Use a small thermite charge. You can use a commercially available mixture of copper thermite, a mixture of copper oxide with aluminium, with included electrical igniter, used for the "cadwelding" process for welding copper. Except that instead of welding two copper bars you will be thermally decomposing a piece of resin with a sliver of silicon inside. For the purchase, to be on the safe side, prepare a cover story about e.g. installing a lightning rod system. Get several packs and test the assembly before actual deployment to be fully confident about its use. You may also put the whole disk-thermite-igniter assembly into a bed made of chamotte or other refractory ceramics, in order to prevent it chewing its way through the floor, and cover it with some spark guard so it won't be spewing fire around.
Well, some of us pretend to live in an open world where risks are discussed, even in-depth and into details, over a hush-hush world of mouths wide shut and pretend-safety. The adversaries already know all of this information, and more.
Regarding homemade weaponry, you may like to read some books from e.g. Paladin Press. Yes, even that kind of info is out there, in the wild. You don't even need the Internet.
That you are innocent (or paranoid) does not mean They can not get you; cops planting drugs during a bust are a mundane example. Even the risks you can not defend against are worth knowing about; there often are ways for contingency planning.
And especially with made-up blackmailing information it is highly important that as many people as possible are aware about its possibilities and methods; such wide awareness itself reduces the blackmailing efficiency, acting as a class-level defense.
Or perhaps the same information causes a raid operation to be aborted, preventing a few dozens collateral damages. Few years later he meets a doe-eyed emigrant from that area, who in the alternate timeline would be dead, and they spend the rest of their lives together.
You seem to be forgetting that the employees are people too. If you step on their personal wants beyond what's somewhat reasonable, you can't expect much loyalty. People are not slave labor anymore. They are not owned by the employers, even if the employers may be tempted to think otherwise. If you want an obedient workforce with no wants of their own, go to Japan and buy yourself some robots.
Why? The candidate already proved the ability to run a successful multimillion dollar business without embezzling the employer. (So the business was illegal. So what.) The candidate has a paperwork problem that makes later "desertion" to another employer less likely. Two advantages against other candidates.
You can't blame the player, it's just respecting the settings on the disc.
The thing to blame is the combination of both. Solve either, and the problem is gone. From the end user point of view, it is easier to blame a single player (and use a potentially illegal one that is not fully BS-compliant) than to worry about every single offending disc.
If every player disrespects the UOP flags, there is no reason to use them. Similarly, if no DVD uses UOP flags, there is no reason to ignore them player-side. However, as there are more manufacturers of player devices than of each individual DVD titles, the player choice is the easier way for the end user.
Why set it in a physical space? The Cyberspace was already declared independent. Run the development via hidden servers accessible via Tor or other suitable technology. A combination of cloaking and redundancy may buy us all few more years of relative freedom.
Be careful with killing. Even enemies have friends and families; kill one, piss off a dozen or three. Kill one, recruit two more for their cause. And in that process you become just like them.
Don't let testosterone become more important than sanity.
In the accordance with the American Way, your opinion is individual-centered. When a scientist is successful, the result may be a new material, or perhaps a cure for a type of cancer. When a professional athlete is successful, it is often a direct result of the success of a scientist who invented a new way of doping. A successful athlete steals the show, and then gets a contract for a cereal ad. A successful scientist can actually help the mankind. Compare Babe Ruth with Alexander Fleming.
In terms of revenue, a star athlete can earn more money than a star scientist, but a star scientist can singlehandedly bring more revenue to the employer, and to the entire economy, than even the best athlete. Compare the market for athletes with e.g. the market for white LEDs.
Is the real worth of a person dependent only on its paycheck?
A laser sufficiently powerful to permanently damage the CCD or the optics would require impractically high power and due to the possibility of spurious reflections would have a high potential of a collateral damage. If you get a hit by a laser, you can lose your eyes. You can technically lose an eye even when hit by a paintball projectile, but that requires a pretty bad luck; even a direct hit mostly just stings.
Also, the colorful splat over the camera lens has the psychological effect at the population, a statement telling the people they don't have to put up and shut up.
While laser is definitely attrative, paintball is more practical.
Do you expect a manufacturer to sit down with you and list line by line everything they did thats "Different" from other manufacturers?
That would be actually nice. Even nicer would be if they'd make available high res photographs of the insides, and even more nicer would be the availability of service manuals with partslists and schematics. Some are available online, eg. on P2P, though likely without the blessing of the manufacturers; I personally prefer buying devices with such level of documentation available, as that gives me better insight to the design quality of the device in question before the purchase, and better chance to troubleshoot and repair it (and mod/hack it) after the purchase.
I bet if you ask about certain qualities, like "how hard is it to change the battery" they will gladly tell you before you buy it.
For less elementary questions the sales staff usually knows no answers, the techs are not authorized to tell, and the management requires signing a NDA. Phew. Been there, shopped elsewhere (after pirating a service manual). Wish compilable source codes of firmwares (or at least full protocol docs - where are the Accessory Control Interface specs, Nokia?) would be as easy to get for at least some equipment...
...DONT BUY IT!
At the same time, bitching about the missing information and lousy features should be loud enough to be heard by the vendor - and, even more important, by its competitors. By obediently shutting up you may pretty well end up with nobody offering what you want and then you're screwed, or have to violate your own directive and buy even the type you are not happy with because the only other choices are either the types you are even less happy with or nothing at all.
...its quite annoying and led me to actually glue over the release.
See? You have a choice of both removable and nonremovable models - with nonremovable model being easily made with a drop of glue. (My phone does not have such issues; the battery door is apparently better designed.)
The iPhone is a little different from everything else in the industry,...
Seriously? Isn't it just an overhyped mediocre embedded computer with a not-exactly-state-of-the-art display, crippled Bluetooth, locked-down software, and a ton of features missing? What's so different on it, if we do not count the little cute image of half-eaten fruit? Why should it deserve any exception from common repairability/maintenance standards?
Can you afford a cancer treatment now? Can your parents? Can your friends, if you have any?
You get the same mediocre crap every time from a doctor who is far less worried about malpractice complaints.
Mediocre, but in vast majority of cases good enough. You may pull up an example of a $EXOTIC_CONDITION treatable only at an elite university clinic in $US_CITY but for every such case there are literally millions of others where what you consider mediocre is entirely adequate.
How many people die in the US because they can't afford an expensive procedure (including unaffordable expenses of preventive care or getting treatment early enough while the symptoms are minor but the doc visit is too expensive in comparison), in comparison with the number of people elsewhere who die because of a botched doc's work? I dare to assume that the risk of the latter is significantly lower than the risk of the former, for sufficiently developed values of "elsewhere" (let's say EU).
And it is nothing new. LessEMF.com sells a range of shielding materials, from metalized textiles to transparent conductive foils (like this one) to conductive paints.
I suppose bulk orders directly from the manufacturers could be significantly cheaper.
Brute force doesn't always work. The government has too heavy guns and too well organized to give much chance to a standard attempt of resistance by force.
A good organization, free speech, free communication networks, can allow achieving substantial gains on the adversary without having to resort to firepower. Even big battles can be fought without a single bullet spent.
ACLU does a good tactical decision here by effectively outsourcing the support of the 2nd Amendment to specialists like NRA. More of the limited resources can then be spent on other cases outside of the NRA's core competence.
ACLU and NRA are not opposing forces; they are complementary.
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Use a small thermite charge. You can use a commercially available mixture of copper thermite, a mixture of copper oxide with aluminium, with included electrical igniter, used for the "cadwelding" process for welding copper. Except that instead of welding two copper bars you will be thermally decomposing a piece of resin with a sliver of silicon inside. For the purchase, to be on the safe side, prepare a cover story about e.g. installing a lightning rod system. Get several packs and test the assembly before actual deployment to be fully confident about its use. You may also put the whole disk-thermite-igniter assembly into a bed made of chamotte or other refractory ceramics, in order to prevent it chewing its way through the floor, and cover it with some spark guard so it won't be spewing fire around.
With cheap and plentiful fuel, why drive? Let's fly instead! Voila, who needs the roads?
With good enough engines there is little to no problem with particulate emissions. Voila, here goes your smoke.
We can rebuild the world. We have the technology.
Moral: Don't fuck with their army.
Regarding homemade weaponry, you may like to read some books from e.g. Paladin Press. Yes, even that kind of info is out there, in the wild. You don't even need the Internet.
That you are innocent (or paranoid) does not mean They can not get you; cops planting drugs during a bust are a mundane example. Even the risks you can not defend against are worth knowing about; there often are ways for contingency planning.
And especially with made-up blackmailing information it is highly important that as many people as possible are aware about its possibilities and methods; such wide awareness itself reduces the blackmailing efficiency, acting as a class-level defense.
Chaotic systems work both ways.
elinks, even better choice.
They will just give the logs relevant to you to any lawyer coming it with a subpoena. The lawyer then can blackmail you.
With so many lawyers around, paranoia is circumspection.
You seem to be forgetting that the employees are people too. If you step on their personal wants beyond what's somewhat reasonable, you can't expect much loyalty. People are not slave labor anymore. They are not owned by the employers, even if the employers may be tempted to think otherwise. If you want an obedient workforce with no wants of their own, go to Japan and buy yourself some robots.
Why? The candidate already proved the ability to run a successful multimillion dollar business without embezzling the employer. (So the business was illegal. So what.) The candidate has a paperwork problem that makes later "desertion" to another employer less likely. Two advantages against other candidates.
Ummm... how can your "criminals" be blamed for the movie previews and ads? The antipiracy crap is merely the smaller part of the overall problem.
The thing to blame is the combination of both. Solve either, and the problem is gone. From the end user point of view, it is easier to blame a single player (and use a potentially illegal one that is not fully BS-compliant) than to worry about every single offending disc.
If every player disrespects the UOP flags, there is no reason to use them. Similarly, if no DVD uses UOP flags, there is no reason to ignore them player-side. However, as there are more manufacturers of player devices than of each individual DVD titles, the player choice is the easier way for the end user.
Why set it in a physical space? The Cyberspace was already declared independent. Run the development via hidden servers accessible via Tor or other suitable technology. A combination of cloaking and redundancy may buy us all few more years of relative freedom.
However, if you misstate that you are doing something for money, most officials immediately believe you.
You may like to check out TekGear as a vendor of choice. They offer a number of attractive wearable displays for a bit less attractive prices.
Don't let testosterone become more important than sanity.
In terms of revenue, a star athlete can earn more money than a star scientist, but a star scientist can singlehandedly bring more revenue to the employer, and to the entire economy, than even the best athlete. Compare the market for athletes with e.g. the market for white LEDs.
Is the real worth of a person dependent only on its paycheck?
Athletes are -1 overrated.
In Soviet Australia, telcos fear the customers.
Unless you happen to already have the IDE one. Then the cost difference is not $2.00, but $30.99.
Also, the colorful splat over the camera lens has the psychological effect at the population, a statement telling the people they don't have to put up and shut up.
While laser is definitely attrative, paintball is more practical.
That would be actually nice. Even nicer would be if they'd make available high res photographs of the insides, and even more nicer would be the availability of service manuals with partslists and schematics. Some are available online, eg. on P2P, though likely without the blessing of the manufacturers; I personally prefer buying devices with such level of documentation available, as that gives me better insight to the design quality of the device in question before the purchase, and better chance to troubleshoot and repair it (and mod/hack it) after the purchase.
I bet if you ask about certain qualities, like "how hard is it to change the battery" they will gladly tell you before you buy it.
For less elementary questions the sales staff usually knows no answers, the techs are not authorized to tell, and the management requires signing a NDA. Phew. Been there, shopped elsewhere (after pirating a service manual). Wish compilable source codes of firmwares (or at least full protocol docs - where are the Accessory Control Interface specs, Nokia?) would be as easy to get for at least some equipment...
At the same time, bitching about the missing information and lousy features should be loud enough to be heard by the vendor - and, even more important, by its competitors. By obediently shutting up you may pretty well end up with nobody offering what you want and then you're screwed, or have to violate your own directive and buy even the type you are not happy with because the only other choices are either the types you are even less happy with or nothing at all.
See? You have a choice of both removable and nonremovable models - with nonremovable model being easily made with a drop of glue. (My phone does not have such issues; the battery door is apparently better designed.)
The iPhone is a little different from everything else in the industry,...
Seriously? Isn't it just an overhyped mediocre embedded computer with a not-exactly-state-of-the-art display, crippled Bluetooth, locked-down software, and a ton of features missing? What's so different on it, if we do not count the little cute image of half-eaten fruit? Why should it deserve any exception from common repairability/maintenance standards?
Can you afford a cancer treatment now? Can your parents? Can your friends, if you have any?
You get the same mediocre crap every time from a doctor who is far less worried about malpractice complaints.
Mediocre, but in vast majority of cases good enough. You may pull up an example of a $EXOTIC_CONDITION treatable only at an elite university clinic in $US_CITY but for every such case there are literally millions of others where what you consider mediocre is entirely adequate.
How many people die in the US because they can't afford an expensive procedure (including unaffordable expenses of preventive care or getting treatment early enough while the symptoms are minor but the doc visit is too expensive in comparison), in comparison with the number of people elsewhere who die because of a botched doc's work? I dare to assume that the risk of the latter is significantly lower than the risk of the former, for sufficiently developed values of "elsewhere" (let's say EU).
I suppose bulk orders directly from the manufacturers could be significantly cheaper.
...the ISP dumps YOU!
A good organization, free speech, free communication networks, can allow achieving substantial gains on the adversary without having to resort to firepower. Even big battles can be fought without a single bullet spent.
ACLU does a good tactical decision here by effectively outsourcing the support of the 2nd Amendment to specialists like NRA. More of the limited resources can then be spent on other cases outside of the NRA's core competence.
ACLU and NRA are not opposing forces; they are complementary.
There is a proverb, "Roasted birds do not drop down from the sky". I assume its author never served at a radar.