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  1. Re:Never mind the physics by techpawn · · Score: 1 · on Physicist Calculates Trajectory of Tiger At SF Zoo

    Oddly enough in this case that might of meant something.

    Where I am however, I don't think they allow you to take a CCW into the zoo...

  2. That is such a dumb idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Encrypted Ammunition?

    If you ask anyone who is an expert on handguns and self-defense, "what is the most important quality in a defensive handgun", they will tell you, "having it with you when you need it is the most important thing. Second is reliability." Most gun experts hate simple things like magazine disconnects because they prevent the gun from firing when the user pulls the trigger. And now they want to introduce all this electronics and encryption? Plenty of gun owners won't put any type of electronis on guns, like sights or lasers, because they are not reliable enough.

    And it's not like criminals get their guns through legal sources anyway. They're already moving tons of drugs into the country every year. They already move thousands of guns in every year. Are they suddenly going to start installing all this circuitry into their illegal guns?

    http://californiaccw.org/

  3. Ah, Sheriff Baca, what would LA do without you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Police Launch Drones Over LA

    Sheriff Baca spends money on drones and a huge fleet of helicopters, and yet can't find the money to keep violent criminals in jail:

    http://californiaccw.org/posts/list/149.page

    and then when someone challenges him in the election, he gets pay-back:

    http://californiaccw.org/posts/list/283.page

    and now we're going to have drones flying around the city looking for... who knows?

  4. Ah, Sheriff Baca, what would LA do without you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative · on Police Launch Drones Over LA

    Sheriff Baca spends money on drones and a huge fleet of helicopters, and yet can't find the money to keep violent criminals in jail:

    http://californiaccw.org/posts/list/149.page

    and then when someone challenges him in the election, he gets pay-back:

    http://californiaccw.org/posts/list/283.page

    and now we're going to have drones flying around the city looking for... who knows?

  5. As long as we use langs without memory safetey... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Symantec Posts Fix To Vulnerability
    As long as we keep on using languages that allow the application to access memory directly, we will keep on having these problems. I know plenty of people will say, "program carefully", but that's like saying, "seatbelts are stupid. If we all just drove safely we wouldn't need seatbelts or airbags or bumpers."

    Yes, of course even in memory safe languages (Java, Python, etc) something somewhere needs to have memory access. That thing is the VM/interpreter. Fortunately there are very few areas of code in the VM that need to have memory access, so if you make those correct, then you can write a million lines of application code and know that there aren't any overflows in it.

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  6. What about Java? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful · on Interview With the PC-BSD Team
    The big thing for me is Java. I would have switched to OpenBSD as my desktop long ago if there were work-ready Java environment. In case you didn't know, desktop Java is back, and server-side Java (Tomcat) is stronger than ever. I would like to have my NetBeans, etc. Desktop Java should be the ideal Open Source platform, because it will let the same binary run on desktop MS Windows computers and desktop Linux computers. That's an ideal way to get a larger base of software for Linux and to get people ready to switch. And Swing (once you get into it) is a fantastic UI development tool.

    This is the one area where *BSD is the most problematic. The free/open Java components (GNU CLASSPATH, gcj, kaffe, and JamVM) are not yet up to real "work" use. I know that Eclipse now can run with pure free Java, but NetBeans is probably six months away, and Tomcat 5.5.* doesn't run at all.

    I'm sure those things will be working on the free Javas later this year, and then I can finally have my OpenBSD / Java desktop.

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  7. Self-heating coffee cans are the answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Radioactive Warning for Future Generations
    But seriously, this whole thing is stupid. What they are calling "waste" is actually perfectly usable fissionable FUEL which people are going to be digging up and using 50 years from now. Plutonium is perfectly excellent reactor fuel and it's in use today. Why burry the stuff when you can burn it for energy?

    Nuclear energy and the politics of nuclear energy are the most mind-boggling thing. I know that one of the major issues in the recent election was whether they were going to let their perfectly good functioning reactors keep working until they reach the end of their operational lives, or they'll shut them down early. The Greens wanted them shut down early, probably because we so much extra cheap energy around these days?

    The same thing is going on with this plutonium. Then-President Carter signed an order banning fuel reprocessing and so we end up having to burry perfectly good fuel materials, which could be safely burned in new reactors.

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  8. I'm not seeing that on my site by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on El Reg Says Google Choking on Spam Sites
    This site: http://californiaccw.org/ launched 10 days ago, and it gets traffic from Google all the time. Brand new site, new domain, pagerank zero.

    It used to be that Yahoo Slurp was the most aggressive crawler. Last year whenever I launched a new site Slurp was first and most aggressive. Now, oddly enough, the most aggressive is Googlebot, followed by Ask Jeeves Tehoma bot.

    Also one other thing I have noticed is that Google is now aggressively downloading MP3s.

    By looking in the logs, you can see the future in the past!

  9. It would NOT be a speeding ticket by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful · on VW Beetle Fitted with a Jet Engine
    He would get felony speeding, felony reckless driving, that kind of thing. He would be convicted of it. Any jury that reads this article and sees the arrogance of someone who thinks its reasonable and safe to take a jet-powered car on a public road up to 160mph would convict him. He could go to prison. He would lose his driving privileges for a year or more. He would lose his voting and gun owning rights for the rest of his life. I'm sure that cops who regularly patrol those roads will be aware of this article and will be looking out for this guy, hoping to score a felony speeding conviction on an arrogant rich guy.

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  10. Yeah and Duke Nukem Forever will run on it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Will Sun Open Source Java?
    There have been rumors and "talk" about Open Source Java from Sun for YEARS now, and the higher-ups keep on saying, "no we can't do it or there will be a fork."

    That's the reality. It's stupid, but it's the reality. What they don't seem to comprehend, no matter how obvious it may be, is that a fork in Java does NOT mean any changes to the JVM or java.* or javax.* or any other language changes. No! Forks have nothing to do with it!

    What does this mean? For example, let's say Java goes Open Source, and so OpenBSD wants to include it. They would need to modify it to work with OpenBSD. That does NOT mean changing that language. It means changing the system calls it uses, etc. Yeah that's a FORK but it does not impact compatibility at all. Same with the idea of setting up Qt native peers for Swing (something I would love to see). That would be a fork, but would not introduce any language or specification changes.

    So they need to stop their BSing about forks.

    I think there are some other reasons why they aren't open sourcing it:

    1. There may be patent issues. It may uses patent stuff that Sun can't really do much about.
    2. There probably are copyright issues. It certainly uses code from outside of Sun.
    3. It would take a heap of code auditing, legal hours and negotiating to sort out 1 and 2 above. Sun in its current state can't afford that.
    4. It could dash their J2ME JVM market, which may be one of the few revenue streams they get from Java.
    5. It could let one of their competitors, like BEA or Oracle, take the leadership on Java, or at least it could dethrone Sun from that position. Again Sun can't afford that.
    So that's a pretty strong case for a "no". The case for a "yes" is that if they do it, it will help Java become truly ubiquitous. But will that mean more money for Sun? I don't see the case for that.

    So as frustrating as it is, I just don't see the business case for open sourcing Java.

    In the meantime, the real Open Source Javas (and components) like GNU CLASSPATH, GCJ, Kaffe, JamVM, etc, etc are really getting quite impressive. The OS community has really gotten behind a full OS Java system. I am sure that by the end of this year, you'll be able to run a fully OS compiled Tomcat, for example.

    I have played around some with GCJ and it results in impressively fast executables. Faster than Sun Java. So maybe we shouldn't even care.

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  11. I would love something like this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Neural Interface for Gaming Getting Closer?
    If this stuff works (a big if) it could really help with mental training. I know that things like yoga and TM have great value because they help you get into the best possible mental states. Those practices evolved centuries before modern science even existed. But those practices are not so accessible. Games, on the other hand, are.

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