If you insert your reproductive organs into an unverified orifice, or allow unverified reproductive organs or objects into your orifice, you run the risk of catching an infection.
Why should sticking a QR code into your phone be any different?
"Strategic reasons" just does not cut it with this crowd, especially when it's your flagship product.
What's the REAL reason? Are they getting screwed by a patent troll? Did they get compromised by a breach and are bailing out before they get sued? Is the cost to running it more than the money they bring in?
All of my gaming friends who got sucked into MMOs all played CoH, they all still have active characters, and most of them juggle between WoW and CoH, or shift from one to the other on a seasonal basis.
And to a one, all of them are very upset over this.
Look, products come and go, favorite things get pushed aside for the latest, greatest and newest all the time. But when that one, single product is the foundation of your entire company, you'd better be ready with one heck of an explanation.
Put your laptop in a metal briefcase. Modify the briefcase to have a dark blue light on it that slowly pulsates.
On the top, put: Chinese text for "Dangerous - deadly voltage". The dark blue light is a color associated with death, mourning and funerals. Red, on the other hand, is considered very lucky. That's a detail that will stick in their minds like a splinter under your nail.
It won't stop them of course, but it might give them a bit of a pause. Of course, if you actually follow through and hook a taser up to the thing, you're gonna have some very frizzy, highly pissed off Chinese security agents wanting to speak with you.
I'm seeing a lot of people complaining that they're not being given opportunities because they're "too old".
That's very large pool of calm, collected, experienced professionals who've been through the trenches, and already know all the products, systems and software that currently run the world, and will probably *continue* running the world for at least a decade.
So why not literally pool together and form a company?
"At Silver & Steel, we specialize in providing you with experienced industry professionals that don't make youthful mistakes that can cost you millions in lost profits or corrupted databases. Our team of proven operators can walk into your legacy environment and take full command of any situation without breaking a sweat and bring your systems back up to full operational capacity in short order. We don't make theories, we give answers.
When you can afford to spend money on chasing your dreams, go for youth and enthusiasm.
But when your nightmares become reality, come to us."
There was an area in Russia where thieves cut down a high-tension wire. They shot a steel cable over the line, shorting it out and causing the breakers to pop. They then cut out a HUGE section before it could reset. They got nearly 2 miles of cable.
The local power company replaced the cables. They finish working at the other end, and give the okay to turn on the power. Two miles downrange, see a huge flash, then they hear *BOOM!* The power goes offline again, and the repair team goes back to where the first cut was made.
They find a grass fire. After putting it out, they find that the cable had been cut again, and was in the process of being coiled up by the thief.
The thief had been standing in the middle of the coil when the power was turned on.
All they found was a pair of boots, with feet inside them. Everything else had been vaporized.
Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes. Title 34 Pa.C.S.A. Game. Chapter 23. Hunting and Furtaking. Subchapter A. General Provisions. Â 2302. Interference with lawful taking of wildlife or other activities permitted by this title prohibited
Citation: PA ST 34 Pa.C.S.A. Â 2302
Summary: This reflects Pennsylvania's hunter harassment law. It is unlawful for another person at the location where the activity is taking place to intentionally obstruct or interfere with the lawful taking of wildlife or other activities permitted by this title. Activities prohibited by this law include: driving or disturbing wildlife for the purpose of disrupting the lawful taking of wildlife; blocking, impeding or harassing a person engaged in lawful taking; using various stimuli to affect wildlife behavior to hinder lawful taking; and interjecting oneself into the line of fire, among other activities. Violation of this section is a summary offense of the second degree. A person adversely affected by prohibited activities may bring an action to restrain such conduct and to recover damages.
I went through the website, and it is not really for the lay-person of the Internet.
From what I read and watched, we have not gotten to the point where we can make a human being "invisible" to the point where the visible light spectrum is affected.
However, with regards to electromagnetic spectrum, such as radar, microwave and other methods of scanning, searching or detection? Wow. The shielded objects simply are not there. Not a "hole in the air" sort of not there, I'm talking "does not exist in that portion of space/time" kind of there.
This will move the whole radar detection game into obsolescence, and we'll be back to using human observers, or using different spectrum devices to detect the air turbulence from the cloaked object's passing.
However, what *is* happening, is police officers are behaving badly, getting caught on film/tape/video/cellphones, and then *charging* the person with wiretapping.
A cop can charge you with sexually assaulting the pope with a glow-in-the-dark dildo, even though you were at home in bed, while the pope was on the other side of the planet at the time. Logic and legality do not apply to charges.
However, *IF* you have:
1. The money... 2. The time... 3. And a lawyer,
Then you can have the charges expunged. But if you don't have at least two of those three things, then even if the charges are dropped, you will now and forever more have aggravated sexual assault charges on your criminal record.
You might get lucky, and the case might go to a judge, who would take one look at it and wipe the charges off your record for free.
However, it's much more likely that you'll be charged with resisting arrest, assaulting an officer and a host of other, much more probable charges that aren't likely to be dropped, or even challenged.
...had a Top Secret / SCI (secure, compartmentalized information) clearance.
They crawled up his ass with the Hubble telescope, looked for people he knows, then went and crawled up the ass of *those* people to find out who *they* know that might know Manning. They hooked him up to a polygraph. They checked, re-checked, cross-checked and followed every single link, social media page, every parking ticket, every word on his school records.
And yet, when Manning encountered something that he knew for a confirmed fact that what he was seeing/hearing/reading was against the law, he tried to do the right thing, but got shot down by his chain of command. Feeling as though he had no other choice, he allegedly turned the info over to Wikileaks.
What the heck do you suppose a "geek", someone who by their very nature has issues with authority, probably has personal issues around justice, and has tendencies towards just about every "ism" that your average government puts people on watchlists for, is going to do when they see/hear/read something that they think is wrong????
Nabbing geeks off the street to "hack the planet" is fine and dandy for movies about the end of the world, but it doesn't work so well in real life.
Suppose I go through all the work, all the effort, all the bargaining, and I've still lost. All options are completely exhausted, the "bad guys" are going to take my property out from under me.
Now, I know that I can't offer to "rent" my property to some company looking to quickly dispose of some toxic waste. That's illegal in the extreme.
But suppose I had a lot of disposable income, and wanted to give an incredibly agonizing "fuck you" to the bad guys.
I make sure to secure whatever permits I might need prior to starting construction. I rent a large crane drill, and proceed to sink 30' deep holes all over the place. All the edges, in the middle, right next to municipal water mains, you name it. I then fill those holes with steel reinforced concrete, to 10' up in the air. I start at the far corner and move across, making sure to arrange them so you cannot bring in any sort of backhoe or bulldozer.
In short, I plant a forest of concrete trees that cannot be dug up, cannot be easily demolished, will delay whatever project they have planned by several years, and cost the "bad guys" fifty times the money they sank into stealing my property in the first place.
The "bad guys" come in and take the property. I've already moved all my stuff out and poured the last "tree" in the driveway a week earlier. I drop the keys in their hand, laugh my ass off and drive away.
Would they have any legal recourse to come after me?
That's right, keep banging on that war drum. While the leaders are making all the big noise and keeping everyone distracted, the governments and their military are already engaged in full-on, no-holds-barred combat.
We took out 50% of Iran's nuclear capacity with nothing more than a USB stick loaded with Lady Gaga albums and porn.
But at least Iran was smart enough to put an AIR GAP between their critical systems and the rest of the world. We had to rely on a human to use the Sneakernet to infect those centrifuge controllers.
Whoever is behind this, is simply doing Gangnam Style right through the front door.
I took a welding class in college as an elective for my degree, and it was an excellent idea. I've used it a few times, and it served me quite well.
That said, this is awesome! I haven't had the pleasure of using an auto-darkening helmet yet, but I can already see the appeal of this device.
With an ADH, you go from normal vision to "dark vision". You can see the material, the rod and the weld, but nothing else around you. You are effectively oblivious to anything else around you, such as your sparks setting something nearby on fire, or someone coming up behind you. This means you have to stop periodically and check your surroundings.
With this helmet, you have all of that, plus "normal" vision, and can now see everything around you. You'll have greater awareness of your work, and more importantly, you'll be able to see when someone-or something-is coming up behind you. In the construction business, this is a very necessary thing.
The goal is not to grow tomatoes on a sidewalk median in Virginia to feed someone in California.
The goal is to tell the Housing Association in the Virginia housing development to go piss up a rope and allow people to turn their useless lawns into productive gardens.
Economy of scale doesn't factor into this at all. Your train of thought is trying to move across the country, when it should be walking to the front yard.
As for backyard gardens not being effective?
Victory Gardens were a fact of life in World War I and II, and fed the entire nation, while commercial production went to the war effort.
1. Creating jobs. 2. Giving homeless/jobless people a purpose. 3. Investing in the community.
There's a lot of cynicism here, with cold, sad, bitter people saying that we're all doomed because everyone else is cold, sad and bitter, and will just start shooting us in mass numbers, or herding us into FEMA camps.
Those people can go have intercourse with a duck.
People like me are going to be taking Right Action and helping people.
Actually, I'm more interested in the fact that they're moving the majority of all heavy assets away from the coastlines on both sides of the country.
Several videos on YouTube of 100+ car trains, each one carrying two M1 Abrams tanks, all heading inland. Rumors of major military bases on the east coast being evacuated. (Lotsa rumors, but no evidence.) CIA moving from Maryland to Colorado. Background radiation counts going up all across the nation. Radon spikes in the New Madrid zone. Mt. Fuji about to blow it's stack. The island of La Palma becoming more active.
At current count, there are 311 million people in the United States. It sure would solve the "hunger problem" if there were a major disaster that "nobody knew" was coming?
And it sure would get rid of all those pesky liberals, wouldn't it? The only people left would be those living in Jesusland.
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If you insert your reproductive organs into an unverified orifice, or allow unverified reproductive organs or objects into your orifice, you run the risk of catching an infection.
Why should sticking a QR code into your phone be any different?
"Strategic reasons" just does not cut it with this crowd, especially when it's your flagship product.
What's the REAL reason? Are they getting screwed by a patent troll? Did they get compromised by a breach and are bailing out before they get sued? Is the cost to running it more than the money they bring in?
All of my gaming friends who got sucked into MMOs all played CoH, they all still have active characters, and most of them juggle between WoW and CoH, or shift from one to the other on a seasonal basis.
And to a one, all of them are very upset over this.
Look, products come and go, favorite things get pushed aside for the latest, greatest and newest all the time. But when that one, single product is the foundation of your entire company, you'd better be ready with one heck of an explanation.
Put your laptop in a metal briefcase. Modify the briefcase to have a dark blue light on it that slowly pulsates.
On the top, put: Chinese text for "Dangerous - deadly voltage". The dark blue light is a color associated with death, mourning and funerals. Red, on the other hand, is considered very lucky. That's a detail that will stick in their minds like a splinter under your nail.
It won't stop them of course, but it might give them a bit of a pause. Of course, if you actually follow through and hook a taser up to the thing, you're gonna have some very frizzy, highly pissed off Chinese security agents wanting to speak with you.
BEEP-BEEEE*squish*EEEeeeeep!
I'm seeing a lot of people complaining that they're not being given opportunities because they're "too old".
That's very large pool of calm, collected, experienced professionals who've been through the trenches, and already know all the products, systems and software that currently run the world, and will probably *continue* running the world for at least a decade.
So why not literally pool together and form a company?
"At Silver & Steel, we specialize in providing you with experienced industry professionals that don't make youthful mistakes that can cost you millions in lost profits or corrupted databases. Our team of proven operators can walk into your legacy environment and take full command of any situation without breaking a sweat and bring your systems back up to full operational capacity in short order. We don't make theories, we give answers.
When you can afford to spend money on chasing your dreams, go for youth and enthusiasm.
But when your nightmares become reality, come to us."
There was an area in Russia where thieves cut down a high-tension wire. They shot a steel cable over the line, shorting it out and causing the breakers to pop. They then cut out a HUGE section before it could reset. They got nearly 2 miles of cable.
The local power company replaced the cables. They finish working at the other end, and give the okay to turn on the power. Two miles downrange, see a huge flash, then they hear *BOOM!* The power goes offline again, and the repair team goes back to where the first cut was made.
They find a grass fire. After putting it out, they find that the cable had been cut again, and was in the process of being coiled up by the thief.
The thief had been standing in the middle of the coil when the power was turned on.
All they found was a pair of boots, with feet inside them. Everything else had been vaporized.
Stupidity is supposed to be painful.
Climbing your neighbor's fence, no matter how young or old you are, is stupid.
The kids will learn that climbing someone else's fence is stupid and they won't do that anymore.
Until you stop posting AC.
In TFA, they are complaining that the sheriff isn't doing anything about their $4000 drone getting shot down.
Maybe the officers are being generous, and considering $4000 in damage a painful enough lesson. After all, they *could* just arrest them for interfering with a legal hunt.
"Do you have a citation for that?"
He doesn't, but I do:
I went through the website, and it is not really for the lay-person of the Internet.
From what I read and watched, we have not gotten to the point where we can make a human being "invisible" to the point where the visible light spectrum is affected.
However, with regards to electromagnetic spectrum, such as radar, microwave and other methods of scanning, searching or detection? Wow. The shielded objects simply are not there. Not a "hole in the air" sort of not there, I'm talking "does not exist in that portion of space/time" kind of there.
This will move the whole radar detection game into obsolescence, and we'll be back to using human observers, or using different spectrum devices to detect the air turbulence from the cloaked object's passing.
Not in a public place it isn't, no.
However, what *is* happening, is police officers are behaving badly, getting caught on film/tape/video/cellphones, and then *charging* the person with wiretapping.
A cop can charge you with sexually assaulting the pope with a glow-in-the-dark dildo, even though you were at home in bed, while the pope was on the other side of the planet at the time. Logic and legality do not apply to charges.
However, *IF* you have:
1. The money...
2. The time...
3. And a lawyer,
Then you can have the charges expunged. But if you don't have at least two of those three things, then even if the charges are dropped, you will now and forever more have aggravated sexual assault charges on your criminal record.
You might get lucky, and the case might go to a judge, who would take one look at it and wipe the charges off your record for free.
However, it's much more likely that you'll be charged with resisting arrest, assaulting an officer and a host of other, much more probable charges that aren't likely to be dropped, or even challenged.
Unless there's video, of course?
Actually, polygraphs are very effective.
They hook you up to the machine, totally ignore what the machine is doing, and watch you, to see what you are doing.
And there's a group of people behind the one-way mirror, also watching you, to read your body language.
The machine as a lie detector is absolutely useless and they know it. But it shifts YOUR focus somewhere else, which is what they want.
...had a Top Secret / SCI (secure, compartmentalized information) clearance.
They crawled up his ass with the Hubble telescope, looked for people he knows, then went and crawled up the ass of *those* people to find out who *they* know that might know Manning. They hooked him up to a polygraph. They checked, re-checked, cross-checked and followed every single link, social media page, every parking ticket, every word on his school records.
It takes months to do a SSBI.
And yet, when Manning encountered something that he knew for a confirmed fact that what he was seeing/hearing/reading was against the law, he tried to do the right thing, but got shot down by his chain of command. Feeling as though he had no other choice, he allegedly turned the info over to Wikileaks.
What the heck do you suppose a "geek", someone who by their very nature has issues with authority, probably has personal issues around justice, and has tendencies towards just about every "ism" that your average government puts people on watchlists for, is going to do when they see/hear/read something that they think is wrong????
Nabbing geeks off the street to "hack the planet" is fine and dandy for movies about the end of the world, but it doesn't work so well in real life.
Do you still think that putting your digital life in the "cloud", without any ability to fall back on a physical hard drive or device, is a good idea?
Nope, FB is alive and well.
To be fair, I find a lot more entertainment in Reddit and Imgur than FB...
I have a question regarding eminent domain?
Suppose I go through all the work, all the effort, all the bargaining, and I've still lost. All options are completely exhausted, the "bad guys" are going to take my property out from under me.
Now, I know that I can't offer to "rent" my property to some company looking to quickly dispose of some toxic waste. That's illegal in the extreme.
But suppose I had a lot of disposable income, and wanted to give an incredibly agonizing "fuck you" to the bad guys.
I make sure to secure whatever permits I might need prior to starting construction. I rent a large crane drill, and proceed to sink 30' deep holes all over the place. All the edges, in the middle, right next to municipal water mains, you name it. I then fill those holes with steel reinforced concrete, to 10' up in the air. I start at the far corner and move across, making sure to arrange them so you cannot bring in any sort of backhoe or bulldozer.
In short, I plant a forest of concrete trees that cannot be dug up, cannot be easily demolished, will delay whatever project they have planned by several years, and cost the "bad guys" fifty times the money they sank into stealing my property in the first place.
The "bad guys" come in and take the property. I've already moved all my stuff out and poured the last "tree" in the driveway a week earlier. I drop the keys in their hand, laugh my ass off and drive away.
Would they have any legal recourse to come after me?
It puts the phrase, "Shitting a gold brick" into a whole new light!
That's right, keep banging on that war drum. While the leaders are making all the big noise and keeping everyone distracted, the governments and their military are already engaged in full-on, no-holds-barred combat.
We took out 50% of Iran's nuclear capacity with nothing more than a USB stick loaded with Lady Gaga albums and porn.
But at least Iran was smart enough to put an AIR GAP between their critical systems and the rest of the world. We had to rely on a human to use the Sneakernet to infect those centrifuge controllers.
Whoever is behind this, is simply doing Gangnam Style right through the front door.
I took a welding class in college as an elective for my degree, and it was an excellent idea. I've used it a few times, and it served me quite well.
That said, this is awesome! I haven't had the pleasure of using an auto-darkening helmet yet, but I can already see the appeal of this device.
With an ADH, you go from normal vision to "dark vision". You can see the material, the rod and the weld, but nothing else around you. You are effectively oblivious to anything else around you, such as your sparks setting something nearby on fire, or someone coming up behind you. This means you have to stop periodically and check your surroundings.
With this helmet, you have all of that, plus "normal" vision, and can now see everything around you. You'll have greater awareness of your work, and more importantly, you'll be able to see when someone-or something-is coming up behind you. In the construction business, this is a very necessary thing.
That presumes we don't see you coming and shoot you first.
Anonymous Cowards make excellent fertilizer and pig food when processed properly.
The goal is not to grow tomatoes on a sidewalk median in Virginia to feed someone in California.
The goal is to tell the Housing Association in the Virginia housing development to go piss up a rope and allow people to turn their useless lawns into productive gardens.
Economy of scale doesn't factor into this at all. Your train of thought is trying to move across the country, when it should be walking to the front yard.
As for backyard gardens not being effective?
Victory Gardens were a fact of life in World War I and II, and fed the entire nation, while commercial production went to the war effort.
So hire them to tend the crops.
1. Creating jobs.
2. Giving homeless/jobless people a purpose.
3. Investing in the community.
There's a lot of cynicism here, with cold, sad, bitter people saying that we're all doomed because everyone else is cold, sad and bitter, and will just start shooting us in mass numbers, or herding us into FEMA camps.
Those people can go have intercourse with a duck.
People like me are going to be taking Right Action and helping people.
Actually, I'm more interested in the fact that they're moving the majority of all heavy assets away from the coastlines on both sides of the country.
Several videos on YouTube of 100+ car trains, each one carrying two M1 Abrams tanks, all heading inland. Rumors of major military bases on the east coast being evacuated. (Lotsa rumors, but no evidence.) CIA moving from Maryland to Colorado. Background radiation counts going up all across the nation. Radon spikes in the New Madrid zone. Mt. Fuji about to blow it's stack. The island of La Palma becoming more active.
At current count, there are 311 million people in the United States. It sure would solve the "hunger problem" if there were a major disaster that "nobody knew" was coming?
And it sure would get rid of all those pesky liberals, wouldn't it? The only people left would be those living in Jesusland.