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  1. Re:Miranda on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 5, Informative

    Summary: Police want to search your car. Nothing benefits you and lots is bad.

    Scenario 1: They find nothing and you go on your way. This is the BEST scenario from a police searching your car and you have lost time.

    Scenario 2: They find nothing, but during the search they dropped your stuff on the ground and broke something. They aren't liable for that. Now you have a broken widget, lost time.

    Scenario 3: They find a knife or other item you put there months ago while moving and you told them you had no weapons when they walked up. You now have lied to the police.

    Scenario 4: You say to the police officer "I am sorry officer, I do not consent to searches". The police officer has no other reason to search you and sends you on your way.

    When you're being questioned by the police, anything you say can be taken the wrong way and turn out bad for yourself. Saying things to the police at BEST leaves you right where you started. You're not getting cookies after the interrogation...

  2. Re:Spin spin.. on New Best Way To Nuke a Short-Notice Asteroid · · Score: 1

    "Live long, and prosper" - Gandalf

    With a picture of Obi Wan on a background of Serenity docking at Babylon 5 while being chased by a cylon raider.

  3. Re:The Answer To This Nonsense... on Build a Secret Compartment, Go To Jail · · Score: 5, Informative

    Look up drug legalization and Portugal.

  4. Re:life-long updates on Ask Slashdot: What Is a Reasonable Way To Deter Piracy? · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen an update to my X-Wing vs Tie Fighter game for a very long time... still waiting...

    http://xvt.uharc.net/

  5. Re:Old news. on Bitcoin Blockchain Forked By Backward-Compatibility Issue · · Score: 2

    Hint from an old fogey, no one needs to know you mis-moderated. Just post a relevant post later in the thread and pretend it never happened.

  6. Re:In space cosmic ray excuse never gets old on Curiosity Rover On Standby As NASA Addresses Computer Glitch · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah... did you miss the part where it went to the redundant unit and sent an error to mission control? Sheesh.

  7. Re:Battletoads? on Groupon Still Losing Money, CEO Is Fired And Leaks Final Email · · Score: 4, Informative

    No one with a 5 digit UID I can assure you that.

  8. Re:The F-35 was a badly planned project ... on Boeing Touts Fighter Jet To Rival F-35 — At Half the Price · · Score: 4, Informative

    And unless Boeing already has a plane in the works, I'm not sure I'd believe their claims of being able to do it cheaper any more than Lockheed's.

    *sigh* It's in the summary. The Super-hornet is what they are talking about. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_F/A-18E/F_Super_Hornet

  9. Re:Scale matters on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 2

    This is a picture of what the car looks like, although this wasn't taken in my area, so I can't say if it is the same car as the one that was cruising around the village. http://www.fuelcelltoday.com/media/1726184/equinox_project_driveway_gm_489x285.jpg

  10. Re:Scale matters on CES: Tiny Fuel Cell is Supposed to Charge a Cell Phone for Two Weeks (Video) · · Score: 2

    The project was/is worked on in my home town, although the person who owns the land they are leasing wanted to force them to sign a 10 year lease instead of a shorter lease has dropped their lease and they are leaving the area in first quarter 2013 to go back to Detroit. There were fuel cell cars driving here on test runs constantly, although since the announcement that has pretty much stopped. On the outside the cars looked like normal GM cars (Of course with nice "GM FUEL CELL CAR" decals branded on it)

    http://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/photos.detail.html/content/Pages/galleries/us/en/facilities/honeoye_falls.html#
    http://www.whec.com/news/stories/s2790586.shtml

  11. Re:Musk isn't doing himself any favors here on Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged · · Score: 2

    Actually, he came pretty damn close to being able to drive 65-80MPH with high heat levels. What he didn't do was actually charge the damn thing like he is supposed to and like he said he did. The last charge was just to 28%, not the 70+% he said.

    Like the car or not, but to LIE about the conditions you drove it at is just bad journalism. I hope the guy is fired. I would say the same thing if he put 4 gallons into a ICE Car and claimed the car didn't run as advertised.

  12. Re:Fault Irrelevant: Shows Flaw on Tesla Motors Battles the New York Times · · Score: 1

    Sure why not? Just run whatever charge port you're using through a kill-a-watt type device to meter it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_A_Watt While I'm not sure the Kill-A-Watt device itself supports it, if you can afford a Tesla and high speed charger install, you can afford a meter on that install.

  13. Re:WoC should make their OWN torrents! on WotC Releases Old Dungeons & Dragons Catalog As PDFs · · Score: 1

    How do you watermark Torrents? These PDF's are watermarked.

  14. Re:Seems perfectly reasonable - to a retard on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    Is that really true though? Internal Magazines aren't banned, you're just not allowed to load more than 7 rounds. I can take an 1897 Winchester Shotgun and put only 7 rounds into the internal magazine and it will work perfectly fine. An M1 Garand doesn't load like that. You need to get a full en-bloc clip (8 rounds) and press that into the magazine. If you only put 7 rounds into the clip the gun doesn't load properly.

  15. Re:We need gas control! on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    Shooting someone with a gun is illegal (in most cases). Shooting a gun is not. Driving drunk is illegal. Driving is not.

  16. Re:Death Star must be registered... on The Empire Writes Back About the Failed Death Star Petition · · Score: 1

    Nothing in the executive orders changes definitions of assault weapons. That portion is going to go through an increasingly hostile congress.

  17. Re:Seems perfectly reasonable on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    You're right. I'm not sure where I got the idea that guns of 50 years of age had special treatment.

  18. Re:Seems perfectly reasonable on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    A clip is not a magazine. The magazine is internal. Internal magazines are mentioned elsewhere in the bill.

  19. Re:Seems perfectly reasonable on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 1

    Bayonet mount on yours? Mine doesn't have one. Also the magazine isn't detectable. What part of the law makes you think they are assault weapons?

  20. Re:Seems perfectly reasonable on New York Passes Landmark Gun Law · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are some things that *ARE* being taken. M1 Garand has an internal magazine that holds 8. When you load it you load a clip of 8 and press it into the magazine. Because you have to load the gun with a full clip you are loading too many bullets into the gun when you load the gun (even if you then immediately remove one bullet from the gun, you are a criminal for having put 8 into it at once. Legally using this gun is very questionable in NYS right now. Does the gun count as a relic? It's greater than 50 years old on design, but there have been a large portion of these guns rebuilt in the last decade with new wood, etc. Does this affect the relic status?

  21. Re:Influenza vaccination has been shown highly eff on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 2

    Except that the Flu is transmitted through cough and mucus. If you're not sick from the flu even with it in you you're not transmitting the Flu. Use some critical thinking Gravis777

  22. Re:Good on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 2
  23. Re:The biggest enemy to our economy on US Firms Race Fiscal Cliff To Install Wind Turbines · · Score: 2

    Senate can't vote on a budget until the house gives them one. If they don't like what the house delivers is doesn't pass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_One_of_the_United_States_Constitution#Section_7

  24. Re:Self-signed certs have bad cost:benefit for Goo on Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry, but it isn't. MITM means the man in the middle pretends to be the server when you talk to him, then pretends to be you when the server talks to him. He then stands in the middle, encrypting to you, encrypting to the server, pretending to be both.

    Check out this video for the video that finally caused me to "get" it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QnD2c4Xovk

  25. Re:We got them beat in Canada on Redbox Set To Compete With Netflix On Video Streaming · · Score: 1

    Sadly, I know someone who *DID* walk uphill to and from school. Split custody with parents. His mother lived downhill from the school, his father uphill. In the morning, he would walk from his mother's house to the school, uphill. In the afternoon his mother worked, so he would walk home to his father's house, uphill from school. His mother would pick him up at his father's house and bring him home at night. He always had shoes though =)