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  1. Re:Just too far out on A Day in Your Life, Fifteen Years From Now · · Score: 1

    Unless you are going to mars then you want them to use a single unit and not change mid calculation.

    http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-30/tech/9909_30_mars.metric.02_1_climate-orbiter-spacecraft-team-metric-system?_s=PM:TECH

  2. Re:Live free or DIE on A Day in Your Life, Fifteen Years From Now · · Score: 1

    Unless you have your own well, then it is not metered. He must have been on a farm.

  3. Re:Overreaction. on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 2

    and any shoe string added to a simi-auto rifle makes it an automatic weapon.

    http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/2010/01/25/shoestring-machine-gun/

  4. Re:Politics on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 2

    In theory a pair of pliers to hold the bullet and a hammer with a pointy bit to hit the pin is all you need.

    From experience, the above will end with you in the emergency room having pieces of brass being removed from your body. (Yes, I really did something that stupid as a kid)

    You need something to contain and direct the explosion or the brass case will explode and produce shrapnel. Try putting it in a steel tube to direct the explosion to propel the bullet.

  5. Re:Printing Money on You Can't Print a Gun If You Have No 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    No the analogy is somewhat more correct. They are breaking the law when they are transferring a 3D file that does not require any abilities to finish the manufacturing of the receiver.

    Are you sure? You can buy 80% blanks that 80% of the work is done on and they are not a receiver until you do the remaining 20% of the work. At best the 3D file is 33% of the receiver, you still need the printer, the plastics material, and the the finishing work to make it fit. In reality the 3D file is more like the blueprints. I can put a 3D file into an computer controlled CNC machine and have it make the receiver. It is the exact same thing and not illegal..

  6. Re:My god, slashdot editors are retarded on Leak Hints Windows 8 Tablets May Be Dearer Than Makes Sense · · Score: 1

    Real Trash?
    Reused Technology?
    Redundant technology?
    Ring Token?
    Rubbish Tin?
    Rubber Tit?
    Rectal Thermometer?

  7. Re:Not conservative on Judge Preserves Privacy of Climate Scientist's Emails · · Score: 1

    I would not call it a conspiracy, they have created artificial barriers to entry on the national level.

    Things like, if you do not hold 10% of the vote nationally, you can not participate in the national presidential debates.
    The two major parties have laws in place that gives them millions/billions from the national coffers for their campaigns.

    Add to that the fact that if a third party gains enough signatures to get their name on the ballot, they will have there ballot access challenged by one of the two major parties. This forces the third party to defend their listing on the ballot in court and takes considerable money from the donations they have received.

    All of this works to keep the names and platforms of the third parties from ever reaching the bulk of the people and gaining a foothold that could jeopardize the two party system.

    Look at the extent they went to with Ron Paul the first time he ran. If only 1/2 of the stuff I heard was true, then there is a major issue that no one seems to be looking into.

  8. Re:Sure, you can resign anytime you like, worker on Foxconn Says Vocational Students Aren't Being 'Forced' To Work · · Score: 1

    Sorry, auto-erect at it's best

  9. Re:Sure, you can resign anytime you like, worker on Foxconn Says Vocational Students Aren't Being 'Forced' To Work · · Score: 1

    But the social contract is a crock of BS. There is no social contract, The laws of nature govern both man and society and it is survival of the fittest. (To take a Nietzschean stance on this) To do otherwise would allow the weak to survive and reproduce, thus degrading the gene pool and weakening man as a whole. The only outcome from that would be the complete extension of man.

  10. Re:Sure, you can resign anytime you like, worker on Foxconn Says Vocational Students Aren't Being 'Forced' To Work · · Score: 1

    Ummm, Louis Blanc the most influential of all socialists wrote "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!" in his 1839, thesis "The organization of work"

    It was repeated by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Program.

    So, it is very Socialist and is true to socialism.

  11. Re:Sure, you can resign anytime you like, worker on Foxconn Says Vocational Students Aren't Being 'Forced' To Work · · Score: 1

    No in socialism "workers contribute to society based on their ability and receive pay according to their needs"

    They are students, they dont need money. The state pays for the school and they can contribute to the state by working for free or for reduced wadges in the factory.

    Full on Socialism at work.

  12. Re:Free isn't free in business-unless you're steal on The Linux Desktop and ISVs/OEMs · · Score: 1

    Linux is like water. Water is free and abundant, but the only way a business is going to make money off water is
    a. take the good stuff (mt spring for example) for yourself and sell it (e.g. Evian)
    b. give "free" water such a bad rap that yours is better (e.g. pollute the crap out of free water). But then sell basic tap water with good marketing (e.g. Dansi, Dannon, Arrowhead, etc...)

    Odd, I thought companies making things like boats, fishing rods, lures, bate, sails, paint, etc,etc were all making money off Water.

  13. Re:Suprising how? on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1

    Federal law prohibits it. If it is than it is being done in violation of the law.

  14. Re:Science and conjecture on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1

    In any case the root is the same--a growing distrust of authority, especially governmental authority, as government less and less appears to be capable of solving the big social and economic problems of our time.

    You have a problem with the above statement, Fixing social and economic problems is not the job of government.
    The job of government is best laid out in the Declaration of Independence.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness

    See, social and economic issues are not even mentioned as a job of government.

  15. Re:free-marketers reject state run economy? on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1

    No amount of state intervention could destroy a free market, anymore than a ton of magnets could hide gravity. But "free market" in America is more often a profession of a conservative cultural perspective.)

    Really???? Have you been to/seen Cuba lately?

  16. Re:Suprising how? on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1

    What areas of scientific inquiry are simply forbidden as you say?

    Medical Marijuana research.

  17. Re:Ha Ha HA!!! on UPEK Fingerprint Reader Software Puts Windows Passwords At Risk · · Score: 1, Troll

    No it says that windows has a "Security model" I am guessing it is a Model of the HMS Titanic.

  18. Re:Star Trek on "Real-life Tricorder" To Be Tested On International Space Station · · Score: 1

    Rules of acquisition #45 "Expand, or die"

    He could still be following the rules of acquisition just looking to expand his mind.

  19. Re:Critical illness on Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? · · Score: 1

    critical illness with a high deductible covers that at $100 a month to cover all of us.

    Still cheaper.

    Maybe something you dont know, If I am injured in a car accident then the auto insurance covers it. If i am injured helping a friend work on their house, their home owners insurance covers it. Injured at work, well there is insurance at work to cover that.

  20. Re:Critical illness on Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I think you are wrong there.

    Insurance to cover me, wife, and kid @ work $685 a month

    Paying out of pocket

    $65 a visit + tests and prescriptions.
    Averaged $150 for a visit.

    We would maybe see a doctor 2x a year each.

    12 visits == $1800 a year
    12 month of insurance == $8220.00

    Saving us $6420 a year.

  21. Re:Strong enough plastics? on 'Wiki Weapon Project' Wants Your 3D-Printable Guns · · Score: 1

    AR-15 receiver #1
    SN: BATFSUCK5

    AR-15 receiver #2
    SN: B1TEMEATF

    There is no regulation to what you make the serial number on a receiver you build your self. Hell you could make the SN:00000000.000000009 for all it matters

    Also note that someone can make it and finish it up to 80% then sell it to you and you do the last 20%

  22. Re:Look at the bright side on Earth's Corner of the Galaxy Just Got a Little Lonelier · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come one, artificial gravity is easy. You use a simple quantum graviton emitter to pull gravitons from the gbrain and emit them in concentration creating an artificial gravity field.

    Everyone knows that.... Wait, what year is it?

    never mind.

  23. Re:Ordered to explain why it ignored the order on Federal Appeals Court Orders TSA To Explain Delay In Body Scan Public Hearing · · Score: 1

    "How many divisions of bailiffs can the Appeals Court muster?"

    Ill volunteer to be deputized for this duty!

    Whos with me?

  24. Re:Not Published = Trash on Surfacestations: NOAA Has Overestimated Land Surface Temperature Trends · · Score: 1

    I have a DS, I am a peer reviewer on SlashDot.

    I have reviewed both articles and agree with them.

    There, they are now peer reviewed. Does it add any more validity to the?

  25. Re:"Cleard them of wrongdoing" on Police Close Climategate Investigation · · Score: 1, Troll

    I will bash the scientists involved. I have read all the e-mails and was appalled at what I saw.

    Blatant attempts to hide data/loose FOAI requests. This in and of it self is a major red flag in my book.
    A suggestion that they could stack the deck of pier reviewed journals in an attempt to stop publication of dissenting opinions and findings.
    A suggestion that they could identify who was reviewing there paper for a journal and influence the outcome.
    Suggestions of using bad data to fill in holes in the existing data.
    Suggestions that findings which are contradictory to the established belief be "fudged" to be more inline with other papers.
    The use of questionable mathematics to smooth temperature graphs.

    There may have been no questionable wrongdoing, but from the e-mails it really looks like there could have been.

    As to them being "ultimately cleared them of wrongdoing" Sorry, an internal investigation is worthless. That is like a scientist doing the pier review on his own paper and approving it, or his lab assistant doing the review and approving it. There is a reason it is sent out to others to review and a reason the reviewers are kept secret. There suggested attempt to circumvent this methodology not with standing.