Yeah, because with training if you're in a riot you're obviously going to go think "Well this fucker is clearly trying to kill me but I'll only hit softly with my baton and only thick muscles like I was trained to do rather than bashing on the head or groin which will put him down faster"
The point about something like a Taser is it doesn't how matter how pissed off the guy holding it is, it always does the same thing. Batons aren't like that and I'd expect the rules of engagement, which are exactly as restrictive as I said BTW, to break down if the policeman was under serious risk of injury.
In most countries policemen have shot people dead in riots, it's naive to think they won't kill people if you give them clubs. But a well designed electric weapon, unlike a guy with a baton won't panic - it will always deliver the same jolt no matter what risk the guy holding it is under.
If you're happy to lower the bar w.r.t. Professional Education and Credentials for your law enforcement officers, than that's your opinion, of course.
I expect more from people who swear oaths. Bullshit, you're one of the people who keep whining about the US=Fascist state and how you'd have to be crazy to trust law enforcement.
I think if I absolutely had to subdue someone with minimal risk of accidentally killing them I'd much rather use a Taser than bash them over the head with a big stick. I think in the sort of situation where I'd need to do it I'd probably hit them as hard as I could, and it's apparently pretty easy to give someone a brain injury if you do that. That's assuming the taser is well designed of course.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_(law_enforcement)
Batons are widely considered more likely to cause harm than Tasers and OC, and can result in serious injury or death. When Tasers and OC are applied the result is most often physical pain. In the case of OC temporary inflammation of the face, eyes, and respiratory system result.
http://www.securityprousa.com/stgunandtagu.html
Its pulsating electrical output impedes the communication between the brain and the muscular system, resulting in loss of body control. The designers probably tested it on themselves, maybe with the output current limited. I think that's the way I'd do it, unless I could dig up some paper on motor nervous system jamming with pulsed high voltage.
Not only that, those words sound like they come straight out of some prescribed, remedial "Talking Points for Socialist/Activist Dummies" book. Shouldn't that be proscribed?
Have you noticed that the people having sex seemed to have poor grammar and a general disinterest in written or spoken communication
Sample one
It's obviously not popular with the ugly nerds populating reddit, digg, twitter and all the nerdy trendy social networks. People who do sex tend to be found on more casual websites like myspace. Will not have sex ever.
Sample two
hi i am lilydesu2471 ~~~~_^^:: i cute girl 26 in LA, USA!!111. here is a picture of me with my friend lilydesu2470. I like my cat, he called naruto:-))) ~ san dimas high school football rules ^_^ Will have lots of sex.
Meanwhile my snail-mail box will continue to be overloaded with junk mail everyday? Something is amiss.
On another note, I have difficulty with the fact that many my fellow Americans don't have a problem with giving the government the power to put someone in prison for nine years for something like spamming. One year ok, two years maybe, but nine years? Yeah, and it's the often the same people who will complain about penalties for copyright infringement. I think they are essentially lobbying for their right to use their internet connection purely for piracy (which should be totally legal) and not at all for spam (spammers should be locked up forever).
Dangerous people really, they want to have a total right to do what they want no matter how antisocial, but have draconian penalties for anyone who does anything that inconveniences them in slightest. And let's face it, people in the music industry would be much more inconvenienced if piracy becomes legal than the average user is by spam. Just install Bayesian filtering software in your email client to block spam. In Thunderbird with an otherwise unfiltered account I maybe one piece of spam gets through the filter per week. Or just use gmail - I get maybe one piece of spam per month on my gmail account.
You'd need some very advanced neutron shield of course. But a nuclear ramjet gives you unlimited flight time and no problems with reaction mass. And if you can shield the pilot from neutrons it seems like you could shield the air too, so the exhaust wouldn't be radioactive. In fact I'm not sure that air, mostly Oxygen and Nitrogen, would absorb neutrons even if it were not shielded. There's a probelm if you crash of and crack the shielding of course.
It's not hip to like popular distributions. I myself like PorterOS, my mashup of ReactOS and FreeDos. I don't use it though, I think it will sell out if it gets even one user.
The other issue I have with Hans is why didn't clean up the blood properly? You wouldn't see Dave Cutler making that sort of mistake. I think if someone can't clean up blood spatters properly, I wouldn't want them writing kernel mode code. It might have memory leaks.
While I know where you were coming from you got your limits wrong Partition limits FAT12:32MB FAT16:2GB* FAT32:8TB FAT32 has a volume limit of 2TB on hard disks. There's a 32 bit 'volume size in sectors' field in the boot sector. A hard disk with 512 byte sectors limits you to 2TB. If you had 2K sectors like a DVD-RAM you could have 8TB, but not on a hard disk.
Don't you think that you're being too ideological about this? Engineering is about choosing the best tools for the job, not the substandard ones for some quixotic political purpose. I like XP and would rather my laptop runs on it. I don't like Vista (too slow) and I don't like Linux (none of my favourite applications run on it). I think if you post essentially political points to back your favourite OS you're going to alienate far more people than you convert.
There was a famous murder case where the murderer dissolved people in acid because he misunderstood habeas corpus to mean it was impossible to convict someone of murder if the victim's body could not be found. He was completely wrong of course and got pwned by the noose.
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Has anyone else noticed the conversations that twitter's sockpuppets have with each other are getting stranger?
I like the Intel ad with the cheetahs. When you wave the mouse over them they watch it with their eyes and bat it with their paws, like big kitties!
Microsoft Winternet Vista.
The sound you hear when it is released will be a thousand geek voices crying out in terror and then being suddenly silenced.
The point about something like a Taser is it doesn't how matter how pissed off the guy holding it is, it always does the same thing. Batons aren't like that and I'd expect the rules of engagement, which are exactly as restrictive as I said BTW, to break down if the policeman was under serious risk of injury.
In most countries policemen have shot people dead in riots, it's naive to think they won't kill people if you give them clubs. But a well designed electric weapon, unlike a guy with a baton won't panic - it will always deliver the same jolt no matter what risk the guy holding it is under. If you're happy to lower the bar w.r.t. Professional Education and Credentials for your law enforcement officers, than that's your opinion, of course.
I expect more from people who swear oaths. Bullshit, you're one of the people who keep whining about the US=Fascist state and how you'd have to be crazy to trust law enforcement.
I think if I absolutely had to subdue someone with minimal risk of accidentally killing them I'd much rather use a Taser than bash them over the head with a big stick. I think in the sort of situation where I'd need to do it I'd probably hit them as hard as I could, and it's apparently pretty easy to give someone a brain injury if you do that. That's assuming the taser is well designed of course.
I guess they use some sort of high voltage generator which is inherently pulsed since most are - typically you use transistors to send pulses into a transformer. So they'd just choose the most disruptive frequency.
They hint at this in press releases
http://www.securityprousa.com/stgunandtagu.html Its pulsating electrical output impedes the communication between the brain and the muscular system, resulting in loss of body control. The designers probably tested it on themselves, maybe with the output current limited. I think that's the way I'd do it, unless I could dig up some paper on motor nervous system jamming with pulsed high voltage.
Yeah, but it's like the corporations man! Little Eichmanns working to give the police an option to restrain criminals non lethally. Bastards.
Boys don't get periods. Enjoy your ulcerative colitis.
Sample one It's obviously not popular with the ugly nerds populating reddit, digg, twitter and all the nerdy trendy social networks. People who do sex tend to be found on more casual websites like myspace. Will not have sex ever.
Sample two hi i am lilydesu2471 ~~~~_^^:: i cute girl 26 in LA, USA!!111. here is a picture of me with my friend lilydesu2470. I like my cat, he called naruto
Meanwhile my snail-mail box will continue to be overloaded with junk mail everyday? Something is amiss.
On another note, I have difficulty with the fact that many my fellow Americans don't have a problem with giving the government the power to put someone in prison for nine years for something like spamming. One year ok, two years maybe, but nine years? Yeah, and it's the often the same people who will complain about penalties for copyright infringement. I think they are essentially lobbying for their right to use their internet connection purely for piracy (which should be totally legal) and not at all for spam (spammers should be locked up forever).
Dangerous people really, they want to have a total right to do what they want no matter how antisocial, but have draconian penalties for anyone who does anything that inconveniences them in slightest. And let's face it, people in the music industry would be much more inconvenienced if piracy becomes legal than the average user is by spam. Just install Bayesian filtering software in your email client to block spam. In Thunderbird with an otherwise unfiltered account I maybe one piece of spam gets through the filter per week. Or just use gmail - I get maybe one piece of spam per month on my gmail account.
What about a personal version of the project pluto nuclear ramjet?
Very simple design - you collect air, heat it up and squirt it out the back. You have no shortage of air and the reactor can stay hot for ages.
http://www.merkle.com/pluto/pluto.html
You'd need some very advanced neutron shield of course. But a nuclear ramjet gives you unlimited flight time and no problems with reaction mass. And if you can shield the pilot from neutrons it seems like you could shield the air too, so the exhaust wouldn't be radioactive. In fact I'm not sure that air, mostly Oxygen and Nitrogen, would absorb neutrons even if it were not shielded. There's a probelm if you crash of and crack the shielding of course.
That's a feature. XP is not free software, so you are not free to use it.
Careful dude. Calling Apple users fanatical is almost as dangerous as calling Muslims violent.
Linux is like alternative music I think.
http://www.epsilonminus.com/darquedungeon/
It's not hip to like popular distributions. I myself like PorterOS, my mashup of ReactOS and FreeDos. I don't use it though, I think it will sell out if it gets even one user.
Yeah, but you do to be able to criticize safely.
Explaining to airport security what all the extra wires they find in the X ray are.
You have to wonder about the sexuality of rabidly homophobic straight guys who have an endless fascination with prison rape.
The other issue I have with Hans is why didn't clean up the blood properly? You wouldn't see Dave Cutler making that sort of mistake. I think if someone can't clean up blood spatters properly, I wouldn't want them writing kernel mode code. It might have memory leaks.
Threads talking about filesystems are never pointless. And if you disagree, I'll murder you.
Partition limits FAT12:32MB FAT16:2GB* FAT32:8TB FAT32 has a volume limit of 2TB on hard disks. There's a 32 bit 'volume size in sectors' field in the boot sector. A hard disk with 512 byte sectors limits you to 2TB. If you had 2K sectors like a DVD-RAM you could have 8TB, but not on a hard disk.
Don't you think that you're being too ideological about this? Engineering is about choosing the best tools for the job, not the substandard ones for some quixotic political purpose. I like XP and would rather my laptop runs on it. I don't like Vista (too slow) and I don't like Linux (none of my favourite applications run on it). I think if you post essentially political points to back your favourite OS you're going to alienate far more people than you convert.
There was a famous murder case where the murderer dissolved people in acid because he misunderstood habeas corpus to mean it was impossible to convict someone of murder if the victim's body could not be found. He was completely wrong of course and got pwned by the noose.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_George_Haigh
There's a good film about him too
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327392/
The problem is that Reiser is not legally incompetent, even if he is legally incompetent.