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  1. Re:ATK on Aerospace Merger: ATK Joins With Orbital Sciences Corp · · Score: 1

    As a shooter, I'd more appreciate it if they could magically build yet another ammo plant and crank out more 22 ammo...

    (ATK owns both Federal and CCI)

  2. Re:Disregarding range, is this actually cheaper? on Will the Nissan Leaf Take On the Tesla Model S At Half the Price? · · Score: 1

    Yup, just did this - replaced my '99 Altima (had 215k on the engine, still a good car but I have young kids and didn't want to risk being stuck with them) and got a 2013 Nissan Versa, just under $14k after all taxes, tag, etc.

    Full tank of gas cost me $35 last night (and gas was $3.82 where I stopped), I can go almost 400 miles on that.

  3. Re:You say tomato? on Intentional Backdoor In Consumer Routers Found · · Score: 1

    Really? How many people knew about heartbleed 3 weeks ago?

  4. Re:Getting attention at the expense of 3D printing on Cody Wilson Interview at Reason: Happiness Is a 3D Printed Gun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Like the original Liberator pistol that the US dropped all over France, etc., the idea behind the new production 3d printed one is to allow you one or two shots, so you can aquire a "real" gun from someone else....

  5. Re:TurboTax on Slashdot Asks: How Do You Pay Your Taxes? · · Score: 2

    Same here... I use hte $50 version, fed taxes only (Florida has no state income tax). Worth every penny, and since I've been using it every year for the past 6 or so it imports my prior returns and uses them as a starting point. Handles investments (stocks), mortagage interest,etc. and lets me efile. Works great in Firefox on Mint (and Ubuntu and Debian before that).

  6. Re:I think I just found a title for my thesis on Mathematicians Use Mossberg 500 Pump-Action Shotgun To Calculate Pi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed, if a Ma Deuce doesn't solve the problem either the problem is unsolvable or you just need more ammo.

  7. Re:Some of the oldest trades become useful. on Ask Slashdot: Are You Apocalypse-Useful? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Or organ/skin condoms.

    As the joke goes, in 1500 the thought of using a sheeps intestine as a condom to prevent pregnancy. In 1873 the improved on the idea by removing the intestine from the sheep first.

  8. true universal remote in the 60s and 70s on Apple, Google, and Amazon's Quest For One Remote Control Is Futile · · Score: 1

    There was one at our house. Well, lets be honets, it was me. As the youngest, I was told to change channels (only 2 to choose from on OTA broadcast so it was a binary selection), wiggle the rabbit ears, adjust volume, turn the TV on or off, move the TV stand a little to change the viewing angle, etc.

    Now my kids have it lucky. I just make them find the remote controls :)

  9. Re:no reasonable options on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    They exist already - search for dead head flight sharing (no, no tie dye or Miracle Tickets needed), typically done with corporate planes.

    http://www.jetcharters.com/emp...

  10. Re:Hello 911? on WSJ: Prepare To Hang Up the Phone — Forever · · Score: 3, Funny

    And honestly when seconds count the police are only a few minutes away.

    In your sitation my phone call wouldve been notifying the police to have them pick up 2 guys who are approaching ambient temperature due to a nasty case of lead and copper poisoning

  11. Re:no reasonable options on One Person Successfully Removed From US No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    Already exists - just charter a plane. For a single person traveling it is kinda expensive, but for a group it is no worse than first class...

  12. Re:That's Odd on Wal-Mart Sues Visa For $5 Billion For Rigging Card Swipe Fees · · Score: 1

    There is a walmart card - it replaced lay-a-way a few years ago. And, if your credit is good enough, you can get a walmart branded visa card...

  13. Re:Community college on Ask Slashdot: Fastest, Cheapest Path To a Bachelor's Degree? · · Score: 1

    Quoth subby - I have an Associates degree in programming and systems analysis

    Hey fluttering twatwad - where does it say he has an AA degree?

    I have the same degree. It is an AS. Which means no, it isn't the first half of a Batchelor's degree. Some of it is, but in order for me to go to a Comp Sci BS program (which is part of the college of engineering at the local university, so same prereqs for *all* engineering majors regardless of type of engineering) I'd have to take a 3rd english, a sociology, an art, etc. and then the real prereqs for the BS degree - get thru Calc 2 w/ differential equations, 2 physics classes, 2 chemistry classes, statistics, etc.

  14. Re:Do WOLVES hunt in a sustainable manner? on Why Did New Zealand's Moas Go Extinct? · · Score: 1

    Thing is, is that we (humans) have broken our Darwinian evolution template ... we (humans) can take and plunder and consume not just other animals, but all sorts of resources that also affect other animals in a negative fashion - straight up extinction, denial of use of breeding/nesting areas, wiping out food sources, etc. For a while, we (humans) can "get around that" by becoming better at taking the resources to consume, but eventually they will all be consumed.

    On top of that, our opposable thumbs along with our brain power and creativeness have allowed us to create all sorts of nasty stuff that has a negative effect on our environment and all the other life forms that depend on it.

    So... either we need to voluntarily reduce our population to about 1% of what it is today (but please make plans for the bodies first!) or we need to be stewards, 'cause if we (humans) don't then in a few hundred years it will be too late.

  15. Re:What he's really saying on Eric Schmidt On Why College Is Still Worth It · · Score: 1

    And at the same time, working in the trades wtih no degree or "just" a certificate (not even a complete AA or AS) can also make you some serious money. Yes, for some trades you'll end up going to specialty schools for a few weeks or a few months, and pay several thousand to do it, but just like IT these are extra certifications ontop of the base job.

  16. Re:abstract wacky name on Lies Programmers Tell Themselves · · Score: 1

    ex: Yahoo, whatsapp, tumblr, Gentoo, etc etc

    Except Gentoo is a species of penguin, so it is at least somewhat relative

  17. steak & bj day too on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 0

    To make up for Valentines day... it is steak & a blow job day as well.

  18. Re:"Tell the families"? Really? on The $100,000 Device That Could Have Solved Missing Plane Mystery · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Part of these resources are being provided by people or organizations or governments who just want to Do The Right Thing.

    Some more of these resources are being provided by those who see others Doing The Right Thing and thinking to themselves that "gee, if A can do it I should do it to show I'm just as good at DTRT as them".

    And the last little bit are doing it for a positive karma, so they can get away with Something Bad later on...

  19. Revolution OS on Interviews: Ask Larry Augustin What You Will · · Score: 1

    You were prominently featured in the documentary Revolution OS.

    Do you think it is time for a similar documentary to be made, this time avoiding or minimizing the financial aspects?

  20. Re:What are these shiny discs you speak of? on Sony & Panasonic Next-Gen Optical Discs Moving Forward · · Score: 2

    But, while broadband speeds increase, broadband penetration may not (probably won't).

    So, I have a feeling that Netflix, Gamefly, etc. will still ship physical disks... and console games will too.

    I also think that instead of changing standards to increase data density, or using any extra density a new format brings, we'll see things that are more about control (DRM)

  21. AR15 != battle rifle on Interviews: ESR Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    Sorry... it just ain't. Needs to be in a caliber that starts with a "3" (or "7" if you use metric measurements).

    How about the FN-FAL or M1a instead?

  22. Re:Donald Knuth on Ask Slashdot: Online, Free Equivalent To a CompSci BS? · · Score: 0

    Since those are gen-ed type courses they compromise most of what an AA degree is - 2 englishes (2nd is tech writing or more lit stuff), math thru at least college algebra, a few social science courses, a few humanities courses, a natural sciences course w/ lab of some sort, etc.

    The calc (and possibly thru calc w/ differential equations), physics w/ calc, chemistry, and gen science comes with just about any science major for an AA (transfer to 4 year degree track) or AS.

     

  23. Re:Why? on Firefox OS Will Become the Mobile OS To Beat · · Score: 1

    This is known and has been for a while... how many complaints on /. have there been about all the trial versions, general crapware, etc. that comes preinstalled on most factory systems?

    Even at that, both Uberoid and cyanogen both have some extra apps I'll never use that I'd like to get rid of... but using the devices they are on (wm8650 based netbook and a nook color) is low priority to me, so I usually just put it off until later.

  24. Re:Too Little, Too Late & MtGox on The New PHP · · Score: 1

    And there used to be an import_request_variables() function that would allow you to define which request vars (get, post, cookie) you wanted and a prefix for them.

    import_request_variables("rvar_","p");

    Would make

    $_POST['foo']==$rvar_foo

  25. Re:Yes.. on Ask Slashdot: Automatically Logging Non-Computerized Equipment Use? · · Score: 2

    Yup, borrow some old tech from your campus library (barcode scanner, db backend) and "check out" the equipment just like they'd check out a book. Check with your campus financial aid department about putting in for a couple of workstudy positions (aka financial aid bs job) to do the actual checking in/out. For equipment that has parts that all go together (like a camera - camera, batteries, driver disc, manual, memory card or two) make a check sheet, laminate it, and attach to item or to the case the item should be in.

    This is what we do in my department (academic technologies) to let instructors check out dv cameras, still cameras, webcams, high quality headphone/mic set ups, classroom clickers, laptops, etc.