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  1. Re:No Clinton No Bush on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    And if you cut them all tomorrow with no other plan, you'd spend that or more quelling the rebellion.

  2. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    The Founding Fathers would not have allowed home inspections of firearms.

    Yet wrote and passed the Alien And Sedition Acts. Owned slaves, and did other things that he modern revisionists ignore when quoting WWtFFD

    It was a civic duty to have a firearm to start with as that qualified you to be part of the militia (even if you didn't have a firearm you could still join, but then you had to find someone to give you one).

    I've never seen that requirement in the definition of "militia". And your wording is odd. You must either have a firearm or have a firearm (by gift/loan) to join the militia. Seems it would be easier to say "must have a firearm to be a member of the militia." Though the current definition has no relationship to armament. And it's impossible to find a good 1776 definition, as they are all tainted by the modern gun rights war (one way or the other).

  3. Re:Another failure on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 1

    For example, 1366x768 alone represents around a quarter of displays.

    And that's likely based on 720p resolution. I didn't say they'd have exactly the same resolution, but would be based on each other. 1366x768 is 720p in 16:10 (with a few extra pixels thrown in to keep the 768 number, so as to not be so obvious that your new monitor is a cheap TV screen with 1/4 the pixels my phone has.

  4. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    Just like it's impossible to commit suicide with a car in the US. The statistics may allow for that in "other", but the official federal statistics, FARS, refuses to include suicide as a cause of a fatal crash. If you write a suicide note, detailing how you'll drive the wrong way on the Interstate until you hit someone head-on, and you'll not wear a seat-belt, and want to die. If you have a beer or two to work up some courage (and are still within the legal limit), when you die, the cause of the crash will likely be listed as "speed related" and "alcohol related" while not acknowledging it was a deliberate act of suicide in any way.

    The statistics minimize suicide in the US. It's a Puritan thing.

  5. Re:Another failure on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 1

    DVI was higher sooner than HDMI, but DVI stopped progressing, and HDMI did progress. For a period, DVI was far superior, as long as you didn't need audio.

    When computer monitors drove resolution and tech, DVI was king. Now that everything (including laptops and desktop monitors) are based on TV resolutions, HDMI has won.

  6. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    22 unintentional firearm deaths
    408 being murdered by a parent/family member

    So none of the murders were by firearm?

    Seems the statistics are manipuated, by both sides, to show the story they want. When everyone's lying to everyone else, you can't look at either side.

  7. Re:No Clinton No Bush on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    How many primaries are closed? I remember when I first voted in Texas, the primaries were open, then the Republicans closed theirs. I left before the Democrats closed theirs, and don't know if the Republicans ever un-closed theirs. And they weren't "closed". They were closed to registered democrats, but not closed to undeclared/undecided.

    In Alaska, you can pick either ballot equally after you sign in. Regardless of who you are registered with. In Texas, many liberal people registered Republican because many races were unopposed, so if you didn't vote Republican in the primary, you didn't get a vote.

  8. Re:No Clinton No Bush on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    I find the real nuts to be the crowd who thinks we can borrow as much as we like, while completely ignoring inflation.

    That's called "conservative fiscal policy".

    The "nutters" on fiscal policy were the ones that wanted to eliminate funding to hundreds or thousands of programs that would have left millions in such bad shape that an armed revolt would be a reasonable response for many.

    The nutters are the ones that say they want something, the do the opposite. That's why I think most pro-life people are nutters. They say they want fewer abortions, then campaign against condoms and sex ed (two things proven to reduce abortion rates).

  9. Re:No Clinton No Bush on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    I believe here, Jeb Bush is referring to LBJ's ability to get bipartisan support for his legislation.

    LBJ would have been as effective as a president as Carter was, except for the "do it for the Dead Kennedy" subtext to everything he did.

  10. Re:Another failure on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 1

    I've been using DVI for higher resolutions than HDMI, since before HDMI was widely available in computers.

  11. Re:Hmmm on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 1

    The only real way I can see right now to physically secure this MacBook is to put it into a locking metal enclosure and use a keyboard/mouse/monitor with it...

    The Apple answer is "It's so light, you secure it in your bag." IF you are installing it in a permanent location, why are you using a MacBook?

  12. Re:Wrong author. on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    That won't stop them from getting a conviction from one of the 300. After all, CSI has taught us that evidence never lies.

  13. Re:RTFA on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    No, it's just that there is a lot of construction theft in Alaska, and they put up cameras to cover the cameras. It'd be impossible to get to a camera, or camera power, without taking out a neighborhood, or getting caught on camera. The same thing could be used by others. a 120 degree FOV camera tucked into a 90 degree corner will prevent anyone from sneaking up on it to disable it.

  14. Re:And that's half the story on MH370 Beacon Battery May Have Been Expired · · Score: 1

    If the suicidal pilot theory (broadly) fits the facts, why do hijackers have to get thrown in too?

    You posited that the suicidal pilot (broadly) fits the facts. Such an act is a hijacking. You are the one asserting hijackers.

  15. Re:And that's half the story on MH370 Beacon Battery May Have Been Expired · · Score: 1

    If the suicidal pilot theory (broadly) fits the facts, why do hijackers have to get thrown in too?

    Because a suicidal pilot is a hijacker. He took it where it wasn't supposed to go. That is all. Your theory requires a mythical hijacker. The only disagreement is how many and who.

  16. Re:RTFA on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    Everywhere I have lived, to do so would require walking a plain path to that location, unless you do something like climb the neighbors roof and jump off their roof over the fence. So any reasonable camera placement would cover anyone entering my property who doesn't climb 5+ fences to get there.

    It doesn't matter how easily you can walk there and disable the camera, if you are caught on camera first. That's who most camera placements that can be "snuck up on" have a camera pointed at that camera. Nobody can take out all the cameras without getting caught on camera.

  17. Re:Bullshit on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    It is in many places. My sister's car was stolen. The cops only cared to know where to send the bill from when they towed it for being illegally parked when the thieves drove it out of gas and abandoned it.

  18. Re:Bullshit on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    How many thousands of pounds do you think should be spent tracking down a 20 quid pushbike?

  19. Re:Seriously? on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    Yeah, getting out the message, "If you are going to install CCTV, make sure the angle captures useful things" is such a stupid message. He's like Mr. Bean meets Maxwell Smart.

  20. Re:Wrong author. on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    No, even a full match is a problem. You don't need to have an overlay of them and have it match 100%. That'd be impossible, as most fingerprints are on a flat surface, and the same print won't be 100% identical every time. So they look at points, and use those for a match. a 1/1,000,000 match sounds good, until you realize they ran it through a database of 300,000,000 prints, so statistically, you'd expect 300 or so matches. And they just ruled out the people that were the wrong race, until they found someone in the list of 300 that looked enough like the suspect that one bad witness ID, and jail for life, off a single bad database match.

    Without a database, they were great. We think the crime was an inside job, so we printed the 10 employees, and Bob matched the print we found. There's almost no chance that a random person would match, so it is a form of proof he did it. But matching to a database is a bad idea because you'll get hundreds of matches, and every one of them will be a suspect. And no evidence, other than a fingerprint with 299 false positives.

    Worse is that every contact earns a place in the database. I didn't have an FBI file, until I asked for my file to verify one way or another. Now my prints are on file with the FBI because you must submit your prints to get an answer as to whether you have a file. They are also on file with the State of Texas, and I think with the State of Alaska as well. So I could be one of the unlucky 300 who is a one-in-a-million match.

  21. Re:Wrong author. on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    When I moved out of the Insane States of America, I was uneasy that I landed in a country where "name suppression" was the norm. But then, for reasons such at this, it is a great idea. Some politically or racially charged crime? Don't identify the person suspected and arrested until convicted. It violates free speech, but upholds innocent until proven guilty.

  22. Re:Life Imitating Art on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    I'll happily wait for a subpoena. And I'll send them a bill for $500 for archival retrieval.

  23. Re:RTFA on Scotland Yard Chief: Put CCTV In Every Home To Help Solve Crimes · · Score: 1

    How? My lines are burried, with no external access until you are well onto the property. To cut my lines without digging up the street, they'd have to cut the neighborhood, or spend more time and money breaking in than they'd be able to sell all my stuff for.

  24. Re: Frankly, fuck shit like this. on Make Those Brown Eyes Blue · · Score: 1

    Then you could cause it with this. Which eye would you like blue?

  25. Re:Filed under... on Make Those Brown Eyes Blue · · Score: 1

    That sounds like the merged face will clear blemishes. Perhaps if you merged the faces, keeping, or increasing the blemishes on any one face, you'd get the opposite result, proving it was a study on blemishes, not symmetry.