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  1. Re:yep, timing and related products on Why Do Contextual Ads Fail? · · Score: 1

    Even worse, you buy a book series compilation volume 1-6, next day your recommendation have every single volume in it, because you just need them individually now too.

  2. Re:His defense will fail... on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    There will be no charges filed. The shooter is a retired local police captain, no DA will risk his reelection by losing the endorsement of the local police union.

  3. Re:Its counter productive on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Interesting, didn't realize that (I linked to the study directly, skipping the obviously mistaken secondary sources).

  4. Re:Its counter productive on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is the currently popular one, as it is from Harvard (typically not a pro-gun source) http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol30_No2_KatesMauseronline.pdf

  5. Re:Good on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 2

    You must be very patient if you believe ammunition to be degradable enough to lead to a shortage. People routinely fire WWII and 50's cold war surplus ammo with 90%+ success rate. Modern ammo, if stored reasonably, like inside your average US home, will last 100 years.

  6. Re:Good on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unfortunately, school shooters, while getting all the press, are an insignificant contributor to the gun death total. It's economically depressed young males with pistols that make up the majority of shooters, not people with assault rifles, 3 D printed weapons, full automatic guns, silencers or whatever else is the current scare theme is.

  7. Re:Reality... on FEMA Grounds Private Drones That Were Helping To Map Boulder Floods · · Score: 1

    Come on, give the guy a break. He was busy setting up the FEMA concentration camps for the 1000 people they were detaining, and didn't like the UAVs looking over his shoulder.

  8. Re:Tracked down the report on Government Study Finds TSA Misconduct Up 26% In 3 Years · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe the headline should read "TSA cover-up of misconduct 26% less effective".

  9. Re:Right... on NSA Can't Search Its Own Email · · Score: 1

    Well there is, but they'd have to kill you if they tell you about it.

  10. Re:Obvious Solution on US Air Force Reporting Pilot Shortage · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's a real problem for the air force brass behind all this. Pilots are all "officers and gentlemen", drones are flown by enlisted people. Any large swing to more drones not only changes the combat environment, it changes the whole structure of the force. If you no longer have a large collection of ex-fighter jocks to staff your higher ranks with, the whole attitude of the air force as we know it will change in the long run.

  11. Re:Diet and laziness on The Man Who Convinced Us We Needed Vitamin Supplements · · Score: 1

    If you'd actually read the article and followed up on the data, you'd have realized that the plasma level discussed (50 mymol) is achievable with the normal recommended vitamin C intake of 100 mg/day. This doesn't say anything about needing to supplement the intake heavily, it just shows one of the reasons vitamin C is a vitamin aka something we do poorly without.

  12. Re:Really? on Tesla Motors May Be Having an iPhone Moment · · Score: 2

    Backfiring cars have gone the way of the dodo, the rotary phone and the 8-track ;)

  13. It's an open source app - very easy to reprogram for that purpose. Just like for "18 year olds who love to drink and get flirty" and "best meth house in the city", the uses are endless.

  14. Re:All guns are dangerous... on UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" · · Score: 1

    Rich people like you who can afford a $20,000 fully automatic weapon probably need it.

  15. Re:Threat from r/c planes on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 1

    Ye,s the RC plane will not take out an Autobahn bridge. But you start dropping bomb-loaded RC planes into a crowd in a confined area, lets say a Bundesliga game or a rock concert, and the resulting stampede will give you a huge damage multiplier. Or you start dropping it onto the speaker podium at some campaign event. Not every politician travels with his own personal flak battery. The idea of terror attacks is to create disruption, not affect war-like destruction.

  16. Re:As I sit here pondering.... on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 1

    There's also the big difference that the Germans make a much clearer cut between criminal investigations (that have to obey the niceties of law) and counter terrorism activities (which are under a special internal security service and has much greater leeway). That wouldn't work in the US due to the fruit-of-the-poisoned-tree doctrine which throws out most evidence that is collected with a "dark spot" somewhere in the chain of acquisition. German law doesn't operate that way, and can still prosecute using data procured under questionable circumstances.

  17. Re:Internet Hall of Fame? on RMS, Aaron Swartz Among 2013 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees · · Score: 2

    How can it be serious? They added RMS.

  18. Re:Risky last paragraph on Pro Bono Lawyer Fights C&D With Humor · · Score: 2

    You missed the point that he can only buy the .gov address with permission of the township. The township could hardly use ICANN against its own authorized representative.

  19. Re:County Lawyer on Pro Bono Lawyer Fights C&D With Humor · · Score: 2

    Is "tried to conclusion" lawyer speak for "lost at trail and had his appeals rejected"? Otherwise "won" would have been a much for positive statement.

  20. Re:It's incredible to me on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 2

    You're both trolling. The reason mass gun ownership is effective is not that the individual gun owner can fight of the swat team. It's that for every time the swat team goes out, 1000 others start worrying it might come to them. Once that happens, they start to realize it's not like the police lives in barricaded ghettos for cooperative defense, they're spread out in the community. Usually protected from harm by the sense of "they're here to protect us". When that "they are serving us" goes away, you suddenly have 1000 targets (plus families) spread out withing a town with 100,000 gun owners. How many of those are stable? Take the LA case, one crazy guy took out two cops and two family members before he was taken down by the combined effort of all police departments in a 100 mile area. How many of those cases would it take until cops stay home to protect themselves and their families?

  21. Re:Game the system ... on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Close. Just copy nsa.gov on every email you send. It's just courtesy, not a DDoS, and not our fault if their servers can't handle it.

  22. Re:Phone-based ransom-ware? on Apple's War Against Jailbreaking Now Makes Perfect Sense · · Score: 1

    Funny, there I thought it was my device after paying for it. Silly me.

  23. Re:Are you really the one to be asked? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Prove an IT Manager Is Incompetent? · · Score: 1

    This so sounds like a Dilbert episode. Here we have the useless consultant trying to fire the PHB... Makes me wonder what the IT guy did - upgrade everyone from Celerons running XP straight to surface tablets and Win 8? That would upset the CFO and everybody else in the company that can't find their minesweeper.

  24. Re:This solves ? on 'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype · · Score: 1

    Provided that discovery channel immediately stops reruns of the Mythbuster episode on "how to beat a fingerprint reader". Because kids will never try to get around technology.

  25. Re:Joke's on them. on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 1

    Actually that's true, it's hidden outsourcing. The cost overruns were getting too much for our budget, so now we wait for the Chinese to fix the designs and buy them back via Walmart.