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  1. Re:Well it's quite simple on How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us To Greater Harm · · Score: 1

    There are several guns that have been made using 3D printers, except for the firing pin. Sure they were parts that had to be assembled, but they were still guns printed by a 3D printer non the less. Now if you want the entire gun printed in one shot fully assembled, that is currently beyond the capabilities of the designs and technology for a few reason, but it's a temporary situation that people are trying to rectify for many reasons that have nothing to do with guns.
    Of course, yes, the current crop of printed guns are total crap and it's cheaper, better, and faster to make a saturday night special with the tools you probably have in your garage.

  2. Re:Who will get on North Korean Internet Is Down · · Score: 1

    I rarely try to act like Conan the Grammarian (horrible play on grammar and barbarian), but I believe you meant to use "than" instead of "then".
    Otherwise your sentence indicates that the police kill white people before they go out and kill black people as that usage of "then" is a reference to time and sequence of events. :P
    You can blame autocorrect, I sure do. :D

  3. Re:Who will get on North Korean Internet Is Down · · Score: 1

    There are several theaters in my state that were looking forward to running that movie, until Sony said they weren't going to allow it.
    Yes, some theaters got cold feet, but it was NO where near all of them.
    The final decision that nixed it for everyone sits squarely on the shoulders of Sony.

  4. Re:Who will get on North Korean Internet Is Down · · Score: 1

    Anonymous is not the USA, even if many US citizens claim to be members.
    If the USA wanted North Korea offline, they'd probably use some kind of long range weaponry (cruise missile for example) to take out whatever buildings host the critical backbone hardware. It's not like they have a multiply redundant system with lots of viable alternate resources.
    Heck, a lot of NK doesn't even have proper access to electricity. With the government there doing their best to hide all problems from the few allowed visitors it's kind of hard to pin things down all that well, but if nothing else us general public plebes can at least see the vast swaths of darkness that engulfs NK at night.

  5. Re:Sounds fine by me on Judge: It's OK For Cops To Create Fake Instagram Accounts · · Score: 1

    (ianal) That's usually called Identity Theft, and since they like to use those accounts to try and snuggle up to nasty criminals (drug dealers, gun runners, etc, definitely not jaywalkers or serial litterers) they are also pointlessly and needlessly putting someone else in danger without their knowledge or consent which is Reckless Endangerment. Both Identity Theft and Reckless Endangerment are crimes. So yes, it's already illegal, but guess what, who's going to arrest the cops?

  6. Re:Not seeing the issue here on Judge: It's OK For Cops To Create Fake Instagram Accounts · · Score: 2

    Yes, but what they recently got yelled at for is making and using an account for someone else, thus committing identity theft and reckless endangerment but the only one doing the yelling is the public. In other words, they face no negative repercussions for their illegal and reprehensible actions.
    Making and using an account for a non-existent person on the other hand would just be a violation of the user agreement.

  7. Re:Not seeing the issue here on Judge: It's OK For Cops To Create Fake Instagram Accounts · · Score: 1

    "SHOULD", though unfortunately the reality is rather the inverse of your ideal, even though I suspect that I and most other people would agree with your sentiment.

  8. Re:Not seeing the issue here on Judge: It's OK For Cops To Create Fake Instagram Accounts · · Score: 1

    Because far too many of them have little to no regard for the law or it's spirit and intent, but only when it applies to them.

  9. Re:Not seeing the issue here on Judge: It's OK For Cops To Create Fake Instagram Accounts · · Score: 1

    There has been a recent supreme decision regarding that, you can't be arrested for resisting arrest because obviously you must be getting arrested for something to resist to be resisting arrest. Basically if the only charge they have to throw at you is "resisting arrest" it is legally invalid and has to be thrown out. Of course there is the whole problem with cops and their buddies abusing the system and keeping you in jail for months or more while it slowly goes through the system with virtually nobody in charge being on your side. :(

  10. Re:Not seeing the issue here on Judge: It's OK For Cops To Create Fake Instagram Accounts · · Score: 1

    Incompetence is Incompetence, it doesn't matter if it's due to lack of experience or lack of due diligence, it's still incompetence.

  11. Re:Not seeing the issue here on Judge: It's OK For Cops To Create Fake Instagram Accounts · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No

  12. Re:Old news. on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    Don't forget that there are red light cameras that have been proven to be giving tickets to people that are clearly NOT entering intersections during a red, or even a yellow. Sorry, but those things are just a cash grab con/scam by the city governments.

  13. Re:Old news. on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    Except there seems to be a very high and highly suspicious correlation of improperly timed yellow light durations at intersections with red light cameras. So yes, you can imply that the red light camera is at fault because the yellow wouldn't have been shortened to generate more revenue if it wasn't there.

  14. Re:Old news. on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    I have, but there's not much you can do when your brakes suddenly go out and you have the horrible feeling you are suddenly in a cheap ass hollywood action flick. Got stopped safely. Mechanic said it was a bubble or something in the brake lines.
    I can work on computers, missiles, and a lot of other high tech or crazy things, but I don't work on cars because I know little beyond theories on their mechanics.

  15. Re:Old news. on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    That's true in some places in the USA, and not others. There's no one set of rules for that nation wide.

  16. Re:Study financed by on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    I've been in both types several times as a passenger, and the T-bone collisions tended to be more painful over the next couple of weeks. The type of seatbelts they have in cars don't do crap for being thrown sideways. Now the 5 points in dune buggies and the like it doesn't matter which way you get bounced so long as your helmet doesn't fly off.

  17. Re:Study financed by on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 1

    "The key part of ShanghaiBill's query was "in the intersections studied"."

    Of course. It's kind of hard to include statistics on intersections that have not been studied, and there are also often resource issues preventing the study of all intersections in a city.

  18. Re:Study financed by on Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This isn't exactly news, as various cities have been caught illegally reducing the yellow light durations below the federally mandated minimums for the purpose of fund generatiou by entrapment through red light cams.
    There have also been several other studies that show that the red light cams actually increase accident rates.

  19. Re:Short sighted on Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the history books I've seen, many written by non-americans, it was pretty clearly stated that if the USA hadn't finally gotten into the war in Europe, Germany would have pretty much steamrolled what was left of western Europe, then turned full forces including it's Luftwaffe on Russia (actually USSR) and overwhelmed them outside of winter. Instead they got beaten back and their forces continually depleted by the Allied forces on the Western Front, leaving the Eastern front vulnerable and less capable, loosing even their initial advances when the lack of supplies and brutal winter devastated their forces.
    Things "might" have gone smoother with the American forces in Europe, but they were also engaged in the Pacific conflict at the same time, and needed the shifting of forces from the ending of the European conflict to bring a conclusion to the Pacific conflict. Of course there are the nukes, but those only ended it quicker and with far less bloodshed than would have happened otherwise, even with the most optimistic forecasts. It just goes to show that fighting a war on multiple fronts is never a good idea.

  20. Re:Short sighted on Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware · · Score: 2

    LoL, "What is *wrong* with you that you've dumped so much of your ego into a pissing context between OSs?".
    Usually it's a pissing Contest, but strangely enough, your "pissing context" seems to fit it better. :P

  21. Re:mistakes were made on Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site · · Score: 1

    They've made plenty of others over the years, but this one is probably their most extensive and stupid yet.

  22. Re: 2% is nothing on NASA Gets 2% Boost To Science Budget · · Score: 1

    Really?! Last I heard they were attacking parts of the middle east, and hadn't even taken over an entire country yet, much less put out a rowboat to try and cross the ocean.

  23. Re:the mysterious "us" on LA Mayor Proposes Earthquake Retrofits On Thousands of Buildings · · Score: 1

    The renters. Do you really think the owners aren't going to pass the costs to the renters?
    Also, I have to wonder how many of those buildings will cost almost or more to do these retrofits than they are worth.
    You have to wonder if it's going to be cheaper to tear it down and build something new.

  24. Re:Time travel on 2 Futures Can Explain Time's Mysterious Past · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't bother, it will have been boring.
    The guest speaker was half dead from temporal lag and the symposium got over scheduled, twice!
    Don't even ask about the Parallelers. Ack!

  25. Re:Hike insurance premiums on North Korea Denies Involvement In "Righteous" Sony Hack · · Score: 1

    That history isn't so recent, and Sony hasn't bothered to implement any security that can't be broken by a rhesus monkey with SADD (simian attention deficit disorder ) before, so why expect them to change now?
    (Disclaimer - Sony has a rather well deserved lousy reputation in this area for their past actions here, so I'm not likely to give them the benefit of the doubt for much of anything.)