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  1. Re:One problem solved, now the other... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    http://www.cchrint.org/2012/07...

    http://www.cchrint.org/school-...

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

    http://freedom-articles.toolsf...

    http://www.prweb.com/releases/...

    Of course, doctor/patient confidentiality rules often prevent hard core analysis. In the case of mass shootings and such, we ought to consider changing the rules so that we can grasp fully the links between shootings and drugs. Sticking ones head in the sand and claiming ignorance is not really a good option.

  2. Re:Or just practicing for an actual job on Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday · · Score: 1

    understand its edge cases,

    This is where the real money is made. Edge cases always reveal weakness in design. The fewer edge cases, the better the design.

  3. Re:Or just practicing for an actual job on Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The difference being that you could have coded it from scratch, but not nearly as well

    FTFY

    As good as many coders are, their first coding attempt at any problem is not nearly as good as something that has already been done, several iteration ago, solving the same type of problem. There is efficiency of code, completeness, and security issues that have already been solved.

  4. Re:Benefits, but still misses the point... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Actually, in most of the cases of kids shooting kids, they are already in the "mental health" system, and taking Pharmaceuticals. I would dare say, that Mental Health system is fucking around with the mind and not knowing what it is doing.

  5. Re:One problem solved, now the other... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Drugs. And by drugs, I mean the legal Pharmaceutical ones. Almost all cases of Children shooting children involve Pharmaceuticals. Though chances are, the public is more likely to blame guns than the drugs.

  6. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Spoken like a either a coaster or European, who has no idea that vast amounts of the US is wilderness. Please explain "sensible gun legislation" that works equally well for New York City, and Cattle Rancher in Wyoming. The fact is, one size fits all legislation that works really well for small European Countries doesn't work so well for a country the size of all of Europe ... and then some.

  7. Re:Dumb idea ... Lots of assumptions .... on US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System · · Score: 1

    Another assumption is that there is a cost benefit analysis that shows how ridiculous this actually is. The cost associated, per school, when School Shootings are very rare events is huge. While horrible, there is almost no cost that is reasonable to try to "identify" school shootings via technology. It would be much better, much more efficient to have something like this ... http://www.actionnewsnow.com/n...

  8. Re: This is missing one of Silk Road's major featu on After Silk Road 2.0 Bust, Eyes Turn To 'Untouchable' Decentralized Market · · Score: 1

    Nope. Not general counsel to rape girls. Or even have child brides. Age is not actually mentioned in any of the so called passages, and clearly the passage above Deut 22:28-29 implies females of marriageable age (in the midst of sexual purity laws).

  9. Re:This is missing one of Silk Road's major featur on After Silk Road 2.0 Bust, Eyes Turn To 'Untouchable' Decentralized Market · · Score: 1

    Interesting that they be unbetrothed (Implying marriageable). Additionally, the implication is that it was mutual consent (they be found). Lastly, it is implied that they would be "married" at that point.

    The context of the entire passage is about rape, but rather about sexual purity. So, no, this doesn't mean mean can rape girls. Nice Try though.

  10. Re:iMessage isn't bad... on Apple Releases iMessage Deregistration Utility · · Score: 1

    Can I use iMessage if I don't have anything Apple? That is proprietary.

    Hangouts is available via web service, not proprietary. Closed network, possibly (except SMS works too, regardless of having GV or not)

  11. Re:iMessage isn't bad... on Apple Releases iMessage Deregistration Utility · · Score: 1

    You think you're not being mined? LOL funny.

  12. Re:iMessage isn't bad... on Apple Releases iMessage Deregistration Utility · · Score: 1

    Apple Lock-In ... but I repeat myself.

    My Choice is to go to the device agnostic Google, using Google Voice and Hangouts to do everything (and more) than any iDevice/iMessage can do. SMS from any computer with a browser. Apps for both iOS and Android, PC and Mac.

  13. Re:hm... on Nevada Earthquake Swarm Increases Chance of Larger Quake · · Score: 2

    How about ... it is a fucking Volcano zone? (near Lassen, Shasta). No, it must be Fracking!

  14. Re:This is missing one of Silk Road's major featur on After Silk Road 2.0 Bust, Eyes Turn To 'Untouchable' Decentralized Market · · Score: 1

    "Old Testament allows men to have female children as brides"

    I need chapter and verse for this "allowance" I've not ever seen it.

  15. Re:This is missing one of Silk Road's major featur on After Silk Road 2.0 Bust, Eyes Turn To 'Untouchable' Decentralized Market · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People give up their liberties when government cries "ILLEGAL". The problem is, there is no crime between two willing people.

  16. Re:Look on the bright side ... on After Silk Road 2.0 Bust, Eyes Turn To 'Untouchable' Decentralized Market · · Score: 1

    Because ILLEGAL!!!!

  17. Re:Look on the bright side ... on After Silk Road 2.0 Bust, Eyes Turn To 'Untouchable' Decentralized Market · · Score: 1

    Government has a vested interest in controlling people, and the easiest way to control people is to control trade. More conrtol of trade, the more control of the people you have. Liberty is being eroded with every "there ought to be a law" cry.

  18. Re:If they're going literal.... on Undersized Grouper Case Lands In Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Government seizing power. And we are unwilling or unable to simply stop it. For that is the true nature of government.

  19. Re:If they're going literal.... on Undersized Grouper Case Lands In Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    You do not even need a state law. A county sheriff is the highest law enforcement official in the land, and all it would take is for the county Sheriff to start arresting Federal Agencies who operate within the county without informing him/her of their operations. Because the County Sheriff is the highest elected Law Enforcement Officer in the country. Chiefs of Police and Federal Officers do not serve in law enforcement under an elected official whom we can hold accountable.

    It is high time we start asking sheriffs of our land to protect and serve us, or replace them with someone who will.

  20. Re: Just on PC Cooling Specialist Zalman Goes Bankrupt Due To Fraud · · Score: 1

    Cartels are collaborative efforts to raise prices through collusion. This only succeeds when the cost to enter a market is sufficiently high. It rarely survives long term, and crumbles horribly when the cartel breaks apart. Just watch OPEC as the US becomes the largest oil producing nation, not part of the cartel for a nice view of how cartels stop working.

    The problem is, we are too fucking impatient as a people to wait for market forces to change the landscape. However, if you're aware of your surroundings, and understand that market forces eventually win out, you can take long term investments and plan accordingly, you'll end up very wealthy. The trick is to read the tea leaves well in advance.

  21. Re:Why? on Tesla Delays Launch of Model X Until Q3 2015 · · Score: 1

    Processors matter less and less, especially since we simply add cores to make them "faster". Ram matters, but less and less as things move towards "cloud" computing.

    And with my most used computer fitting in my pocket, along with a thing called "cell phone", which I use less and less, I see the world is completely different than it was just ten years ago. And in ten years time, we're going to be looking at the things we think are neat/groovy/radical/wicket awesome today as "quaint" (a keyboard .. how quaint)

  22. Re:Why the surprised look? on Users Can't Distinguish Scams From Facebook's Features · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is that way every election, whether the winners are (D) or (R). The scam is that people think that there is substantive differences between the party that is taking our rights quickly or the one taking them away slowly. But enjoy your cake an circuses.

  23. Re:The only way to win the game... on Users Can't Distinguish Scams From Facebook's Features · · Score: 2

    1) Google+ Yeah yeah desert void of anything usable.
    2) These are not "friends". they are people you know. Friends communicate with each other outside of FB
    3) I haven't. To be honest with you, I think I could manage. Social gatherings do occur apart from FB
    4) And Google+. I have never had a twitter account, and I find the whole concept silly. I like to have substantive reading / dialogs, but in a world of sound bites that is increasingly difficult.

  24. Re:But DC is different,no? on Marijuana Legalized In Oregon, Alaska, and Washington DC · · Score: 2

    I can't walk though downtown park without having second hand pot smoke, so no, I am not projecting.

    And most people I know are courteous about smoking in front of others, because not everyone wants to smoke second hand. But those that don't aren't really friends in the first place, are they?

    Anyone having gone to a concert and gotten high without smoking at all can tell you, many pot smokers don't give a shit about anyone else.

    So ... not projecting. I think it is telling that you've never experienced inconsiderate pot smokers.

  25. Re:But DC is different,no? on Marijuana Legalized In Oregon, Alaska, and Washington DC · · Score: 1

    being around people smoking (but not smoking yourself) is enough to spike a positive.

    Yup. I know. Interestingly you have suggested that pot smokers think it is a right to smoke anywhere they damn well please and fuck everyone else. I have a problem with that