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  1. A .308 does just fine. But don't let everyone know, you are right, they will try to find some way to ban them. Most hunters wouldn't even consider the classic round in an AR-15 to be a humane way to kill a deer.

    Nope, they are too small and won't guarantee a kill on something that large but they make great rounds for a ranch rifle. Funny throw the same bullets into a wood stock Mini-14 and it's suddenly not scary at all!

  2. Re:Someone Else's Fault on 80 Percent of IT Decision Makers Say Outdated Tech is Holding Them Back (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yea what it usually, really, boils down to is cost. I worked for a company (large consumer product company) that had been doing this type of stuff for decades. But they spent massive amounts on money on the required hardware, software, and most importantly analysts and developers who could turn all that data into something useful. And it worked, spectacularly. They could track sales of their products at the store level in near-real time and adjust stocking, marketing, plano's, etc on the fly. It's a big part of what made them the dominate company in their industry. Hell they were predicting moves their competitors would be making before they themselves even knew. It was crazy. But it required a huge investment in not only technology but people. And who wants to invest in employees anymore?

    I think what a lot of these respondents really want is some off-the-shelf solution costing them 1/10 the price in assets and people to do the same thing, and that's not happening.

  3. Re:What Happens When 3D Printers Get Better??? on DOJ Reaches Settlement On Publication of Files About 3D Printed Firearms (joshblackman.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about, you can do that today! Small CNC machines exist, and they are not completely out of range for a mere mortal. Not to mention AK's can be built from sheet metal and bar stock (there is an entire niche hobby around building them at home). Most people use pre-made barrels (since making a good barrel would be a PITA, but making a usable would be possible) and other parts, but with persistence one could make the entire thing at home with off the shelf non-gun parts.

  4. Re:Lockdown on DOJ Reaches Settlement On Publication of Files About 3D Printed Firearms (joshblackman.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well don't tell the urbanites, but hunting rifles are basically sniper rifles. But keep it under your hat or we'll have California dems trying to ban high end optics.

  5. Yep, pure clickbait bullshit. Sad to see ARS going to shit but I guess that's what it takes these days.

  6. Re:Owning a luxury car (or jet/yatch) is even bett on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    What about albino ravens?

  7. It seems the psychological effect of going outside to work, while it's still dark -- meaning before work -- has a more negative impact than going back home in the evening -- it's dark but it's *after* work...

    Got some published proof for that?

  8. Re:Owning a luxury car (or jet/yatch) is even bett on Owning an iPhone is the Number-One Way To Guess if You're Rich or Not, Research Finds (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Owning a Ferrari is a sign that you are going bald and have a small dick. It has been that forever.

    Can confirm: Thick hair, big dick, no Ferrari.

  9. Re:DST on EU Polls The Public About Abandoning Daylight Savings Time (europa.eu) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    otherwise people would go to work in total darkness

    so instead we go home in total darkness.

  10. Re:Second time now... on YouTuber Says He Was Accused of Infringing His Own Song (cnet.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    ...that Google has proven its AI/algorithms just don't work.

    Not really. It did it's job, it matched the song. The algo has no way to know, and it's not designed to know, which version came first (music, after all, does predate Youtube by a little bit so video A is older than Video B doesn't really work). You could say it's an overall problem with the whole system, but nothing is going to be perfect. How many correct actions are taken for every one of these incorrect ones? I'd bet it's a pretty large ratio.

  11. Re:It saves money on real estate on Open Offices Make You Less Open (calnewport.com) · · Score: 2

    Ding Ding Ding! I had a customer move buildings. No hires/fires but they went from basically every one had offices or a team room to all open office. They reduced their square footage requirements by over 35%. We had another that went through a buyout and workforce "rationalization". They went from about a dozen buildings down to one. It was so bad the city fire marshal and city engineers stepped in to tell the new owners they couldn't put as many people as they wanted on each floor.

  12. Re:Not network neutrality issue. on Charter Launches Mobile Service, Throttles All Video To 480p (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    They are throttling all video. So perfectly compliant with NN.

    Get off your pulpits.

    That's debatable... At the very least it probably would have been cause for a lawsuit; and Charter might not have risked a potentially expensive legal defence for this.

    Pretty sure mobile networks (and please don't forget that's what we are talking about here, Charter's new mobile service, not their home service) were exempted from certain provisions to allow for network management. Video throttling was happening under NN rules in the US before they were repealed.

  13. Re:Not about data usage on Charter Launches Mobile Service, Throttles All Video To 480p (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you not understand how video streaming works?

  14. Re:Not network neutrality issue. on Charter Launches Mobile Service, Throttles All Video To 480p (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    So they are throttling their home users video too? Because the article says mobile users, of their new cell service (which is really Verizon that they are reselling).

  15. Re:No, they are not sent as SMS messages on Samsung Phones Are Spontaneously Texting Users' Photos To Random Contacts Without Their Permission (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL so apparently you didn't read it.

  16. Re:No, they are not sent as SMS messages on Samsung Phones Are Spontaneously Texting Users' Photos To Random Contacts Without Their Permission (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you even read this thread before commenting?

  17. Re:No, they are not sent as SMS messages on Samsung Phones Are Spontaneously Texting Users' Photos To Random Contacts Without Their Permission (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I can send several thousand SMS messages this month and it wont cost me a penny.

    Each MMS message will cost me 50p. Automatically sending all the images from my phone via MMS to even a single recipient would cost me a three digit sum.

    I can imagine for some people you could add a digit with ease.

    Cool, so how do you send an image via SMS and not MMS?

  18. Re:CDs... the most under-appreciated music format on Best Buy Stops Selling Music CDs (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Best Buy would be selling LPs instead of CDs.

    Actually they are. BB ditched CDs but still has a vinyl section.

  19. Re:No, they are not sent as SMS messages on Samsung Phones Are Spontaneously Texting Users' Photos To Random Contacts Without Their Permission (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    as opposed to sending then through SMS?

  20. Re:Waaahmbulance is coming! on Amazon's Alexa is Getting Clobbered (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    And Fire.

  21. Re:Even More Difficult to Discen What to Watch on Netflix Is Ending Reviews July 30th · · Score: 1

    There are still the "secret" categories, but they aren't exactly user friendly obviously. Honestly a large part of what is making discovery difficult for me on Netflix is the UI, especially the TV UI (including on streaming boxes). Over half the screen is that damn auto-preview window. It makes actually "surfing" the interface to find stuff difficult because you are limited to such a small view for the actual content icons. And EVERY DAMN STREAMING SERVICE uses some variant of it now. Or worse (Hulu update, I'm looking at you).

  22. Re:No, they are not sent as SMS messages on Samsung Phones Are Spontaneously Texting Users' Photos To Random Contacts Without Their Permission (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    But TFS erroneously says SMS.

    Because that's what's important here, an article using the wrong acronym. FFS YDA AC

  23. And today it's above $6,300... on Bitcoin Drops Below $6,000, An 8-Month Low (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    ...and up 5.36% (at 2pm EDT) for the week so can we stop spamming click-bait stories every time BTC wobbles? It's erratic and unstable, we all know that. It goes up, it goes down, it goes round and round.

  24. Lie down with dogs, you're bound to get fleas on All-Radio 4.27 Portable Can't Be Removed? Then Your PC Is Severely Infected (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Funny
    From the article

    When malware removal expert, Aura, started helping these victims he noticed a common theme. Most of the users reported being infected after they downloaded and installed game cracks and Windows activation tools such as KMSpico.

    So don't do that.

  25. Re:Walgreens and Rite-Aid should be worried on Amazon Buys PillPack, an Online Pharmacy, For Just Under $1 Billion (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Well their stocks sure are. CVS, Walgreens, and Rite-Aid stocks all dropped after the news.