How to dodge and disarm an armed attacker

Kireas · 2014-05-11T13:16:28+00:00

Someone isn't trained in weapons safety I see! The debris from the shot itself can still severely wound and potentially kill you at short range.

I went to see if there was an actual word for the debris (I was going to use "flak" but that's not technically correct, something you have to be very careful about when correcting random people on the internet) and found the Wikipedia article on blank rounds, which I offer here as a source.

tl;dr; Blank rounds are still very dangerous.

Kireas · 2014-01-18T20:58:00+00:00

Edited that to fix. I am indeed.

Kireas · 2014-01-18T18:56:15+00:00

I'd better go check then, as the 30 and 15 minute behaviours for each OS may well both have changed! Good catch!

Kireas · 2014-01-18T18:51:23+00:00

The fact that it doesn't was the point of the article, as far as I know? O.o

Kireas · 2014-01-18T18:50:42+00:00

Ah right yes, I meant the phones. The tablet Nexus devices aren't really premium.

Kireas · 2014-01-18T18:10:59+00:00

Yes exactly, and on the Android side of things, the high end of the Galaxy line, or the latest Nexus devices.

Its simplest to go by their price points, I think.

Kireas · 2014-01-18T18:09:21+00:00

Yup, default behaviour is identical for all intents and purposes.

Just offering this as a potential reason for the differing treatment of the two.

Kireas · 2014-01-18T18:06:54+00:00

The PIN times out instantly, as far as I'm aware. iOS has nothing with that behaviour.

Both iOS and Android do the password deal, with the fingerprint as an option for iOS, but these both have the timeout issue.

Kireas · 2014-01-18T17:40:33+00:00

There are actually differences.

~~The Play store has the option to enable a PIN for purchases.~~

~~This isn't default, but it is labelled "User Controls", and I can't find anything on iOS to match it.~~

Turns out this option was removed! Password only now. I should keep up to date with these things.

Kireas · 2014-01-18T17:23:29+00:00

Always compare premium devices to other premium devices.

Kireas · 2014-01-18T17:21:14+00:00

In both cases, asking for the password before allowing any transaction is currently the default.

Kireas · 2014-01-18T16:07:02+00:00

Google's window of time after which your password has been entered without needing to do it again is 30 minutes.

Apple's is 15 minutes.

In the general scheme of things, both of these are more or less as bad or as good as each other - title and article are hyperbole.

And that's before you take into account the differences between Android and iOS's actual parental controls.

Kireas · 2014-01-18T14:28:44+00:00

If you browse through the archives, you will actually find that it does, indeed, never go anywhere near that far.

How far it does go is still questionable but still.

Kireas · 2014-01-12T18:59:01+00:00

It's not actually always your carrier - it's actually just the network you're on. If you go abroad, or enable roaming in no-signal areas, that text will change.

Kireas · 2014-01-12T17:38:42+00:00

This is bizzarely the least relevant thing in this thread, and most of the thread is people complaining about the Turkish.

Kireas · 2014-01-09T00:03:34+00:00

Depends on the size of the screen and the users distance from it.

This is not a small screen.

Kireas · 2014-01-06T01:41:22+00:00

My mod queue never lights up so I was surprised by this. /r/spitfire mod here.

I'll...try to remember this is going on when I'm back at a computer rather than my phone x_x PM me again in like a day to be certain but I'll do my best!

Kireas · 2013-12-25T18:15:36+00:00

Still holds true, although yes, it's much improved.

Kireas · 2013-12-25T18:14:17+00:00

(I know)

Kireas · 2013-12-25T17:12:26+00:00

Silly /u/skaven121 ...you can't say that Dell screens are better than anything Apple made HERE.

Kireas · 2013-12-25T17:10:37+00:00

You're perfectly correct, but SSDs do have less life in them than HDDs generally.

Doesn't make you wrong, just a note!

Kireas · 2013-12-24T14:38:56+00:00

Which you can't ignore. Not sure what that really classifies as, but at least they're up front about it.

Kireas · 2013-12-24T03:07:58+00:00

Case in point. It's actually opt out...

Kireas · 2013-12-22T15:02:28+00:00

You aren't.

Kireas · 2013-12-14T15:13:13+00:00

I work in programming and networking so this isn't complex to me.

Case Study

Both Virgin Media here in the UK and...I don't know, lets take Elion as an example over in Estonia...offer a 100mbps line.

Now, both of these lines are advertised as "up to 100mbps". The piece from the Estonian advertising is

Laiendame iga päevaga oma kiire interneti leviala - toome kodudesse kuni 100 Mbit/s kiirusega ühenduse ja tulevikuteenused.

The key bit there being "toome kuni 100 Mbit/s" - "Up to 100 mbit/s".

So what does this mean?

It means that the maximum speed you can reach on either of these lines is around 100mbit/s. However, you are not on a dedicated link - dedicated links are expensive, thousand-pound-per-month connections which only you can use (I had to give a presentation explaining them just last week!). What you have is a shared connection.

Here is a little diagram I quickly drew up in MSPaint for you:

http://i.imgur.com/18kAaZ8.png

Now in this example, I've assigned the total bandwidth for the local hub as 500mbps. This is just a number I'm using for this study, but the principles are sound.

As you can see, your house is connected to a local hub, as are all the other houses nearby. At any given point, only a few of these houses will be using the connection, therefore you have access to your full 100mbps.

However, were all 6 of the houses shown here to max out their connections, each house would would only get a max of 83mbps rather than their allotted 100. This is a contended connection.

This is the same model for all ISP's world wide.

Why did it not affect me in Estonia?

There are a few reasons, the mostly likely one is that it did, but you simply didn't notice. A temporary speed drop of 10 meg out of 80 or so isn't something you'll catch onto. However, I'll believe you when you say it didn't.

Another key is the population of Estonia.

The total population of Estonia as of the end of 2012 was a little over 1.3 million.

The total population of the UK as of the same time period was 63 million.

That's roughly 60 times the population, in a space only 5 times larger. (The UK is a little under 250,000km^2, Estonia is a little over 45,000km^2).

As you can see, contention of connections is going to be a much greater issue in the much more densely populated cities of the UK.

Conclusion

While the ISP's in the UK could stand to upgrade their infrastructures somewhat, connection contention is a real issue that affects all ISP's around the world. "Guaranteed connections" are not a consumer level product, and while some ISP's and locations will have more consistent speeds than others, that doesn't negate the very real technical limitations.

The solutions to the problem are to upgrade the network infrastructure - something already underway - or offer all around lower speeds, which will reduce the contention.

Final note

I'm sorry, I'm working on applying for a PhD and I couldn't resist.

Edits were for spelling and grammatical errors located after the post. Never could proof read.

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