Well, perhaps you didn't hear the recent story of the failed suicide bombing.
It turns out that the "suicide bomber" was in fact TRICKED into getting into a truck laden with explosives and sent in to "die for the cause" so it may in fact be the case that those kinds of suicide bombers are rarer than we think. Many suicide bombers are using cars and trucks as their method of delivery. That means that your homemade bomb that might kill a person or two is not thte kind of bomb they use, not anymore.
While you may be impressed with the way you were able to justify the paranoia of these security guys, you are NOT helping the situation by increasing the terror alert level AFTER she has been proven innocent.
And she has been proven innocent. Any further attempt to humiliate or insult or harass or attack her is only a violation of her civil rights.
"The store also has the right to ban you from returning."
Which IS disputable in court as it could be a violation of civil rights. Numerous businesses have had to answer for refusing to sell anything to African Americans......because of 2 reasons: 1) It's wrong 2) It costs them a lot of money in lost sales and ends up crippling them economically, leading to all sorts of bad stuff, like a large national brand swooping in, changing the store policies, and making a fortune.
More importantly, are there going to be people who walk around in airports spraying random people? This is why I stay away from certain areas of the mall.
And more importantly, what will happen when someone yells "Security! This man is assaulting people with aerosol spray!" and the airport undergoes lockdown?
Or more feasibly, what happens when the terrorists use the aerosol as an opportunity to walk around the airport spraying people's hands, infecting them with SARS or some other horrifying disease?
Seriously, these people need to find an alternative way of doing this. it opens up too many scary options for abuse.
I'd curse the thief for stealing my finger, and I'd still have the other finger used to get into my system, and he'd have a finger and a laptop, and probably not my root or user password.
I was originally hesitant to believe that linux made that big a difference, but it might work that way for mine. It has a fingerprint scanner, which worked nicely at first with vista installed, but I got so frustrated with Vista I tried installing xp - just to remember about that annoying "you have 30 days to register xp before it can no longer work" bit.
I installed fedora on it, and much to my surprise, suddenly my computer asked for my fingerprint BEFORE giving me the opportunity to change the BIOS settings. I was impressed. Now, not only do you have to have my fingerprint (or accompanying password) to get into my computer, but if you take longer than 10 seconds to do so, the computer beeps LOUDLY for a long time before shutting down.
I'd consider the data very secure. the most a common thief could do is say that he stole it, it's little more than a brick to him. For a more sophisticated hacker thief, I could at least consider my data reasonably secure. it shouldn't be hard for the police to track down the stolen laptop before they could remove the hard drive and apply vicious hardware hacking utilities to get to the data enclosed. At least I hope so.
I'd at least make it look like I was rich enough to reward the police if they can track down the stolen laptop in time. And if I couldn't pay them, I'd at least offer them some real security advice that they'd find a lot more valuable than a cash reward.
Perhaps I've thought things through a bit too far ahead. But you can never be too paranoid until it's too late.
Hopefully not when Earth and Mars are on opposite ends of the Sun. I'm fairly certain that the travel times are going to vary significantly, and if what they're talking about is only possible when Earth and Mars are close, then it'll only happen once every (rough estimate) two years.
Silverlight fails to get any support from customers, Adobe crushes Microsoft's pitiful attempt, and then Microsoft retreats, only to come out of hiding to try to buy Adobe out instead of competing against them.
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Well, perhaps you didn't hear the recent story of the failed suicide bombing.
It turns out that the "suicide bomber" was in fact TRICKED into getting into a truck laden with explosives and sent in to "die for the cause" so it may in fact be the case that those kinds of suicide bombers are rarer than we think. Many suicide bombers are using cars and trucks as their method of delivery. That means that your homemade bomb that might kill a person or two is not thte kind of bomb they use, not anymore.
While you may be impressed with the way you were able to justify the paranoia of these security guys, you are NOT helping the situation by increasing the terror alert level AFTER she has been proven innocent.
And she has been proven innocent.
Any further attempt to humiliate or insult or harass or attack her is only a violation of her civil rights.
"The store also has the right to ban you from returning."
...because of 2 reasons:
Which IS disputable in court as it could be a violation of civil rights.
Numerous businesses have had to answer for refusing to sell anything to African Americans...
1) It's wrong
2) It costs them a lot of money in lost sales and ends up crippling them economically, leading to all sorts of bad stuff, like a large national brand swooping in, changing the store policies, and making a fortune.
Isn't traditional economics grand?
Please tell me you didn't vote for "Group W"...
"1) These were unrelated incidents ..."
Doubtful.
Hateful people tend to hold grudges, for a lot longer than 4 months
Would that qualify as fluid dynamics?
Or is that only in the DOA series that it's like that?
You would if the x-ray machine were in an aerosol form.
Moore's Law will end, when the following occurs:
When 2^n+1 is no longer greater than 2^n.
That is to say, when you no longer gain something from doubling a number.
Perhaps I should have my face and name engraved on the laptop. and various internal parts.
More importantly, are there going to be people who walk around in airports spraying random people?
This is why I stay away from certain areas of the mall.
And more importantly, what will happen when someone yells "Security! This man is assaulting people with aerosol spray!" and the airport undergoes lockdown?
Or more feasibly, what happens when the terrorists use the aerosol as an opportunity to walk around the airport spraying people's hands, infecting them with SARS or some other horrifying disease?
Seriously, these people need to find an alternative way of doing this. it opens up too many scary options for abuse.
Good thing you have to log in to linux, right?
I'd curse the thief for stealing my finger, and I'd still have the other finger used to get into my system, and he'd have a finger and a laptop, and probably not my root or user password.
pff, those look lame.
/ / ( . Y . ) \ \
bam. that's better, but the spacing needs work.
I was originally hesitant to believe that linux made that big a difference, but it might work that way for mine. It has a fingerprint scanner, which worked nicely at first with vista installed, but I got so frustrated with Vista I tried installing xp - just to remember about that annoying "you have 30 days to register xp before it can no longer work" bit.
I installed fedora on it, and much to my surprise, suddenly my computer asked for my fingerprint BEFORE giving me the opportunity to change the BIOS settings. I was impressed. Now, not only do you have to have my fingerprint (or accompanying password) to get into my computer, but if you take longer than 10 seconds to do so, the computer beeps LOUDLY for a long time before shutting down.
I'd consider the data very secure. the most a common thief could do is say that he stole it, it's little more than a brick to him. For a more sophisticated hacker thief, I could at least consider my data reasonably secure. it shouldn't be hard for the police to track down the stolen laptop before they could remove the hard drive and apply vicious hardware hacking utilities to get to the data enclosed. At least I hope so.
I'd at least make it look like I was rich enough to reward the police if they can track down the stolen laptop in time. And if I couldn't pay them, I'd at least offer them some real security advice that they'd find a lot more valuable than a cash reward.
Perhaps I've thought things through a bit too far ahead. But you can never be too paranoid until it's too late.
"but the day I start to..."
*pulls out circular saw*
You didn't ACTUALLY specify that your brain could be removed only after said action. >:D
could be worse.
...except maybe on easter.
I'd hate to see a billion fraudulent chicks.
I'd be satisfied if they never open the box.
How well does that plugin work? I have one of my own, but it hurts my ears, talking in all caps all the time.
Did they mention when they'd be using it?
Hopefully not when Earth and Mars are on opposite ends of the Sun. I'm fairly certain that the travel times are going to vary significantly, and if what they're talking about is only possible when Earth and Mars are close, then it'll only happen once every (rough estimate) two years.
Of course that is just based on what I've seen from playing around with Celestia, available at http://www.shatters.net/celestia/
so if the program itself is off or I've been reading those numbers wrong then... meh, you should have done your own testing.
WHOOSH!
That might be it. though it's more likely to be some other extension, thanks for the info.
That would be interesting to see.
"Affirmative. Logical. Logical. Logical. I have finished."
On second thought...
clever joke, old chap. right-OH !&@$
It doesn't appear to work with Mozilla Firefox. I wonder when they'll fix that?
More likely:
Silverlight fails to get any support from customers, Adobe crushes Microsoft's pitiful attempt, and then Microsoft retreats, only to come out of hiding to try to buy Adobe out instead of competing against them.
The site the story links to doesn't censor the word Fuck, so why does the summary?
I'm sure quite a few people wouldn't mind...
if the DNA is collected through a blowjob.