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  1. Grip Safeties on Using Technology To Make Guns Safer · · Score: 1

    "Note that gun safety features (not universally loved) like grip safeties, have been available in some form and in various combinations for many decades."

    Grip safeties have been around on guns a long time. The 1911 has one, and that is a 100+ year old design that is still in prominent use today.

  2. Flawed Mirror on What Will NASA Do With Its Gifted Spy 'Scopes? · · Score: 1

    I wonder if these also have the "Flawed Mirror" that the Hubble had.

    I also wonder if that flaw helped the telescope view the earth rather than the stars.

  3. Re:Thoughts on What Will NASA Do With Its Gifted Spy 'Scopes? · · Score: 1

    Never attribute to malice, what can be easily explained by incompetence.

    These telescopes are still here, on the ground. This makes me assume they were *never* in space, as retrieval would be very costly, and apparently pointless if they have no use for them.

    They either have several more up in space, or they were never able to get them up and running in the first place.

  4. RAID 5 NAS? on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event? · · Score: 1

    Switch to RAID 6. Or some wother format with dual parity drives. With the size of drives now-a-days it is pretty likely that another drive will die as you are populating a fresh replacement drive on RAID5.

  5. Re:Why MS logo on the header? on Data-Fed Monitoring System Will Put New Yorkers Under Police Surveillance · · Score: 1

    FTA: "It’s a potential moneymaker for the city, which will earn 30 percent of the gross revenues on the sale of the platform to other customers."

  6. Re:Why MS logo on the header? on Data-Fed Monitoring System Will Put New Yorkers Under Police Surveillance · · Score: 1

    They built the system FOR the NYPD.

    They also are doing some sort of a profit sharing venture with the NYPD on this software.

  7. Sensational? on Defcon Researchers Build Tool To Track the Planes of the Rich and Famous · · Score: 2

    What does "rich and famous" have to do with anything?

  8. Re:Now see, it's hyperbole like this on Is There Still a Ray of Hope On Climate Change? · · Score: 0

    All winter they tell us not to look at short term, localized temperatures. Now that it is warm, the summer's heat is proof of anthropomorphic global warming.

  9. Re:Tell me slashdot... on UCLA Develops Transparent, Electricity-Generating, Solar Cell Windows · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It is impractical because the cost to manufacture the solar cell is much mroe expensive than the energy it will create over the lifetime of the cell. (*assuming it is like every other solar product.)

    It WILL work when the cost of the solar cell goes down; or when the cost of every other source of energy rises.

  10. Pay to be Poor on Economists: US Poverty On Track To Hit Highest Level Since 1960s · · Score: 1, Interesting

    When you pay people to not have jobs... what the fuck do you expect?

  11. Re:Free Speech on Executive Order Grants US Gov't New Powers Over Communication Systems · · Score: 1

    Agree or not, they have had the power to limit speech for a long time.

    "Clear and present danger is a doctrine adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States to determine under what circumstances limits can be placed on First Amendment freedoms of speech, press or assembly."

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_and_present_danger

  12. Re:Dear President Obama, on Executive Order Grants US Gov't New Powers Over Communication Systems · · Score: 1, Informative

    I am sure many would express that parent's sentiment, regardless of this article or its summary.

  13. Best Way? on Ask Slashdot: How Does Your Company Evaluate Your Performance? · · Score: 1

    "What's the best way to survive this type of system?"

    Overperform.

  14. Re:Analogy fail on Verizon Claims Net Neutrality Violates Their Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    So, if I rent a room in your basement I can do WHATEVER I want while I am down there?

    Of course not. If you don't like Verizon (or any other companies) Terms of Service, then find a new provider. It is as simple as that.

    The .gov has very little Constitutional proscribed power to regulate contract law between two individuals.

  15. Re:free speech as a double edge sword on Verizon Claims Net Neutrality Violates Their Free Speech Rights · · Score: 1

    Your freedom of speech IS NOT eroded if someone else doesn't let you use their equipment to make your proclamations.

    If you don't like their Terms of Service, then find another provider's equipment to use.

  16. Re:It's all very logical see on Book Review: Permanent Emergency · · Score: 5, Informative
  17. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You assertion that "general welfare" grants broad powers shows that you are willfully ignorant of the facts.

  18. Re:Back, to the Future... on HP Shows Off Power Over Ethernet Thin Client · · Score: 1

    I'd imagine there are not many consumers (or even pro-sumers) looking for a PoE Thin Client for there home office.

  19. Re:Looking ahead.. on Samsung TVs Can Be Hacked Into Endless Restart Loop · · Score: 1

    You mean like the Kinect? Video and Audio.

  20. Re:How does the MTBF scale? on US Small-Scale Nuclear Reactor Industry Gains Traction In Missouri · · Score: 1

    Mass-produced at the factory vs. onsite building may mean a more skilled/careful workforce, reducing construction defects.

    I guess you've never worked in a factory. ;-)

  21. Re:Smart people can be dumb on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 2

    Some judges, in upholding this type have activity, have stated that it IS unconstitutional. But the good outweighs the bad (in their mind) so they allow it.

  22. Dove Hunts Are Legal on Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group · · Score: 1

    I've been looking at SC's DNR book.

    It seems dove hunting is entirely legal. But from what I could gather is that the season ended Jan 15 in most zones, earlier in some.

    I must assume, lacking any information in the article; is that this was a private hunt on private property of birds raised to be hunted. Which is also entirely legal.

    How the fuck does some "animal rights" group get to have a say?

  23. Re:Great news! on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 2

    Nationwide, public transportation accounts for somewhere around 1% of road traffic.

    Spend those dollars on something that will improve transportation, like lane-miles.

  24. Re:No More Nuclear Waste Siting Problem? on US Approves Two New Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    You could make a "dirty" bomb, that would give people radiation poisoning and cancer, but strapping the spent fuel rods to another explosive.

    You could not build a traditional high-explosive nuke bomb or missle.

  25. Re:I Guess This Means ... on Anonymous Posts Audio of Intercepted FBI Conference Call · · Score: 5, Informative

    They have not developed the ability to intercept FBI calls.

    They have developed the ability to read their emails, in which the credintials for logging into a phone conference are in plain text.