Actually, the effect of the 9/11 grounding was to increase maximum daytime temperatures and decrease minimum nighttime temperatures (see article). Reasons for this are generally accepted as being due to the change in water vapor high in the atmosphere affecting heat absorption (daytime) and radiation (nighttime).
the misfire rate is about 2 in every 100,000 shots.
That is not hard to beat. It is totally within reason for a gun lock to fail less often than that.
Then I have experienced several dozen lifetimes worth of failed RFID operations. No big deal if all I have to do is wave my badge over the sensor one more time. Big deal if I die because of it.
Analysis is not sufficient to verify the proper operation of devices that have life safety implications. No sane person would hand-wave statistics to certify a commercial aircraft for example.
The most liberal country wrt. guns being the Czech Republic,
Maybe. I haven't been there. But if the guy in the sporting good store in Salzburg can sell me a Glock over the counter for cash, no questions asked, that's pretty free. Austria has a pretty homogeneous culture, so the idea that someone would misbehave, or that the cops have to be 'respectful' of multiple cultures is foreign to them. Fit in to our society and you can do what you like. Step out of line and the authorities will shut you down. Fast.
In the USA, the idea that cops can 'stop and frisk' for weapons is anathema to our civil rights. Even though a halfway decent cop can easily spot someone carrying. But then I'd rather be trusted than give the cops the power to disarm people that don't fit their 'good citizen' profile. I might think some people look kind of shifty. But then they probably think the same of me.
Let me guess, you've never travelled anywhere outside the US, correct?
Incorrect. I spend quite a bit of time in Canada and Europe*. And the levels of conformity that are expected there are far beyond anything that we would tolerate in the USA.
*In some EU countries (Austria, for example) it is easier to purchase a handgun than in the USA. But there, they think nothing of the police confronting someone who "looks suspicious" and might be scoping out people using smart phones as targets for theft, for example. Or stopping a bum carrying a $500 phone. I've even seen the cops move a hobo out of the expensive tourist area in Salzburg absent any kind of threat. Profiling people to that degree in the USA is unthinkable. So people's need to defend themselves is minimal compared to this country.
Same for most electric ovens, refrigerators, freezers,
Oh yeah. The fridge. It used to 'lock up' and go into a continuous run mode (bringing the freezer temp down to around -20F) until I changed the control board. It seems some idiot who wrote the original firmware didn't get the sign right when converting the thermistor reading and it interpreted -2F as +2F, etc.
I have another TV set (newer DTV, flat screen, LED backlit) that hiccups every once in a while and interprets any remote control input as a command to turn off.
It might take some time - a year or two of testing
And how do you propose we do a year or two of testing with handguns in simulated combat situations?
Many people have dangerous stuff in their houses (tools, chemicals). The law needs to hold them responsible for the consequences of its misuse. Not proscribe the method by which it is handled. Because this will lead adults to think complying with the law is sufficient to mitigate a risk and as a result become complacent.
as someone who lives in a country where guns aren't allowed,
Let me guess: A smaller country, where having the police nearby isn't cost prohibitive. And a culture that tolerates social control. Where it is acceptable to pick up and question someone who doesn't conform.
I wish we could have that in the USA. But this is a large, sparsely populated country. The cost of a cop on every corner would be very high. And we are, by tradition, the refuge of eccentrics and oddballs. We just don't think its right to profile people as being more violent or prone to crime just because they act or look a bit different. The down side is that they might turn out to be. But we won't know that until its too late.
The reason I carry a gun is that an entire cop is just to heavy to carry.
Once it is proven to work once, it will work the same way FOREVER.
I have a DTV converter for an old analog TV set. No Internet connection, no way to upload new s/w. About once a month, I turn the TV set on and there's a kernel panic dump on the screen. Unplug, count to ten and plug back in.
Fortunately, this is not a life or death situation unless the Superbowl is on.
The identification/registration of drones is a good idea. However, I'm not giving up on licensing (or more accurately certification) of drone pilots. The reason licenses are expensive is the cost of air time necessary to demonstrate flying skill in a class of aircraft. The ground school part (rules of the road, etc.)is relatively inexpensive and knowledge could be demonstrated by test alone. Flight practicing with a drone can be accomplished at a restricted RC field on one's own before a simple demonstration that one can handle one's own drone. That would be cheap.
RC aircraft and drones are already regulated. Pending a better description of this incident I'm guessing that this 'drone' was operating outside those regulations. So now the next problem is: How do we enforce or even inform drone operators of these regulations? To date, there are few processes in place to keep any member of the general public from dropping $500 and walking away with an RC airplane and the right to use it.
I might be a good idea to define some RC air parks available to the general (unlicensed) public and restrict operation of airplanes anywhere else to those posessing a pilot's license. And to follow that up with a publicity campaign to inform the public of their responsibility. Drones and RC aircraft are becoming mush more capable than equipment available in the past. It was assumed that line of sight operation (of simple RC aircraft) was sufficient to keep them confined to smal areas. But with the advent of autonomous modes of navigation and longer ranges, these things are getting into places previously not thought to be accessible to them. If drones are going to be operating in GA or controled airspaces, then they should comply with the same regulations that other uses do already and be educated to the same extent.
Here's the thing. As others have pointed out, IP owners don't have to share their property with anyone. They can lock music, videos, art, books, whatever in a vault and deny you access. Don't like it? Tough, that's what private property is all about.
On the other hand, at least in the USA, the copyright clause begins with the preamble "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." So, if you want to keep it to yourself, or your circle of good freinds, fine. You just shouldn't rely on copyright law to help you. If it isn't made available to the public in some fashion generally deemed 'useful', it shouldn't be a candidate for a copyright.
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This isn't a country where much happens.
Are you kidding? There are orcs everywhere!
Just start referring to the GCSB as the Eye of Sauron and be done with it.
Those pants make your ass look fat.
Funny. That's how they taught me about tides.
In the meantime, I'm sitting 100 meters above sea level, waiting for my waterfront property.
Actually, the effect of the 9/11 grounding was to increase maximum daytime temperatures and decrease minimum nighttime temperatures (see article). Reasons for this are generally accepted as being due to the change in water vapor high in the atmosphere affecting heat absorption (daytime) and radiation (nighttime).
the misfire rate is about 2 in every 100,000 shots.
That is not hard to beat. It is totally within reason for a gun lock to fail less often than that.
Then I have experienced several dozen lifetimes worth of failed RFID operations. No big deal if all I have to do is wave my badge over the sensor one more time. Big deal if I die because of it.
Analysis is not sufficient to verify the proper operation of devices that have life safety implications. No sane person would hand-wave statistics to certify a commercial aircraft for example.
The most liberal country wrt. guns being the Czech Republic,
Maybe. I haven't been there. But if the guy in the sporting good store in Salzburg can sell me a Glock over the counter for cash, no questions asked, that's pretty free. Austria has a pretty homogeneous culture, so the idea that someone would misbehave, or that the cops have to be 'respectful' of multiple cultures is foreign to them. Fit in to our society and you can do what you like. Step out of line and the authorities will shut you down. Fast.
In the USA, the idea that cops can 'stop and frisk' for weapons is anathema to our civil rights. Even though a halfway decent cop can easily spot someone carrying. But then I'd rather be trusted than give the cops the power to disarm people that don't fit their 'good citizen' profile. I might think some people look kind of shifty. But then they probably think the same of me.
Let me guess, you've never travelled anywhere outside the US, correct?
Incorrect. I spend quite a bit of time in Canada and Europe*. And the levels of conformity that are expected there are far beyond anything that we would tolerate in the USA.
*In some EU countries (Austria, for example) it is easier to purchase a handgun than in the USA. But there, they think nothing of the police confronting someone who "looks suspicious" and might be scoping out people using smart phones as targets for theft, for example. Or stopping a bum carrying a $500 phone. I've even seen the cops move a hobo out of the expensive tourist area in Salzburg absent any kind of threat. Profiling people to that degree in the USA is unthinkable. So people's need to defend themselves is minimal compared to this country.
Same for most electric ovens, refrigerators, freezers,
Oh yeah. The fridge. It used to 'lock up' and go into a continuous run mode (bringing the freezer temp down to around -20F) until I changed the control board. It seems some idiot who wrote the original firmware didn't get the sign right when converting the thermistor reading and it interpreted -2F as +2F, etc.
I have another TV set (newer DTV, flat screen, LED backlit) that hiccups every once in a while and interprets any remote control input as a command to turn off.
It might take some time - a year or two of testing
And how do you propose we do a year or two of testing with handguns in simulated combat situations?
Except governments don't have any moral imperative to protect children, unless granted one by the voters.
Evidently not. As we seem to have no problem with them riding bicycles through red lights as they watch the examples set by adults.
Many people have dangerous stuff in their houses (tools, chemicals). The law needs to hold them responsible for the consequences of its misuse. Not proscribe the method by which it is handled. Because this will lead adults to think complying with the law is sufficient to mitigate a risk and as a result become complacent.
as someone who lives in a country where guns aren't allowed,
Let me guess: A smaller country, where having the police nearby isn't cost prohibitive. And a culture that tolerates social control. Where it is acceptable to pick up and question someone who doesn't conform.
I wish we could have that in the USA. But this is a large, sparsely populated country. The cost of a cop on every corner would be very high. And we are, by tradition, the refuge of eccentrics and oddballs. We just don't think its right to profile people as being more violent or prone to crime just because they act or look a bit different. The down side is that they might turn out to be. But we won't know that until its too late.
The reason I carry a gun is that an entire cop is just to heavy to carry.
Once it is proven to work once, it will work the same way FOREVER.
I have a DTV converter for an old analog TV set. No Internet connection, no way to upload new s/w. About once a month, I turn the TV set on and there's a kernel panic dump on the screen. Unplug, count to ten and plug back in.
Fortunately, this is not a life or death situation unless the Superbowl is on.
6) Teach your kid to leave the area if someone else pulls out a gun and starts playing around with it.
Elwood: "It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses."
Jake: "Hit it."
The identification/registration of drones is a good idea. However, I'm not giving up on licensing (or more accurately certification) of drone pilots. The reason licenses are expensive is the cost of air time necessary to demonstrate flying skill in a class of aircraft. The ground school part (rules of the road, etc.)is relatively inexpensive and knowledge could be demonstrated by test alone. Flight practicing with a drone can be accomplished at a restricted RC field on one's own before a simple demonstration that one can handle one's own drone. That would be cheap.
Even easier, large dark glasses. Cameras can't see your eyes and locate the centers. Or wear a pair of these.
Sunglasses are your best bet, as law enforcement isn't going to be able to use them as probable cause for anything.
RC aircraft and drones are already regulated. Pending a better description of this incident I'm guessing that this 'drone' was operating outside those regulations. So now the next problem is: How do we enforce or even inform drone operators of these regulations? To date, there are few processes in place to keep any member of the general public from dropping $500 and walking away with an RC airplane and the right to use it.
I might be a good idea to define some RC air parks available to the general (unlicensed) public and restrict operation of airplanes anywhere else to those posessing a pilot's license. And to follow that up with a publicity campaign to inform the public of their responsibility. Drones and RC aircraft are becoming mush more capable than equipment available in the past. It was assumed that line of sight operation (of simple RC aircraft) was sufficient to keep them confined to smal areas. But with the advent of autonomous modes of navigation and longer ranges, these things are getting into places previously not thought to be accessible to them. If drones are going to be operating in GA or controled airspaces, then they should comply with the same regulations that other uses do already and be educated to the same extent.
I do the work of three men.
Moe, Curly and Larry.
Something like that.
But what Jefferson (and others who made similar statements) were talking about was the public keeping an eye on its own government.
The only exception should areas where the US is at war.
We're always at war. The war on drugs. The war on porn. The war on obesity.
Commuting becomes very fast as bicycles do not need traffic lights.
Speaking as a pedestrian and one who spends some time in Amsterdam, "Yes they do!"
At least Slashdot seems to encourage re-use of commonly used responses when a question is asked.
Here's the thing. As others have pointed out, IP owners don't have to share their property with anyone. They can lock music, videos, art, books, whatever in a vault and deny you access. Don't like it? Tough, that's what private property is all about.
On the other hand, at least in the USA, the copyright clause begins with the preamble "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." So, if you want to keep it to yourself, or your circle of good freinds, fine. You just shouldn't rely on copyright law to help you. If it isn't made available to the public in some fashion generally deemed 'useful', it shouldn't be a candidate for a copyright.
Political party IP addresses. Just before campain donation season.
Cyberterrorism
Well, it has my PC shaking with fear.
No, wait. That's just a bad power supply fan. Never mind.
att was building a chevette and pricing it at a Lamborghi
FTFY. Camry is a nice car.