Dull the point of the screw, you need to punch the firing pin, not pierce it. It will take some testing to get the firing pin the right depth, too shallow or too deep and it doesn't ignite. In the US it's more common to use a.22 caliber rim-fire cartridge since no firing pin is necessary.
There are probably 57 different pieces of random metal or plastic parts in my garage that could easily become a trigger. I also have a fully functional potato cannon out there, which doesn't have a trigger at all, as well as a can of ether to fuel it and a ten pound bag of otherwise-delicious ammunition. Rather wonder what the bobbies would make of that.
BTW, if you use ether instead of hair spray to power your spud gun wrap the combustion chamber with duct tape first. That way if it should shatter you won't end up with pieces of ABS shrapnel flying around.
People forget about the whole reason for Echelon's existence. It was illegal for the US and several other foreign intel agencies to spy on their own people. The way they got around this was to have the US spy on their people, spy on US citizens, and then the two sides would exchange data. Of course that was before the US promoted a former head of the CIA to the White House, so the intel agencies had to at least pretend to follow the laws.
That's an Axis camera, they could have required a login to view the image, it's just a check box. At least the Setup password appears to be something not-default, which is not surprising because Axis cameras require the user to create a password on first login (unlike a **LOT** of other cameras.) Considering the domain listed it's likely that it's actually intended to be viewable by anyone.
This is just a consumer-grade device, I'm more worried about actual supposedly "professional grade" security cameras. For example the IQInvison cameras all have the hard-coded username/password of root/system and YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT. Several cameras can only take 6-8 character lower case alpha-numeric passwords. Many of them have root or system as their only user. Only Axis and Pelco seem to have a clue that a security device should actually be secure.
That's one of the reasons that they want to mine lithium in the Atacama Desert and the Lago Po'opo salt pan. There's no natural ecosystem to destroy, not even bacteria in some places, no water table to contaminate, no rain runoff. Of course the main reason is the high concentrated ore, and so far the only obstruction is the Bolivian government's insistence on safe working conditions for miners and refinery workers (to the enormous distress of mining companies, who are used to treating workers as disposable).
Additionally, a huge percentage of the methane piped around the country as natural gas escapes from leaks and bad seals. Hydrogen, being much smaller than a methane molecule, would escape even more rapidly.
And we're all idiots from time to time. Couldn't find my laptop one morning and was surprised to find that I had left it in the truckette overnight. In my case it was still there, but that was simply luck. People leave sacks of cash in coffee shops, forget their mother's cremated ashes on the bus, and I've personally walked into a light pole and almost knocked myself out watching some passing woman's really cute butt.
In Latin America at least the reason that the poor are less poor is the rise of socialist and semi-socialist governments that have put tight controls on corporations and the very wealthy. The GNP of the countries of South America has almost tripled in the decade since the rise of 'socialismo' across the continent while the percentage of that rise going to the poor and middle class has (IIRC) quadrupled. You can't have a healthy economy without it being driven by the economic patterns of the lower and middle classes, and unbridled capitalism concentrates wealth and power in the hands of the capital holders.
Companies that are run horribly inefficiently tend not to last too long
You've never worked for the Detroit car companies, I take it. My uncles who did think that Dilbert's PHB is a model of efficiency and generosity in comparison to what they had to deal with.
Hee, hee, Washington State no only does not have a state-mandated gun registration law, but we're also an 'open carry' state. If I wear a gun openly I don't even need a permit, just if I want to conceal the weapon. I know of a group of people on Whidbey Island who have a monthly 'open carry' breakfast, which always freaks out the new waitress at Dennys. For that matter I could even wear a sword or machete here. Where do you live?
Their business model is sell direct to the customer. I suppose they could set up a "dealership" model where the salescritters are Tesla employees and the dealership marks the price up $1, but then the Texas Dealership Association (or whatever its called) would probably make membership in their club mandatory, or set a minimum limit for markup, or some other obstruction. Essentially a small group of dealers own all the dealerships in the state, they don't want anyone trespassing on 'their' territory.
Absolutely. Adam Smith was adamant about the necessity of regulating business and preventing collusion among businessmen, but you'd never know it from the fulminations of the Libertardians. They pick and choose those sections of his work that they approve of and pretend the rest doesn't exist, rather like Christians who ignore Leviticus.
Now watch for the new Experian advertising campaign.
We know for a fact that criminals have your Social Security number, because we sold it to them! Now wouldn't it be a shame if they were to use that information to ruin your credit (hint, hint, nudge, nudge)? For only $9.99 a month we will make sure that those fraudulent charges don't apply to your credit score, so you can argue with the credit card companies without that worry!
They didn't complain much when Echelon was intercepting all of the French phone calls, probably because the CIA shared that info with them. I think they're more annoyed that the NSA is just greedy.
They'd still make more money at less risk selling that cast-off terminal server on Ebay than they would selling the 'jacked Accord to a chop shop, but they don't tend to become thieves because they're smart, just lazy.
Keeping in mind that France didn't complain at all about ECHELON this is rather annoying. The NSA could have prevented this by just offering to share the recordings with the French intel agencies.
a traveller on land who fell sick would be unlikely to continue his journey.
An adult traveler. Children in arms or carried in the cart/wagon/travios by parents fleeing the plague could travel quite a distance. If the parents were royalty or related to the gate guards they could probably the enter and infect the next community, if not they could camp outside the gates and infect the local rat population.
Infected humans are not the only way the disease could travel, either. Fleas can live for months without eating, a single infected flea burrowed into the hem of a traveler's cloak, in a bolt of fabric, or stuck in the oil of a boot seam could go a very long way before jumping off and dining on a passing rat. There are many occurrences of plague arriving in a town or monastery where no infected persons had been admitted and even where no traveler had visited for months prior.
eventually find the way to start playing the social engineering job.
Barclays Bank got cracked because someone claiming to be a Cisco Certified Network Asshole showed up demanding access to a network room, and because every CCNWhatever operates at the same level as the deities themselves in too many organizations he was able to install a remotely accessible KVM. Then there's my former employer's standby for testing site security, show up in a uniform with a badge, a ladder in one hand, a tool bag in the other, and maybe a box tucked under one arm for good measure.
The single saving grace in the data center industry is that most people are honest, and most of those who aren't are too stupid to actually pull off a successful attack against them. Security guards are notoriously underpaid, most janitorial companies are staffed with illegal aliens, and not only do both groups have access to what should be secure areas but their duties demand that they enter them at regular intervals. A lowly electrician's apprentice who helps pull cable rather quickly learns the passwords to most of their customers' security systems, where guards are stationed, where cameras are, which cameras are monitored, when the guards' shift change is, what the response is to various alarms, and where guards patrol and when, in addition to having access to crawl spaces, storage areas and network rooms. The vending machine delivery guy is generally monitored more closely than the fellow who shows up to repair a camera in a secure credit card processing cage.
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Dull the point of the screw, you need to punch the firing pin, not pierce it. It will take some testing to get the firing pin the right depth, too shallow or too deep and it doesn't ignite. In the US it's more common to use a .22 caliber rim-fire cartridge since no firing pin is necessary.
There are probably 57 different pieces of random metal or plastic parts in my garage that could easily become a trigger. I also have a fully functional potato cannon out there, which doesn't have a trigger at all, as well as a can of ether to fuel it and a ten pound bag of otherwise-delicious ammunition. Rather wonder what the bobbies would make of that.
BTW, if you use ether instead of hair spray to power your spud gun wrap the combustion chamber with duct tape first. That way if it should shatter you won't end up with pieces of ABS shrapnel flying around.
People forget about the whole reason for Echelon's existence. It was illegal for the US and several other foreign intel agencies to spy on their own people. The way they got around this was to have the US spy on their people, spy on US citizens, and then the two sides would exchange data. Of course that was before the US promoted a former head of the CIA to the White House, so the intel agencies had to at least pretend to follow the laws.
And right here the dogma of "the free market will provide" breaks down.
That's the address for T-Mobile, if anyone wonders.
That's an Axis camera, they could have required a login to view the image, it's just a check box. At least the Setup password appears to be something not-default, which is not surprising because Axis cameras require the user to create a password on first login (unlike a **LOT** of other cameras.) Considering the domain listed it's likely that it's actually intended to be viewable by anyone.
Damn that's ugly furniture.
This is just a consumer-grade device, I'm more worried about actual supposedly "professional grade" security cameras. For example the IQInvison cameras all have the hard-coded username/password of root/system and YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT. Several cameras can only take 6-8 character lower case alpha-numeric passwords. Many of them have root or system as their only user. Only Axis and Pelco seem to have a clue that a security device should actually be secure.
Why in the world does anyone ever listen to Michael Powell for expertise on anything besides how to parlay a parent's undeserved fame into a cash cow?
That's one of the reasons that they want to mine lithium in the Atacama Desert and the Lago Po'opo salt pan. There's no natural ecosystem to destroy, not even bacteria in some places, no water table to contaminate, no rain runoff. Of course the main reason is the high concentrated ore, and so far the only obstruction is the Bolivian government's insistence on safe working conditions for miners and refinery workers (to the enormous distress of mining companies, who are used to treating workers as disposable).
Additionally, a huge percentage of the methane piped around the country as natural gas escapes from leaks and bad seals. Hydrogen, being much smaller than a methane molecule, would escape even more rapidly.
You wear a life jacket when fishing? Wuss.
Good grief, and I thought my wife's dog was a coward. He can't hold a candle to an AC.
And we're all idiots from time to time. Couldn't find my laptop one morning and was surprised to find that I had left it in the truckette overnight. In my case it was still there, but that was simply luck. People leave sacks of cash in coffee shops, forget their mother's cremated ashes on the bus, and I've personally walked into a light pole and almost knocked myself out watching some passing woman's really cute butt.
In Latin America at least the reason that the poor are less poor is the rise of socialist and semi-socialist governments that have put tight controls on corporations and the very wealthy. The GNP of the countries of South America has almost tripled in the decade since the rise of 'socialismo' across the continent while the percentage of that rise going to the poor and middle class has (IIRC) quadrupled. You can't have a healthy economy without it being driven by the economic patterns of the lower and middle classes, and unbridled capitalism concentrates wealth and power in the hands of the capital holders.
Companies that are run horribly inefficiently tend not to last too long
You've never worked for the Detroit car companies, I take it. My uncles who did think that Dilbert's PHB is a model of efficiency and generosity in comparison to what they had to deal with.
Hee, hee, Washington State no only does not have a state-mandated gun registration law, but we're also an 'open carry' state. If I wear a gun openly I don't even need a permit, just if I want to conceal the weapon. I know of a group of people on Whidbey Island who have a monthly 'open carry' breakfast, which always freaks out the new waitress at Dennys. For that matter I could even wear a sword or machete here. Where do you live?
Their business model is sell direct to the customer. I suppose they could set up a "dealership" model where the salescritters are Tesla employees and the dealership marks the price up $1, but then the Texas Dealership Association (or whatever its called) would probably make membership in their club mandatory, or set a minimum limit for markup, or some other obstruction. Essentially a small group of dealers own all the dealerships in the state, they don't want anyone trespassing on 'their' territory.
Absolutely. Adam Smith was adamant about the necessity of regulating business and preventing collusion among businessmen, but you'd never know it from the fulminations of the Libertardians. They pick and choose those sections of his work that they approve of and pretend the rest doesn't exist, rather like Christians who ignore Leviticus.
And now you can enroll for their per-month 'credit protection' scam!
Now watch for the new Experian advertising campaign.
We know for a fact that criminals have your Social Security number, because we sold it to them! Now wouldn't it be a shame if they were to use that information to ruin your credit (hint, hint, nudge, nudge)? For only $9.99 a month we will make sure that those fraudulent charges don't apply to your credit score, so you can argue with the credit card companies without that worry!
They didn't complain much when Echelon was intercepting all of the French phone calls, probably because the CIA shared that info with them. I think they're more annoyed that the NSA is just greedy.
They'd still make more money at less risk selling that cast-off terminal server on Ebay than they would selling the 'jacked Accord to a chop shop, but they don't tend to become thieves because they're smart, just lazy.
Keeping in mind that France didn't complain at all about ECHELON this is rather annoying. The NSA could have prevented this by just offering to share the recordings with the French intel agencies.
a traveller on land who fell sick would be unlikely to continue his journey.
An adult traveler. Children in arms or carried in the cart/wagon/travios by parents fleeing the plague could travel quite a distance. If the parents were royalty or related to the gate guards they could probably the enter and infect the next community, if not they could camp outside the gates and infect the local rat population.
Infected humans are not the only way the disease could travel, either. Fleas can live for months without eating, a single infected flea burrowed into the hem of a traveler's cloak, in a bolt of fabric, or stuck in the oil of a boot seam could go a very long way before jumping off and dining on a passing rat. There are many occurrences of plague arriving in a town or monastery where no infected persons had been admitted and even where no traveler had visited for months prior.
eventually find the way to start playing the social engineering job.
Barclays Bank got cracked because someone claiming to be a Cisco Certified Network Asshole showed up demanding access to a network room, and because every CCNWhatever operates at the same level as the deities themselves in too many organizations he was able to install a remotely accessible KVM. Then there's my former employer's standby for testing site security, show up in a uniform with a badge, a ladder in one hand, a tool bag in the other, and maybe a box tucked under one arm for good measure.
The single saving grace in the data center industry is that most people are honest, and most of those who aren't are too stupid to actually pull off a successful attack against them. Security guards are notoriously underpaid, most janitorial companies are staffed with illegal aliens, and not only do both groups have access to what should be secure areas but their duties demand that they enter them at regular intervals. A lowly electrician's apprentice who helps pull cable rather quickly learns the passwords to most of their customers' security systems, where guards are stationed, where cameras are, which cameras are monitored, when the guards' shift change is, what the response is to various alarms, and where guards patrol and when, in addition to having access to crawl spaces, storage areas and network rooms. The vending machine delivery guy is generally monitored more closely than the fellow who shows up to repair a camera in a secure credit card processing cage.