In other news today...
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@anotherusername I saw that several days ago and considered posting a thread in the garage, but then refrained.
Things that make no sense to me, which I wouldn't mind some opinions on:- This started out with a noise complaint of someone who didn't like his music. Depending on your laws, this should either be a non-issue or a "we'll give you a warning right now to turn it down. Don't make us come back or you'll need to pay a fine".
- They shot him because he had a gun. Supposedly in his hand, but maybe not even that. This is the part I have the most trouble understanding: You Americans are so big on the second Amendment thing. You have the right to bear arms. But apparently, having a gun in your own house is no longer a civil right but grounds to get shot once a cop rings your door bell. That makes no sense whatsoever.
- The jury seems to be a bunch of morons, too. They consider him "99%" at fault because he was intoxicated. I mean, apparently when you get shot for no reason, being drunk makes that your fault. Anyways, they seem to have applied that number ad infinitum to get from a few hundred thousand demanded damages to $4, then said "just for good measure, one more time, let's make $0.04 out of that since he's 99% at fault". Come on, do it a few more times until you're at micro-cents.
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Brilliant or brillant?
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@masonwheeler that's incredibly cool!
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@masonwheeler You know the ocean is really rising when the cloud ends up under water
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Apple is mocking their developers
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
I saw that several days ago and considered posting a thread in the garage, but then refrained.
Things that make no sense to me, which I wouldn't mind some opinions on:I saw this, too, and refrained, because there just isn't enough information available to make heads or tails of the situation. However, note that the case was actually decided about things the Sheriff said after the fact not about the shooting itself.
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@boomzilla I've learned never to trust anything the news reports about an officer-involved-shooting. They never have the full or real story, and all they ever do is paint the cop as a homicidal monster.
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@erufael said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I've learned never to trust anything the news reports about an officer-involved-shooting. They never have the full or real story, and all they ever do is paint the cop as a homicidal monster.
There's a photo of the bullet holes through the garage door, which seems pretty clear and convincing to me. They shot through the garage door after he closed it, killing him. I can't imagine how that would be necessary -- it's not like he was holding a hostage at gunpoint.
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@anotherusername I meant in general. Occasionally, they get one right. Maybe this is one of those times. But there is almost always something being left out as to why something happened beyond "I feel like murdering some drunk civilian on patrol tonight."
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@doctorjones said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler that's incredibly cool!
They are contributing to the warming of the oceans!
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah Salad cream is not mayonnaise. It's tangier and more yellow
He forgot the on his post.
I think you mean
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@doctorjones said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler that's incredibly cool!
I'm just wondering a bit. Sure, dropping a data center into a massive heat sink sounds good, but when that heat sink is made of highly corrosive seawater, and the entire thing runs on large amounts of electricity... what could possibly go wrong?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@erufael said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I've learned never to trust anything the news reports about an officer-involved-shooting. They never have the full or real story, and all they ever do is paint the cop as a homicidal monster.
There's a photo of the bullet holes through the garage door, which seems pretty clear and convincing to me. They shot through the garage door after he closed it, killing him. I can't imagine how that would be necessary -- it's not like he was holding a hostage at gunpoint.
Yes, it sounds convincing but the whole thing sounds so fishy that I'm convinced there's more to the story than we've heard.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@doctorjones said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler that's incredibly cool!
I'm just wondering a bit. Sure, dropping a data center into a massive heat sink sounds good, but when that heat sink is made of highly corrosive seawater, and the entire thing runs on large amounts of electricity... what could possibly go wrong?
So they have free power transfer too? Nice!
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@doctorjones said in In other news today...:
@masonwheeler that's incredibly cool!
I'm just wondering a bit. Sure, dropping a data center into a massive heat sink sounds good, but when that heat sink is made of highly corrosive seawater, and the entire thing runs on large amounts of electricity... what could possibly go wrong?
As long as it doesn't for 5 years, they'll have got what they were aiming for.
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@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
what could possibly go wrong?
Fouling of the heatsinks by marine organisms.
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Landlines are still used, at least when they work
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah
SaladSandwich cream is not mayonnaise. It's tangier and more yellowFTFY.
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@scarlet_manuka said in In other news today...:
@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah
SaladSandwich cream is not mayonnaise. It's tangier and more yellowFTFY.
The only thing I use it on is hard-boiled eggs. I'm going to boycott it unless they call it egg cream.
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@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah Salad cream is not mayonnaise. It's tangier and more yellow
My error. I should have said "inferior mayonnaise".
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@boner note that this is highly fact and locale specific. Like with all legal things, expect wide variation (autocorrect almost left that as "wife variation".)
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@cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
@scarlet_manuka said in In other news today...:
@jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@da-doctah
SaladSandwich cream is not mayonnaise. It's tangier and more yellowFTFY.
The only thing I use it on is hard-boiled eggs. I'm going to boycott it unless they call it egg cream.
tdwtf://Garage/Poe_Or_Noe/Eggs_Removed_From_Green_Salad_Emoji
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@boner said in In other news today...:
Tow trucks are all too happy to accommodate that issue on our side of the pond. And the car's owner has to pay the towing fees, too!
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
Tow trucks are all too happy to accommodate that issue on our side of the pond. And the car's owner has to pay the towing fees, too!
FTA:
However, if the car gets damaged, you could be liable to pay for damages.
The Ask The Police website says: ‘Don’t damage/ clamp the vehicle or have it removed by a third party for destruction or storage without first seeking legal advice.
‘If you do any of these things, you may commit a criminal offence or the owner may pursue a civil action against you.
The Law Is an Ass.
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@pjh What does the law say about raising a fence or some other non-damaging obstacle around the vehicle?
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@zecc said in In other news today...:
@pjh What does the law say about raising a fence or some other non-damaging obstacle around the vehicle?
Borderline, but Highways Act 1980 § 137 could conceivably apply:
137 Penalty for wilful obstruction
(1)If a person, without lawful authority or excuse, in any way wilfully obstructs the free passage along a highway he is guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding £50.
Arguably, however, it might not, since newly preventing access to, rather than progression along, a highway won't be covered by that.
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According to the law, it’s not actually illegal to park your car on a driveway without permission.
What is illegal, however, is for the owner of that property to damage the illegally parked car – odd, we know.
Uh... what? There's no illegally-parked car in this scenario. Literally the last sentence literally just said the car was not illegally-parked. And why is it "odd" that damaging someone else's shit is against the law?
Did the writer of this article actually read it before hitting that "publish" button and heading to the bar?
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Will DHS ban computers on planes?
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
There's no illegally-parked car in this scenario.
People are expressing surprise that trespass is only a civil matter, and the rights of the trespassed are few, compared to those of the trespasser who has apparently more in that situation.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
According to the law, it’s not actually illegal to park your car on a driveway without permission.
What is illegal, however, is for the owner of that property to damage the illegally parked car – odd, we know.
Uh... what? There's no illegally-parked car in this scenario. Literally the last sentence literally just said the car was not illegally-parked. And why is it "odd" that damaging someone else's shit is against the law?
Did the writer of this article actually read it before hitting that "publish" button and heading to the bar?
BEEP BOOP. It's illegally parked in that it involved trespassing, not that it was parked in a no parking zone or similar. BEEP BOOP.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Will DHS ban computers on planes?
It's been a while since we've had articles about plane hacking coming from people who clearly know nothing about AFDX. (I'm not saying hacking a plane is impossible, but I would expect it to be essentially impossible unless you have expensive equipment, direct access to the avionics buses, and insider knowledge of the plane's VL and port configurations. Or if the plane designer is a complete moron and used standard Ethernet instead of AFDX, which is not something I'd expect from Boeing.)
EDIT: Following the links to here: https://www.thedailybeast.com/could-terrorists-hack-an-airplane-the-government-just-did
Could terrorists hijack an airliner remotely by hacking into its cockpit controls, putting its fate in their hands?
No, unless they're already on-board and armed with boxcutters.
The problem is that nobody with knowledge of aviation cyber security is sure of how vulnerable airplanes are to such an attack
Um what? This is nonsense.
This question is being asked because of the revelation that a team of cyber experts at the Department of Homeland Security successfully hacked into the avionics of a commercial airplane parked at an airport as part of a test.
The plane was parked? Perhaps it was in dataload mode? That's the only thing I can think of, and that really only opens it up to hacking by maintenance personnel which shouldn't be a concern because you're already trusting them to do software updates to the plane.
A Boeing spokesman told The Daily Beast: “We witnessed the test and can say unequivocally that there was no hack of the airplane’s flight control systems.”
And here it is. The one little sentence buried in the middle that negates the entire premise of the article.
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@boomzilla So the first sentence I quoted is wrong? One way or the other, the article is self-contradictory.
But of course you know that, you're just calling me an idiot because it's the freelance "call Blakeyrat an idiot no matter what he says" squad in action again.
Hey guys, Blakeyrat's an idiot moron. Remember? Better remind everybody what a stupid garbage idiot I am all the time.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
So the first sentence I quoted is wrong? One way or the other, the article is self-contradictory.
Only for robots who cannot handle when people use language in ways that does not perfectly fit their expectations.
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Hey guys, Blakeyrat's an idiot moron. Remember?
How could we forget?
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
It's been a while since we've had articles about plane hacking coming from people who clearly know nothing about AFDX.
I remember this being discussed before... But then they had this in the article:
FBI agent wrote that security researcher Chris Roberts said in an interview he had hacked the in-flight entertainment system of an aircraft, overwritten code on the plane’s Thrust Management Computer while on the flight, and caused the plane to briefly change course.
Which made me go
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@dcon Yeah, there's absolutely no way he did what he claimed. He's just an idiot moron looking for attention.
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@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@dcon Yeah, there's absolutely no way he did what he claimed. He's just an idiot moron looking for attention.
Maybe he made the on-screen flight path (you know, the entertainment center) change.
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
So the first sentence I quoted is wrong? One way or the other, the article is self-contradictory.
It is not illegally parked, in that they cannot cite you with a parking violation. It is, however, illegally parked, in that they can charge you with trespassing, which is illegal, for parking it there.
"Illegally parked" vs. "illegally" "parked". Words can mean multiple things.
@pjh said in In other news today...:
People are expressing surprise that trespass is only a civil matter, and the rights of the trespassed are few, compared to those of the trespasser who has apparently more in that situation.
In the UK, evidently. In the US, trespassing is a criminal offense, though it typically requires that they committed the trespass both intentionally and knowingly. Among other things, this means that in the US you can be arrested for trespassing (once the cops have sussed out that you're aware that you're on private property without its owner's permission and you aren't going to leave) -- vs. in the article, it said they do not have the power to make an arrest for trespassing in the UK.
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@anotherusername Yes yes obviously I'm a stupid idiot moron for reading the words on the screen, we get it, dumb as dirt, etc.
Guys my self-esteem is already zero, you're just wasting your time by telling me what a moron I am. I get it ok? Christ.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
requires that they committed the trespass both intentionally and knowingly.
Well, if they parked in my driveway, they certainly did it intentionally. Now if they were drunk off their ass, it may not have been knowingly!
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
@dcon Yeah, there's absolutely no way he did what he claimed. He's just an idiot moron looking for attention.
Maybe he made the on-screen flight path (you know, the entertainment center) change.
That's slightly more feasible than the original claims. The entertainment system stuff is usually plain-jane Ethernet, and anything that needs data from the avionics network will get it via an AFDX-Ethernet bridge which is receive-only on the AFDX side (both by virtue of the bridge's design, and the design/configuration of the plane's avionics switches).
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Yes yes obviously I'm a stupid idiot moron for reading the words on the screen
Twice in the last 15 minutes you said to two different poster that they called you an idiot.
Both post you replied to didn't even contain the word idiot.
You need to practice your reading skill
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@timebandit shh, you're ruining his pity party.
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@timebandit said in In other news today...:
Both post you replied to didn't even contain the word idiot.
Hmm...you're right. We can do better.
@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
Yes yes obviously I'm a stupid idiot moron for reading the words on the screen, we get it, dumb as dirt, etc.
Now if only you could understand the words you idiot moron.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@timebandit shh, you're ruining his pity party.
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http://myfox8.com/2018/06/07/nc-pizza-restaurant-worker-accused-of-putting-rat-poison-in-cheese/
After reading the article, I want to know the backstory now!
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