Posts by Ian Michael Gumby 4454 publicly visible posts • joined 11 Apr 2006
Sorry, but any proper farmer / rancher would tell you to use a .22lr or similar rimfire round.
As to their eyesight, yes they have poor eyesight. But they do have good hearing and smell.
As to being point blank, I doubt it. If he was, then the ricochet wouldn't have traveled 100 yrds. (Think about the angle.)
The round went through the Armadillo and then went on to hit the MiL.
The story has it wrong if the Armadillo didn't die. Their skin isn't going to stop a 9mm. Trust me, I know. I've killed 100's of them over a 4 year stretch. .22lrs work great, although I used a 16 gauge w #8 birdshot once.
Either the guy missed and the round richocheted off the ground or it went through the pest.
You've never been around them on a farm, have you?
They are pests that have migrated north from South America.
They do spread leprosy, which makes them dangerous to humans and cattle.
They have large front claws. When cornered they'll cut you or your dog up. And when cornered they do charge at you.
They dig holes everywhere. Again a danger to humans and cattle.
They are varmints and breed as bad as rabbits. But with rabbits, at least you can eat them and use their fur...
Actually, speaking from experience, the 9mm is the wrong tool for the job.
.22lr is the right tool. It does a good job on them. You usually use a rifle, but you could use a pistol. Typically you end up shooting them from a distance (20+ yrds).
They also have a habit of charging at you after they're shot.
Anyone who's spent time in the country know that they are nasty critter to have around.
Its not just an issue about leprosy, but they have amazing front claws from digging and can seriously hurt dogs and other curious pets. Not to mention they dig holes all over the place. A good way to break a leg, or to have a cow break a leg or get injured. (My wife didn't hate them until she got a bad sprain from stepping in to a hole dug by one.)
In terms of using a shotgun, that too will kill them, but with the .22lr, you end up with longer effective range.
The other fun tidbit is that when you do shoot them, they jump straight up so you know you hit them.
Oh and the 9mm? He must have used a FMJ usually used for practice on the range. Most self defense rounds would have expanded and lost too much energy.
I had to use a 9mm on a rabid racoon once. But then again, it was less than 10 feet away and I was shooting down in to the soft dirt so the round wouldn't have ricocheted.
Sorry, but anyone with any time working for a large enough corporation knows that they own your email servers.
Hillary's use of her personal email account had at least tacit approval from the WH and as a lawyer, Clinton knew she had the legal responsibility to retain any and all emails sent or received by this account. (Including anything personal.)
The reason that they are claiming the requests for the emails and that she face a congressional hearing are 'political' is that the Democrats and the Democratic Party are placing their own self interests ahead of the oaths of office that they took when they were elected.
Lets be clear. Democrats are afraid to stand up for the law.
Hillary admitted to having deleted any and all emails that were 'personal' as well as deleting emails that she printed out and gave to the US Government in hard copy only.
This is obstruction and she should be wearing Orange Jumpsuits and taking lessons from Martha Stewart.
The OS sucks.
They require you to set up a hotmail account or import everything from your hotmail account in as contacts, whether you like it or not.
As phone, physically the Nokia 1020 is solid.
As a camera, it rocks.
I have several shots that I took using it blown up to 17 x 14 without losing detail or looking grainy.
Good luck doing that with any other phone camera.
Of course the damn auto focus gets in the way sometimes....
"Looks like it may have been started by someone smoking dope down there..."
Sure if they were smoking thermite.
Once you get it started, you can't put it out. Not too terribly complicated, although you need to get the mix right otherwise it goes boom or doesn't work. This would burn through almost everything.
You do realize that they can easily knock out mobile traffic too.
Not to mention that the nearby antennas for cell communication also use the same BT lines..
So if you knock out a large enough area in terms of power and cell towers, and then knock out the local cell traffic with a blocker... You've pretty much shut that avenue down...
Of course this is redundant because they took out the alarm system too.
This would only leave radio as an option, but that too can be jammed to a point.
The US needs a loser pays system.
This raises the risk of taking a lawsuit forward in court.
The other thing is that there has to be an easier way to challenge software patents and business process patents.
In fact, these shouldn't be patentable in the first place. By fixing this error, the number of patent related lawsuits will drop.
Then when you see something like Marvel's loss, you realize that CMU was correct in asserting their rights over a hardware patent.
"Where the Galaxy S6 really stands out is ease of use for taking photos and videos demonstrating a versatile level of performance. "
Still not as nice as the Nokia Lumina, but then again try buying one new... Now that was the best camera that doubled as a phone. If only they weren't handicapped by a lousy OS...
If your wife is an American citizen, then she is required by law to report her income and joint income if she's named on the account, regardless if she has dual citizenship.
This had been covered in the press months ago and its not the ultra rich who are getting caught up in the net.
Your wife has to renounce her citizenship or risk facing terrible repercussions with the IRS.
And trust me. The IRS are all weasels.
Most of those renouncing citizenships are ex-pats who have lived most of their lives outside of the US.
If you are caught renouncing your citizenship in an effort to skate on taxes... the US will not recognize it and you'll still be on the hook.
And of course countries like France have numbers that are worse.
The rule of thumb is to go after the easier targets first. Then you have a precedent of a win behind you. After that you go for bigger and bigger fish who will either settle or will have a harder time in court arguing facts that you have already used in a different court.
If you go after the bigger fish out of the gate... you fight a company with deep pockets who can tie this up in court longer than you can.
And by no means is Marvel a little fish.
You have damages and you could ask the court to triple the damages based on the fact that the infringement was willful.
I agree that the courts did in fact properly award the damages and the penalty.
Marvel is SOL and would be better off paying it off now and getting out of court.
It wasn't a single patent, but several and they were necessary for Marvel's chip to work.
From the article:
"It's not hard to see why: Apple's managing director for Australia and New Zealand Tony King explained that the company generated AU$6bn in sales last year and paid $80m in tax on $250m of profits. That skinny margin comes, he said, from the fact that Apple Australia pays other members of the Apple group for the kit and content it sells here, but that the cost of developing those products is baked into the prices it pays even though product development is all done in the USA."
But here's the thing. That money is being siphoned off by the intermediary and is not coming back to the US. Higher tax? Yeah, but its a catch-22. They claim that they are paying more for the product that they buy from their internal division but that money isn't going back to the US.
In terms of a tax holiday... they can invest that money off shore tax free and then bring it in later.
In fact, they can borrow in the US against it and write off the interest rate, reducing their effective tax rate.
Apples to oranges.
But the question was why not concentrate on developing fusion power. Well for that matter why not develop safe 4th+ gen reactors that don't create weapons grade materials as an output and are light years safer than the first gen plant at Fukishima?
That's a lot cheaper than the LHC.
Could the US had built something the size of the LHC? Yes, but at the time.. they thought it better to let the EU do it and to not have competing projects. IMHO, this is a bit foolish because with two... you can do twice the experiments or check and verify the results from the other LHC.
But w.r.t fusion energy, yes we need it.
Especially if you want something that could be used to create cheap reliable power without giving the country access to fissionable material and potential WMD.
You talk about losing privacy with AT&T. But guess what.
Google doesn't give you the option to get your privacy back.
But then again, unlike AT&T, every major website runs Google's code that tracks you.
I wonder why El Reg and other journalists don't look at how Google uses Google analytics and how they force companies in to using them for their analytics.
Just saying!!!
PS. Yeah I know about no script.
Have you ever tried to develop software on a windows machine vs a Mac?
Sure, both can run eclipse and both can pull maven objects but because the Mac's OS is more Linux like, its easier. (Note: Mach is not Linux and at that level, you're splitting hairs, and no, it wasn't derived from Linux. Mach actually predates Linux, just ask Avi T. and some folks at CMU... ;-)
[No. Seriously... remember NeXTStep? ]
But I digress. The point is that for those of us who develop software, especially in the Big Data world, the Mac has the advantage.
I'm no fanboi, but I prefer to work with tools are easy to work with. Lets face it. Window 8.1? The UI sucks and I say this as I'm am building two new machines for my wife's office.
The evidence will be when the accounts are flagged as having fraud on the account and when you have enough accounts, you can figure out the source of the breach.
And by you, its the credit card companies since they will be able to do a simple k-means algo to find the culprit.
The goal is to make the meter reading easier.
Wireless so that they don't need physical access to the meter. (Beware of dog), in buildings, etc...
You could lock down the meters so that once they are installed, the only communication would a HELO statement containing the data and then no further communication. You want to modify the meter? You need to use a physical connection and the PC has to have a special fob or smart card chip to ensure secure access beyond passwords.
Because of your cock up, over here across the pond, left thinking politicians have pushed us to get smart meters.
Oh we must get them so we know how we're using or misusing power.
They have been shoved down our throat and to what end?
We're now more vulnerable to attack and cyber threats.
Security is always an after thought and too expensive to implement for the bean counters.
Time for a class action, but then again. companies don't learn and lawyers just get fatter and spend money on private jets which just increases our carbon footprint so we lose even more.
Beyond more nuke plants, there's the need to secure the IT infrastructure and maybe look at using TCP/IP over power cables as a backup for infrastructure in case you lose telco but have power.
I agree that Smart Meters are a joke. If you look back at how they were sold. They tried to show it as a benefit to the consumers. In fact the only advantage is that it makes reading meters easier and lest costly for the power companies.
And of course they add yet another access point for threats to the power infrastructure.
Yes Virginia, there really are bad people out to get you....
You do realize that both Google and FB collect enough information from you that even using an alias online, that they can still join it to enough information about you to track the real you.
You don't even have to be on FB site to be tracked by FB. (Can you guess how many web sites embed FB javascripts? )
I'll defer to your local knowledge on jumping bail.
However...
Assange fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy. Its theoretically possible that Assange's fine wouldn't be that small giving the UK government a chance to recoup some of its expenses? (I don't know... just asking)
Also it could take some time for the courts to hear Assange's case. He's going to be put in to the clink until his case is heard... no chance of bail.
While the jumping bail is the least of his worries, it also leads to an excuse for the UK government to forcibly return him to Australia. Under the law, he's usually told to leave the UK and he can go where he wants, however, he can also, at the discretion of the UK government, be sent back to his home country.
Now which do you think is more likely to happen?
Reply Icon
I think Julian has the right to be scared. He's not going to be executed.
I'm not convinced about that. Sure, America won't put him out of our misery, but a sufficiently lengthy stay in general population may not see him leave incarceration HIV negative.
-=-
Well that's a different sort of lethal injection... and of course with some of the drugs not made in the US and other countries now refusing to sell the drugs used in lethal injections to the US... we're back to other methods.
Sorry, but the point is that Assange will not face the death penalty at trial, which is a major stumbling block to extraditions. He may very well die in prison, any prison because of other inmates in gen pop.
As to HIV... for all we know, he may already have it and its one of the complaints that the girls had and wanted him tested because he chose to have unwelcomed unprotected sex with them.
I know, but when dealing with lawyers you have 3 options...
They take a retainer aka cash up front and then bill you.
They take the case on contingency (getting paid from the payout)
They do the work pro-bono for the good of the system if you can't afford proper representation.
Since this is not a contingency case its one of the other two options.
At one time, Assange could have gotten a lawyer pro-bono because of his idealism. However this isn't a potential ground breaking SCOTUS case, but one of a criminal act against an individual. (Rape)
And Assange isn't destitute.
Yes he caused his followers to part with cash because he's a scared little boy... or rather an adult with a Peter Pan complex, and that also leads in to the case itself.
Again... had he just manned up and didn't flee in the first place? He would have been back on his merry way. Now? Even when this is all over... he can be denied entrance in to Sweden. In addition, its possible that he could be denied entrance in to other EU countries as well or even other countries because of his criminal conviction. (Heck he could even be added to US's no fly list too.)
Unless you're one of the judges involved, it doesn't matter what you think.
As I said in an earlier post its what the prosecutor and the courts thing in SWEDEN.
Even though the courts in the UK said that 2 of the 4 counts, if true, would be considered rape in the UK. To your point, there are countries where none of this would be considered rape, or even if it was, it wouldn't warrant the extradition. THAT's WHY HE FLED JURISDICTION. He gambled and lost.
You claim that the women would perjure themselves if this went to court. Hardly. The real question is if their testimony is strong enough to get Assange convicted. His running will influence the courts as to which side is being truthful...
Sparty,
Yes and no.
First, rape is one of the 32 crimes that doesn't require parody between the two countries, so really its what Sweden says.
While the high courts found that 2 of the 4 counts would still be considered rape in the UK, it meant that 2 counts wouldn't and of course there's the other issue.... getting a jury of his peers to find him guilty of the crime. That's where you will run in to difficulty. If you take everything at face value to be true, then you may have had a crime, yet during trial, if the defense can raise enough reasonable doubt... it makes going to trial moot.
I don't know why the high courts even suggested this because it wasn't necessary under the language of the extradition treaty.
But we're splitting hairs, we both agree that he needs to go back and face the music.
Oddly enough... had he not even fled jurisdiction (with the assistance of his attorney, which said attorney admitted to under oath...) , had he been charged and faced a trial, the worst case outcome would have been 4 years or so. The odds are he would have gotten far less time if any.
What this really points to is his character. And that says a lot.
So you're right, Assange is no longer a threat because he's been outed as a prat.
But he's a threat because of Assange/Manning we have Snowden who isn't a whistleblower either.
And then if you don't punish Assange or Snowden... you'll have to worry about the next idiot who thinks its a good idea to steal and spill the beans even if no illegal activity has occurred.
So... I have to ask...
I remember reading somewhere that they were crediting Manning/Assange for leaking material that set off Arab Spring. (Its actually on Manning's wikipedia page...)
So I have to ask... are we safer today post Arab Spring?
That was more rhetorical.... No we are not.
This is why bringing Assange to justice is important. Not just because he abuses women, but because he's a real threat.
You'd have to go back over the evidence in Manning's Article 32 hearing.
Again if all Assange did was publish the docs... he's have the 1971 Ellsberg decision where SCOTUS protects the press.
But the allegation is that he helped with the break in. That's a whole different kettle of fish and they seem to have some evidence to that effect. I don't know and I'm not going to say that if what was alleged in the Article32 hearing is true... Assange is in a world of hurt unless he can hide for the next 25 years.
"I think Assange is a player and a pig when it comes to woman.
I don't think it was a rape but maby a bit humilating sex act and then it catched a political flu."
But in Sweden it was rape when you don't wear a raincoat and the woman says no sex without a raincoat.
There's more to it but where his actions wouldn't be rape in a lot of different countries... it is under the law in Sweden.
Here's the thing...
Were this only that Assange published the leaked documents... well, he'd have some protection under the constitution.
But its been alleged in Manning's Article 32 hearing that Assange assisted with the theft. If that's the case. He's looking at 10-15 in a serious prison and not some club fed.
Snowden? That's a whole nother kettle of fish. I'd suggest you choose better heroes.
"At that point the Swedish police will just have to go to the end of the queue; the UK courts get first dibs on a small account of breah of bail conditions."
I'm not so sure on that.
It could be that he's extradited to Sweden. They charge him and hold a trial. At the end, (guilty or not, prison or not) He goes back to the UK for the jumping bail charge. Or he could be found guilty and then he's sent back to the UK to serve his time after Sweden. Then its off to Australia.
(You can bet that this has been already in the works. ) It would then clean the hands of Sweden, the hands of the UK where back in Australia, the US can present them with an extradition warrant and the Aussies will comply because they already know that he's a prat.
I think Julian has the right to be scared. He's not going to be executed. (That's already off the table because of Manning's sentence) He'll get jail time, and then there's a high possibility that he won't do too well in prison.
Many PoS systems request email and phone # as a way to get more marketing data. You'd be surprised at how many people give it up without a fight.
I can understand this for online orders, however... at the PoS where you're buying the product in person?
In the States you can always give them <area code> 555-1212 (informtion) or any other 555 number which is never used as a real number.
This is where the law gets murky.
First, the data on their customers is an asset. It has value and one could place a dollar amount on it. You can thank Silicon Valley VC types for this.
So while the privacy laws may restrict how they use the data, it doesn't mean that the bankrupt company couldn't sell the data.
In short, you're still screwed because they could always join this data to their existing data on you ...
Waste heat from server farms and machine rooms have been used to heat office building in the winter via a massive heat exchanger. You could also use them to heat the ground under side walks to melt snow and ice.
You could also push the heat in to an earth sink or large body of moving water.
BTW, if you're a corporation... would you trust having your server(s) sitting in someone's home unsecured? Didn't think so...
So, riddle me this...
You're a for profit company and you store your secret sauce on a third party's system?
Granted there are two types of repositories, public and private. If you're using a free repository, then its public and anyone can view your code. If you're using a private repository, then you're paying for the privilege of only letting certain people to access your code.
Assuming that Uber isn't that stupid of a company and is paying for the use of a repo, then they have the rights to GitHub's logs on who accessed what when it comes to specific and relevant accounts.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
