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  1. Selling assult weapons on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I can sell assault weapons for cash all day long in my state to private people without even getting their name. and "GASP" most of my "DANGEROUS ASSULT WEAPONS" are unregistered as well..

    Oh the horror....

    That said, the last place I would sell them is to twits on Facebook. Cripes even ebay twits are not worth dealing with. There are plenty of great private gun selling sites that have people that understand the values and have clues...

  2. Re:"... as a means to reduce theft." on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 1

    I can go to any drugstore and buy burn phones that I can get turned on with minutes and data and no attachment to me at all. This is utterly trivial.
    Most airports have "PRE ACTIVATED" cellphones in the vending machines. So you can get a phone that has 100 minutes on it and is already activated 100% anonomously.

    Turning off a "dissidents" phone is a waste of time.

  3. Re:"... as a means to reduce theft." on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 1

    CZ75 carries 14 rounds, and you can get extended mags for nearly any pistol. Plus you would never dump the whole mag into the perp, you leave one round just in case.

    a CZ75 is a fantastic platform It's the AR15 of the 9mm pistol world.

  4. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 2

    This is where a USB LTE stick works wonders....

  5. Re:FWS/students on Ask Slashdot: Automatically Logging Non-Computerized Equipment Use? · · Score: 1

    Yes they can. It's called adding that job as a part of "work-study" and give it a credit hour value.

  6. Re:I can read the future! on Ask Slashdot: Automatically Logging Non-Computerized Equipment Use? · · Score: 1

    Two books..... GENIUS!

  7. Re:"... as a means to reduce theft." on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 1

    3. their chances of being killed instead go way up. there are a lot of concealed carry people out there that will empty their gun into the scumbag if they think they will be killed.

    Take my wallet, but even a hint of real danger and I empty 13 9mm rounds into you as fast as I possibly can.

  8. Re:"... as a means to reduce theft." on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 1

    Then let me remotely detonate it. Take my phone, BOOM your pocket explodes 10 minutes later.
    In fact that should be required, Solves the robbery problem overnight.

  9. Re:"... as a means to reduce theft." on Second Federal 'Kill-switch' Bill Introduced Targeting Smartphone Theft · · Score: 2

    Herp Derp, they already have that and DO that. they can disable all Cellphone towers instantly. That went into place right after 9/11

  10. Yes.. on Ask Slashdot: Automatically Logging Non-Computerized Equipment Use? · · Score: 5, Informative

    You hire someone to check it in and out. Honestly unless you put RFID tags on everything and then force them to be passed through a reader before use, you can not automate that stuff.

  11. Re:So sad and pathetic on Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive · · Score: 1

    Yes, because that happens ALL THE TIME... Thank god for HR departments, they will save us!

  12. Re:So sad and pathetic on Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive · · Score: 1

    At Comcast we called that department the Cattle Ranch.

  13. Re:could and should and all that on Sulfur Polymers Could Enable Long-Lasting, High-Capacity Batteries · · Score: 1

    at the airport, go get your recreational pilots license and then get ready to pony up $250,000 for it, or less if you will accept used, but only poor people would buy used.

    Cessna and other companies have several choices for you.

  14. Re:Try beating an airliner turbine on Sulfur Polymers Could Enable Long-Lasting, High-Capacity Batteries · · Score: 1

    The small fact that air movement is a very very low efficiency way of making a plane fly. Actual thrust like from a jet engine is far more efficient.

    Turbofans are simply cheaper to make and operate.

  15. Re:Still a ways to go...until we get where? on Sulfur Polymers Could Enable Long-Lasting, High-Capacity Batteries · · Score: 1

    10 hour battery life no matter it's city driving or steady at 80mph on the highway tailgaiting people and road raging.

  16. Re:Still a ways to go...until we get where? on Sulfur Polymers Could Enable Long-Lasting, High-Capacity Batteries · · Score: 1

    So keeping my laptop in the car this winter was good for the battery?
    sub zero temperatures have been preserving my laptop!

  17. Re:So sad and pathetic on Popularity On Facebook Makes People Think You're Attractive · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sad and pathetic is the proper way to explain anyone working in HR looking at Facebook profiles for hiring.

  18. Cops like to lie. on Cops Say NDA Kept Them from Notifying Courts About Cell Phone Tracking Gadget · · Score: 1

    And they are lying in this instance. No matter what is in the NDA, Law supersedes anything that a sleazeball lawyer writes. So either the cops are incredibly stupid, or they are corrupt as hell.

    Sadly, I think it's a mixture of both.

  19. Re:Unlimited personal liability? Insanity on Tim Cook: If You Don't Like Our Energy Policies, Don't Buy Apple Stock · · Score: 1

    "The ENTIRE point of a corporation is to break the law without liability."

    FTFY

  20. Re:This sounds like accidents waiting to happen on Apple Launches CarPlay At Geneva Show · · Score: 2

    How can you tell? every lexus I see is driving 3 inches from my bumper while I am driving in the SLOW LANE.

  21. Re:And the Stockholders Don't Want the Policy Chan on Tim Cook: If You Don't Like Our Energy Policies, Don't Buy Apple Stock · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Which is wrong. The executives and board need to be legally liable. shareholders need to be financially liable based on the percentage of stock held.

    Corperations run out of control because they have been given a legal license to break the law whenever they want without recourse.

  22. Re:Kinda funny on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    " you can't just install linux as the ONLY OS for grandma and expect them to never call you back."

    Why? I did and it works so far.... she called back a couple of times and once she figured out that she really does not want to install "coupon Printer.exe" because that is what infected her computer last time.... All was good.

    She wanted to upgrade to something smaller, I got her a chrome book. All is happy and right in the world.

  23. Re:Kinda funny on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 1

    The best way is to use an OEM disk and the activator patch. it just fools the windows 7 into believing it is installed on a "OEM" motherboard.

    Windows 7 is the easiest of all the versions to pirate. windows 8 will be like vista as a curiosity, then windows 9 will be the darling of the pirates.

  24. Re:Kinda funny on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 1

    They need to team up with Hack-a-day and use their logo instead for the boot screen.

  25. Re:Kinda funny on Free (Gratis) Version of Windows Could Be a Reality Soon · · Score: 2

    remember when you could set preferences like blacklisting domains so you did not get all the crap chaff of the internet in your searches....

    Back when Google was an actual search engine.....