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The union says in other jurisdictions where police officers are equipped with point-of-view cameras, the use of force by officers and assaults on officers drops by as much as 60%.

This sort of tells us what we already knew. That basically most of the force police use already is applied illegally applied or over-applied. The camera is forcing police to act more ethically, which reduces their use of force, but also hints that they widely act unethically at present. It isn't unique to Canada.

Why should we end a pony?

One word: bronies.

Netflix says "I drink your milkshake". http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-drink-your-milkshake

Networks need to watch out. $10 / month gets me all the TV and movies I can watch.

Thus, personal weapon is a perfectly peaceful symbol. Being able to print one — and keep it at home — is a good way to protect one's domicile, without begging the government for a permission to exercise the Constitution-guaranteed right.

You can't 3d print a spring with a plastics printer. You can't 3d print most of the mechanical components that make (semi)automatics work. It would essentially up the number of machined components up to a point that it would no longer really be a "3d printed gun" and more be a gun kit where you can provide the frame.

uhh the entire "novel" thing in liberator design imho was using printed plastic springs which have been demoed for couple of years now. it would be an even simpler design if it used a 0.1 dollar spring..

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/542316

Somebody obviously knows NOTHING about how the 'net works.. . This is, after all. . . . serious business..

Obligatory link.

As someone who prefers PVE to PVP and was a hardcore raider back in the day, I've found that cross-realm LFD and LFR has simply encouraged people to behave like twats, as per John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory. I still enjoy a smooth LFR and I get really pumped when my guild drops a new boss for the first time. But the epeening (which really started to get out of hand in WotLK) is making things more and more unpleasant.

I recall running the latest raid dungeon segment on the day it was released to LFR and people were being dicks about people who didn't know the fights already. /facepalm

There already is one.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/suicide-mouse

it's bought for entertainment value and forgotten. it's just collecting for most that own some. the crap about cyprus events etc pushing it up.. well, that's just crap.

[citation needed]

Now THAT is hilarious. Complaining that malloc is non-deterministic and then alluding to dependence upon garbage collection. I get the distinct impression you've never written anything requiring high performance memory allocation/deallocation.

I am pretty sure, what you have encountered is a real (as in not like in Trollface comic) instance of trolling. Therefore:

YHBT.
YHL.
HAND.

Here you go: DongleGate

He's not a hero. He violated his contract with the US government. All claims to moral superiority on his part are void since he had no authorization to handle the materials in the first place and the indiscriminate nature of what he collected.

So in your mind, you have to be willing to throw puppies off a cliff to be a hero?

Or the soilder has to be willing to gun down children and the elderly to be a hero?

All because they were being just as indiscriminate and acting equally so on orders?

With heros like that, no wonder you are such a messed up human being.

The idea of online anonymity dates back to the days when September was not the only month online.

+1 Eternal September reference. God damned AOL'ers. I knew it would come to this, back in '93. I just fucking knew it.

I think you mean the Harlem Shake, not The Harlem Shuffle...

You're using an inappropriate, non-robotic, definition of help.

I nominate this for nerd meme of 2013. If slashdot was battletoads. If the republican national convention was battletoads. If shopping at Wal-Mart was battletoads. And then all those of us who never played it will have to make friends with gamefaqs all over again to understand WTF everyone is talking about.

There hasn't been a Battletoads game released since 1994 but recently Battletoads has seen reemergence on boards like 4chan and Reddit. It has been used by Anonymous to prank scientology.

I'd imagine he could have included that in there to try to make himself look like an average guy who's in on all the jokes (not the reality). It has also been used for trolling -- perhaps he was trolling? Put up a screenshot of Battletoads and ask "Is this Battletoads?"

And then there's also the possibility that he really likes the game, wants to see a sequel and therefore decides that he can give it a ton of publicity by mentioning it in his farewell e-mail.

Who knows or cares at this point?

I found this hilarious from the article:

In addition, Mason also has support on the eight-member board — director and former AOL exec Ted Leonsis has always been a key mentor to him, for example.

What is this? Game of Thrones?

Without Fortran, how will we push start to rich?

It occurs to me that the concept of "Cyberspace" is not too distant from the concept of a soul in the individual.

So, you too think the Internet was created by God? I mean, it's highly complex, perfectly tuned (most of the time) and it's quite magic how the things in it interact and live or die from this interaction...
Look, I write a post, I press the submit button and you get to read my thoughts... you can't explain that!

Yes it's now "Nuked the Fridge"

http://youtu.be/lbrzQMbTYZM

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nuke-the-fridge

What exactly are they going to be using the graphene for?

Hmm...let's start our fact-find quest by reading the summary...

...something something Nokia mumble mumble Graphene Flagship Consortium, grumble blahblah...

...ah, "Consortium"! Something that involves patent pooling and money exchanges and no-poach agreements (that never happened of course but we'll just agree to the settlement because no wrongdoing) and lots of nicely- (or less-so) worded requests for even more money from governments and end users. Also something about Nokia, so it'll probably ultimately be nothing of value or absurdly durable or, somehow, both. Now to the article...

Nokia is proud to be involved with this project, and we have deep roots in the field – we first started working with graphene already in 2006," said Henry Tirri, EVP, CTO of Nokia. "Since then, we have come to identify multiple areas where this material can be applied in modern computing environments. We’ve done some very promising work so far, but I believe the greatest innovations have yet to be discovered blahbitty blahblahblaaah... industrial value chains and other such megacrap."

...which I gather means that even Nokia's xVPs and CxOs have no idea what graphene stuff will appear in the public marketplace but it'll involve tech and research and stuff and maybe also phones because they're involved with that sort of thing but [yet another rant about the whole Windows Phone thing, with my opinions].

(I obviously hope for better on all those points but through Slashdot I've learned to feel depressed about the current state of tech-business affairs, even and especially wrt Slashdot. Yay! *buries head in hands*)

...flying toasters were a cultural meme.

Those days haven't gone - they've just evolved. Now it's flying toasted foods, combined with lolcats.

Welcome to the Internet. We do things differently here.

He's no hero.

but he is an hero now.

Seriously. People skimming may think he included Zuckerberg because of, well, Zuckerberg is an ass himself... but actually it is because he didn't wear professional attire? Right guy, completely wrong reasons.

Sorry, but your should have put a period after " People skimming may think he included Zuckerberg."

He didn't. Zuckerberg did not make the list.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/the-five-worst-ceos-of-2012/2012/12/18/0f353f14-4940-11e2-ad54-580638ede391_story_1.html

Zuckerberg is apparently like Hitler-- any mention of him hijacks the thread, and all discussion of the actual content ceases.

Or in the words of oblivion guards:

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stop-right-there-criminal-scum Stop right there criminal scum!

Which shows the base and horrible attitude this NY Journal has towards its fellow citizens.

Khanna's firing will only further raise the memo's profile.

You'd think they'd be smarter about manipulating the public's attention. But then the GOP is still wondering how a bunch of tubes can sneak around and bite them in the ass.

KYM doesn't confirm it, but it appears that escape goat is a nascent meme.

No, it's a meme born on 4chan.

who? this guy?

Asteroid bombardment, vulcanism, and tectonics are the primary methods by which heavy metals accumulated on the surface. If this theory is correct some core materials could have de-orbited back to the surface as well. Either that or Aliens did it.

Hold on a sec. Let me summarize the exchange I just heard.

A: Bennet's mass e-mailing is getting blocked.
B: He should just put it on the web.
A: No, the web page will be blocked, while mail isn't easily blocked.

Are you serious?

I read all the way to the end hoping to get to the nymphomaniac fembot or the cloned and imprinted sex-kitten

And unfortunately, due to U.N. restrictions on human-derived cell lines (plus predilections of certain Japanese otaku scientists), your sex-kittens are literally derived from engineered Felis catus genetic material.

In other words, A cat is fine, too.

I've got about 50 sleeper accounts stored in my MS Access database, ready for trolling.

Of course you do and you've probably got a script that rotates them for you. Of course most people write similarly even when they're using different troll accounts so a sufficiently sophisticated Bayesian spam filter would catch some of it and a dedicated mod crew of oldtimers would sniff most of the rest out like bloodhounds on a 3-day meth bender.

If karma is ever a problem, you can just scroll to the bottom of the page, find something that looks good, and post it at the top to steal mod points.

Cue up the Baysian filter again to check how similar a post is to what's already in the database so even ripping material from other stories will get you busted. Forget about any upmods adding to your karma from that comment and do it too many times, welcome to the hellban. Maybe a karma ding for even trying. That ought to cut your 50 accounts down to size soon enough.

If there were a jail implemented, I'd just use proxies (the proxy detector is actually bullshit; it's piss easy to find a working proxy).

Yes, you could keep creating accounts and storing them up. The key would be to shorten the posts between you debuting one of your accounts and it getting hellbanned. Sounds like fun. One thing I'd implement almost immediately is geo-locating the ip that people create accounts from and see if they subsequently post from a completely implausibly different location. Say you create the account with a Finnish IP but you post from a Chilean one a week later and then a Georgian one week later. I'll be very sure to spend some time checking your posts out. If their innocuous, carry on but trolling via proxies, hello hellban.

Yes, truly dedicated trolls will defeat any means. Just like with security, the key is to make the payoff worth less than the effort. If geeknet really cared, it could make trolling a lot harder. And to keep you on your toes, I'd let you get a couple of runs in so the system didn't get too predictable. The bottom line is you can never completely eliminate trolling but you can cut down on the casual stuff so the really interesting posters like yourself could get even more personal attention.

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Check your privilege, sexist. There are female trolls too.

Ha ha. Didn't didn't know? There are no women on the internet.

Finland, home of the Nokia 3310. I hope all the nearby buildings were insured.

How pessimistic are you if you buy a lifetime membership to a matchmaking site?

Two possibilities:

1. you're this pessimistic
2. when the website operators decide you've used enough of their service, they'll hook you up with a succession of homicidal stalkers, with a view to putting a definite and spectacular end to your lifetime membership.

barring a revelation that Obama was involved in Michael Vick's dogfighting ring, this is going to be an easy win for Obama.

Breaking news: Brock Obama was heard singing the theme song of the TV show based on a popular dogfighting simulator video game.

Actually, some people legitimately like kids shows. Especially if they involve colorful little ponies.

You might like Dora the Explorer if you were interested in learning Spanish (although IMO Dora is a lousy source for learning it).

Nope. It's fusion research stuff. Nothing to do with weapons.

The shark thing comes from here.

Just remove the train part and just move people around! http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/futurama-zoidberg-why-not-zoidberg

The man opposite you has a T shirt that says "I AM A MOTHERFUCKER"

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/epic-beard-man

Learn to google... http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/protip

Yeah, but does he know the Mayor of Boston, and does he "wwebsite as on the internet"?

YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE GUNS

Of course they are powerful, look at all the laws Anonymous has passed.

By 2010, 65 laws existed.

Of course, such an user

Is "an user" anything like an hero? ;-)

will be restricted in the peripherals s/he can attach to it that will work w/ Linux - such as joysticks and gaming hardware.

I've never had a joystick fail to work under Linux, even an Xbox 360 gamepad.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/candlejack

http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/158330

If you can do ANYTHING with a PC, then you can set up an HTPC. Ultimately, it's just installing some software.

And finding the right case, and building a small form factor PC. A lot of people who aren't PC hobbyists buy a ready-made PC instead of building one. However, not a lot of ready-made desktop PCs come in a case that looks attractive in a home theater setting, as opposed to a standard tower case that looks XBOX HUEG next to other consumer electronics. I went into Best Buy and asked about buying a pre-built PC in a home theater PC case, and the sales associate pointed me to the PlayStation 3 aisle because "nobody uses a computer for that". Nor is the local mom-and-pop PC shop willing to put any CPU more powerful than an Atom into any case smaller than the standard tower.

The first generations of home computers just plain used TVs as monitors.

And abandoned TVs as monitors because the SDTVs of the time couldn't display sharp enough text, as I explained in an earlier comment. This mental set against having a PC in the living room has continued among the general public despite the rise of high definition.

You're basically arguing that no one is capable of using PCs.

What I meant was that almost no one is willing to take the time to learn everything a PC can do to the point where he realizes that modern TVs can be used as PC monitors. Also more like no one is willing to buy a second PC to put in the living room so that he doesn't have to keep unplugging and replugging when moving the single family PC back and forth between the desk and the TV.

It's worse even than that.