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Living Room / Re: Can U Say Crap-O-Riffic??
« Last post by Stoic Joker on January 22, 2012, 06:19 PM »Yes, because the very last thing you want to have in a shooting is a second version of what happened... 
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loaded with hollow-points-kyrathaba (January 22, 2012, 03:45 PM)
I'm more a fan of having a shotgun (same coverage with less bullets) and a fast car. However a well hidden base of operations does make for a good place to reload.
...Unless we can get one of those A-Team vans, then both are covered and it's just an issue of parking.-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 01:50 PM)
Ooooo! Can we?!! Can we?!!!-40hz (January 22, 2012, 01:53 PM)
There are actually municipalities in the US that require gun ownership now. I don't think there have been studies as to what effect that has had on crime, though.-wraith808 (January 22, 2012, 01:19 PM)
The world could use a few more Robin Hoods me thinks.But it's rather baffling/annoying that a brand new drive would go poof that quickly.-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 08:33 AM)
Have a relative that holds a BEE (from MIT no less!) tell me the problem with electronic devices is they can suffer from what he called "infant mortality." He said if you can (1) power up an electrical device, (2) run it for 72 hours under full load (3) then shut it down and let it cool off overnight (3) then bring it back up successfully - it will almost always (99.9999%) run without problems for the next six to eight years. That's because most electrical engineering defects manifest themselves very early on. And about 75% are heat-related, so they won't start to show up until the device has been running several hours.
The basic rule of thumb seems to be: If it's gonna die, it's gonna die shortly after you get it - otherwise it will die no sooner than one month out-of-warranty. So look for the longest warranty you can find. (Not that it will matter. Because hardly anybody ever registers or remembers where they put their receipt.)-40hz (January 22, 2012, 09:43 AM)
According to my genius cousin, it seems that the way they move product these days, there's no longer any such thing as real burn-in testing. Unless it's being sold at MIL-SPEC premium pricing, what little QC there is tests the major components of a device or assembly very briefly. If the little ogre powers up, and a signal is detected on whatever I/O ports it has, it's considered "good." After that, it's off to antistatic bagging for shipping.
The manufacturers do a risk assessment, calculate the projected failure rate from actual returns, adjust the warranty as necessary, and budget for the inevitable replacements. So it's purely a lottery and numbers game. It's sort of like the old rule for buying a truck - it's either: (a) expensive, but top quality and going to last - or (b) inexpensive to buy and cheap and easy to fix.
Most electronic manufacturers opt for 'cheap to replace under warranty' because it's more cost effective for them to eat the occasional bad egg (and write it off on their taxes) than it is to properly and extensively test each individual product. And in the case of something as complex as a microprocessor (with its meeel-yuns and meeel-yuns of transistors and countless potential electrical states) - it's not even possible to completely test them any more. Or isn't if you don't have 20 years to wait for the tests to complete.-40hz (January 22, 2012, 09:43 AM)
P.S. There's a 9mm Glock Tactical in the top drawer behind the pretzel bag if you need it. Just don't point it at yourself or the dog.-40hz (January 22, 2012, 09:43 AM)
pr0n.free-rgdot (January 20, 2012, 09:36 PM)
That means the lack of pr0n. Surely you wanted pr0n4.free ?-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 09:40 PM)
oops good point-rgdot (January 20, 2012, 09:44 PM)
pr0n.free
-rgdot (January 20, 2012, 09:36 PM)
I guess I'll be Guinea Pigging this one ... and will let you know if/when my mail server explodes.
I used an alias e-mail to signup...If they decide to spam me, its a simple case of delete and move on-Stephen66515 (January 20, 2012, 09:26 PM)
It might be a good idea, but then again, it might not. Its hard to come to a definitave decision on such matters without further research into the implementation and design aspects of the topic of discussion
-Stephen66515 (January 20, 2012, 09:24 PM)
@Renegade: no.
@Doezaan: yes.-barney (January 20, 2012, 09:13 PM)
Great way to harvest information for spam.
-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 08:38 PM)
Password can only be 12 characters max. . .
-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 08:38 PM)
General availability: November 2013. That's almost 2 years from now.-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 08:38 PM)
In the case of many of the big-name "blackouts" from sites like Wikipedia, Google, or Reddit, I was not impressed with the follow-through used. Google turned their logo black. Wikipedia's blackout was only for the English site and easily overridden with (or due to lack of) javascript. Reddit only did it for half of the day.
IMO those are examples of half-hearted protests. If you're going to protest something you should first come up with an effective form of protest and then commit to follow through with the protest.-Deozaan (January 20, 2012, 11:16 AM)
Fact is that humans have limited amounts of energy/resources, and when they are overwhelming consumed by just trying to get by, well... go figure. They don't have time/energy/resources to do the work needed to become informed about politics.
When everything runs from 9 to 5, and they're at work, they have no opportunity to do anything. They're excluded from participating because they need to work to live.-Renegade (January 20, 2012, 07:36 AM)
As a sidenote, the Anonymous have responded. Try accessing www.justice.gov or www.universalmusic.com now.-tranglos (January 19, 2012, 05:29 PM)
Sounds like a good start. I'm all in favor of a scorched earth response from the masses.-Stoic Joker (January 19, 2012, 06:31 PM)
Assuming, of course, that it really was anonymous and not a staged bit of sponsored legerdemain designed to hammer home to all the regular citizens (who may be asking thorny questions about SOPA/PIPA by now) just how much danger we're really in.
At this stage of the game, I don't put anything past 'the industry' - or their paid government lapdogs. (Just like how the terrorist threat level always seemed to suddenly go up to 'amber' any time public opposition to The Patriot Act started heating up.)
And considering the timing of all of this? Yeah right! As wraith808 already observed.
Dunno. My sneaky, devious, dirty trick detecting BS-Tricorder has all it's tattletales glowing red right now...-40hz (January 19, 2012, 06:55 PM)
I'm afraid it's going to get much worse before it gets any better. Not just on the copyright front.-tranglos (January 19, 2012, 05:29 PM)
As a sidenote, the Anonymous have responded. Try accessing www.justice.gov or www.universalmusic.com now.-tranglos (January 19, 2012, 05:29 PM)
And the Feds have spoken their word...
At least *I* don't think it was coincidence.-wraith808 (January 19, 2012, 04:10 PM)
