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There are bullets that can work on airplanes already. They were originally designed for air marshalls, go figure. Right now many, many people use them for protection that live in apartments or condos. It looks like a normal bullet but has a resin filled tip. Inside the resin are BBs, like small shotgun shot. When the bullet hits an object the resin shatters and dissipates the force.
They won't go through the steel of a plane, but will kill you. For someone at home they'll get an intruder but the resin shatters when it hits drywall and greatly reduces the effect.
They come in almost every caliber and work in any gun.
You can do it safely.
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Air marshalls carried guns on aircraft for a long time. They came out with a special rounder to be used. It's commercially available now to people like me that live in apartments and don't want shots to go through walls should they have to defend themselves.
It's called MagSafe (as well as a few other brands). Basically the point of the round has a resin tip with small "BBs" in it. It fractures on impact and loses energy. It'll really hurt someone, but loses a LOT of it's energy when it hits drywall, and wouldn't go through the skin of a plane.
Talking with pilots, they say learning to fly a 767 on MS Flight Sim is laughable, even when you don't have to take off and land.
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If that was your wife, mother, or child on that plane that went down would you want to see the uncensored video? I really don't think that's the last image you'd want to have of your loved ones.
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Those bulletins go out all the time. Never seen those signs at the airport warning about certain destinations?
I'm surprised too we aren't hearing about the donations in other countries. I've read several reports like this in Canada and other European countries.
As for the "Canada connection"... Everything I've heard on the news and radio just says that at least one flew in from Canada. Not that anyone is blaming Canada, nothing like that.
I noticed that no TV or radio stations were doing ANY commercials around here yesterday. I was thinking how good it would be for some sites that got a LOT more traffic yesterday to donate some of the profit to the Red Cross or another relief organization.
Slashdot mentioned getting 3x as much traffic..how about donating some of the after-expenses profit?
It's that simple. As a general rule, we don't care. The average American has no idea how much aid we send to Israel. They have NO idea why there is a "war" going on in the Middle East. They don't understand why they are fighting for the same land or how long it has been going on. Ask people on the street about the Jews and Palastinians and at least 90% of the time you'll get a blank stare.
What they do understand is people killing innocent citizens. If people in the Middle East want to change our policy they picked the WRONG WAY TO DO IT. Sure, this is a great way to get news coverage, but you'll get bombed, bad. We're now backed in a corner and the American public DEMANDS a military response. Nothing else will do.
My family has a business drilling and blasting rock when new roads or buildings are put in. They can't do any blasting for 48 hours due to a lock-down on all explosive materials.
Making web sites easier to use and catoring the content to what the users expect isn't a bad thing. Microsoft does very similar things in their GUI design. They get a large group of people together and have them do common tasks and watch every mouse movement and click and find ways to speed up the process.
Sure, I don't want someone tracking me, but keeping aggregate data wouldn't be bad. By doing this maybe they can speed up access to information instead of having me hunt around for what I want.
Someone should do a survey to see what percentage of current IT (in the right age range) staff played Oregon Trail in school as a kid. I bet it's at least 90%.
I know I did...and almost bought the newer release a while back just for fun.
This is huge. I'm a big fan of Compaq servers, but HP's x86 servers have never impressed me. I hope they incorporate a lot of Compaq's management in to their line.
Many people, me included, will put the access points outside the firewall and have the clients VPN back in to the network. This way you can disable WAP and just use the 3DES encryption of the VPN.
Microsoft was waiting on the Itanium. They *JUST* became available in quantity. Until they are available in quantity no vendor ships servers with them. Microsoft has been holding back on their release until then.
Sure, you can build a device to record shows. But the great thing about these PVRs (I own 2 TiVos) is the integration they provide. It's not like having a seperate box to do these things. It fits in very nicely with an existing AV setup and soon you forget it's even there. The interface is great. It will be a while before you can build something as seamless and nice.
Do people that write articles like this actually support normal users every day? Go tell people you are giving them a 5 year old PC that runs a front-end that they can't really customize.
Tell the CIO you're buying 5 year old PCs with no warranty or support. Come on.... Look at the math. We order new 1GHz P3 Compaq workstations today for $999 or less. The cost of Windows in that is like $100. Is it really worth $100/PC to hack up some other solution for me? No..not with 250 users it isn't. That's why Linux isn't storming the desktop. The gain just doesn't offset the cost yet. It isn't a complete desktop in a box like Windows is. Sure, StarOffice is good, but it's just good..not GREAT. It's well worth a few hundred dollars per user to give them Office.
If I don't give my users easy to use software that lets them get their job done I get fired. No one cares about free software unless it offers the same ease of use for less money. If it's the same TCO there is no reason to switch, it has to be BETTER and CHEAPER. Right now it might be cheaper but it sure isn't better.
Where is the fraud? The dead people? Read the article. They sent letters to dead people, the families marked the dead person's name out and then mailed the letter.
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There are bullets that can work on airplanes already. They were originally designed for air marshalls, go figure. Right now many, many people use them for protection that live in apartments or condos. It looks like a normal bullet but has a resin filled tip. Inside the resin are BBs, like small shotgun shot. When the bullet hits an object the resin shatters and dissipates the force.
They won't go through the steel of a plane, but will kill you. For someone at home they'll get an intruder but the resin shatters when it hits drywall and greatly reduces the effect.
They come in almost every caliber and work in any gun.
Air marshalls carried guns on aircraft for a long time. They came out with a special rounder to be used. It's commercially available now to people like me that live in apartments and don't want shots to go through walls should they have to defend themselves.
It's called MagSafe (as well as a few other brands). Basically the point of the round has a resin tip with small "BBs" in it. It fractures on impact and loses energy. It'll really hurt someone, but loses a LOT of it's energy when it hits drywall, and wouldn't go through the skin of a plane.
A friend at Sun claims everyone got out OK. They were on floors 23 and 24 in building 2.
Talking with pilots, they say learning to fly a 767 on MS Flight Sim is laughable, even when you don't have to take off and land.
If that was your wife, mother, or child on that plane that went down would you want to see the uncensored video? I really don't think that's the last image you'd want to have of your loved ones.
Those bulletins go out all the time. Never seen those signs at the airport warning about certain destinations?
Witnesses that saw the plane dive down never saw anything hit it.
It could be shot down. You can do about anything in the name of national security.
I was wondering the same thing last night. While watching CNN I got 3 ICQ spams.
Or maybe you could make your own news site.
This matters to everyone in the world.
I'm surprised too we aren't hearing about the donations in other countries. I've read several reports like this in Canada and other European countries.
As for the "Canada connection"... Everything I've heard on the news and radio just says that at least one flew in from Canada. Not that anyone is blaming Canada, nothing like that.
I noticed that no TV or radio stations were doing ANY commercials around here yesterday. I was thinking how good it would be for some sites that got a LOT more traffic yesterday to donate some of the profit to the Red Cross or another relief organization.
Slashdot mentioned getting 3x as much traffic..how about donating some of the after-expenses profit?
It's that simple. As a general rule, we don't care. The average American has no idea how much aid we send to Israel. They have NO idea why there is a "war" going on in the Middle East. They don't understand why they are fighting for the same land or how long it has been going on. Ask people on the street about the Jews and Palastinians and at least 90% of the time you'll get a blank stare.
What they do understand is people killing innocent citizens. If people in the Middle East want to change our policy they picked the WRONG WAY TO DO IT. Sure, this is a great way to get news coverage, but you'll get bombed, bad. We're now backed in a corner and the American public DEMANDS a military response. Nothing else will do.
There was a rumor of a 5th crash near Camp David that turned out to be false.
If an extra plane goes down they won't be able to hide it. A lot of people will be missing.
People saw the PA plane crash..they didn't see any missile hit it.
If 4 other planes are missing that will be pretty hard to hide. How would the missing people be explained?
My family has a business drilling and blasting rock when new roads or buildings are put in. They can't do any blasting for 48 hours due to a lock-down on all explosive materials.
There is a difference between a "simple" bombing and 20K - 50K people dead at once.
Making web sites easier to use and catoring the content to what the users expect isn't a bad thing. Microsoft does very similar things in their GUI design. They get a large group of people together and have them do common tasks and watch every mouse movement and click and find ways to speed up the process.
Sure, I don't want someone tracking me, but keeping aggregate data wouldn't be bad. By doing this maybe they can speed up access to information instead of having me hunt around for what I want.
Someone should do a survey to see what percentage of current IT (in the right age range) staff played Oregon Trail in school as a kid. I bet it's at least 90%.
I know I did...and almost bought the newer release a while back just for fun.
This is huge. I'm a big fan of Compaq servers, but HP's x86 servers have never impressed me. I hope they incorporate a lot of Compaq's management in to their line.
Many people, me included, will put the access points outside the firewall and have the clients VPN back in to the network. This way you can disable WAP and just use the 3DES encryption of the VPN.
Microsoft was waiting on the Itanium. They *JUST* became available in quantity. Until they are available in quantity no vendor ships servers with them. Microsoft has been holding back on their release until then.
The DirecTivo has two tuners so you can record two things at once.
Sure, you can build a device to record shows. But the great thing about these PVRs (I own 2 TiVos) is the integration they provide. It's not like having a seperate box to do these things. It fits in very nicely with an existing AV setup and soon you forget it's even there. The interface is great. It will be a while before you can build something as seamless and nice.
Do people that write articles like this actually support normal users every day? Go tell people you are giving them a 5 year old PC that runs a front-end that they can't really customize.
Tell the CIO you're buying 5 year old PCs with no warranty or support. Come on.... Look at the math. We order new 1GHz P3 Compaq workstations today for $999 or less. The cost of Windows in that is like $100. Is it really worth $100/PC to hack up some other solution for me? No..not with 250 users it isn't. That's why Linux isn't storming the desktop. The gain just doesn't offset the cost yet. It isn't a complete desktop in a box like Windows is. Sure, StarOffice is good, but it's just good..not GREAT. It's well worth a few hundred dollars per user to give them Office.
If I don't give my users easy to use software that lets them get their job done I get fired. No one cares about free software unless it offers the same ease of use for less money. If it's the same TCO there is no reason to switch, it has to be BETTER and CHEAPER. Right now it might be cheaper but it sure isn't better.
For now Linux stays in my data center.
Where is the fraud? The dead people? Read the article. They sent letters to dead people, the families marked the dead person's name out and then mailed the letter.