Virtual bobbing chihuahua head. It detects when someone is tailgating and then, while bobbing up and down, it flips the driver the bird.
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They use your stolen coins and mints to help supplement their black budget. So that's what's been happening to all my spare change. And all this time I thought it was my wife.
Bleh. The mechanical lock and steering wheel lock on many cars can be bypassed in 5 minutes with a dent puller. Tap the dent puller into the key switch and pull really hard. The key lock will pop right out. Some cars have an anti-theft arrangement here, so YMMV.
And if someone wants your car bad enough, they'll just put into a flatbed tow truck and drive away with it.
On most newer cars, there's also an anti-theft chip in the key itself. The information stored on this chip is directly linked to the VIN number of the car. So the person would ALSO have to copy your key, as it says in TFS. These keys are around $80, and you used to have to get them from the dealer, but apparently nowadays you can get them from Wal*Mart.
Fsck that. Someone comes to me from law enforcement or from anywhere in the federal government asking me for copies of e-mails, my first response is going to be "Warrant?".
What are they going to do? Put me in jail for exercising our Constitutional rights? Bring it on! Hope you have fun with the media circus and the ACLU breathing down your necks.
And to think, they want us all to ride in these things commercially.... You wouldn't have wanted to fly in an airplane commercially had you been around in the days of the Wright Brothers and Kitty Hawk.
I actually worked with a CCNP guy who couldn't do basic switch port configs. He sent me a link to Amazon for a router that he thought looked really weird... because it was a WOOD router. Yeah, those WOOD routers I hear are really, really efficient, but unfortunately, they use a proprietary interface, unlike the open Cisco standard.
Yeah, I've seen the pictures. And I get the AC's point. What he's saying is that the 'big fucking mark' seems to not be nearly big enough for the size of a plane that the Boeing 757 is (which is just a bit smaller than a 747, which I can tell you from personal experience flying on one).
However, knowing what I know about forensics and bullets at high velocity and applying that knowledge to a plane at high velocity slamming into the Pentagon, one thing still strikes me as odd. The lawn surrounding that portion of the Pentagon was untouched. As in, it's green not black. That just seems a bit odd to me. Plus, all of the surveillance video from surrounding private surveillance cameras that caught the footage of the plane were seized... and what appears on that video, no matter what anyone says, does not look like a Boeing 757, but instead a much smaller aircraft.
Still, it's difficult to identify from the videos that were released later exactly what kind of aircraft it was. The footage is grainy and blurred. It's like watching the Zapruder film, only worse. Hence, in my mind, there still exists a lack of solid physical evidence to suggest that the conspiracy theories are true. But that same lack of physical evidence doesn't help to show that truth is being told, either.
IOW, everyone needs to be able to look at what happened, look at what's out there and think for themselves rather than necessarily believing what they are told by anyone.
Scantrons can read form numbers encoded on the scantron in magnetic ink. Having it read ballot numbers would be possible. Not saying it is, but would be.
Stellarium doesn't integrate with maps of the world, that's why. With Stellarium, you specify your location in Lat./Lon. or you specify the location of a known observatory. Then it will show you what the sky will look like at the specified (or current) time of day. With Google Earth, it would be easy to see where the stars are in the sky from anywhere on the planet.
Don't forget non-military applications. DARPA and other govt. research agencies often develop military technologies and then license them out to companies to develop them into local government, private sector and consumer technologies. GPS, anyone?
Oh, BTW-- I can see police departments using something like this. Definitely
You've obviously not had much experience running a Scantron machine, and you're not thinking like a programmer. Of course the machine can date stamp the vote, it's still a computer. Whether that vote went in on a keyboard or over a scanner hardly makes any difference. Now whether or not it's set up store anything but vote tallys is separate question.
You must be joking. Seriously. The CIA, and probably the FBI as well, knew that Al Qaeda terrorists were planning to fly planes into buildings on 9/11. But, according to various folks, they never took the threat seriously. What in the gods' names would they need with this database, when there were intelligence reports stating clearly that Al Qaeda terrorists were going to fly planes into building on September 11, 2001?
Look, the implications of this are either A) those reading the intelligence reports were too stupid to take them seriously or B) something far more sinister. Given the government's ability (or lack thereof) to deliver the mail, probably A), but B) is possible if anyone could offer any real proof (I have yet to see anything but speculation). Either way you look at it, the database would have made no difference on September 10, 2001.
And yet we have several posters here who say it works for them. We also have some posters who have noted this kind of issue in the past on Linux and Windows 2000. Of course, anecodotal evidence on/. is dubious at best. We have a gazillion Microsoft fanboys on here who would more than willingly make stuff up if for no other reason than to try to make Microsoft or Vista look good.
TFA is a support forum. These are real people with real issues, not at all like the petty, crazed, bitter peanut gallery that exists here on Slashdot.
It is possible that this is related to some sort of improperly-supported motherboard features or something like that, but I couldn't find anything these people had in common, hardware-wise other than that they all had hardware supported by Windows Vista.
For those of you thinking this is a hardware or a driver issue, RTFA. In the posts in this thread, many many different hardware combinations were tried, including one guy who used USB audio hardware. Sorry, but it ain't a hardware or driver issue...it's almost certainly a flaw or a bug in Vista.
Could be DRM, maybe, but that's just speculation. One guy said he stripped the audio from a video and played just the video, so I'm not certain it's DRM, either.
Because you don't need to. If you want to give to a deserving open source project (like, say, mine;), then just set aside a few a dollars and donate through Sourceforge, Paypal, or whatever that project has setup to receive donations. Or just send some pizza to Tridge. I hear he loves pizza.
Not much. The only real difference is that gays and lesbians can often have a harder time finding a partner than heterosexuals, being very much in the minority, depending on where they live. Large urban cities with large gay/lesbian populations are okay, but try living in a rural area or a small town.
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Virtual bobbing chihuahua head. It detects when someone is tailgating and then, while bobbing up and down, it flips the driver the bird.
Bleh. The mechanical lock and steering wheel lock on many cars can be bypassed in 5 minutes with a dent puller. Tap the dent puller into the key switch and pull really hard. The key lock will pop right out. Some cars have an anti-theft arrangement here, so YMMV.
And if someone wants your car bad enough, they'll just put into a flatbed tow truck and drive away with it.
On most newer cars, there's also an anti-theft chip in the key itself. The information stored on this chip is directly linked to the VIN number of the car. So the person would ALSO have to copy your key, as it says in TFS. These keys are around $80, and you used to have to get them from the dealer, but apparently nowadays you can get them from Wal*Mart.
Fsck that. Someone comes to me from law enforcement or from anywhere in the federal government asking me for copies of e-mails, my first response is going to be "Warrant?".
What are they going to do? Put me in jail for exercising our Constitutional rights? Bring it on! Hope you have fun with the media circus and the ACLU breathing down your necks.
I heard when it hit the ground, it felt like a Quake.
Ooh! Did you wait for the labels to appear? They're made by HP, some model like 1/2.
BTW--what is this 6500? And what is this .... 'OSI model'? Is that a new router or something?
Well, that's okay, because I hear ESA is training one young 'Paul Atreides'.
Yeah, I've seen the pictures. And I get the AC's point. What he's saying is that the 'big fucking mark' seems to not be nearly big enough for the size of a plane that the Boeing 757 is (which is just a bit smaller than a 747, which I can tell you from personal experience flying on one).
... and what appears on that video, no matter what anyone says, does not look like a Boeing 757, but instead a much smaller aircraft.
However, knowing what I know about forensics and bullets at high velocity and applying that knowledge to a plane at high velocity slamming into the Pentagon, one thing still strikes me as odd. The lawn surrounding that portion of the Pentagon was untouched. As in, it's green not black. That just seems a bit odd to me. Plus, all of the surveillance video from surrounding private surveillance cameras that caught the footage of the plane were seized
Still, it's difficult to identify from the videos that were released later exactly what kind of aircraft it was. The footage is grainy and blurred. It's like watching the Zapruder film, only worse. Hence, in my mind, there still exists a lack of solid physical evidence to suggest that the conspiracy theories are true. But that same lack of physical evidence doesn't help to show that truth is being told, either.
IOW, everyone needs to be able to look at what happened, look at what's out there and think for themselves rather than necessarily believing what they are told by anyone.
Scantrons can read form numbers encoded on the scantron in magnetic ink. Having it read ballot numbers would be possible. Not saying it is, but would be.
My money is on Google Oceans. Images and locations of known shipwrecks. Links to video perhaps.
Stellarium doesn't integrate with maps of the world, that's why. With Stellarium, you specify your location in Lat./Lon. or you specify the location of a known observatory. Then it will show you what the sky will look like at the specified (or current) time of day. With Google Earth, it would be easy to see where the stars are in the sky from anywhere on the planet.
Don't forget non-military applications. DARPA and other govt. research agencies often develop military technologies and then license them out to companies to develop them into local government, private sector and consumer technologies. GPS, anyone?
Oh, BTW-- I can see police departments using something like this. Definitely
You've obviously not had much experience running a Scantron machine, and you're not thinking like a programmer. Of course the machine can date stamp the vote, it's still a computer. Whether that vote went in on a keyboard or over a scanner hardly makes any difference. Now whether or not it's set up store anything but vote tallys is separate question.
You must be joking. Seriously. The CIA, and probably the FBI as well, knew that Al Qaeda terrorists were planning to fly planes into buildings on 9/11. But, according to various folks, they never took the threat seriously. What in the gods' names would they need with this database, when there were intelligence reports stating clearly that Al Qaeda terrorists were going to fly planes into building on September 11, 2001?
Look, the implications of this are either A) those reading the intelligence reports were too stupid to take them seriously or B) something far more sinister. Given the government's ability (or lack thereof) to deliver the mail, probably A), but B) is possible if anyone could offer any real proof (I have yet to see anything but speculation). Either way you look at it, the database would have made no difference on September 10, 2001.
TFA is a support forum. These are real people with real issues, not at all like the petty, crazed, bitter peanut gallery that exists here on Slashdot.
It is possible that this is related to some sort of improperly-supported motherboard features or something like that, but I couldn't find anything these people had in common, hardware-wise other than that they all had hardware supported by Windows Vista.
For those of you thinking this is a hardware or a driver issue, RTFA. In the posts in this thread, many many different hardware combinations were tried, including one guy who used USB audio hardware. Sorry, but it ain't a hardware or driver issue...it's almost certainly a flaw or a bug in Vista.
Could be DRM, maybe, but that's just speculation. One guy said he stripped the audio from a video and played just the video, so I'm not certain it's DRM, either.
No, but I hear it comes with 'spinners'. ;)
VideoLan and MPlayer. I think xine might support H.264, too, but I'm not sure.
Because you don't need to. If you want to give to a deserving open source project (like, say, mine ;), then just set aside a few a dollars and donate through Sourceforge, Paypal, or whatever that project has setup to receive donations. Or just send some pizza to Tridge. I hear he loves pizza.
Not much. The only real difference is that gays and lesbians can often have a harder time finding a partner than heterosexuals, being very much in the minority, depending on where they live. Large urban cities with large gay/lesbian populations are okay, but try living in a rural area or a small town.