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Making that revolver safe might not require an underwear change - it might require a trip to the emergency room and being fitted for a prosthetic. If your palm is caught by it, you may still have a hand afterwords - but it could sever the nerves and tendons allowing you to feel or move your fingers. Your suggestion of putting your thumb between hammer and frame is a good one, actually, but a hammer strike could injure your thumb, too - there could be permanent damage, ranging from scarring to loss of the thumbnail to nerve damage (though there's not much finger downstream, so you'd be pretty functional after you healed). Nail bed injuries are slow to heal; last time I messed one up (gym accident) took about two years before I could expect to do anything more strenuous than walk without sudden spikes of pain now and then. I'd strongly recommend a pencil eraser instead of a thumb.
You asked a good question, honestly and politely - I wish more people would do that when they didn't know the answer.
Never mind that, a $20 ignition coil, a mixing bowl, and a few bucks of wires and batteries will put out enough RF nastiness to scramble the circuits in a car, which are also wrapped in metal. It may take some know-how, but once you can reliably disarm anyone that way, that know-how will spread.
On the contrary - sometimes defective guns explode, hangfire, or fire intermittently.
It's the hangfires that really scare me - Gun goes *bang*bang*click* and when you pause to examine it, it goes off several seconds later when it's pointed in an unsafe direction. Possibly at the stall to your left, when you (presumably right-handedly) turn the gun to examine the safety so see if you hit it inadvertently.
In reality, nobody should just be calling anything just an "automatic" any more. The terminology's too loaded with meanings and sentiments to have constructive conversation with that word. We should be using the terms "fully automatic" (read as "machine gun") and "semi-automatic" (read as self-reloading; essentially all modern handguns - even revolvers - do this).
My line is after machine guns and before explosive charges. Why? Control over collateral damage. Flying grenade fuzes and other large chunks have been documented to kill people over 1.5 miles away; they were most certainly not the device's intended target. While one can use a machine gun indiscriminately, it's also possible to use it judiciously and without causing unintended harm. By the same standard, you might expect I'd be unhappy with shotguns - but, fun fact, the spread of shotgun pellets tends to be limited to only a few inches rather than the two-meter-wide cone of most video games. The More You Know!
I'd even be willing to reconsider small explosives if the effective radius can actually be limited; in practice, I don't think that'd ever happen. Also, it's not unusual for "stun grenades" or flashbangs to cause immediate and permanent deafness; larger charges will also have this problem; until it's solved - and it may never be - even the smallest grenades aren't bystander-safe.
Also, I must emphasize, can != should; what's legal may not always be responsible.
What happens when my neural interface implant and photographic-memory implant can talk to each other? Both of them are part of my moment-to-moment thought process, but I can also digitize memories and email them to people.
Pocket protectors have been replaced by smaller, sleeker pen cases, as far as I'm concerned. The downside is they usually come with cheap promotional pens; I can't usually pick up 20 or 30 of them and give the pens back.
The upshot is it looks less like a pocket protector, and more like wow that's an expensive fountain pen.
You do realize you just said (or at least very strongly implied) that the lives of anyone trying to protect themselves in a bad situation are quite expendable, right? That's actually really offensive. And a little horrifying.
Let us also consider that if all the good guys modded their guns on the first day, and all the bad guys didn't, people will still get shot by bad guys. Let us further consider the possibility that bad guys also modify their firearms; they'll be the authorized user of the weapon even as they use it to mug people.
Firewire was great because USB2 had a problem of shared bandwidth, and the sliver of my total 480 MB/sec allotted to my backup drive and iPod made Firewire's 400 MB/sec of intelligently allotted bandwidth a lot more compelling.
On top of that, by the time I got the iPod, the Pentium 4 was showing its age; anything that made the whole experience more responsive was appreciated.
Plus, I was quite an impatient little tyke at the time. I haven't gotten all that much better, but the technology sure has.
A counter-example: Last time I bought a desktop computer, I went out of my way to buy one with Firewire(400, at the time, was cutting edge). I then proceeded to buy an external hard drive for routine backups, and later daisy-chained an iPod 4g off it. It beat the pants off the USB cable that the iPod came with, at the time.
I had no idea what I was going to do with it at the time, though.
This time, I went with one of the Gigabyte thunderbolt motherboards. God only knows what I'm going to do with it, but when I figure it out, it's right there. Maybe I'll add a Drobo with thunderbolt and gigabit ethernet, when they introduce one. Maybe the next generation of graphics cards will be external, to isolate it from CPU and PSU heat, or because they run much cooler with a dedicated PSU due to voltage concerns, or a push-pull fan configuration, or because they're immersed in a sealed oil tank and there's nowhere in a conventional case to mount it.
Point is, future-proofing, followed by an incremental upgrade, is often cheaper than buying two or three mid- or low-end systems over the course of the computer's life. You have to be willing and able to do the upgrades, but without the interesting new busses to connect them with, you may not be able to do it at all.
I should direct the viewer's attention to the M1 Carbine, which unlike the M1 Garand, had detachable box magazines of up to 30 rounds issued.
Then they gave it a "fun switch" and called the M2 Carbine, and it was very nearly a modern assault rifle at that point, wanting only for black plastic and modern ergonomics. Actually, the paratrooper version got the modern ergonomics, and a folding stock to boot. It still lacked pointy-nosed, or "spitzer" bullets, which makes them more aerodynamic and increases their range, but wasn't really necessary for the sort of up-close fighting the M1 and M2 was designed for. Sure sucked when someone brought combat to you, I'll bet, but it was a solid design that's still in production for the civilian market, where it's considered a good gun to teach someone to shoot with - it's light, easy to use, and doesn't recoil very hard.
You're assuming the end users have any way to fix an embedded computer-appliance thing that's been abandoned by the vendor. That's not always possible.
But Facebook and other blogging services have a "private" setting. Private, as in "me only". If they're getting access to that at all, it's in an inappropriate fashion, either bribing1dw buying access to the data from Facebook, or blackmailing employees or potential employees into sharing account credentials in such a fashion as to risk being banned by Facebook forevermore.
If you misunderstood that public means public, well, that's bad, but some very bad things are also happening in this arena.
Naw, I realized that I had accidentally written the first part very nearly in the form of a haiku, and then massaged the rest of it to make it fit. ^_^
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Or a clear sign of neurotic perfectionism. #Justsayin.
(Actually, I prefer double-spaces after all sentence-ending punctuation. Different failure-state.)
I catch all the typos in my books.
They irritate me.
I'd probably crack 'em, fix them all, and goddammit, that'd be "circumvention".
There are also just flat-out more people. Perhaps you might want to consider talking about per capita rates?
Cocking the hammer on most revolvers locks the cylinder in place, in order to ensure the impending explosion doesn't cause the slug to zip into the corner of the barrel. Revolvers with problems relating to lockup (adequately locking the cylinder in place) or timing (locking the cylinder in the right place) are unsafe, and prone to "catastrophic failure". If the slug simply stops, or encounters too much resistance, the pressure increases beyond safe levels. Under pressure, gunpowder burns faster. If powder burns faster, pressure rises. If a revolver doesn't lock up reliably, this can lead a well characterized, somewhat-controlled deflagration to turn into a completely unpredictable detonation that will remove fingers and embed parts of the weapon in the face of its user.
.38 or .357, both around the middle of the pack. Even those are sometimes known to burn through the top strap of the revolver, eventually weakening the frame there enough that continuing to use the weapon risks catastrophic failure.
Cocked revolvers tend to have very light triggers, and the process of unlocking a gun and removing the trigger lock can set it off. Revolvers in particular aren't just dangerous in the direction the bullet flies. The gap between the cylinder and the barrel is the site of a second, small explosion; even without a projectile coming out, the white-hot gas moving at above the speed of sound will take your thumb clean off. No, strike that - it'll take it off messily. Warning - this link includes an image of the aftermath of a traumatic amputation. This one includes a picture of how to hold a revolver so as to not be injured like that. This one (probably a long exposure) better captures the peak intensity of this explosion. And this gun in question is only of moderate power - that appears to be either a
Making that revolver safe might not require an underwear change - it might require a trip to the emergency room and being fitted for a prosthetic. If your palm is caught by it, you may still have a hand afterwords - but it could sever the nerves and tendons allowing you to feel or move your fingers. Your suggestion of putting your thumb between hammer and frame is a good one, actually, but a hammer strike could injure your thumb, too - there could be permanent damage, ranging from scarring to loss of the thumbnail to nerve damage (though there's not much finger downstream, so you'd be pretty functional after you healed). Nail bed injuries are slow to heal; last time I messed one up (gym accident) took about two years before I could expect to do anything more strenuous than walk without sudden spikes of pain now and then. I'd strongly recommend a pencil eraser instead of a thumb.
You asked a good question, honestly and politely - I wish more people would do that when they didn't know the answer.
Never mind that, a $20 ignition coil, a mixing bowl, and a few bucks of wires and batteries will put out enough RF nastiness to scramble the circuits in a car, which are also wrapped in metal. It may take some know-how, but once you can reliably disarm anyone that way, that know-how will spread.
On the contrary - sometimes defective guns explode, hangfire, or fire intermittently.
It's the hangfires that really scare me - Gun goes *bang*bang*click* and when you pause to examine it, it goes off several seconds later when it's pointed in an unsafe direction. Possibly at the stall to your left, when you (presumably right-handedly) turn the gun to examine the safety so see if you hit it inadvertently.
In reality, nobody should just be calling anything just an "automatic" any more. The terminology's too loaded with meanings and sentiments to have constructive conversation with that word. We should be using the terms "fully automatic" (read as "machine gun") and "semi-automatic" (read as self-reloading; essentially all modern handguns - even revolvers - do this).
Fuckit. I'll deal with the karma loss.
My line is after machine guns and before explosive charges. Why? Control over collateral damage. Flying grenade fuzes and other large chunks have been documented to kill people over 1.5 miles away; they were most certainly not the device's intended target. While one can use a machine gun indiscriminately, it's also possible to use it judiciously and without causing unintended harm. By the same standard, you might expect I'd be unhappy with shotguns - but, fun fact, the spread of shotgun pellets tends to be limited to only a few inches rather than the two-meter-wide cone of most video games. The More You Know!
I'd even be willing to reconsider small explosives if the effective radius can actually be limited; in practice, I don't think that'd ever happen. Also, it's not unusual for "stun grenades" or flashbangs to cause immediate and permanent deafness; larger charges will also have this problem; until it's solved - and it may never be - even the smallest grenades aren't bystander-safe.
Also, I must emphasize, can != should; what's legal may not always be responsible.
They have a little cargo capacity. If you add the luggage rack, they can hold almost as much as a rolling carry-on suitcase.
Not nearly enough for a grocery run, however.
The two cost about the same amount of money. Some people are just cheap, but others genuinely can't afford both.
What happens when my neural interface implant and photographic-memory implant can talk to each other? Both of them are part of my moment-to-moment thought process, but I can also digitize memories and email them to people.
Pocket protectors have been replaced by smaller, sleeker pen cases, as far as I'm concerned. The downside is they usually come with cheap promotional pens; I can't usually pick up 20 or 30 of them and give the pens back.
The upshot is it looks less like a pocket protector, and more like wow that's an expensive fountain pen.
You do realize you just said (or at least very strongly implied) that the lives of anyone trying to protect themselves in a bad situation are quite expendable, right? That's actually really offensive. And a little horrifying.
Let us also consider that if all the good guys modded their guns on the first day, and all the bad guys didn't, people will still get shot by bad guys. Let us further consider the possibility that bad guys also modify their firearms; they'll be the authorized user of the weapon even as they use it to mug people.
Firewire was great because USB2 had a problem of shared bandwidth, and the sliver of my total 480 MB/sec allotted to my backup drive and iPod made Firewire's 400 MB/sec of intelligently allotted bandwidth a lot more compelling.
On top of that, by the time I got the iPod, the Pentium 4 was showing its age; anything that made the whole experience more responsive was appreciated.
Plus, I was quite an impatient little tyke at the time. I haven't gotten all that much better, but the technology sure has.
I'm throwing science at the wall to see what sticks.
I actually wouldn't be entirely surprised if the oil-immersion GPU happens eventually, though.
A counter-example: Last time I bought a desktop computer, I went out of my way to buy one with Firewire(400, at the time, was cutting edge). I then proceeded to buy an external hard drive for routine backups, and later daisy-chained an iPod 4g off it. It beat the pants off the USB cable that the iPod came with, at the time.
I had no idea what I was going to do with it at the time, though.
This time, I went with one of the Gigabyte thunderbolt motherboards. God only knows what I'm going to do with it, but when I figure it out, it's right there. Maybe I'll add a Drobo with thunderbolt and gigabit ethernet, when they introduce one. Maybe the next generation of graphics cards will be external, to isolate it from CPU and PSU heat, or because they run much cooler with a dedicated PSU due to voltage concerns, or a push-pull fan configuration, or because they're immersed in a sealed oil tank and there's nowhere in a conventional case to mount it.
Point is, future-proofing, followed by an incremental upgrade, is often cheaper than buying two or three mid- or low-end systems over the course of the computer's life. You have to be willing and able to do the upgrades, but without the interesting new busses to connect them with, you may not be able to do it at all.
My empire for a mod point.
This guy gets it.
I should direct the viewer's attention to the M1 Carbine, which unlike the M1 Garand, had detachable box magazines of up to 30 rounds issued.
Then they gave it a "fun switch" and called the M2 Carbine, and it was very nearly a modern assault rifle at that point, wanting only for black plastic and modern ergonomics. Actually, the paratrooper version got the modern ergonomics, and a folding stock to boot. It still lacked pointy-nosed, or "spitzer" bullets, which makes them more aerodynamic and increases their range, but wasn't really necessary for the sort of up-close fighting the M1 and M2 was designed for. Sure sucked when someone brought combat to you, I'll bet, but it was a solid design that's still in production for the civilian market, where it's considered a good gun to teach someone to shoot with - it's light, easy to use, and doesn't recoil very hard.
Ouya and Steam.
While the Steambox isn't out yet, Steam Greenlight is, as is Steam's Big Picture mode. Also, there's a massive installed user base.
50-foot ethernet cable: $20.
Contractor to run cable through attic: $300.
You're assuming the end users have any way to fix an embedded computer-appliance thing that's been abandoned by the vendor. That's not always possible.
But Facebook and other blogging services have a "private" setting. Private, as in "me only". If they're getting access to that at all, it's in an inappropriate fashion, either bribing1dw buying access to the data from Facebook, or blackmailing employees or potential employees into sharing account credentials in such a fashion as to risk being banned by Facebook forevermore.
If you misunderstood that public means public, well, that's bad, but some very bad things are also happening in this arena.
Naw, I realized that I had accidentally written the first part very nearly in the form of a haiku, and then massaged the rest of it to make it fit. ^_^
If my employer wants access to my Facebook credentials, and that's okay, can they also ask to read my diary?