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  1. Re:Shotguns for avoiding collateral damage on Analyzing the US Air Force's New "Portable Hobby Drone Disruptors" Solicitation (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    alternatives to lead shot are mandated for use by hunters in certain locations

    Note it says 'certain' not 'all'.

    A quick drive to buy 12 gauge shot is going to turn up far more lead options than 'alternatives'... and for far less money... and this is common across most states.

  2. Re: Shotguns for avoiding collateral damage on Analyzing the US Air Force's New "Portable Hobby Drone Disruptors" Solicitation (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    And most used these days use lead shot as its cheaper and doesn't damage the barrel of the shotgun the way steel does.

  3. And fully automatic rifles in countless homes... somehow I don't think many of those pushing for a more Swiss style system also want that.

  4. Re:Shotguns for avoiding collateral damage on Analyzing the US Air Force's New "Portable Hobby Drone Disruptors" Solicitation (vortex.com) · · Score: 0

    Most shotguns fire lead shot, which is toxic.

  5. Re:OP here on Motion Filed In 1st Circuit To Enjoin TSA's New Mandatory "AIT" Screening (google.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Being raped & tortured by the police is only worth a 1.6 million dollar slap on the wrist with no criminal penalties against the offenders... the 4th amendment seems to have fallen out of favor.

  6. Re:Right decision. on Federal Circuit Overturns Prohibition On "Disparaging" Trademarks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They should not be considered property

    Except they are, which is why they can be bought and sold not unlike domain names... whoever gets there first gets to claim the name for themselves and has the state (or ICANN) help to enforce their exclusive use, and they are free to transfer it to someone else at a later time.

  7. Re:Glad for the Drone Regs on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    You do know that falling bullets are pretty much harmless, right?

    Even if you were right (which you aren't), I don't know about you but 'pretty much' isn't good enough for me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re:Right decision. on Federal Circuit Overturns Prohibition On "Disparaging" Trademarks (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    While I agree with you, SCOTUS probably won't given their previous ruling on offensive license plates.

  9. Re:Glad for the Drone Regs on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Drone use should be limited those situations and everything else should be shot down.

    While I am generally a supporter of free speech, your eloquent words have changed my mind... seeing no purpose for what you have said here I think your own comments should be regulated to only those cases where you need to speak (in any form)... the fines for violating will be stiff.

  10. Re:Model aircraft does not mean drone on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Drones have cameras, models do not.

    Says who?

    As one example: http://www.modelairplanenews.c...

  11. Re:Glad for the Drone Regs on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    And they should lose their hardware all the same.

    How do you go about doing that?

    Shoot it down and let emergency response do their jobs.

    So you want law enforcement (or civilians) firing their service weapons into the air? You realize that that high speed lead will land somewhere... right?

    If it's unregistered, then the owner is probably gonna be pretty pissed off and learn where not to fly as they buy their next one. Drones are cheaper, but not to the point of disposable technology yet.

    And registration does that how exactly? Even if registered, nothing stops a person from flying it where/how they shouldn't.

  12. Re:Glad for the Drone Regs on FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    To certify you're competent enough to drive safely to begin with.

    Since when does a one time test certify your competency a decade or century later? Don't forget that said test is often taken when one is in their teens and the passing of which usually automatically transfers when you move to another state?

  13. Re:But think of how good it will be! on Microsoft Fails Windows Phone Fans Again By Delaying Windows 10 Mobile (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    With Continuum on 950 and 950XL there are almost no apps that will run on the 'desktop' mode.

    Which apps are you looking for?

    My understanding is that any app written for Windows 10 can run in either mobile or desktop mode... and no doubt the built in ones (mail, web, Office) will cover most initial needs.

  14. It could be worse... on LizardSquad Copycats Planning DDoS Attacks On Xbox & PSN For Christmas (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    It could be North Korea threatening war again.

  15. Re:vs gun registration on FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You may want to read up on the second amendment for the answer.

  16. Re:Different demographics on GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms · · Score: 1

    the points of complaint are not against those sensible owners,

    Not explicitly, but they will harm legit owners more as things they own may suddenly be declared contraband (if some like Feinstein got their way)

    its the ease with which the nutjobs can get them

    And what exactly are those policy suggestions? We saw recently just how well California law did little to prevent the terrorists from lawfully acquiring two of their weapons.

  17. Re:more guns needed on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Read the post I replied to... then my post again.

    *woosh*

    Thank you.

  18. Re:Autonuts CAPTCHA: mingled on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm just getting old and my memory and eyes aren't all that good... but can you point to the bit of the constitution that says that the right of the people to keep and drive cars shall not be infringed... except for in the case of mandatory licensing & insurance?

    No?

    While it's fine and dandy to say "we should do X, Y and Z because we already do so in the areas of A & B"... you would be best served citing specific lawful authority to enact such restrictions at the federal level... something which I'm afraid for you simply doesn't exist outside of a repeal of the second amendment. ... or do you want to enter a world where we casually outlaw moronic speech such as your own and ignore the fact that the first amendment protects it?

  19. Re:Lather, rinse, repeat... on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It all sounds so easy... yet you clearly are not aware of the case law that supports the current system... something the Second Amendment protects.

    If you were serious... there is a way to How to Create a Gun-Free America in 5 Easy Steps... though I don't think you'd like the all too predictable result.

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

    Apparently you are incapable of rational thought.

    The firearms in my safe can go without food, water, work, cleaning, etc for quite some time... how long can "11 million living, breathing Mexicans" last 'in the shadows' before wanting to leave for a place they were better treated?

    Apples != Oranges.

  21. Re:more guns needed on Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    It was a social center for the developmentally disabled. You think the developmentally disabled should be armed? Like in Texas?

    So opponents of gun free zones in schools want 5-17 year olds to be armed with firearms while at school? Riiight.

    Perhaps instead the focus is on allowing those persons of an age where they are able to lawfully own/possess/carry a handgun to do so in such a location during their normal day to day interactions.

    Say... due to an early morning dentist appointment (say a bad piece of popcorn the night before cracked a tooth) you happen to drop your kid off at elementary school a bit late... best park off school property and leave your routinely carried firearm in your car before you walk your child in (and explain the situation to the front desk)... otherwise you risk criminal charges.

    On some states you can lawfully carry a firearm onto airport property to pick someone up while carrying a firearm... do you know which states allow it? Probably not, which in your case is probably a good thing as you wouldn't be risking jail time by being wrong.

  22. Re:Who cares? on Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh wait, it's because white people got killed

    Or... mass deaths in non-warzones are seen as more newsworthy than mass deaths in say... Syria.

  23. Re:Not the same problem as most of the duplicates. on Same Birthday, Same Social Security Number, Same Mess For Two Florida Women (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Depends on how good their forger is... A couple decades ago I had someone show up with a social security card in the form 1234-56-789. Somehow they got the groupings out of order and were reminded that they needed a 'real' card.

  24. Re:Bad practice. on Unhashable: Why Fingerprints Are Weaker Security Than Passwords (hackaday.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Any device that can perform different actions based on different finger prints?

    And how many is that? Somehow I don't imagine Apple building such an explicitly anti-law enforcement feature. Maybe with a sufficiently jail broken device you could rig something.

    Any multi-user OS which supports a finger print reader for log-in is an easy candidate to do this yourself. You have your normal account, one or two for the kids and your spouse and one for your dog fluffy... one of which you have bound to your panic finger, which when logged into for the second time (the first being when you configure it) it executes a script or three which clears the TPM, overwrites a few key sectors of the HD and then reboots.

  25. Re:Bad practice. on Unhashable: Why Fingerprints Are Weaker Security Than Passwords (hackaday.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You can't, but interesting things may be able to happen if you fail to disclose which finger will unlock the device.

    Maybe your right ring finger is what you use to login, but not having specific knowledge of which finger you actually use they have you try your thumb pointer finger... not knowing that your device treats that as a panic button and not only wipes out memory of the old finger print, but also remaining hope of them unlocking the device with or without your help.