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  1. Re:This tech works both ways. on Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    The path to 'invisible' remains 'tequila'.

  2. Re:Tour de Cheat? on Tour de France To Use Thermal Cameras To Spot Cheats (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Cross country skiing is as bad a cycling.

    IIRC there was an Olympics where they applied new tests about a year afterward and recalled all the medals (in one event anyhow, the long one). I think they should have given them out to the end runners that were 'clean', that has to take dedication and deserves recognition.

  3. Re:What about drug testing? on Tour de France To Use Thermal Cameras To Spot Cheats (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    Your a trusting person aren't you?

    We will never know the politics behind Armstrong being made an example of.

    I bet you believe cross country skiing has the roids under control too?

    They all just have new roids that the test isn't finding.

  4. Re:"Artistic similarity"? on Activision Abuses DMCA To Take Knock Indie Game Entirely Off Steam · · Score: 1

    M14? No.

    I saw something very similar on an 'MP-5' civilian semi and also on a AR-15 'pistol'. Both owned by the same dude, who liked to shoot at targets 15 feet away with his scoped 223 pistol, using the scope...I digress.

  5. Re:What next? on Activision Abuses DMCA To Take Knock Indie Game Entirely Off Steam · · Score: 1

    It won't be that obvious in any case. When 'sampling' another 3d asset you are always going to have to morph the meshs, to bring the parts together at the edges. But a lazy thief will reuse bitmaps fragments, just color swapping etc.

    The real problem is that the COD models are really silly game model weapons. One has the distance between butt and trigger at about 15% of the weapon length, you'd fall over forwards. The Orion model is the best shown.

  6. Re:I'd like to see more of this on New Apps Let Women Obtain Birth Control Without Visiting a Doctor · · Score: 1

    The AC I responded to was talking about wanting flexeril OTC. I'm just suggesting a nice beer etc as an available 'generic' OTC muscle relaxer.

    Assuming beer is a med for you, not a poison. YMMV

    If muscle relaxers aren't what you need, find another excuse. If you need one.

  7. Re:I'd like to see more of this on New Apps Let Women Obtain Birth Control Without Visiting a Doctor · · Score: 1

    Ibuprofen is not as liver toxic as acetaminophen, but it is liver toxic. High doses, with a booze stressed liver are/can be an issue.

    I should have mentioned acetaminophen/paracetamol, but I guess I more or less assumed nobody on /. would touch the stuff. That and the GP specifically mentioned Ibuprofen.

    If/when you drink like a fish, make sure you make taking a reasonable dose of all the water soluble vitamins (Bs, C and D) part of your hangover recovery process. Your liver will thank you. Ideally take a multivitamin with the water you drink _before_ you sleep it off.

    Do gooders want to add the water solubles to wino wine, say it would only cost a penny a bottle. Until the winos find out and switch to something else. You'd have to make it be 'any drink or grooming item costing less than $.25 per dose of booze'. You'd end up with vitamin in the mouthwash.

  8. Re: It's simple, like everything else! on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Stanger with untraceable cash. So yes. Most murders go unsolved.

  9. Re: It's simple, like everything else! on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I demand you show me the million, then kill you (corner of the box to the temple) take the money and run.

    Most ethical possible outcome. Person going around conspiring to kill people is dead, hazard is mitigated. I have the money!

  10. Re: News at 5... on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    And kids pull on 'invisible ropes' every halloween. Should autonomous cars be programmed to stop? What if the kids have improvised a very weak but visual rope (e.g 30 feet of tied together clovers)?

    My take on GPs point was that idiots standing in the middle of a road, right next to a cliff are going to be fucked. As they should be.

    Ten idiots putting themselves at risk should not cause a car to kill it's occupant. Even if the car 'sees' the idiots are going to die and has an available bridge abutment to 'brake' with.

    They should let me program the autonomous cars. I once saw two kids standing in the middle of the road, waiting for cars to slow, then getting out of the way at the last second (they were a little way up the road when I saw their trick). When they tried it on me, I grabbed a gear and made them run.

  11. Re:News at 5... on Drivers Prefer Autonomous Cars That Don't Kill Them (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Original 'Death Race 2000' scoring system. It has everything in principle. Points for both difficult and uncommon 'scores'.

  12. Re:I'd like to see more of this on New Apps Let Women Obtain Birth Control Without Visiting a Doctor · · Score: 1

    Beer is a great muscle relaxant. Don't mix with ibuprofen.

  13. Re:I'd like to see more of this on New Apps Let Women Obtain Birth Control Without Visiting a Doctor · · Score: 1

    3-4 beers is the functional equivalent of a flexeril for me.

  14. Re:British equivalant of 1776 US revolution on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    Better off narrowing the river channel and letting the current scour the bed deeper. The 'standard' way of keeping a river navigable in the USA.

    As a bonus the current takes the sediment down river and out to sea, or at least the next slow (presumably deep) part of the river.

  15. Re:definitely due to the rise of the populist righ on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    A century from now they will ask 'What's a muslim?'

    Not because we genocide them. Because they pumped all their oil and are back to humping camels full time.

  16. You can buy all kinds of Euro options in the USA. You are just wrong on the facts.

  17. Once Obama is out the UK will be welcomed into NAFTA.

  18. It's too late. The others are going.

  19. In other words, the Scots are truly fucked beyond repair. They will run out of North sea oil just at the time they realize they are losing money on every renewable project.

  20. I doubt an independent Scotland can meet the budget restrictions. Greece got away with it, but the EU isn't going to let anybody else cook their books.

  21. Until the UK is accepted into NAFTA. After that the EU's bargaining position is much weaker.

  22. Re: Of course the spin is people are... on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    Will the rate of leavers dying exceed the rate of stayers getting smart?

    You'd have thought the hippies would have taken over by now...

  23. Re: Of course the spin is people are... on In the Aftermath Of Brexit, Brits Google About Irish Passport, Meaning Of EU, and Why it All Happened · · Score: 1

    By a strange coincidence in 10 years it will be the 40-50 year olds, according to this AC.

  24. Re:Cute on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 2

    Because far away government is best? Fuckwit.

  25. Re:Cute on Web Petition For 2nd EU Referendum Draws Huge Interest (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Stop the sufferaging!