I'm impressed. Not because you knew how to fix the caps on a video card, but because you were actually able to remove them cleanly enough to install the new caps. I had a Dell USFF Optiplex fail because three electrolytics had blown and were leaking. I was able to get the old caps out of the board, but I couldn't heat up both sides of the board to remove all the solder, no matter what tools I used. Consequently, I was unable to get the replacement caps in the board (sigh...)
Fortunately, I had better luck when I had to replace the leaking caps on ECU of my 1G Eagle Talon a few years back, even though the electrolyte had corroded the copper trace on the PCB.
Younger people are all but actively discouraged from actually investigating any more:\
FTFY (as much as I hate to "FTFY" someone, sorry).
I don't know if it's fear of litigation if someone should actually (gasp!) burn their pinky on a soldering iron, fear that if kids learn chemistry and electronics they'll become terrorists, or just a general anti-intellectual snobbishness, but it seems like this country is almost making an effort to prevent kids from learning science and engineering anymore.
If you want a tube amp kit, you don't have to wait for Heathkit to get around to it. Check out Paia's web site (no, I do not have any association with the company...other than lusting after the FatMan analog synth and a few other kits).
Awesome. A fricking moron as well as a coward (although you do have the cojones not to post as AC, so I'll give you that much credit). Allow me to elaborate:
I'll take a body scan, you drive.
You missed my point -- no surprise from the lack of insight in the rest of your post, but I digress. My point is that the 4th Amendment says *you don't have the right to force your view quoted above*. If you are afraid to get on an airplane without some TSO fondling your parts, that's your problem, not mine.
I guess I'm not filled with fear because my dick is longer than an inch.
And everything else you have said so far contradicts that statement. You want to force everyone to submit to an illegal search because you are NOT afraid of a terrorist blowing up your airplane? How does that even make any sense?
You might be interested in reading about the new screening software that makes your disgusting body an outline instead of an "actual" picture.
1) Have you ever seen my body? No? Then kindly STFU, please. Thanks. 2) Even with the naughty bits concealed, I am still morally opposed to AIT scanners on multiple grounds. TSA may have made them less egregious, but they are still egregious. Furthermore, even if you are scanned, there is still a very real chance you will get groped, and TSA has yet to implement software that helps with that problem. </sarc> Furthermore, when you have a multi-billion dollar government bureaucracy with essentially unlimited power and no oversight, that is a system that is ripe for abuse. The AIT scanners are but one symptom of the underlying problem, and it is that that I am fighting against -- not the scanners themselves (although they are evil enough on their own).
Now you can stop crying about your rights.
Not until the day we, as a nation, grow a collective backbone and stop trading our hard-won liberties for the illusion of security (with apologies to Franklin). Why don't you take a few minutes to better yourself and read a flipping history book so you'll understand why Jefferson et. al. thought it was so important to add the Bill of Rights to the Constitution? You might realize the world is a little more complex than you thought.
I'll take full body scans for everyone, and if declined, physical body searches, even if its only for the illusion of safety.
And there's the problem -- just because you are cowering in fear with the 1 in 20 million chance of being involved in a hijacking does not give you the right to violate my 4th Amendment right to freedom from unreasonable search without probable cause. Afraid of the terrorist boogeyman? Then drive.
In my opinion rape requires an intent to invade, control, and discomfort...
You think that doesn't describe TSA?
... for sexual reasons...
Ah. That explains your point of view then. Ummm...no. From what I understand from bits and pieces I've picked up from psychologists, a rapist usually isn't looking for sexual gratification. Sex is the means to invade, control and discomfort the victim; it is not the end. Rather, the rapist is intending to dominate and victimize the, well, victim at as deep a level as possible. Consequently, I think the labels "rape" and "sexual assault" are entirely apt in the context of TSA.
Do you not see a difference between "I have orders to do a patdown search of everyone who decides to use this method of transport as opposed to other methods" and "I have orders to kill everyone who professes a certain set of religious beliefs?" Really? No difference at all?
I see a quantitative difference, but not a qualitative difference. Murder is (arguably) worse than sexual assault, but in a free country, I should have the right to travel through the most efficient means at my disposal or to worship ${Diety|Dieties} as I see fit without fear of being either sexually assaulted or murdered.
This doesn't mean that TSA employees are not people to. They have lives, they have names. They have friends and families.
Irrelevant. Whether you are "human" or not has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not you should be called out for doing something repulsive.
But, the low level employees are not deciding policy.
Again, irrelevant. Whether you are the one creating policy that is abominable or the one exercising that policy, you are still part of the problem.
They have the same rights as everyone else not be defamed and libeled if they didn't actually do something.
But she did do something. Neither the TSO nor the passenger dispute that she conducted an "enhanced pat-down" (i.e., "groped") an airline passenger, which I -- and many others -- maintain is a violation of the 4th Amendment and is a sexual assault.
So when one of them exercises their legal rights mocking and insulting them is uncalled for.
"So when one of us exercises our legal rights (to travel and to call an abusive situation what it is), mocking and insulting us is uncalled for." See what I did there?
They are just doing their jobs. In the current economy there aren't many jobs out there and the TSA employees want to get paid and not starve like everyone else. You might be smart and well-educated and have a steady job. Good for you. Now meet everyone else.
Cry me a river. If I get fired from my job and decide to take a new job as a hit-man for the Mafia, will your argument that "there aren't many jobs out there and [I] want to get paid and not starve like everyone else" hold water in front of a judge? I don't think so, and rightly so. Likewise, that is NOT an acceptable excuse for a TSO.
And since someone is going to probably twist "they are just doing their jobs" into some ridiculous example of Godwin's Law, let's be clear: this is not the same thing as the Nuremberg defense. "I was just doing my job and following orders" has a very different meaning when one is being told to murder people than when someone is being told to do something to someone who knew what they were getting into and elected to go flying anyways.
In the words of Norman Schwartzkopf, "Bovine Scatology" (i.e., "B.S.") It is not a "ridiculous example" of Godwin's Law. It is exactly the same thing. "Just doing my job" to excuse a morally reprehensible action always has been and always will be a weasel's excuse for not having a backbone, whether it was the Nazis in W.W. II or the TSA right now. As for your argument that they "knew what they were getting into and elected to go flying anyways", first, you don't know that you will be selected for gate-rape until the TSO waves you over. Even if you are flying out of an airport that doesn't have an AIT scanner, you can still be selected for the "enhanced pat-down" at "random", you can be patted down at the gate after you've already cleared security (happened to my step-daughter by a trio of MALE TSO's, which according to TSA is against policy -- but try protesting and see what happens to you)...no, you can't abrogate your rights away just by purchasing an airline ticket, especially when the system is so ripe for abuse, and you have no recourse.
It's not silly to require that the government -- and government employees -- follow the law. The 4th Amendment guarantees me the right to freedom from unreasonable* searches without probable cause, and purchasing an airline ticket is not probable cause. If I tried to "enhanced pat-down" all of the customers entering my wife's business, you'd better believe that I would end up on a sex-offender list, on the receiving end of a multitude of lawsuits and my wife's business would no longer have any customers. It is complete and utter nonsense to argue that things are any different for the airlines (with a 1 in 20 million chance of a hijacking, much less terrorist bombing), no matter how badly Janet Napolitano and John Pistole want to tell you otherwise.
*Yes, "unreasonable" is open to interpretation. I've argued to point many other times here on/. and on my personal blog. Just read the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on Ek vs. US and fill in the blanks yourself.
Find one person in the world without bias, and in return, I'll show you a liar.
Bias (a sympathy towards one side or the other in a disagreement) is fine. Prejudice (having made up one's mind so that no amount of evidence will sway you) is not.
Nice ad hominem attack, there. Rather than provide any evidence or rational argument to disprove what Ms. Alkon claims to have experienced at the airport, you instead look for dirt to discredit her reaction to what many others agree is an overly intrusive, humiliating and unwarranted experience at the airport. Quite frankly, this "drama queen" acted in an incredibly restrained manner, IMHO. Had it been my wife or daughter at the airport, they would have needed to call a Hearse for the TSO...and a cop car to cart me off in (which is why I don't fly any more).
Your comment shows you don't understand the meaning of the words "sexual assault".
I don't know about GPP, but personally, I really couldn't care less about the legal definition. If a government employee (TSA? check...) uses power or intimidation (can't opt out of the search if it becomes too intrusive? check...) to touch someone else's genitals (see TFA), it is a sexual assault, and I will use whatever force necessary, including violence if necessary in my sole discretion, against TSO's to protect myself and my family from sexual assault, PERIOD.
I have traveled to many seemingly "worse" places on earth (Russia, China, Cambodia and other south east asian countries, Africa) and NOWHERE I have experienced stuff like that....Stuff like this is why I don't even want to travel to US.
Then please don't. I don't mean that the way it might sound; I'm hoping if enough people boycott travel to the U.S., enough companies (airlines, travel agencies, Disneyworld, etc.) will start to feel the pinch and will lobby Congress to back off on the security theatre. I've already written my Senators and Representative and was basically blown off. Fortunately, a local lawmaker with more clout than I had a run-in with TSA recently, and now Sen.'s Begich and Murkowski have started to take notice.
In the US your parents pay it, so you can take it more relaxed, have fun and drink beer. A dream for many Europeans, who usually actually have to study, learn and work hard.
Don't believe everything that you see on T.V. "Porky's" is not a documentary. I paid my own way through college, as has my step-daughter, and so will my daughter when she is old enough. There certainly are party schools here in the U.S., but there are plenty of others that actually require you to work.
And don't get me wrong - there's lots of innovation in the US, but generally (and in the internet) it feels like US people just don't know much.
Again, be very careful with stereotypes. They are wrong just about as often as they are right. It seems like the ignorant spout off louder and more frequently than the wise, but that may be a skewed sample. Perhaps, the ignorant get more airtime because it's fun to laugh at some of the absurd things they will say. Maybe it's just that the wise understand that arguing with a fool makes it difficult to tell who is who. Or, you could be right and there really aren't as many intelligent people in the U.S. But remember the/. mantra: "the plural of anecdote is not data." Don't jump to conclusions based upon a sample set gathered from random posts on the Internet.
But innovation can be made more easy if you drink alcohol and take drugs - the ideas just come to your head.
Holy crap...you really think that getting stoned is the key to innovation?!?! I've avoided drugs like the plague because I saw what they did to friends of mine in high school. I'll take Edison's advice ("Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration") over yours every single time.
That's why I think US is the number one country in the world regarding innovation.
Pot...kettle...black? Cough..."Amsterdam"...cough (at risk of invoking stereotypes myself).
I'm sure she just accidentally the whole hand, you clown.
You broke my English language parser. I don't normally criticize people for grammar or spelling. If I can understand what you are trying to say, then you communicated effectively, so who cares if your English isn't perfect? However, I really have no idea what you are trying to say here.
And you have no proof that anybody would the whole archive of images to the INTERNET.
Your grammar still sucks, but I get the gist of your sentence in this case. Yes, you are right. TSA has never, as far as we know, posted the images from their AIT scanners to the Internet. However, the Marshall Service has. If it can happen once, it can happen again...and TSA's AIT scanners have better resolution than the Marshall's millimeter wave scanners.
Once you get past the geek-factor -- and it's considerable -- the tricorder app actually is kind of cool. It wraps several useful functions into a single app, and they all work rather well. I wish the accelerometer would display in some kind of useful unit, rather than a generic graph, and I wish it had some kind of a peak indicator, but even as it is, it was a useful app.
Do you have any products in your house with the little sticker that says, "Made in China"? Do you know for a fact that those products were not made in Chinese sweatshops or slave labor factories?
I'm not saying Gibson did nothing wrong -- I honestly don't know enough to have an opinion one way or the other -- but let's get realistic here. You cannot possibly know that every product you buy has a squeaky clean supply chain unless you grow the raw materials yourself, no matter how conscientious you want to be.
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I'm impressed. Not because you knew how to fix the caps on a video card, but because you were actually able to remove them cleanly enough to install the new caps. I had a Dell USFF Optiplex fail because three electrolytics had blown and were leaking. I was able to get the old caps out of the board, but I couldn't heat up both sides of the board to remove all the solder, no matter what tools I used. Consequently, I was unable to get the replacement caps in the board (sigh...)
Fortunately, I had better luck when I had to replace the leaking caps on ECU of my 1G Eagle Talon a few years back, even though the electrolyte had corroded the copper trace on the PCB.
Younger people are all but actively discouraged from actually investigating any more :\
FTFY (as much as I hate to "FTFY" someone, sorry).
I don't know if it's fear of litigation if someone should actually (gasp!) burn their pinky on a soldering iron, fear that if kids learn chemistry and electronics they'll become terrorists, or just a general anti-intellectual snobbishness, but it seems like this country is almost making an effort to prevent kids from learning science and engineering anymore.
If you want a tube amp kit, you don't have to wait for Heathkit to get around to it. Check out Paia's web site (no, I do not have any association with the company...other than lusting after the FatMan analog synth and a few other kits).
I'll take a body scan, you drive.
You missed my point -- no surprise from the lack of insight in the rest of your post, but I digress. My point is that the 4th Amendment says *you don't have the right to force your view quoted above*. If you are afraid to get on an airplane without some TSO fondling your parts, that's your problem, not mine.
I guess I'm not filled with fear because my dick is longer than an inch.
And everything else you have said so far contradicts that statement. You want to force everyone to submit to an illegal search because you are NOT afraid of a terrorist blowing up your airplane? How does that even make any sense?
You might be interested in reading about the new screening software that makes your disgusting body an outline instead of an "actual" picture.
1) Have you ever seen my body? No? Then kindly STFU, please. Thanks. 2) Even with the naughty bits concealed, I am still morally opposed to AIT scanners on multiple grounds. TSA may have made them less egregious, but they are still egregious. Furthermore, even if you are scanned, there is still a very real chance you will get groped, and TSA has yet to implement software that helps with that problem. </sarc> Furthermore, when you have a multi-billion dollar government bureaucracy with essentially unlimited power and no oversight, that is a system that is ripe for abuse. The AIT scanners are but one symptom of the underlying problem, and it is that that I am fighting against -- not the scanners themselves (although they are evil enough on their own).
Now you can stop crying about your rights.
Not until the day we, as a nation, grow a collective backbone and stop trading our hard-won liberties for the illusion of security (with apologies to Franklin). Why don't you take a few minutes to better yourself and read a flipping history book so you'll understand why Jefferson et. al. thought it was so important to add the Bill of Rights to the Constitution? You might realize the world is a little more complex than you thought.
apparently not
Hey, if calling me names makes you feel better for your own inadequacies, whatever.
I'll take full body scans for everyone, and if declined, physical body searches, even if its only for the illusion of safety.
And there's the problem -- just because you are cowering in fear with the 1 in 20 million chance of being involved in a hijacking does not give you the right to violate my 4th Amendment right to freedom from unreasonable search without probable cause. Afraid of the terrorist boogeyman? Then drive.
And this is wrong because...?
In my opinion rape requires an intent to invade, control, and discomfort...
You think that doesn't describe TSA?
... for sexual reasons...
Ah. That explains your point of view then. Ummm...no. From what I understand from bits and pieces I've picked up from psychologists, a rapist usually isn't looking for sexual gratification. Sex is the means to invade, control and discomfort the victim; it is not the end. Rather, the rapist is intending to dominate and victimize the, well, victim at as deep a level as possible. Consequently, I think the labels "rape" and "sexual assault" are entirely apt in the context of TSA.
Do you not see a difference between "I have orders to do a patdown search of everyone who decides to use this method of transport as opposed to other methods" and "I have orders to kill everyone who professes a certain set of religious beliefs?" Really? No difference at all?
I see a quantitative difference, but not a qualitative difference. Murder is (arguably) worse than sexual assault, but in a free country, I should have the right to travel through the most efficient means at my disposal or to worship ${Diety|Dieties} as I see fit without fear of being either sexually assaulted or murdered.
This doesn't mean that TSA employees are not people to. They have lives, they have names. They have friends and families.
Irrelevant. Whether you are "human" or not has nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not you should be called out for doing something repulsive.
But, the low level employees are not deciding policy.
Again, irrelevant. Whether you are the one creating policy that is abominable or the one exercising that policy, you are still part of the problem.
They have the same rights as everyone else not be defamed and libeled if they didn't actually do something.
But she did do something. Neither the TSO nor the passenger dispute that she conducted an "enhanced pat-down" (i.e., "groped") an airline passenger, which I -- and many others -- maintain is a violation of the 4th Amendment and is a sexual assault.
So when one of them exercises their legal rights mocking and insulting them is uncalled for.
"So when one of us exercises our legal rights (to travel and to call an abusive situation what it is), mocking and insulting us is uncalled for." See what I did there?
They are just doing their jobs. In the current economy there aren't many jobs out there and the TSA employees want to get paid and not starve like everyone else. You might be smart and well-educated and have a steady job. Good for you. Now meet everyone else.
Cry me a river. If I get fired from my job and decide to take a new job as a hit-man for the Mafia, will your argument that "there aren't many jobs out there and [I] want to get paid and not starve like everyone else" hold water in front of a judge? I don't think so, and rightly so. Likewise, that is NOT an acceptable excuse for a TSO.
And since someone is going to probably twist "they are just doing their jobs" into some ridiculous example of Godwin's Law, let's be clear: this is not the same thing as the Nuremberg defense. "I was just doing my job and following orders" has a very different meaning when one is being told to murder people than when someone is being told to do something to someone who knew what they were getting into and elected to go flying anyways.
In the words of Norman Schwartzkopf, "Bovine Scatology" (i.e., "B.S.") It is not a "ridiculous example" of Godwin's Law. It is exactly the same thing. "Just doing my job" to excuse a morally reprehensible action always has been and always will be a weasel's excuse for not having a backbone, whether it was the Nazis in W.W. II or the TSA right now. As for your argument that they "knew what they were getting into and elected to go flying anyways", first, you don't know that you will be selected for gate-rape until the TSO waves you over. Even if you are flying out of an airport that doesn't have an AIT scanner, you can still be selected for the "enhanced pat-down" at "random", you can be patted down at the gate after you've already cleared security (happened to my step-daughter by a trio of MALE TSO's, which according to TSA is against policy -- but try protesting and see what happens to you)...no, you can't abrogate your rights away just by purchasing an airline ticket, especially when the system is so ripe for abuse, and you have no recourse.
"Authorities" are just the terrorists who were on the side that wrote the history books.
It's not silly to require that the government -- and government employees -- follow the law. The 4th Amendment guarantees me the right to freedom from unreasonable* searches without probable cause, and purchasing an airline ticket is not probable cause. If I tried to "enhanced pat-down" all of the customers entering my wife's business, you'd better believe that I would end up on a sex-offender list, on the receiving end of a multitude of lawsuits and my wife's business would no longer have any customers. It is complete and utter nonsense to argue that things are any different for the airlines (with a 1 in 20 million chance of a hijacking, much less terrorist bombing), no matter how badly Janet Napolitano and John Pistole want to tell you otherwise.
/. and on my personal blog. Just read the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on Ek vs. US and fill in the blanks yourself.
*Yes, "unreasonable" is open to interpretation. I've argued to point many other times here on
Find one person in the world without bias, and in return, I'll show you a liar.
Bias (a sympathy towards one side or the other in a disagreement) is fine. Prejudice (having made up one's mind so that no amount of evidence will sway you) is not.
Nice ad hominem attack, there. Rather than provide any evidence or rational argument to disprove what Ms. Alkon claims to have experienced at the airport, you instead look for dirt to discredit her reaction to what many others agree is an overly intrusive, humiliating and unwarranted experience at the airport. Quite frankly, this "drama queen" acted in an incredibly restrained manner, IMHO. Had it been my wife or daughter at the airport, they would have needed to call a Hearse for the TSO...and a cop car to cart me off in (which is why I don't fly any more).
Your comment shows you don't understand the meaning of the words "sexual assault".
I don't know about GPP, but personally, I really couldn't care less about the legal definition. If a government employee (TSA? check...) uses power or intimidation (can't opt out of the search if it becomes too intrusive? check...) to touch someone else's genitals (see TFA), it is a sexual assault, and I will use whatever force necessary, including violence if necessary in my sole discretion, against TSO's to protect myself and my family from sexual assault, PERIOD.
I have daughters, and I don't think I'll be able to sit by and watch while they're sexually assaulted. Daddy would be going to jail.
Yep. You and me both.
I have traveled to many seemingly "worse" places on earth (Russia, China, Cambodia and other south east asian countries, Africa) and NOWHERE I have experienced stuff like that....Stuff like this is why I don't even want to travel to US.
Then please don't. I don't mean that the way it might sound; I'm hoping if enough people boycott travel to the U.S., enough companies (airlines, travel agencies, Disneyworld, etc.) will start to feel the pinch and will lobby Congress to back off on the security theatre. I've already written my Senators and Representative and was basically blown off. Fortunately, a local lawmaker with more clout than I had a run-in with TSA recently, and now Sen.'s Begich and Murkowski have started to take notice.
In the US your parents pay it, so you can take it more relaxed, have fun and drink beer. A dream for many Europeans, who usually actually have to study, learn and work hard.
Don't believe everything that you see on T.V. "Porky's" is not a documentary. I paid my own way through college, as has my step-daughter, and so will my daughter when she is old enough. There certainly are party schools here in the U.S., but there are plenty of others that actually require you to work.
And don't get me wrong - there's lots of innovation in the US, but generally (and in the internet) it feels like US people just don't know much.
Again, be very careful with stereotypes. They are wrong just about as often as they are right. It seems like the ignorant spout off louder and more frequently than the wise, but that may be a skewed sample. Perhaps, the ignorant get more airtime because it's fun to laugh at some of the absurd things they will say. Maybe it's just that the wise understand that arguing with a fool makes it difficult to tell who is who. Or, you could be right and there really aren't as many intelligent people in the U.S. But remember the /. mantra: "the plural of anecdote is not data." Don't jump to conclusions based upon a sample set gathered from random posts on the Internet.
But innovation can be made more easy if you drink alcohol and take drugs - the ideas just come to your head.
Holy crap...you really think that getting stoned is the key to innovation?!?! I've avoided drugs like the plague because I saw what they did to friends of mine in high school. I'll take Edison's advice ("Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration") over yours every single time.
That's why I think US is the number one country in the world regarding innovation.
Pot...kettle...black? Cough..."Amsterdam"...cough (at risk of invoking stereotypes myself).
I'm sure she just accidentally the whole hand, you clown.
You broke my English language parser. I don't normally criticize people for grammar or spelling. If I can understand what you are trying to say, then you communicated effectively, so who cares if your English isn't perfect? However, I really have no idea what you are trying to say here.
And you have no proof that anybody would the whole archive of images to the INTERNET.
Your grammar still sucks, but I get the gist of your sentence in this case. Yes, you are right. TSA has never, as far as we know, posted the images from their AIT scanners to the Internet. However, the Marshall Service has. If it can happen once, it can happen again...and TSA's AIT scanners have better resolution than the Marshall's millimeter wave scanners.
Troll.
Tool.
Once you get past the geek-factor -- and it's considerable -- the tricorder app actually is kind of cool. It wraps several useful functions into a single app, and they all work rather well. I wish the accelerometer would display in some kind of useful unit, rather than a generic graph, and I wish it had some kind of a peak indicator, but even as it is, it was a useful app.
At what point...does being irradiated become a threat against which I am permitted to defend myself?...It could be a lethal dose...
If you have received a lethal dose of radiation, does it matter? It's not like jail is going to be much of a deterrent for you at that point.
Do you have any products in your house with the little sticker that says, "Made in China"? Do you know for a fact that those products were not made in Chinese sweatshops or slave labor factories?
I'm not saying Gibson did nothing wrong -- I honestly don't know enough to have an opinion one way or the other -- but let's get realistic here. You cannot possibly know that every product you buy has a squeaky clean supply chain unless you grow the raw materials yourself, no matter how conscientious you want to be.
I've never had a backscatter scan done.
I always opt out and I always will.
I've never had a backscatter scan done, either. I always opt out of flying and I always will until those abominations are removed from the airports.
Yeah, that I did...