I've been thinking of doing some data recovery type computer support on the side....

This puts me off big time.

Unless I get someone to buffer me from the general public... *looks toward wife*....

Reminds me of a story from a guy who came to our high school when I was about 14, to explain the sport of Fencing. He went on to say they had some 'tough-guys' turn up to try to tell them they were panzies all dressed in white, and started to threaten and get rough.

Moral of the story (as you can guess) was don't bring fists to a sword fight....

So this time the goons will be harder to detect, and won't be bussed in en-masse?

# 35

Civics Lesson 1.02.

The United States Of America is a Constitutional Republic; and uses a 'political philosophy' of Democracy to conduct the 'representative' portion of business, - elections.

Many laptops have webcams. Set it to record (as a hidden process) when a certain user is logged in.

Record the Customs agent and all he says, and post it on Youtube.

THAT will get their attention.

I'm just glad I have a choice of providers:

1) AT&T
2) SBC
3) Charter Communications, well at least it is until it hits the box next to my property where it turns into an AT&T network.

Hooray choice!

Congrats!!!

"Flying is not a right granted under the Bill of Rights"

Agree. However the TSA are NOT in the business of operating aircraft. The TSA ARE in the business of "searches, arrests, and seizures of property without a specific warrant or a "probable cause" to believe a crime has been committed."

I'm glad we sorted that then.

Does anyone know a good cyberlawyer who can cast some light on this?

oh wait...

>>> "If there were a truly enforceable way to make cops use tasers only in situations where they would otherwise have to use deadly force"

There is: Digital Video camera which starts recording when the taser is removed from the holster and records for 60 seconds after it is fired.

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Oh, and I just had a look though their site and their 'Patents'. This looks a little patent troll-ish as it is still in the vaporware stage.

They'll face a huge hurdle with turning the windscreen into a HUD and projecting the line at the required 'infinite distance' so you don't need to focus on it.

To turn the windscreen into a HUD, it needs to reflect the light projected onto it from the inside, back into the car. This is achieved in aircraft easily with a semi-reflective coating on the inside of a piece of special glass (called the combiner). An aircraft does not have other vehicles directly behind the you shining lights into your vehicle - as doing this may reduce your visibility of the road at night to near Zero.

The combiner reflects mono-chromatic light, but if you get broadband light from a white light source, it will reflect light in the band for which it is designed.

I'm now pretty skeptical if they have a working model. (They even say the video is a simulated example)

Agree with the two posts above,

A GPS system on your dash is an AID. You are still responsible for driving to and from the right place, and obeying road rules etc.

It is one thing listening to directions, and they can be pretty easy to ignore when you see that things are wrong. But because this looks so real, and is part of the scenery that I think this would be much much harder to ignore or override with common sense.

Fantastic concept but lets hope it takes a couple of years to come to market, and they have near-live mapping data subscription model so your maps don't go out of date.

But we have choices!!! You don't have to go with AT&T !!! Let the market decide!!!

Unless you live where I live - I have the choice of:

AT&T - Nuff said.

SBC: Oh wait... they're AT&T...

Charter Communications - (let there be hope!!!)
Our Charters network is actually an AT&T network. The only time I see 'Charter' is on my invoice or if the tech has to come to the house in his 'Charter truck'. If there is a problem at with the network beyond the house -its fixed by AT&T techs. (all of this according to the Charter tech that came to my house recently.) Where we live, Charter is just a front for AT&T.

Some great scam AT&T have got going here.

Opps:

Spelling is ' Great Britain ' of course.

To those who are saying people are too afraid to make a common-sense decision (like assessing a 5YO as not being a risk) over fear of losing their healthcare:

Having lived in three countries with Government provided healthcare (NZ, AUS, Great Brittian) and one without (now in the USA).... I've had many discussions with Americans on the benefits of 'universal healthcare' (where private care is offered along-side: Best of both worlds). The VERY LARGE MAJORITY defend the current insurance system with vigorous fervor, and I have come to the conclusion that this is what the *majority* of Americans actually want.

I truly believe that the current American medical "system" is bleeding Middle America dry. I don't know how it will ever change, but it will probably take a true recession with thousands of deaths for the people to want the system to change.

The USA would be much safer if nothing was allowed in OR out.

('safer' in the same way an electrical outlet is safer if you cover it?)

My first thought was a laser gyroscope.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_gyroscope

Turns out I was not far off the mark... (seems the search for ether effect was not wasted) according to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment

Be much easier to tase, handcuff and then chain everyone to their seat.

Armed guard on each bus of course.

We didn't know about the F117 or SR71 for a number of years, and anyone who'd spotted one before their acknowledgment had thought they'd seen a 'UFO'. (technically they were unidentified)

I'm sure the Japanese have 'picked up' someone elses covert aircraft - that are relatively unexplainable.

I find the "no need to dial 1" very very very annoying.

That is what you get for giving officers 'quotas' on the number of citations they must give out.....

One option would be to stand near it and phone the police (not 911) and ask for direction on what to do. "I'm standing next to a wallet lying on the ground and would like to return it, can you send an officer to pick it up......"

The links from this page have some interesting information: (thanks to the person who provide the other link above) http://rationalwiki.info/

RationalWiki started its existence shortly after a rash of bannings of liberal editors on Conservapedia who could not abide the conservative and Christian friendly encyclopedia’s ideas.

THis page http://rationalwiki.info/index_files/Page266.htm mentioned bots.... But looks like some wanted to use them and some didn't...

but this page: http://rationalwiki.info/index_files/Page440.htm talks about

Yes, this self-described “rational” group went from vandalism of articles to inflicting real monetary damages upon Conservapedia, and did so with a real malice, in an attempt to make them shut it down. In fact, in the pages that follows, that becomes the Cabal’s obsession, finding ways to make the Owner abandon his project, or lock it down, turn it into a private wiki instead of a alternative educational wiki.