This is my exact reasoning why flying cars will never take off (pardon the pun). People keep their cars in terrible condition. If your car has an engine failure, worst case scenario, you pull over to the side of the road, or end up blocking traffic. In a flying vehicle, if your engine dies, It's very possible that you will die too. And if you are above a city, it's not impossible to imagine crashing into an innocent bystander.
What if the brakes fail on your car...? That's possible, too.
The article mentions that the CPUs will be sold attached to motherboards. Enthusiasts will be able to build PCs just fine, just not separate motherboard/CPU.
Inland Revenue had been fully briefed on it and signed it off in writing as OK.
ie. There's a lot of MPs using the exact same loophole so they don't want to close it.
I expect this scandalous behavior by Google to meet the same fate. It'll be hushed up/buried in a couple of months when the people behind this figure out their own income will go down if they fix the law.
Put the C4, stick of dynamite... or whatever up your ass. Job done. Take an anti-anxiety pill to calm the nerves and walk through. Let them scan you as much as they want...
So...the people with private jets don't mind if the plebs get blown up at the airport. They're just making sure the bomb can't take off and fly towards them.
The unspoken intention of the airport security is that it's better to have a few hundred people killed at the security checkpoint than have someone get control of an airplane and fly it into a building. The security isn't to protect the passengers, that's just a PR campaign.
The new cabin doors and increased passenger awareness already achieved that. Job done.
I would imagine profiling criteria would not be in the public domain.
Sure, but "normal" behavior is...all you have to do is act normal - don't pay cash for a one-way ticket, carry luggage, don't wear a big winter coat in summer, etc.
The biggest joke of all is the underlying assumption that terrorists are helpless so long as they can't get past airport security.
If I were a terrorist I'd just detonate my bag full of explosives/ball bearings in the line for the scanner.
Or just do it in any other place where there's lots of people. Doesn't really matter where, eg.. The car park for the superbowl would be a good place for a truck bomb.
Remind me again why we're spending so much on airport security...?
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Most drone observations are surveillance.
But not all of them.
This is my exact reasoning why flying cars will never take off (pardon the pun). People keep their cars in terrible condition. If your car has an engine failure, worst case scenario, you pull over to the side of the road, or end up blocking traffic. In a flying vehicle, if your engine dies, It's very possible that you will die too. And if you are above a city, it's not impossible to imagine crashing into an innocent bystander.
What if the brakes fail on your car...? That's possible, too.
In installed Windows 8 on three machines this past weekend.
Why?
I am sorry you are so ill-informed. The patent system is not broken.
Yes it is. Patents are supposed to be "novel" and "non-obvious". Have you seen some if the half-assed ideas they rubber stamp these days?
The article mentions that the CPUs will be sold attached to motherboards. Enthusiasts will be able to build PCs just fine, just not separate motherboard/CPU.
Not to mention that ARM chips use a different instruction set, so .... you can't go from x86 to ARM. If you're going anywhere you're going to go AMD.
Whoever wrote the summary needs a quick dose of clue-by-four.
They're much more likely to be used for watching porn during boring baseball games.
(...and for blocking out disturbing images of people masturbating at baseball games)
Inland Revenue had been fully briefed on it and signed it off in writing as OK.
ie. There's a lot of MPs using the exact same loophole so they don't want to close it.
I expect this scandalous behavior by Google to meet the same fate. It'll be hushed up/buried in a couple of months when the people behind this figure out their own income will go down if they fix the law.
The day there's an unified tax law over Europe some non-European company will step up to replace Ireland.
Not so long years ago girls were getting married in the USA at age 12 or 13.
Didn't Edgar Allen Poe marry his 13-year-old cousin?
If I were "absolutely obsessed" with blowing up a 'plane I'd just put the bomb up my ass and walk through the scanners...
Did I mention that getting past the TSA is easy?
Put the C4, stick of dynamite... or whatever up your ass. Job done. Take an anti-anxiety pill to calm the nerves and walk through. Let them scan you as much as they want...
The main road into Gibraltar goes right across the airport runway. It has a traffic light that turns red when a 'plane lands.
Just go to google maps and type "Gibraltar" to see it. You can even see people walking across.
The landings are cool, too. You come in low over the water and touch down on the end of that landing strip that sticks out into the sea...
So...the people with private jets don't mind if the plebs get blown up at the airport. They're just making sure the bomb can't take off and fly towards them.
Got it.
The unspoken intention of the airport security is that it's better to have a few hundred people killed at the security checkpoint than have someone get control of an airplane and fly it into a building. The security isn't to protect the passengers, that's just a PR campaign.
The new cabin doors and increased passenger awareness already achieved that. Job done.
Yeah, that's what I meant...was having a "duh" moment.
I would imagine profiling criteria would not be in the public domain.
Sure, but "normal" behavior is...all you have to do is act normal - don't pay cash for a one-way ticket, carry luggage, don't wear a big winter coat in summer, etc.
Want to improve security? ...security people can have a 10 second chat with each passenger as they go through the gates.
That doesn't work because any basic anti-depression medication will stop people from having nervous reactions when lying.
Just rehearse the scenario a couple of times and pop a double-dose half an hour before you go through.
Yeah, 'cos those filters totally killed spam. It went down to zero overnight! Oh, wait...
The biggest joke of all is the underlying assumption that terrorists are helpless so long as they can't get past airport security.
If I were a terrorist I'd just detonate my bag full of explosives/ball bearings in the line for the scanner.
Or just do it in any other place where there's lots of people. Doesn't really matter where, eg.. The car park for the superbowl would be a good place for a truck bomb.
Remind me again why we're spending so much on airport security...?
It was actually a second FOLLOWUP episode...
They got the bullets to fire but bullets fired outside of a confined metal tube aren't very dangerous so they busted that part of the myth.
Only works for "large scale" pirating?
That proves this was deliberate - to try to get more people to install Windows 8.
An upwards trend that started as long ago as the 1750s and was relatively flat before then...?
You might be correct in that assumption.
Myth: Busted!