* Posts by Ring peanut gallery

5 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Oct 2007

Home Sec: Tasers could become standard police kit

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Police in North America are immune to prosecution anyway

but tasers give them utter freedom to "give back" to the community when they feel like a suspect has given them a hard time...or when they are in a bad mood.

Since tasers are (officially) non-lethal, an officer can always says that he was just trying to "calm down" the suspect and no harm was intended.

Of course, most officers have never had a significant electrical shock, let alone a taser shot. Certainly not the three-times-in-a-row-and-in-handcuffs version they offer to the public.

Yes, police need to use force at times. Tasers are used for fun and for revenge.

In Canada, we have more civilians killed by police tasers than were killed by police guns previously. Of course the deaths can't be directly attributed to the kilovolts administered.

Death by coincidence, no?

Security site knocks spots off Mac OS X Leopard firewall

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Apple is distracted by two things

A much more profitable ipod business and the fact that they are trying harder to protect the OS from the consumer than external security issues.

Apple will fix the "installable on a standard PC" bug first!

Toshiba to field HD DVD-equipped Xbox 360?

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If true, it will certainly depend on the 65nm move

Or a chassis with brilliant airflow.

I am betting this will only happen after the GPU move to a 65nm process.

North American cities go green under LED street lights

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Yes, there are big pollution savings from their longer life and their lower power use but...

I just hope that, if Toronto ever does replace the general purpose street lamps, they will put proper reflectors on them.

I don't need my room lit from the street. If I want to see what's going on in my bedroom, I'll light it myself.

Wasted light is a quality of life problem (for me and astronomers alike) and an environmental problem we could so easily fix.

Sony slashes US 80GB PS3 price by $100

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Now for something to play on it...

Without PS2 games, there is very little gamery available exclusively to the PS3.

In removing compatibility, they have cut off access to the very best reason for owning the device.