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  1. Re:They can't lead in market numbers forever on Report Claims Microsoft Beat Apple in Online Tablet Sales for October (winbeta.org) · · Score: 1

    Windows 10 is an OS, it comes on new devices, but can also be loaded on old devices. There is no indication of the age of the laptop being talked about, and frankly, hardware failures happen to all manufacturers, so holding one manufacturer responsible while claiming Apple is the holy grail just means a lack of experience, not a valid opinion on the matter.

  2. Re:They can't lead in market numbers forever on Report Claims Microsoft Beat Apple in Online Tablet Sales for October (winbeta.org) · · Score: 1

    Whoever wrote the summary is fully in the distortion field though.

    Apple's iPad tablet ushered in the modern tablet era when it was introduced in 2010

    Not including all the tablets that were rare before the iPad was released (there were tons of Toshiba, Toughbooks, and other tablets that didn't sell well), there were many Android tablets before the iPad, discounting those takes quite some reality distortion.

  3. Re: Exactly Right on Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    Guns should not be stored with a round chambered. The reason they rack it is to ready the first round, not to eject an unused round.

  4. Re: Exactly Right on Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    Actually, you absolutely can. You may or may not be able to buy a gun, but just shooting a gun at a range is not restricted in any way.

    You just have to rent a gun instead of buy, and boom, you are able to shoot trap. You could also talk to a lawyer to get the record expunged if it is really preventing you from buying a gun, as accusations are not convictions though, I cannot see how an accusation of something would prevent you from owning a gun. You are innocent until proven guilty, as you haven't actually been convicted of anything.

  5. Re:The real problem on How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Limits Liability to the owners of the Corporation?

    Some people put their houses into an LLC so that if someone sues them, they don't lose everything. But of course, all corporations are evil right?

  6. Re:The real problem on How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Is Zuckerberg the town named after Zuker?

  7. Re: Uh, hello Germans? on Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror (politico.eu) · · Score: 2

    In Germany, there are laws outlawing iconography of the Nazis. Wouldn't this make it kind of hard to teach history? This even caused Wolfenstein, that was about killing the Nazis to be banned, as it was somehow supporting Nazi ideas to go around shooting them.

  8. Re:Exactly Right on Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    I prefer the dual Beretta from CS.

  9. Re:Exactly Right on Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror (politico.eu) · · Score: 1

    That is an interesting, while accurate, way to read the Second Amendment.

    Lets pass a law funding it!

  10. Re:I did not know that on Apollo 16 Booster Impact Site Found (asu.edu) · · Score: 2

    Apparently it's a universal human trait to wonder "What happens when we hit X with Y really hard/fast?".

    Perhaps it is related to procreation in some way.

  11. Re:Damn, that's a lot for rounded corners on Samsung Agrees To Pay Apple $548 Million Over Smartphone Patents (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh? What patents do you think this is about? Why are they innovative? The only other patent I have heard mentioned is slide to unlock, which is hardly innovative.

  12. Re:Does the mantle even exist? on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    we positively know the mantle is there just like you know the train is coming when you hear its whistle

    So, in other words, we can be tricked by a wooden train whistle?

  13. Re: Does the mantle even exist? on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    That could only improve things.

  14. Re:When you dig too greedily, too deep... on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    I thought that was how you released the Balrog?

  15. Re:Adamantine on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    Maybe they ran into bedrock, only admins can remove that.

    http://minecraft.gamepedia.com...

  16. Re:The National Enquirer on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Blow up the world! on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you just buy a ticket on a passenger jet.

  18. Re:Blow up the world! on Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust · · Score: 1

    Unless it is a left wing anti science nut, of which there are just as many.

  19. Re: Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Currently it takes a waiting period before the purchase of firearms, during this period, the gun retailer runs a background check on you (except when buying from another person, as there is no way for me to run a background check on you). Many states also require a gun safety class before your first gun purchase. How would you change this system?

    All of the requirements you mention I have heard for the US, but I think they may be state laws rather than federal. Gun magazines are restricted, but not universally, I have heard that there are storage requirements in many places including the ammo portion (I have seen a commercial for this one recently)

    The main path guns enter the black market is through theft, I am not sure how you can prevent this, as people still are able to break into the best bank safes.

    Buy backs happen quite often around here, mostly in Democrat controlled areas. I don't know if a 30% reduction is really possible, nor do I know how the numbers of firearms are even counted. I just don't see 345 million guns in the US, there just don't seem to be that many people with them.

    I have only ever seen someone open carrying once, in Virginia, a woman in a grocery store had a hand gun on her belt, guns just don't seem to be very common in Maryland/Virginia/DC/Pennsylvania. It may be a cultural thing in this area, but there are far more guns in other states than where I spend most of my time.

    It always makes me laugh when Obama calls for more gun regulation, while having armed security all around him. It is easy to try and take guns from people when you have no reason to carry one, but for that inner city woman walking to the bus stop, sometimes that is their only protection from someone mugging or raping them.

    FYI, I own 0 firearms, I just believe strongly in not removing protections from tyranny. I made the decision when I had children that I wouldn't keep firearms in the house, however both my children know how to handle a firearm from taking Rifle Merit Badge in Scouts.

  20. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on Congress Votes to Scrap Obama's Clean Power Plan (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    So, perhaps we should just disconnect your power. I don't own coal interests, I am a customer of a nuclear power plant. That doesn't mean that I am not wise enough to see a demand from the EPA that all states reduce their CO2 production by 35% can end badly when there is no way to do that in many states. Do you expect that a nuclear power plant could be built in a week, or even 10 years? Do you expect the same for solar power plants?

    Demanding that all states dump coal before there is something to replace it can only lead to rolling blackouts. Phasing out coal is a much wiser path, but I guess I am the shill in your book, though you appear to be shilling for the rolling blackout solution.

  21. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? on Congress Votes to Scrap Obama's Clean Power Plan (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    Did I say we should just get rid of the EPA? Did I say anything about that all pollution controls should be stopped?

    CO2 is not a pollutant by the common definition, so is it the EPA's responsibility to define how much CO2 a power plant can release, or that all states need to reduce their CO2 emissions by 35%? The GOP are saying it isn't the EPA's place to do this, and you are arguing that somehow I am saying that everything the EPA does is wrong. Reign in that strawman!

  22. Re:Confirmation bias on More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that?

    1. is in orbit around the Sun,

    That doesn't leave much room for planets around other stars, there is only one "the Sun"

  23. Re:Have they considered the alternative? on More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't that be more like Bowl of Heaven than Ringworld? The ringworld never really used the sun as a motor except to hold it in place.

    pictures: https://www.google.com/search?...

    Book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Bowl-Hea...

  24. Re: Another reason to ban rifles on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    But you are restricted from owning things like tanks and SAMS though?

    Actually, only in theory. You have to get a special license to own automatic weapons, tanks, silencers, SAMs and other military hardware, and often even the ammo. In practice however, firearms falling under this act are so expensive that the only point of buying them is as an investment, not to use.

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

    And my reading of the amendment points to a militia so it could be argued that if you are part of a militia you can carry arms.

    A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

    The comma in that sentence is very important for the reading of the amendment. Everything before the comma is the reason why firearms are being unrestricted. Also, a militia is everyone of military age. It is something that really doesn't exist with modern standing armies, but back in the days of the constitution, it was quite common to call up a militia to fight battles from the general populous, so the framers of the constitution wanted to arm everyone so that when a war came, the weapons were already there, and the people were familiar with their use.

    You didn't mention it, but the regulated is something that is important to understand as well, as the meaning of the word has changed over the years. When the bill of rights was ratified, regulated simply meant trained, not limited or restricted like it means now.

  25. Then add in the WiFi and Bluetooth, GPS and other antennas

    Actually, Bluetooth and WiFi use the same 2.4 Ghz frequencies, and GPS is a resonant frequency (half wavelength) of those. Wifi 5 GHz is near double the 2.4 GHz as well if it is included, though I believe it requires a discrete antenna.

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