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  1. Re:Futility of certain laws on Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    Answer: Reinforced cockpit doors and an attitude of resisting the hijacker(s) instead of expecting a nice Cuban terminal vacation

  2. Re:Keep the phone ban on FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights · · Score: 1

    I with I could edit that to add Mexico as well.

  3. Re:Keep the phone ban on FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights · · Score: 1

    Cool. I've got ~25K miles or so this year, US and Canada. Still have yet to hear any airline mention "airplane mode."

  4. Re:Keep the phone ban on FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights · · Score: 0

    No American airline currently says anything about airplane mode, and neither has any Canadian airline I've flown. They all say the same thing, something to the effect of "Turn off all electronics"

  5. Re:Keep the phone ban on FAA To Allow Use of Most Electronic Devices Throughout Flights · · Score: 1

    They know how to do it. They just don't care. It's not going to affect the airplane and the loss of battery life is negligible, unless you have a phone with poor battery life, where it wouldn't make a difference in the first place.

  6. Really? on NSA App Ideas To Popularize Spying and Big Data · · Score: 0, Troll

    I know this is satire, but fuck you

  7. Can't say I'm surprised on Your Next Network Operating System Is Linux · · Score: 1

    It's hard to beat free.Wish the article had touched on "traditional tools" a little more. They didn't really go into specifics. I've got some experience there, but it would have been nice to see their take on it.

  8. Re:Nothing new there. on ESA 'Amaze' Project Aims To Take 3D Printing 'Into the Metal Age' · · Score: 1

    Hell it's legal to do it without the proper licenses -- minus NFA weapons -- as long as you don't do it for the purpose of reselling. If you do sell a weapon or two -- as long as you're not doing it as a means of living -- all you need to do is slap a serial # on there.

  9. Re:Not necessarily terrible on HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You · · Score: 1

    *I* didn't say anything. An AC posted that, so I'm going to assume you're either an idiot or cannot read. You started with some general statements about telecommuting for work. Then you gave an anecdotal evidence in the form of yahoo. You then followed it up with more general statements about telecommuting. He gave anecdotal evidence from his experience, which contradicted the Yahoo telecommuting experience. His situation is directly comparable. It's telecommuting. Unless Yahoo invented a new way to telecommute, then his experience is just as valid as what you trotted out. Just because you think some narrow window and company experience can't be contradicted or different from other situations, doesn't mean it shouldn't be compared to it. Get off your fucking high horse. You look like an idiot. There are a finite number of ways for workers to produce work and communicate it back to the company at a different physical location. You're basically saying something to the effect of "MPG only matters for cars, not trucks, because trucks don't do the *exact* same thing as cars. They can haul stuff AND people instead of just people. See they are totally different!!!" You come off like a child who lacks any type of critical thinking skills, a drunk, angry child at that.

  10. Re:The telecommuting myth on HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You · · Score: 1

    Telecommuting can work just fine for a large number of workers. It also helps if that someone can concentrate enough to properly spell. Quality of work and amount of work produced can suffer if someone telecommutes and they are not properly managed. If management remains engaged, the worker will produce or they shouldn't have been allowed to telecommute in the first place.

  11. Re:Not necessarily terrible on HP CEO Meg Whitman To Employees: No More Telecommuting For You · · Score: 1

    How is it not comparable? You can't just say something is irrelevant without actually saying why.

  12. Re:Police and Judges. on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 1

    The OP makes no mention of New Zealand. The OP is referring back to this shit stain of a post, which is talking about the fifth amendment and the US. About three layers down, someone mentions New Zealand. He actually mentions the US before he mentions NZ. I can point you to the relevant passage if you want.

  13. Re:Why we have a 5th Amendment on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 1

    No you said a suspect, not an innocent person. Huge difference, and one you apparently don't understand. Stick to mathematics and leave civics to people who passed it in high school.

  14. Re:Police and Judges. on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 1

    I know this is a hard concept to grasp, but lying and invoking your right to avoid self-incrimination are not the same thing.

  15. Re:Why we have a 5th Amendment on Bennett Haselton's Response To That "Don't Talk to Cops" Video · · Score: 1

    For one glaringly simple reason, the defendant can and probably will get charged with a lot of other things (perjury, obstruction, et al) if they lie to a police officer instead of invoke their fifth amendment rights. It would also look a hell of a lot worse to see than interrogation play in court followed immediately contradictory evidence, definitely a lot worse than someone choosing not to testify or answer questions.

  16. Re:The matter is more complicated than that... on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Journalistic pseudo-science on Why the FAA May Finally Relax In-Flight Device Rules · · Score: 1

    Just the sheer number of flights without any interference (you know millions yearly) makes it pretty obvious.

  18. Re:lawfull on US Intelligence Chief Defends Attempts To Break Tor · · Score: 1

    What percentage of TOR traffic is US-based?
    I will give you a hint: It's a lot. There's a reason TOR started out as a DARPA project

  19. Re:you know hell has frozen over on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    Retard Alert

  20. Re:you know hell has frozen over on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    Retard alert

  21. Careful what you wish for on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 0

    If it gets named Trayvon, it will probably be the first asteroid ever shot down by NASA

  22. Re:you know hell has frozen over on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    The NRA isn't the lobbying organization for the gun manufacturers. That's the NSSF

  23. How prophetic was this: on German Government Warns Windows 8 Is an Unacceptable Security Risk · · Score: 2

    From Wikipedia's TPM talk page in 2007:

    As much as I love the NSA looking through email and phone records, I would prefer that the had to *at least* work for it. Trusted Computing (What a crock BTW) says it can be turned off, but does anyone know how? Fosnez 07:52, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

  24. Accomplish in this millennium? on Could Humanity Really Build 'Elysium'? · · Score: 1
    Way to aim high there. We went from the first uses of gunpowder to having a satellite leaving the solar system in under 1000 years. That doesn't even touch us landing on the moon and having multiple space stations orbiting earth at the same time.

    If I'm not able to do the Kessel Run in fewer than 12 parsecs by the end of this millennium, I will be *very*disappointed.

  25. You shouldn't on How Much Should You Worry About an Arctic Methane Bomb? · · Score: 1

    If it happens, there is not much you can do about it.