we should do away with the backscatter machines entirely. I read an article that interviewed a guy that is involved in the making of those machines, and he said that you can walk through one with a loaded handgun and a pound of C4 without it being detected, if you prepare correctly.
ever try to move 8,000 lbs of concrete bags in a prius? some activities REQUIRE large, powerful, and, as a byproduct, fuel inefficient vehicles. He even said he does not use the 8 mpg vehicle when he does not have to. as for 20 and 25 mpg, if those vehicles are anything larger than a town car, then that is fantastic milage.
actually, i'd go so far as to say that the problem is the insufferable bastards that felt the need to create a malicious USB device. If you really wanted to get pedantic about it.
which translates into 'there is no way to defend against usb attacks short of epoxying over all the ports'
so the only option is to have a 'sandbox' computer, which is not network linked, to test any and all usb hardware on. which 99% of 'dumb users' won't have, so really, using usb is sort of a mater of pissing into the wind and hoping none gets on you.
no, it did what you said, it faked the uid to be a keyboard, then it, as a keyboard, said: 'windows key, arrow up, enter,,enter' which then of course launched the default browser and visited a page. same device could in theory be programed to erase your HD from command line if you where logged in as admin and blinked as the device mounted.
i still have a bucket of USB to PS2 converters. and, as a novelty item, some of the reverse. (ps2 to usb). now, i've never tried plugging a usb drive into a ps2 port that way, but something tells me it probably would not work quite right.
ooooooh kaaaay...... where to start... First, I descend from a line that did walk the trail of tears (not full blood, but its part of who i am.) But I'm a little sideways on your trail of tears reference. If you are going to correlate todays illegal immigration to that event, where people who had been in a place for years where displaced and killed by a group coming from somewhere else it would seem that you'd be on the 'anti-illegal-immigration' side.
Yes, the trail of tears never should have happened, Yes, the USA has a long history of fucking up every interaction with the first peoples, but give it a goddamn rest. You cannot, at this stage, expect three hundred four million people to stand up, and walk off the continent, gifting it back to the two and a half million who claim it was theirs to begin with.
Now, as for the 'trade one exploited group of people for another - so long as they're American' bit;
At least in my case, Hell Yes. It is my firm belief that any job is better than no job. as of a report from may this year, there are 13.9 million unemployed people in the US. If there are crops rotting in the fields in GA, its because people are to goddamn lazy to go pick the fucking plants. I'd rather one of those 13.9 million people, who is willing to work for a living, take the job of picking crops, at shit wages, than hand that same job off to someone who did not enter this country legally. If no American citizen will take that job (which makes 13.9 million people all goddamn morons) then give the job to someone who entered the country legally, but don't tell me we simply MUST allow people to enter and work illegally, when there is a force of nearly 14 million people who should be able to fill those spaces.
so the federal government answers only to Arizona? what now? You expect state troopers in ANY state to suddenly surround your car and force the border patrol agents to allow you to pass without the cursory inspection they give EVERYONE?
so by your logic, because 'some' officers 'may' abuse this law, we should not have it? by that logic, we should not have highways, because some people abuse them by speeding. we should not have internet, because some people might abuse it by stealing music. This is like that bullshit law that was offered up a while back to ban those tiny ziploc bags, because some people use them to sell drugs. need i go on? Just because your theoretical 'some' may abuse this law, and 'harass brown people' does not mean that every cop in AZ is going out tonight with his nightstick and gun to pull over every brown person and rape them in the ass with his baton. Stop with moronic blanket demonizing of the entire AZ police force.
so this means i may finally have a quick way to get back into that encrypted file I forgot the password for? I should have known that the 32 character password was a bad idea.
after RTFA, I'm heading this one off at the pass; Yes, the concept of generating electricity from this effect has been done before, we all remember the/. article about the generator that looked like a violin bow, which vibrated in the wind and made a magnet move in a coil. FYI, the article mentions this exact device, and its inventor. this however, is a new approach to the process, and IMOH, better suited to remote/poor villages, as it is a more durable device (at least on initial assessment).
its good to see these sorts of innovations and adaptations of initial concepts. It means people are working the problems, and, it appears, finding more than one way to 'skin that cat'.
when the defined goal for the launch is something along the lines of "Get it off the ground without it exploding" then yes. "it didn't blow up" is a resounding success.
the fact the abort worked, and the parachute deployed at all all can be considered resounding bonus success in this case.
Honestly, I absolutely detest people like you. Based on your personal opinion of a few products, and the way a company is run by its upper >10%, you hope that a company that employs thousands of people around the world just up and fails? Sure, their products may not be the flavor you like, and you may disagree with their business model, but your sentiment, wether meant that way or not, Insinuates that you hope that thousands of people suddenly find themselves out of work, many of those in what amount to 3rd world countries, where the shitty pay they get from that business is still better than sitting in the gutter eating dog shit. Capitalism creates jobs, even if they are terrible jobs. But a terrible job may mean the difference between eating, and starving to death. No company is perfect, especially Apple, but in the real world, your sentiment that they just up and vanish is a wretched thing. So go take your 'anti-fanboiism' bullshit elsewhere.
You know, the event at SL-1 always amazes me. The fact that one of the operators was pinned to the ceiling of the facility with a control rod never ceases to amaze me. That, and all 3 of the fatality related to that event where trauma induced, not radiation.
everything has its risks, hell, the same people killed in those 'solar related incidents' could die walking across the street. Its a matter of risk vs reward, and for the most part, solar thermal reward outweighs the risks it poses.
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hey Griff, what's that mexican lizard that eats all them goats?
we should do away with the backscatter machines entirely. I read an article that interviewed a guy that is involved in the making of those machines, and he said that you can walk through one with a loaded handgun and a pound of C4 without it being detected, if you prepare correctly.
you know, some things just don't exist yet. like fusion power, warp drive, and cold fusion.
ever try to move 8,000 lbs of concrete bags in a prius? some activities REQUIRE large, powerful, and, as a byproduct, fuel inefficient vehicles. He even said he does not use the 8 mpg vehicle when he does not have to. as for 20 and 25 mpg, if those vehicles are anything larger than a town car, then that is fantastic milage.
actually, i'd go so far as to say that the problem is the insufferable bastards that felt the need to create a malicious USB device. If you really wanted to get pedantic about it.
which translates into 'there is no way to defend against usb attacks short of epoxying over all the ports'
so the only option is to have a 'sandbox' computer, which is not network linked, to test any and all usb hardware on. which 99% of 'dumb users' won't have, so really, using usb is sort of a mater of pissing into the wind and hoping none gets on you.
no, it did what you said, it faked the uid to be a keyboard, then it, as a keyboard, said: 'windows key, arrow up, enter, ,enter' which then of course launched the default browser and visited a page. same device could in theory be programed to erase your HD from command line if you where logged in as admin and blinked as the device mounted.
i still have a bucket of USB to PS2 converters. and, as a novelty item, some of the reverse. (ps2 to usb). now, i've never tried plugging a usb drive into a ps2 port that way, but something tells me it probably would not work quite right.
and if you live your life without rolling a few dice, you are probably going to end up a very old, very boring person.
ooooooh kaaaay...... where to start... First, I descend from a line that did walk the trail of tears (not full blood, but its part of who i am.) But I'm a little sideways on your trail of tears reference. If you are going to correlate todays illegal immigration to that event, where people who had been in a place for years where displaced and killed by a group coming from somewhere else it would seem that you'd be on the 'anti-illegal-immigration' side. Yes, the trail of tears never should have happened, Yes, the USA has a long history of fucking up every interaction with the first peoples, but give it a goddamn rest. You cannot, at this stage, expect three hundred four million people to stand up, and walk off the continent, gifting it back to the two and a half million who claim it was theirs to begin with.
Now, as for the 'trade one exploited group of people for another - so long as they're American' bit;
At least in my case, Hell Yes. It is my firm belief that any job is better than no job. as of a report from may this year, there are 13.9 million unemployed people in the US. If there are crops rotting in the fields in GA, its because people are to goddamn lazy to go pick the fucking plants. I'd rather one of those 13.9 million people, who is willing to work for a living, take the job of picking crops, at shit wages, than hand that same job off to someone who did not enter this country legally. If no American citizen will take that job (which makes 13.9 million people all goddamn morons) then give the job to someone who entered the country legally, but don't tell me we simply MUST allow people to enter and work illegally, when there is a force of nearly 14 million people who should be able to fill those spaces.
If you have a problem with the border patrol, blaming arizona for it seems a bit moronic.
so the federal government answers only to Arizona? what now? You expect state troopers in ANY state to suddenly surround your car and force the border patrol agents to allow you to pass without the cursory inspection they give EVERYONE?
so by your logic, because 'some' officers 'may' abuse this law, we should not have it? by that logic, we should not have highways, because some people abuse them by speeding. we should not have internet, because some people might abuse it by stealing music. This is like that bullshit law that was offered up a while back to ban those tiny ziploc bags, because some people use them to sell drugs. need i go on? Just because your theoretical 'some' may abuse this law, and 'harass brown people' does not mean that every cop in AZ is going out tonight with his nightstick and gun to pull over every brown person and rape them in the ass with his baton. Stop with moronic blanket demonizing of the entire AZ police force.
so this means i may finally have a quick way to get back into that encrypted file I forgot the password for? I should have known that the 32 character password was a bad idea.
after RTFA, I'm heading this one off at the pass; Yes, the concept of generating electricity from this effect has been done before, we all remember the /. article about the generator that looked like a violin bow, which vibrated in the wind and made a magnet move in a coil. FYI, the article mentions this exact device, and its inventor. this however, is a new approach to the process, and IMOH, better suited to remote/poor villages, as it is a more durable device (at least on initial assessment).
its good to see these sorts of innovations and adaptations of initial concepts. It means people are working the problems, and, it appears, finding more than one way to 'skin that cat'.
when the defined goal for the launch is something along the lines of "Get it off the ground without it exploding" then yes. "it didn't blow up" is a resounding success. the fact the abort worked, and the parachute deployed at all all can be considered resounding bonus success in this case.
yeah, I got 30fps on a 2007 1.83 Ghz macbook using Safari. (integrated graphics 0.o) gotta love it.
Honestly, I absolutely detest people like you. Based on your personal opinion of a few products, and the way a company is run by its upper >10%, you hope that a company that employs thousands of people around the world just up and fails? Sure, their products may not be the flavor you like, and you may disagree with their business model, but your sentiment, wether meant that way or not, Insinuates that you hope that thousands of people suddenly find themselves out of work, many of those in what amount to 3rd world countries, where the shitty pay they get from that business is still better than sitting in the gutter eating dog shit. Capitalism creates jobs, even if they are terrible jobs. But a terrible job may mean the difference between eating, and starving to death. No company is perfect, especially Apple, but in the real world, your sentiment that they just up and vanish is a wretched thing. So go take your 'anti-fanboiism' bullshit elsewhere.
I had only recently awakened, and my brain's math module had obviously not booted yet. well played.
dunno, last time i was 110 feet of the ground, it didn't look NEAR that high.
Or, about 120mph. (about). Yeah, seeing as that is the vertical speed, i think the passengers would notice that.
No, they want it smaller so they can add some other chip/feature/part to the phone in the space its taking up now.
you never saw the movie Pandorum i take it.
You know, the event at SL-1 always amazes me. The fact that one of the operators was pinned to the ceiling of the facility with a control rod never ceases to amaze me. That, and all 3 of the fatality related to that event where trauma induced, not radiation.
everything has its risks, hell, the same people killed in those 'solar related incidents' could die walking across the street. Its a matter of risk vs reward, and for the most part, solar thermal reward outweighs the risks it poses.