iBooks have a tilt sensor... So one could set it to wait until the departure time, then activate the sensor and wait for tilt AFTER the departure is scheduled (to prevent baggage handler triggering).
Oh, even better, an Ahmed can check in the iBook, then not even show up for the flight! And 4 hour battery uptime should cover the delays.
RS is not that powerful; the same order of usefulness as FTIR, actually. If I were to pick a single technique, it would either be GC-MS or H-NMR.
SERS is better, but much more expensive and involved. Time and space-resolved Raman is experimental, and still less powerful than the equivalent NMR techniques; and these are only useful on biological samples, not for detecting dangerous compounds.
Sample destruction is irrelevant since so little is needed for MS/NMR in the first place.
And again, these all can be fooled by altering molecule's side chanes, solution conditions, and contaminants. Sure, a PhD'ed chemist can see past these, but we do not have the money to hire enough to examine each water bottle.
Using Mass-Spec to screen for explosives is like examining md5 hashes to screen for profanity.
Sure, you can screen for hashes of piss or shit, but you also have to look for hashes of eat shit, shit., !shit, sHit, lalala shit haha, etc etc
It is trivial for a trained chemist to modify a compound just enough so that the measured spectrum does not match any of the stored spectra.
Even easier way is to mix some other stuff into your compound.
While the detection fidelity might be increased by adding infrared spectrometer and NMR (at least H and C13; better also N15, P31), plus using high-resolution GC and LC, the cost will be astronomical, the wait times would be on the order of hours, and would absolutely require the presence of a trained chemist at each machine.
Oh, and this will only work for things like water, ointment, soda and artificial stuff. Running any biological fluid or tissue is an absolute uninterpretable nightmare.
Of course, if the terrorists aren't smart and stick to the ready-made stuff, then there's a good chance they will be caught.
The majority of Americans appear to not believe in Evolution. Fine! Six centuries ago, the majority of Itallians believed the Earth was flat.
Guess what, science is not a democracy, voting agaist something matters shit.
Oh, and one has to have crap for brains to believe the Evolution somehow conflicts with Christianity. Science/religion 'conflicts' were resolved many centuries ago, e.g. by St. Augustine.
Well, HP offering unix with support for servers is nothing new, really (OpenVMS, anyone?)
The real news would be them providing linux+support for their Home line. Which is extremely unlikely, since this would skyrocket both HP's Windows lincensing costs and the price of chairs at Redmond.
As to their Home PC line, their zv6100 laptop was rather nice: 15.4", AMD64 3200+, 512MB RAM, 12 cell, wireless/burner for $500 a year ago was not a bad deal IMO (selling off a discontinued line). Better than a Dell with the power socket coming off the motherboard (hence the 'standard' 3 month warranty)
I disagree that banning physical objects is ineffective: nuclear weapons cannot be aquired by individuals, and that seems to stop 99.9% of nutcases that wish to use those (even though we have to give up our 2nd Amendment rights).
Also, your step 1) is unreasonable. Instead of stopping people from flying, how about administering sedatives or even general anaesthesia to the passengers? Even though about 2% will develop serious complications or die, it's still better than letting the terrorists win!
Or even milder, we can make all travellers wear mittencuffs, head-baddies, and electric collars. And rectal probels (just for fun?)
I may be in the minority, but I KNOW my BP/heart rate would rise just from fear of the machine not getting it right: 'What if it flags me, would they do the cavity search? would I miss my connection? would I have to spend a night in a packed jail with real criminals? would I be held until my next bowel movement?' (which they do with pregnant women 'drug mules' that cannot have Xrays)
And I rather suspect the terrorists that have daily polygraph training sessions would pass with no problems.
Perhaps by not actively cooperating with the Chinese Govt?
Good folks of OSS (i.e. you and me) can chose to say "Fuck off" to the Chinese Govt with impunity not available to the profit-driven corportations (as in 'Cooperate, or No business in China for your company').
It is not ironic, it is fortunate. Which any luck MS will be put on terrorist enablers list for helping Iran develop weaps of mass attraction. It is even better that is was not FreeBSD that is supporting terrorists. Time to start selling the FeedomBSD sticker (I support our ports).
But seriously, MS does not care much who uses the software and for what, as long as they pay through the roof for it. MSN and Yahoo have no problem helping the Chinese put dissidents in jail, either.
In terms of fear, it's not so bad. You see, people recognize they have some level of control over that kind of outcome, so it inspires less terror.
The same reason that smoking, and speeding, skydiving, and owning guns is reasonably tolerated by our society: you are in control by chosing to expose yourself to that risk.
It is a completely different story when thousands of people sit in a building which then suddenly goes up in smoke: the level of terror inspired here is much higher, since ANYONE is in danger no matter what they do!
Use what then? At least Google (so far) refuses to turn over the data to the NSA, unlike MSN, AOL, and Yahoo... Not that the NSA can't get it in other ways, mind you.
Clearly, the problem here is not that the data can be mined for illegal activity, the problem is who defines what 'illegal' means:
Is visiting nytimes.com illegal? Is streaming Al Franken or Rush Limbaugh's radio shows illegal? Would you go on a no-fly list for buying a metalloorganics textbook off BN.com?
There are buttloads of good reasons to store search data linked to real IDs, but there must also be controls and limits on their use. So no, we are looking at the privacy issue from the wrong perspective: privacy should be addressed server/policy-side, and not client-side (same goes for DRM: 'defeating' DRM by hacking is a losing battle; copyright/consumer/fairuse right laws must be changed)
'Deleting the cookie' does nothing to remove your stored search history crosslinked to your IP address
Having a dynamic IP does not help if you use your computer regularly to check email, log in to slashdot, or visit your unique collection of news sites: anything that can link your particular IP-of-the-day to your identity.
Yes, I agree. I was actually thinking in broader terms, not just about planes.
In that case it is a good news is that a Muslim cannot turn himself into a claymore by swallowing a pack and walking into a Yankee stadium; he'd have to strap a shitload of gear and can be picked off from afar.
Also, there is a difference between 100 people on a plane going down and 3000 in two towers going down; so as bad as it sounds, shooting down hijacked planes might be a good idea after all.
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iBooks have a tilt sensor... So one could set it to wait until the departure time, then activate the sensor and wait for tilt AFTER the departure is scheduled (to prevent baggage handler triggering).
Oh, even better, an Ahmed can check in the iBook, then not even show up for the flight! And 4 hour battery uptime should cover the delays.
Why does Apple help terrorists?
Wow the just released that in June. Don't know how I missed that, thanks.
You'll have much better luck with one of these Hacking Devices.
Reminds me of Alice in UNIX land. An oldie but a goodie.
What I am still waiting for is multi-pointer capable x11 (two mouses) and pressure-sensing mouse buttons.
RS is not that powerful; the same order of usefulness as FTIR, actually. If I were to pick a single technique, it would either be GC-MS or H-NMR.
SERS is better, but much more expensive and involved. Time and space-resolved Raman is experimental, and still less powerful than the equivalent NMR techniques; and these are only useful on biological samples, not for detecting dangerous compounds.
Sample destruction is irrelevant since so little is needed for MS/NMR in the first place.
And again, these all can be fooled by altering molecule's side chanes, solution conditions, and contaminants. Sure, a PhD'ed chemist can see past these, but we do not have the money to hire enough to examine each water bottle.
Using Mass-Spec to screen for explosives is like examining md5 hashes to screen for profanity.
Sure, you can screen for hashes of piss or shit, but you also have to look for hashes of eat shit, shit., !shit, sHit, lalala shit haha, etc etc
It is trivial for a trained chemist to modify a compound just enough so that the measured spectrum does not match any of the stored spectra.
Even easier way is to mix some other stuff into your compound.
While the detection fidelity might be increased by adding infrared spectrometer and NMR (at least H and C13; better also N15, P31), plus using high-resolution GC and LC, the cost will be astronomical, the wait times would be on the order of hours, and would absolutely require the presence of a trained chemist at each machine.
Oh, and this will only work for things like water, ointment, soda and artificial stuff. Running any biological fluid or tissue is an absolute uninterpretable nightmare.
Of course, if the terrorists aren't smart and stick to the ready-made stuff, then there's a good chance they will be caught.
It looks like Clippy is writing a "Dear DaveAtFraud" letter. Apparently it does not need my help to just keep on typing :O
I agree, it was a nice list, but...
9. Excel spreadsheet
Have to agree, this is a wonderful concept, but not pioneered in Excel
4. Java
Pascal should have been there instead. Or Forth. Java is like C++ on viagra and sleeping pills combined
Also, what was that Zerox OS called back in 1973? That thing had close to WGA resolution, too.
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*Viagra is a Registered Trademark of Pfitzer Inc.
The Government and the Corporations do not have a Constitutional right to privacy.
Hence all consumer (people) data must be treated as private by default, whereas the Government data must be treated as inherently public.
The EFF opposes the recent drive to turn this principle inside-out.
It is unknowable how long that [Iraqi] conflict will last. It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
Man, the guy's a genius.
The majority of Americans appear to not believe in Evolution. Fine! Six centuries ago, the majority of Itallians believed the Earth was flat.
Guess what, science is not a democracy, voting agaist something matters shit.
Oh, and one has to have crap for brains to believe the Evolution somehow conflicts with Christianity. Science/religion 'conflicts' were resolved many centuries ago, e.g. by St. Augustine.
Well, HP offering unix with support for servers is nothing new, really (OpenVMS, anyone?)
The real news would be them providing linux+support for their Home line. Which is extremely unlikely, since this would skyrocket both HP's Windows lincensing costs and the price of chairs at Redmond.
As to their Home PC line, their zv6100 laptop was rather nice: 15.4", AMD64 3200+, 512MB RAM, 12 cell, wireless/burner for $500 a year ago was not a bad deal IMO (selling off a discontinued line). Better than a Dell with the power socket coming off the motherboard (hence the 'standard' 3 month warranty)
The one thing Pornhunter's search terms are probably missing is him googling his own name.
Admit it, which one of you never googled their own name?
I disagree that banning physical objects is ineffective: nuclear weapons cannot be aquired by individuals, and that seems to stop 99.9% of nutcases that wish to use those (even though we have to give up our 2nd Amendment rights).
Also, your step 1) is unreasonable. Instead of stopping people from flying, how about administering sedatives or even general anaesthesia to the passengers? Even though about 2% will develop serious complications or die, it's still better than letting the terrorists win!
Or even milder, we can make all travellers wear mittencuffs, head-baddies, and electric collars. And rectal probels (just for fun?)
I may be in the minority, but I KNOW my BP/heart rate would rise just from fear of the machine not getting it right:
'What if it flags me, would they do the cavity search? would I miss my connection? would I have to spend a night in a packed jail with real criminals? would I be held until my next bowel movement?' (which they do with pregnant women 'drug mules' that cannot have Xrays)
And I rather suspect the terrorists that have daily polygraph training sessions would pass with no problems.
Perhaps by not actively cooperating with the Chinese Govt?
Good folks of OSS (i.e. you and me) can chose to say "Fuck off" to the Chinese Govt with impunity not available to the profit-driven corportations (as in 'Cooperate, or No business in China for your company').
It is not ironic, it is fortunate. Which any luck MS will be put on terrorist enablers list for helping Iran develop weaps of mass attraction. It is even better that is was not FreeBSD that is supporting terrorists. Time to start selling the FeedomBSD sticker (I support our ports).
But seriously, MS does not care much who uses the software and for what, as long as they pay through the roof for it. MSN and Yahoo have no problem helping the Chinese put dissidents in jail, either.
In terms of fear, it's not so bad. You see, people recognize they have some level of control over that kind of outcome, so it inspires less terror.
The same reason that smoking, and speeding, skydiving, and owning guns is reasonably tolerated by our society: you are in control by chosing to expose yourself to that risk.
It is a completely different story when thousands of people sit in a building which then suddenly goes up in smoke: the level of terror inspired here is much higher, since ANYONE is in danger no matter what they do!
Do you see?
Use what then? At least Google (so far) refuses to turn over the data to the NSA, unlike MSN, AOL, and Yahoo...
Not that the NSA can't get it in other ways, mind you.
Clearly, the problem here is not that the data can be mined for illegal activity, the problem is who defines what 'illegal' means:
Is visiting nytimes.com illegal? Is streaming Al Franken or Rush Limbaugh's radio shows illegal?
Would you go on a no-fly list for buying a metalloorganics textbook off BN.com?
There are buttloads of good reasons to store search data linked to real IDs, but there must also be controls and limits on their use. So no, we are looking at the privacy issue from the wrong perspective: privacy should be addressed server/policy-side, and not client-side (same goes for DRM: 'defeating' DRM by hacking is a losing battle; copyright/consumer/fairuse right laws must be changed)
'Deleting the cookie' does nothing to remove your stored search history crosslinked to your IP address
Having a dynamic IP does not help if you use your computer regularly to check email, log in to slashdot, or visit your unique collection of news sites: anything that can link your particular IP-of-the-day to your identity.
No. 10.2.8 supported 64bit G5s. That was about 3 years ago!
This, and most of the rest of the post, is just you talking out of your ass (sorry)
Well, not to troll, but wasn't it said that Gnome was ripping off Windows UI? or MacOS, I forgot.
Remember VMS desktop before Windows 95 release? A POS!
In that respect, Microsoft can be said to get the Desktop right
Sorry, a typo. I actually meant DoE; my understanding is that DoE is in charge of designing, making, testing, and maintaining the nukes.
DoD/Army only get to store and use the suckers.
Yes, I agree. I was actually thinking in broader terms, not just about planes.
In that case it is a good news is that a Muslim cannot turn himself into a claymore by swallowing a pack and walking into a Yankee stadium; he'd have to strap a shitload of gear and can be picked off from afar.
Also, there is a difference between 100 people on a plane going down and 3000 in two towers going down; so as bad as it sounds, shooting down hijacked planes might be a good idea after all.