Better: have a one-way chain of undercover snipers in each city. Each string is given access to a pre-cached set of identical rifles and a number of ammunition caches. Each sniper can contact the next person down the chain in a one-way transaction. If a sniper does not clear out their segment of the communications chain every 48 hours, it fails over to the next person down the line.
The two snipers at the head and 'neck' of the chain take turns being 'the sniper' for the city and providing aliases for their partner. If one of them fails to check in in a 72-hour period with the other, they are assumed to have been detained by authorities or other circumstances, and everyone else in the chain moves up one place.
This means that if one sniper is suspected, they will have alibis for around half the shootings. If they are detained for any length of time, the shootings will continue. As the rifles and ammo are all the same make, it will be initially difficult to prove there is more than one sniper - particularly if the rifles keep being swapped between sniper pairs and into and out of the caches.
If the first sniper is held for less than 72 hours and then released, then even if the second sniper is found and detained, the first sniper will be out there again providing killing-aliases for the second, If the first sniper is held longer than 72 hours, the active snipers are now #2 and #3 - meaning that someone who has had a perfect alias for all the killings to date is now a killer - and very difficult to pinpoint as a suspect. Particularly if there's an overall methodology to the killings so that #3 is killing extremely similar victim types to both #1 and #2.
There could even be a common chain of recruits down past about #5 or so. One of the top 5 in a city gets detained or arrested for more than 72 hours, and Recruit A gets assigned to move to that city, become the new #5, and start establishing themselves as a good citizen with solid aliases for upcoming killings (plus they'd also have geographic aliases for the ones which happened before).
In fact, the geographic thing could be useful. Have snipers and recruits move around every so often as external circumstances dictate. They can simply join the bottom of the sniper list in their new city, and have their chain-replacement in their old city step up. Law enforcement would never be able to suspect them on the grounds of turning down jobs outside the city, or never going on vacation, or even not taking up job offers with significantly different hours.
Of course, to do this for a whole bunch of American cities would take a couple hundred recruits, rifles, a whole lotta ammo etc. Would it be simpler to just set one chain up in DC or similar, and target politicians? Or would it be more effective media-wise (if expensive) to have one random shooting per day, every day, in the swankiest areas of each US state capital (or the top 50 biggest cities)?
What good would it do the citizens of either nation to have these observations broadcast for the world to see?
It might make UK political parties think twice before putting unreliable lackwits in senior positions, if they're so obviously useless that even the Yanks can spot them.
Had a variation on that happen to me once. Same city, no moving involved, but a big-name company offered me an IT Security contract which turned out to mean "manually sorting pieces of paper into alphabetical order for six months while constantly claiming the 'real job' would start any day now".
So what happens when the bombs are rigged to detect X-rays or magnetic fluxes, or whatever else is being used in the scanners this week? The scanners have to be switched off until they can be rebuilt so that people have to individually step into an armored room one at a time to be scanned, thus slowing the security lines even more. Don't forget to turn up at the airport four hours before your next flight!
Geez, how dumb would you have to be to keep documents like that on any computer you personally had access to?
Come ON, people. If you're going to perform industrial espionage, don't get caught by embarrassing amateur mistakes. No wonder car makers need bailouts if they're hiring sub-par workers like this.
But I'd want a phone book which at least had the numbers for the local power companies, ISP tech support lines, and maybe computer repair shops (if I was feeling lazy). Or at least a paper copy of number for a free directory service I could use in the meantime if something happened to any of the items I need to chain together to be able to access online directories.
Huh. What we really need, it seems, is a button on landline and cell phones for 'Operator'...
I'd have to say Tesla. Anyone who built and worked with giant lightning-throwing devices gets automatic kid-cred.
Dean Kamen looks pretty young for being nearly sixty. He's more of an inventor than a pure scientist, but some of his stuff's pretty cool - the Luke arm and iBot balance system more than the Segway. He's also got a new TV show which has just started up and which some kids might theoretically watch.
Because the kid's smart enough to read playground politics and schoolyard psychology and not only figure out how to surf that wave, but to try and turn it to educational purposes?
It's only because Linux users know enough to go seek help when they have the equivalent of a broken leg, so there's comparatively more traffic through the ER.
From what I've seen, many Windows users just keep dragging themselves down the street, entrails and spinal column sliding along in the dust, spouting bubonic plague from all orifices and using their jawbone as a crampon, and assuming the experience is normal.
Will they be doing the checks with computerised checking machinery? Or purely optical microscopes and the Mk 1 eyeball? And are the checkers going to be the people who designed the chips in the first place, or are they going to be getting their ideas of what the chips _should_ look like from digital plans?
Slashdot Mirror
the Johnson Administration
Is that the TSA's new how-to guide?
And notice how the only outcry has been from politicians? Hmmm...
Better: have a one-way chain of undercover snipers in each city. Each string is given access to a pre-cached set of identical rifles and a number of ammunition caches. Each sniper can contact the next person down the chain in a one-way transaction. If a sniper does not clear out their segment of the communications chain every 48 hours, it fails over to the next person down the line.
The two snipers at the head and 'neck' of the chain take turns being 'the sniper' for the city and providing aliases for their partner. If one of them fails to check in in a 72-hour period with the other, they are assumed to have been detained by authorities or other circumstances, and everyone else in the chain moves up one place.
This means that if one sniper is suspected, they will have alibis for around half the shootings. If they are detained for any length of time, the shootings will continue. As the rifles and ammo are all the same make, it will be initially difficult to prove there is more than one sniper - particularly if the rifles keep being swapped between sniper pairs and into and out of the caches.
If the first sniper is held for less than 72 hours and then released, then even if the second sniper is found and detained, the first sniper will be out there again providing killing-aliases for the second, If the first sniper is held longer than 72 hours, the active snipers are now #2 and #3 - meaning that someone who has had a perfect alias for all the killings to date is now a killer - and very difficult to pinpoint as a suspect. Particularly if there's an overall methodology to the killings so that #3 is killing extremely similar victim types to both #1 and #2.
There could even be a common chain of recruits down past about #5 or so. One of the top 5 in a city gets detained or arrested for more than 72 hours, and Recruit A gets assigned to move to that city, become the new #5, and start establishing themselves as a good citizen with solid aliases for upcoming killings (plus they'd also have geographic aliases for the ones which happened before).
In fact, the geographic thing could be useful. Have snipers and recruits move around every so often as external circumstances dictate. They can simply join the bottom of the sniper list in their new city, and have their chain-replacement in their old city step up. Law enforcement would never be able to suspect them on the grounds of turning down jobs outside the city, or never going on vacation, or even not taking up job offers with significantly different hours.
Of course, to do this for a whole bunch of American cities would take a couple hundred recruits, rifles, a whole lotta ammo etc. Would it be simpler to just set one chain up in DC or similar, and target politicians? Or would it be more effective media-wise (if expensive) to have one random shooting per day, every day, in the swankiest areas of each US state capital (or the top 50 biggest cities)?
And a 99% lower death-by-shooting rate compared to the US?
There's an obvious fix.
Wikileaks for President!
What good would it do the citizens of either nation to have these observations broadcast for the world to see?
It might make UK political parties think twice before putting unreliable lackwits in senior positions, if they're so obviously useless that even the Yanks can spot them.
How long to sprout banjos?
I foresee a market in creating fake online presences which indicate perfect health, great genes, fantastic credit history etc.
Had a variation on that happen to me once. Same city, no moving involved, but a big-name company offered me an IT Security contract which turned out to mean "manually sorting pieces of paper into alphabetical order for six months while constantly claiming the 'real job' would start any day now".
So what happens when the bombs are rigged to detect X-rays or magnetic fluxes, or whatever else is being used in the scanners this week? The scanners have to be switched off until they can be rebuilt so that people have to individually step into an armored room one at a time to be scanned, thus slowing the security lines even more. Don't forget to turn up at the airport four hours before your next flight!
Geez, how dumb would you have to be to keep documents like that on any computer you personally had access to?
Come ON, people. If you're going to perform industrial espionage, don't get caught by embarrassing amateur mistakes. No wonder car makers need bailouts if they're hiring sub-par workers like this.
China BECAME PORN.
We tried that on prison volunteers. They became hardened criminals.
But I'd want a phone book which at least had the numbers for the local power companies, ISP tech support lines, and maybe computer repair shops (if I was feeling lazy). Or at least a paper copy of number for a free directory service I could use in the meantime if something happened to any of the items I need to chain together to be able to access online directories.
Huh. What we really need, it seems, is a button on landline and cell phones for 'Operator'...
The government's been using the contents of people's heads like puppets for millennia, so no real change there. :)
"It didn't work when we called it Google Wave, either."
Google: my car keys
did you mean: I forgot to check on top of the fridge again ?
I'd have to say Tesla. Anyone who built and worked with giant lightning-throwing devices gets automatic kid-cred.
Dean Kamen looks pretty young for being nearly sixty. He's more of an inventor than a pure scientist, but some of his stuff's pretty cool - the Luke arm and iBot balance system more than the Segway. He's also got a new TV show which has just started up and which some kids might theoretically watch.
Because the kid's smart enough to read playground politics and schoolyard psychology and not only figure out how to surf that wave, but to try and turn it to educational purposes?
It's only because Linux users know enough to go seek help when they have the equivalent of a broken leg, so there's comparatively more traffic through the ER.
From what I've seen, many Windows users just keep dragging themselves down the street, entrails and spinal column sliding along in the dust, spouting bubonic plague from all orifices and using their jawbone as a crampon, and assuming the experience is normal.
Now available in handy raygun form!
They said my skin banks were madness! But now I control the entire vampire economy!
Aw shucks, I can do this already! Just gimmee a shotgun an' a box of staples...
"Democratic voters more able to avoid annoying pollsters",
or
"Pollsters' last-century polling methods increasingly inaccurate"?
Will they be doing the checks with computerised checking machinery? Or purely optical microscopes and the Mk 1 eyeball? And are the checkers going to be the people who designed the chips in the first place, or are they going to be getting their ideas of what the chips _should_ look like from digital plans?
Presumably hoping that at least one bit of comms hardware you have access to doesn't use compromised comms chips...
"This will make it cheaper, because it's from China."