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  1. Re:There goes another Swiss Army knife on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    the defcon talk on the subject basically advises that you

    1 declare anything gun like (including all sorts of Nonfunctioning Replicas)
    2 be smooth about it (if you have the funds bribing the Skycap to drop your stuff on his cart works well)
    3 use HARD SIDED LUGGAGE WITH REAL LOCKS (no softsided stuff with TSA locks)
    4 don't let your LOCKED luggage out of your sight until you get past the TSA luggage check.
    5 ring up the airline to see what they say about ammo (some sort of Box and limits as to how much are common)

    "yes i do have a 9mm packed with my kids jewelry it just happens that all of my groups luggage has a FireArm in it"

    (as it happens the 9mm is my kids anyway but...)

  2. Re:Whew! TSA flew much too close to sane policy .. on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    the pilot then will hit the autopilot disable button and decide to explore the performance envelope of the airframe and then get on the radio

    "This is Flight ????? calling the Tower

    Go ahead Flight

    I need to declare an emergency i had to handle a code 612 so i need to be met by EMS on landing.

    Understood Code 612 current status?

    Half my passengers and most of my crew were in seatbelts but everything in the cabin went flying. I need to have six persons picked up by the marshalls
    "

  3. Re:There goes another Swiss Army knife on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 4, Informative

    easy way to ensure your luggage does not get opened by the TSA (in transit)

    PROPERLY CHECK A FIREARM

    once they check it at the airport it is considered a SEALED PACKAGE and can not legally be opened by anyone without you present.

  4. wanna change the world?? change your hood first on Too Many Smart People Chasing Too Many Dumb Ideas? · · Score: 1

    the "Big Trick" to Changing the World is for each person to change what they can and then oh say use Social Media to get others to do the same.

    enough folks keeping a few square meters of their area clean and fhelping a dozen folks will solve most problems today.

    (and those gang bangers keeping things clean would work just fine)

  5. Problem number 1 define:porn,Child on In UK, Search Engines Urged To Block More Online Porn Sites · · Score: 1

    the biggest problem of this (not counting the actual problem of kids being abused) is how do you define Child Porn??

    the line between artistic and Porn images is very fuzzy short of images of actual sexual acts or abuse.

    what needs to happen is Father Uncles and Older Brothers need to be able to take pictures of their siblings (or friends siblings) without being glared at (assuming no crime is being commited).

    and yes any block list has a Zero Chance of working correctly (false positives and negatives will be massive and involve an N by N grid of WhackAMole where N is a large and undefined number)

  6. Re:Bogosity bullshit... on OK City Data Center Built To Withstand Winds Up To 310 MPH, Says Contractor · · Score: 1

    as far as the solar panels go could they not be designed with some sort of "breakaway" mounts set to say 98% of what would endanger the roof?? (the panels if you found them later would be scrap but what are the chances that they would function anyway after that kind of pounding??)

  7. Re:UAV? won't work. on Oculus VR Co-founder Andrew Reisse Killed In Auto Collision · · Score: 1

    even better use the cars engine "blackbox" to cut the engines and remote lock the car. heck with a decent flatbed you can have an officer (with safety harness) read them their rights on the way to impound/holding.

  8. Re:Backdoor Contact lens??? on Schools Scanned Students' Irises Without Permission · · Score: 1

    its all part of The Hack brother would you expect a girl with that name to be a hackers minion??

  9. Backdoor Contact lens??? on Schools Scanned Students' Irises Without Permission · · Score: 4, Funny

    i wonder how hard it would be to make a contact lens that caused the scanner to throw an error (or worse was a backdoor into the system).

    Scanning Image
    Processing
    Identified Krystal Rayne Dawnmeadow approved SYSTEM ADMIN ALL ACCESS

    (and of course daddy would have told his favorite minion exactly what to punch into a terminal to .....)

  10. Re:easy enough to do on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1

    yes but with /s /t 0 There is NO WARNING which is why i suggested using /t 30

  11. easy enough to do on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 2

    if you create a batch file with
    shutdown /s /t 0
    as the contents you can even give it a nifty Stopsign icon

    please be aware [color=red][style=blinking]THIS WILL BE AN IMMEDIATE SHUTDOWN NO WARNING[/color][/style]

    if you want a warning set /t to say 30

    full details at http://pcsupport.about.com/od/commandlinereference/p/shutdown-command.htm

  12. Re:Troll! In the dungeon! Thought you'd want to kn on Criminal Complaint Filed Against Facebook After Girl's Death · · Score: 1

    "DSM-V doesn't have anything listed for "recipient of mean words"

    That's quite surprising, considering the amount of fluff included in the latest version. Don't worry though, chances of something like that being included in a future revision are quite high. (snark is good against depression - see what i did here? regardless, please do keep in mind that it's not polite to bring DSM-V into a serious conversation. if it really must be done, use an earlier version)"

    thats because it would be listed under "trigger events" for such things as PTSD

    BTW does somebody have a downloadable copy of the DSM5 posted somewhere??

  13. get a nice box to put your phone in on How the Smartphone Killed the Three-day Weekend · · Score: 2

    a nice gilded wood box with a velvet lining works wonders in the whole "can't call you" thing.

    If its a real emergency they will track you down.
    list as follows

    1 Job is ON FIRE
    2 Boss is dead/out of action
    3 somebody wants to say the words "You have Been Served" to you
    4 somebody that did work the weekend dropped out/over
    5 TLAs have shown up and they are making frowny faces

    99% of the rest can wait until Tuesday

  14. Re:What are you talking about? on World's Biggest 'Agile' Software Project Close To Failure · · Score: 1

    maybe if you oh included programmers with "skin" in the game (like the few hundred unemployed ones on the dole rolls) then maybe this might not have near failed.

  15. Re:Ugh no editing on African Soil Mapped For the Very First Time · · Score: 1

    "Western megacorps could really do a lot of good for the food production of Africa.

    The problem is the local governments that with few exceptions are only interested in lining their private pockets."

    So in this case the most effective way to fix this would be

    1 locate a strong but semi sane warlord
    2 have a nice chat with said person and gain an "understanding"
    3 install the rest of the bunch in said soil (making sure to update the maps of course)

  16. Re: Too good? I think not on Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good? · · Score: 1

    was not a back to the future reference i was going for 1 high speed 2 abnormally low gear

  17. Re:Too good? I think not on Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good? · · Score: 2

    exactly in the "flying car" thing you would put the control to enable flightmode

    1 Inside the GloveBox
    2 require a special key THAT MUST BE PURCHASED SEPARATELY be inserted (and the key burns out after say 18 hours)
    3 require that the car be accelerated to say 70 mph (in first gear)
    4 have special warning lights light up (maybe aircraft style red and blue? strobish things)

    in short make it so that Legal is satisfied that flightmode will not enable by accident

  18. Re:Four words for you on AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans · · Score: 1

    Extreme in this case is like OverKill (just ask the folks at schock mercenary about that one). besides i think the low end of YHBS is certified mail.

  19. Four words for you on AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_server

    "YOU HAVE BEEN SERVED"

    If you have a messenger (of the court) drop the notice at the office its going to be very hard for them to claim otherwise

  20. Re:"easy" way to fix this on Congress Demands Answers From Google Over Google Glass Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    which is why the size of the location would have enough error in it to fix it so that you don't need to use your GPS to be in a location
    (this could also have some sort of dataglyph posted that decodes to "Google Glass Opt OUT id number ...")

  21. "easy" way to fix this on Congress Demands Answers From Google Over Google Glass Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    all Google has to do is add a feature to Google Maps where a business/company/location can OPT OUT of Google Glass.

    the way it would work is if that location has opted out (and you are standing inside a 2XGPS Error Factor line surrounding the location Google Glass will pop a "NO RECORDING" icon up and prevent you from taking vids ect.

  22. Re:Replacement needed on Psychiatrists Cast Doubt On Biomedical Model of Mental Illness · · Score: 1

    is there a place somebody can download the DSM 5 as a PDF for free (no login either)??

    otherwise could somebody with access to the FINAL version (or most current version) please confirm the lack of a diagnosis of NORMAL in said volume??

  23. Re:I wonder how much was skimmed by the bag men on ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken · · Score: 1

    thats an solved problem since all they would have to do is have the members of a Sicilian* Debate Team have a "forceful chat" with the street guys as to the extent of their "cut".

    * please note you can substitute Northern Irish, Japanese and Russian here as required

  24. Re:Separate the fluids? on Hanford Nuclear Waste Vitrification Plant "Too Dangerous" · · Score: 1

    i think its a problem of "we think we can move that muck without it going BOOM! but if we try to separate things it MIGHT go BOOM (and get us on CNN) so lets just sort out how to move all the muck at once"

  25. to be detailed about this on Sleep Deprivation Lowers School Achievement In Children · · Score: 1

    a kid that
    does not have
    1 a pair of guardians that give a flip
    2 a decent bedroom and bed
    3 Food at MRE grade or better
    4 a decent number of seasonal outfits

    WILL NOT DO WELL IN SCHOOL