Even if the system works perfectly, it's quite easy to imagine situation when it may put cop's live into danger. What if not criminal, but somebody who is on the cop's side gets his hands on the gun? Maybe he could help the cop, was he able to fire the gun, but since it's protected, he's out of luck.
I would like to see some statictics how often this happens, but generally, it might be more commonplace then criminal getting hands on the gun, since policeman may be activelly cooperating or at least not trying that hard to prevent that from hapening.
Yeah. I've got cable modem with just 128/96 kbps. It's so much better than the telephone modem that it's not even funny. Since you have to pay for a minute of telephone connection where I live, whereas this thing is payed by monthly fee.
I acknowledge that it's not exactly speed of light, however, for browsing web or reading emails it's rather nice and the advantage of being always on is huge.
I would never consider going back to telephone modem. And, from a point of view of poor telephone user, anything such fast could be called a broadband.
USA sluggishly lagging behind Europe? Impossible. I bet that guys who tested it just misstyped the numbers or the user on the other end didn't turn the phone on - AFAIK that's the most common reason for lost messages.
File sharing is suspicious. CD copying is suspicious. What follows next? Internet is suspicious. Just allow the people to use officially approved sites, officially approved software, since we now best what they can do.
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Now, since the site is obviously slashdotted, how about someone posting some ASCII screenshots in his comment?
Even if the system works perfectly, it's quite easy to imagine situation when it may put cop's live into danger. What if not criminal, but somebody who is on the cop's side gets his hands on the gun? Maybe he could help the cop, was he able to fire the gun, but since it's protected, he's out of luck.
I would like to see some statictics how often this happens, but generally, it might be more commonplace then criminal getting hands on the gun, since policeman may be activelly cooperating or at least not trying that hard to prevent that from hapening.
It would only prevent you from shooting if it could read the print and was certain that the person firing was NOT the owner.
Yeah, right. One more reason for criminals to wear gloves.
Yeah. I've got cable modem with just 128/96 kbps. It's so much better than the telephone modem that it's not even funny. Since you have to pay for a minute of telephone connection where I live, whereas this thing is payed by monthly fee.
I acknowledge that it's not exactly speed of light, however, for browsing web or reading emails it's rather nice and the advantage of being always on is huge.
I would never consider going back to telephone modem. And, from a point of view of poor telephone user, anything such fast could be called a broadband.
From the article
Connectix, which is privately held and was founded in 1988, provides virtualization software for Windows-based computing.
So, don't expect to run anything else than Windows on it, this seems pretty obvious. That said, not that I wanted to anyways.
Getting facts is usually best done before the link to them is posted at slashdot. After that, it often proves quite hard.
USA sluggishly lagging behind Europe? Impossible. I bet that guys who tested it just misstyped the numbers or the user on the other end didn't turn the phone on - AFAIK that's the most common reason for lost messages.
No problem in Czech Republic either, with a testing period of something like, umh, 3 years.
Only messaages I've ever seen lost were the ones sent from internet (no wonder, since they are free) and even that is very rare later on.
File sharing is suspicious. CD copying is suspicious. What follows next? Internet is suspicious. Just allow the people to use officially approved sites, officially approved software, since we now best what they can do.