I'd love to pay for fibre to my home - I was going to get it in 2014. But then we had a change of govt.... And there's no plans for my suburb in the upcoming rollout. You don't know how lucky you are.
I make a local cache of debian packages on one of my VMs, using apt-mirror. From time to time one of the packages would fail its checksum - reloading it from the offsite source would usually work. When I changed the VM's ethernet device to a virtual e1000, the problems went away. I later found an interesting cabling issue that was causing transmission errors between a switch the the physical host.
I can seen the airport of my nation's capital from my balcony. I have a similar setup logging the position reports to a PostGIS DB, which allows some interesting queries ("Give me all the position reports found beneath a certain altitude within a certain polygon that describes a runway, sorted by airframe and timestamp") which allows you to determine what planes landed and took off.
Looking up who owns the aircraft can be done online, and it's funny when something owned by a holding company in the Caymans flies in. Now if only there was an online API that allowed one to query the visitors list for the legislative bodies, one could tie the data together, along with the record of votes cast, and jump to some intriguing conclusions.
Nope - this has been my 1st time with Postgres/PostGIS and I did the bare minimum to get it running. There's also a GIST index on the location field. I'm logging between 400000-550000 position reports a day.
I'm logging around 500,000 position reports for aircraft each day, which are naturally ordered by time (I also index on the ICAO24 airframe number). A lot of the queries I do involve the timestamps, which of course are only moving in one direction during the course of the day.
I log ADS-B traffic to a PostGIS DB, and as part of the deduplication and data cleaning process, I look at the position reports, time & distance between them and the logged speed to see if they make sense. I sometimes have to add a fudge factor of up to 50km. ADS-B packets can get corrupted in ways that dump1090 can't fix up or detect, and I thought that the errors were due to that. Dump1090 has its own quirks when you're pulling position reports down from its JSON interface, but it's easier than pulling the ADS-B messages directly from its other interfaces and attempting to reconstruct the plane's track from that.
A former employer uses PostGIS extensively. It's more sophisticated than the support offered in MySQL (which only uses planar geometry) and is pretty much the standard in the GIS world. I'm writing an app which logs ADS-B position reports from planes, and it makes it trivial to detect when aircraft are landing or taking off from an airport - you can query if a point's within a polygon, and depending on speed, rate of ascent/descent and altitude, can come to some conclusions.
Large commercial aircraft have to have a transponder that transmits (among other things) their height, bearing, speed and position. Each one has a unique identifier (ICAO24 hex code). All aircraft will be required to be equipped with these things after 2020. You can track them with a home mode aerial, a Raspberry Pi & a DVB-T dongle, using SDR. It's all broadcast in the clear (it has to be - the logistics of making sure everyone has keys for decryption would be a nightmare).
The guns/suicide link comes from studies from Harvard (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/), The University of Southern California (as linked before) and the New England Journal of Medicine (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0805923). So you might want to reconsider your views on it. The Japan thing is a separate country with a very different culture, so a red herring. The above suicide studies are all within the US, so culture factors are already controlled for.
Given the wide variance of crime rates within the US, I would suggest that the states with higher murder rates implemented tougher gun laws as a response to high murder rates. The leakage of guns from adjacent states with lax laws would hamper those law's effectiveness. In order for it to work, the laws would have to be country wide, but I don't see that happening.
I'm quite happy for you to live your life as you wish, providing you don't go about gratuitously harming others. I just don't want a cultural meme, which has shown itself to be problematic, to say the least, to be exported to my country.
Australia banned lead in gasoline in the early 80s (I remember it happening).
Lead poisoning leads to poor impulse control, aggression etc, all of which are implicated in murder, assault, robbery and other crimes. If you look closely at the crime stats for Australia in those previous replies, you'll see that the homicide rate did indeed drop, but other crimes, such as robberies etc, including armed robberies, not so much. Indeed they stayed fairly constant, and in some cases even rose.
So you could argue that it's a combination of a couple of factors - less brain damaged people and reduced availability of tools to commit murder.
In the US, the proportion of households with guns has been steadily dropping (http://rt.com/usa/gun-ownership-decline-us-111/) so a similar mix of causes would be in effect there.
And as mentioned before, you're 3 times as likely to commit suicide and twice as likely to be murdered if you have a gun in the house. More & more people are wising up to that fact, and that's why the proportion of households with guns is dropping.
Well, the current govt is doing its best to increase unemployment and inequality (and sadly, succeeding), as well as making University degrees very expensive, so we'll see how that turns out.
Yes, the last time I visited the local police station (so that my prints could be sent back to the FBI, but that's a whole 'nother story), there was a large poster on the wall showing all the weapons that were banned. I must admit to checking the size of a few of my knives when I got home.
You know, it is possible to do more than one thing to cut down on murders at a time - like for example, to restrict access to knives (as you previously mentioned) as well as guns. Other items commonly used like nunchucks, have also seen restrictions.
So, explain to me why the gun usage, as a percentage of homicide rate, did not actually drop significantly? Could it be that the HONEST people were the ones that gave up their guns while the criminals kept theirs?
The actual overall murder rate dropped from 1.8 per 100,000 population in 1995 to 1.1 in 2012. So if the proportion of gun homicides in those murder rates remained the same, the actual rate of gun homicides dropped. To some 60% of what they once were. So yeah, a success. No mass shootings and a reduced rate of murder.
Yup, the gun laws are responsible for EVERYTHING. It must have NOTHING to do with the population density, the criminal justice system, the social system, the economy, the government, or the family structure. Gun laws dictate everything.
Well, we haven't had a mass shooting since the ban went into place. They were fairly regular occurrences before.
Yes, there are other factors than the lack of gun laws that cause the absurdly high murder rate in the US, but guns make killing and suicide that much easier.
You've carefully elided the fact that homicide rate in Australia is about a quarter of that of the US. The reason the homicide rate in the US fell more, is because it had a lot further to fall - and it's still four times that of Australia! You might consider the trade-off worthwhile, the tree of liberty needing to be watered by the blood of innocents from time to time and all that, but we don't. Over here you look like a bunch of crazed loons.
The knife thing is about knives over a certain size (poor Crocodile Dundee!). I have carted around a Leatherman (the knife) plenty of times and have not been hassled.
Exactly. If, instead of reducing lead, the government had simply banned guns, and we still had lead in gasoline and paint, how well do you think that would have worked out? With people still having behavioral problems, and using knives and baseball bats instead of guns, do you think that the 49% drop in the murder rate would have still happened. Thank you for proving my point. Crime is a symptom of a deeper problem, and guns are NOT the cause of the problem, they are just tools that criminals use, but they are used MUCH MORE by honest people.
If guns had actually been removed, I believe the murder rate would've dropped a bit, because guns make it a lot easier to kill people. There's a lot more effort involved when using a baseball bat. Unfortunately, you've got that particular tiger by the tail, and the guns are unlikely to disappear unless there's a mass community movement to do it, like there was in Australia.
And what do you expect? The honest gun owners are very much AGAINST crime, just like all of the honest non-gun owners, but how are gun owners supposed to "put a lid" on crime. If I have a gun to defend myself, do you expect me to put on tights and be "Super Shooter Dude" running around saving the city by myself? Then I would be called a "vigilante," which is generally frowned upon.
I wasn't expecting honest gunowners to be vigilantes - I was expecting them to condemn the more out there pronouncements of the loons.I'm not seeing that happen at all, which makes me think that perhaps they agree with the nutters. Not good for peace of mind.
By the way. I am not a "prepper" or a "survivalist." At least not much. I have been through a couple of hurricanes. I know what it is to be completely without power and water for a week or so -- and it is not fun. After any disaster it may take the government a few days to a week to come to your rescue, so you need to be prepared to meet your own needs for up to a week. That is just common sense. I am not preparing for the end of the world.
Didn't think you were one of the nuts - you appear to be able to consider evidence and make reasoned arguments.
In my case, I just want my children (yes, I have children) to know and love the freedoms that I grew up with. And, if some scumbag wants to attack one of my daughters, I plan on teaching them how to defend themselves. I would rather have a scumbag wind up being shot than one of my daughters wind up being raped. I also do not like people telling me what to do for NO GOOD REASON. There is a speed limit on the roads -- that makes sense, so I happily obey (well, mostly). I believe in being nice to other people. But, telling me that I cannot own a rifle when I have not hurt anybody and have no plans to hurt anybody is just plain stupid.
In violent agreement here - although in my daughter's case, she took up martial arts. Australia isn't the gun desert that people imagine - there's a gun club about 20 minutes drive from where I live. It's right next door to a Defence training area, so there's plenty of loud bangs from time to time.
I'm actually unsurprised by the way it dropped - lead was removed from gasoline, and as a result you've had a generation of people grow up without lead poisoning. This lessening of brain damage means that people have better impulse control etc. See
Observe the graph towards the bottom of the article. Note how the decrease in crime closely tracks the lead levels.
Now when my family was on the farm we had a number of rifles & shotguns for keeping down predators etc (including an absolutely classic 100 year old double barrelled English shotgun), so I wouldn't say I'm afraid of them.
It's just that there seems to be an increasingly unhinged group of nuts & extremists associated with guns, your preppers & survivalists, and you get those occasional outbreaks of lunacy, like Sandy Hook. There seems to be no movement within the gun owning community to put a lid on such nonsense, which is disturbing. And all these guns still haven't stopped the NSA from spying on you, or stopped the police from murdering your citizens.
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Well, at least Nazi Germany stood up to Russia....
As a male of a certain age, I already have MOOBs...
I'd love to pay for fibre to my home - I was going to get it in 2014. But then we had a change of govt.... And there's no plans for my suburb in the upcoming rollout. You don't know how lucky you are.
I make a local cache of debian packages on one of my VMs, using apt-mirror. From time to time one of the packages would fail its checksum - reloading it from the offsite source would usually work. When I changed the VM's ethernet device to a virtual e1000, the problems went away. I later found an interesting cabling issue that was causing transmission errors between a switch the the physical host.
I can seen the airport of my nation's capital from my balcony. I have a similar setup logging the position reports to a PostGIS DB, which allows some interesting queries ("Give me all the position reports found beneath a certain altitude within a certain polygon that describes a runway, sorted by airframe and timestamp") which allows you to determine what planes landed and took off.
Looking up who owns the aircraft can be done online, and it's funny when something owned by a holding company in the Caymans flies in. Now if only there was an online API that allowed one to query the visitors list for the legislative bodies, one could tie the data together, along with the record of votes cast, and jump to some intriguing conclusions.
Nope - this has been my 1st time with Postgres/PostGIS and I did the bare minimum to get it running. There's also a GIST index on the location field. I'm logging between 400000-550000 position reports a day.
I'm logging around 500,000 position reports for aircraft each day, which are naturally ordered by time (I also index on the ICAO24 airframe number). A lot of the queries I do involve the timestamps, which of course are only moving in one direction during the course of the day.
I log ADS-B traffic to a PostGIS DB, and as part of the deduplication and data cleaning process, I look at the position reports, time & distance between them and the logged speed to see if they make sense. I sometimes have to add a fudge factor of up to 50km. ADS-B packets can get corrupted in ways that dump1090 can't fix up or detect, and I thought that the errors were due to that. Dump1090 has its own quirks when you're pulling position reports down from its JSON interface, but it's easier than pulling the ADS-B messages directly from its other interfaces and attempting to reconstruct the plane's track from that.
A former employer uses PostGIS extensively. It's more sophisticated than the support offered in MySQL (which only uses planar geometry) and is pretty much the standard in the GIS world. I'm writing an app which logs ADS-B position reports from planes, and it makes it trivial to detect when aircraft are landing or taking off from an airport - you can query if a point's within a polygon, and depending on speed, rate of ascent/descent and altitude, can come to some conclusions.
Daesh is about to get screwed by 72 virgins...
I suspect that you are right - I just want to be able to administer stuff from a HTML5 browser running anywhere.
Crying shame that you need it for consoles and the like.
Large commercial aircraft have to have a transponder that transmits (among other things) their height, bearing, speed and position. Each one has a unique identifier (ICAO24 hex code). All aircraft will be required to be equipped with these things after 2020. You can track them with a home mode aerial, a Raspberry Pi & a DVB-T dongle, using SDR. It's all broadcast in the clear (it has to be - the logistics of making sure everyone has keys for decryption would be a nightmare).
And yet, Australia still has a murder rate 1/4 of that of the US. Harrkev, we keep on having this debate, and you keep on failing to learn from stats.
The guns/suicide link comes from studies from Harvard (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/), The University of Southern California (as linked before) and the New England Journal of Medicine (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0805923). So you might want to reconsider your views on it. The Japan thing is a separate country with a very different culture, so a red herring. The above suicide studies are all within the US, so culture factors are already controlled for.
Given the wide variance of crime rates within the US, I would suggest that the states with higher murder rates implemented tougher gun laws as a response to high murder rates. The leakage of guns from adjacent states with lax laws would hamper those law's effectiveness. In order for it to work, the laws would have to be country wide, but I don't see that happening.
I'm quite happy for you to live your life as you wish, providing you don't go about gratuitously harming others. I just don't want a cultural meme, which has shown itself to be problematic, to say the least, to be exported to my country.
Australia banned lead in gasoline in the early 80s (I remember it happening).
Lead poisoning leads to poor impulse control, aggression etc, all of which are implicated in murder, assault, robbery and other crimes. If you look closely at the crime stats for Australia in those previous replies, you'll see that the homicide rate did indeed drop, but other crimes, such as robberies etc, including armed robberies, not so much. Indeed they stayed fairly constant, and in some cases even rose.
So you could argue that it's a combination of a couple of factors - less brain damaged people and reduced availability of tools to commit murder.
In the US, the proportion of households with guns has been steadily dropping (http://rt.com/usa/gun-ownership-decline-us-111/) so a similar mix of causes would be in effect there.
And as mentioned before, you're 3 times as likely to commit suicide and twice as likely to be murdered if you have a gun in the house. More & more people are wising up to that fact, and that's why the proportion of households with guns is dropping.
Well, the current govt is doing its best to increase unemployment and inequality (and sadly, succeeding), as well as making University degrees very expensive, so we'll see how that turns out.
Yes, the last time I visited the local police station (so that my prints could be sent back to the FBI, but that's a whole 'nother story), there was a large poster on the wall showing all the weapons that were banned. I must admit to checking the size of a few of my knives when I got home.
You know, it is possible to do more than one thing to cut down on murders at a time - like for example, to restrict access to knives (as you previously mentioned) as well as guns. Other items commonly used like nunchucks, have also seen restrictions.
The actual overall murder rate dropped from 1.8 per 100,000 population in 1995 to 1.1 in 2012. So if the proportion of gun homicides in those murder rates remained the same, the actual rate of gun homicides dropped. To some 60% of what they once were. So yeah, a success. No mass shootings and a reduced rate of murder.
Well, we haven't had a mass shooting since the ban went into place. They were fairly regular occurrences before.
Yes, there are other factors than the lack of gun laws that cause the absurdly high murder rate in the US, but guns make killing and suicide that much easier.
If you have a gun you're 3 times more likely to suicide and twice as likely to be murdered - see http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/...
So for the sake of your own health, mental as well as physical, giving up that gun sounds like a good idea.
You've carefully elided the fact that homicide rate in Australia is about a quarter of that of the US. The reason the homicide rate in the US fell more, is because it had a lot further to fall - and it's still four times that of Australia! You might consider the trade-off worthwhile, the tree of liberty needing to be watered by the blood of innocents from time to time and all that, but we don't. Over here you look like a bunch of crazed loons.
The knife thing is about knives over a certain size (poor Crocodile Dundee!). I have carted around a Leatherman (the knife) plenty of times and have not been hassled.
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If guns had actually been removed, I believe the murder rate would've dropped a bit, because guns make it a lot easier to kill people. There's a lot more effort involved when using a baseball bat. Unfortunately, you've got that particular tiger by the tail, and the guns are unlikely to disappear unless there's a mass community movement to do it, like there was in Australia.
I wasn't expecting honest gunowners to be vigilantes - I was expecting them to condemn the more out there pronouncements of the loons.I'm not seeing that happen at all, which makes me think that perhaps they agree with the nutters. Not good for peace of mind.
Didn't think you were one of the nuts - you appear to be able to consider evidence and make reasoned arguments.
In violent agreement here - although in my daughter's case, she took up martial arts. Australia isn't the gun desert that people imagine - there's a gun club about 20 minutes drive from where I live. It's right next door to a Defence training area, so there's plenty of loud bangs from time to time.
I'm actually unsurprised by the way it dropped - lead was removed from gasoline, and as a result you've had a generation of people grow up without lead poisoning. This lessening of brain damage means that people have better impulse control etc. See
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazi...
Observe the graph towards the bottom of the article. Note how the decrease in crime closely tracks the lead levels.
Now when my family was on the farm we had a number of rifles & shotguns for keeping down predators etc (including an absolutely classic 100 year old double barrelled English shotgun), so I wouldn't say I'm afraid of them.
It's just that there seems to be an increasingly unhinged group of nuts & extremists associated with guns, your preppers & survivalists, and you get those occasional outbreaks of lunacy, like Sandy Hook. There seems to be no movement within the gun owning community to put a lid on such nonsense, which is disturbing. And all these guns still haven't stopped the NSA from spying on you, or stopped the police from murdering your citizens.