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  1. Re:Never mind Movie Night. on WW2 Vet Sent 300,000 Pirated DVDs To Troops In Iraq, Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    yah pressing this issue is a good way to become "accident prone". I would say that making sure that our troops come back with some small shred of sanity left is worth the writeoff. i wonder how close the nearest military bases are to the MPAA offices??

    oh i was supposed to hit grid square Bravo 13 not Delta 13 btw what was there (before i dropped a 20K bunkerbuster on it)??

  2. Re:Not so perfect on MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' · · Score: 2

    its a startrek reference (Voyage Home??) oh btw i think you meant Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds not Latter day Saints

  3. Re:Fellow passengers are your best defense on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    "(best strategy, of course, is to try to coordinate so several people attack at once, but even if nobody else would follow, I'd go)"

    and all that would really take is getting eye contact with Leo/Mil minded folks in the surrounding seats heck even if you didn't do that im sure that when The Fight started it would be a DOGPILE ON THE RABBIT!! situation. (with at least one person on the plane posting to FaceBook/Twitter about the scene)

  4. Re:Of course. on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    something some folks are missing is that it seems that the girl in question was not wearing an outfit that would hide anything bigger than say a MATCHBOOK.

    given the current style (which could be described as "ballet" stuff) where could you hide anything dangerous??

    (oh and its common for a girl to be wearing a Tule skirt (aka tinkerbell style) so no you couldn't hide the gun in her skirt)

  5. what they should do to prevent this on TSA Defends Pat Down of 4-Year-Old Girl · · Score: 1

    Why this is not standard policy i don't know but

    1 clear the caretakers FIRST
    2 clear the kids

    personally i think that entire checkpoint team should be FIRED.

  6. yah just use a self supporting tarball on Phoronix Confirms GNU/Linux Steam and Source Engine Clients · · Score: 1

    if you target for 32/64 bit and pack your libs in the package you should be fine for anything reasonably current.

    (not counting things like "MLPnix" which requires libs to be in a very certain format or something else stupid or some specialty distro from 6 years ago)

  7. federal law is needed here on Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $500k In Venture Capital · · Score: 1

    There should be a set of laws written to cut down on the amount of BS bits in EULAs

    1 standard definitions for certain words so that the first 3 "pages" are not taken up with defining US and YOU and other garbage
    2 a code/flag block to summarize what all that legal stuff is saying (1 key = X licenses and such things)
    3 disclosure of what is done with a Customers data (who do we sell that info to and on what terms)
    4 forbidding any edits to the EULA that decrease what can be done with the software (so no redefining "unlimited" after the fact)
    5 limits on font size and how buried a clause can be (so no "gotchas" in page 25 paragraph 3 that cuts out something "legal" in page 5 and no using 3 point type to contradict/limit whats in 48 point type)

    Oh and any changes to the EULA (or linked docs) require you to physically Mail a notice that the contract can be dropped without penalty unless you have a Judge (who is paid by a consumer friendly org) sign off on the changes. (and you must post the same notice on your primary customer contact method for 30 days prior to the change going into effect)

  8. When the IRS has a Sim in SecondLife WORRY on Bitcoin Mining Startup Gets $500k In Venture Capital · · Score: 1

    i would bet that a non zero number of employees have active accounts (and may be in world while ON THE CLOCK) i do not think that they are in world as part of their official duties.

  9. the plan as it sits on NASA and Astrobotic Investigating Ice Hunting Mission to the Moon · · Score: 2

    more or less i would guess that the plan goes

    1 have bots build a "dome" and get minimal Life support online
    2 get Astronauts up there to continue the work
    3 get "civilian contractors" up once a decent set of domes is setup
    4 get 1% folks up there and paying (now that we have Marriot-Luna setup)
    5 PROFIT!!

    having enough water to make mixed drinks would be a GOOD THING before we get to step 4

  10. Re:No One Hates DRM More Than Me ... on Why eBook DRM Has To Go · · Score: 1

    well i think a lot of folks just don't "get" the whole Wizard/Private Eye thing so they don't get to the point of Harry

    1 having annoyed 3 of the Fae Royalty (winter/summer/Wylde)
    2 made enemies of a sect of actual DEMON possesed folks
    3 made friends of The Fist Of God (and one of the major angels)
    4 actually tried to bill GOD HIMSELF
    5 frightened a Maffia Don
    6 Stopped Armageddon
    7 Nuked a whole "race" of Vampires

    and a other things

  11. The Last Bug Guy worked for NASA on SpaceX Launch To International Space Station Delayed For Code Tweaks · · Score: 1

    but hey at least they had a body to bury "face down 9 edge first" since a number of times in NASAs case they didn't.

  12. how he can fix this on North Carolina Threatens To Shut Down Nutrition Blogger · · Score: 1

    all he needs to do is partner up with an actual MD to provide some actual medical backing.

    btw where are the ads on his blog?? (i do run adblock but i don't see any ads or "missing" parts)
    also where does is say on his website that he charges anything??

  13. Re:Bigger Problems Than That on Geologists Say UK Shale Deposits Hold Vast Energy Reserves · · Score: 1

    and Scotland is well ready to stop England from leaching off them.

    All hail the Allbannach!! (btw they have an albumn that you can download for free on their website)

  14. Re:Micro Nuclear Power Plants on US Small-Scale Nuclear Reactor Industry Gains Traction In Missouri · · Score: 1

    err the point here is that the list of US/USSR reactor accidents is very very short. since most of those are the result of suicide/sabotage/dumb luck it does show that given enough safe guards nuclear power is "safe".

    hint if you design things so that critical is rigged to a DEADMANs switch it has near zero chances of making a county "glow in the dark".

  15. Easy to fix on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 1

    It has been said that the TSA/Border Patrol can setup checkpoints something like 30? miles from a border so all it would take is for them to setup a checkpoint NEAR say an airport (or some highway commonly used for travel from the border) and you get tagged.

  16. Jack Daniels and Deer steaks on Expect Mandatory 'Big Brother' Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015 · · Score: 1

    Im sure a lot of LEOs are great friends with a few of the Judges that cover their "beat"

    Done correctly an officer could pop down to a judges House to get a sig if need be.

  17. Re:Lessons from my cousin on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 4, Informative

    the best thing to have when dealing with Telemarketers (in the US) is a printed copy of 47CFR64.1200.

    in fact if they are any kind of smart they will hang up on you if they even think you are aware of the contents of
    " Title 47 - Telecommunication. CHAPTER I - FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED). SUBCHAPTER B - COMMON CARRIER SERVICES (CONTINUED). PART 64 - MISCELLANEOUS RULES RELATING TO COMMON CARRIERS. Subpart L - Restrictions on Telemarketing, "

    and yes you can ask for 1 the person doing the calls name 2 the name of the business the call is on behalf of 3 a contact number for that business (and they are required to give correct answers)

    also btw you are allowed to record everything also (since any laws regarding recording drop out due to the telemarketers commonly recording things on their end)

  18. Re:Who knew on IBM Sells Point-Of-Sale Business To Toshiba · · Score: 1

    actually its not much more "stuff" that would be needed to do that and none of it is exactly POS software

    all you really need is a decent backend server (to coordinate everything) and a few Cobra Scanners for each terminal and you are set.

    the only bits left that are POS bits would be the cash drawer and maybe the "customer screen"

  19. Re:Well, presumably you are well compensated. on Will Write Code, Won't Sign NDA · · Score: 2

    "Do they have special nursing homes for spies and the like?"

    well its more like spies don't live long enough to need a nursing home

  20. a challenge for Romney on IEEE Vet: Carriers Capping LTE Services To Avoid Fixed-line Cannibalization · · Score: 1

    If he gets the "big Office" what he needs to do is

    1 fix OCare so that it will actually work correctly
    2 fix the economy (or at least make sure it doesn't crater in the US)
    3 keep us out of any more "wars"

    and the one that all of US can back
    4 require that all the local carriers have fiber to 80% of households (with say a 5 meg minimum bandwidth available) by 2015.

    then i think he will be a lock on getting a second term.

  21. Disclousure needed here on VA Court To Review "Official" Email Rules · · Score: 2

    any time folks in public office create a consensus by whatever means then it should be made public (unless its provably not in the public interest like say the daily Lunch Order).

    of course this is an example of how public offices should be limited to 2 terms 1 in office and 1 in JAIL

  22. Re:Plenty of suckers in the sea on The Cybercrime Wave That Wasn't · · Score: 2

    for Telephone scams one big trick is to have
    http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2011-title47-vol3/xml/CFR-2011-title47-vol3-sec64-1200.xml
    printed out and ready to read from during the call
    very good odds that if they even think you know the law they will hang up quickly.

    and yes in the US 47CFR64.1200 is THE LAW period FULL STOP

  23. Re:Nothing will come of this on Oracle and Google To Finally Enter Courtroom · · Score: 1

    "Except of course a bunch of lawyers getting wealthy off these two companies. Case in point: The SCO debacle is still ongoing. There are lawyers still wringing cash out of that mess and it's been nearly a decade. And that is some dinky shell company versus IBM. Two giants with deep pockets slugging it out? It will never end. And why should it? Lawyers get paid by the hour. "

    err SCO has been "over" for a while now http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110830170454743&query=red+dress

    now of course there are lawyers still chatting over the "bits" but the case (and the company) is OVER.

  24. Doing it wrong then on Canada: Police Do Not Have Power To Wiretap Without Warrant · · Score: 1

    If you have to do shortcuts like that then you are doing the LEO thing wrong.

    What you want to do is deliver supplies of Bourbon/Whiskey and or %Critter% to a few of your local judges so that you can show up at His/Her house to get your warrant without having a gavel or something thrown at you.

  25. Re:Used a technique called "rubbing it with a penc on Police Forensics Team Salvage Blind Authors' Inkless Novel Pages · · Score: 1

    the problems with that are

    1 you end up with a page with graphite all over it
    2 what helps with 2nd/3rd/Nth impressions
    3 they most likely used this to train newbies
    4 do you think that this was considered before handing the pages to the police??