that was the reason the Lone Ranger had silver bullets, it wasn't for some calling card gimmick, it was so he would always remember that firing a gun for any reason came at a heavy price.
So you don't think any effort should be made to let as many people as possible know about the danger so they can avoid the app until it gets taken down?
Once again they focus on the guns and not the issues that cause the violence in the first place; poverty, lack of education, unemployment and lack of opportunities to escape poverty.
Sweden has about the same gun ownership rate as the USA but less than half the gun related homicides. Why? It sure as hell isn't the number of people who own guns. Maybe its the culture and the rational and reasonable gun laws they have.
I for one would rather be evacuated from a building for a hoax than be left in a building that one time in a thousand it isn't. Whats that old saying? Better an ounce of prevention than pounds of flesh splatted all over the street, or something like that:)
Why hasn't someone sued MS for time/productivity lost because one of these forced upgrades broke some mission critical piece of software?
Where I used to work we had a few servers that if they failed the productivity of the production floor would drop by about 30%, might not sound like much but in terms of labor and failed completion targets it could add up to thousands of dollars a day, And the software was pretty much locked to the OS, change the OS or update the wrong driver and it stopped working. I kept it air gaped and had updates set to manual, I'd open the cabinet and plug in the network cable every month or so to install updates.
$DEITY only know what the joker they promoted to replace me has done with my security measures, he thought RAID 1 was a suitable back up solution and you would not believe the number of infected files I found in the torrented software he had downloaded and installed before I took over the IT duties.
I was going to post the same thing. With the added comment that IIRCC most private hotspots are actually just cell phones with a "data only" type 3g connection and an standard 802.11x AP.
The only way I can see those getting jammed is either something is jamming every other wi-fi channel or they jam the 3G connection.
In both cases they are willfully interfering with a commercial radio device. I seem to recall there are laws about jamming ANY commercial radio signal.
Could someone with more knowledge about this please clarify?
granted the Phantom 2 weighs much less than the average duck but what about the drones that weigh more? Or are made of tougher materials?
Now that the Internet chatter is about "record breaking" you can bet people are going to start trying to break the record. And they will start using bigger drones to do it.
I only scanned the article but I couldn't find the actual question that was asked for the poll. In my experience the result of a poll can be skewed one way or another by how the question is phrased.
I have to wonder if the question Pew asked was along the lines of "Do you think Apple should help the FBI catch terrorists?" rather than "Do you think Apple should protect peoples privacy from unwarranted government surveillance". You could ask the same group of people and get one poll showing support for Apply and another supporting FBI depending on what you ask
Not the first time they have done something like this. I remember reading that back pre-Internet when the last publishers of Dutch mail order CP magazines closed up shop due to the changing laws the FBI actually started to reprint the magazines for a time so they could continue to advertise, mail and then arrest anyone who ordered them for possession of CP.
So apparently the FBI was actually running a CP magazine business for a time. Of course it was all to protect the children.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just tattoo a bar code onto everyone's hand or forehead? Maybe use an ink the is only visible under UV or IR?
That way when the refugees get to go home or end up settling in someplace new they can get the tattoo removed, or not. But it wouldn't be as big a privacy risk as a retina scan or other biometric that can't be changed when it gets compromised.
Thermate= Thermite + barium Nirate and some sulfur.
And no, I didn't just google it. High school chemistry and I've worked with both of them on some field work I've done.
I'm going to ignore how you resort to insults to try and make your points stronger. By the way I'm really glade you brought up the ACSE report, I actually hadn't originally paid attention to the team that put it together, I was very surprised to see several names I had also come across while researching another investigation involving the destruction of a building under suspicious circumstances. I'll let you look into it yourself if you wish, though I know you won't because that would mean you have to open your eyes a bit and risk seeing that things are not really how you seem to think they are. Ironic that your attempt to convince me I'm wrong just gave me one more reason I shouldn't completely believe the official 9-11 report.
What you want to believe is your choice and I'm not going to argue with you, the rather heated reaction you displayed in your comment is a very clear indication that you feel your "comfort zone" is being threatened so I will leave you to your view of a world where the government would never kill thousands of civilians to accomplish some goal.
Me, I learned long ago the the government lies to the public with ease, usually justified with excuses of "National Security" or "in the interest of Public Safety" or other wording. I've heard about the head of some agency or corporation saying one thing under oath and then getting shown to have been telling a huge pack of lies too many times to just roll over and wait for my pat on the head.
But do the research yourself, use the Internet, actually read the alternate theories that are out there. If you dare.
Here is a bit cleaner, and loged in, response that might be easier to read.
I also watched it all live. And I do have a back ground in engineering.
Funny how it always comes back to "it was hit by planes!" as an excuse for the collapse.
The first plan I can believe did some real damage to the central core of WTC 1 since it hit smack in the middle of buildings face, even though the plane was made almost entirely out of aluminum and would have been completely shredded when it hit the outer girders or the building it could have done some damage to the central core of reenforced steel girders. But what about WTC 2? The plane more or less clipped the corner and most of the fuel went up in the fireball that came out the side. Remember seeing that? And yet WTC 2 was the first building to come down, straight down, even though the majority of the damage was near corner of the building.
Also WTC 1 and 2 came down within an hour of the impacts, and yet other buildings that have burned for much longer didn't collapse, or even fall over.
And remember all that black smoke? Did you know that when the smoke is black like that it means there isn't enough oxygen getting to the fuel for efficient combustion. The fuel wasn't burning as hot as it could have, ever tried to melt steel over a charcoal fire? It doesn't work because the fire isn't hot enough due to lack of uxygen, but if you add forced air you get enough heat to do the job.
Oh, and lets not forget about the traces of unburned thermite being found in the dust from the WTC towers. What? you didn't hear about that? And here I thought you had really looked into the events of 9/11/2001
But wait, you said the building came down because they had been hit by planes. But what about WTC 7? it wasn't hit by a plane and still collapsed into its own foot print, five hours after WTC 1 and 2. Have you watched the footage of it coming down? The structure was in free fall for 8 seconds. And what about the reports of explosions in WTC7 even before WTC 1 and 2 came down.
And then we come to the Pentagon, didn't it strike you as odd that what is supposed to be one of the most secure buildings in the USA only had one low grade video camera covering the area the plane hit? Did you happen to notice that the grass in front of the impact area didn't have any skid marks from the planes engines hitting the ground first? I'm supposed to believe that an unskilled pilot was able to make a 300 degree rolling turn and put a 757 right into the first floor or the Pentagon without even disturbing the grass? Yeah, right. From interviews I've seen with former pilots that kind of maneuver is hard enough for an experienced pilot to pull off and I'm supposed to believe some guy who didn't even pass flight school pulled it off.
If you want to swallow the official story about 9-11 that is your choice. You have to do what you need to do to protect your world view. I can understand that. I on the other hand prefer to think for myself, and there is enough verifiable information that doesn't jibe with the official story to make me doubt the official story. Sure, there are some totally whacked out theories around the towers coming down, my favorite has to be the clean direction tactical nuke, but there are also many credible sources that raise a reasonable doubt about what happened.
Fun fact; In the entire history of modern skyscrapers there have only been three situations where a building has collapsed into it's own foot print as a result of a fire. Can you guess when and what buildings?
while you have an excellent point about a submariner there is one very important thing that you, and a lot of other people overlook. The simple fact that someone in a sub, or even an isolation chamber, knows that fresh air and home are only a short distance away, a few hundred feet up or a hundred miles thataway. If something goes wrong in a simulation you can always just open the door.
The people who go to Mars are going to have to face a completely new condition, that of being totally alone in an environment so hostile it will kill you in seconds. I don't think we yet know how to test for a personality type that can handle that, we can make educated guesses but until someone actually goes to Mars we won't know for sure if the people we send have "the Right Stuff"
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How the fuck is this still happening? Its 2016 for Fates sake. How many years and versions of Word/Office have we had to deal with since "Mellissa"?
How about we get a Hyperloop system WORKING before we start talking about how passengers will be able to play with the windows.
that was the reason the Lone Ranger had silver bullets, it wasn't for some calling card gimmick, it was so he would always remember that firing a gun for any reason came at a heavy price.
So you don't think any effort should be made to let as many people as possible know about the danger so they can avoid the app until it gets taken down?
Once again they focus on the guns and not the issues that cause the violence in the first place; poverty, lack of education, unemployment and lack of opportunities to escape poverty.
Sweden has about the same gun ownership rate as the USA but less than half the gun related homicides. Why? It sure as hell isn't the number of people who own guns. Maybe its the culture and the rational and reasonable gun laws they have.
I for one would rather be evacuated from a building for a hoax than be left in a building that one time in a thousand it isn't. Whats that old saying? Better an ounce of prevention than pounds of flesh splatted all over the street, or something like that :)
Why hasn't someone sued MS for time/productivity lost because one of these forced upgrades broke some mission critical piece of software?
Where I used to work we had a few servers that if they failed the productivity of the production floor would drop by about 30%, might not sound like much but in terms of labor and failed completion targets it could add up to thousands of dollars a day, And the software was pretty much locked to the OS, change the OS or update the wrong driver and it stopped working. I kept it air gaped and had updates set to manual, I'd open the cabinet and plug in the network cable every month or so to install updates.
$DEITY only know what the joker they promoted to replace me has done with my security measures, he thought RAID 1 was a suitable back up solution and you would not believe the number of infected files I found in the torrented software he had downloaded and installed before I took over the IT duties.
I was going to post the same thing. With the added comment that IIRCC most private hotspots are actually just cell phones with a "data only" type 3g connection and an standard 802.11x AP.
The only way I can see those getting jammed is either something is jamming every other wi-fi channel or they jam the 3G connection.
In both cases they are willfully interfering with a commercial radio device. I seem to recall there are laws about jamming ANY commercial radio signal.
Could someone with more knowledge about this please clarify?
What happens when something goes into the engine that shouldn't?
Duck meets jet engine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
granted the Phantom 2 weighs much less than the average duck but what about the drones that weigh more? Or are made of tougher materials?
Now that the Internet chatter is about "record breaking" you can bet people are going to start trying to break the record. And they will start using bigger drones to do it.
One OS to rule them all, and in darkness bind them.
Thank you :)
Anyone remember who first said "The Internet interprets censorship as a fault and routes around it" or something to that effect?
This is a perfect example.
I only scanned the article but I couldn't find the actual question that was asked for the poll. In my experience the result of a poll can be skewed one way or another by how the question is phrased.
I have to wonder if the question Pew asked was along the lines of "Do you think Apple should help the FBI catch terrorists?" rather than "Do you think Apple should protect peoples privacy from unwarranted government surveillance". You could ask the same group of people and get one poll showing support for Apply and another supporting FBI depending on what you ask
For a "secret court" the CoP isn't very secret considering that there is a link to it on the UK gov's own web site https://www.gov.uk/courts-tribunals/court-of-protection
Bold claims are not worth the pixels they are displayed with if you can 't back it up with interdependently verifiable facts.
Citations please.
You know it used to be that most families could support themselves with only a single income. My how times have changed.
If only more people shared your view. The USA's legal systems might actually start work as originally intended.
She had my sympathy for the loss of her child. She now has my admiration and respect for speaking out to protect the rights of everyone's children.
Not the first time they have done something like this. I remember reading that back pre-Internet when the last publishers of Dutch mail order CP magazines closed up shop due to the changing laws the FBI actually started to reprint the magazines for a time so they could continue to advertise, mail and then arrest anyone who ordered them for possession of CP. So apparently the FBI was actually running a CP magazine business for a time. Of course it was all to protect the children.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to just tattoo a bar code onto everyone's hand or forehead? Maybe use an ink the is only visible under UV or IR?
That way when the refugees get to go home or end up settling in someplace new they can get the tattoo removed, or not. But it wouldn't be as big a privacy risk as a retina scan or other biometric that can't be changed when it gets compromised.
Thermite: Iron oxid and Aluminum powder
Thermate= Thermite + barium Nirate and some sulfur.
And no, I didn't just google it. High school chemistry and I've worked with both of them on some field work I've done.
I'm going to ignore how you resort to insults to try and make your points stronger. By the way I'm really glade you brought up the ACSE report, I actually hadn't originally paid attention to the team that put it together, I was very surprised to see several names I had also come across while researching another investigation involving the destruction of a building under suspicious circumstances. I'll let you look into it yourself if you wish, though I know you won't because that would mean you have to open your eyes a bit and risk seeing that things are not really how you seem to think they are. Ironic that your attempt to convince me I'm wrong just gave me one more reason I shouldn't completely believe the official 9-11 report.
What you want to believe is your choice and I'm not going to argue with you, the rather heated reaction you displayed in your comment is a very clear indication that you feel your "comfort zone" is being threatened so I will leave you to your view of a world where the government would never kill thousands of civilians to accomplish some goal.
Me, I learned long ago the the government lies to the public with ease, usually justified with excuses of "National Security" or "in the interest of Public Safety" or other wording. I've heard about the head of some agency or corporation saying one thing under oath and then getting shown to have been telling a huge pack of lies too many times to just roll over and wait for my pat on the head.
But do the research yourself, use the Internet, actually read the alternate theories that are out there. If you dare.
Gods slashdots comment system is fucked up.
Here is a bit cleaner, and loged in, response that might be easier to read.
I also watched it all live. And I do have a back ground in engineering.
Funny how it always comes back to "it was hit by planes!" as an excuse for the collapse.
The first plan I can believe did some real damage to the central core of WTC 1 since it hit smack in the middle of buildings face, even though the plane was made almost entirely out of aluminum and would have been completely shredded when it hit the outer girders or the building it could have done some damage to the central core of reenforced steel girders. But what about WTC 2? The plane more or less clipped the corner and most of the fuel went up in the fireball that came out the side. Remember seeing that? And yet WTC 2 was the first building to come down, straight down, even though the majority of the damage was near corner of the building.
Also WTC 1 and 2 came down within an hour of the impacts, and yet other buildings that have burned for much longer didn't collapse, or even fall over.
And remember all that black smoke? Did you know that when the smoke is black like that it means there isn't enough oxygen getting to the fuel for efficient combustion. The fuel wasn't burning as hot as it could have, ever tried to melt steel over a charcoal fire? It doesn't work because the fire isn't hot enough due to lack of uxygen, but if you add forced air you get enough heat to do the job.
Oh, and lets not forget about the traces of unburned thermite being found in the dust from the WTC towers. What? you didn't hear about that? And here I thought you had really looked into the events of 9/11/2001
But wait, you said the building came down because they had been hit by planes. But what about WTC 7? it wasn't hit by a plane and still collapsed into its own foot print, five hours after WTC 1 and 2. Have you watched the footage of it coming down? The structure was in free fall for 8 seconds. And what about the reports of explosions in WTC7 even before WTC 1 and 2 came down.
And then we come to the Pentagon, didn't it strike you as odd that what is supposed to be one of the most secure buildings in the USA only had one low grade video camera covering the area the plane hit? Did you happen to notice that the grass in front of the impact area didn't have any skid marks from the planes engines hitting the ground first? I'm supposed to believe that an unskilled pilot was able to make a 300 degree rolling turn and put a 757 right into the first floor or the Pentagon without even disturbing the grass? Yeah, right. From interviews I've seen with former pilots that kind of maneuver is hard enough for an experienced pilot to pull off and I'm supposed to believe some guy who didn't even pass flight school pulled it off.
If you want to swallow the official story about 9-11 that is your choice. You have to do what you need to do to protect your world view. I can understand that. I on the other hand prefer to think for myself, and there is enough verifiable information that doesn't jibe with the official story to make me doubt the official story. Sure, there are some totally whacked out theories around the towers coming down, my favorite has to be the clean direction tactical nuke, but there are also many credible sources that raise a reasonable doubt about what happened.
Try watching Loose Change 9/11, an American Coup http://www.imdb.com/title/tt13...
Fun fact; In the entire history of modern skyscrapers there have only been three situations where a building has collapsed into it's own foot print as a result of a fire. Can you guess when and what buildings?
what if they get wet?
while you have an excellent point about a submariner there is one very important thing that you, and a lot of other people overlook. The simple fact that someone in a sub, or even an isolation chamber, knows that fresh air and home are only a short distance away, a few hundred feet up or a hundred miles thataway. If something goes wrong in a simulation you can always just open the door.
The people who go to Mars are going to have to face a completely new condition, that of being totally alone in an environment so hostile it will kill you in seconds. I don't think we yet know how to test for a personality type that can handle that, we can make educated guesses but until someone actually goes to Mars we won't know for sure if the people we send have "the Right Stuff"
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people".
Karl Marx