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  1. Re:Small correction on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Non-Obnoxious Outdoor Lighting? · · Score: 2

    ERROR: Null reference exception. penis is null.

    You really should have checked to see if that property was populated before using it.

  2. Re:Mechanical designs cannot be copyrighted on Copyright Drama Reaches 3D Printing World · · Score: 2

    How can you print the object if you don't have permission to have a copy of the plans? Seems like copyrighted plans would prevent us from even having to argue about the resulting object.

  3. Re:Creative Commons on Copyright Drama Reaches 3D Printing World · · Score: 1

    It's free for you to use. It's not free for your company to use. See the difference?

  4. Re:And then in a thousand years on Star Wars City Doomed By Sand Dunes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I thought it was normal for construction workers to take dumps all over the property and unfinished buildings?

  5. Re:And the story is...? on TSA Orders Searches of Valet Parked Car At Airport · · Score: 1

    Their expansion beyond airports is very worrying as well : /

  6. Re:Isn't this already done by computers? on Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels · · Score: 1

    That doesn't sound like brute force though. That sounds like a formula.

  7. Re:And the story is...? on TSA Orders Searches of Valet Parked Car At Airport · · Score: 1

    It was not quite as small of an explosion as you are imagining. It killed so many people because of shrapnel (some falling), concussion, and fire. There were hundreds of wounded too. People died(or were wounded) up to 100meters away (down the street). The line of IP applicants was 20m from the car. There was no car left, pretty much just the engine (which was pushed something like 10m from where the bomb went off). Nearby cars were not drivable. The few nearby cars were crushed by the shockwave, punctured in many places, and set on fire by the explosion. Polish fire trucks from the nearby allied FOB put out the fires.

    Valet is usually located near the entrance to where you are going. I'd say people are likely to be standing near any entrance. I'd also say that his argument was not the location of the car being important but that a car makes a poor choice as a delivery vehicle. I was just simply pointing out the one of the most successful attacks (that i know of) was via car, not truck or van. Does that mean the TSA should be inspecting cars now? I'd say no. Though the cars may be on airport property they are nowhere near the airplanes (which is probably the whole reason the TSA came into existence). Put the Valet drop-off away from anything important and don't worry about it : )

    You are right though. If someone wires up a car and the car is stored in a parking facility void of people, i doubt anyone would get hurt. Inspecting any vehicle in that kind of situation is an extreme waste of funds.

    Off-topic: I wonder if these kinds of discussions earn us a record in some NSA/FBI sponsored page-scraping project? Probably : /

  8. Re:And the story is...? on TSA Orders Searches of Valet Parked Car At Airport · · Score: 1

    This was caused by a mid-sized 4 door car. People were walking by it and nobody could tell it was packed with an IED.

    I do agree that a quick examination of the trunk and back seat should be plenty good enough. But do you want that to be the Valet's job? I personally think it's not worth the effort to do any inspection at all. Just wanted to point out how deadly a car could be : )

  9. Re:Penalties on HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player · · Score: 1

    If you make it, i'll sign it.

  10. Re:Come And Get It If You Can on Citing Snowden Leaks, Russia Again Demands UN Takeover of Internet · · Score: 1

    It's also likely a black-flag comment too : /

  11. Re:linus is frank on Kernel Dev Tells Linus Torvalds To Stop Using Abusive Language · · Score: 1

    I don't think it was civil that got him ranting. He really didn't like the word "professional".

  12. Re:I'm sure there is a drought in space joke somew on Tiny Ion Engine Runs On Water · · Score: 1

    When i think of life-support i always think about submarines and the ISS. Subs go down for months at a time and failure is very news worthy. I don't see why a habitat cannot be built on Ceres. The ISS would die without constant resupply though. There is no environment to work with there : / Solar power is about the only thing they get.

  13. Re:Expensive AV waste of money. on Business Is Booming In the 'Zero-Day' Game · · Score: 1

    geez, i updated this thing last year! how much maintenance does this thing need?!

  14. Re:WTF? on Business Is Booming In the 'Zero-Day' Game · · Score: 1

    Also, when can there be a physical response to a non-physical attack?

  15. Re:Someone's got some s'plainin' to do... on Whistleblowing IT Director Fired By FL State Attorney · · Score: 1

    Ah, but he was fired for being incompetent. Totally unrelated.

  16. Re:So sue 'em. on Whistleblowing IT Director Fired By FL State Attorney · · Score: 1

    I think most businesses have that one covered : )
    (matching inflation is not a raise)

  17. Re:Li-ion on 787 Dreamliner On Fire Again · · Score: 1

    or your cellphone, tablet, and laptop

  18. Re:Western WASP blames chink. on Gladwell's Culture & Air Crashes Analysis Badly Flawed · · Score: 1

    If you establish a pattern of the ground crew messing up or the 777 crashing short of the runway, i will agree with your point : )

  19. Re:That's ok, because... on Gladwell's Culture & Air Crashes Analysis Badly Flawed · · Score: 1

    Fat-ass war-mongering, garbage consuming, instant gratification obsessed, and overly sensitive prudes. Okay, we're good now. Americans are also too tactful at times. Being candid can come off as rude, yes. But rude and honest is better than nice and lying (usually).

  20. Re:Nevil Shute worried about this problem in 1940' on Gladwell's Culture & Air Crashes Analysis Badly Flawed · · Score: 1

    Did you perform the ritual oil change exactly as prescribed by the holy manual? Ah, good. The machine god is pleased with your dedication.

  21. Re: Fuck 'em on Researchers Now Pulling Out of DEF CON In Response To Anti-Fed Position · · Score: 1
  22. Re:One word. Steam. on How DRM Won · · Score: 1

    Steam replaced the install media. If you want you can use the back-up function to create a physical disk to install from. But Steam won't be mailing you install disks anytime soon.

  23. Re:Fuck 'em on Police, Copyright Industry Raid Movie Subtitle Fansite · · Score: 1

    I think that's about the same as saying that someone making fan-art derived the picture from the film. AFAIK they can make and sell fan art as long as they aren't using any of the franchise trademarks.

  24. Re:Really?!? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 1

    and its citizens are the employees? What does that make the prisoners? the clients? lol

  25. Re:Really?!? on Orson Scott Card Pleads 'Tolerance' For Ender's Game Movie · · Score: 0

    That doesn't sound like a good soldier to me. You are suppose to question orders. After the questions are resolved, you follow them. How else do get the commander's intent? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intent_(military)