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  1. Re:Who Cares? on 3D Printed Gun Maker Cody Wilson Defends Open Source Freedom · · Score: 1

    have an example of a laser sintered firearm component? machining or stamping is so much faster and cheaper.

  2. Re:Who Cares? on 3D Printed Gun Maker Cody Wilson Defends Open Source Freedom · · Score: 1

    "factory" in context refers to a business owned manufacturing facility, not a home printer. Making a gun at home is legal, the means doesn't matter.

  3. methinks there is registered trademark in the field of digital computing circuitry for that name, which is enforceable in the EU

  4. Re:Who Cares? on 3D Printed Gun Maker Cody Wilson Defends Open Source Freedom · · Score: 3, Insightful

    logic fails you. It is already legal to make yourself a gun with traditional material by traditional means. Illegal gun manufacture not a relevant issue. Name one massacre (or murder in the past year, for that matter) done with a homemade gun. All gun killers, for all intents and purposes, use a factory made weapon.

  5. OMG! OMG! OMG! on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 3, Funny

    I took the gel case off my Motorola Defy and IT DOESN'T HAVE AN APPLE LOGO ON THE BACK!! what do I do!? what do I do!?

  6. Re:Big market on Google To Spend $1 Billion On Fleet of Satellites · · Score: 1

    if you think you are going to get "broadband" access speeds to download your 475 MB in even a month via these proposed sattelites I've got some engineering reality with which to slap you upside the head

  7. Re:Maybe the Arrogant Assholes Are the Issue on A Measure of Your Team's Health: How You Treat Your "Idiot" · · Score: 1

    nonsense, too much quality software is produced by teams led and with core people of that kind. How about throwing out the dead weight?

  8. Re:8.1 !=Start Menu.. Why Win8 was doomed... on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 0

    Windows 2012 beta has the Windows 8 interface, it sucks shitty goat balls with rusty braces.

  9. Re:He forgot generation ships and ... on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    it wouldn't matter the time scale, getting to 0.1C the ship can be in ballistic flight for 1 year or ten thousand. having functioning systems and survivors after generations of crew at the long end of the timescale left as exercise for student.

    no, no 1 km asteroid sized ships made by these means, not enough fuel in the world.

    The thing about your D-D reactor solution, is it doesn't exist. Fission reactors do.

  10. depends on definition of "computer" on ISEE-3 Satellite Is Back Under Control · · Score: 4, Interesting

    some gates and circuits to detect and act on series of correct "control tones", the old definition of computer was anything that had input, transformed information, and presented to output (like analog computer, for instance).

    Many young-uns think a "computer" needs to be a certain type of digital system with CPU, memory, IO bus and ports, etc.

    As a young teen I read the manuals for a (defunct) satellite old retired engineer had, funny as electronics hobbyist I could understand it.

  11. Re:We can already do that on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 1

    well there is this thing called a womb those gamates will be needing. many slashdotters don't know about those as they're located at the far end of a vagina.

  12. Re: Active choice on Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration · · Score: 1

    no, I can show cases where several in a 100% vacinated herd caught and transmitted the disease immunized against

  13. Re:He forgot generation ships and ... on 'Curiosity' Lead Engineer Suggests Printing Humans On Other Planets · · Score: 2

    certain fission reactor designs (fission fragment) can get a craft to 0.1 C. They are better than fusion designs for now because they can actually be built.

  14. Re:Flash? on Not A Hoverboard, but Close (Video) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Flash: if someone runs up to you, and opens their overcoat, and you find they are naked underneath, and then that person closes their overcoat and runs away, you have been flashed.

  15. Re:For pecular values of close. on Not A Hoverboard, but Close (Video) · · Score: 1

    oh come now, a person with one cent to their name is infinitely more rich than a person with zero cents to their name

  16. Re:Active choice on Mutant Registration vs. Vaccine Registration · · Score: 1

    bullshit.

    unvaccinated people (and those 10%-30% or more ( for whom a vaccine does nothing) don't automatically harm people. By the way those high percentages of those who are not given immunity destroy any argument made using that nonsense phrase "herd immunity", there are ALWAYS many people in a group that will not have immunity, vaccine or not.

    what about live vaccines that give the targeted disease to people with certain problems like weakened immune system?

    what about vaccinations that are useless against the strain that infects a populous ,like last year's flu vaccine?

    in short, you believe a vaccine will protect you, fine get one.

    what about

  17. Re:wrong direction. on OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers · · Score: 2

    seems to me it was old fashioned corporate greed and rubberstamping that burned them. openssl foundation just doing FIPS consulting gigs for $1M /year

  18. Re:no credibility on OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers · · Score: 1

    nonsense, it was the openssl code that had crufty incorrect methodology for being "portable", #ifdef hell and a contrived c dialect.

    The openbsd team's changes are making the code easily portable just as openssh and their other major projects are, and after building the openbsd version they'll then focus on the portable version

  19. no credibility on OpenSSL To Undergo Security Audit, Gets Cash For 2 Developers · · Score: 2

    the fact that these companies haven't even addresses the other MASSIVE flaw with openssl (which the OpenBSD team has dealt with already) shows they have no grasp of the issues

  20. Re:Come again? on Printed Circuits as Part of a 3-D Printed Object (Video) · · Score: 1

    nah, desks made that way don't do the swelling in humidity thing. but we can be hopeful, maybe they degrade in direct sunlight

  21. Re:Come again? on Printed Circuits as Part of a 3-D Printed Object (Video) · · Score: 1

    but where else would I get a desk that warps under half the rated weight or buckles in humidity?

  22. just neural nets on The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Net · · Score: 1

    plenty of business and common web software have had bugs causing crashes with certain legitimate combinations of input values.

    this is not a scary announcement

  23. Re:Come again? on Printed Circuits as Part of a 3-D Printed Object (Video) · · Score: 1

    table sized powdered metal and extrusion machines existed in the early 90s too....you could put them on a big desk, maybe not your chipboard walmart special desk.

  24. Re:Oh China... on China Looks To Linux As Windows Alternative · · Score: 1

    you mean Red Flag?, that's defunct

  25. Re:Where Is My Lunch? on Kiwi Genetically Closer to Extinct Elephant Birds Than to the Emu · · Score: 1

    yup, just like any other new startup space