From: JosephKK on
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:38:50 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Fred Abse wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:30:12 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>>
>>> I was watching CSI last night and the usual thing happened that pissed
>>> me off. They were examining a laptop and the baddie "hacked in" and
>>> deleted the files while they stood helpless. Someone ought to suggest
>>> they try removing the HDD and copying it first as a matter of routine.
>>
>> A lot of the "science" in CSI is dubious, Remember the construction worker
>> who got electrocuted?
>
>Maybe I missed that, but electrocuting yourself with 110VAC takes some
>doing. I've had plenty of 240VAC "bites".
>
>I also like the way they can turn a 320x240 cam into a HD image with a
>bit of "processing". "Hey - can you blow up the image of that car number
>plate reflected in that guy's sunglasses."

That kind of detail expandability was actually possible with old
Kodacolor 25 ASA. Nothing commercially available since has matched it.
From: JosephKK on
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:19:29 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>On a sunny day (Thu, 31 Dec 2009 18:12:40 -0600) it happened krw
><krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzz> wrote in <eefqj557grpu0ccd81gr11qdlt1pers80v(a)4ax.com>:
>
>>On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:07:46 +0000, richard
>><mullens-deleteme-(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Jan Panteltje wrote:
>>>> On a sunny day (Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:55:24 -0600) it happened Jim Yanik
>>>> <jyanik(a)abuse.gov> wrote in <Xns9CEED514B6872jyaniklocalnetcom(a)216.168.3.44>:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I prefer Archie Bunker's solution;
>>>>>hand out handguns to everyone aboard;when the bad guys stand up and
>>>>>attack,everyone else draws and shoots them full of holes.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure how well a plane would take some stray bullets...
>>>> remember the movie 'Goldfinger'?
>>>>
>>>
>>>It's Jim Yanik of the lunatic gun lobby.
>>
>>The only lunatics here are the leftist weenies who want to violate our
>>civil rights, lunatic.
>
>You have no civil rights, facist GW Bush took them all aways :-)

That is one thing the American right wing nuts do not do, take away
gun rights.
From: JosephKK on
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:07:24 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com/Snicker> wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:04:59 -0600, krw <krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzz> wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:26:58 -0600, Vladimir Vassilevsky
>><nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Jim Yanik wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I prefer Archie Bunker's solution;
>>>> hand out handguns to everyone aboard;when the bad guys stand up and
>>>> attack,everyone else draws and shoots them full of holes.
>>>
>>>1. How would this help against a bomb?
>>
>>When idiot was fumbling with his panties, escort him to his virgins.
>>
>>>2. With gun conveniently provided, bad guy could just make several shots
>>>into engines or flight controls.
>>
>>You make it should so simple. You must watch a lot of TeeVee.
>>
>>>> (actually,to allow those ODCs -with concealed carry permits- to carry
>>>> aboard AC;
>>>
>>>Concealed carry permits issued by whom and recognized where?
>>
>>Certainly not in weenie Right-Pondia. In this case a tire-iron would
>>have been enough.
>>
>>>> they already know the laws concerning shooting,have shown some
>>>> level of competency with a gun,and have amassed an exemplary record of
>>>> safety and lawfulness.They have shown themselves to NOT be any problem.)
>>>
>>>Looks more like poor idiot Abdul tried to detonate something like laptop
>>>lithium ion battery by injecting water into it.
>>
>>Huh? He had PETN in his panties.
>
>Urban legend has it that "poor" Abdul burned his genitals... if that
>were true, it would be so fitting ;-)
>
> ...Jim Thompson

We all wish, alas it is just not the case. Sew him up in pigskin and
drop him on his home from 30,000 feet.
From: JosephKK on
On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:31:07 +0000, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax <dirk.bruere(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>krw wrote:
>> On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:26:58 -0600, Vladimir Vassilevsky
>> <nospam(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Jim Yanik wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I prefer Archie Bunker's solution;
>>>> hand out handguns to everyone aboard;when the bad guys stand up and
>>>> attack,everyone else draws and shoots them full of holes.
>>> 1. How would this help against a bomb?
>>
>> When idiot was fumbling with his panties, escort him to his virgins.
>>
>>> 2. With gun conveniently provided, bad guy could just make several shots
>>> into engines or flight controls.
>>
>> You make it should so simple. You must watch a lot of TeeVee.
>>
>>>> (actually,to allow those ODCs -with concealed carry permits- to carry
>>>> aboard AC;
>>> Concealed carry permits issued by whom and recognized where?
>>
>> Certainly not in weenie Right-Pondia. In this case a tire-iron would
>> have been enough.
>>
>>>> they already know the laws concerning shooting,have shown some
>>>> level of competency with a gun,and have amassed an exemplary record of
>>>> safety and lawfulness.They have shown themselves to NOT be any problem.)
>>> Looks more like poor idiot Abdul tried to detonate something like laptop
>>> lithium ion battery by injecting water into it.
>>
>> Huh? He had PETN in his panties.
>
>I'm very surprised it failed to detonate.
>Whatever he injected into it must have prevented it.
>Sounds suspicious.

From what i have found on the net for PETN acid triggers are not
exactly uncommon. They do seem to be disfavored for more reliable
methods.
From: Jan Panteltje on
On a sunny day (Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:30:12 -0800) it happened John Larkin
<jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in
<pp4tj5lln1lta5mt47fqelv0a136rr52n3(a)4ax.com>:

>On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:48:21 GMT, Jan Panteltje
><pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>>>I explored and researched the USA for most of a year before relocating
>>>from New Orleans. Finalists were Portland and San Francisco. The
>>>allergen situation broke the tie.
>>
>>Allergen?
>>
>
>Pollen. In San Francisco, most of the time the wind is from the west,
>and the nearest serious source of pollen is Japan.
>
>John

Makes me think about chemical warfare: 'The pollen bomb'.
I think I am lucky, pollen never bothered me in the least.
I may sneeze in extreme cases, that is all.