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  1. Re:Send some terrists to Mars on Mars Rover Opportunity Faces New Threat: Budget Ax · · Score: 2

    The question is up to what /price/ point is science worth it ?

  2. Re:Fixing healthcare.gov? on Silicon Valley's Youth Problem · · Score: 1

    because the math behind the system will no longer work.

  3. Re:Lat / Long? on The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery · · Score: 1

    Because it already exist. That's how you can follow a plane travel from sitting comfortably in your couch surfing the internet. The real problem appears where the uplink to the ground is broken and the plane "crash".

  4. Re:Top gun manufacturers fail to protect users on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 1

    No. The car industry should provide the mean for people to protect themselves, but ultimately, it is to the people to decide whether or not they want that extra protection (and pay for it). The Government *IS* protecting people from themselves by imposing mandatory seat belt law and alike.

  5. Re:This is your password deal with it. on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 1

    Good password manager ? I consult regular website from 5 or 6 differents machine (including laptop, desktop, tablet, phone, ipod,...), all running different kind of OS. There is NO password manager for this, which is typical nowadays.

  6. Re:Silly suggestion on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 1

    All in all, these are all the worst hints ever:
    1) prone to typo error, especially as the password is generally hidden
    2) number & capitals are a pain on mobile devices
    3) ever harder to remember (ie. where the @!#$ did I put the capital)

  7. Re:Our policy on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 1

    I HATE this kind of company. It will no matter what ALWAYS end up the same: "I forgot my password, send me a new one". Heck.. I'm not even able to remember password for my utility company whose I consult every 6 month...

  8. if you think there ought to be a law... on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 1

    Let's think about this again... if you think there ought to be a law, there probably oughtn't.

  9. Re:Top gun manufacturers fail to protect users on Top E-commerce Sites Fail To Protect Users From Stupid Passwords · · Score: 2

    how is more death on the road necessarily "bad" ? If Joe the Plumber crash and was not wearing a sit belt, well, too bad for him. Why should the government try to protect people from themselves ?

  10. Re:Rome on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 1

    Because it has fallen into quasi-oblivion. If it was that much of a perfect society, it would still rules over Mediterranean coast, Latin would not be a dead language.

    Moreover, if current society is so much like the Ancient Rome, we have to worry, because the next age, namely the Middle Age, has been a long period of general regression.

  11. Re:The real reason FB has an officer. on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 1

    Not to mention in the wilderness :-)

  12. Re:The real reason FB has an officer. on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 2

    What is the reason you like so much to have cop around ? Because they can deter violence though threat of violence, remember, they *do* have firearms. The very basic thing you are irresponsible enough to handle. Moreover, YOUR answer to the problem is the very same I am proposing, that is MORE guns. A LEO without a sidearm and a select-fire rifle (ie. the real "assault" weapon) in the trunk would not be much of a deterrence for criminals...

  13. Re:Gang Style Protection.. on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 2

    Isn't that what taxes are ? Paying for the "protection" of violence which might comes upon us if we don't "pay".

  14. Re:Rome on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 2

    There is a reason it is now called ANCIENT Rome...

  15. Re:The real reason FB has an officer. on Facebook To Pay City $200K-a-Year For a Neighborhood Cop · · Score: 2

    So ? Just allow the "civilian" to get their CCW...

  16. Re:What's the big deal? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    And I'm working out my front deltoid and upper chest :-)

  17. Re:Spin much? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    To some extend, it is just like the Starbucks stance on OC and CC. But I fear that they are actually alienating against both side, by refusing to take a stance. This is the problem with compromise, it's not pleasing ANYONE...

  18. Re:Selling assult weapons on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    Thanks for correction, though, the same argument applies. The now-defunc Federal Assault Weapons Ban was classifying 20-rounder as "large capacity" (with a cutoff for "normal" at 10-round).

  19. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    Btw, if you think a firearm is difficult to make, think twice. With a 3k investment, you can get all the tooling (essentially a mill, a lathe, and a few bits) needed to build firearms, including AR-15 lower receiver. Heck, you can build a single shot 12 gauge shotgun for $30 worth of hardware (steel pipe, cap, nails) from Home Depot, you should even be able to get it for free in construction site scrap.

  20. Re:Simply put... on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What we called today the "Wild West" was probably more civilized than some poor metropolitan area today... As for the gun ban argument, have a look to Australia and UK, whose rate of violent crime has never been so high, while they have utter strict gun law.

  21. Re:..or without a background check? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    You don't "need" to control who buy gun. If I am a criminal, if I WANT to buy a gun, I can get a handgun easily, and I will not go through an FFL. The point is, criminals are CRIMINALS, they don't care about the law, breaking another one is not gonna bother them. However, if 30% of a society pack a weapon and *train* to use that weapon, criminals will probably think twice before committing a crime.

  22. Re:What's the big deal? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    ATI has made an aftermarket polymer stock which accepts a 10 rounds, single stack, mag. Buy a few extra mag and smoke the sh*t out of that printer ! You might end up dislocating your shoulder once or twice, but that's a detail !

  23. Re:Why bother with Facebook? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    It's black, the magazine is overly protruding, and it has a barrel shroud... must be an "assault weapon" [sic] :-)

  24. Re:Why? on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    I am about to put a Spanish Mauser for sale, for the sheer pleasure of pissing them off.

  25. Re:FB is lying, yet again on Facebook Wants To Block Illegal Gun Sales · · Score: 1

    Not all of them, unless it does not address ammunition. I have 7 rounds of 7.62x39 for sale, and it's still up.