Without interacting with the dispatcher, you can't be sure that you've provided the necessary info. Talking is faster than typing, even for a T9 wizard. Is there any reason why you should text a 911 responder instead of just calling them?
Could you be deaf? That wouldn't necessarily preclude carrying a cell phone these days.
I am embarrassed by people. Not because they're outraged about the scanners. But because it's over a little virtual nudity.
Worry about the incredible cost in hardware and training. Worry about some idiot cranking up the power, or a hardware flaw doing it for them. Worry about the infinite spiral of ineffective hoops in the security theater. Worry about what you're going to have to supper.
But, good grief, stop with the omg-naked and think-of-the-children crap.
If a person is embarrassed by being seen naked, then that's their business. And it's unlikely that your arguments against this particlular sensitivity will be successful.
Furthermore, you're not necessarily just being seen by one person, even if the images aren't storable or transmissible. At the checkpoint in Houston used by incoming international flights, the scanner display is out in the open, right by the scanner.
On a per TRIP basis, cars, trains, and buses are all safer than airplanes.
That's because takeoff and landing in a plane is FAR more dangerous than "takeoff" and "landing" in the other modes of travel. That raises the per trip fatality rate higher for planes.
OK, but it you're replacing an air trip with a road trip you can't necessarily drive across town as a substitute to flying across the country. If Grandma or business or vacation spot is in Boston and you're in Chicago, then driving to Des Plaines won't be a replacement, will it? I can see someone downsizing a vacation to a nearer spot when driving, but most travel implies there's something to be done in a particular place.
may lead to more deaths as more people to use road transportation to avoid flying — much more dangerous by the mile than air travel.
if it is true, and flying is already safer than road travel, then why do we need all the security?
TFA didn't give any guesstimates of numbers, so I ran a few. If 5% of the 800 billion air miles in this country (as of Sept 09 to Aug 10) are replaced by highway miles, then that's something like 500 extra highway deaths. I'm using NHTSA and BTS statistics on fatality rates and air travel statistics.
Naturally there are a lot of assumptions, like just how many air miles we might lose to people not willing to go through the enhanced intrusiveness and increased wait times. Certainly, not every lost air mile is made up with a highway mile. Many people would drive to a nearer vacation spot. Business that would have been conducted face-to-face might happen another way. Some people might just skip the trip altogether.
Nevertheless, if the deaths are in the hundreds then that could easily exceed the lost of a single plane. These deaths would be spread out though throughout the year and across the country, so wouldn't make the news. So we'd feel safer even though statistically aren't.
If we would just profile we wouldn't need half the security we have.
I'd think that would be the easiest measure to defeat, simply by using a bomber/hijacker that doesn't fit the profile. I'd have to assume that the general idea of the "profile" you're looking for would become apparent. You don't need a true believer in whatever your cause is, just someone with nothing left to lose. Maybe you can improve the profile by adding people recently dumped, fired workers, people who need their meds adjusted, someone who's just sick of it all . . . but I'd think if we could do that we already would have to prevent those people from doing hard elsewhere.
I'm no psychiatrist, so maybe I'm making this harder than it has to be. But on the other hand, maybe I don't know enough to realize just how hard it is.
The growth of the intrusive bureaucratic state has been happening throughout the West since at least WWI. This is just a symptom of that growth, it's nothing new.
Was it . . . [spooky_music]Woodrow Wilson[/spooky_music]?
Ron Paul is a Republican by convenience. In reality, he mainly belongs to the Deluded Insane Libertarian Party For The Deluded And Insane. Ron Paul's chief good point is that he's smarter than that chromosomally-damaged offspring of his, Rand Paul.
Go ahead all you retarded Randite mods, mod this down. I've got more karma than you braindead halfwits have neurons.
Even a blind pig, etc. etc. I guess I'm glad to see a "Libertarian" actually acting libertarian. I'm sorry to see Ron Paul on my side, but I'm glad to see someone on my side, I guess, is what I'm saying.
The power still comes from the power supply... where else would it come from? I guess it'd be useful if you have memory slots you're not using, but no extra drive bays.
The distinction the GP was making was the power -- yes, from the power supply -- delivered through the pins of the DIMM slot rather than the cable connected directly to the PSU. And I'd have to agree with both of you in asking what the point of this is.
No, I'm a "dick" when people complain about shit they agreed to while being too lazy to understand what they were agreeing to.
Do you have any understanding of RF engineering at all? Do you have any understanding of how building materials can interact with and degrade RF signals? No? Then STFU.
And this complaining hurts you how, exactly?
And I take it that your vast RF expertise has allowed you to rule out the possibility that the original complainer's problem was due solely to building construction, and was in no way due to poor coverage in the area as a result of terrain, tower placement, etc.?
Also, if it requires an EE degree with specialization in radio propagation to own and operate a cell phone, I was unaware of that.
(Hey, how about you just deliver the service you are charging me for instead?)
Did you even bother to read the contract you signed? There isn't a wireless company in the United States (and quite probably the World for that matter) that guarantees service indoors. There are too many variables in building construction and material for them to make any sort of promise about indoor reception.
If you aren't happy with your indoor wireless service there are other options available to you. One has been around for over a hundred years, perhaps you've heard of it?
So we're not just obligated to put up with crap, we have to like it too? Because I checked my contract and it doesn't have a "no bitching" clause in it. Guess the cell phone company should have checked for that before they offered it to me.
As a student, I would be pretty pissed off if I had actually studied for that test and had my work thrown out because other people cheated.
My feelings on that would very much depend on how well I did on the test. If I studied my ass off and still bombed it because I'm a dumbass and reviewed everything except what was on the test, well . . .
If someone is going to invade my privacy for pointless security theater, I might as well make it as uncomfortable and inconvenient for them as possible. In airports, I always opt for frisking instead backscatter. No pictures to save then, either.
Its not like all these restrictions started under the GOP/Bush government, right?
Actually some of them started under Clinton. Before Clinton came into office you could actually get on an airplane without ID. Imagine that. His administration imposed the ID requirement after TWA Flight 800, even though that air disaster had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism.
Come off your high horse and admit that the Democrats suck as much as the GOP does with regards to this issue.
Trains don't fall from the sky. They run on electric power. Carry many more people than planes. Stops right in the middle of downtown, origin and destination, no trip to and from the airport needed. Sometimes you can just get on, no papers or checking at all, and buy the ticket later on board. Sometimes there is a restaurant car, or a bar car. You can see the scenery, it is less than a yard away from your window. You have long seats, tables, lots of space, walk around the cars. You can get off at the next town, walk around, and take the next train. There are almost never any accidents. Did I say it's electric?
Unfortunately, in the USA, trains go from where you aren't to where you don't want to be. They are diesel-electric. They are limited to around 90mph under best conditions. The tracks are frequently shared with freight traffic, which has right of way, so passenger trains are frequently side-tracked for long delays. 2000 miles at 90mph is over 20 hours. More like 36 hours with delays, sidetracking and stops. The 250 mile trip across Missouri takes 6-8 hours -- you could drive it faster. Everything in the restaurant is pre-prepared and warmed in a microwave.
2 -Take a complicated password.... and add a increment before or after it everytime you have to change. (if you have a automated policy against this, see 1. )
My bank makes me change passwords every 6 months, as has the "complicated" requirement. Any password that passes the "complicated" test is almost certainly difficult to remember. After quite a few tries, I finally came up with something that I could remember -- and my wife too -- and that the system would accept. Whew.
Fast forward six months I find out about the "must change" rule. I managed to get myself locked out during the process trying to find another suitable password and had to call tech support. I complained at the time about the 6 month rule. "Oh that's no problem, said the nice lady at the help desk. Just do what I do and add a '1' at the end!"
If you have passwords for a couple dozen systems (very easy) and each of them requires you to change your password every 3 months, you're going to start forgetting them. So you don't, you're going to start writing them down or storing them in some way. Or you're going to increment a number in your password, so it's still basically the same. Or you're going to use the same password for slashdot and faceboook.com (see that? it's a spoof site designed to steal passwords) and your bank account.
Thanks, man. I quickly logged in and changed my faceboook and bank passwords. You saved me a great deal of hassle and money!
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Infecting a single beef feedlot? I think it's time to wake up and think about other ways the bastards could get at us.
Except then it's hard to tell if it's laissez-faire capitalism or terrorism. Or how about billions of poisoned eggs? Or maybe we shouldn't attribute to malice what can be explained by unchecked profit motive?
Without interacting with the dispatcher, you can't be sure that you've provided the necessary info. Talking is faster than typing, even for a T9 wizard. Is there any reason why you should text a 911 responder instead of just calling them?
Could you be deaf? That wouldn't necessarily preclude carrying a cell phone these days.
I am embarrassed by people. Not because they're outraged about the scanners. But because it's over a little virtual nudity.
Worry about the incredible cost in hardware and training. Worry about some idiot cranking up the power, or a hardware flaw doing it for them. Worry about the infinite spiral of ineffective hoops in the security theater. Worry about what you're going to have to supper.
But, good grief, stop with the omg-naked and think-of-the-children crap.
If a person is embarrassed by being seen naked, then that's their business. And it's unlikely that your arguments against this particlular sensitivity will be successful.
Furthermore, you're not necessarily just being seen by one person, even if the images aren't storable or transmissible. At the checkpoint in Houston used by incoming international flights, the scanner display is out in the open, right by the scanner.
There is no ground-based analogue for the trip I am taking. If it weren't for air travel, my job (or at least this component of it) wouldn't exist.
That's something I hadn't even considered yet: The economic losses due to trips not made.
On a per TRIP basis, cars, trains, and buses are all safer than airplanes.
That's because takeoff and landing in a plane is FAR more dangerous than "takeoff" and "landing" in the other modes of travel. That raises the per trip fatality rate higher for planes.
OK, but it you're replacing an air trip with a road trip you can't necessarily drive across town as a substitute to flying across the country. If Grandma or business or vacation spot is in Boston and you're in Chicago, then driving to Des Plaines won't be a replacement, will it? I can see someone downsizing a vacation to a nearer spot when driving, but most travel implies there's something to be done in a particular place.
the last line of the summary says it all
may lead to more deaths as more people to use road transportation to avoid flying — much more dangerous by the mile than air travel.
if it is true, and flying is already safer than road travel, then why do we need all the security?
TFA didn't give any guesstimates of numbers, so I ran a few. If 5% of the 800 billion air miles in this country (as of Sept 09 to Aug 10) are replaced by highway miles, then that's something like 500 extra highway deaths. I'm using NHTSA and BTS statistics on fatality rates and air travel statistics.
Naturally there are a lot of assumptions, like just how many air miles we might lose to people not willing to go through the enhanced intrusiveness and increased wait times. Certainly, not every lost air mile is made up with a highway mile. Many people would drive to a nearer vacation spot. Business that would have been conducted face-to-face might happen another way. Some people might just skip the trip altogether.
Nevertheless, if the deaths are in the hundreds then that could easily exceed the lost of a single plane. These deaths would be spread out though throughout the year and across the country, so wouldn't make the news. So we'd feel safer even though statistically aren't.
If we would just profile we wouldn't need half the security we have.
I'd think that would be the easiest measure to defeat, simply by using a bomber/hijacker that doesn't fit the profile. I'd have to assume that the general idea of the "profile" you're looking for would become apparent. You don't need a true believer in whatever your cause is, just someone with nothing left to lose. Maybe you can improve the profile by adding people recently dumped, fired workers, people who need their meds adjusted, someone who's just sick of it all . . . but I'd think if we could do that we already would have to prevent those people from doing hard elsewhere.
I'm no psychiatrist, so maybe I'm making this harder than it has to be. But on the other hand, maybe I don't know enough to realize just how hard it is.
The growth of the intrusive bureaucratic state has been happening throughout the West since at least WWI. This is just a symptom of that growth, it's nothing new.
Was it . . . [spooky_music]Woodrow Wilson[/spooky_music]?
Ron Paul is a Republican by convenience. In reality, he mainly belongs to the Deluded Insane Libertarian Party For The Deluded And Insane. Ron Paul's chief good point is that he's smarter than that chromosomally-damaged offspring of his, Rand Paul.
Go ahead all you retarded Randite mods, mod this down. I've got more karma than you braindead halfwits have neurons.
Even a blind pig, etc. etc. I guess I'm glad to see a "Libertarian" actually acting libertarian. I'm sorry to see Ron Paul on my side, but I'm glad to see someone on my side, I guess, is what I'm saying.
The power still comes from the power supply... where else would it come from? I guess it'd be useful if you have memory slots you're not using, but no extra drive bays.
The distinction the GP was making was the power -- yes, from the power supply -- delivered through the pins of the DIMM slot rather than the cable connected directly to the PSU. And I'd have to agree with both of you in asking what the point of this is.
Additionally, if they can squeeze a 256GB into a DIMM form factor, why the are even 4GB sticks of RAM still expensive
Because using flash memory as system RAM would be rather disappointingly slow.
Measly, eh?
For an Apple accessory, yes.
If you were thinking about buying either a netbook or a tablet
Then you are an idiot, because tablets are suboptimal for all kinds of use except as book/movie players.
I'd say that netbooks/notebooks/laptops are suboptimal for all kinds of use that don't have you sitting at a desk/table/chair-type setup.
No, I'm a "dick" when people complain about shit they agreed to while being too lazy to understand what they were agreeing to.
Do you have any understanding of RF engineering at all? Do you have any understanding of how building materials can interact with and degrade RF signals? No? Then STFU.
And this complaining hurts you how, exactly?
And I take it that your vast RF expertise has allowed you to rule out the possibility that the original complainer's problem was due solely to building construction, and was in no way due to poor coverage in the area as a result of terrain, tower placement, etc.?
Also, if it requires an EE degree with specialization in radio propagation to own and operate a cell phone, I was unaware of that.
(Hey, how about you just deliver the service you are charging me for instead?)
Did you even bother to read the contract you signed? There isn't a wireless company in the United States (and quite probably the World for that matter) that guarantees service indoors. There are too many variables in building construction and material for them to make any sort of promise about indoor reception.
If you aren't happy with your indoor wireless service there are other options available to you. One has been around for over a hundred years, perhaps you've heard of it?
So we're not just obligated to put up with crap, we have to like it too? Because I checked my contract and it doesn't have a "no bitching" clause in it. Guess the cell phone company should have checked for that before they offered it to me.
As a student, I would be pretty pissed off if I had actually studied for that test and had my work thrown out because other people cheated.
My feelings on that would very much depend on how well I did on the test. If I studied my ass off and still bombed it because I'm a dumbass and reviewed everything except what was on the test, well . . .
It's extremely useful even for a single developer. You can still use DVCS systems as if they were centralized, without any inconvenience. .
For a one-man team, wouldn't centralized and distributed VCS kind of merge, if you'll allow me a version control pun?
If someone is going to invade my privacy for pointless security theater, I might as well make it as uncomfortable and inconvenient for them as possible. In airports, I always opt for frisking instead backscatter. No pictures to save then, either.
Demand fresh gloves, too.
I guess I just haven't noticed them. Definitely haven't had to walk through any.
Nashville, Portland, O'Hare, LAX, Louisville, Denver, EVV..
I saw them at O'Hare two weeks ago. Houston, too.
Its not like all these restrictions started under the GOP/Bush government, right?
Actually some of them started under Clinton. Before Clinton came into office you could actually get on an airplane without ID. Imagine that. His administration imposed the ID requirement after TWA Flight 800, even though that air disaster had absolutely nothing to do with terrorism.
Come off your high horse and admit that the Democrats suck as much as the GOP does with regards to this issue.
Didn't we get the magnetometers under Nixon?
"Well, I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up"
Damn the people of the US are fat!
We're trying to make ourselves unattractive so they stop raping us, virtually.
Trains don't fall from the sky. They run on electric power. Carry many more people than planes. Stops right in the middle of downtown, origin and destination, no trip to and from the airport needed. Sometimes you can just get on, no papers or checking at all, and buy the ticket later on board. Sometimes there is a restaurant car, or a bar car. You can see the scenery, it is less than a yard away from your window. You have long seats, tables, lots of space, walk around the cars. You can get off at the next town, walk around, and take the next train. There are almost never any accidents. Did I say it's electric?
Unfortunately, in the USA, trains go from where you aren't to where you don't want to be. They are diesel-electric. They are limited to around 90mph under best conditions. The tracks are frequently shared with freight traffic, which has right of way, so passenger trains are frequently side-tracked for long delays. 2000 miles at 90mph is over 20 hours. More like 36 hours with delays, sidetracking and stops. The 250 mile trip across Missouri takes 6-8 hours -- you could drive it faster. Everything in the restaurant is pre-prepared and warmed in a microwave.
2 -Take a complicated password.... and add a increment before or after it everytime you have to change. (if you have a automated policy against this, see 1. )
My bank makes me change passwords every 6 months, as has the "complicated" requirement. Any password that passes the "complicated" test is almost certainly difficult to remember. After quite a few tries, I finally came up with something that I could remember -- and my wife too -- and that the system would accept. Whew.
Fast forward six months I find out about the "must change" rule. I managed to get myself locked out during the process trying to find another suitable password and had to call tech support. I complained at the time about the 6 month rule. "Oh that's no problem, said the nice lady at the help desk. Just do what I do and add a '1' at the end!"
If you have passwords for a couple dozen systems (very easy) and each of them requires you to change your password every 3 months, you're going to start forgetting them. So you don't, you're going to start writing them down or storing them in some way. Or you're going to increment a number in your password, so it's still basically the same. Or you're going to use the same password for slashdot and faceboook.com (see that? it's a spoof site designed to steal passwords) and your bank account.
Thanks, man. I quickly logged in and changed my faceboook and bank passwords. You saved me a great deal of hassle and money!