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  1. Re:Counter to federal laws? on DOJ Could Ban Texas Flights Over Anti-Patdown Law · · Score: 3, Informative

    No actually you aren't. Too lazy to google it now, but it was here on /. and many other places about a guy who refused and tried to leave and was threatened with a $10k fine

  2. Re:Getting started with that on 3D Aerial Photos For the Common Man · · Score: 1

    I imagine that an anchored weather balloon or five acting as your lift with a basket underneath would work well. Seems cheap enough, esp since you don't need to go superultralight on your hardware (just very light)

  3. Re:Install a firewall on Ask Slashdot: Android Security Practices? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem isn't that it is a phone, but rather, it is a computer with phone functionality. Would you tote around a laptop w/ no firewall or AV?

  4. how will it know? on Verifying Passwords By the Way They're Typed · · Score: 5, Informative

    How would such a system know if I am typing on my normal keyboard vs. using an on-screen one on a tablet vs. using a coworkers "ergonomic" keyboard vs. being interrupted in the middle of typing my password by my kids?

  5. Re:Slow news day? on When AIM Was Our Facebook · · Score: 3

    Indeed. Who needs social networking, instant messages, etc. Just finger me!

  6. Re:DL-44 Mauser? on Celebrating the Sci-fi Ray Gun · · Score: 1

    Must be the new shows - all the Dr Who I watched (first thru 5th doctor) all the military units were on loan from the Brits so they all toted the FN-FAL/L1A1

  7. Re:DL-44 Mauser? on Celebrating the Sci-fi Ray Gun · · Score: 1

    Yup, C96 broomhandle

    And of course the stargate guns are based on the FN P-90 (full auto) or PS-90 (semi only).

  8. Re:I hope this passes on US Congress Tries To Cut Body Scanner Funding · · Score: 1

    They blanket ban these things because they don't trust their employees to be intelligent enough to recognize the difference between a dangerous weapon and a bottle of shampoo or Coke.

    Actually, either could make a handy weapon ...

  9. Re:User perception on Android Honeycomb Will Not Be Open Sourced · · Score: 1

    IF all you want is an e-reader, the Kindle is much better than the nook or anything else.

    If you want other functionality, I'd get the nook. Got one 2 months ago, put HC 3.0 on it, it worked but had some issues. Put CM7 on it and it just rocks.

  10. Re:Collaboration on NYC Resistor: DIY Hackers Doing Awesome Things · · Score: 1

    Thanks. However, I'm 3000 miles away in N Florida, and I'll never go back to California again now that my grandparents are dead and I don't need to go have dinner with them a few times per year.

  11. Re:Collaboration on NYC Resistor: DIY Hackers Doing Awesome Things · · Score: 1

    I've always thought a great business would be a complete machine shop and wood working shop, along with a small supplies type place. Rent a work space and equipment (and someone who knows how to use it) on a per-hour basis. Lots of projects can be done in a few hours, if you have the tools to do it. Heck, I've got a few that I need to do but the equipment to do one project would make it a $5000 job ...

    Of course, the killer here besides start up costs to equip would be the insurance. Of course, firing ranges can get insured so it is possible....

  12. Re:How do they handle... on ERP Vendors Get Into Medical Marijuana Business · · Score: 1

    That theory died around 1861...

  13. Re:This afternoon's Slashdot content... on Book Review: R Graphs Cookbook · · Score: 2

    I pay $0 for an all-I-can Safari ... of course, it is bought by my county library system, and I pay taxes and donate to the library system specifically, so I guess I do pay something...

  14. Re:Oh, stuff it. on Sony's Case Against Geohot Has Been Settled · · Score: 2

    Perfectly legal to do it. Just gotta get a tax stamp from the BATFE first.

    Only firearms modification that isn't legal (on a fed level) is making a full auto - that particular registry has been closed off to new additions since May 1986.

  15. Re:Personal info disclosure here on Requiring Algebra II In High School Gains Momentum · · Score: 1

    Yup, teaching to the test. Of course, teaching to the test is perfectly valid and works great .... if you have a good test. Problem is that not many states that do this have good tests.

  16. Re:Correlation is not Causation on Requiring Algebra II In High School Gains Momentum · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Every single male should be able to produce 3 kick ass dinners and a great breakfast. Will help said single male to become a not single male.

  17. Re:Correlation is not Causation on Requiring Algebra II In High School Gains Momentum · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I got that, along with "repair" level sewing, some cooking, and baking skills when I took Home Ec.

    Being the only straight male in class with 24 females was just a bonus.

  18. Re:No e-book? on Book Review: Android User Interface Development · · Score: 1

    Check your local library.

    The one I use (aclib.us) has a Safari subscription available via your card number. Plenty of subjects to choose from.

  19. Re:Gatta love this one... on Dutch Radio Geek Tracking Libyan Airstrikes · · Score: 4, Funny

    While the planes and ordinance is neat, I prefer the platform (or chassis) for Wicked Weasel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_Weasel

  20. Re:Haven’t we been here before? on Why Doesn't Every Website Use HTTPS? · · Score: 1

    It is a compile time option and I don't think any of the major distributions use it when packaging apache...

  21. Re:Right-o, buddy. on Sex Offender Claims Police Entrapped Him With Animated Emoticons · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Lets take the kid out of the equation and substitute something else that is often sensationalized - gun buying.

    Mayor Bloomberg of NYC hired some folks in Arizona to go to a gunshow and purchase arms from private individuals. Nothing in Arizona law prevents person to person transfers, and Fed law only requires that both parties be residents of the same state and the transaction take place in that state. So legal for a non-Felon Arizona citizen to buy/sell to/from another non-Felon.

    But... Bloomberg wants to close that awful "gunshow loophole". So he has the persons he hired lie and ask if there was a background check, "'cause I prolly can't pass it"

    End result? No charges filed, no nothing, because the individuals were in fact not prohibited from buying guns. In fact, Bloomberg had to write Arizona a nice fat check over the whole deal.

  22. Re:NO... on Does Android Have a Linux Copyright Problem? · · Score: 1

    How does the presence of a comment (or several hundred for that matter) change the compile time?

  23. Re:I have a question... on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 2

    Here at the college I work at, yes it is outsourced.

    Students access it via a single sign on link from within our home grown SIS, and are redirected to gmail.

    Students only have their password to the SIS - the pw for the actual gmail account (on a subdomain of my.educationalinstitution.edu) is not known, so even if the students knew they could use POP or IMAP to access it, they don't have a working password to access it with.

  24. Re:Disabled people on Advocacy Group For the Blind Slams Google Apps · · Score: 2

    Not only that but some schools use a single sign on for their gmail service, and you don't actually have a password to use should you want to use IMAP or POP. Stuck with the web interface, which brings in the ADA compliance stuff.

  25. Re:Not sure this is the time to work on internet on Ask Slashdot: Could We Reconnect Eastern Libya? · · Score: 1

    This is what the 2nd amendment is for... and yes, I'd rather let them get armed up and fight for their own darn freedom than the US get involved in yet another land war/police action in Asia^HAfrica...