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  1. Re:They should have been shot on Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees (teslamotors.com) · · Score: 2

    I dont see anything about the security guards attempting to use lethal force. The reporters did.

    My comment was about "reporters" the sort that hop fences and go running at 6-10 year olds playing in their backyards to interview them about a mass shooting they were involved with. Mind you this is after being told no they can't several times.

  2. So in your world only the police should be able to do anything about crime?

    They saw them committing a crime, it's reasonable for them to believe they committed/were committing a crime, they instructed them that they believe they had committed a crime and that the police had been summoned. It seems very reasonable that they detain them.

    If somebody snatches some grandma's purse I have a moral obligation to stop that person if I can reasonably do so. If the law fails to allow for that it is broken and needs to be repaired.

  3. Re:They should have been shot on Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees (teslamotors.com) · · Score: 1

    6 Months in Nevada for regular trespass, NRS207.200

    As we're still dealing with "reporters" around sandy hook I much prefer texas if you dont think they are kids shoot them.

  4. Re:Isn't that illegal? on Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle · · Score: 1

    On a ship registered to a country that has no laws regarding this

  5. Re:Isn't that illegal? on Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle · · Score: 2

    You're still intentionally interfering so you're never going to be legal.

  6. Re:An ikea threw up on "E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails (clemson.edu) · · Score: 2

    That massive sail aka carport and porch roof would need something to hold it down, looking closely at the pictures it looks like traditional standoffs to the vertical supports those would have nails/bolts. From the looks of it it uses a lot of 2x lumber and some fairly long lengths at that.

    Overall it looks like the whole things is just on blocks in a parking lot. Making this be a practical structure that meets code is safe to live in etc etc would require a lot of fasteners or a lot of effort to try and avoid them.

  7. An ikea threw up on "E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails (clemson.edu) · · Score: 4, Informative

    And made this house.

    No bolts? Thats a huge porch roof that needs to be secured lets the next hurricane rip it off. Sure you could go old school and use post and beam style but you still have to tie it down to the foundation.

    Speaking of the foundation it looks like many small concrete blocks hopefully over slab on grade. It's not big enough to use as a service crawlspace I hope there is never a plumbing or vermin issue. There will be a vermin issue as it's a magnet for rodents and such. Again how they planning on fastening it to the ground so it does not blow away without bolts. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and floods happen even in some hippy dippy microhouse.

    Combo PV and hot water, it generally makes sense you're effectively cooling the PV panels and using the waste heat.

    My mid 70's passive solar house did most of this and did it better, a basement floor drain doubles as outside air natural convection will cool the house and it preheats outside air in the winter. My 1954 well architected home did the math for correct overhangs and orientation to deal with solar gain without throwing ugly boxes around the windows. Correct plantings do wonders leaves for shade in summer not so much in winter.

  8. Correct one is what technology will protect the public? Answer is less paramilitary training of cops. Less training to twitch react and kill somebody. Less freedom to put themselves in the way as an excuse for lethal force. A LOT more training on how to use firearms. A lot of training and expectation to defuse situations that a firearm is their last resort.

    Accept that slightly more cops will die while far more of the public will live. That is part of their job that they chose to do. They should be held to a higher bar regarding using force for their personal safety than the public not a lower one. The butcher's bill for cops shot in the line of duty is 26 this year. Comparatively cops in the US kills far far more people than all other first world countries combined at approx 3 a day. The UK had 4 fatal shootings by officers in 4 years. Canada killed 14 people in 2014. In contrast police have killed 2 17 year old girls "in fear for their lives" one through the side door of a stolen car and one with a butchers knife in the PD's lobby.

  9. It never depicted unlimited resources on Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    There was a scarcity of land/space/freedom on the core worlds pushing people to gather resources and colonize.

    Starfleet regulated that colonization so political capital was needed as well.

    The core tech was replicators, it depicted places where they were in scarce supply with no good explanations why you can not easily replicate more replicators.

    There was a lot of trade the unreplicatable latinum as a currency.

    The human universe seems more like if you were ok with federation rules on earth you were assured a roof, food, clothing. Replicated food was looked down upon, the fast food of the universe. With picard having a family estate/vineyard. But many episodes dealt with people going out to colonize to get away from federation control.

  10. Computerized evidence, destructive sampling on Source Code On Trial In DNA Matching Case (post-gazette.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If your going to use a computer to generate evidence then yes you must allow the defence to look at the technique that means source code. You must never be required to merely observe at somebody else's lab especially when there companys continued business relies on the test succeeding. Realy anything that another lab that is not associated to the first can not do should not be admissible.

    This gets even more important when the tests are destructive so it can only be done once. Validating the means used etc etc elsewise it becomes a black box to provide evidence against whoever they want.

  11. Re:Uh huh. on Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    And how would you test for them being sociopaths?

  12. Re:Can't Take the Heat........? on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1

    Blunt/aggressive != hostile The kernel group is aggressive and blunt not coaching things in PC niceties and needs to be that way (She even admitted that it needed to be this way).

  13. define meant to do on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    Modify an old DLP projector to do 3d printing. Still something that it was meant to do sorta.

    Bolt a can opener to something entirely unrelated?

  14. Re:Can't Take the Heat........? on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Her own post says that they do need to be terse and blunt. As she said "I would prefer that the Linux kernel have more maintainers so that they wouldn’t have to be terse or blunt." they do not have the manpower to have the time to pussy foot around the whole PC nonsense.

    It's about the same in startups you get a lot of things done because you dont worry about somebody feelings it's fsking work you get it done and done well, you mark the hacks that may come back and bite ya. Bigcorp is all about CYA and takes 10x the people to get the work often just as many actual workers and piles of people the manage them and or deal with the idiocy.

  15. Re:Any links to real conversations? on Linux Kernel Dev Sarah Sharp Quits, Citing 'Brutal' Communications Style · · Score: 1, Insightful

    She failed and let garbage through then tried to blame it on others to then get called out on it. What is the problem, he failed to coddle her?

    She messed up take your licks and learn from it.

  16. Re:Why don't taxis just provide good service?! on Sex, Drugs, and Transportation: How Politicians Tried To Keep Uber Out of Vegas · · Score: 1

    As the GP said the fee was not that expensive. Vegas is a very easy city to get around as a tourist, your average casino has a line of taxi's waiting for fairs. Compare this to NYC it's a nightmare and post 9/11 most of the covered taxi areas are closed, they ignore street hails etc etc.

    Price wise I've found uber around me to be more expensive than a town car for airport runs etc.

  17. Re:Why don't taxis just provide good service?! on Sex, Drugs, and Transportation: How Politicians Tried To Keep Uber Out of Vegas · · Score: 1

    The airport is within a mile of the casinos how much can you reasonably charge for what amounts to a few minutes ride. Vegas was purpose built for travelers the airport and main attractions are all grouped together.

  18. Re:Labor cost to install remains the biggest issue on SolarCity Says It Has Produced the World's Highest Efficiency Solar Panel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hint you have to use a certified (by the solar panel manufacture aka the last guys that touched it) to get the fed tax credits.

    Like most federal tax credits incentives etc it's pork for a corp interest. All you should need is the signoff from the electrical inspector maybe have them do a quick power output test and sign some paperwork. Instead the value of that work gets marked up the same as the tax breaks.

  19. Re:The useless and redundant on Sprint To Begin Layoffs, Cut $2.5 Billion In Expenses · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Thus why Ting is the sprint network just everything else completely better.

    Want to drop 2.5b ditch every mall store.

  20. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Na the H1B's are worse

  21. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because union are sure to draw in the best and the brightest?

    Unions have to figure out how to reward the top people you want working for you. So far the best they have come up with is those with the most time make the most etc. Till then it's just a way to force you to keep the underperformers.

  22. Re:You know what's wrong with the world? on 30 Years a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    Funny hammer away at the keyboard is the only useful sysadmins, bash, powershell etc is great for break and fix sorts of things. Most everything else youre banging away at puppet/chef etc etc etc. If you're banging/clicking away as a sysadmin outside of wtf break fix or a dev place space (to figure out what puppet etc needs to make it look like) in that last 5+ years you're probably doing it wrong.

  23. Re:Unauthorized Teardown on Apple Bans iFixit Repair App From App Store After Apple TV Teardown · · Score: 1

    Yea they agreed not to to get the a sample unit as a preview.

  24. Re:Not quite the same thing on How the FBI Hacks Around Encryption · · Score: 1

    Read the paper, PRISM has nothing to do with the data they gathered via intercepts that is a different program. From the article 90% of the data was coming from PRISM that is data they got via fisa warrants, they were overly broad and the NSA pushed for a broader scope than what they told the courts.

    Of course the NSA spies on other nation states and foreign nationals that is their job as the primary spy agency for the US. But they dont need to bother with the clandestine bits when they get a rubber stamped warrant from fisa and hand it over to a company to get whatever data matches their overly broad query. Same goes for tapping fiber and routers they can avoid that hard work via the same fisa court. This is all far easier than doing it the hard way.

    We know they do this the hard was as well, Snoden released papers with them tampering with networking kit while in transit that whole Tailored Access Operations bit for one.

  25. Re:Not quite the same thing on How the FBI Hacks Around Encryption · · Score: 1

    It's exactly the opposite PRISM used fisa warrants, NSL etc to badger companies into sending them the requested data. This was not tapping is or hacking rather having data requested sent to them via various means. The slides Snoden released were pretty clear PRISM was with the aid of companies FAIRVIEW and BLARNEY seem to be tapping cables accessing intermediary routers etc. As an ISP there are pretty well defined methods for that sort of thing to give them real time access to traffic.