You have to remember that in World War II, 60 million people died as a result.
All the proxy wars don't even add up to a tenth of that. If MAD prevented another global-scale conflict from happening, then the GP is correct in his / her assessment.
but who among us here doesn't just buy the cheapest gas they can find?
I don't, depending on the vehicle.
My 20-year old Toyota 4Runner will get the cheapest fuel I can find, because it doesn't care about quality fuel at all. My car, however, throws codes and runs like shit unless I give it fuel from a 'national brand' pump. Same octane rating, etc.
Splitting up and selling off can actually be a good thing, much like pruning a tree. If Trend Micro thinks they can do a better job, or get better "synergy" by buying Tipping Point, then it can be a good transaction for everyone involved.
HP ballooned into an unsustainable monster over the last 10 years - either they can shed some business units that never made any sense for HP to be in, or the whole company can go down in flames. If HP can get back to their core businesses and start moving forward again, they'll be just fine. Servers, networking, imaging. That's what they need to focus on. Not cloud bullshit, not security software, not buying into Microsoft's latest media player framework that they'll abandon in 18 months, etc.
HP could once again be a titan of the tech industry. They just need to make some hard decisions in the short term. Hard decisions usually follow the stupid decisions of the past.
My brother and several friends have had Glock handguns over the years, and I've never been able to be very accurate with them. However, with my Sig P229, I can group 13 rounds without too much issue at a reasonable range.
Personally, I like the approach I've taken - use.357 SIG. It's basically a 9mm bullet in a necked cartridge that has a.40 cal amount of powder behind it. The necked cartridge reduces feed jams, and you get the better flight characteristics of a 9mm with the muzzle velocity of something bigger.
Force = mass * acceleration. If it's good enough for the Secret Service, it's good enough for me.
I once talked with a law enforcement officer who was deeply involved in choosing the next sidearm that a major city's police department would be carrying, and he said it really came down to two choices for them:
If you want durable and reliable, you go with a Sig Sauer. If you want durable, reliable, and light, you go with a Glock.
And the "analysts" repeatedly do not listen to guidance from Apple, and then attempt to penalize them when Apple performs exactly as they predicted. These are the same "analysts" that predicted that the iPhone 5C should be a low-cost entry into the 'race to the bottom' that the rest of the mobile manufacturers have going on, trading margin for market share. Then, when Apple didn't do that (because they aren't concerned with growing market share at the cost of gross margin) they declare that model to be a failure, and that Apple can't compete, etc.
Then the iPhone 5C proceeds to outsell Blackberry, Windows Phone, and every Android flagship phone in 2014Q4. I'd hate to have a 'flop' that moves 24 million units, that's for sure.
These so-called analysts don't appear to actually analyze what the company is doing, or even what the company is telling them. I have no faith in their estimates whatsoever when it comes to Apple.
Not since all the consolidation, at least. Plus WD actually does create their own storage technologies, and thus would have to create the tools and processes to manufacture.
Except that in reality, if they want Company B's shareholders to approve the transaction, they need to show them some value. Company B's shareholders could liquidate their shares for $2B on the market any time they want, or they could get $2.2B (on paper, and perhaps more) by approving this deal in a timely fashion and not raising a stink.
There's the concept of a 'growth' stock versus a 'value' stock. Several tech companies (Microsoft, Apple, others) have transitioned into value stocks by starting to pay dividends, stock buybacks, etc.
Wall Street doesn't *only* care about growth. There's plenty of companies that have single-digit year-over-year gains that do very nicely.
Yeah, because an operating system for a computer platform where performance doesn't double every year, and networking standards don't change every 3 years (desktops / laptops) is exactly the same as an operating system for a platform where they do (mobile telephones)
How long has Microsoft continued to support Windows Phone 7? Oh, right until Windows Phone 8 came out. And how many of those WP7 devices got upgrades to WP8? Not very many, if any at all.
So even with your Microsoft example, it's a double standard.
I was actually going to post that I totally did this in KSP - Minmus (the tiny second moon of Kerbin) is a great place for a fuel stop when heading to the farther reaches of the Kerbol system because it only takes ~300 dV to get back to orbit from being landed. So you launch a mining station first, and some hardware to undock from it, lift a large fuel tank into orbit where it can rendezvous with your deep space vessel and transfer fuel, and then deorbit back to the mining station for reuse.
Works like a champ, as it takes a good chunk of dV to get into Kerbin orbit, and I'd like to have that back before leaving.
Except the storage devices would be largely unaffected, and could still be removed and used for forensic analysis. This wouldn't prevent anything except a working device.
True. Most appliances and devices meant to be plugged into the wall will tolerate an amazingly wide variance in AC voltage. I have a power conditioner in my home that all my comm gear is plugged into, and it constantly shows that the line voltage is ~130V. Nothing has ever cared.
The only voltages present on a USB connector is +5V DC on the power pin, and variable 0V to 3.6v on the data pins. Shorting the 5V DC to ground would allow as much current available in the circuit to flow through the short (overcurrent), which the USB controller should detect and disable, much like a circuit breaker.
When talking about a short, you're talking about the unrestricted flow of current at whatever voltage is present. Even in your mostly irrelevant example of shorting a battery, the voltage out of the battery is still constant depending on the battery type, and your tongue is acting as a resistor, still limiting the amount of current that can flow in the "circuit." If you want to have fun, take a paper clip, un-bend it, and "short" a brand new 3V AA battery. It absolutely "doesn't do shit" - it's going to get really hot and burn you if you're holding it with just your fingers.
That's a real short, and the low voltage matters very little.
Wall mounted shelf that can be mounted 5 feet off the ground, and requires the two magnetic "keys" to unlock and open. No kid is going to get into that without first knowing that it's not just a shelf, knowing where the keys are, and then moving furniture around to stand on in order to do it.
I mostly agree with you, except for keeping a round chambered. It doesn't take that much more time to rack the action once, and you get that unmistakable, universal, known in any language sound of "You had better fuck off out of here" when you do it.
No toddler would be able to properly chamber a round on any functional semi-automatic pistol - the spring tension is just way too much. Some adults have problems with it FFS.
I'm certainly no criminal, but if I hear the racking of a round into a shotgun or pistol from the other side of a door, I'm getting the fuck gone.
And people that think about it for half a second know that it wouldn't work.
How do you account for everyone's grip on the gun being different? Where do you put the sensor? How do you account for the batteries slowly draining, making the 'smart' gun an inert lump of metal when you need it? How do you account for the >100M guns already in the US that wouldn't have this 'feature' and couldn't be retrofit? How do you account for the fingerprint signature being completely different in a time of stress due to shifting grip, sweat, grime on the sensor, etc.? How do you account for someone who buys one of these not compromising it in some way in order to defeat it? One of the mantras around here is that if someone owns both the lock and the key, the security is useless. (DRM) This is no different.
I'm seriously asking, because these are all fatal flaws with the idea of a fingerprint sensor regime.
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You have to remember that in World War II, 60 million people died as a result.
All the proxy wars don't even add up to a tenth of that. If MAD prevented another global-scale conflict from happening, then the GP is correct in his / her assessment.
but who among us here doesn't just buy the cheapest gas they can find?
I don't, depending on the vehicle.
My 20-year old Toyota 4Runner will get the cheapest fuel I can find, because it doesn't care about quality fuel at all. My car, however, throws codes and runs like shit unless I give it fuel from a 'national brand' pump. Same octane rating, etc.
Splitting up and selling off can actually be a good thing, much like pruning a tree. If Trend Micro thinks they can do a better job, or get better "synergy" by buying Tipping Point, then it can be a good transaction for everyone involved.
HP ballooned into an unsustainable monster over the last 10 years - either they can shed some business units that never made any sense for HP to be in, or the whole company can go down in flames. If HP can get back to their core businesses and start moving forward again, they'll be just fine. Servers, networking, imaging. That's what they need to focus on. Not cloud bullshit, not security software, not buying into Microsoft's latest media player framework that they'll abandon in 18 months, etc.
HP could once again be a titan of the tech industry. They just need to make some hard decisions in the short term. Hard decisions usually follow the stupid decisions of the past.
Sounds about right.
My brother and several friends have had Glock handguns over the years, and I've never been able to be very accurate with them. However, with my Sig P229, I can group 13 rounds without too much issue at a reasonable range.
And I'm no expert at all.
Yeah, because we all know there were helicopters strafing the shit out of the trenches in World War I.
Personally, I like the approach I've taken - use .357 SIG. It's basically a 9mm bullet in a necked cartridge that has a .40 cal amount of powder behind it. The necked cartridge reduces feed jams, and you get the better flight characteristics of a 9mm with the muzzle velocity of something bigger.
Force = mass * acceleration. If it's good enough for the Secret Service, it's good enough for me.
I once talked with a law enforcement officer who was deeply involved in choosing the next sidearm that a major city's police department would be carrying, and he said it really came down to two choices for them:
If you want durable and reliable, you go with a Sig Sauer.
If you want durable, reliable, and light, you go with a Glock.
Slashdot ate my source citation on the iPhone 5C.
And the "analysts" repeatedly do not listen to guidance from Apple, and then attempt to penalize them when Apple performs exactly as they predicted. These are the same "analysts" that predicted that the iPhone 5C should be a low-cost entry into the 'race to the bottom' that the rest of the mobile manufacturers have going on, trading margin for market share. Then, when Apple didn't do that (because they aren't concerned with growing market share at the cost of gross margin) they declare that model to be a failure, and that Apple can't compete, etc.
Then the iPhone 5C proceeds to outsell Blackberry, Windows Phone, and every Android flagship phone in 2014Q4. I'd hate to have a 'flop' that moves 24 million units, that's for sure.
These so-called analysts don't appear to actually analyze what the company is doing, or even what the company is telling them. I have no faith in their estimates whatsoever when it comes to Apple.
Not since all the consolidation, at least. Plus WD actually does create their own storage technologies, and thus would have to create the tools and processes to manufacture.
Except that in reality, if they want Company B's shareholders to approve the transaction, they need to show them some value. Company B's shareholders could liquidate their shares for $2B on the market any time they want, or they could get $2.2B (on paper, and perhaps more) by approving this deal in a timely fashion and not raising a stink.
Add it to the cost of business.
Not entirely true.
There's the concept of a 'growth' stock versus a 'value' stock. Several tech companies (Microsoft, Apple, others) have transitioned into value stocks by starting to pay dividends, stock buybacks, etc.
Wall Street doesn't *only* care about growth. There's plenty of companies that have single-digit year-over-year gains that do very nicely.
Yeah, because an operating system for a computer platform where performance doesn't double every year, and networking standards don't change every 3 years (desktops / laptops) is exactly the same as an operating system for a platform where they do (mobile telephones)
How long has Microsoft continued to support Windows Phone 7? Oh, right until Windows Phone 8 came out. And how many of those WP7 devices got upgrades to WP8? Not very many, if any at all.
So even with your Microsoft example, it's a double standard.
I was actually going to post that I totally did this in KSP - Minmus (the tiny second moon of Kerbin) is a great place for a fuel stop when heading to the farther reaches of the Kerbol system because it only takes ~300 dV to get back to orbit from being landed. So you launch a mining station first, and some hardware to undock from it, lift a large fuel tank into orbit where it can rendezvous with your deep space vessel and transfer fuel, and then deorbit back to the mining station for reuse.
Works like a champ, as it takes a good chunk of dV to get into Kerbin orbit, and I'd like to have that back before leaving.
iOS has had it for years too, if you knew how to create a VPN config.
Now you don't have to, because they are allowing apps that can provision a VPN profile. /twirlfinger
Very likely. Why overvolt by 30.5x when you can go all the way to 61x?
Except the storage devices would be largely unaffected, and could still be removed and used for forensic analysis. This wouldn't prevent anything except a working device.
If they implement a simple bleed resistor, the capacitors would have nothing in them shortly after being unplugged from the last 'victim.'
True. Most appliances and devices meant to be plugged into the wall will tolerate an amazingly wide variance in AC voltage. I have a power conditioner in my home that all my comm gear is plugged into, and it constantly shows that the line voltage is ~130V. Nothing has ever cared.
it's not pre-charged.
It uses the 5v DC power from the USB port to charge the capacitor, and then discharge -220V DC into the data pins once fully charged.
Dropping this into a bucket of water would only result in a damp boost regulator and capacitor bank, if they built it with a bleed resistor.
The only voltages present on a USB connector is +5V DC on the power pin, and variable 0V to 3.6v on the data pins. Shorting the 5V DC to ground would allow as much current available in the circuit to flow through the short (overcurrent), which the USB controller should detect and disable, much like a circuit breaker.
When talking about a short, you're talking about the unrestricted flow of current at whatever voltage is present. Even in your mostly irrelevant example of shorting a battery, the voltage out of the battery is still constant depending on the battery type, and your tongue is acting as a resistor, still limiting the amount of current that can flow in the "circuit." If you want to have fun, take a paper clip, un-bend it, and "short" a brand new 3V AA battery. It absolutely "doesn't do shit" - it's going to get really hot and burn you if you're holding it with just your fingers.
That's a real short, and the low voltage matters very little.
Except that in this case, the "line voltage" is 5V DC.
It's USB.
The whole 110 / 220 volt thing in the GP's post was a joke.
Or, even better yet: if you can afford the gun, you can afford something like this: https://tacticalwalls.com/shop...
Wall mounted shelf that can be mounted 5 feet off the ground, and requires the two magnetic "keys" to unlock and open. No kid is going to get into that without first knowing that it's not just a shelf, knowing where the keys are, and then moving furniture around to stand on in order to do it.
And, it's somewhat stylish at the same time.
I mostly agree with you, except for keeping a round chambered. It doesn't take that much more time to rack the action once, and you get that unmistakable, universal, known in any language sound of "You had better fuck off out of here" when you do it.
No toddler would be able to properly chamber a round on any functional semi-automatic pistol - the spring tension is just way too much. Some adults have problems with it FFS.
I'm certainly no criminal, but if I hear the racking of a round into a shotgun or pistol from the other side of a door, I'm getting the fuck gone.
And people that think about it for half a second know that it wouldn't work.
How do you account for everyone's grip on the gun being different? Where do you put the sensor?
How do you account for the batteries slowly draining, making the 'smart' gun an inert lump of metal when you need it?
How do you account for the >100M guns already in the US that wouldn't have this 'feature' and couldn't be retrofit?
How do you account for the fingerprint signature being completely different in a time of stress due to shifting grip, sweat, grime on the sensor, etc.?
How do you account for someone who buys one of these not compromising it in some way in order to defeat it? One of the mantras around here is that if someone owns both the lock and the key, the security is useless. (DRM) This is no different.
I'm seriously asking, because these are all fatal flaws with the idea of a fingerprint sensor regime.