A person can back-load an old portable generator into a transformer and create an EMP that will theoretically immobilize all electronics within a 3-block radius.
Yep - Here's a 2-minute YouTube vid that shows just that:
Oh spare me the platitudes about the death of freedom. As far as I'm concerned you have the freedom to do whatever you want - Walk down the street nude while smoking pot for all I care. Camp at Lafayette Square with a sign saying "Impeach the President" if you want. Marry your cat.
...but as soon as you have the risk of harming others the tap of 'freedom' gets turned off.
No it doesn't, overall PC ownership isn't in decline its [sic] just people are stopping buying pre-built from places like HP, Dell etc.
Alot [sic] more people are building their own or having their own built which do not count towards these figures
Maybe in your geek-circles this is happening, but in the world-at-large I don't know anyone who builds their own PCs. In the consumer space the just go to the local computer retailer and, more often than not, buy a laptop. Corporate just buys from one of the 'big three' (Dell / HP / Lenovo).
AND the responsibility to be punished when I hurt someone else?
Selfish attitude - I don't want you to be 'punished' - I want you to not hurt others in the first place.
If someone has a gun in their house that kills a kid by mistake, I don't want them to be punished for not storing that gun properly - I want them to have never been allowed to have that gun to begin with.
I know that on Slashdot everyone jumps to the personal / consumer use-cases, but it's important to note that this is a corporate solution, to protect corporate data on an endpoint. If the endpoint is no longer accessible (theft / loss / whatever) the data is simply retrieved from the upstream servers.
What I'd like to be able to do is schedule my FB posts. I just found something Christmas-funny. I'd like to post it to FB around December 20th, but what I'd actually like to do is upload it now and schedule for it to appear on my feed (erm, 'timeline') on December 20th. Or on the weekend, schedule up a bunch of funny stuff to appear throughout the week. Yeah, yeah, yeah I know there's probably some ActiveGNUPerlFoxScriptExtensionPlugIn BS that does what I want, but I just want a button in FB.
It's simply a numbers game. If you allow people to carry [weapon X] then statistically more innocent people will get [harmed] by [weapon X] than 'victims' will have needed [weapon X] to protect themselves. Many more innocent children in the USA are shot by guns in the house than intruders ever are.
Target shooting is nearly as popular in Canada as the United States
*Shrug* - I have friends in all the major Canadian cities and, other than my 2 police officer friends, I don't know anyone who does target shooting with handguns. The only people who talk about it on my Facebook feed are my American friends. And again, from our perspective, it sounds kinda wacky: "Let's take a device I can hold in my hand that's precisely engineered to kill people and shoot it at an outline of a person." It's like something out of a dystopia, not a civilized nation, which is why the whole American 'gun thing' is a puzzling head-scratcher.
I don't really understand why people hang onto books. An atlas and other reference books? A Calvin and Hobbes anthology? Sure, I can accept those....but a Tom Clancy novel from 1994 next to Watership Down next to...? Why? I step into people's houses and see bookshelves lined with books that haven't moved in years. Are they really going to read all these books again? Why hang on to them. Send them on their way to someone else who will appreciate them.
Why do anti-gun people feel the need to ask this question every single time the subject comes up?
Because it's puzzling to us and we continue to seek out someone, anyone, who can explain it to us.
As a Canadian, our country has many, many cultural traits in common with the USA. However, what boggles my mind most about Americans Is the whole âgun thing.â(TM) I just donâ(TM)t get it. I live in Vancouver, I donâ(TM)t own a gun and amongst my wide circle of friends I only know one person who owns a gun (and heâ(TM)s a police officer). Now certainly my friends in rural parts of Canada own long guns for hunting, but thatâ(TM)s different. In Canada to buy a gun you need to be licensed, the same way you do to drive a car or own a dog. To Canadians this seems perfectly reasonable and the fact that many of my American friends go bananas if you even suggest such a thing is a complete and utter head-scratcher to us.
Just look at the globe. That's the TSA Misery Map.
Not at all. If you fly from Vancouver to Toronto, when you go through security no one is going to ask you to 'state your name,' your shoes will stay on your feet and you'll pass through a metal detector, not a nude-o-scope.
Because, contrary to the Slashdot groupthink, most experienced LEOs aren't idiots.
*Proving* intent is not easy, nor should it be, but day in and day out LEOs encounter situations where they know exactly what is going on - When it comes to law enforcement Occam's Razor wins every time.
The CMO didn't do anything, did you see any ads for BlackBerry 10?
I can't figure out if you are being sarcastic or not. We were bombarded with ads for the 10 series BBs. Magazine ads. Airport ads. TV ads, Website banner ads. Ads at retailers.... On and on.
Pity it was too little too late. My wife has a Q10 and it's a sweet device.
This only happens for the first kid. Subsequent kids usually don't get as much scrutiny.
Exactly right.
However, because they're having kids later and later in life, more and more of my friends are having one kid or twins - So this sort of thing becomes the norm, not the exception.
There's a brewery in Canada called Steam Whistle Pilsner that has built an awesome electric vintage hot rod pickup - "Retro Electro." It was a restoration / build from the ground up. Whenever I see it gliding around town I have vehicle envy...
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I've been in Vancouver for my 46 years. I've never seen weather as good as what we're having now...
That's the "Insightful" or "Interesting" option, which you don't have but I do. Oops!
Not to be confused with the [I Disagree] option, which is labelled "Troll" and/or "Flamebait."
A person can back-load an old portable generator into a transformer and create an EMP that will theoretically immobilize all electronics within a 3-block radius.
Yep - Here's a 2-minute YouTube vid that shows just that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl9_ylakzcI
why the heck would I go to a store and watch netflix?
Something to do while you're sitting in the store's 'husband chairs' while your wife is shopping for shoes or bedskirts.
leave us freedom-lovers alone
Oh spare me the platitudes about the death of freedom. As far as I'm concerned you have the freedom to do whatever you want - Walk down the street nude while smoking pot for all I care. Camp at Lafayette Square with a sign saying "Impeach the President" if you want. Marry your cat.
...but as soon as you have the risk of harming others the tap of 'freedom' gets turned off.
No it doesn't, overall PC ownership isn't in decline its [sic] just people are stopping buying pre-built from places like HP, Dell etc. Alot [sic] more people are building their own or having their own built which do not count towards these figures
Maybe in your geek-circles this is happening, but in the world-at-large I don't know anyone who builds their own PCs. In the consumer space the just go to the local computer retailer and, more often than not, buy a laptop. Corporate just buys from one of the 'big three' (Dell / HP / Lenovo).
AND the responsibility to be punished when I hurt someone else?
Selfish attitude - I don't want you to be 'punished' - I want you to not hurt others in the first place.
If someone has a gun in their house that kills a kid by mistake, I don't want them to be punished for not storing that gun properly - I want them to have never been allowed to have that gun to begin with.
At least, if I were in charge at Amazon.com or Overstock.com, I'd be looking to move the business out of the USA
And when your HDMI cable hit the US border you can enjoy paying any duties, taxes & customs brokerage fees that apply to a shipment from Antigua.
I know that on Slashdot everyone jumps to the personal / consumer use-cases, but it's important to note that this is a corporate solution, to protect corporate data on an endpoint. If the endpoint is no longer accessible (theft / loss / whatever) the data is simply retrieved from the upstream servers.
What I'd like to be able to do is schedule my FB posts. I just found something Christmas-funny. I'd like to post it to FB around December 20th, but what I'd actually like to do is upload it now and schedule for it to appear on my feed (erm, 'timeline') on December 20th. Or on the weekend, schedule up a bunch of funny stuff to appear throughout the week. Yeah, yeah, yeah I know there's probably some ActiveGNUPerlFoxScriptExtensionPlugIn BS that does what I want, but I just want a button in FB.
It's simply a numbers game. If you allow people to carry [weapon X] then statistically more innocent people will get [harmed] by [weapon X] than 'victims' will have needed [weapon X] to protect themselves. Many more innocent children in the USA are shot by guns in the house than intruders ever are.
All you need to do is overwrite the sectors with the encryption headers, then nobody is accessing the data
Or use an OPAL-compliant self-encrypting hard drive.
Send it the code to generate a new encryption key and *bam* the drive resets back to factory spec with all data rendered as inaccessible garbage.
Target shooting is nearly as popular in Canada as the United States
*Shrug* - I have friends in all the major Canadian cities and, other than my 2 police officer friends, I don't know anyone who does target shooting with handguns. The only people who talk about it on my Facebook feed are my American friends. And again, from our perspective, it sounds kinda wacky: "Let's take a device I can hold in my hand that's precisely engineered to kill people and shoot it at an outline of a person." It's like something out of a dystopia, not a civilized nation, which is why the whole American 'gun thing' is a puzzling head-scratcher.
(having spare airplanes to put the people on, should a problem arise)
So you put a 'spare airplane' in Fargo, Sioux City, Spokane, Sacramento, Little Rock, Miwaukee... Sure, that would work.
I don't really understand why people hang onto books. An atlas and other reference books? A Calvin and Hobbes anthology? Sure, I can accept those. ...but a Tom Clancy novel from 1994 next to Watership Down next to...? Why? I step into people's houses and see bookshelves lined with books that haven't moved in years. Are they really going to read all these books again? Why hang on to them. Send them on their way to someone else who will appreciate them.
Why do anti-gun people feel the need to ask this question every single time the subject comes up?
Because it's puzzling to us and we continue to seek out someone, anyone, who can explain it to us.
As a Canadian, our country has many, many cultural traits in common with the USA. However, what boggles my mind most about Americans Is the whole âgun thing.â(TM) I just donâ(TM)t get it. I live in Vancouver, I donâ(TM)t own a gun and amongst my wide circle of friends I only know one person who owns a gun (and heâ(TM)s a police officer). Now certainly my friends in rural parts of Canada own long guns for hunting, but thatâ(TM)s different. In Canada to buy a gun you need to be licensed, the same way you do to drive a car or own a dog. To Canadians this seems perfectly reasonable and the fact that many of my American friends go bananas if you even suggest such a thing is a complete and utter head-scratcher to us.
Just look at the globe. That's the TSA Misery Map.
Not at all. If you fly from Vancouver to Toronto, when you go through security no one is going to ask you to 'state your name,' your shoes will stay on your feet and you'll pass through a metal detector, not a nude-o-scope.
It's only America that has consented to the TSA.
It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, Snowden loves surprises.
How do the LEOs know what someone's intention is?
Because, contrary to the Slashdot groupthink, most experienced LEOs aren't idiots.
*Proving* intent is not easy, nor should it be, but day in and day out LEOs encounter situations where they know exactly what is going on - When it comes to law enforcement Occam's Razor wins every time.
The CMO didn't do anything, did you see any ads for BlackBerry 10?
I can't figure out if you are being sarcastic or not. We were bombarded with ads for the 10 series BBs. Magazine ads. Airport ads. TV ads, Website banner ads. Ads at retailers.... On and on.
Pity it was too little too late. My wife has a Q10 and it's a sweet device.
HIPAA Compliancy has insane requirements... armed guard 24-7
HIPAA makes no mention of 'armed guards.'
In a nutshell, HIPAA states that -
1) You must protect health data, whether it is digital or in a filing cabinet
2) What the penalties are for a breach of that data.
but we still want them to be able to go on long distance journeys a few times a year for family holidays
I'd like to take a moment to introduce you to a fledgling little company known as Hertz.
For every one of them you probably have ten or more undereducated teenagers whose parents believe in abstinence-only sex ed.
I live in Canada, not some theocracy, so I wouldn't know...
This only happens for the first kid. Subsequent kids usually don't get as much scrutiny.
Exactly right.
However, because they're having kids later and later in life, more and more of my friends are having one kid or twins - So this sort of thing becomes the norm, not the exception.
There's a brewery in Canada called Steam Whistle Pilsner that has built an awesome electric vintage hot rod pickup - "Retro Electro." It was a restoration / build from the ground up. Whenever I see it gliding around town I have vehicle envy...
http://www.steamwhistle.ca/retroelectro/index.php