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  1. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    That seems like an acceptable tradeoff for the military who do not need target accuracy I guess.

    You can't keep the chamber empty? Does it take that long to rack the slide?

    I own guns, but no pistols so I do not know.

  2. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    So any polluter who is poor is judgement proof brilliant!

    So I setup a corp to do the polluting that I hire to haul my toxic waste away and never pay enough to stay afloat!

    Which misses the other issue I was thinking you would avoid. Sometimes money cannot fix what has been done. No amount of money will make a brownfield into a farm again, nor replace a watershed or another ecosystem. Regulations exist not just to punish, but to also prevent things from happening in the first place.

  3. Re:Without a cookie, you cannot log in on UK Cookie Consent Banners Draw Complaints · · Score: 1

    Sure so I need a cookie on Slashdot, Amazon and I don't often use webmail so that would be about it.

    The other 90% of webpages I don't login too, I do not need them tracking me or advertising things they saw me look at on amazon.

    I think that outside of shopping and sites I log into, I do not want cookies.

  4. Re:Groklaw is biased, read FOSS Patents instead on Apple's Pinch+Zoom Patent Invalidated By Preliminary USPTO Ruling · · Score: 5, Funny

    Florian Mueller we know that is you. Go away.

  5. Re:Modern Shunning on Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener · · Score: 2

    So you believe "befehl ist befehl"?

    Signing up to work for the TSA, is supporting that system. With no employees it would not function.

  6. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    So if I am too poor to hire a lawyer my injuries are worthless?

    Or if the cost to each person is very low, but the total cost is high, no punishment for the violator.

    Wow, some real genius level ideas there.

  7. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    Which is a problem for the Army, but not civilians.

    20 minutes wasted is worth doing the job right, never mind the increase in safety.

  8. Re:The one and only new gun law... on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    I am only suggesting what we already do for felons.
    Yes, of course due process would have to be involved.

  9. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    They like the first one, but hate that last one.

    To find out more, just ask how they would deal with a coal burning power plants emissions for example.

  10. Re:Computers in Guns? on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    That is one heck of a bad design.
    Please make our safety system useless to properly clean the device.

  11. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    They say that, but find one that actually agrees to do so. Libertarians operate on the concept of a mix of fantasy land utopia and the common "fuck you, I got mine" principle.

  12. Re:Step 1... on UK Cookie Consent Banners Draw Complaints · · Score: 1

    Because an easier solution would be to not use cookies?

    There is no benefit for their use to me on 90% of the pages I visit. No targeted advertising is not a benefit, it is the opposite.

  13. Re:android browser on UK Cookie Consent Banners Draw Complaints · · Score: 1

    Golf clap.

  14. Re:Most users are not geeks on UK Cookie Consent Banners Draw Complaints · · Score: 1

    That is the real DO NOT TRACK, that is what should be made default in browsers.

  15. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    How do you get a cleaning rod in the breech? Are they advising you clean from the bore?

    The Army is probably more interested in speed than safety. Civilians have the luxury of taking their time.

    I add disassembled to that when moving a firearm or some other way obstructed. A chamber lock in a shotgun for instance.

  16. Re:Computers in Guns? on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1, Informative

    Why and when do you have to dry fire to clean? Why does the gun have to be assembled to do that? If not why are you not depressing the catch with another tool?

    Why can you not purchase inert ammunition for dry fire exercises?

    Dry fire activities should be taking place only at the range or other place safe to fire said weapon and pointed at a target. Please tell me you are doing that. ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED, RULE #1.

  17. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 0

    Name one amazing thing.
    I read it I found none. Only very slanted writing.

    The farmer was breaking the law owning that weapon and shot people who were not a direct threat to his life, yeah those are crimes. It also uses isolated examples of England and London which have far more differences than just gun control from the situation in the USA.

  18. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    Firearms are cleaned breech to muzzle/bore, when doing it properly assuming modern firearm design. No way to get the cleaning rod in the breech if a round is loaded.

    This of course does not exclude operator error.

  19. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    I am only offering one fast way to make it fairly useless and useful again quickly. While avoid the use of a safe, which some people object too.

    Not right now you do not, but storing it loaded and ready to fire should not be allowed around children and others who are not competent. Why not just use a safe? Even with the safe you should be sure not to allow those folks access to it. Which recently someone failed to do.

  20. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    That is likely because they can leave those cities to get those guns.

    Now go compare to other countries like EU nations that have strict national gun control.

    I own guns, but it is far too easy to get one in the USA. We don't even have a national way to find out if you have ever been committed.

  21. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    So learn to field strip the 1911. It can be rendered useless to useful and back again inside 1 minute.

    People have done this blind folded.

  22. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    This!

    If you can't see in the chamber, it is loaded. If you looked away from the chamber for a second, it is loaded. Until it is in little metal pieces, it is loaded.

  23. Re:Computers in Guns? on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The odds of you needing the last shot are damn near 0 in exchange for a simple safety measure many handguns already have.

    How many firefights have you been in exactly? and if that number exceeds 0 why have you not moved?

    Before you try flaming me as some gun-grabber, I do in fact own guns.

  24. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 0

    Pro-corporate libertarians hate that concept. If they did not they would agree everyone must insure against health problems and that companies should never be allowed to externalize costs.

  25. Re:Missing the point. on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 3, Informative

    RULE 1 is not violated when you clean a firearm. If you understand it means operational firearms. Aways disassemble before cleaning. Rule 2 is the same. Until the weapon is in pieces that pose no more danger than bits of metal, do not point the end that goes bang at anything you don't want destroyed.

    Besides, shot "cleaning a gun" often means no one wanted to admit to it being suicide.