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  1. States can get serious on Senate Rejects New Money For Election Security (apnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This problem can be addressed at the state level with it being major talking point at federal level for the elections. Great opportunity to find where lawmakers stand, and yes some Democrats are dirtbags on the issue too, despite what comes out of their mouths.

  2. Re: bittorrent on Judge Blocks Release of Blueprints For 3D-Printed Guns (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Nah, the working bits of impromtu guns will continue to be made of metal, it's easier, safer and cheap. Plastic or wood is for the rest.

  3. and of course company cafeterias magically teleport food and supplies into existence and don't buy things from the local stores.

  4. Re:Size of notch not dealt with... on Google Bans Android Phones From Having Three or More Notches (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    it is mental retardation to insist on bezel-less screen. There is great way around notches good for decades, have a bezel or area above screen. everyone is fine with it.

  5. failure? there were some huge wins for certain bankers. look at the whole picture.

  6. but they are supported, by their mothers upstairs, and not reproducing.

  7. depends, there may come a day when hardware will only run government approved operating systems.

  8. Re:I'm not "pro-gun"... on 20 States Take Aim At 3D Gun Company, Sue To Get Files Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    not quite this is cutting metal.

    A button pushes the pattern into the metal, under pressure of a press that also turns. It's an expensive setup compared to this other method of making a die.

  9. nearly perfect on OpenAI's Dactyl System Gives Robots Humanlike Dexterity (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only two out of seven researchers had their penises ripped off for the "big finish" after an otherwise perfect handjob.

  10. Re:I'm not "pro-gun"... on 20 States Take Aim At 3D Gun Company, Sue To Get Files Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    even "good enough" rifling (stabilizes a bullet) can be done by pounding a hand-filed disk of metal, with grooves cut into it at an angle, through a pipe with a rod. a few people on youtube have done it. the angle comes from whatever rate of twist you want, and you can look that up for any common caliber.

    so saying rifling is the difficult thing that stops most homemade firearms from being made really is just an oft-believed meme.

  11. needs some things added to make it convenient gun though, if you're not going to be holding nail and hammer to fire it while your friend points it. having magazine of ammo is even more work.

    face it, the $120 bargain shotgun or .22LR semi-auto rifle is the sweet spot for convenience, safety, reliability.

    probably get those used for $50 I'm guessing

  12. Re:Welcome to the future. on 20 States Take Aim At 3D Gun Company, Sue To Get Files Off the Internet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    er no, these guns cost more than $50

    for just over $100 you can *legally* have a working new semi-auto .22LR gun that is ok in quality. Pne hollow point bullet head shot from it will kill a deer, human, dog, etc.

    or for just over $100 you can buy a break-action shotgun, and not even worry about hitting the targets head

    why bother to print one? why the fear of printed ones? just a gun.

  13. Gun laws apply to "printed" guns too

    anyway for less than $150 you can buy a nice new cheap shotgun that (with correct ammo) throws out more projectiles faster than an full auto M16 with standard magazine

  14. Re:Why do marketers love to make things difficult? on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    cheap toilet paper doesn't come pre-loaded full of shit though

  15. wrong, the theoretical predictions include properties that are verified by experiment.

  16. No, 20 years old and long obsolete.

    Stand your ground, baby! Take out the trash!

  17. "design tools?" there's your problem right there on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A person who says a logo contains things called "design tools" is one of those fucking goddamn marketing choads.

    They have some use when cut up for chum, but otherwise they just rename things to justify their otherwise purposeless existence, and create confusion.

    Eliminate them, keep the names people know.

  18. Re:Why do marketers love to make things difficult? on Mozilla Is Rebranding Firefox and Wants Your Feedback (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    marketing wanks look for ways to justify their existence, so they rename things, create confusion and piss the hell out of customers.

    The solution is to keep the names and eliminate the marketing wanks, they're as replaceable as cheap toilet paper.

  19. Re:That's nothing. on Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried In Ice (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 0

    48 year old Slovenian model keeps that worm alive

  20. Re:quanternions for SR? on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    more broadly GR deals with accelerations and uses 4-tensors instead of the 4-vectors of SR.... and we still don't need quaternions

  21. society itself is pretty shitty, so meh

  22. Not after getting a magazine emptied into them they won't

  23. the whole coaster set, its wooden box, and four tumblers fit in your mother's cootch

  24. it has a coaster storage slit

  25. Re:quanternions for SR? on The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    wasn't thinking of QM at all but Special Relativity which uses 4 vectors.