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  1. Re: Militant Slashdot on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 1

    As I replied to you elsewhere in this thread, assault rifle is a made up category of rifle that is defined by "it looks scarey". They do not make killing people any easier than any other semi-automatic rifle, so no, its only purpose is not this.

    AR-15 rifles are used for hunting very commonly, they are actually terrible for self defense as they are too long and cannot be used effectively in most hallways. If you want a self defense firearm, you are much better with a handgun (which most are semi-automatic as well) or a Mossberg 500 tactical loaded with birdshot or rock salt
    http://www.mossberg.com/catego...
    The Mossberg works best as birdshot and rock salt is stopped by a couple layers of drywall and the sound of a Mossberg being chambered is enough to make most burglars run in fear.

  2. Re:should be interesting on Julian Assange May Surrender To British Police On Friday (twitter.com) · · Score: 2

    Is it regret to wake up with a man having sex without a condom when you had previously stated your preference for condom use?

    You have a strange definition for regret.

    Having sex with a sleeping woman is indeed rape, as she has not given her consent. Sometimes the relationship you have with the woman allows this, but this is a very specific thing.

  3. Re:This is why we can't have nice things on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 1

    You know, gunsmithing is a perfectly legal and unregulated activity? You can buy a AR-15 lower, and machine it into a working gun without anyone having any record that you own that firearm! Sales of guns are regulated, making your own is not, whether it is with a plastic printer, metal sintering printer, or a steel milling machine.

  4. Re: Militant Slashdot on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 1

    1. Automatic rifles are extremely rare. You lack of knowledge on this calls you out as not having enough knowledge to form an opinion. Go read a little bit.

    2. When seconds count, the police are minutes away. The police in the US are LITERALLY not required to stop a crime in progress.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06...

    The police investigate crime after the fact, they are not required to stop someone intent on murdering you, stealing all your stuff, or raping you. So, good luck relying on those police, there have been many instances where they didn't even stop a crime after being notified of a crime being in progress.
    http://insider.foxnews.com/201...
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  5. Re: Militant Slashdot on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 1

    Funny thing, but the US Military is forbidden from fighting within the US, for that it has to be national guard or militias called up from the armed populus.

  6. Re: Militant Slashdot on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 1

    nd you can only buy ones manufactured before 1934 (not sure, but what I found in Google)

    I am wrong, it is 1984.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Funny how a gun control act was passed in 1984, something that causes 1984 to be one step closer.

  7. Re:Welp... on Ask Slashdot: Fixing UVC Camera Issues Under Windows? · · Score: 1

    Inside the device, there could be a hub connected inside the camera to allow the microphone and camera to work, and the storage device could be on a different hub, or even directly connected.

    Go to device manager, view, devices by connection.
    Expand out ACPI... (usually), and expand out until you find the USB stuff, and expand those all the way out, then connect the glasses, check how many devices it adds, and how they are wired up.

  8. Re: Militant Slashdot on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 1

    An automatic rifle (machine gun) fires as long as the trigger is held. These are very expensive to buy due to regulations, and you can only buy ones manufactured before 1934 (not sure, but what I found in Google)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Semiautomatic rifles fire once for every pull of the trigger, these are the type of many firearms used in mass shootings around the US. They ARE commonly used for hunting, as the ability to fire two or more shots at a deer quickly is desired as the first might not actually drop the deer.

    Assault rifle is a made up term for a "scarey gun", the best and most common example of this is an AR-15. AR-15s are a semiautomatic rifle with rails that allow the mounting of accessories such as scopes, lights, lasers, grips, or frankly whatever. They also allow for larger magazines to be used with them, but most magazine weapons can use large magazines.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com... (the first picture)

    The problem that many US citizens have, is that according to the constitution which is the highest law of the land, ALL gun regulation is banned. Yet, a very uncommon form of death is being fought like it is the top way people die.

    http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastat...

    Murder doesn't even break the top ten, it is so rare that you are more likely to die from eating fatty/oily foods. So, lets focus on ending heart disease, fighting cancer, banning or improving help for smokers, fighting alzheimer's and diabetes, ending the flu, stopping whatever the hell Nephritis is, and maybe getting help for those considering suicide, rather than taking guns away from those who don't commit crimes, while leaving the criminals heavily armed as they can just steal guns, or buy them anywhere.

  9. Re: Militant Slashdot on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 1

    Maybe next you should ban french fries. They kill far more people than guns, and they are allowed to be sold in school!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  10. Re:Militant Slashdot on Beyond the Liberator: A 3D-Printed Plastic 9mm Semi-Auto Pistol · · Score: 2

    The second amendment to the constitution guarantees all US citizens the right to carry firearms. You can debate all you like the moral implications of it, but until the second amendment is repealed, it is the right of every US citizen to carry firearms.

  11. Re:Welp... on Ask Slashdot: Fixing UVC Camera Issues Under Windows? · · Score: 2

    http://www.amazon.com/Excelvan...

    My assumption is that there is a USB1.1 hub built into the glasses, XP doesn't care, but 7 detects it and prevents features from working. Poor design is likely the issue, not actually Windows.

  12. Re:Device compatability / driver problems ... on Ask Slashdot: Fixing UVC Camera Issues Under Windows? · · Score: 2

    Nice joke.

    For those who maybe miss the reference:
    http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?...

  13. Re:Since when has /. become tech support? on Ask Slashdot: Fixing UVC Camera Issues Under Windows? · · Score: 2

    My guess is that there is an embedded USB hub somewhere in the device which is USB1.1, XP ignores that and allows the traffic to go through, while 7 is throwing an error because the camera expects a USB2.0 path, which it apparently isn't getting. Without a link to what device it is though, I have no way to be able to troubleshoot.

    I would call the tech support for the glasses, but likely, as they are cheap chinese knockoffs, the poster got what they paid for.

  14. I was going to mention all the federal arrests and issues in Utah before they decided to follow the federal laws, but you summed it up rather well with the description you gave.

    The state (federal government) absolutely interferes in proper religiously wed polygamists. I was going to bring up the show Sister Wives, but apparently, that family has brought a striking down of the anti polygamy laws in Utah recently...I had not heard that until I started looking for citations about the harassment they received, and came up with this link:

    http://www.ibtimes.com/utah-po...

  15. Re:Mitochindria - just mitochondria on Ethics Panel Endorses Mitochondrial Therapy, But Says Start With Male Embryos (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 2

    and mitochondrial DNA from surrogate

    It depends.

    Not all surrogate pregnancies work that way. A Surrogate could just be someone carrying the baby for a couple where the female has various issues preventing carrying a baby to term.

    http://www.webmd.com/infertili...

    According to that article in fact, you are completely wrong. I have however heard of what you are speaking of, I just don't recall what it is called, but apparently it isn't surrogacy. What you speak of is the current therapy for mitochondrial disorders where they use a viable egg from someone else where the DNA is removed and the DNA from the desired mother is injected instead.

  16. Personally, I think that allowing for sex selection would be a self correcting problem. In China, with the one child rule, the ratios were thrown off, this led to a lot of males with no chances of finding a wife. So the sexism of the previous generation is bred out of the society as people see the error of choosing to have primarily male offspring. Perhaps this could lead to a reduction of populations in China and the Middle east where sexism prevails as the way.

  17. You forgot polygamy, where the state says three consenting adults can't get married...because reasons.

  18. High heels were originally invented for men to wear when riding horses, so sure men can wear high heels.

    I can't conceive of a man enjoying a chick flick though.

  19. So, having one more freak than fan (you) makes you happy?

    The friends vs foes is choices you make, fans vs freaks is choices others make about you. I have 11 fans and 11 freaks (two of them are obviously the same person), you have 44 fans and 45 freaks, likely the difference is down to age of accounts though, you have a low 6 digit UID and I have a low 7 digit, so you beat me to /. by a couple years.

    The point I was making is that you are very judgemental of others and try to prevent or discount their speech. I speak out about that attitude, but I don't tell you what you can and cannot do. I make no effort at controlling others, while you try to remove other's freedoms because you disagree with them.

  20. What current member of the KKK has done that and not already been put in prison?

  21. Re:The key is right here. on MIT Inches Closer To ARC Reactor Despite Losing Federal Funding (computerworld.com) · · Score: 2

    Well, $5 billion is a waste...of time...$40 billion is more like actual fusion research, like what the researchers said in the first "fusion is 50 years out" report.

  22. Everything exposed to fast neutron flux turns into mildly dangerous material. Breeder reactors only address a fraction of the problem.

    FTFY.

  23. Re:Please Explain on Open Source Pioneer Michael Tiemann On the Myth of the Average · · Score: 2

    My grandfather flew B-52s in Korea. When he was up for the SR-71, it was deemed that the length of his legs was too great; he couldn't use the rudders or fit in the cockpit.

    My grandfather is also quite tall, not sure exactly how tall, but his height wasn't even a concern, just the length of his legs was an issue.

    It happens that different jets have different constraints on the dimensions of the pilots.

  24. Re:Most of the collage kids these days a whiny bab on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 1

    You must have picked up an enemy, I don't think I have ever been mod bombed as bad as I have seen you get in this comment section.

  25. The only time I call someone out as a SJW is when they try to take other people's right to expression away. I have no problem with you sharing your opinion, and I encourage you to do so, but the second you try to prevent someone else from sharing their opinion, you are in the wrong. This is what I have seen you do on numerous occasions, which is why I label you as a SJW. You have even Foed me for pointing out your hypocrisy, which is your way of trying to make my opinion less in your eyes.

    You are the one trying to shut out other people's speech, no one is stopping you from speaking.

    Hell, just take a look at your friend and foe list to see the problem:

    http://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo/f...
    http://slashdot.org/~AmiMoJo/f...

    Compare that to mine:

    http://slashdot.org/~Coren22/f...
    http://slashdot.org/~Coren22/f...

    You try to shut down other people's speech by labeling them. But I guess I am trying to mansplain things to you, and using my white privilege to its maximum effect.