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  1. Re:Dream on. on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 1

    ugh, about 15 years ago we visited Universal and rode the Back to the Future ride. I was stuck in the back seat, right side, and smacked my head hard on the wall of the car every time the car jerked to the left. Barely made it to the end, got out, got sick and collapsed in the aisle. Spent the rest of the day with a raging headache, but kept it to myself and played the "I'm fine!" game so as not to ruin my wife's vacation. Probably had a concussion on top of motion sickness.

  2. Re:Sometimes it's better to copy and forward... on Massive Email Crash Hits Canadian ISP Shaw · · Score: 1

    bah, let's say 5 million emails would have arrived during that time period. From my unfortunate 6.5 year history at a major email provider, I can tell you that %98 of the email is normally blocked as junk at the perimeter using RBLs, another %50 of what makes it through is junk blocked by anti-virus and anti-spam engines leaving around %1 of real "valuable" email.

    Of that, about %50 is commercial email that literally no one will miss (except the people sending it).

    What remains is 25k emails, the vast majority of which are forwards from friends and relatives (forward this four leaf clover for luck!) and other garbage. All in all, after an 8 hour outage, the number of real emails that were missed was probably on the order of around 100.

  3. Re:All I want is my gift card. on FTC Goes After Scammers Who Blasted Millions of Text Messages · · Score: 1

    I'll settle for the President using his war powers to drone strike these bastards. And a gift card. (no, not a victim myself, just someone who hates hates hates spammers and scammers)

  4. Re:Chaos on How Sequestration Will Affect Federal Research Agencies · · Score: 1

    my little world being one of the people who is paying for all this. Clearly, my point is invalid, and the politicians can't possibly be using these furlough notices for their own political gain. No politicain has ever done that, lied for gain, that would be inexcusable.

  5. Re:Chaos on How Sequestration Will Affect Federal Research Agencies · · Score: 1

    again, bullshit. There's no way that a %0.05 cut in the budget to a level of just over a year ago is going to cause all the misery that the press is reporting on this. They're reporting EVERYTHING is going to collapse.

    everything from school lunches to aircraft carrier maintenance, beef inspections to border patrol

    these reports are all bullshit

  6. Re:Same old same old on How Sequestration Will Affect Federal Research Agencies · · Score: 1

    since when have Libertarians applauded corporate bailouts? Since never. The Libertarians didn't start the various bailout programs, the liberal republicans, and liberal democrats did.

  7. Re:Chaos on How Sequestration Will Affect Federal Research Agencies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    oh bullshit. Stop regurgitating the party line. Though, you're probably getting paid to do so.

    The level of cuts are miniscule, so minor as to be meaningless. The whole story is propaganda to try and shore up Obama's numbers and lay the blame for the entirety of the failed economy on someone else. That's right, let's blame the minority in the legislature, not the leader. There's no way the tiny level of spending cuts are going to impact every single person working for the government. It's complete bullshit and you know it.

  8. Re:Just tax it. on Why It's So Hard To Predict How Caffeine Will Affect Your Body · · Score: 1

    paying more in taxation directly affects your freedom. period. it restricts access to goods and services.

  9. Re:Mass-Media Report on Specific Gut Bacteria May Account For Much Obesity · · Score: 2

    If you feed anyone a special diet they can lose weight. Also note, their diet included "certain Chinese herbal medicines." So sure it worked, it worked just fine. And the media that covered it fell for that hook line and sinker. Including slashdot.

    Now if these results came out of a real double blind study with controls and whatnot (like more than one patient?) this would be an interesting story. Now, it'll just generate diet spam.

  10. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 2

    and like an idiot, I forgot the fourth rule.

    RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET and what's beyond.

  11. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 5, Informative

    NRA basic pistol, rifle, every single hunter's education course in the nation (and many other nations) as well as thousands of safety websites, videos, and general use books. Jeff Cooper put it this way, and this is the way it's taught in safety courses world wide.

    RULE I: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED
    RULE II: NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY
    Rule III: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET

    And yes, the shouting is on purpose.

  12. Re:Summary on Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist · · Score: 1

    both, they've provided both for as long as I can remember, at least three or four years. MTAs are covered under the RBL, the URIs under the antispam "cloudmark authority" engine. One blocked at the connect phase, one at the end of the data phase.

  13. Re:I need new glasses. on Humans Have Been Eating Cheese For At Least 7,500 Years · · Score: 1

    Cheese; Like beer and wine.

    All of the grocery stores around here (upstate NY) have large selections of cheese. Wegmans, a brand from the Rochester, NY area, but spread throughout much of the north east, has had a cheese shop in each store for at least 20 years, and prior to that, had a large selection in the deli case. I remember, quite vividly, a buddy purchasing a wedge of some brie cheese in 1989 and being completely disgusted, before AND after tasting it. But it grew on me, and now I use that cheese in recpies on a regular basis.

    Today, really for the past twenty years, they've expanded the offerings, and the shop carries literally hundreds of different cheese selections, type X aged Y years/months, packaged by the roll, log, slice, wedge, runny, moldy, from just about every variety you can name including local small-batch cheese makers and large name ones, imports and domestics.

    While it's true that the vast majority of "cheese" consumed is garden variety cheddar or worse "American Cheese" whatever the hell that is, or even worse, "Cheese" in quotes, there is a huge selection of actual gourmet cheeses sold each day all over the place.

    Like beer. The shit beer people drink in bulk, Bud or whatever, is generally garbage, but there are thousands upon thousands of craft beer brewers all over that produce some of the finest quality beer in the world, and wines from California, New York and even Utah, win awards the world over. Both these wineries and breweries do very well for themselves, as do the cheese makers.

    In many regions, the last decade has seen even your corner gas station carying craft beer. My local Hess station has as fine a variety of beer as the best beer pubs, complete with growler fill stations. Even the lowest grocer has a wide variety of fine beer today.

  14. Re:send the mini-shuttle over there to wack it on North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    The catch is that you can't rule out other delivery methods. They could stick one on a ship flagged from some other nation, and drop it in any port city on the globe. That, and a medium yield nuke, in the dozen to hundred kiloton range, exploded over the US, would provide sufficient EMP to knock the country to it's knees economically. The military would still be largely available to return the punch in the face, but the economy? Forget it. Millions would die during the resulting power outage, and millions more around the globe would starve for want of US food exports.

    The same for any nation that took the brunt of the attack. No deaths immediately, but loads of misery and death in the longer term.

    So don't discount their abililty to get this thing into any orbit, no matter how unstable, because eventually it's going to cross directly overhead.

  15. Re:Summary on Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist · · Score: 2

    yeah: guy discovers cloudmark domain blacklist is used by two cloudmark customers. At least, that's my opinion. this information isn't new, this list has been around for years, and you don't get on it easily. It takes multiple reports from multiple accounts before they add you.

  16. Re:Too Late on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: 1

    go fuck yourself dywolf, I'm no racist and even if I was, it would have nothing to do with this situation. He invited people who represent organizations whose stated purpose is racist at it's core. They are actively trying to take over the world, literally, and convert or kill everyone in their path. They stand for slavery, treating women as property, rape as as a hobby and just about everything evil in this world. It's in their fucking literature they hand out at brunch.

    In this case, the job of POTUS is to sick the Marines on them, and blow the rotten bastards to smitherines.

    Unless you want your mother, wife, daughters, sisters, and any other female member of your family to be killed for even looking the wrong way at a boy. Honor killings, something these freaks find completely acceptible.

  17. Re:US Military on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: 1

    Except there's a metric shit ton of evidence that shows the rebels in Syria executing and attacking civilians, executing prisoners, and generally being criminals.

  18. Re:Too Late on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: 1

    this isn't diplomacy, this is war. Do you know the difference? Giving our enemies weapons didn't work out so well for us in the past, did it.

    try not to bury your head too deep in the sand

  19. Re:US Military on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: 1

    what does that have to do with it? We shouldn't be bombing Libya and we shouldn't be rebuilding their infrastructure as a result, thanks for making my point for me.

  20. Re:US Military on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: 1

    we're supplying arms to all of them. we're supplying intelligence to some of them, and we actively participated in some others. We didn't protect civilians from being massacred in Libya, we just sped up the war.

  21. Re:Too Late on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and then the so-called commander-in-chief let those people into the white house! It's an outrage, and he should certainly not be reelected today, he should be impeached starting now, get him out of office before he can negotiate a deal with those terrrorists

  22. Re:US Military on New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The rebels in this case are committing attrocities left and right, they're flying the flag of Al Queda, they're not our friends, and they're not the enemy of our enemy in a way that makes it valuable to help them out. We have no business being in any of these rebellions from Libya all through the middle east.

    That's just insanity and screw you main stream media and leftists and democrats for not screaming bloody murder about it.

  23. Re:Ah... Yeah... on The Survival Machine Farm · · Score: 1

    That little project you just spent your life implementing including medicines, machine tool making machines to make more machines, engines, fuel refineries, distilleries, medical device making (gloves, tubes, sterilizers), chemical plant and all those things would go POOF the second your neighbor who wasn't smart enough to build this project decides he's going to take it from you or burn it.

    In fact, I up the ante by including lasers, big powerful lasers, targetting systems and build an anti-mortar defense system to defend the plant against attack.

    The need to defend it is directly proportional to the value of the project. Something that could boot strap a civilization is priceless.

  24. Re:Ah... Yeah... on The Survival Machine Farm · · Score: 1

    while this particular implementation may be lacking, the concept as a whole is sound and should be supported by local governments and distributed throughout the land. If I had a chance, I would include semi-automatic, automatic and bolt action rifles and pistols both design and manufacture, along with appropriate ammunition, I would also include the resources to smelt and reprocess scrap and ore at one end of the facility, delivering raw slabs of steel of various compositions to the other processes, maybe small diesel engines, wind mills, refrigeration and what not, stuff at the lower end of the civilization boot strap process. Then have a pharma section capable of producing the basic life-saving drugs we rely on today. All in all interesting piece.

  25. Re:Need to take great caution with this on Seattle's Creepy Cameraman Pushes Public Surveillance Buttons · · Score: 1

    have any one of those "almost fascist measures" been repealed since?

    he's been in power 4 years, he could have repealed them all by now.