We've had the shoebomber and the pantsbomber, so it's only a matter of time before there's a buttbomber.
There's already been one. He tried to assassinate (heh heh heh) a Saudi royal IIRC. Trouble is he kept it up his ass and almost all of the energy went in to blowing him apart. It made a godawful mess, but failed to do much physical damage beyond a rather large cleaning bill.
I guess it depends what you use for a 'body cavity bomb', a claymore mine in your gut (facing forward) could really rip a room apart.
The thing that I'm not seeing take hold yet, but I think it will, is going beyond the concept of gun and ammunition for 3D printed weapons.
For example, I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make a 3D printed mould for a small shaped charge, a 'stick' of some sort to attach the shaped charge to plus 'firing mechanism'. One would then take a disk of copper, not in itself likely to attract attention, fit the copper disk to the shaped charge, point it, fire it and the slug of molten copper could go through tank armor, let alone the door of say, an airliner cockpit.
Alternatively some kind of 'fragmentation projector' made of plastic, again probably with a shaped charge, which would propel plastic shrapnel at high speed and close quarters. One-shot, kills one person at point blank range, no metal components whatsoever.
I'm no weapons expert (to those who are this doubtless shows) but I'm sure there are ways to produce alternative weaponry using 3D printing technology and no conventional components apart from the explosives themselves.
You have to think outside the box and conventional ammunition is definitely 'in the box'.
Other than the fact that 1. most global TLDs have ties to the USA, and 2. latency to servers physically located outside the USA may be unacceptable, and 3. some parts of U.S. law apply to U.S. citizens no matter where they live.
The latency issue is why you have a fucking big barge full of servers just offshore but in international waters and connected to the backbone coming into the USA.
That's funny that you think national security letters are delivered in the mail. They are delivered in person by an NSA agent, who holds it for you while you read it. No, you don't get a copy. And telling/anyone/ about the visit is a crime. At least Writs of Assistance were public, so people knew who to blame.
Then you don't meet them or they come and visit you in another country where you have your security guards hold them down and you photocopy the letter and have it distributed on the Internet. Then you kick them out.
Companies that don't comply with court orders tend to face severe consequences.
If I were Google I'd set up my corporate headquarters in a country with no extradition treaty with the USA. I'd employ no personnel in the USA, just use contractors there and not trust them with anything sensitive. The less they know, the less access they have the safer they are.
The problem is not technical, it's legal. As long as there are the national security letters and secret courts ordering people to hand over keys and shut up about it there can be no security. All they have to do is extort one individual with access to the keys...
Have an offshore third party read all your mail before handing it to you and leak all the 'national security letters' before you even receive them.
You can't have 'outstanding' key management structure for HTTPS sites in a distributed environment with failover and load balancing. The private keys are in possibly thousands of different places. Only one of them needs to be compromised for those private keys to get out there and then someone uses them to man in the middle all your customers HTTPS traffic.
the [shoe bomber] was totally set up to fail from the very beginning and his 'bomb' was virtually fake
Do you have references for that?
Do I look like Google? I remember reading that the 'bomb' was plastic explosive and he tried to detonate it by lighting a fuse with a match. So far as I'm aware thats not how plastic explosives work.
I remember when the shoe bomber got arrested - it was the other passengers that first apprehended him on the plan. By the looks of his face I don't think they were particularly pleased with his botched attempt.
That wasn't just a botched attempt; the guy was totally set up to fail from the very beginning and his 'bomb' was virtually fake. He was fucked by his muslim pals.
I am flying from Australia to South America for a holiday. Because of all this TSA nonsense, I paid extra to fly via Chile rather than USA. This also means I flew using LAN rather than a USA airline (which is money lost for the USA economy).
A lot of people are doing this as well. I for one would do whatever it took to avoid travelling to or even OVER the USA now. They may as well build a big fucking wall, with razor wire on top of it, all around their country, around all their museums, monuments and anything a tourist might be interested in.
Travel to the USA? Just no way. Travel VIA the USA? FUCK NO.
That certainly doesn't mean that the TSA is the best approach... something like Israel's methodology would make more sense.
Bulldozing the houses of anyone committing anything that could remotely be interpreted as an act of terror, with their elderly relatives still inside, would surely strike sufficient fear into other 'terrorists' that they wouldn't dare do anything!
(yeah I'm aware you are talking about the Israeli airport screening, which is demonstrably effective, just pointing out that the Israeli 'follow through' is nowhere near effective as a deterrent, just makes their opponents angrier).
"That which is above is as that which is below and that which is below is as that which is above, for the purposes of the workings of the one thing." -- very very old.
Yeah, I think there was a Mineralism movement a little while ago... Salt and water is all they worked out that they could eat, until they hatched upon the idea that herbivores who murdered plants forfeited their right to life and could therefore be morally killed and eaten (carnovires of course are fellow justice-seekers and so can't be eaten).
It's OK he's not addicted. He can stop any time he wants to. He just doesn't want to.
The best part about marijuana is stopping. Use it very heavily for a few weeks, suddenly stop, enjoy the REM rebound and vivid dreams that are better than any movie.
The smallest part of 'brave' which applies in this instance is 'willingly putting yourself in harms way' which arguably applies to an F16 pilot. The drone jockey killing people in a far off land while sitting in a nice secure bunker is the very antithesis.
It also serves to remind people of the idea that the U.S.A. is a group of united states. The Guard units really answer to the Governors and are each states' mini-armed forces, even if they are occasionally assigned to work with the federal armed forces.
And the U.K. is a group of united kingdoms. Fuck, I hope Scotland and Wales get their own mini-armed forces! Northern Ireland already kind of does if you count the paramilitaries!
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A low velocity projectile at close quarters can be very very nasty. Musket balls did horrific damage, if it actually hit.
If I wanted to one-shot someone I'd go for a projectile weapon rather than a blade, unless I were very VERY well trained.
We've had the shoebomber and the pantsbomber, so it's only a matter of time before there's a buttbomber.
There's already been one. He tried to assassinate (heh heh heh) a Saudi royal IIRC. Trouble is he kept it up his ass and almost all of the energy went in to blowing him apart. It made a godawful mess, but failed to do much physical damage beyond a rather large cleaning bill.
I guess it depends what you use for a 'body cavity bomb', a claymore mine in your gut (facing forward) could really rip a room apart.
The thing that I'm not seeing take hold yet, but I think it will, is going beyond the concept of gun and ammunition for 3D printed weapons.
For example, I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make a 3D printed mould for a small shaped charge, a 'stick' of some sort to attach the shaped charge to plus 'firing mechanism'. One would then take a disk of copper, not in itself likely to attract attention, fit the copper disk to the shaped charge, point it, fire it and the slug of molten copper could go through tank armor, let alone the door of say, an airliner cockpit.
Alternatively some kind of 'fragmentation projector' made of plastic, again probably with a shaped charge, which would propel plastic shrapnel at high speed and close quarters. One-shot, kills one person at point blank range, no metal components whatsoever.
I'm no weapons expert (to those who are this doubtless shows) but I'm sure there are ways to produce alternative weaponry using 3D printing technology and no conventional components apart from the explosives themselves.
You have to think outside the box and conventional ammunition is definitely 'in the box'.
Other than the fact that 1. most global TLDs have ties to the USA, and 2. latency to servers physically located outside the USA may be unacceptable, and 3. some parts of U.S. law apply to U.S. citizens no matter where they live.
The latency issue is why you have a fucking big barge full of servers just offshore but in international waters and connected to the backbone coming into the USA.
You don't have an on-site manager in the USA.
What is so hard to understand about just not operating in the USA?
That's funny that you think national security letters are delivered in the mail. They are delivered in person by an NSA agent, who holds it for you while you read it. No, you don't get a copy. And telling /anyone/ about the visit is a crime. At least Writs of Assistance were public, so people knew who to blame.
Then you don't meet them or they come and visit you in another country where you have your security guards hold them down and you photocopy the letter and have it distributed on the Internet. Then you kick them out.
Companies that don't comply with court orders tend to face severe consequences.
If I were Google I'd set up my corporate headquarters in a country with no extradition treaty with the USA. I'd employ no personnel in the USA, just use contractors there and not trust them with anything sensitive. The less they know, the less access they have the safer they are.
The problem is not technical, it's legal. As long as there are the national security letters and secret courts ordering people to hand over keys and shut up about it there can be no security. All they have to do is extort one individual with access to the keys...
Have an offshore third party read all your mail before handing it to you and leak all the 'national security letters' before you even receive them.
You can't have 'outstanding' key management structure for HTTPS sites in a distributed environment with failover and load balancing. The private keys are in possibly thousands of different places. Only one of them needs to be compromised for those private keys to get out there and then someone uses them to man in the middle all your customers HTTPS traffic.
Do you have references for that?
Do I look like Google? I remember reading that the 'bomb' was plastic explosive and he tried to detonate it by lighting a fuse with a match. So far as I'm aware thats not how plastic explosives work.
I remember when the shoe bomber got arrested - it was the other passengers that first apprehended him on the plan. By the looks of his face I don't think they were particularly pleased with his botched attempt.
That wasn't just a botched attempt; the guy was totally set up to fail from the very beginning and his 'bomb' was virtually fake. He was fucked by his muslim pals.
I am flying from Australia to South America for a holiday. Because of all this TSA nonsense, I paid extra to fly via Chile rather than USA. This also means I flew using LAN rather than a USA airline (which is money lost for the USA economy).
A lot of people are doing this as well. I for one would do whatever it took to avoid travelling to or even OVER the USA now. They may as well build a big fucking wall, with razor wire on top of it, all around their country, around all their museums, monuments and anything a tourist might be interested in.
Travel to the USA? Just no way. Travel VIA the USA? FUCK NO.
That certainly doesn't mean that the TSA is the best approach ... something like Israel's methodology would make more sense.
Bulldozing the houses of anyone committing anything that could remotely be interpreted as an act of terror, with their elderly relatives still inside, would surely strike sufficient fear into other 'terrorists' that they wouldn't dare do anything!
(yeah I'm aware you are talking about the Israeli airport screening, which is demonstrably effective, just pointing out that the Israeli 'follow through' is nowhere near effective as a deterrent, just makes their opponents angrier).
High jacking was much easier then. The door to the cockpit was not locked and secured.
Apples. Oranges.
And don't forget the different politic climate and the different goals of the high jackers.
In a nutshell you can't derive potential high jacking cases from the past.
Really it was the crackdown on drugs on airplanes that put paid to the high jackers. Now the best they can manage are drunk jackers.
"That which is above is as that which is below and that which is below is as that which is above, for the purposes of the workings of the one thing."
-- very very old.
Yeah, I think there was a Mineralism movement a little while ago... Salt and water is all they worked out that they could eat, until they hatched upon the idea that herbivores who murdered plants forfeited their right to life and could therefore be morally killed and eaten (carnovires of course are fellow justice-seekers and so can't be eaten).
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/sci.math/MJQR1qzWt-U/UpPyP4FYcF4J
I think some people eat clays, but of course thats formed from the corpses of diatoms so probably not allowed.
It's OK he's not addicted. He can stop any time he wants to. He just doesn't want to.
The best part about marijuana is stopping. Use it very heavily for a few weeks, suddenly stop, enjoy the REM rebound and vivid dreams that are better than any movie.
As a vegetarian, how do you feel about eating still living fresh vegetables?
True extremist vegans eat only inorganic food, made of metal and stone.
The drone pilots are the anonymous cowards of modern warfare. The forum cancer, the shitposters.
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The smallest part of 'brave' which applies in this instance is 'willingly putting yourself in harms way' which arguably applies to an F16 pilot. The drone jockey killing people in a far off land while sitting in a nice secure bunker is the very antithesis.
Colored its cheeks, then crashed itself out of pure embarrassment?
Or working the streets, turning tricks to make money.
If it can replace one brave guy in the cockpit with one coward in a bunker I'm sure the USA will be ALL for it.
It also serves to remind people of the idea that the U.S.A. is a group of united states. The Guard units really answer to the Governors and are each states' mini-armed forces, even if they are occasionally assigned to work with the federal armed forces.
And the U.K. is a group of united kingdoms. Fuck, I hope Scotland and Wales get their own mini-armed forces! Northern Ireland already kind of does if you count the paramilitaries!
Honestly, who gives a shit. They were designed to be lost.
Maybe it went rouge!!!
Anyone who has played EVE Online could have told you this was going to happen.
What we learn from EVE Online is: "never trust anyone you can't hunt down and kill." (In EVEs case, kill repeatedly, over and over again).