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  1. Re:'Lightly Armed' in the USA is the default on Kim Dotcom Raid - What Really Happened · · Score: 1

    The officer in this instance was armed with a semi-automatic M4 rifle and Glock pistols (again, semi automatic).

    However, despite having equipment belts to carry extra clips, they were not in full tactical gear (so no grenades, etc).

    One thing to point out was that the officer on the stand only talked about what HE was equipped with, yet talk of breaching doors was made, so either they had a charge (unlikely) or one of the officers was sporting a shotgun with a breaching muzzle.

    No, this is not really heavy gear, but in countries where ANY semi-automatic gun is illegal, it is.

  2. Re:Warning sign on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Jump Back Into Programming? · · Score: 1

    Correct. I would suggest the original poster go out, find the most advanced 'intro to Java' book they can find, something so obtuse and convoluted that no one could follow it, then let it rot on the shelf while they wait for an orderly to bring their special medication.

    Apart from that, of course, they may want to start with something simple but relevant, like LUA and see where that takes them.

  3. Re:Andy Warhol Campell Soup painting on Jack Daniels Shows How To Write a Cease and Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    Little late, the first printing is sold out ;)

  4. Re:Wouldn't work in the tech world... on Jack Daniels Shows How To Write a Cease and Desist Letter · · Score: 1

    Oh no, they won, for the cost of a very nicely worded legal document, they got a ton of free advertising, as did the author (I believe the first run of books is sold out already).

  5. Re:Time and Place on Home Office To Ignore Wikipedia Founder's Petition Against O'Dwyer Extradition · · Score: 2

    Only so long as the crime is committed IN the country it is illegal in.

  6. Re:Why not provide eBay the addresses? on Australian Gov't Asks eBay To Name Big Sellers · · Score: 2

    Applying for welfare, you give Centerlink permission to do such checks.

    As someone on a disability pension, I would like to cheer Centerlink on in this case, the more arseholes who are cheating the system that get caught, the more they can spare for everyone else.

  7. Re:Government Money on Australian Gov't Asks eBay To Name Big Sellers · · Score: 1

    Yup, when I went onto sickness allowance, I wasn't going to get paid for two months because I had $6k in the bank.

    When you sign up for your benefits (be they pension, as I am now on, or unemployment), you give Centerlink the right to do checks and searches in your name.

    The really interesting stuff happens once they are caught. Centerlink have the right to access your bank account, if you have 'significant' savings, and remove said savings if you owe them money.

  8. Re:Really? on US Gov't Wants Megaupload Users To Pay For Their Data · · Score: 1

    They (Megaupload) can't do that, they have all their accounts frozen by FBI.

    Carpathia wont do it unless paid.

    Shouldn't it be up to the FBI to pay them to put up the legit data?

  9. Re:hmm on Sci-fi Writer Elizabeth Moon Believes Everyone Should Be Chipped · · Score: 2

    Dead bodies suddenly become the greatest source of stolen identities.

  10. Bit Torrent on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? · · Score: 1

    Simple enough, package up the 'known good' files on your server into a torrent, give torrent file to laptop, have it use bit torrents built in hash checking to verify and, if bad, replace the damaged parts.

  11. Re:And the residents are complaining on Surface-To-Air Missiles At London Olympics · · Score: 1

    I believe the word you are looking for, is rapt.

    Unless you are into having cling wrap spun around you.

  12. Re:B-2 Spirit unit price - $3b? Said who? on Sixty Years On, B-52s Are Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    Possibly some prices are including just the fuselage and the R&D for it, whereas others might include the cost to have them fully loaded with ordinance and equipment as well.

  13. Re:Here's an idea on CSIRO Develops 10 Gbps Microwave Backhaul · · Score: 1

    All the people who would need to vote on such a thing are the same people being paid by the 'rights holders' not to allow such things to happen.

    It is a nice dream though :3

  14. Re:I watched it. on Blue Gecko is an 11 Year Old Remote Database Administration Startup (Video) · · Score: 1

    YOU LACK WILLPOWER!

  15. The talking doesn't make this quite so easy to masturbate to, but I have a thing for red-heads, so...

    Challenge, Accepted!

    Just kidding though, but seriously, this is advertising of the worst kind. At least be open about it.

  16. Hehe on The Phantoms of Google+ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    /me checks the date

    Sunday April 01, @02:58AM

    Yeah, it's already begun.

  17. Re:Not actually a lie on Australian Consumer Watchdog Sues Apple Over iPad Marketing · · Score: 1

    May not be a lie, but it is misleading.

    It gives you the idea that you will, in the right areas, get 4G in Australia with these things.

    You wont.

    ACCC suits are in the order of $1M per violation.

  18. Re:Does fine print supercede large print? on Australian Consumer Watchdog Sues Apple Over iPad Marketing · · Score: 2

    That is still considered 'bait advertising'.

    The ACCC really don't care about fine print at all, they can, will and HAVE shut companies down simply for saying misleading things in big print and then relying on fine print to save them.

  19. Re:Google Is as Dumb as the Farmers! on Google 'Wasting' $16 Billion On Projects Headed Nowhere · · Score: 1

    Actually, farmers grew wise to this issue, that is why people now dine on lovely chaff... I mean bran, every morning ;)

  20. Re:Laser DoS on Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away · · Score: 2

    Ahh, that is why we have the laser guided grenade round too, for the wise arse who lights up all around his intended target with lasers...

  21. Re:Easy solution on Self-Guided Bullet Can Hit Targets a Mile Away · · Score: 1

    Easy to work around, have a specific frequency for your laser, have bullet only respond to that frequency. Next step, add in a public key to the laser, have it pulse the code on the target, private key in the bullet will only respond to that laser.

    Get a little more CPU power into these things and damn near anything is possible.

  22. Numbers on Apple Has Spent More Than $100 Million Suing Android Manufacturers · · Score: 1

    Where the hell did they get that number from?

    I really hope they are not including the costs of their lawyers, lawyers that will be on retainer and paid regardless if they were fighting a court case or not.

    The source gives no justification to the number, it quite literally, as we Aussies would put it, 'pulled it out their arse'.

  23. Re:It's an heirloom, not e-waste on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 1

    ... Damn, good call.

  24. Re:close on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 1

    No, no it's not.

    It CAN be used to mean that, but in general, it means a gambler or a customer.

  25. Re:Thanks for the Advertisement! on Australian Government Bans New Syndicate Game · · Score: 1

    Oh, let me guess, another game with 4 player mutli-play?