest of us do with any creative work, ever, no matter what the cost to us. Given that, the $1.3 million dollar judgement is quite low.
Sorry, for adults in the house it's the shotgun, but for kids on the lawn you only get to use the cane. It is vital not to confuse these.
Suppose you witness a crime, but for various reasons (like wanting to continue breathing) you don't want to report it or testify about it. Suppose further the cops figure out you were a witness, and you're subpoena'd and ordered to testify. Since you didn't report the crime, and not doing so is a crime, you can now simply take the fifth and not testify!
Fixing the government is not a task an individual can realistically hope to accomplish. Hiding from it is somewhat more practical. It's no more being a "pussy" to prefer hiding from the government than it is to prefer avoiding a tornado than standing up to it.
You used present perfect tense. You wanted past perfect tense. Nowadays, SNL has a reputation for not being funny. The only thing which kept them from being completely unfunny recently was Tina Fey's Sarah Palin impressions.
Doubt it. Too many people would know about it; not only too many phone company employees, but others; do you think no one has reverse-engineered a phone?
Many phones can take firmware updates over the air, and that can be used to put backdoors in the phones; I believe Verizon has said it has done so at the behest of the FBI in at least one case. But putting a backdoor in every phone out there is just asking for the backdoor to be discovered.
An idealistic fool.
The problem is the oscillation is only in one dimension. Along other axes (where the two sides agree), things keep getting worse.
Leave all that trash on 2.4Ghz. I want to be able to continue to use 5.1,5.2 and (to a lesser degree, since phones use it too) 5.8. As soon as we get a proliferation of $25 devices on the 5Ghz spectrum, we'll fill those up too.
He put out a game, ostensibly about ethics, where victory depends on your position rather than your knowledge of the subject matter. And managed to sell it to people who presumably wouldn't appreciate the cynicism. He's not just a genius, he's a super-genius.
It's not symmetric, though. If I get pissed at my boss, clean out my desk, and walk out, I'm a pariah in the industry and will never get a decent job again unless I manage to successfully lie on my resume. If he gets pissed at me and fires my ass with no notice, he'll not have any trouble getting more employees. And that's not just because it's an employer's market, either. It's because it's practical for employers to check up on every previous employer a candidate has, but not practical for employees to check out every ex-employee a protential employer has.
Why should they change it just because some tosser wrote a novel? They were using it before 1948 and they never stopped.
Said measure doesn't make the US look bad, so you won't see it in major media. Also, remember the fashion among the intelligentsia is that people should be happy with 400 square feet in their "walkable community".
...they're going to need to have a lot of smart people who don't mind and aren't hampered by their flow of information (both ways) being censored. I don't see that happening. I also don't buy the story that scientific information is perfectly free and it's only narrow political things that are censored.
It's nerd/fratboy. The actual jocks (at Division I universities, anyway) are separate from either.
Nor would the salespeople recognize it; they'd rather make a sale that loses the company money than not make it, as long as they get their commission. Now, if you're rumored to be having sex with Natalie Portman, the salespeople will respect you more. A lot more if you bring her friends over to party with them.
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Status: Account suspended by order of United States Government.
Seriously, if the IEEE wouldn't stand up to the government on the issue of _editing articles by Iranian authors_ (same law, different application -- and one with much more direct First Amendment implications), you can't expect Sourceforge.net to stand up to them. Make the penalty terrible enough and it doesn't matter how unjust the law is.