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  1. Re:utter pointlessness on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    Lets not forget that they would be ridiculously easy to fabricate as well. Just a snip of wire on a tiny lathe, or something along those lines.

  2. Re:utter pointlessness on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 2

    There's a billboard on the way up to Atlanta from Florida: "Strippers... Need we say more?"

    Advertising is never tasteful.

  3. Re:Or just buy a new firing pin on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 2

    We're also ignoring a very interesting question: how exactly would they get this thing to survive more than a handful of shots?

  4. Re:utter pointlessness on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    Because tag plates don't routinely disintegrate after about 30 miles of driving?

  5. Re:Damn! on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 2

    The problem is we want to find some way to link it back to someone when they commit a valid crime, and yet not possible to link it back to someone otherwise. Not exactly an easy problem to solve.

  6. Re:Damn! on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Well, sir, it looks like there were actually 17 shooters, and each one only fired one shot."

  7. Re:Damn! on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    One word: sandpaper.

  8. Re:Oops, not $900 and 2004. on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    Inflation: have you heard of it?

  9. Re:I found a good explanation on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Hearing Aids So Expensive? · · Score: 1

    and the must do something that is computationally expensive (signal isolation in a noisy background)

    Why? Why not just amplify the incoming audio with an EQ curve appropriate to the loss, and let the brain continue to do what it's always done (constantly filter the incoming audio from your ears)

  10. Re:Yay Comcast. on Comcast Refusing To Comply With Piracy Subpoenas · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    (Sun Tzu) > (whatever shit you're quoting)

  11. Re:Don't you mean... on Linus Torvalds Awarded the Millenial Technology Prize · · Score: 2

    You're an idiot. Linux is the kernel. The kernel boots and runs whatever it's told to (usually configured to run /sbin/init). You don't get GNU until that point.

  12. Re:That's *it* for me and Blizzard, man!! on Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live · · Score: 1

    * WARNING: This post has been identified by the State of California to contain spoilers. *

    Who else hated the Diablo model? Totally did not have the feel of the sprite from D1 or D2. I get that it's a mishmash of the other evils, but why so skinny and corrupt-feminine?

  13. Re:That's *it* for me and Blizzard, man!! on Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live · · Score: 1

    I have Torchlight. Unlikely to get Torchlight 2, unless the story is totally different. I just could not stay engaged or care about it. Gameplay wise it's fine, but it takes more than just fun gameplay to keep me hooked.

    Diablo, however, seems to call out to me. I just really enjoy the setting, story, etc.

  14. Re:That's *it* for me and Blizzard, man!! on Diablo 3 Banhammer Dropped Just Before RMAH Goes Live · · Score: 1

    Single player mode is multiplayer, just with public joining disabled. Your friends can still drop in at any time, and you can at any time open it up to the public.

  15. Re:Not (specifically) a Linux problem? on NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop · · Score: 1

    I agree. I'm not sure why all these people replying to me seem to misunderstand what I'm saying. You seem to get it, I think. Or you didn't, but hopefully this here post will point out that I do not believe the OS should be responsible.

  16. Re:Nonsense? on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 3, Informative

    >>Adds anonyo: "The test is of-course nonsense, and notions of 'racial purity' have long been discredited."

    These are two different claims. One is that the test is nonsense, the other is that racial purity has long been discredited.

    That's why the two statements are joined with the word "and"...

  17. Re:Maybe not Gypsy or Jew... on Hungarian Sequencing Company Vets DNA For 'Gypsy Or Jew' Genes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only if by "racist" you don't mean "white person who says anything bad about someone who's not white" and consider it fairly.

  18. Re:Unit cannot be resold as received? on NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop · · Score: 1

    You're not too smart either. You should go back and re-read my post and use your brain a little next time.

  19. Re:Unit cannot be resold as received? on NewEgg: Installing Linux Breaks Laptop · · Score: 2

    How do you expect the CPU throttling or fan speed be controlled with, magic? They have to get their data somehow.

    Though I'd think the BIOS would be able to handle this, at least in extreme ranges where it should be clear the OS is misbehaving. Eg, if the temperature approaches redline, override the OS and cool it down.

  20. Re:Very interesting on Famous 'Uncanny Valley' Essay Translated, Published In Full · · Score: 1

    God, I played the "No Remorse" demo countless times. No idea where I got it from.

    Long time since I managed to play the full versions, but by then they just felt so dated.

  21. Re:Very interesting on Famous 'Uncanny Valley' Essay Translated, Published In Full · · Score: 1

    The screams...

  22. Re:Reminds me of Asimov on Famous 'Uncanny Valley' Essay Translated, Published In Full · · Score: 1

    In the Elija Baily books, there were several times where someone realized something was "off" about Daneel. Usually after the fact, they connected the dots, but I find it interesting...

  23. Re:Chat alternatives... on Meebo Discontinuing All Services Except for Meebo Bar · · Score: 1

    But your point falls flat, as no protocol is useful when the other end doesn't support that protocol. That doesn't need saying, it's carries zero bits of information.

    You get that, and I get that. However, the person I was originally replying to apparently does not. Therefore while the bits it does carry (not zero, just superfluous) are redundant for you, they are not for the intended recipient.

    In my experience, for the last few decades, a mobile phone, that supports voice calls, has been the single mechanism for instantanious communication with the highest penetration (indistinguishable from 100% of all adults). No internet chat protocol has even come close to that bredth of usage.

    Sure, if you don't mind both parties being raped for an international call. IMs cost between nothing and almost-nothing (depending on if you pay for the data transfer... wifi, "unlimited plans" etc)

  24. Re:Yes, there is. on Meebo Discontinuing All Services Except for Meebo Bar · · Score: 1

    Huh, then what's this big "Sign in to the imo Network" that wants a username and password for?

  25. Re:Chat alternatives... on Meebo Discontinuing All Services Except for Meebo Bar · · Score: 1

    My point was that it was not a replacement solution.