Security & Theft Securing tractor from theft

[patrick_g]

Won't be long before the rs232 is nothing but a bit of data and old specs .. something you will find in a history book...
soundguy

You mean like REAL floppy disks which were 8 inch?

Note for youthful readers: 5 1/4 inch floppy diskettes started out with about 360K single sided single density.

REAL floppy disks (8 inch IBM 3740 format) had 251K storage and were single sided single density.

Probably more obsolete than button hooks for high button shoes.

Pat

 

[aczlan]

Guy comes home and catches three guys burglarizing his house. They run. He chases them in his car into town at high rate of speed. Taps bumpers. They crash into a tree. All three are killed. Flowers go up on the crash site like they were model citizens, but people are quietly saying good riddance.

The homeowner didn't get a citizen's award for cleaning up the community. He's went to state prison for vehicular homicide.

well, from the laws point of view, once they are "fleeing" and are off your property you cant use the castle defense and if you injure/kill them you will be treated as the aggressor. in addition they could sue you for damages (they might not win, but with a crooked enough lawyer anything is possible).

Aaron Z

 

[AndyMA]

In many cases I'm more concerned about securing my machines from vandelism than theft.

Andy

 

[Soundguy]

You mean like REAL floppy disks which were 8 inch?

Note for youthful readers: 5 1/4 inch floppy diskettes started out with about 360K single sided single density.

REAL floppy disks (8 inch IBM 3740 format) had 251K storage and were single sided single density.

Probably more obsolete than button hooks for high button shoes.

Pat

Funny you mention those 8" disks. I had a dual drive set, back in??89-91? they were old iron even then.. I used an external floppy controller and 'driveparam' from ms-dos to make those things work. I got them from a salvage sale from UF along with a box of disks... useless devices.. but was a fun make-er-work project.

soundguy

 

[Soundguy]

well, from the laws point of view, once they are "fleeing" and are off your property you cant use the castle defense and if you injure/kill them you will be treated as the aggressor. in addition they could sue you for damages (they might not win, but with a crooked enough lawyer anything is possible).

Aaron Z

While I'm not advocating shooting a fleeing criminal..I would like to point out that some states have expanded castle doctrine.. IE.. it functions off your property.. florida is one of those states... if you are any place you can legally normally be.. then you can use lethal force to defend yourself...

It's about time victoms had some rights...

soundguy

 

[biggerten]

Won't be long before the rs232 is nothing but a bit of data and old specs .. something you will find in a history book... already getting hard to find native searial ports on computers or add on cards as it is.. though sometimes you can find USB converters.. etc... I bet it won't be long till usb and firewaire are about the only non video/audio IN/OUT ports on a computer..

soundguy

On consumer PC's, you are dead on. On industrial PC's, you've got more than a few years left. Look up PC104, EBX other SBC computers. There's a whole 'nother world out there that a lot of folks aren't aware of. A lot of legacy stuff will be around for sometime to come.

 

[gemini5362]

You mean like REAL floppy disks which were 8 inch?

Note for youthful readers: 5 1/4 inch floppy diskettes started out with about 360K single sided single density.

REAL floppy disks (8 inch IBM 3740 format) had 251K storage and were single sided single density.

Probably more obsolete than button hooks for high button shoes.

Pat

The first removable disk I saw was about 14 inches across and was in the 25,000 dollar bracket for the unit. If I remember right the disk held a whopping 5 k of memory and we were so amazed

 

[gemini5362]

On consumer PC's, you are dead on. On industrial PC's, you've got more than a few years left. Look up PC104, EBX other SBC computers. There's a whole 'nother world out there that a lot of folks aren't aware of. A lot of legacy stuff will be around for sometime to come.

It is amazing what you can do with Industrial Programmable controllers. 15 years ago I worked at a steel mill a couple of years before I quit we put in motor controllers for some 750 horsepower motors. The old unit had all the servo loops in the controller ( speed, current, voltage etc) The new units did all the computations in the PC and then connected with the motor controllers with fiber optics so that it could handle the motors in real time.

 

[Soundguy]

On consumer PC's, you are dead on. On industrial PC's, you've got more than a few years left. Look up PC104, EBX other SBC computers. There's a whole 'nother world out there that a lot of folks aren't aware of. A lot of legacy stuff will be around for sometime to come.

Why would the average computer user here have anything other than a consumer grade pc?

in any case.. there are other applications where rs-232 use is still common. i have rackmount electronic gear.. new.. that still uses it.

My comment was aimed directly at the average pre-built.. box store computer... HP, Dell.. etc..

soudnguy

 

[Egon]

Why would the average computer user here have anything other than a consumer grade pc?

And from the peanut gallery:

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