Have one, and it is used as an XBMC server for video streaming from the net. Run's mashup and some other 'unofficial' XBMC repo apps.

Maybe Ebola isn't the easiest to catch, but it's similar to other non-airborn pathogens. The problem, is human interaction and travel is higher now than it ever has. Obviously, Ebola is spreading at this point, many point out that it is due to the 3rd world countries sanitation or other factors, but it is spreading.

The problem with pandemics, is they start out slowly, but ramp at an exponential rate. You can see this already from the graphs posted above. Once you hit a critical point, it is VERY hard to stop. It's one thing when it's 1 person out of millions, or what have you, but once it gets going, it starts infecting families, which are harder to separate and harder to quarantine.

I'm reminded of the scene in the movie "Outbreak" where the military has the whole city on lock down, and is ordering all families who have a member showing signs of infection to put a ribbon on their door so they can come and pick up the family member for quarantine. Families will not want to be broken up, especially when the movie puts into perspective a mom being given the boot from her husband and kids. Parents wouldn't want to boot out their kid to military in hazmat suits. No body would want to comply with those types of scenarios, and so spread would be rampant.

We're already seeing the result of the first guy that came here. He got asked about where he'd been and so on. He LIED! Whether out of fear, stupidity, pride or what have you. He's the idiot in the movie that brings in the monkey and doesn't tell anyone. But he's not alone, most people would do that. And while I don't think the outbreak is concerning YET in the US. Doesn't mean that given several months, we won't have a more widespread outbreak here as well, and that we won't be in a place where people start second guessing sending their kids to school, or going to work, or riding public transport, or other activities that involve close quarters to other individuals.

I would wire up the house in places it's feasible. Trunk smaller subsystems with GBit switches back to the main entry point if needed to prevent having to run home-runs everywhere, but home runs would be best if possible.

I think you'll need to look for a decent main router/firewall pretty hard, I'm not sure about some of the newer home based ones, but I've heard many consumer routers, even ones rated for GBit internally, won't do GBit on the WAN port to the ISP. So you're going to want to make sure you spec in something that actually supports GBit on the WAN side hitting the fiber point. I wouldn't skimp this part if I wanted to fully utilize the network.

For areas that are to impractical to hit with physical wire, I would use WAP's for. You would probably want to use multiple WAP's so you don't get saturation on one particular wap, and the load is distributed out better, making for faster connections on the devices connecting wireless (less sharing of bandwidth). Also, make sure you get good WAP's that can do B/G/N seperately without degrading. Some cheaper versions will only go as high as the lowest device connected to them (something I didn't realize for quite some time). These basically can do N speed if everything is connected with N, but once 1 device connects that only supports B/G, then all the connections get knocked down to B/G. I think this is due to only having 1 radio in the AP rather than a separate radio for each speed protocol.

Just remember, while your wireing the house, it may be a pain in the butt, but just keep repeating the mantra that 'it will be over soon', and 'if you do it right the first time, you only have to do it once'. That helps me on big projects where cutting corners starts looking like a good idea just to get the project done. LOL.

I just checked my GalaxyS3, it says "software backed", so I guess it's not implemented on at least S3's.

The person the above poster is mentining is a filmmaker/journalist named James O'Keefe. Here is an article on the project: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-G...

He did this at least in New Hampshire, but maybe in more states, to show how easy is to take advantage.

This is the same James O'Keefe who exposed, and helped get ACORN de-funded a few years back.

So you think that an undocumented worker...

Can you define "undocumented worker" for me? I notice how you refer to illegal aliens in the most PC term 'undocumented worker'. I can't find the definition of "undocumented worker" on dictionary.com? However, you should lookup the term: "Illegal Alien" on dictionary.com (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/illegal+alien) as it describes the group of people being discussed and is the correct term. "Undocumented Worker" is a made up phrase to try to sugar coat the real truth--These are people who have committed a crime by coming here avoiding the immigration laws set up, and then are illegally working, taking an american worker's job, at a time when there is already a shortage of available jobs after most of them have been shipped overseas. By definition of our federal government, they are both illegal and aliens, and the first act they committed when coming here was to show no respect for our laws. Many of them usually have to break more laws in order to work, including working without a VISA, or forging SSN numbers, and in many cases Tax evasion.

So you think that an undocumented worker is going to risk jail and deportation to impersonate someone to cast a single vote? People that are not registered voters cannot vote. So if you are undocumented, the only way you could register to vote is to impersonate someone.

In short, yes, many of them will, especially if some kind of 'amnesty' was up for a vote. Or other hot-button topic that benifits your so called "undocumented workers". I'm not going to say ALL of them would, as I wouldn't paint that broad of brush, but when you have a group of 15M to 30M people, statistics say a portion of those would. Aren't they already risking jail and deportation everyday just being here? In actuallity, we both know that the last few years, they have almost a zero chance of being deported, even if arrested for another crime. ICE has practically been ordered to halt all deportations except the most problem offenders. Even gang bangers who are arrested don't get deported anymore. So that stopped being a major threat a long time ago. Have any of those "kids" that we heard about in the news recently been deported? Nope, not one. and I say "kids" in quotes, because they include people up to the age of 21, while we are being led to believe they are all 8-10 year olds in the news reports.

But lets say that is true. Tens of thousands of undocumented workers are impersonating citizens, trying to change the outcome of our elections. You don't think that elections officials would find out pretty quick, when "John Smith of 1234 Street" voted twice?

No, not when John Smith has been dead for several years, but still remains on the voter registration rolls. This usually goes hand-in-hand with voter ID laws, that the states need to purge their databases of people no longer living in those princints due to moving away, or due to not living. Several investigations have been done, and point out that in most precincts, there are a large number of records that need to be purged, but haven't. Leaving many opportunities for people to cast ballots under someone who has either been dead, or under someone's name who has moved to another county/state but remains on the rolls due to poor record keeping, lazyness, or ineptitude on the part of those responsible for keeping voter registration records current. I'll admit this is a seperate problem from illegal immigration, but it does go hand-in-hand with voter fraud and VoterID laws.

Even private sales are supposed to go through a registered FFL. The private sales is basically parking lot deals, off the record. This can happen anywhere at any time, but gets called a "gun show loophole". The people who do this are going around the gun show, and any dealers participating in the gun show.

Yes, but if you shoot an intruder trying to rape you, you better believe the police will be there pronto at that point for some reason.

In 1968, the U.K. passed laws that reduced the number of licensed firearm owners, and thus reduced firearm availability. U.K. homicide rates have steadily risen since then. 9 Ironically, firearm use in crimes has doubled in the decade after the U.K. banned handguns.

Many of the countries with the strictest gun control have the highest rates of violent crime. Australia and England, which have virtually banned gun ownership, have the highest rates of robbery, sexual assault, and assault with force of the top 17 industrialized countries.

The BCS has been reporting a declining crime rate in the UK while police reporting has shown an increase. The BCS has routinely been criticized because it under reports crime due to the following factors:

Murdered and imprisoned people do not answer surveys
Some crimes are not surveyed when victims are below age 16 3
Crime against institutions (bank robbery, etc.) are not included
Crimes are recorded at final disposition (conviction/acquittal), leaving many crimes completely unreported


statistic link: http://www.gunfacts.info/gun-c...

Screw the cost of machining and all that. If interested, just go to: http://aresarmor.com/store/Ite... and get yourself a polymer 80% lower that for less than $100 that comes with a jig, and can be finished with a normal drill and/or a dremel tool. Done. Might not hold up to abuse as good as an aluminum lower, but some manufacturers are selling guns with polymer based lowers, so it still holds up to shooting just fine.

BTW, if you want your untraceable "ghost" 1911 handgun, that place sells 80% 1911 kits as well.

I would second this, the NRA stands on the side of the topics I would want it to stand as a member. So does CalGuns.org, and so does CRPA (both California versions of the NRA).

The ATF legally controls the receivers due to 1 fact about the receivers, they control the "firing mechanism" or "trigger/firing control group". That's the real and only reason.

This is also the difference between an stripped, serialized and ATF tracked lower receiver, and an 80% lower (which the ATF considers a hunk of metal and not a firearm). In an 80% lower, the receiver is completed except for a cavity that the trigger assembly is installed in, and a few holes in the receiver that are used to mount the trigger assembly. In an 80% lower, it is solid metal (that needs to be milled out in that small section), and in a regulated lower, it is already milled out and ready to mount a trigger assembly into it.

This small difference, to the ATF, is the difference between calling it a firearm, and calling it a peice of metal, and is also the difference between needing an FFL license to sell and being able to sell from ebay/amazon as a 'paper weight'.

It's also the difference between manufacturing a firearm or not. The companies that forge and mill an 80% receiver are NOT manufacturing a firearm. But, If 'Joe Nobody' takes a 80% receiver and uses a milling machine (or drill press) on it to hollow out the area for the fire control group, he is manufacturing a firearm.

Fact: Cross national studies show that there is no relationship to suicides rates and the availability of firearms. Two outstanding contrasts:

The U.S. and Canada – who share geography, cultural elements, and entertainment – have nearly identical suicide rates, but Canada has significantly lower gun ownership.
Lithuania – which has nearly zero gun ownership – has the world’s highest suicide rate, more than three times that of the United States.

Me thinks your a little low on ammo (based on what you said you own).

Yes, actually Every day 400,000 life-threatening violent crimes are prevented using firearms. The positives far outweigh the negatives here.

And more specifically to the point you were getting at: 71% of gunshot victims had previous arrest records (not including the suicides). Alluding to the most probable conclusion, that 71% of those shot with a firearm (killed and not-killed) were more than likely the perpetrator committing a crime.

And another statistic that also backs the previous one up, is Two-thirds of the people who die each year from gunfire are criminals being shot by other criminals.

http://www.gunfacts.info/gun-c...