I am not sure if this is true or not, but I have heard that when they are doing that, they have no legal right to detain you from leaving the store, and you are more than welcome to simply leave without them checking the receipt.
At BJ's/Sams/Costco, yes they can. Being membership clubs, it is on the agreement when you sign up and pay for membership.
They didn't seem to track how long your attention was diverted.
As an unwilling participant in a recent episode, I can state that the other driver was completely distracted for at least a full 10 seconds, at around 60mph. She was facing a red light for almost 3 full football fields. I went back and measured the timing of that intersection.
Apparently, actually looking out the window was too much work.
As someone who is waiting on a (too small) settlement check for my destroyed vehicle, all I can say is put the fucking phone away and drive the damn car. Texting teen blows a red light at 60, and I'm lucky the only thing destroyed was my vehicle. I am still vertical and breathing.
Hanging upside down from the seatbelt, covered in broken glass was not the way I wanted to spend the afternoon.
Given current speed and other road traffic, which do you hit? The ball, the child chasing the ball, or the tree to avoid them both? Hitting the ball or child will bring the least damage to me, the car, and my occupant.
Hitting the ball or tree is the least overall damage to society.
The human driving will almost always choose to not hit the chid, no matter whatever else happens. Can we program the car to make that same value decision? Will we?
I've probably driven close to 400,000 miles myself without ever getting into an accident (maybe even more).
Hell....I had 207,000 miles on one vehicle with only one minor parking lot bump.
The reason it didn't get to 208,000 miles and on to 300k was because of a idiot texting/phoning teenager. She destroyed it running a red light.
Is there some benefit to these super duper broadband speeds besides talking about how cool it is? It takes a tiny fraction of this speed to send a HD movie.
Go back to 1995 and ask this same question using a 28.8 modem.
Have you thought about getting the family do something TOGETHER? Maybe even something that doesn't require an internet connection?
2 kids doing homework, 1 kid streaming a movie, Dad catching up on some work/laughing at youtube, Mom planning the next weeks meals (or the other way around if you prefer).
IOW, a typical evening. You don't have to be 'together' 24/7.
My car was recently destroyed by a texting teen. Blew through a long stale red at 50+mph, and broadsided me. Her car destroyed, mine on the roof.
I say remove 5 fingers the first time, victims choice. Second time they cause an accident, remove the rest.
and you are left with 5400 Dollars profit (provided you have god like ability to convert that amount of bitcoins to real, useable currency at such rates).
So, in perfect world conditions, yes it breaks even, barely.
Assuming those numbers are even a little bit close, that theoretical $5,400 'profit' is eaten up after the second workstation dies an early death due to running at 100% 24/7.
No Mythbusters needed. This is what it looks like from the air. And this guy was prepared for it, having been notified by a previous aircraft. They went looking for this guy. And here is another one. And for an airliner, you're looking at a 9 sq/ft window, instead of a 5mm pupil.
This guy pleaded guilty for repeatedly lighting up Navy jets. 18 months and $4k fine. He was pissed at all the noise. The base was there before he was born.
What kind of accuracy would be required to hit a pilot in the eye from 100m away?
It's not necessarily hitting the pupil, but rather the scattering of the light. Cockpit glass is not a perfect surface. All the dust and microscratches scatter the light across the surface, and the pilot can no longer see out. And looking out the window is pretty much required when you are trying to land.
We've had this problem here locally, with Navy jets coming over the oceanfront hotels on final approach. Beer fueled idiots on a hotel balcony, shining their toys at the jets.
Eye-fi. It only talks to networks you have told it about. Ad-hoc to a laptop, or to a wifi router. Via WPA. It does not talk directly to 'the internet', unless you tell it to. It can upload directly to flickr/facebook/etc....if you tell it to. I don't.
I do a lot of macro photography at home , and not having to swap the card between camera and PC is a godsend.
Is it exploitable? Don't know. Maybe.
Now...if I were going to attend an 'event' where my camera might get confiscated, I might have a nearby compatriot with a netbook in his backpack, and the camera continuously talking to it. Not that I'd put myself in that position, though.
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I am not sure if this is true or not, but I have heard that when they are doing that, they have no legal right to detain you from leaving the store, and you are more than welcome to simply leave without them checking the receipt.
At BJ's/Sams/Costco, yes they can. Being membership clubs, it is on the agreement when you sign up and pay for membership.
disclaimer - the wife works at one of those
Um, I had a system like this a decade ago. Laptop instead of Pi, but still the same thing.
Still have it, still use it. With the same laptop.
10 cm.
Install one or two of these in rear seat of a taxi. How many can you snag during a typical shift?
Like it makes a difference.
Approx 880 fee or 268 meters. Take your pick.
They didn't seem to track how long your attention was diverted.
As an unwilling participant in a recent episode, I can state that the other driver was completely distracted for at least a full 10 seconds, at around 60mph.
She was facing a red light for almost 3 full football fields. I went back and measured the timing of that intersection.
Apparently, actually looking out the window was too much work.
Voice, bluetooth, text, handheld, hendsfree, VoiceToText.....screw you.
As someone who is waiting on a (too small) settlement check for my destroyed vehicle, all I can say is put the fucking phone away and drive the damn car.
Texting teen blows a red light at 60, and I'm lucky the only thing destroyed was my vehicle. I am still vertical and breathing.
Hanging upside down from the seatbelt, covered in broken glass was not the way I wanted to spend the afternoon.
There is no flying car there. All I see is a muti-rotor platform, lifting a mannikin. A scaled-up Parrot AR.
Whoopdi freakin do.
Given current speed and other road traffic, which do you hit? The ball, the child chasing the ball, or the tree to avoid them both? Hitting the ball or child will bring the least damage to me, the car, and my occupant.
Hitting the ball or tree is the least overall damage to society.
The human driving will almost always choose to not hit the chid, no matter whatever else happens. Can we program the car to make that same value decision? Will we?
I'm waiting on a 24 inch laptop.
Fatty. Not all of us have laps that large. Not even all Americans.
I've probably driven close to 400,000 miles myself without ever getting into an accident (maybe even more).
Hell....I had 207,000 miles on one vehicle with only one minor parking lot bump.
The reason it didn't get to 208,000 miles and on to 300k was because of a idiot texting/phoning teenager. She destroyed it running a red light.
Is there some benefit to these super duper broadband speeds besides talking about how cool it is? It takes a tiny fraction of this speed to send a HD movie.
Go back to 1995 and ask this same question using a 28.8 modem.
Have you thought about getting the family do something TOGETHER? Maybe even something that doesn't require an internet connection?
2 kids doing homework, 1 kid streaming a movie, Dad catching up on some work/laughing at youtube, Mom planning the next weeks meals (or the other way around if you prefer).
IOW, a typical evening. You don't have to be 'together' 24/7.
My car was recently destroyed by a texting teen. Blew through a long stale red at 50+mph, and broadsided me. Her car destroyed, mine on the roof.
I say remove 5 fingers the first time, victims choice. Second time they cause an accident, remove the rest.
I'm only partially joking.
Can this be killed off? I don't mean this account, I mean the actual meatbag behind it.
...or do whatever Rodman does when he's online.
I'm pretty sure we don't want to know that.
and you are left with 5400 Dollars profit (provided you have god like ability to convert that amount of bitcoins to real, useable currency at such rates).
So, in perfect world conditions, yes it breaks even, barely.
Assuming those numbers are even a little bit close, that theoretical $5,400 'profit' is eaten up after the second workstation dies an early death due to running at 100% 24/7.
So basically, nothing like this exists yet.
No Mythbusters needed. This is what it looks like from the air. And this guy was prepared for it, having been notified by a previous aircraft. They went looking for this guy.
And here is another one.
And for an airliner, you're looking at a 9 sq/ft window, instead of a 5mm pupil.
This guy pleaded guilty for repeatedly lighting up Navy jets. 18 months and $4k fine.
He was pissed at all the noise. The base was there before he was born.
Yes, their UI is a bit twisted. But I've put about 3,500 pics through mine (7,000 if you count RAW+jpg) with few issues.
What kind of accuracy would be required to hit a pilot in the eye from 100m away?
It's not necessarily hitting the pupil, but rather the scattering of the light. Cockpit glass is not a perfect surface. All the dust and microscratches scatter the light across the surface, and the pilot can no longer see out. And looking out the window is pretty much required when you are trying to land.
We've had this problem here locally, with Navy jets coming over the oceanfront hotels on final approach. Beer fueled idiots on a hotel balcony, shining their toys at the jets.
come up with practical solutions that actually mitigate the hazard
And what might be an example of a 'practical solution' for preventing a visible light laser beam from entering the cockpit?
Home security looks like a cash cow at first glance, what am I missing besides lawyer stuff?
The plethora of cheap, standalone, multicam systems by Lorex, Zmodo, etc that already do this.
Eye-fi.
It only talks to networks you have told it about. Ad-hoc to a laptop, or to a wifi router. Via WPA. It does not talk directly to 'the internet', unless you tell it to. It can upload directly to flickr/facebook/etc....if you tell it to. I don't.
I do a lot of macro photography at home , and not having to swap the card between camera and PC is a godsend.
Is it exploitable? Don't know. Maybe.
Now...if I were going to attend an 'event' where my camera might get confiscated, I might have a nearby compatriot with a netbook in his backpack, and the camera continuously talking to it. Not that I'd put myself in that position, though.
We can achieve cameras by adding SD cards? What?
We can achieve adding Wi-Fi capabilities to cameras by adding an SD card, yes.
Eye-fi. And yes, mine works quite well.