This is the thing I really don't get. Who created the belief that terrorists have to get past airport security to do anything and why do people believe it?
If I was a terrorist leader I'd blow up a few bags of ball bearings in the lines of people waiting to nudie-scanned. The country would implode overnight...
The only reason this isn't happening is that there are no terrorists.
(nb. If they want to "slip by" they can just put the C4 up their asses or whatever... Drug smugglers do it all the time, why not terrorists?)
One would think that in the land of the free those kind of shenanigans would only provoke a stronger response from the populace..
Normally these acts would have people screaming, calling police, lawyers, etc.
But... the government knows that most people with a 'plane to catch will choose 20 seconds of utter humiliation over a 30-minute confrontation with big brother.
If the people got their act together and organized themselves the TSA would be shut down in a week. Unfortunately most of them have already set up the cognitive dissonances that the government planned for them.
When I entered Australia as a U.S. citizen studying abroad I was waved through security. I'm still not sure why, but I don't think it had anything do with my boarding pass showing me as definitely not a terrorist.
You mean you were treated like a human being? In the rest of the world that's what we call "normal".
Granted, it's not too difficult to shield against, but that costs a fair bit of money and not everyplace can easily be shielded.
So... it works in goat-herder countries but not anywhere else.
Uhuh. That sounds like it was worth the money. Those goat herders usually operate out of rooms full of computers and other sophisticated electronics...
Sorry, no, it's not a moderate typing speed discrepancy, it's a massive discrepancy, a factor of 3 at best and more like 10 in practice.
So....ummm:
a) Maybe most people don't type massive screeds on their computers, just tweet-sized notes. b) Maybe most of them can't touch-type anyway...so they're not fast on normal keyboards either.
But hey, don't let pesky facts get in your way of your rants.
Tim Fox, head of energy and the environment at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London, said: "It sounds too good to be true, but it is true. They are doing it and I've been up there myself and seen it.
In other words, the entire world just found out the The Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London has failed to teach Tim Fox the most basic of science.
ie. Burning Petrol is exothermic. Turning the products of combustion back into petrol much therefore be endothermic, ie. it needs energy from somewhere.
Although the process is still in the early developmental stages and needs to take electricity from the national grid to work, the company believes it will eventually be possible to use power from renewable sources such as wind farms or tidal barrages
...or we can cut out the inefficient middle man and use that power directly instead of converting it into hydrocarbons.
The current patent system is harmful to society because it tramples on freedom and gives unfair powers to patent holders.
Almost.
It gives power to the people with the most attorneys (and the people who interact least with those attorneys, they just order the attorneys to get on with it then go and play golf).
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...and why do all the articles about Windows 8 boil down to, "Small children can use it!!!"
OK... the point still stands though. The belief that they have to get past airport security is asinine.
Why is the US in the stone age when it comes to security?!
Hint: "Security" isn't the reason the TSA does what it does...
Who says they have to "slip by"?
This is the thing I really don't get. Who created the belief that terrorists have to get past airport security to do anything and why do people believe it?
If I was a terrorist leader I'd blow up a few bags of ball bearings in the lines of people waiting to nudie-scanned. The country would implode overnight...
The only reason this isn't happening is that there are no terrorists.
(nb. If they want to "slip by" they can just put the C4 up their asses or whatever... Drug smugglers do it all the time, why not terrorists?)
One would think that in the land of the free those kind of shenanigans would only provoke a stronger response from the populace..
Normally these acts would have people screaming, calling police, lawyers, etc.
But ... the government knows that most people with a 'plane to catch will choose 20 seconds of utter humiliation over a 30-minute confrontation with big brother.
If the people got their act together and organized themselves the TSA would be shut down in a week. Unfortunately most of them have already set up the cognitive dissonances that the government planned for them.
How does one go from 4 megapixels to 4000 lines?
Well... every other TV in the store is labelled according to the number of lines it has.
the video does not appear to display a significant blockage of traffic nor anything noticeably criminal.
She was defying the TSA.
If they let her get away with it then pretty soon other people would be defying them, too. All protesters must be stamped on, hard.
I'm wonder why anyone would even bother putting a telescope on the planet at this point
It's cheaper.
When I entered Australia as a U.S. citizen studying abroad I was waved through security. I'm still not sure why, but I don't think it had anything do with my boarding pass showing me as definitely not a terrorist.
You mean you were treated like a human being? In the rest of the world that's what we call "normal".
This is almost comedy
No, it is comedy, a farce to be exact.
It's Apple.
Apple doesn't do non-shiny.
Great for alzheimer's patients, criminals, and little kids. Not great for free adults.
So long as the alzheimer's patients, criminals, and little kids are in the majority then the free adults aren't going to get what they want.
Yep. This is the sort of decision made by marketers, not engineers.
Welfare of existing users isn't high on the list of marketing priorities.
Granted, it's not too difficult to shield against, but that costs a fair bit of money and not everyplace can easily be shielded.
So ... it works in goat-herder countries but not anywhere else.
Uhuh. That sounds like it was worth the money. Those goat herders usually operate out of rooms full of computers and other sophisticated electronics...
Quite often you can just look for the movie files in the game folder and delete them.
...as the tapdancing mouse from I believe Byte Magazine tippity tapped across the screen.
You mean Dancing Demon?
Nobody's disputing whether or not three-year-olds can press buttons in response to flashing lights. They obviously can.
The problem is that adults want to do more than that, eg. work with hex editors.
The problem isn't whether or not it's "easy to use".
The problem is that it's designed to be easy to use on tablets and tablets are rubbish for doing real work. On desktop machines ... it's crap.
...apart from all that pesky CO2.
Only the lawyers get any money, it's the principle of the thing that counts.
Can you imagine what would happen if they didn't sue...? All out nuclear war would seem mild in comparison.
Sorry, no, it's not a moderate typing speed discrepancy, it's a massive discrepancy, a factor of 3 at best and more like 10 in practice.
So....ummm:
a) Maybe most people don't type massive screeds on their computers, just tweet-sized notes.
b) Maybe most of them can't touch-type anyway...so they're not fast on normal keyboards either.
But hey, don't let pesky facts get in your way of your rants.
That leaves what? The tumor gremlins who live in every Samsung handset?
It leaves millions of people who did what he did without developing a tumor, and one person who did.
A tumor? OMG!!! It must be true!! Cellphones are the Satan.
This could *never* power all the cars in the world. Some of those cars are going to have to be designed to use electricity, so why not all of them?
Where it might be useful is for things like aircraft which will probably never be able to run on batteries.
Tim Fox, head of energy and the environment at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London, said: "It sounds too good to be true, but it is true. They are doing it and I've been up there myself and seen it.
In other words, the entire world just found out the The Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London has failed to teach Tim Fox the most basic of science.
ie. Burning Petrol is exothermic. Turning the products of combustion back into petrol much therefore be endothermic, ie. it needs energy from somewhere.
Although the process is still in the early developmental stages and needs to take electricity from the national grid to work, the company believes it will eventually be possible to use power from renewable sources such as wind farms or tidal barrages
...or we can cut out the inefficient middle man and use that power directly instead of converting it into hydrocarbons.
Ha, that's pretty good...
The current patent system is harmful to society because it tramples on freedom and gives unfair powers to patent holders.
Almost.
It gives power to the people with the most attorneys (and the people who interact least with those attorneys, they just order the attorneys to get on with it then go and play golf).