That won't work either. As I said in my earlier comment, these are quite well armored and I dont' think that the flame temperature of a burning tire will be enough to destroy the innered of the camera system.

And don't forged the security surveillence camera that will record someone doing such an act.

Good try.

Sorry, but no cookie.

These are armored quite well.

I saw one dissassembled once when they were doing maintenance on it. The casing is 1/2 in steel. The glass porthole for the lens is 1/2 inch laminated glass; ie; two panes of glass sandwitching a pane of clear acrylic; similar to your windshield. The radar port (radome) is 1/2 inch plastic. It's transparent to the radar frequencies (I believe these guys use 2.5 ghz), but it cannot be broken. Just for the fun of it, I later found a piece of the same plastic but, just 1/4 inch thick. in a scrap pile at a community workshop that I belong to. I put that piece in a vice and tried to smash it with a hammer. No go.

No, I think a bullet; shotgun pellits; or especially a bat, would do nothing to these devices.

This friend speaks my words. Thank you.

No! I have been riding the MAX for 12 years. I have never been approached by any dealers of anything just because of my jacket.

At Boeing Airplanes in Renton, Washington in 1980, there was one large room with 80 engineers.

Each engineer had a desk. No deviders or walls.

All of the desks faced the same direction.

At the front of the room was a raised platform (about 1 foot high). On that platform sat the managers.

Four engineers shared one phone. That phone was on a swing arm that would swing in a circle above the four desks.

Oh, and I forgot. Your desk had to be completely bare when you left in the afternoon. And you do not want to be caught reading a newspaper anytime after the whistle blows at 8 AM.

Brilliant as in the beauty of the sparks? :)

Did they get permission from Sony? I thought those names are copyright/trademark?

Good try.

But no cookie :(

It appears that all of Walmart's IP's are in one netblock.

Here is the link to the report:

http://ipinfo.io/AS46312

161.169.64.0/18 Wal-Mart Stores 16,384

I believe that all of their web stuff is on ackamai.

All of this 'ruining Christmas' suggests to me that Christmas itself is too fragile for our society.

Perhaps should we as a society (American, World, whatever) should put Christmas as a concept away in the attic for a few centuries?

Not only did the sun rise on Christmas morning, my gifts, which were hand-made jackets that I made for my family, were still wearable and enjoyable despite whatever hacking went on.

Also, a friend's hand made chess board (inlaid wood) that was also a gift this Christmas still worked.

The doors of a hand-made maple and cherry toy box that I made for my sister for Christmas of 1999 (15 years ago) still work fine. No hacker was able to disable that gift.

I am a computer security engineer where I work.

However, in my own personal life, I am just plain very old fashioned.

I made each family member a gortex rain jacket by hand, using a non-computerized sewing machine.

People say this is old fashioned, considering that I work with computers every day.

Well, now I can say to them that my gifts cannot be hacked or DDOS'd.

Vocational shops (metal, wood, electrical, auto, etc) were never available in the private schools (Choate, Andover, Exiter, Milton, Tabor, etc). Even back in the 1960's. The only shop class that Tabor Academy (the prep school that I went to) was repairing the sailboats that are used by the sailing team. Now, I have heard that was eliminated and they have a hired crew do it.

Boston is one of the highest cost of housing areas in the country. I had a tiny one room studio overlooking a back alley back in 1998 that cost $1300 per month (Compare that with 925 per month for a two bedroom apartment here in Portland, Oregon)

I walked a mile to school at about 7:30 in the morning; walked the same mile back home for lunch at about 11 AM (no cafeteria); walked that mile back to school for the afternoon classes which start at about 1:30 PM; and then walked that mile back home in the afternoon at 3:15 PM. This is for elementary school in New England (Lincoln School in Winchester, Massachusetts, in the 1960's) All weather except for snow over 1 foot or so deep. Every school day. No busses. Now, please stop complaining. And get rid of any bus that takes students to school on 1 mile or less. Luv Mark

This person speaks my words as well. Thank you.