Posts by TimeMaster T

Re: Stinks of corruption

small correction. Nothing was "stolen". The woman provided the phone to the police and consented to its contents being copied. However, the police had no fucking business copying and keeping more than the video the victim had made. And they sure as Hells should not have provided it to the lawyer until charges had actually been brought against the accused as part of discovery.

Given the number of times I've heard about police doing more to protect each other than to protect the public I can't help but think there was malicious intent by individuals in the police department.

Re: To be Fair

One of the things they teach you in law school and the training academy of every LEO in the USA, is what kind of judge is needed for what level of search.

The Feds screwed up. They should have gotten another warrant before they went outside the boundaries of the warrant they had. And if they didn't know the difference they shouldn't be in law enforcement.

food for thought

If a good cop knows that another officer is bad and doesn't do anything, doesn't that make the "good" cop worse than the bad cop since they are not only NOT doing anything to stop the bad cop (so an accessory after the fact) but are also protecting the bad cop (obstruction) by not reporting them.

So by this its easy to arrive at the conclusion that all the police are dirty, not just one or two.

The greatest evil is when the good to nothing.

Re: 2 thoughts

That is a very rude thing to say. Davros is much better looking.

Re: Cassini is unaffected by Planet 9's gravitational charms

The article mentions that "Planet 9" would not be able to directly affect Cassini but could affect Saturn's orbit which WOULD affect Cassini's position relative to the Earth since Cassini is within Saturn's gravity well.

But they didn't find anything that showed an effect on Saturn during Cassini's time there. This lack of detection could mean;

The current positions of Saturn and Planet 9 are so far apart that any deviance in Saturn's orbit is so small it is below the detection threshold of the instruments. This could be the case if "9" is currently near the outer end of it's orbit. So effort must continue using other methods.

OR

There is no "Planet 9" and the evidence so far is just random orbital noise that looks like a pattern

I'm hoping its the former, it would be really cool if a new, big, planet was found during my lifetime. Sadly there would not be a mission to it within whats left of my lifetime. A planet so far out would likely be so cold, and has stayed that way, as to have preserved information about the dust/gas cloud that formed the solar system.

Side note; Pluto comes in close enough to the sun that it gets enough heat at times to maintain a gaseous atmosphere for a time, so some of the Hydrogen and other lite gasses would have had a chance to boil off a little since Pluto formed. Planet 9 might be far enough out and big enough to have held onto more of its original gasses.

Re: Kind of what I said a couple weeks ago.

Doesn't surprise me that I mixed up the phone versions, I tend to get the different model "smart phones" confused no mater who make them.

Thanks for clarifying things for me and everyone else. :)

Re: "we will just add another nail to the coffin"

And Holy Water, don't forget the Holy Water.

Re: Mr Barack "Hope & Change" Obama

" If that nut actually had a chance in hell of winning (Thankfully he does NOT). "

You might want to read this,

http://firebrandleft.com/university-100-accuracy-record-predicts-bernie-sanders-will-americas-next-president/

and start packing.

Sonicare

pop a WiFi chip and a little extra code into one of those and you've got an IoT toothbrush. I would not be surprised if there was already one being preped for market.

Personally I plan to avoid IoT devices, how many times I raid the fridge in the middle of the night for ice cream is nobodies business but mine.

Re: Law of averages

IIRCC The Tunguska event is currently believed to have been cause by a cometary fragment, so technically not a "meteorite".

Also, while this might indeed be first Human death, lets not forget about the Dinosaurs :)

Re: retailer?

some places have discounts if your in the Military.

Re: Benefits.

If they don't someone will.

It is only a matter of time before the hopeless decide they have nothing left to loose, and that is when it will start getting messy.

And you know this for a fact how?

"Would take a while to get there, voyager 1 has been going for 39 years"

coasting.

with a VASIMR or ion providing constant thrust we could get a probe there in under a year flight time

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/vasimr-rocket-mars_n_7009118.html

Re: Thanks FCC

"Hillary and despite all her faults looks like the only choice."

Not the only choice. Bernie Sanders.

Remember: The only way to "throw your vote away" is to NOT vote. Don't like the candidates listed? Then write in who you want, even if its your pet hamster. Every voted counted that isn't for the wining candidate means they can't claim to represent a majority of the American people as easily.

Re: More details needed...

Didn't something like that also happen in Texas?

Woman gets arrested for no valid reason and is then found dead in her holding cell a few days later in what is declared a suicide.

Getting on the wrong side of a police officer can destroy your life. Even if you are innocent, and can prove it, the court will find some way to ignore the evidence and believe the officers story over yours.

Then every time you fill out a application for employment, security clearance, loan, etc. you will have to check the "Have you ever been arrested?" box. And they don't bother looking at the "why" field as they move your paperwork to the bin.

Woah!!

Just watched the link.

It really does make a Hell of a lot of sense. And all the pieces fit ....

Scary. Very scary.

Re: Errr..clarification

the cargo areas of most modern planes are pressurized just like the passenger cabin. The rule about the tires might be a hold over from when the holds weren't pressurized or just a safety measure in case of a depressurization, which as you point out the more modern high pressure tires would handle without issue.

Likely its one of those things where someone said "OMG!, if the plane lost pressure those tires filled with pressure could EXPLODE!!!" and put in the rule without actually talking to anyone who knew anything about it.

Re: I'm wondering

Fun idea but ...

You would be getting into legally questionable territory with spoofing. Right now the device just makes a polite request to the WiFi connected mobile/laptop/tablet to "get lost", its up to the connected device to preform the actual disconnect.

By spoofing a web site or redirecting the connection you get into legal areas covered by cyber security laws, unauthorized use of a system, intrusion, and other legal grey areas.

Better to just get a device to drop the connection. No one gets hurt and you can rightfully claim that you have done nothing to intercept or tamper with data on another persons device.

That said I want one of these things. Not sure what I would do with it but I'm sure I would think of something.