Not a lot of configurability/customization - for instance I haven't been able to figure out how to change the default email sig Open mail -> Press "..." on the bottom right -> Press "Settings". Change it and you are done.
He still actively resisted them for a full minute and a half before the taser was used. It looks like we have a definition difference here for Resisting Arrest. Seeing as we were using "pure, textbook, resisting arrest". According to wikipedia the only actions shown in the video that would constitue resisting arrest was attempting to elude police officers. Seeing as he didn't attempt run away at all when he first shruged the officers grip. So the first point in time you could say that he was first eluding when he tried to break away at the 50 sec mark. So by jjohnsons numbers 25 secs from resistance to threat and another 45 secs till use. jjohnsons first statment of 2 mins till the tazer was threatened was miles out
I heard one voice clearly protesting. OTOH, at the moment of his tasing, you can see the guy in the orange shirt smiling and laughing. I'd say it's clear that the crowd wasn't all on his side I heard at least one voice of protest from each gender. One of the voices was so shocked it was borderline hysterical. There was one person smileing and laughing as though he was watching jackass, that hardly backs up your origional point of "the crowd didn't rise up in protest, or even complain from their seats ".
It was four cops. Whoops, a factual inaccuracy! There goes all your arguments! *sigh* 4 Cops escorted him up away from the mic, 2 more joined when they took him to the ground. Have a quick headcount at 1:08. I never claimed that all your arguments were invalidated, just you had factual errors
That's why I have zero sympathy for him. It wasn't protection or punishment, it was forcing compliance from someone being actively non-compliant, someone already being physically restrained to prevent his escape. Renaming what they did is about as useful as renaming DRM to Digital Consumer Enablement. The tazer was used to inflict pain to obtain compliance on someone already physicaly restrained. That seems a lot like punishment to me. Sure the cops needed to get him out of the room, but there was absolutly no need to use a weapon to do it. Much in the same way you don't need to beat a child with a stick to make them go to bed when they don't want to. It's an inappropriate level of force for the task.
I'm guilty of hyperbole, not trolling. You're right, I don't like him because he was a jerk. That's irrelevant to the officer's justification for using the taser on a subject who was clearly, actively resisting arrest. I apolgise if my trolling statment offended you. I would prefer it if you were trolling because the fact you think the actions shown on that video were justified scares the hell out of me.
I've got to call bullshit on a lot of your arguements here.
First up
It was two full minutes before the taser was even threatened On the video I watched the taser was threatend at 1:20. But he only tried to get free from the (large) officer at 0:50. Before that he was going with them and more or less co-operating. He was just co-operating loudly and rudely. Yelling suff can make you look like a dick, but it is definately not resisting. Second Up
...was clearly told to stop struggling and stand up, or he'd be tasered. Did he say "okay, I'll stand up"? Mostly what he was yelling was "Help" and "Why are you arresting me?" but just after he was threatend with the taser he said "I'll walk out of here, just let me go" sounds a lot like what you were looking for.
Third
Also note that the crowd didn't rise up in protest, or even complain from their seats. As soon as he was tased(sp?) you can quite clearly hear the crowd respond with several members yelling "stop" and "why are you doing that?"
I've got a feeling you are a troll given how your points are easily disputable. But if you arn't then I've got to say that I think that you just didn't like him because he was loud,and rude .
I think that 6 Cops using a weapon on a single student who was on the ground is just obscene. Weapons should be used to protect police officers or the public. This was not protection.. this was punishment.
My mother does. She didn't want outlook 97 back in the day, and that was what her IT Dpt gave her.
Now she won't let them alter her setup, and still gets some ancient version of Eudora installed (with upgrade nagware I think) every time she switchs PCs.
I have two questions that I have been too lazy to work out, so hopefully slashdot can help me.
1) Is it better to add an additional letter, or swap a letter for a number (I always felt adding a letter would yield more combinations)
2) How much does forcing (rather than allowing) numbers *lower* your security (in that the hacker knows that you must have at least one letter and one number in your password making the number of possibilities smaller)
Anyway... if someone wants to reward me for being lazy, thanks in advance.
It has probably been mentioned in the 200 or so replies that followed your post. But the Nokia N91 does exactly that.
You can plug it in with a regular mini USB cable, mount it as a mass storage device, and drag and drop files. Everyone (including my grandma) knows who to copy stuff to a USB drive, making the interface easy, and future OS proof.
But plugging stuff in is so old school. I don't even do that for photos with mine. I just suck them off via bluetooth, no plugging required. Literally 2 clicks and photos, messages, and videos come straight off the thing (OK.. 3 clicks if you count both of the clicks in the doubleclick). I only plug it in for bulk transfers such as long videos, or to move several albums around.
It comes with 4 or 8 GB of storage, and can definitely play music. The 8GB model (which I don't have) can use bluetooth headphones, so no wires anywhere. I sync my calender to google calendar via gcalsync. But had it working with both ical, and outlook (ical required a little work as apple didn't support it at the time, I haven't looked again since I got gcalsync installed)
The only thing that bugs me is it dosn't have a SIP client to use the Wifi with. I'm waiting for someone to produce one for symbian 3rd edition. Skype would be nice too.
Ha.. that gripe is now becoming obsolete. On a MB or MBP, put two fingers on the track-pad and press the 'single' mouse button. You will find this has the same effect as pressing the secondary button button on a WinDell or any other PC laptop.
About freaking time.. so.. now to install WoW, and... hey how to I get to walk forward with this?
If they only renamed it the "Wii" it could be on Slashdot three times a day.
They were going for the other side of the "coin".. hence the brown color.
-Qyiet
I hate to break it to you but the starting config Mac Pro will ship out faster (1-2 business days) than if you configured the Dell to match the specs. Probably if in the states I could have a Mac Pro tomorrow, however my experience with the Macbook leaves me doubting. Possibly it's just Apple has a lousy distribution system to New Zealand.
-Qyiet
Let me tell you a story: When the macbook pro was announced my apple crazy friend pre-ordered a top of the line one, and spent the intervening time hopping from one foot to the other waiting for it to arrive.
He got one of the very first ones to make it into the country and unpacked it with glee and delight, and emailed me the day he got it.
It was only then that I realized that the two laptops I had setup earlier in the week for company directors were approximately the same spec (better in some ways, less in others) and I had purchased them for somewhere between 20 to 30 percent less.
It got me thinking about all the price comparisons I had seen around the launch date that had shown the macbook pro so favorably and why they hadn't come to pass in reality.
My conclusion was the comparison of an announced product to an existing one that has been on the market for some time is hardly fair. Kind of like the cheap trick our monopoly teleco over here tried to pull claiming their "announced" plans were "competitive" when compared with other plans around the world that had been in place for some time. (although I feel much more cynical about the motivation of the teleco).
The maths was right, but the comparison was not (I can't resist) apples with apples.
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Not a lot of configurability/customization - for instance I haven't been able to figure out how to change the default email sig
Open mail -> Press "..." on the bottom right -> Press "Settings". Change it and you are done.
Ever wired a capacitor in backwards? I have, the result is loud.
Now blowing up a bus might be as easy as cross wiring the charging terminals.
First up It was two full minutes before the taser was even threatened On the video I watched the taser was threatend at 1:20. But he only tried to get free from the (large) officer at 0:50. Before that he was going with them and more or less co-operating. He was just co-operating loudly and rudely. Yelling suff can make you look like a dick, but it is definately not resisting.
Second Up
...was clearly told to stop struggling and stand up, or he'd be tasered. Did he say "okay, I'll stand up"? Mostly what he was yelling was "Help" and "Why are you arresting me?" but just after he was threatend with the taser he said "I'll walk out of here, just let me go" sounds a lot like what you were looking for.Third Also note that the crowd didn't rise up in protest, or even complain from their seats. As soon as he was tased(sp?) you can quite clearly hear the crowd respond with several members yelling "stop" and "why are you doing that?"
I've got a feeling you are a troll given how your points are easily disputable. But if you arn't then I've got to say that I think that you just didn't like him because he was loud,and rude .
I think that 6 Cops using a weapon on a single student who was on the ground is just obscene. Weapons should be used to protect police officers or the public. This was not protection.. this was punishment.
My mother does. She didn't want outlook 97 back in the day, and that was what her IT Dpt gave her.
Now she won't let them alter her setup, and still gets some ancient version of Eudora installed (with upgrade nagware I think) every time she switchs PCs.
I second the call to mod the parent up.. Windows Home Server is a DAMN fine backup solution for 10 or less Windows PCs
They did say small business right?
Torrent clients arn't restricted to WinCE. I already have a SymTorrent installed on my Nokia N91.
I must admit I have yet to use it for anything beyond testing, but it's nice to know I could get a "linux distribution" straight to my phone
Oh for mod points.. you would have mine
I have two questions that I have been too lazy to work out, so hopefully slashdot can help me.
1) Is it better to add an additional letter, or swap a letter for a number (I always felt adding a letter would yield more combinations)
2) How much does forcing (rather than allowing) numbers *lower* your security (in that the hacker knows that you must have at least one letter and one number in your password making the number of possibilities smaller)
Anyway... if someone wants to reward me for being lazy, thanks in advance.
It has probably been mentioned in the 200 or so replies that followed your post. But the Nokia N91 does exactly that.
You can plug it in with a regular mini USB cable, mount it as a mass storage device, and drag and drop files. Everyone (including my grandma) knows who to copy stuff to a USB drive, making the interface easy, and future OS proof.
But plugging stuff in is so old school. I don't even do that for photos with mine. I just suck them off via bluetooth, no plugging required. Literally 2 clicks and photos, messages, and videos come straight off the thing (OK.. 3 clicks if you count both of the clicks in the doubleclick). I only plug it in for bulk transfers such as long videos, or to move several albums around.
It comes with 4 or 8 GB of storage, and can definitely play music. The 8GB model (which I don't have) can use bluetooth headphones, so no wires anywhere. I sync my calender to google calendar via gcalsync. But had it working with both ical, and outlook (ical required a little work as apple didn't support it at the time, I haven't looked again since I got gcalsync installed)
The only thing that bugs me is it dosn't have a SIP client to use the Wifi with. I'm waiting for someone to produce one for symbian 3rd edition. Skype would be nice too.
-Qyiet
That's because there have never been any dupes. Ever.
Please move along folks, there's nothing to see here.
If they make number three, number ten won't be that far off.
I believe George Lucas already covered this with "Attack of the Clones"
Ha.. that gripe is now becoming obsolete. On a MB or MBP, put two fingers on the track-pad and press the 'single' mouse button. You will find this has the same effect as pressing the secondary button button on a WinDell or any other PC laptop.
About freaking time.. so.. now to install WoW, and... hey how to I get to walk forward with this?
Crap... posted to the wrong story
In an electronics class I took we made our own PCBs. One guy put a tiny little capacitor in backwards. The result was *very* loud.
Anyone know what happens if you plug one of these suckers in backwards?
-Qyiet
If they only renamed it the "Wii" it could be on Slashdot three times a day.
They were going for the other side of the "coin".. hence the brown color. -Qyiet
tying the knot in some virtual tavern in Thunder Bluff. I would have picked Ashenvale, but that's just me...
Hell no.. The Throne room in Undercity. You know... if you had to do that sort of thing..
not that I would of course.
Stop looking at me like that.
It's called a fork in development. Consider OpenBSD and FreeBSD.
I was about to jump on that and claim "Proof of ID" but after thinking about some of the linux code I've seen* that this really proves the opposite.
-Qyiet
*(never looked at BSD code myself but I assume it's similar)
I hate to break it to you but the starting config Mac Pro will ship out faster (1-2 business days) than if you configured the Dell to match the specs.
Probably if in the states I could have a Mac Pro tomorrow, however my experience with the Macbook leaves me doubting. Possibly it's just Apple has a lousy distribution system to New Zealand. -Qyiet
Let me tell you a story: When the macbook pro was announced my apple crazy friend pre-ordered a top of the line one, and spent the intervening time hopping from one foot to the other waiting for it to arrive.
He got one of the very first ones to make it into the country and unpacked it with glee and delight, and emailed me the day he got it.
It was only then that I realized that the two laptops I had setup earlier in the week for company directors were approximately the same spec (better in some ways, less in others) and I had purchased them for somewhere between 20 to 30 percent less.
It got me thinking about all the price comparisons I had seen around the launch date that had shown the macbook pro so favorably and why they hadn't come to pass in reality.
My conclusion was the comparison of an announced product to an existing one that has been on the market for some time is hardly fair. Kind of like the cheap trick our monopoly teleco over here tried to pull claiming their "announced" plans were "competitive" when compared with other plans around the world that had been in place for some time. (although I feel much more cynical about the motivation of the teleco).
The maths was right, but the comparison was not (I can't resist) apples with apples.
-Qyiet
-Does this dress make me look fat?
The story will be tagged "yes", "no" and "maybe", comments will agree only on two things:
1) Dresses are obsolete, and
2) You should shave your legs first
-Qyiet
scale? (Score:5, Informative)
Oh dear, and here was me thinking it was merely insightful, but apparently most people here at slashdot didn't already know this.
-Qyiet
Instead of sending children up chimneys they're sending them down the internet pipes. Such cruelty
No no, not pipes, tubes. You have to understand the internet is made of tubes.
-Qyiet
but it got me thinking... has anyone tried using a Theremin as pointer control?
While I doubt it would be all that useful, it would definately be cool.
-Qyiet