"You want real security? get a BIG german shepard."
Couldn't agree more. I grew up with two german shepherds as my dad was a police dog handler and one night we found a particularly stupid burglar huddled in our basement with the two dogs padding around the door. He'd obviously managed to get himself in, saw the dogs and ran for the nearest door (our windowless cellar). Given that they weren't small dogs and it was an old house the creak of the floor boards above the guy as they walked around upstairs simply drove the guy crazy and it took about half hour just to coax the guy out so my dad could arrest him.
Oh and the reason I say he was a stupid burglar? My dad's police dog van was parked on the drive the whole night.
Having never been to E3 itself this may be completely wrong but I would guess that all the industry crowd/journalists get allocated a wad of free tickets to use for non-public days so it would make sense that by letting in the "stockboys" for a couple of days, for a fee, would definitely help offset some of the cost of hosting the overall event.
"The word boggle is about 400 years old. In "mind boggling" and "the mid boggles," boggle has a meaning of amazement, of being overwhelmed and confused.
The original meaning referred to horses who were said to have been boggled when they started or were spooked by something their drivers or riders couldn't see."
Boggle was also a great game that wasted many an hour of my time as a kid.
In the UK they could be prosecuted under the Corporate Manslaughter Act and potentially have their director's jailed. As for Australian law I aint got a clue..
So let me get this straight.. is there or isn't there something higher than Top Secret?
..just kidding but after reading all your posts and not having any mod points to spend I have to resort to a post to show my appreciation of your patience explaining it again and again and again..
Though the more I actually think about it the more obvious it appears that you must, in fact, work for some ULTRA SUPER SECRET government department determined to make sure the rest of the world doesn't believe you exist.. My reasoning: that any normal person would have just started shouting at all the ultra conspiracy nutjobs (yes UCNJ's are a higher form CNJ) - your patience suggests professional training. Were you in the army?
..but I still can't get my head round why they're bothering to search peoples laptops in the first place.. what exactly do they hope to find? Surely anyone determined to get information into the US could think of a million ways of avoiding getting snagged by these border checks..
Off the top of my head:
Upload it and download once across the border
Email it to themselves
Put it on a CD and send it in the post
Have it printed on microfilm and stored in a hollow tooth
Tattoo it on a Rottweiler, let the hair grow back and send it through quarantine
etc. etc.
Is this whole law just there to try and catch people who haven't heard that the law exists? or computer illiterate pensioners fiddling their taxes? Just sounds like a big waste of money and time.
This is the same thing electronically. If I am downtown, and a large crowd is congregating 10 blocks away and I am notified, I would be drawn to join them.
Fingers crossed it doesn't turn out to just be a riot then.. (unless the crowd is loitering round the local computer store anyway as you might be able to score yourself some new hardware)
In defence of SmartDrive it shouldn't be tarred with the "big brother is watching" brush as it acts more like a black box recording purely the 15 seconds before and after an accident rather than being continuously on and recording. That way you get all the juicy "this is why you crashed" data without having to sit through hours of inane drivel.
That said I'm sure it wouldn't be long before that 30 seconds of recording becomes a minute, which in turn becomes an hour followed by a day until we find ourselves just streaming direct to the web for any Tom, Dick or Sally to watch and critique. Perhaps with Chryslers new feature they'd even be able to critique your driving whilst they're driving which is even more scary.
If Chrysler are going to install internet in cars then they should also be forced to install something along the lines of a SmartDrive (http://www.smartdrive.net/) camera. That way when a driver fcks up and crashes then the video of them being a total arse can be emailed direct to the cops within seconds. The police can then decide whether the driver deserves an ambulance or not.
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"You want real security? get a BIG german shepard."
Couldn't agree more. I grew up with two german shepherds as my dad was a police dog handler and one night we found a particularly stupid burglar huddled in our basement with the two dogs padding around the door. He'd obviously managed to get himself in, saw the dogs and ran for the nearest door (our windowless cellar). Given that they weren't small dogs and it was an old house the creak of the floor boards above the guy as they walked around upstairs simply drove the guy crazy and it took about half hour just to coax the guy out so my dad could arrest him.
Oh and the reason I say he was a stupid burglar? My dad's police dog van was parked on the drive the whole night.
Having never been to E3 itself this may be completely wrong but I would guess that all the industry crowd/journalists get allocated a wad of free tickets to use for non-public days so it would make sense that by letting in the "stockboys" for a couple of days, for a fee, would definitely help offset some of the cost of hosting the overall event.
Just the way I'd do it anyway.
"The word boggle is about 400 years old. In "mind boggling" and "the mid boggles," boggle has a meaning of amazement, of being overwhelmed and confused.
The original meaning referred to horses who were said to have been boggled when they started or were spooked by something their drivers or riders couldn't see."
Boggle was also a great game that wasted many an hour of my time as a kid.
You obviously don't play Scrabble much. Qi is my saviour!
In the UK they could be prosecuted under the Corporate Manslaughter Act and potentially have their director's jailed. As for Australian law I aint got a clue..
Don't know about anyone else but when I read DNF I automatically translated it into racing terminology - "Did Not Finish". How apt!
So let me get this straight.. is there or isn't there something higher than Top Secret?
..just kidding but after reading all your posts and not having any mod points to spend I have to resort to a post to show my appreciation of your patience explaining it again and again and again..
Though the more I actually think about it the more obvious it appears that you must, in fact, work for some ULTRA SUPER SECRET government department determined to make sure the rest of the world doesn't believe you exist.. My reasoning: that any normal person would have just started shouting at all the ultra conspiracy nutjobs (yes UCNJ's are a higher form CNJ) - your patience suggests professional training. Were you in the army?
unless we build them really, really tall.
Well if we're going to do that then why not also stick some wind turbines on the top and we've killed two proverbial birds with one stone.
..but I still can't get my head round why they're bothering to search peoples laptops in the first place.. what exactly do they hope to find? Surely anyone determined to get information into the US could think of a million ways of avoiding getting snagged by these border checks.. Off the top of my head: Upload it and download once across the border Email it to themselves Put it on a CD and send it in the post Have it printed on microfilm and stored in a hollow tooth Tattoo it on a Rottweiler, let the hair grow back and send it through quarantine etc. etc. Is this whole law just there to try and catch people who haven't heard that the law exists? or computer illiterate pensioners fiddling their taxes? Just sounds like a big waste of money and time.
This is the same thing electronically. If I am downtown, and a large crowd is congregating 10 blocks away and I am notified, I would be drawn to join them. Fingers crossed it doesn't turn out to just be a riot then.. (unless the crowd is loitering round the local computer store anyway as you might be able to score yourself some new hardware)
In defence of SmartDrive it shouldn't be tarred with the "big brother is watching" brush as it acts more like a black box recording purely the 15 seconds before and after an accident rather than being continuously on and recording. That way you get all the juicy "this is why you crashed" data without having to sit through hours of inane drivel.
That said I'm sure it wouldn't be long before that 30 seconds of recording becomes a minute, which in turn becomes an hour followed by a day until we find ourselves just streaming direct to the web for any Tom, Dick or Sally to watch and critique. Perhaps with Chryslers new feature they'd even be able to critique your driving whilst they're driving which is even more scary.
Maybe its just time to stay off the roads.
If Chrysler are going to install internet in cars then they should also be forced to install something along the lines of a SmartDrive (http://www.smartdrive.net/) camera. That way when a driver fcks up and crashes then the video of them being a total arse can be emailed direct to the cops within seconds. The police can then decide whether the driver deserves an ambulance or not.