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  1. Re:Why does 3d printing matter on Digging Into the Legal Status of 3-D Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    An AR lower is not a high stress part. It does not withstand thousands of lbs of pressure, hundreds of degrees and the erosion of gas and lead traveling faster than the speed of sound.

  2. Re:Why does 3d printing matter on Digging Into the Legal Status of 3-D Printed Guns · · Score: 1

    It takes a specialized tap to put in rifling, the average metal mill won't have the right kind of tap for that.

    And even with the right tap, a typical metal lathe won't easily be able to tap a long barrel.

  3. Re:life-long updates on Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In addition to the mac and ms stores, STEAM is now distributing non-game software. Admittedly most of it is currently aimed at artists and developers involved with producing games, but utility for graphic designers would still fit in just fine.

  4. Re:Oh, we can do something about THAT? on Gov't Report: Laser Pointers Produce Too Much Energy, Pose Risk For the Careless · · Score: 5, Funny

    Throw in a gallon of jeagermeister, and a 3 wheeler ATV and you have my vote! ;)

  5. Re:enitre on Botnet Uses Default Passwords To Conduct "Internet Census 2012" · · Score: 1

    ha, mine is at 192.168.1.2, good luck cracking that one open!

  6. Re:not evolution on Roadkill Forcing Cliff Swallows To Evolve · · Score: 1

    Its a claim so absurd that it could only be brought up as a strawman in order to discredit an opponent when you no longer have an effective rational argument to use...

  7. Re:not evolution on Roadkill Forcing Cliff Swallows To Evolve · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The definition of evolution existed for over century before genetic material was discovered.

    Keep changing the goalpost because the facts don't match your dogma, kinda like "climate change"

  8. Re:But... on A Quarter of Sun-Like Stars Host Earth-Size Worlds · · Score: 1

    Get some reading comprehension. The frankly idiotic conclusion you draw is exactly the opposite of what I wrote.

  9. Re:But... on A Quarter of Sun-Like Stars Host Earth-Size Worlds · · Score: 3, Informative

    2 problems with your assertion:

    1: the majority of stars are smaller and dimmer than the sun, .25 AU is not necessarily out of the "green" zone for the most common dwarf stars.

    2: earth sized planets further out from stars can not be reliable detected using current technology and processes. The fact that the earth sized planets that we can detect are plentiful does indicate that the earth sized planets we can not detect are not plentiful. Recall that the first few exo-planets were much larger than Jupiter and much closer than earth. We are constantly expanding the lower limit of mass and higher limit of distance that we can detect effectively.

  10. Re:Biometric system is insecure by design on Doctors Bypass Biometric Scanners With Fake Fingers · · Score: 3, Funny

    It can be canceled at the biometric level...

    You are just squeamish about the organ replacement process.

    I bet you found it inconvenient to change your passwords every 90 days as well.

  11. Re:How to save it in offline mode on Hacker Skips SimCity Full-Time Network Requirement · · Score: 1

    even if it is monitoring time gaps you can suspend the image and it can retain the same system time.

  12. Re:LOL on Defcad.com Wants To Be the Google of 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    only for you, she doesn't want to be a bad mother and hurt your feelings.

  13. Re:More than pick-and-place on SXSW: Imagine a Practical, Low-Cost Circuit Board Assembly System (Video) · · Score: 4, Funny

    shit damn, I forgot the quotes and the snippy annoying RTFA comment.

  14. Re:More than pick-and-place on SXSW: Imagine a Practical, Low-Cost Circuit Board Assembly System (Video) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ultimately, the machine will etch traces, apply solder paste, place components, cook, and test. Version 1.0 places components.

  15. I block scripts not ads on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    I don't have a problem with a simple graphic banner across the top of your page if it does not flash or play sound or grab my mouse context or jump to the middle of the screen and do an overlay of something i am trying to click on or if there are so many of them i have to scroll to get to the content I am looking for.

    If you want advertising revenue, go back to a single simple ad banner.

  16. wow, fight the police state. on Court: 4th Amendment Applies At Border, Password Protected Files Not Suspicious · · Score: 1

    I am glad to see a judge actually take a stand against the tidal wave that has been eroding our liberties.

  17. Re: As opposed to actual Model Ms which are still on Cherry's New Keyboard Switches Emulate IBM Model M Feel · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its a keyboard you can beat a man to death with, and still be perfectly usable as a keyboard.

  18. Re:As opposed to actual Model Ms which are still m on Cherry's New Keyboard Switches Emulate IBM Model M Feel · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ, I replaced my model M recently because the WASD keys were worn enough to have holes through their surface. I doubt that the sidewinder with cherry mx blues will last as long, but its not a bad feel, and unlike any of the new Model M's it has back lighting which is a feature that I also wanted.

  19. Re:Not an EA fan but on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 1

    The complexity of dwarf fortress is close to that. It can bring even an overclocked 4.5Ghz i7 to its knees on older fortresses, but that problem is solved just by slowing the simulation.

  20. Re:Not an EA fan but on SimCity 5: How Not To Design a Single Player Game · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is further weakened by the existence of dwarf fortress, a game with larger maps with greater depth, a cellular automaton fluid dynamics engine, and the simulation of creatures down to the layers of their tissues, personality traits and their recent thoughts and memories.

  21. Re:Just what we need right now... on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    I do.

  22. Re:Thanks... on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    I don't think it was a joke.

    There are a lot of people who incorrectly believe that ownership is an inalienable natural right.

    Ownership requires that an individual retain control of an object or property when it is not in his possession, in such a way that he will always be able to return it to his possession. This requires controlling the actions of other people, limiting their ability to possess the object or property.

    Ownership may be the founding principal of capitalism, and expressed to some extent in almost every culture. And don't get me wrong. I believe that ownership is a good thing in most cases, even the ownership of weapons. But it is not a natural right.

  23. Re:Just what we need right now... on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    I've been pissed about all of that shit for DECADES already. My defense of the second is just the flavor of the month of my outrage.

  24. Re:Which Europeans? on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    I hate the term gun crime. It would be like calling evading capture by police a sneaker crime.

    Murder is murder without regard to the weapon or lack of weapon used to kill. The same goes for assault and threats of violence.

    The gun is a tool, no more and no less. And in the right hands it can be used to prevent crime just as much as it can be used to commit crime in the wrong hands.

  25. Re:Just what we need right now... on 'Download This Gun' — 3-D Printed Gun Reliable Up To 600 Rounds · · Score: 1

    The reason I believe that explosives should be more strictly regulated than guns (but not banned!) Is that they are indiscriminate devices by their nature. They can not normally be used in a way that does not pose a risk to unintended victims. A gun can when used responsibly.