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  1. Re:Tumbtack in your shoe, pressure when telling tr on Indiana Man Gets 8 Months For Teaching How To Beat Polygraph Tests · · Score: 1

    I've paid for my own poly, just for practice lying with no consequences.

    What are you, a lawyer or used car salesman?

  2. Re:A good use for a peacekeeper missile booster on Unmanned NASA Rocket Lifts Off From Wallops Island, On Way To Moon · · Score: 1

    You are correct. The peacekeeper needed it because of the mobile basing requirement. Most missiles would sit in a static silo, with the INS having a contant reference that doesn't move. Mobile basing required the need for a better INS system. AIRS is being moved to the Minuteman III for reasons I'm not quite sure, other than they had 50 of them for the MX program, now they built another 600 or so for the entire Minuteman program. Government welfare for the defense industries?

  3. A good use for a peacekeeper missile booster on Unmanned NASA Rocket Lifts Off From Wallops Island, On Way To Moon · · Score: 1

    They took the AIRS unit out, can't let NASA have those expensive DoD toys.

    Once again, beating our swords into plowshares

  4. Better headline: on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 1

    Why cable TV isn't ready for the internet.

  5. It's ok under certain circumstances on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    Like when you are saying "fuck you guys" as you are walking out the door and don't expect any references from them ever. Not recommended, but sometimes cathartic. Would be considered "non professional"

  6. The gun holster guys need to get into the biz. on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? · · Score: 1

    They are all about concealed carry. They should have a good opening into diversifying into the personal electronic device carry market.

    Not that their business isn't already booming.

  7. Re:Really? Political correctness? on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 1

    ...strip to their undies and have sex/make out with other characters for no apparent reason.

    You make that sound like a bad thing. Isn't 90% of sex/making out for no apparent reason? Other than it's fun and feels good?

  8. No Stewart platform... on Man Builds Fully-Functional Boeing 737 Flight Simulator In His Son's Bedroom · · Score: 2

    It doesn't even incorporate a Stewart platform in its implementation, lame.

  9. Re:What would have happened.. on Indian Army Mistook Planets For Spy Drones · · Score: 1

    Do they own binoculars? Even modest binoculars can resolve the disk of a planet.

  10. Re:Did they test lawyers? on Psychopathic Criminals Have "Empathy Switch" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I was going to say that bank managers are good at this. They can not give a shit about your problems, but can't imagine their home life is the same.

  11. Re:Maybe they know what they are doing on NSA Can't Search Its Own Email · · Score: 1

    And this may yet expose a flaw in deep compartmentalization. Should there be a super-user who can do such searches? Maybe someone that has to get keys from other users to do such a search. I would assume every employee can search their own email. National Geo. could certainly know which employees exchanged email with the NSA, and narrow their request.

  12. Re:Maybe they know what they are doing on NSA Can't Search Its Own Email · · Score: 1

    As experts in security and infomration gathering, maybe the NSA knows how to keep their email compartmentalized and secure from being searched, even by their own people.

    That is what I first thought. They want to compartmentalize internal emails to keep things compartmentalized. +1 indeed sir!

  13. Re:NSA on NSA Can't Search Its Own Email · · Score: 1

    NSA drug running? Really? I thought that is what the CIA does to top up the slush fund. That and arms trading. Who know how many Libyan small arms they've just acquired for future distribution when they need deniability.

  14. Re:Overthinking Hollywood. on Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops · · Score: 1

    Or it could be, yknow, people just don't want to get shot out for a night at the movies anymore.

    I know! 12 people got killed going to a batman movie last year! WTF?

    Too soon?

  15. And it's only going to get worse on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Before things improve, they will get worse.

  16. Re:Boobies on San Onofre's Closure: What Was Missed · · Score: 1

    Guess they architects didn't see it like that, or did and had a massive laugh when they were built.

    God, I hope no architects were involved. Hopefully it was designed by engineers. I can only imagine what a nuke plant would look like if Frank Gehry designed it.

  17. Re:From the laundromat on San Onofre's Closure: What Was Missed · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not sure exactly what you're implying about the warm water and sharks, but considering the rest of your post is about environmental effects you seem to be implying that the water is warm and therefore somehow irradiated?

    No, I think he means the water is literally warmer around the plant. Was it not located on the beach to provide cooling water for the reactor? Thermal pollution is what that is called.

  18. Re:So do those containers sink or float? on Container Ship Breaks In Two, Sinks · · Score: 1

    They are not airtight. They have a vent so the container can "breathe". Otherwise it will do "oil canning" with atmospheric pressure changes.

    They are gaskets at the doors, but there is a vent up high on the container.

    There may be some specialty containers which are airtight, but the generic ones are not.

  19. Re:not exactly a lot of money on State Dept. Bureau Spent $630k On Facebook 'Likes' · · Score: 1

    Sure it may be a small expenditure in their overall budget, but what are they buying here? PR? Good or bad PR? I don't see the point in government agencies "buying" likes on FB. Are they insecure?

  20. Re:And how do we know these are legit? on WA Post Publishes 4 More Slides On Data Collection From Google, Et Al · · Score: 2

    Because Assange has it so good? This whole think will be a case study in how not to react to leaked information. It would be funny if it didn't feel so real. Keystone cops government reaction. Yeah, they are fake slides, whatever helps you sleep at night.

    Personally, I think the declassification date is a nice touch.

  21. Re:And how do we know these are legit? on WA Post Publishes 4 More Slides On Data Collection From Google, Et Al · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They are making a big deal out of Snowden. Do you think they would do that for a bunch of BS? The guy is stuck in a Russian airport with a revoked US passport and charged with espionage. Would they do that over fake powerpoint slides?

  22. Re:It's dead either way, why not try this? on FCC Considering Proposal For Encrypted Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    Re: #5 No, broadcasting is verboten. Amateur radio is for two way communication. Broadcasting is when you are constantly transmitting and not bothering to listen, because you are occupying the carrier frequency with one's broadcast. As to what currently prevents it, other amateur operators will report it to the FCC (If they don't bother to triangulate the source themselves and send a HARM missile that way). If someone is being an obvious prick, the FCC will confiscate equipment and shut down offending transmitters.

  23. Re:Consumer locks are shitty anyway on Robotic Kiosk Stores Digital Copies of Physical Keys · · Score: 1

    That is the point I'm trying to make. Anyone serious about using a keyed lock for security will use a key that is controlled. Consumer stuff at Home Depot or Lowes or hardware stores do not have controls on the blank keys. What makes it worse is they don't even utilize the number of potential tumblers they could use. A 5 tumbler lock with only 3 tumblers installed is trivial to pick just by raking. If you don't care about leaving evidence of breaking in, then no lock will help you against forced entry.

  24. Consumer locks are shitty anyway on Robotic Kiosk Stores Digital Copies of Physical Keys · · Score: 1

    They do cheap ass shit like put only 3 of the 5 possible tumblers in them. The key still has 5 cuts for 5 potential tumblers, but they only use 3 of the 5.

    The lock companies only use so many potential combinations anyway.

    I'm betting they won't be able to reproduce a 7 tumbler Best key with the "do not duplicate" stamped on it.

  25. Re:Thom Hogan has a very critical write up on this on Chicago Sun Times Swaps iPhone Training For Staff Photographers · · Score: 1

    Don't know about dead tree editions, but a lot of online "newspapers" don't publish hi-res images on the website. Instead I often see low-res images with no option to enlarge.

    That's not taking advantage of the web. Some of these guys are dinosaurs and don't know what to make of online media. I'm not speaking of Chicago Sun Times specifically, but other newspapers suck when it comes to images on their online presence.