From: JosephKK on 2 Jan 2010 02:42 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 2 Jan 2010 02:47 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 2 Jan 2010 03:01 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 2 Jan 2010 03:12 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 2 Jan 2010 09:24
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. |