"Calm the fuck down".
Now there's a nice reasoned statement. One that I'm sure has gotten people to calm down for you in the past.
<blockquote>Honestly, I find it amazing that you believe everyone here is acting out of ignorance.</blockquote>
I guess it's not ignorance that I'm getting annoyed at. It's probably the attitude.
Of course this truck stopping thing isn't foolproof. Of course *someone* is going to find a way to get around it. But that's not quite the point.
It's just the attitudes that many people are using to suggest ways around it imply that the people who designed this are total, complete idiots. Who have no clue what they're doing and really could be shown the light of day if they just talked to a couple "intelligent" people.
And it's that attitude that leads me to the conclusion: "ignorance".
I have worked with LLNL physicists and engineers. They're some of the most intelligent and practical people that I've ever met, bar none. The idea that simple ideas like the ones mentioned here haven't occurred to them still very much surprises me.
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The fact of the matter is, they said in the article that cops would engage it via a secret maneuver. Well, I'm sorry, but that's called "security through obscurity" and it's destined to fail.
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I agree with you. The fact that more details about the design of the device are not available tells me that a good amount of secrecy is involved here.
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Are you seriously so naive as to think that there's no possible way someone else could set it off?
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Ahhh...yes. Calling me "seriously naive". And using absolutes like "no possible way". That's the attitude that I've come to expect from the Cellar.
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Do you really think that the engineers designing this are the smartest people in the world and, in their OMNISCIENCE, have countered every single fucking way it could possibly be bypassed?
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Of course not. And you know that I never claimed that. You're twisting what I said to a crazy absolute. All I really claimed was that you had better come up with something better than "run some hoses around it" before you think that you have the entire problem licked.
I'll continue to read posts on this thread, but I don't think I'm going to respond any more. This conversation isn't really going anywhere.
Please feel free to rip my posts apart.