Actually, the amount of TATP you could put inside a notebook battery wouldn't be enough to blow a modern jet out of the air, (unless you got really lucky). It's a decent explosive, but not that powerful, and not very dense (you couldn't get that much inside a battery). You also need a more-definitive trigger, since they make you open up laptops and boot them at many airports.
Wrong. Basic first-year explosives training involves how to use and create a shaped charge, and quite frankly, your tray table converts quite handily into a usable weapon, as would any standard men's belt. You just need to have a cover material to shape the charge (hmm, like the rest of that tray table with some easy pad inserts that stick on), slap it on the door, and you're inside the cockpit.
Look - the problem isn't that they're using liquid explosives - heck, both sides used them during WW II in certain situations - it's that they're well trained and know what they're doing.
The most effective way of stopping them is using this object called a "blanket" or a "coat" and shoving it on top of them and jumping on top, and stopping them from getting any closer. Any resulting explosion will go into the base of the plane, and only damage - at worst - minor steering to the tail - and there are redundant systems just for that reason.
Just stop worrying and if someone tries to assemble such a bomb, just throw a blanket on them, pummel them, and call for the stewards and stewardesses. That will solve the problem.
a. shredding the account numbers and names/address on your bills or mail.
b. taking out the recycling only on recycle day, and making sure none of it contains identifying materials, but that all those are shredded and then mixed.
c. not taking too much ID with you.
And realizing that you're being phished. I learned a lot of techniques in the Canadian Armed Forces, when they would try to get information out of our systems by trying to pretend they were from someplace that just needed info, or wanted to verify something.
Never trust email, don't trust phoners, and never action things that you didn't originate.
And keep your hand over the other one (shading it) when entering your PIN.
Canada.com is a website for daily newspapers in Canada, FYI. Always right-click to inspect any links and ensure they go to the correct location before clicking them - and always use URLs you made yourself to access your banking and credit info.
Now, I've got an underwater tunnel to sell you if you don't want to follow that advice, and I'm sure other people will tell you about all the lotteries you've won, and how a rich religious minister left you money in [NAME OF COUNTRY]...
While the pr0n crowd gets its own category, it would seem those who use the Internet to illicitly acquire copyrighted materials would simply fall into a subcategory of the Obsessive, and not an important enough one to be mentioned in the article
Some of us work at universities and we call it research. We have these things called Fair Use exemptions.
It's not that surprising, considering liquid explosives, even dual liquid combinatorial explosives, were in use during WW II.
The most surprising thing is that the US appears to have forgotten about all those James Bond films from the 60s and 70s, where they use liquid explosives, hair spray, and various other common chemicals found virtually everywhere to make bombs and fire.
And, should you think the baggage is safe, I should point out that when I was a combat field engineer, who spent a lot of time blowing things up (way less exciting than you think), that even back in the 80s we were using time cord and even watches and alarm clocks to wire baggage to explode hours later, some using mechanical methods sealed in plastics. So it's not like checking your luggage will work.
Now, just stop living in Fear. Solutions abound, and your risk is far lower than you think. You're still in greater danger driving.
There was confirmation online in the Sims 2 chat rooms from them that they are working on Spore releases for Wii and another article (that was linked there) with a provisional release date.
It's not just a rumor.
Sorry I don't have links, but I do stuff like that at home not here.
These ports have to do with things like name resolution, network file sharing, remote execution, and stuff. I don't really know all the details. While linux can talk samba with windows, it is more a windows to windows kind of thing. Read this for some more info. What port 445 does [petri.co.il]
That's funny, I thought Homeland Insecurity cut all the funding for Port Security.
So, it is like we always have known: The terror alert mood ring is completely pointless and serves no purpose other than to make people think the government is competent and doing something about terrorism.
Of course. The best predictor of when the terror alert will be announced is to follow Bush's vacation schedule. If he's on vacation, expect Rove to call an alert.
Alzheimer's patients, sociopaths, serial killers and others are all clinically insane, yet we can and do predict their actions on a regular basis. What's so different about predicting how terrorists behave?
Um, sorry, Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disease, and they're not always insane from a clinical viewpoint - it depends on the exact manifestation and the progression of the disease.
As to sociopaths, be careful what you say about our President. We have laws about that.
I seem to recall quite a few, set in times just after WW II, when Bond would have explosives in his toothpaste, shampoo, shaving cream, etc.
The fact that the incompetents in Homeland Insecurity never thought of this - well, what can I say other than to parrot Rove and say "Fear! Fear! Fear!" so you vote them back in.
News flash: your belt contains a piece of metal easily used as a weapon, especially when you wrap the leather of the belt around your hand.
Second news flash: blankets thrown over the heads of terrorists work wonders.
If we're talking about music sales, one of the reasons why I don't buy corporate music much is that it's all about the long tail - they don't want to make the music I want to hear.
And hence why so many people want to download music they do want to hear.
More than 80 percent of the top 20 playlist I hear is total carp.
But in our case, pun aside, it's not the vast numbers in the "middle" that are interesting.
We tend to focus on the cluster of cases (which either is the long tail itself of a distribution curve), or controls (the middle of the curve where most people are).
So, from our viewpoint, the "long tail" is more interesting than the "bump in the snake".
From the study of the extremes, we derive knowledge that lets us treat the people in the middle.
Take the mobile phone, for instance. When people were imagining mobile phones and how they would work, how much attention was paid to considering how people would really use them?
People driving their cars through traffic while holding a phone to their ear and talking about shopping or going to a party, people sitting in restaurants or other public places speaking loudly into their phones, or mobiles ringing in the middle of discussions, meals,movies or plays, meetings, etc... These circumstances were considered rude or even illegal, and some of these are expected and tolerated now. They have become a normal part of our lives - our values have changed because of the technology.
Another thing is the fact that people, for the most part, are ditching their land line phones and replacing them with cell phones. This is especially true with younger people, who tend to move more, and are home less. Plus, you can turn them off.
Driving while talking or listening to a cell phone is as dangerous - or more dangerous - than driving while legally drunk, according to recent scientific studies. Technology isn't good or evil, it's how you use it - ok, well, a nuclear bomb isn't "good".
One should point out that this was in Euro Gamer, so perhaps they are predicting that Sony will do relatively well in Western Europe, at least holding it's own with Nintendo. As we know, the xBox360 has done better in the EU than in Japan, so perhaps for their own particular market segment this might be true, even if worldwide we're looking at Nintendo domination with Sony a second in Japan and worldwide, while xBox360 will fill the second spot in the US.
But, since we know that most Sony business plans were based on total domination of the console slot, and that Blu-Ray sales were closely tied with this planned dominance, my guess is Sony's going to bleed a lot more before they do well in those two spheres, while Nintendo has a long track record of always being profitable on the consoles alone, and then cleaning up from the game gravy as well.
Microsoft? Worldwide, they didn't sell any more units than Nintendo's supposedly "failed" GameCube.
Now, if I just wanted sports games and FPS, I'd be totally agreeing with you, but MSFT isn't even in the running right now, and Sony's just trying to see if it can be profitable in the second pole position.
After the infamous ROOTKIT incident, I'm not interested in giving Sony a dime ever again.
Come on, what's a few Ring 0 takeovers of your system between frenemies?
Besides, the new PS3 includes Blu-Ray DRM as an extra bonus feature, and the controller takes over your toaster and makes it sing ditties about Sony movies! And then it makes the coffee pot ask if you'd like to replace Hot Java with Sony Java!
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Hmm, I think multi-player Animal Crossing (the new Wii version they've announced) would be sweet.
Just think, you could visit your friends towns, do a group thing to ambush Nook and whack him with nets, and trade cool furniture!
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I'm actually serious, it's a cool game.
Actually, the amount of TATP you could put inside a notebook battery wouldn't be enough to blow a modern jet out of the air, (unless you got really lucky). It's a decent explosive, but not that powerful, and not very dense (you couldn't get that much inside a battery). You also need a more-definitive trigger, since they make you open up laptops and boot them at many airports.
Wrong. Basic first-year explosives training involves how to use and create a shaped charge, and quite frankly, your tray table converts quite handily into a usable weapon, as would any standard men's belt. You just need to have a cover material to shape the charge (hmm, like the rest of that tray table with some easy pad inserts that stick on), slap it on the door, and you're inside the cockpit.
Look - the problem isn't that they're using liquid explosives - heck, both sides used them during WW II in certain situations - it's that they're well trained and know what they're doing.
The most effective way of stopping them is using this object called a "blanket" or a "coat" and shoving it on top of them and jumping on top, and stopping them from getting any closer. Any resulting explosion will go into the base of the plane, and only damage - at worst - minor steering to the tail - and there are redundant systems just for that reason.
Just stop worrying and if someone tries to assemble such a bomb, just throw a blanket on them, pummel them, and call for the stewards and stewardesses. That will solve the problem.
Minor methods like:
...
a. shredding the account numbers and names/address on your bills or mail.
b. taking out the recycling only on recycle day, and making sure none of it contains identifying materials, but that all those are shredded and then mixed.
c. not taking too much ID with you.
And realizing that you're being phished. I learned a lot of techniques in the Canadian Armed Forces, when they would try to get information out of our systems by trying to pretend they were from someplace that just needed info, or wanted to verify something.
Never trust email, don't trust phoners, and never action things that you didn't originate.
And keep your hand over the other one (shading it) when entering your PIN.
Canada.com is a website for daily newspapers in Canada, FYI. Always right-click to inspect any links and ensure they go to the correct location before clicking them - and always use URLs you made yourself to access your banking and credit info.
Now, I've got an underwater tunnel to sell you if you don't want to follow that advice, and I'm sure other people will tell you about all the lotteries you've won, and how a rich religious minister left you money in [NAME OF COUNTRY]
While the pr0n crowd gets its own category, it would seem those who use the Internet to illicitly acquire copyrighted materials would simply fall into a subcategory of the Obsessive, and not an important enough one to be mentioned in the article
Some of us work at universities and we call it research. We have these things called Fair Use exemptions.
Besides, everyone knows we have a severe lack of pirates, which is causing the current global warming crisis.
It's not that surprising, considering liquid explosives, even dual liquid combinatorial explosives, were in use during WW II.
The most surprising thing is that the US appears to have forgotten about all those James Bond films from the 60s and 70s, where they use liquid explosives, hair spray, and various other common chemicals found virtually everywhere to make bombs and fire.
And, should you think the baggage is safe, I should point out that when I was a combat field engineer, who spent a lot of time blowing things up (way less exciting than you think), that even back in the 80s we were using time cord and even watches and alarm clocks to wire baggage to explode hours later, some using mechanical methods sealed in plastics. So it's not like checking your luggage will work.
Now, just stop living in Fear. Solutions abound, and your risk is far lower than you think. You're still in greater danger driving.
There was confirmation online in the Sims 2 chat rooms from them that they are working on Spore releases for Wii and another article (that was linked there) with a provisional release date.
It's not just a rumor.
Sorry I don't have links, but I do stuff like that at home not here.
I am so pissed that Spore got pushed back to the second half of 2007.
I thought it was a March 2007 target release for the PC version, and a Summer 2007 target release for the Wii version?
Weapons of Mass Distraction?
Just for that, our Fearful Leader has decided to attack Iceland!
but I'm looking forward to Mario and Spore the most!
I'm an Avatar and I'm ok
I work in Space and I play all day
I wear Square Pants and dress up nice
My Spore's on straight but my Truck's Excite!
These ports have to do with things like name resolution, network file sharing, remote execution, and stuff. I don't really know all the details. While linux can talk samba with windows, it is more a windows to windows kind of thing. Read this for some more info. What port 445 does [petri.co.il]
That's funny, I thought Homeland Insecurity cut all the funding for Port Security.
Good thing it doesn't affect my Bridge route.
they vill take you und lock you up in the concentration camp!
That's what happens if you dare question our Reichsfuhrer and his Homeland Security order to upgrade Windows!
So, it is like we always have known: The terror alert mood ring is completely pointless and serves no purpose other than to make people think the government is competent and doing something about terrorism.
Of course. The best predictor of when the terror alert will be announced is to follow Bush's vacation schedule. If he's on vacation, expect Rove to call an alert.
Alzheimer's patients, sociopaths, serial killers and others are all clinically insane, yet we can and do predict their actions on a regular basis. What's so different about predicting how terrorists behave?
Um, sorry, Alzheimer's disease is a progressive disease, and they're not always insane from a clinical viewpoint - it depends on the exact manifestation and the progression of the disease.
As to sociopaths, be careful what you say about our President. We have laws about that.
I seem to recall quite a few, set in times just after WW II, when Bond would have explosives in his toothpaste, shampoo, shaving cream, etc.
The fact that the incompetents in Homeland Insecurity never thought of this - well, what can I say other than to parrot Rove and say "Fear! Fear! Fear!" so you vote them back in.
News flash: your belt contains a piece of metal easily used as a weapon, especially when you wrap the leather of the belt around your hand.
Second news flash: blankets thrown over the heads of terrorists work wonders.
it's called boot upgrade code - the disk does a seek for patches on disk and if connected to high-speed pings the update server for patch number.
sheesh, we used to do this back in the early 80s with 300 baud modems - if you mean to tell me they can't do this, they're way too lame.
99 percent of our desktops are Linux, and every time we try to download the package, it refuses to run.
If we're talking about music sales, one of the reasons why I don't buy corporate music much is that it's all about the long tail - they don't want to make the music I want to hear.
And hence why so many people want to download music they do want to hear.
More than 80 percent of the top 20 playlist I hear is total carp.
But in our case, pun aside, it's not the vast numbers in the "middle" that are interesting.
We tend to focus on the cluster of cases (which either is the long tail itself of a distribution curve), or controls (the middle of the curve where most people are).
So, from our viewpoint, the "long tail" is more interesting than the "bump in the snake".
From the study of the extremes, we derive knowledge that lets us treat the people in the middle.
Then further study allows us to fine tune that.
Take the mobile phone, for instance. When people were imagining mobile phones and how they would work, how much attention was paid to considering how people would really use them?
People driving their cars through traffic while holding a phone to their ear and talking about shopping or going to a party, people sitting in restaurants or other public places speaking loudly into their phones, or mobiles ringing in the middle of discussions, meals,movies or plays, meetings, etc... These circumstances were considered rude or even illegal, and some of these are expected and tolerated now. They have become a normal part of our lives - our values have changed because of the technology.
Another thing is the fact that people, for the most part, are ditching their land line phones and replacing them with cell phones. This is especially true with younger people, who tend to move more, and are home less. Plus, you can turn them off.
Driving while talking or listening to a cell phone is as dangerous - or more dangerous - than driving while legally drunk, according to recent scientific studies. Technology isn't good or evil, it's how you use it - ok, well, a nuclear bomb isn't "good".
Non, 1 877 594 2006, c'est un numero que fonctionne seulement au Canada. Mais j'ai utilise' la correspondence electronique, en ce cas.
Comme j'ai dit, j'habit a Seattle.
Well, they announced that Spore is coming out for the Wii, think target date is March 2007.
So, I have no further reason to wait for the PS3, and I won't miss the DRM.
One should point out that this was in Euro Gamer, so perhaps they are predicting that Sony will do relatively well in Western Europe, at least holding it's own with Nintendo. As we know, the xBox360 has done better in the EU than in Japan, so perhaps for their own particular market segment this might be true, even if worldwide we're looking at Nintendo domination with Sony a second in Japan and worldwide, while xBox360 will fill the second spot in the US.
But, since we know that most Sony business plans were based on total domination of the console slot, and that Blu-Ray sales were closely tied with this planned dominance, my guess is Sony's going to bleed a lot more before they do well in those two spheres, while Nintendo has a long track record of always being profitable on the consoles alone, and then cleaning up from the game gravy as well.
Microsoft? Worldwide, they didn't sell any more units than Nintendo's supposedly "failed" GameCube.
Now, if I just wanted sports games and FPS, I'd be totally agreeing with you, but MSFT isn't even in the running right now, and Sony's just trying to see if it can be profitable in the second pole position.
After the infamous ROOTKIT incident, I'm not interested in giving Sony a dime ever again.
Come on, what's a few Ring 0 takeovers of your system between frenemies?
Besides, the new PS3 includes Blu-Ray DRM as an extra bonus feature, and the controller takes over your toaster and makes it sing ditties about Sony movies! And then it makes the coffee pot ask if you'd like to replace Hot Java with Sony Java!
that's why they have Super Mario Galaxy at launch