I agree - and I really don't see Facebook being complicit in this. If this guy went to his local bar and told his friends that he did this and one of them tipped off the police it would be the same thing. Facebook simply was the medium. They weren't the message. He did a dangerous thing and damaged property. He needed to pay the full price.
Maybe I'm misreading TFA, but weren't these phones stolen, not purchased? I realize it was from a federal agent, so all the usual arguments as far as entrapment would ensue, but wasn't he actually jailed BECAUSE HE PLEAD GUILTY and was a foreign national who intended to flee the country upon his release?
God, can't we just post article summaries that accurately portray the articles? Oh wait, I forgot where I am...
Nevermind.
Maybe. Most table saws come with splitters and chip guards that are the first thing to be removed by the user. They might improve safety but make the saw almost impossible to use effectively. I see this leading to tool manufacturers' insurance carriers mandating the inclusion of some other cheaply made and ineffective solution to the problem. That saw-stop technology is amazing - I've seen the demos. But other manufacturers will jump through whatever hoops they have to in order to avoid actually incorporating technology that increases the cost of the saw and the reduction of their profit margins. Woodworkers are a pretty macho bunch and will not demand better from the makers.
Isn't Popular Mechanics the rag where half-baked technologies go to die? Right after the part where they will revolutionize All Life As We Know It? And right before the part where The Idea is killed by an Evil Conspiracy?
They are usually late with the important news and way too early with stuff that will eventually crash and burn. Not that they can't build a raging headline and a totally misleading cover out of it.
I stopped going to Popular Mechanics for my cutting edge technology news when I was about nine years old. They are long on hype and short on details - not to mention short on discrimination in their editorial department.
Excuse me, but the nuclear battery in my flying car is running low. Gotta run...
Actually, it's more complicated than that. You aren't even accounting for power factor in that equation, which is the phase difference between applied voltage and induced current through the load. Inductive loads (Refrigerators, Air conditioners, anything with a motor and many older computer power supplies) can have a huge lag between voltage and current. Your kWH meter from the power company knows this - a home-brewed multimeter setup won't.
Although even cheap multimeters these days mostly read RMS values for AC voltage and current (within the frequency response of the meter, but don't get me started on that), they don't account for actual power consumed (P = I * E * cos(t), where t is the phase difference between voltage and current). Sorry i couldn't figure out how to do greek letters on this thing, so don't beat me up for form.
All things being equal, that el cheapo power monitor mentioned earlier should give you at least an order-of-magnitude bead on individual devices, and you can make your plans based on that.
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I agree - and I really don't see Facebook being complicit in this. If this guy went to his local bar and told his friends that he did this and one of them tipped off the police it would be the same thing. Facebook simply was the medium. They weren't the message. He did a dangerous thing and damaged property. He needed to pay the full price.
So - you'd rather be in a full size vehicle with 20 +/- gallons of Gasoline on board? The Ford Pinto comes to mind....
Maybe I'm misreading TFA, but weren't these phones stolen, not purchased? I realize it was from a federal agent, so all the usual arguments as far as entrapment would ensue, but wasn't he actually jailed BECAUSE HE PLEAD GUILTY and was a foreign national who intended to flee the country upon his release? God, can't we just post article summaries that accurately portray the articles? Oh wait, I forgot where I am... Nevermind.
Maybe. Most table saws come with splitters and chip guards that are the first thing to be removed by the user. They might improve safety but make the saw almost impossible to use effectively. I see this leading to tool manufacturers' insurance carriers mandating the inclusion of some other cheaply made and ineffective solution to the problem. That saw-stop technology is amazing - I've seen the demos. But other manufacturers will jump through whatever hoops they have to in order to avoid actually incorporating technology that increases the cost of the saw and the reduction of their profit margins. Woodworkers are a pretty macho bunch and will not demand better from the makers.
Isn't Popular Mechanics the rag where half-baked technologies go to die? Right after the part where they will revolutionize All Life As We Know It? And right before the part where The Idea is killed by an Evil Conspiracy?
They are usually late with the important news and way too early with stuff that will eventually crash and burn. Not that they can't build a raging headline and a totally misleading cover out of it.
I stopped going to Popular Mechanics for my cutting edge technology news when I was about nine years old. They are long on hype and short on details - not to mention short on discrimination in their editorial department.
Excuse me, but the nuclear battery in my flying car is running low. Gotta run...
Actually, it's more complicated than that. You aren't even accounting for power factor in that equation, which is the phase difference between applied voltage and induced current through the load. Inductive loads (Refrigerators, Air conditioners, anything with a motor and many older computer power supplies) can have a huge lag between voltage and current. Your kWH meter from the power company knows this - a home-brewed multimeter setup won't.
Although even cheap multimeters these days mostly read RMS values for AC voltage and current (within the frequency response of the meter, but don't get me started on that), they don't account for actual power consumed (P = I * E * cos(t), where t is the phase difference between voltage and current). Sorry i couldn't figure out how to do greek letters on this thing, so don't beat me up for form.
All things being equal, that el cheapo power monitor mentioned earlier should give you at least an order-of-magnitude bead on individual devices, and you can make your plans based on that.