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  1. Re:Video link on Liquid Armor the New Bulletproof Vest · · Score: 1, Insightful
    "Bullets bounce off? That would transfer more momentum to the armor than if the bullets simply stopped."

    No, it wouldn't. In simple terms, if all of the energy in the transaction comes from the bullet, then the bullet bouncing off means that *energy is being given back to the bullet*, and unless you're breaking a lot of the laws of physics, that means less energy/momentum is being transferred to the target.

  2. Re:1.21 gigawatts on Using Electricity to Heal · · Score: 2, Funny

    And for those less technically oriented..that's pronouced "JIGGA-watts"

  3. Re:Problems like this are easily solved on 'Hot Coffee' Scandal Officially Resolved · · Score: 1

    Bravo. You're good at this polar fighting thing....troll.

  4. Re:re on OS Router Challenges Proprietary Networking · · Score: 1

    The Tony Orlando of open source networking???

  5. Re:Problems like this are easily solved on 'Hot Coffee' Scandal Officially Resolved · · Score: 3, Insightful
    You talk trash about liberals, some/most of which likely don't believe what you're implying that they do, and yet still have the nerve to act like someone else is trolling beside yourself. You ever stop to think that every goddamn one of us is a mixture of liberal/conservative, republican/democrat all in one, that we all have a wide variety of beliefs, that even some democrats are NRA members, that some republicans would like to balance the budget, etc...... unless we're really, really retarded?

    I know you're trolling, but to a certain extent it is your right to raise your children however you want. It certainly shouldn't be the government's job! Just don't try to tell a libby that.

    Nope, never crossed your, lack of, mind. Keep up the fight to make sure we're all ignorant and polarized against one another so we can be distracted from the real problems that do NOT involve political affiliations.

  6. Re:How difficult is it. on SQL Injection Attacks Increasing · · Score: 1

    I was about to make a point along those same lines though I don't know if I'd say it's the programmers or SQL in this case. I mean by now SQL should have had a function that could sanitize data automagically; set a flag that data for such-and-such field is possibly going to be user input and then let it do the work for you. I've done some coding creating my own database software that could do all that sql, postgre, etc. are capable of and it never presented such problems no matter how hard I tried but I thought about the security first then worried about efficiency and while I'm sure that mine wouldn't handle large loads at this point, it also wouldn't compromise my system.

  7. Re:I'm all for being an earth concious consumer... on Congress Passes Energy Efficient Server Initiative · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That soo does not surprise me from the man who helped sign into law that a packet of ketchup would be considered a "vegetable" for school lunches. So frenchfries + ketchup = 2 vegetable portions...riiight. And who was surprised that Reagan had Alzheimer's?

  8. Re:I'm all for being an earth concious consumer... on Congress Passes Energy Efficient Server Initiative · · Score: 1

    That'd never work, the USPTO ruled long ago that they wouldn't take applications for perpetual motion machines..;)

  9. Re:Precedent? on Apple Ends Anti-Blogger Legal Effort · · Score: 1

    Someone mod the parent +Insightful...it's not just "interesting", sheesh, it's much more than that.

  10. Re:If the job... on Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy · · Score: 1

    WTF!?!? Is someone retarded at the moderation controls again?!?!? Overrated?!?!? How do we report abuses in moderation besides with meta-moderation?!?!?

  11. Re:great! on Headset Uses Bone-Conduction Technology · · Score: 1

    It's only a "brick" because these are being developed by a small company and size is not an issue for their market. The circuit is so simple that it could fit inside a headphone speaker, with room for the speaker, if it were miniaturized. But we point at the moon and others still choose to look at our fingers.

  12. Re:If the job... on Patriot Act Bypasses Facebook Privacy · · Score: 1, Informative

    googling "site:facebook.com" says differently. It's also possible that archive.org was a player in this as well(haven't checked the way-back machine to find out yet).

  13. Re:Also more prone to abuse on FBI Planning New Net-Tapping Push · · Score: 1
    "Some pissed off or nosy cop or FBI agent can't simply search your house or tap your net connection and so on."

    Actually this just happened in my home town. A cop had his neighbor's house searched for drugs because he had "a lot of traffic" but the cop didn't bother finding out that the guy was handicapped and it was his family/friends visiting him. They busted down his door, claimed to have a warrant, started searching his place to the point they started ripping furniture apart and found...nothing. When it was all over it was discovered that they didn't have a signed warrant and the only thing they could get him on was some parking ticket he never had paid.

    That was the local police, what do you think an FBI agent would be like if he thought that your fertilizer(cow manure even) was for making bombs instead of the garden you just tilled up? I can hear his inner voice now "well he has all this explosive making stuff and his skin is awfully dark(farmer's tan).....do I call in for a warrant and be safe legally.......or DO I SAVE A LOT OF LIVES???"

  14. Re:great! on Headset Uses Bone-Conduction Technology · · Score: 2, Informative
    Why they(the people who invented the device in TFA) bothered, I don't know but here's a device that lets you hear through your skin, it is NOT bone conduction. http://neurophone.com/

    I actually have one of these and they work as described.

  15. Re:Oh! Can I Please Be the First?!? on eBay Bans Google Payments · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ".....but eBay will try to make it as clunky as possible."

    If I hadn't been reading more astutely I would have thought you were talking about Ebay's website...ahem.

  16. Re:Racism on Western Union Blocking Money Transfers to Arabs · · Score: 1

    .....and some would want us to believe that only rednecks are prejudiced bigoted heathens, thanks for proving that wrong.

  17. Re:Way to go Canada on Bone Marrow Cells Repair Heart · · Score: 1
    If I understand it correctly, the doctors make a recommendation that X amount of blood(or whatever) is needed and it's around that time that the parents start objecting, etc. so it's less of asking for consent and more of watching for those responses to the suggested medical procedures. I don't know though, I'm neither a doctor nor a social worker.

    I'm sure that parental rights could be restored but not before the medical procedure was performed. You'd need incredible amounts of power in the government to get a response THAT fast.

  18. Re:Is this a surprise? on AP Looks at Piracy, Misses the Point · · Score: 1

    hey, it's all good. It's just a common mistake. I'm never saying that copyright infringement is the right thing to do, only that it's not theft in the legal sense. I actually wouldn't know any of that if someone else hadn't posted it and I did my research but it's a good thing to know and a good distinction to make.

  19. Re:scary on FBI Password Database Compromised by Consultant · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you're aware that according to law, the police, etc. are NOT sworn to protect you from harm and in most cases you can't sue them if a loved one is killed or injured due to negligence, action or inaction on their part. It's true. "To Protect and Serve" is just an illusion. Most states even have statutes that clearly illustrate this attitude.

  20. Re:Is this a surprise? on AP Looks at Piracy, Misses the Point · · Score: 4, Informative
    Actually, according to the US Supreme Court, piracy is NOT theft.

    They clearly distinguished between copyright infringement and theft in a 1985 case, where they said, "(copyright infringement) does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud... The infringer invades a statutorily defined province guaranteed to the copyright holder alone. But he does not assume physical control over copyright; nor does he wholly deprive its owner of its use."

  21. Re:Way to go Canada on Bone Marrow Cells Repair Heart · · Score: 4, Informative
    Dunno where you live but here(I'm in KY), the moment you say you refuse to allow treatment for the child in a life threatening situation, for whatever reason, the child becomes a ward of the state and all of your parental rights are suspended. They simply file claiming child abuse and then go about their own way regardless of your religious affiliation. Refusal to comply beyond that jeopardizes custody of any other children you might have. I've seen this in action at least 4 times in the past 10 years and my friend in social services says it's entirely legitimate.

    You can refuse immunization, etc. but if it's a life threatening situation the game changes entirely. Many states have this, AFAIK.

  22. Re:Amazing... on 1.50 Downgrader for 2.50/2.60 PSPs Released · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't qualify that with "most". MOST of us(ok, I'm not one, I refuse to buy anything by Sony at this stage of the game) actually like playing with hardware and making it do things it wasn't originally designed to do. MAKE magazine is a shining example of this attitude.

  23. Re:Chris... on Mysterious Website Actually Social Experiment · · Score: 1

    I was about to point that out myself. Funny that nobody has bothered reading it.

  24. Re:Yeah. on ISPs to Create Database to Combat Child Porn · · Score: 1

    That's redundant since most ISP's ARE your "email service". Maybe it doesn't work that way where you're from but all the ISP's I've worked with manage their own mail servers.

  25. Re:Hmmm place camera in a tube on Prototype System Blocks Digital Cameras · · Score: 1
    I was thinking the same thing. A combination of filters and tubes would make this incredibly ineffective. Or, and I like this one a lot more, one might use an IR LED/light near the camera's lens, if bright enough this actually will somewhat blind the detector's ability to see and detect the camera. Push the volume/channel button on your remote control while pointing at any camcorder(IR capability or not) and you'll see what I mean. It's damn bright but nobody can see it.

    I would think it would be easier and more accurate to detect the EMF from the camera's internal circuitry and target that.