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  1. Re:it could have been an accident on Germanwings Plane Crash Was No Accident · · Score: 2

    So what you're saying is that...it's possible?

  2. Re:Hmmm .... on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    I think the founders would be laughing their asses off at the idea that the local baker should be forced to make products his religious beliefs don't support.

    But it's not just the baker refusing to bake a cake with two male figures on top. It's the potential to allow the baker to refuse to sell a plain loaf of bread to two male figures because he doesn't agree in gay marriage. Or a gas station refusing to sell fuel. Or a doctor refusing to provide medical treatment.

  3. Re:Make some noise on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. Discrimination is unjust treatment due to some characteristic. In the case of poison, thieves, murders, rapists, and stupidity, the justness of choosing the alternative is deserved.

  4. Re:I will never attend another GenCon on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    People should be able to serve whom they want and I refuse to bow down to the tyranny of the minority

    Doesn't GenCon have just as much right to express who (and where) it wants to do business with that the businesses who want to discriminate do? If the state is going to put it into law that a business can object to doing business with someone who goes against their religion, why can't GenCon say we choose not to do business with the state?

    It probably won't affect you too much, but add Alcoa, Eli Lilly, Cummins, and Sales Force to the list of companies who won't ever patronize because they all wrote similar letters to the governor.

  5. Re:Do It, it worked in AZ on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    Please cite specific gyms, clothing stores, medical centers which refuse to business with men for services that would be applicable for men. For everyone you post, I'll likely be able to post an example of the same type of business being sued and winning a discrimination lawsuit.

  6. Re:They have the freedom to leave it they want on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 2

    Pedophilia is illegal. Being gay isn't. Big difference.

    And it's not just about producing something "gay" (e.g. a wedding cake with two grooms on the top). It also would allow discriminating a gay couple from buying a regular sandwich at a deli, or a drink at a coffee shop just because of their marital status. It's a license to discriminate.

  7. Idle threats? on Gen Con Threatens To Leave Indianapolis Over Religious Freedom Bill · · Score: 1

    Put up or shut up. Instead of saying that the law will factor in to the decision making process, directly tell them that it will not be in Indianapolis or anywhere else in Indiana if the law is passed. Tell them that the law will automatically disqualify the city and state from consideration. And then follow through with it if not also try to get out of the existing contract should Pence sign the bill. Anything else is just an idle threat and won't be taken seriously.

  8. Re:Let me guess on $1B TSA Behavioral Screening Program Slammed As "Junk Science" · · Score: 1

    It's "Allahu Akbar". Allah Ackbar was the deity that Admiral Ackbar worshiped.

  9. ipfw/dummynet on Facebook Engineering Tool Mimics Dodgy Network Connectivity · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So they reinvented what was already available and much more flexible with ipfw/dummynet?

  10. Re:Four times the speed not twice. on Apple Doubles MacBook Pro R/W Performance · · Score: 1

    Isn't it kinda arguing semantics? Can't you argue that the speed has doubled (500 -> 985MB/s), as well as the number of lanes, but your bandwidth has quadrupled.

  11. WTF on The First Billion-Pixel Mosaic of Mars · · Score: 4, Funny

    I want to punch whoever designed that page. You know you can scroll horizontally too in a web browser...

  12. Re:Meh on Costa Rica Goes 75 Days Powering Itself Using Only Renewable Energy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Right, you guys use hydro 365 days of the year. But not exclusively hydro generated electricity. There are several fossil fuel power plants, several dozen off-grid diesel plans, more than few wind farms, and a couple of biomass.

  13. Re:Kill dogs, why not people??? on WHO Report Links Weed Killer Ingredient To Cancer Risk · · Score: 1

    And if you reread your parent's post, it was specifically pointed out that in the studies animals are either injected or they ingest the chemical as part of the studies.

    I have no idea as to the medical or biological results of those studies, but I would think that a dog grooming themselves would be sufficiently covered during testing by injecting and/or ingesting it.

  14. Re:How well forethought of dice on OS X Users: 13 Characters of Assyrian Can Crash Your Chrome Tab · · Score: 1

    Did Dice ditch unicode support? I thought the slash code always had issues/didn't support it, long before Dice acquired them.

  15. Re:Godaddy are thieving wankers dot com on GoDaddy Accounts Vulnerable To Social Engineering (and Photoshop) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know if Godaddy speculates under Domains By Proxy, but Domains By Proxy is what they also list any account that has enabled the "whois privacy" feature to mask their contact information. It's possible you were just a victim of bad luck.

  16. Re:I just don't care on FTC: Google Altered Search Results For Profit · · Score: 1

    Blame that on your phone maker. My Galaxy S4 running a Google Edition rom I can move the search bar where ever I want, or even remove it.

  17. Re:Or we just stop buying Cisco. on To Avoid NSA Interception, Cisco Will Ship To Decoy Addresses · · Score: 2

    Anytime the Cisco account manager stopped by or called.

  18. Re:People sell their new phones on Apple May Start Accepting Android Phones As Trade-Ins · · Score: 1

    TMobile here is like that here in the US. Cheaper plan and if you want to finance your phone, you can split your phone up over up to 24 payments interest free with the option of early payoff.

  19. Re:Oh, for Pete's sake. Not again! on Not Quite Dead: SCO Linux Suit Against IBM Stirs In Utah · · Score: 2

    That's the technical truth, although it is qualified. Judge Dale Kimball was the primary judge that heard the consolidated cases. There were 4 other earlier cases against RedHat, AutoZone, and DaimlerChrysler that were initially heard by other judges but didn't go anywhere in SCO's favor. There was at leats one magistrate judge I thought that dealt with some procedural and "lesser" matters on Kimball's behalf. There is also a federal bankruptcy judge and then this new judge. There's even more if you include appeals court judges that told SCO to STFU.

  20. Re:Personally I wouldn't put my eggs in one basket on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Domain Name Registration? · · Score: 1

    If the shit hit the fan at your domain registrar, your hosting may be useless anyways if you rely on that domain name as your business front. And if your hosting disappears, you'll have your backup that you can move to a new host. Right?...

  21. Re:NameCheap on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Domain Name Registration? · · Score: 1

    Or...pay better attention to where your domains are expiring, especially if they are tied to a commercial venture.

  22. Re:Sped up videos. on New 3D Printing Process Claimed To Be 25X Faster Than Current Technology · · Score: 1

    No, it doesn't say it will replace injection molding. It says it combines it:

    In theory, it could combine the flexibility of 3D printing with the speed and strength of old-school injection molding

    FDM printing is very flexible since molds don't have to be made, but quite slow in the actual production due to slow speeds and layer by layer construction makes them not as strong. Injection molding is very inflexible due to molds having to be made, but once they are made, very fast in production and strong.

    What this is, in theory is somewhere in between the two extremes. It prints much faster than FDM, but not as fast as injection molding. It's as flexible as loading a new file so almost anything is possible as quickly as you can design it without any expensive molds.

    No, it's not going to be as fast as injection molding for creating a single tooth brush. But what if you wanted to custom mold a bunch with a dentist's name? Or maybe the technology expands and it can produce 100 or 1000 at a time so it expands better than injection molding. Or it's a very complex shape that's not conducive to injection molding.

    A more real life example was my company wanted to make some flash drives in the shape of our product that has a distinctive wave on it. Quotes came back in the $3000 range just for the mold, and then individual costs of about a buck for the actual plastic. We needed about 250 of them. Even if it took a little longer and the cost was 10 more, we'd still be cheaper off with this type of a manufacturing technique.

  23. Re:Sped up videos. on New 3D Printing Process Claimed To Be 25X Faster Than Current Technology · · Score: 1

    For something for rapid prototyping, the printer is going to be a fraction of the cost to buy and to operate. The mold alone for an injection molder can easily be multi-thouands of dollars and that's for a relatively simple mold.

    I can't comment on this printer but I've used other 3D and SLA printers. Maintenance consists occasionally replacing a build plate or reservoir if it should become damaged. Maybe a bit of water or cleaning solution and a rag to wipe it down, and a bit of lubricant for moving parts. Pretty much the same requirements that a hand operated injection molder would have, and far less than a mechanical injection molder.

    The problems with making a 3D printed mold for used as an injection mold is that the 3d printed object won't withstand the pressure and heat that a machined mold would tolerate. It would be like asking to make an ice cube tray out of ice. There are 3D printed molds similar to lost wax or foam casting. 3D printed parts often aren't as smooth and polished as a machined mold to produce a very smooth final product.

  24. Re:Sped up videos. on New 3D Printing Process Claimed To Be 25X Faster Than Current Technology · · Score: 1

    How long did it take you to machine your mold? What was it's cost? What was the cost for the 2nd or 3rd mold when you had a design change and wanted to make another prototype?

  25. Re:Wow, that's a lot of money on Tor Project Aims To Eclipse US Government Funding · · Score: 1

    It prints new money for most of what it spends.

    The actual federal budget revenue for 2014 was $3.02t, expenditures $3.5t, and a deficit of $483b. Under which accounting system is $483b "most" of $3.5t?