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Rail guns are what the navy is going to use to replace cruise missiles
Realistically, the Navy uses cruise missiles to hit long range targets that are beyond line of sight (usually ~10mi due to curvature of the Earth). While scientists may be able to come up with targeting systems that make extremely high velocity projectiles accurate beyond line of sight, it is highly unlikely that the Navy would retire such a versatile offensive weapon for one that seems very limited in capabilities... (A cruise missile can hit a target on the other side of a mountain, let's see you figure out how to do that with a weapon designed to be fired in a straight line..)
More likely to replace the 5".54cal Mk45 and its successors.
The real problem here is that the average person (in the US) cannot drive well.
Granted, cell phones don't increase the awareness of drivers who are ignorant of their environment, but there are plenty of good drivers out there who pay attention to their environment. Cell phones really can be left out of the equation, you have good drivers and bad drivers, a cell phone does not make a good driver a bad driver, nor vice versa.
Examples of things bad drivers might do with/without cell phones?
How often do you see someone change lanes or turn in traffic w/o signaling (or looking)?
Do you see people with their windshield wipers on full-bore in rain/snow driving w/o their headlights on? (One would think that if you need your wipers to help you see, other drivers might benefit from being able to see your vehicle more easily, no?)
How often do you see people making turns onto multi-lane roads and not turning into the lane they should turn into? (If people were to turn into the appropriate lane, traffic flow would be less of a problem in certain areas because you could have people making left turns, and right turns onto the same road, going in the same direction, without risking accidents.)
Not an exhaustive list, but you get the point, things you see often that suggest most drivers don't give a lot of consideration to their environment without even taking into account cell phone usage.
This is akin to the "let's ban skateboarding and rollerblading" approach that many municipalities have taken to reduce vandalism and accidental injury (ie someone losing control and running into a pedestrian, etc). Vandalism is already a crime, punish them for that. Don't simply make everyone on a skateboard or rollerblades a criminal, and if someone knocks over an old lady accidentally I'm sure there is some form of public recklessness they could be charged with.
Should we really punish everyone because of the shortcomings of others/the majority? Start giving huge fines for reckless endangerment with a motor vehicle, or offering insurance companies the right to right to deny coverage for accidents caused by cell phone use.
If were to ban this and ban that because it's a problem for some, but not all, eventually we'd have a country where we couldn't do anything, and the word freedom wouldn't have much meaning in our daily lives.
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and yes, I've almost been run over by other drivers that were talking on the phone, but I'm willing to bet their driving record with/without phone isn't so hot. All the same, while talking on a cell phone I've been honked at for not slamming on the gas the second the light turned green. (I actually think they expected that if I weren't talking on the phone I would have peeled out, so anything less was poor driving due to my cell phone?)
My Sansa shows up just like any other USB Flashdrive in Ubuntu (Provided it's in MSC mode)...
There may be a setting to switch from MTP to MSC as there is on the Sansa, this would account for failure of Ubuntu to see it... it works beautifully with linux (at least for music, videos and photos are a pain to convert I hear)
By exercising their rights, they are infringing upon my right of free speech on the basis that I may not be able to speak freely for fear of prosecution by some yet to be drafted bill..
Seriously, I don't mind the gov't spying/keeping an eye on me, I just don't like how sneaky they are trying to be about all of it.
So for those of you who can deal with lower end capacity, but want the energy efficiency, the performance increases, or reliability and don't want to buy a new Dell, you can adapt this to your situation.
When forwarding scam/spoof emails to either PayPal, or eBay... your message doesn't get sent but you get a notification that it is being considered spam...
One might think they could build their anti-spam filters to accept messages going to such email addresses as those needed for spoofs..
Of course you can supposedly jump through several hoops to get the message sent, but I don't think that works as advertised (having gotten none of the thank you emails I used to from such online services).
I used to work communications in the military... and this was my thought.
Some people might use their Hummer's to do office work, but there's no good reason that a person out in the field (ie: not at base camp) would need a satellite connection to do their office work... if it's important enough to warrant it being on a centralized secure system, it's important enough to do in a proper place.
I just think that requiring every computer to maintain an encrypted drive is poppycock. It's a huge overhead, it forces the average user who doesn't need the security to have to deal with it, then it becomes as hassle, then people start writing the authentication information on the keyboard (or near in the case of a laptop) and we're back where we started.
If you want to have offline capabilities, that's fine, but make it for a very small number of records, no more than 10.
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Realistically, the Navy uses cruise missiles to hit long range targets that are beyond line of sight (usually ~10mi due to curvature of the Earth). While scientists may be able to come up with targeting systems that make extremely high velocity projectiles accurate beyond line of sight, it is highly unlikely that the Navy would retire such a versatile offensive weapon for one that seems very limited in capabilities... (A cruise missile can hit a target on the other side of a mountain, let's see you figure out how to do that with a weapon designed to be fired in a straight line..)
More likely to replace the 5"
Granted, cell phones don't increase the awareness of drivers who are ignorant of their environment, but there are plenty of good drivers out there who pay attention to their environment. Cell phones really can be left out of the equation, you have good drivers and bad drivers, a cell phone does not make a good driver a bad driver, nor vice versa.
Examples of things bad drivers might do with/without cell phones?
- How often do you see people making turns onto multi-lane roads and not turning into the lane they should turn into? (If people were to turn into the appropriate lane, traffic flow would be less of a problem in certain areas because you could have people making left turns, and right turns onto the same road, going in the same direction, without risking accidents.)
Not an exhaustive list, but you get the point, things you see often that suggest most drivers don't give a lot of consideration to their environment without even taking into account cell phone usage.This is akin to the "let's ban skateboarding and rollerblading" approach that many municipalities have taken to reduce vandalism and accidental injury (ie someone losing control and running into a pedestrian, etc). Vandalism is already a crime, punish them for that. Don't simply make everyone on a skateboard or rollerblades a criminal, and if someone knocks over an old lady accidentally I'm sure there is some form of public recklessness they could be charged with.
Should we really punish everyone because of the shortcomings of others/the majority? Start giving huge fines for reckless endangerment with a motor vehicle, or offering insurance companies the right to right to deny coverage for accidents caused by cell phone use.
If were to ban this and ban that because it's a problem for some, but not all, eventually we'd have a country where we couldn't do anything, and the word freedom wouldn't have much meaning in our daily lives.
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and yes, I've almost been run over by other drivers that were talking on the phone, but I'm willing to bet their driving record with/without phone isn't so hot. All the same, while talking on a cell phone I've been honked at for not slamming on the gas the second the light turned green. (I actually think they expected that if I weren't talking on the phone I would have peeled out, so anything less was poor driving due to my cell phone?)
My Sansa shows up just like any other USB Flashdrive in Ubuntu (Provided it's in MSC mode)...
There may be a setting to switch from MTP to MSC as there is on the Sansa, this would account for failure of Ubuntu to see it... it works beautifully with linux (at least for music, videos and photos are a pain to convert I hear)
Hey, you can play it both ways...
By exercising their rights, they are infringing upon my right of free speech on the basis that I may not be able to speak freely for fear of prosecution by some yet to be drafted bill..
Seriously, I don't mind the gov't spying/keeping an eye on me, I just don't like how sneaky they are trying to be about all of it.
Granted, no pretty packaging... but for interested parties see:
CF to 2.5in HDD Adapters from the Mini-ITX Online Store...
So for those of you who can deal with lower end capacity, but want the energy efficiency, the performance increases, or reliability and don't want to buy a new Dell, you can adapt this to your situation.
As I recall, it was really easy to see in the sunlight..
I like Automated Teller Machines that let me withdraw amounts less than zero.
When forwarding scam/spoof emails to either PayPal, or eBay ... your message doesn't get sent but you get a notification that it is being considered spam...
One might think they could build their anti-spam filters to accept messages going to such email addresses as those needed for spoofs..
Of course you can supposedly jump through several hoops to get the message sent, but I don't think that works as advertised (having gotten none of the thank you emails I used to from such online services).
I used to work communications in the military... and this was my thought.
Some people might use their Hummer's to do office work, but there's no good reason that a person out in the field (ie: not at base camp) would need a satellite connection to do their office work... if it's important enough to warrant it being on a centralized secure system, it's important enough to do in a proper place.
I just think that requiring every computer to maintain an encrypted drive is poppycock. It's a huge overhead, it forces the average user who doesn't need the security to have to deal with it, then it becomes as hassle, then people start writing the authentication information on the keyboard (or near in the case of a laptop) and we're back where we started.
If you want to have offline capabilities, that's fine, but make it for a very small number of records, no more than 10.