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A Tour of Taser HQ

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-tase-me-bro dept.

Soychemist writes "Walk into the Taser headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona and it may seem like you are on an episode of Get Smart. The foyer is like a fortress, with giant steel doors and biometric identification systems. Inside, factory workers meticulously assemble the less-lethal weapons by hand and then put them through a battery of safety tests. In addition to making pistol-shaped devices, the company also produces the electronic equivalent of a claymore mine, which hurls dozens of electrified needles at the push of a button and electronic shotgun cartridges that deliver a powerful jolt."

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  1. Suck on that neckbeards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hey neckbeards how does it feel knowing that your shitty Loonix OS has less market share after 18 years than Win7 has and it's not even released for retail sale yet!

    Win7 - 1.18%
    Loonix - .94%
    Win2k - .93%

    Even more sad is that Loonix can barely beat Win2k in market share and it's 9 years old at this point and obsolete!

    1. Re:Suck on that neckbeards! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      These stats were for desktop usage, fucktard. Are you really that dumb?

  2. All this security is for show. by stalkedlongtime · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The police informant networks have thoroughly penetrated Taser, Inc. (and most other large and mid-sized companies). Police informants take their first orders from the State, and do whatever their case officers ask them to, because if they don't they go to prison. Police informants are a lot more prevalent in the tech industry than you might think, because it is so easy to scare techies into turning informant ("become an informant or we send you to jail on this bullshit drug charge"). So, whenever the police, or someone with connections to the police, wants something from a company like Taser Inc., like the passcodes for an unactivated Taser, or an untraceable Taser, they just ask for it from an informant on the inside and get it, totally unaccountably.

  3. Re:Wired by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    WEIRD - anybody else noticed that previewing a 'plain old text' comment with <- ....some text.... -> results in a corrupted post?
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    blah blah blah, geeks into annulled sects. What else is new?

    Now, gay programmers, I'll take them (up the ass, too!) ANY DAY over this either-you're-with-us-or-you're-not, we're-into-annulled-sects ass-shit. come ON man, it just aint punny, no matter how many comedo-ians you hire...

    ------
    Since I know this will be modded troll, I'm going to point out the obvious here, on the off-chance that someone will get the chance to appreciate the humor before I'm modded into oblivion:
    annulled sects -) anal sex
    gay -) carefree
    ass-shit (- horse-shit
    comedo-ians -) acne, comedy
    punny -) ...

    -- signed:
    Explaining the obvious,
    wRONg PAUL [poll?] 2008

    PS i slept with yomama....
    and her brotha!