and Cisco gives it "a low 'harassment' severity rating."?
Honestly, how many companies give their SIP phones externally routable IP addresses, and how many give them private 10.0.0.0/8 or 172.16.0.0/12 addresses?
Meanwhile, the advice is not to have the phones on internet-facing connections.
Knowing the anti-authoritarian bent of many on/., I assumed (yes, I know) OP was bashing the cops instead of accusing the swatter of "attempted death by cop"
Fears of a "China Syndrome" were quite high in the 1970s. Of course, if you were born in the 1980s (heck, even in the mid- to late- 1970s) then it probably is obscure!
I've seen instances where they file suit the day after a law goes into effect. Stingray has been public knowledge for long enough that their 4th Amendment lawyers should have on it like stink on shit the day after they read about it.
Did he ever say that volcanic eruptions and petroleum fires are the same thing?
If he didn't think the oil fires would not cause an "Oil Fires Winter" just like nukes would, why then would he then sound the alarm about the global catastrophe from the oil fires?
Did anybody say the academic paper was "on volcanic eruptions?"
Have you already forgotten what you wrote just 2 hours ago? Carl Sagan... is actually an expert on the subject, with academic papers on nuclear winter effects that analyze known past events like volcanic eruptions.
The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out...
and:
This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans...
But, you say, he wrote an academic paper on known past events like volcanic eruptions. Except that he didn't know enough to realize that petroleum fires aren't volcano eruptions and still played Chicken Little.
Why do you hate Carl Sagan?
I hate Carl Sagan as much as I hate politicians pontificating outside of their own fields of expertise.
"Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans..." - Sagan in op/ed he co-authored with Richard Turco, The Baltimore Sun, January 31, 1991, commenting during the Gulf War on the impact of oil well fires
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An analogy: a severe hurricane does not mean that the world is coming to an end.
Losing $40 Billion on paper within a few weeks tends to ...
tends to indicate to me that the company was too leveraged.
it bankrupted the rest of the U.S.
Amazingly, I didn't go bankrupt, and neither did anyone I know, and nor did any business that I know of.
IOW, stop regurgitating manifestly false FUD.
Good thing I don't use Uber, then!
and Cisco gives it "a low 'harassment' severity rating."?
Honestly, how many companies give their SIP phones externally routable IP addresses, and how many give them private 10.0.0.0/8 or 172.16.0.0/12 addresses?
Meanwhile, the advice is not to have the phones on internet-facing connections.
That's just good practice to begin with...
Knowing the anti-authoritarian bent of many on /., I assumed (yes, I know) OP was bashing the cops instead of accusing the swatter of "attempted death by cop"
This is attempted murder by cop.
You have a seriously flawed interpretation of "attempted murder".
our cops can't trace the swatters?
Maybe our government isn't the omniscient panopticon that Snowden fetishists think it is...
You're 39/40 and still say "tthhhhpppptttt"?
I vividly recall both Three Mile Island
You were 3...
Untill 1 minute ago, I had never heard of the 'china syndrome' either.
Because you're a wet behind the ears punk who can't find his arse with both hands and a flashlight. Now GOML while I go drink some Metamucil!!
"Even by my standards that's obscure."
Nah. He's old enough to remember the movie.
Fears of a "China Syndrome" were quite high in the 1970s. Of course, if you were born in the 1980s (heck, even in the mid- to late- 1970s) then it probably is obscure!
No GOML you whippersnapper!
Trying to "what"? File suit?
I've seen instances where they file suit the day after a law goes into effect. Stingray has been public knowledge for long enough that their 4th Amendment lawyers should have on it like stink on shit the day after they read about it.
why the ACLU hasn't filed suit yet to bring this to the SCOTUS.
Chamber music has been around for at least 250 years.
Stick a couple of flutists and string (violin & cello) players in the next room, open the doors and then have your dinner.
That looks a whole lot like a Brown Dwarf to me.
Atlantis ... fun and a lot more people could play and discover.
Fun discovering Atlantis? Poe's Law rear's it's mighty head.
Didn't Mythbusters do an episode on that?
IIRC, old laptop HDDs weren't designed for easy replacement.
Obviously Atlantis seeded both Europe and America. That's soooo much more likely than common social behaviors leading to common social structures.
Are the mosquitoes DDT-resistant?
It was a possible outcome.
The words "possible" and "chance" don't give a responsible scientist the right to claim that the sky is falling.
It wasn't a prediction.
Of course it was. That's why he wrote an Op Ed in a major East Coast newspaper.
and a paper on volcanic eruptions?
Where the hell did I say that his paper was on volcanic eruptions?
What was in that koolaide, mercury and lead paste?
What's this fixation you have with koolaide[sic]?
Did he ever say that volcanic eruptions and petroleum fires are the same thing?
If he didn't think the oil fires would not cause an "Oil Fires Winter" just like nukes would, why then would he then sound the alarm about the global catastrophe from the oil fires?
Did anybody say the academic paper was "on volcanic eruptions?"
Have you already forgotten what you wrote just 2 hours ago? Carl Sagan... is actually an expert on the subject, with academic papers on nuclear winter effects that analyze known past events like volcanic eruptions.
because he doesn't say anything incorrect.
Except for stuff like:
The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out...
and:
This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans...
But, you say, he wrote an academic paper on known past events like volcanic eruptions. Except that he didn't know enough to realize that petroleum fires aren't volcano eruptions and still played Chicken Little.
Why do you hate Carl Sagan?
I hate Carl Sagan as much as I hate politicians pontificating outside of their own fields of expertise.
discovered you're probably a credulous right-winger, or ...
or I'm actually reading his own quotes instead of relying on someone else to interpret them..
http://www.nationalcenter.org/dos7124.htm
"Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans..." - Sagan in op/ed he co-authored with Richard Turco, The Baltimore Sun, January 31, 1991, commenting during the Gulf War on the impact of oil well fires