But the dichotemy is interesting; We're developing a new, updated version of it, but you'd be whipping a dead horse because we've already declared it obselete. A product life cycle of 0 is not something I'd like to be in on, and I do believe I walked into a doozy!
I'm rather suprised to hear this. I had an issue w/ useful life of OS/2 a few months back, and IBM told me that they would be updating it through the end of 01, if not for just their core dependants. I had also heard buzz about an updated Warp Server pack due out in Q1, with OEM preview and announcement late Q3. Then again, I think their move to Linux for many of the roles 'reserved' for OS/2 traditionally is putting a crimp it their style, and they'd like to move faster to exploit the explosive curve going on now..
It is a pretty nice system, and if you want everything at once you get it. But is smells kludgy sometimes, (reporting fields ever strike you funny??), and it is prolly way too much horsepower for 800 users or 10 techies.
They're still doing on-sites, aren't they? Might make for an interesting 'day off' if you like sitting in the same room with your vendors. Lying fucking whor.... Sorry. Had HP in the other afternoon.
Technically you can do that with the standard Linux/*BSD provisions.
I don't know how usable it would be over even a pipe as fat as that, but you could technically use a dual-volume replicated RAID, with each machine obtaining one volume from the other.
Make a file as large as the desired dynamic portion of the filesystem on each, export it via NFS/SMB/etc.Each mounts the others export,/dev/loop both the foreign and local files, and uses them to form the RAID.
On drive failure, the remaining machine shouldn't skip a beat, aside from an initial timeout. The kernel should handle it gracefully (but cluelessly).
Now how you would go about automating and easing the 'server repaired' condition is left for a reader exercise. (read: I don't have a clue how you'd do it. )
Not exactly.. An anecdote from personal experience.
My company uses a voicemail system, with voice calls answered by a machine in far distant New Jersey.. Late last month, I had trouble with one of the local LAN segments, and not having the key to the wiring closet meant I needed to 'call it in' so they could send someone from IS down the hall with a key.
Called it in at 9am. At eleven, I called back to inquire about the holdup. (No LAN, no work!!). At one, I called IS directly (which is a no-no) to let out some frustration. They hadn't heard of any problems! IS kindly offered to call NJ for me, and sent someone over with a key so I could fix the problem.
What happened? Why didn't they call me back?
My message had said (And I quote) 'The operations segment of the LAN, in xxxx, Michigan, has gone down. It's in the closet, cuz I've checked it out to the breakout. We're dead boys, so send over a key and card this one under now or my ass gets it cuz I cant do squat.'.
The moron tech who got the trouble ticket pulled my name up in the database, saw MS instead of OPS/IS/TS, and emailed me inquiring about my qualification to make the determination because he was on the phone with his girlfriend. At eleven, he emailed again inquiring about the closet location. (He had already done it once without a bounce! Email only works when you're connected to the network right??;)
At three, they fired him.
The moral of the story: Even if the users can reach you only by carrier pigeon, if you've got a good tech on the other end of that Avian Transport Protocol it's worth the delay. Don't bitch about having to make a coworker call it in or email it if it actually gets dealt with correctly. There are too many seat warmers in the profession these days!
Hey, it was a decent demo, but still.. You should have set it to post to a 'new' forum and then redirected the user to it.. Wouldn't clog up the current discussion!!
Win32?? It is still the choice of 'corporate america', and most of us browse from work at this hour. (Eastern US). I have a page linked to only from my/. sig, and I'd say fully 90% of the daytime traffic is Win32, with the spike of *nix after seven...
You just need to move the monitor 'closer' to the bus. 16x12 requires 46Mb/s in raw form (over the cable to your dumb display) but there sure isn't that much travelling over the system bus, and there ain't that much activly being transferred internally by the video card either! So there has to be a place we could 'snip' off the video card and move outboard to the display. Say after the geometry has been calculated for the frame, it's compared to the last one and sent to the monitor as vectorized meta-data, along with the appropriate bitmaps to paint with. Monitor keeps tabs on the totality of the image in a seperate framebuffer array.
Pretty good bit of software.. I'll be introducing my Windows-using friends to it. They wouldn't let me GIVE them a firewall, but they're going to install this..
Thanks..
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With the Dayna I believe you can use one of their devices on a shared chain, assign two IP addesses to the device, and have Ethernet over SCSI between two Macs (The device just 'relabels'). Saw it done by a junior grade hack at Chrysler, who simply didn't know it wasn't an intended use.
So yes, and we were offtopic.
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Yeah, Asante.. (I too have one in front of me;) The Asante model uses a 9v power cube, and will tear up a 3C509 any day of the week.. They also made an Ethernet-SCSI bridge, allowing you to use standalone SCSI devices over a ethernet connection to another bridge. Drive sharing in HW..
To refer to the other people in the country as 'they' to escape my own culpability in the matter is just plain wrong. Yes, Big bad o' technos keeps voting for 'the prick most likely to screw me', and what do you know!!
The US and the FBI don't like Interpol. They'll listen to some crackhead on the corner before Interpol (Remember the first DDoS debaucle? The Euros had the correct answer but the FBI was too busy being important to take their head out of their ass and listen.)
Why do we feel the need to do this 'Play policeman and walk over any nation we don't like' crap. Makes me sick sometimes. Why were the LOVEBUG arrests made? Because the Filipinos had the FBI and Big Brother Janet insisting on it. They didn't give a flying [snip] about a college student who may or may not have written a virus. We do it to Mexico too. Just because they aren't willing to arrest and prosecute their drug offenders, we decided we're going to do it for them.
And why do we get away with it? We grease palms with easily skimmed 'Foreign Aid', sell the worst of them military weapons, and generally have a history of using the Navy SEALs to 'pick up' any world leaders we don't like. Manuel getting pissed the CIA isn't giving him his cut of the drug traffic? Let's snatch him up, play innocent, and let him hang in a US prison for crimes committed in Colombia and Panama. Nasty old dictator doesn't like having US troops on his island? Let's put some money into the rebels and let them go!!
What the hell happened to the concept of sovereignty? Gee, all these backward nations must not be able to police their 'cybercrime'. Let's walk right over them and prosecute their citizens with our laws. Oh, I forgot. They're not US citizens, so they don't get all of that nifty Constitutuinal stuff. Due process? False imprisonment? Search and seizure? Nope! Fuck them, France, Britain, Germany; They can't be trusted to prosecute their own criminals. Stupid backward Eurotrash!
Alright.. I admit it.. I'm really a 62 year old retiree from Flint, Michigan.. I didn't have much to do after the plant shut down, (I used to assemble the plastic seat subassemblies on the GM full size) so my late husband George bought me a brand spanking new IBM 386 and a SprintNet dialup. I heard about Slashdot from Rob's parents (They are such dears!) who thought he was wasting his life with 'all of that technical gobbledygook'.
There are a few of us on Slashdot. I went to high school with Wah (Milford High class of 59! Go Redskins!) and I got OpenSourceMan into it after meeting him at the local Knights of Columbus casino night. (Watch out girls, he's taken. The hair is not all his, but the teeth are!!)
Oh, Rob. Tell your mother that carbonated soda will take the stain you left out of her white rug. I didn't have time to call her back today, what with the hairdressers appointment and all the running around over my granddaughters wedding..
Uncompressed: 40G/s Compressed: int x=1; while (x) cout x --x++;
For any significant amount of data, I'd say near infinite compression..
But it doesn't have to be limited to such insanely small homogenous granularity. Say you're using conventional CMOS components. Rig it to just spew random data. Trivial to do. While it would repeat eventually, the granularity is 1/infinity instead of 1/1.
Ten 100t cards to each 100t hub, 10 100t hubs to each 100t switch, ten 100t switches to each of ten Yellowfin switches plugged into the uplink ports.
Ask everyone to reload/. once. Not only do you get the peak 40G figure, you DDoS/. as well!!
When did they say they did the testing? Hmm.. Makes me wonder..
Seriously though.. They didn't use commodity PC equipment.. Prolly a purpose built signalling device just sending an alternating binary stream on each specific range. Easy to check for error!! You could do it with just over fifty 556 ICs and just over seventy transistors..
Behr.. Decent stuff if you want it pretty, but any old exterior spar varnish will wear harder. Cheaper too! You could laminate an entire 8x10 sheet of plywood for $10. Painting over it isn't a terribly good idea though. You get 'bubbles' if you use anything but high-VOC enamel, and that is quite pricey and unpleasant smelling. PVC for a frame is a darn good idea. Strong, light, and easily machined. I wouldn't glue the all the corners though. Drill a hole through and secure with a pin and clevis or some plain old nuts and bolts. Easy to disassemble or adjust. Some wavy lock washers on both sides will help keep the bolt or bar seated. PVC can really be made 'adjustable' too. The common sizes are too widely spread to be a tight fit though. You might be able to get away with using filed down converting couplers. Remove the lip from the smaller side of the coupler with a file or Dremel tool, and drill some spaced holes in the small pipe and a single hole through the coupler. I'd almost recommend drilling the coupler oversize and using brass t-bushings set with pipe cement if they are to be adjusted often; PVC is abrasion prone, and those bolt threads are going to work like a file each and every adjustment. Oh, and I'd secure the top down with pipe strap or double-sided hangers. Use small hex-head bolts and countersink the top so that the bolt heads don't present an obstacle. Gravity isn't always reliable!! (Screws are always unreliably removable.) The price? Bells, whistles and nice laminated plywood shouldn't set you back more than $50. PVC and fittings are cheap. No real tools needed, as the lumber yard will prolly be happy to cut the top to size, as will the hardware store be happy to cut your PVC. Just have everything spec'd before you go!!
You're making coherent and cogent points. Even if the 'popular opinion' of moderation judges you wrong, your posts deserve to be counted. Moderation has sucked so badly lately that I regularly see good stuff at -1.
I think of it as a kind of 'this is who I am'. Your/. peers deserve to know what kind of person is behind the moniker. To do any differently would be dishonest. Shit, I even troll as myself!
Did I just refer to/. posters as peers? Another sign I've been spending too much time here..
The problem being that it's difficult to find a study you can trust (almost all studies are paid for by one side or the other, c.f. Mindcraft). I've seen studies which "proved" that even relatively minor crimes have greatly increased chance of turning lethal in states which have concealed weapons laws.
I know what you mean.. I'm a gun owner, but I rarely believe what the NRA chooses to feed me, and I almost never believe the opposition. I honestly wish there were a non-profit 'third party' that would dare publish non-political studies.. There is far, far too much bull-shit out there on anything remotly political to believe either side.
The old west? Gah, what a total societal breakdown.. It's inevitible though.. If you remove consequences, you remove inhibition. The Spanish did it during the days of exploration, the English did it during the days of commercialization..
Let us not forget the first rule of Tech Support: Most people are stupid. I'd rather not be around a bunch of stupid people with lethal weapons (moreso). If it would thin out the [l]user contingent, I'd give everyone in Marketing a machine-pistol. If they're dumb enough to use it, they deserve to die!! Then again, I'd kind of miss pulling pranks on them, so prolly not..
I'll wait for it to become 'on-topic' before sharing my luser prank stories!!
Possession of an unregistered firearm is a crime. Possession of a concealed weapon without dispensation is a crime.. If you are pulled over for anything, the cops can and will gleefully take it from you and charge you if the weapon is discovered.
Why does DC have so much crime? I'm guessing people go slowly insane from the massive buildup of politicians..
Going backpacking in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for a few days.. My forty year old Winchester.22 long rifle is DOA, and I was rather unwilling to carry my touchy Desert Eagle pistol, so I splurged and bought a nice Winchester carbine.
I will most probably have little use for it beyond something to lean on, but I'd rather not be at the mercy of ravenous beasts with the ability to kill me!!
And, for the record, I am quite well-endowed. Thanks for asking!!!
The converse happens.. I guess it's just the Freudian inferiority complex/human survival instinct kicking in, but several studies have shown that you are least likely to fire upon someone you think has a weapon. Even belief of the victim wielding a knife drops the incidence by over 70%!!
I will admit that all of the information I have on the matter came from rather pro-gun sources, but the studies were trustworthy and meaningful.
Yes, criminals will always have that 'edge'. They did before guns, they will after guns. But the one time the robber doesn't know Grandma has a derringer in her mu-mu is good enough for me!!!
I'm reasonably up on U.S gun control laws, having purchased one a few weeks back..
Handguns need a FBI background check when bought through licensed dealers.. This snafu prevents any legal sales. Long rifle/shotgun sales may or may not require background check. It depends on the state and municipality. The FBI check amounts to nothing more than a simple: if (!felon && !insane).
I know there are a couple of AC NRA members; Any one wish to refine this? I'm know there are additional restrictions bound to the FBI check, but I can't quite place my finger on them. I'm assuming this stagnates CWP and CCP approval, but am unsure, as I'm not currently law enforcement.
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But the dichotemy is interesting; We're developing a new, updated version of it, but you'd be whipping a dead horse because we've already declared it obselete. A product life cycle of 0 is not something I'd like to be in on, and I do believe I walked into a doozy!
I'm rather suprised to hear this. I had an issue w/ useful life of OS/2 a few months back, and IBM told me that they would be updating it through the end of 01, if not for just their core dependants. I had also heard buzz about an updated Warp Server pack due out in Q1, with OEM preview and announcement late Q3. Then again, I think their move to Linux for many of the roles 'reserved' for OS/2 traditionally is putting a crimp it their style, and they'd like to move faster to exploit the explosive curve going on now..
How does the NBD compare to, say NFS or SMB in terms of sustained throughput, reliabile and coherent error handling, and ease of use?
It is a pretty nice system, and if you want everything at once you get it. But is smells kludgy sometimes, (reporting fields ever strike you funny??), and it is prolly way too much horsepower for 800 users or 10 techies.
They're still doing on-sites, aren't they? Might make for an interesting 'day off' if you like sitting in the same room with your vendors. Lying fucking whor.... Sorry. Had HP in the other afternoon.
Technically you can do that with the standard Linux/*BSD provisions.
/dev/loop both the foreign and local files, and uses them to form the RAID.
I don't know how usable it would be over even a pipe as fat as that, but you could technically use a dual-volume replicated RAID, with each machine obtaining one volume from the other.
Make a file as large as the desired dynamic portion of the filesystem on each, export it via NFS/SMB/etc.Each mounts the others export,
On drive failure, the remaining machine shouldn't skip a beat, aside from an initial timeout. The kernel should handle it gracefully (but cluelessly).
Now how you would go about automating and easing the 'server repaired' condition is left for a reader exercise.
(read: I don't have a clue how you'd do it. )
Not exactly.. An anecdote from personal experience.
;)
My company uses a voicemail system, with voice calls answered by a machine in far distant New Jersey.. Late last month, I had trouble with one of the local LAN segments, and not having the key to the wiring closet meant I needed to 'call it in' so they could send someone from IS down the hall with a key.
Called it in at 9am. At eleven, I called back to inquire about the holdup. (No LAN, no work!!). At one, I called IS directly (which is a no-no) to let out some frustration. They hadn't heard of any problems! IS kindly offered to call NJ for me, and sent someone over with a key so I could fix the problem.
What happened? Why didn't they call me back?
My message had said (And I quote) 'The operations segment of the LAN, in xxxx, Michigan, has gone down. It's in the closet, cuz I've checked it out to the breakout. We're dead boys, so send over a key and card this one under now or my ass gets it cuz I cant do squat.'.
The moron tech who got the trouble ticket pulled my name up in the database, saw MS instead of OPS/IS/TS, and emailed me inquiring about my qualification to make the determination because he was on the phone with his girlfriend. At eleven, he emailed again inquiring about the closet location. (He had already done it once without a bounce! Email only works when you're connected to the network right??
At three, they fired him.
The moral of the story: Even if the users can reach you only by carrier pigeon, if you've got a good tech on the other end of that Avian Transport Protocol it's worth the delay. Don't bitch about having to make a coworker call it in or email it if it actually gets dealt with correctly. There are too many seat warmers in the profession these days!
Hey, it was a decent demo, but still.. You should have set it to post to a 'new' forum and then redirected the user to it.. Wouldn't clog up the current discussion!!
/. sig, and I'd say fully 90% of the daytime traffic is Win32, with the spike of *nix after seven...
Win32?? It is still the choice of 'corporate america', and most of us browse from work at this hour. (Eastern US). I have a page linked to only from my
You just need to move the monitor 'closer' to the bus. 16x12 requires 46Mb/s in raw form (over the cable to your dumb display) but there sure isn't that much travelling over the system bus, and there ain't that much activly being transferred internally by the video card either! So there has to be a place we could 'snip' off the video card and move outboard to the display. Say after the geometry has been calculated for the frame, it's compared to the last one and sent to the monitor as vectorized meta-data, along with the appropriate bitmaps to paint with. Monitor keeps tabs on the totality of the image in a seperate framebuffer array.
Pretty good bit of software.. I'll be introducing my Windows-using friends to it. They wouldn't let me GIVE them a firewall, but they're going to install this..
Thanks..
With the Dayna I believe you can use one of their devices on a shared chain, assign two IP addesses to the device, and have Ethernet over SCSI between two Macs (The device just 'relabels'). Saw it done by a junior grade hack at Chrysler, who simply didn't know it wasn't an intended use.
So yes, and we were offtopic.
Yeah, Asante.. (I too have one in front of me ;)
The Asante model uses a 9v power cube, and will tear up a 3C509 any day of the week.. They also made an Ethernet-SCSI bridge, allowing you to use standalone SCSI devices over a ethernet connection to another bridge. Drive sharing in HW..
I only wish I had Linux/x86 drivers...
To refer to the other people in the country as 'they' to escape my own culpability in the matter is just plain wrong. Yes, Big bad o' technos keeps voting for 'the prick most likely to screw me', and what do you know!!
The US and the FBI don't like Interpol. They'll listen to some crackhead on the corner before Interpol (Remember the first DDoS debaucle? The Euros had the correct answer but the FBI was too busy being important to take their head out of their ass and listen.)
Why do we feel the need to do this 'Play policeman and walk over any nation we don't like' crap. Makes me sick sometimes. Why were the LOVEBUG arrests made? Because the Filipinos had the FBI and Big Brother Janet insisting on it. They didn't give a flying [snip] about a college student who may or may not have written a virus. We do it to Mexico too. Just because they aren't willing to arrest and prosecute their drug offenders, we decided we're going to do it for them.
And why do we get away with it? We grease palms with easily skimmed 'Foreign Aid', sell the worst of them military weapons, and generally have a history of using the Navy SEALs to 'pick up' any world leaders we don't like. Manuel getting pissed the CIA isn't giving him his cut of the drug traffic? Let's snatch him up, play innocent, and let him hang in a US prison for crimes committed in Colombia and Panama. Nasty old dictator doesn't like having US troops on his island? Let's put some money into the rebels and let them go!!
What the hell happened to the concept of sovereignty? Gee, all these backward nations must not be able to police their 'cybercrime'. Let's walk right over them and prosecute their citizens with our laws. Oh, I forgot. They're not US citizens, so they don't get all of that nifty Constitutuinal stuff. Due process? False imprisonment? Search and seizure? Nope! Fuck them, France, Britain, Germany; They can't be trusted to prosecute their own criminals. Stupid backward Eurotrash!
Makes me sick..
Alright.. I admit it.. I'm really a 62 year old retiree from Flint, Michigan.. I didn't have much to do after the plant shut down, (I used to assemble the plastic seat subassemblies on the GM full size) so my late husband George bought me a brand spanking new IBM 386 and a SprintNet dialup. I heard about Slashdot from Rob's parents (They are such dears!) who thought he was wasting his life with 'all of that technical gobbledygook'.
There are a few of us on Slashdot. I went to high school with Wah (Milford High class of 59! Go Redskins!) and I got OpenSourceMan into it after meeting him at the local Knights of Columbus casino night. (Watch out girls, he's taken. The hair is not all his, but the teeth are!!)
Oh, Rob. Tell your mother that carbonated soda will take the stain you left out of her white rug. I didn't have time to call her back today, what with the hairdressers appointment and all the running around over my granddaughters wedding..
Hmm..
Uncompressed: 40G/s
Compressed: int x=1; while (x) cout x --x++;
For any significant amount of data, I'd say near infinite compression..
But it doesn't have to be limited to such insanely small homogenous granularity. Say you're using conventional CMOS components. Rig it to just spew random data. Trivial to do. While it would repeat eventually, the granularity is 1/infinity instead of 1/1.
Watch it strip mp carats..
Ten 100t cards to each 100t hub, 10 100t hubs to each 100t switch, ten 100t switches to each of ten Yellowfin switches plugged into the uplink ports.
/. once. Not only do you get the peak 40G figure, you DDoS /. as well!!
Ask everyone to reload
When did they say they did the testing? Hmm.. Makes me wonder..
Seriously though.. They didn't use commodity PC equipment.. Prolly a purpose built signalling device just sending an alternating binary stream on each specific range. Easy to check for error!!
You could do it with just over fifty 556 ICs and just over seventy transistors..
Behr.. Decent stuff if you want it pretty, but any old exterior spar varnish will wear harder. Cheaper too! You could laminate an entire 8x10 sheet of plywood for $10. Painting over it isn't a terribly good idea though. You get 'bubbles' if you use anything but high-VOC enamel, and that is quite pricey and unpleasant smelling. PVC for a frame is a darn good idea. Strong, light, and easily machined. I wouldn't glue the all the corners though. Drill a hole through and secure with a pin and clevis or some plain old nuts and bolts. Easy to disassemble or adjust. Some wavy lock washers on both sides will help keep the bolt or bar seated. PVC can really be made 'adjustable' too. The common sizes are too widely spread to be a tight fit though. You might be able to get away with using filed down converting couplers. Remove the lip from the smaller side of the coupler with a file or Dremel tool, and drill some spaced holes in the small pipe and a single hole through the coupler. I'd almost recommend drilling the coupler oversize and using brass t-bushings set with pipe cement if they are to be adjusted often; PVC is abrasion prone, and those bolt threads are going to work like a file each and every adjustment. Oh, and I'd secure the top down with pipe strap or double-sided hangers. Use small hex-head bolts and countersink the top so that the bolt heads don't present an obstacle. Gravity isn't always reliable!! (Screws are always unreliably removable.) The price? Bells, whistles and nice laminated plywood shouldn't set you back more than $50. PVC and fittings are cheap. No real tools needed, as the lumber yard will prolly be happy to cut the top to size, as will the hardware store be happy to cut your PVC. Just have everything spec'd before you go!!
You're making coherent and cogent points. Even if the 'popular opinion' of moderation judges you wrong, your posts deserve to be counted. Moderation has sucked so badly lately that I regularly see good stuff at -1.
/. peers deserve to know what kind of person is behind the moniker. To do any differently would be dishonest. Shit, I even troll as myself!
/. posters as peers? Another sign I've been spending too much time here..
I think of it as a kind of 'this is who I am'. Your
Did I just refer to
The problem being that it's difficult to find a study you can trust (almost all studies are paid for by one side or the other, c.f. Mindcraft). I've seen studies which "proved" that even relatively minor crimes have greatly increased chance of turning lethal in states which have concealed weapons laws.
I know what you mean.. I'm a gun owner, but I rarely believe what the NRA chooses to feed me, and I almost never believe the opposition. I honestly wish there were a non-profit 'third party' that would dare publish non-political studies.. There is far, far too much bull-shit out there on anything remotly political to believe either side.
The old west? Gah, what a total societal breakdown.. It's inevitible though.. If you remove consequences, you remove inhibition. The Spanish did it during the days of exploration, the English did it during the days of commercialization..
Let us not forget the first rule of Tech Support: Most people are stupid. I'd rather not be around a bunch of stupid people with lethal weapons (moreso). If it would thin out the [l]user contingent, I'd give everyone in Marketing a machine-pistol. If they're dumb enough to use it, they deserve to die!! Then again, I'd kind of miss pulling pranks on them, so prolly not..
I'll wait for it to become 'on-topic' before sharing my luser prank stories!!
You've got an account!! Post using it!
Please?
Sigh
Possession of an unregistered firearm is a crime. Possession of a concealed weapon without dispensation is a crime.. If you are pulled over for anything, the cops can and will gleefully take it from you and charge you if the weapon is discovered.
Why does DC have so much crime? I'm guessing people go slowly insane from the massive buildup of politicians..
Going backpacking in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for a few days.. My forty year old Winchester .22 long rifle is DOA, and I was rather unwilling to carry my touchy Desert Eagle pistol, so I splurged and bought a nice Winchester carbine.
I will most probably have little use for it beyond something to lean on, but I'd rather not be at the mercy of ravenous beasts with the ability to kill me!!
And, for the record, I am quite well-endowed. Thanks for asking!!!
The converse happens.. I guess it's just the Freudian inferiority complex/human survival instinct kicking in, but several studies have shown that you are least likely to fire upon someone you think has a weapon. Even belief of the victim wielding a knife drops the incidence by over 70%!!
I will admit that all of the information I have on the matter came from rather pro-gun sources, but the studies were trustworthy and meaningful.
Yes, criminals will always have that 'edge'. They did before guns, they will after guns. But the one time the robber doesn't know Grandma has a derringer in her mu-mu is good enough for me!!!
I'm reasonably up on U.S gun control laws, having purchased one a few weeks back..
Handguns need a FBI background check when bought through licensed dealers.. This snafu prevents any legal sales. Long rifle/shotgun sales may or may not require background check. It depends on the state and municipality. The FBI check amounts to nothing more than a simple: if (!felon && !insane).
I know there are a couple of AC NRA members; Any one wish to refine this? I'm know there are additional restrictions bound to the FBI check, but I can't quite place my finger on them. I'm assuming this stagnates CWP and CCP approval, but am unsure, as I'm not currently law enforcement.