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  1. Re:false positive rate on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    Spam is flawless for me. Important, however, seems completely random and I'd love to turn that functionality off completely.

  2. Re:Browser Reminders on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    You know, it is technically possible to run a proper browser and still have IE8 on your system?

  3. Re:How about letting us easily see unread messages on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just connect your email client via IMAP?

  4. Re:itunes fault? on Google's View On the Whac-a-Mole of Blocking Pirate Sites · · Score: 1

    It's more like the phone directory.

    If you don't publish your number in the appropriate services section, you can't complain when other plumbers get all the business, can you?

  5. Re:Gnome3 on Fedora 19 Beta Released: Alive, Dead, or Neither? · · Score: 1

    Hey, hey.... it's Network Mangler, and don't you forget it!

    (seriously what's with the local DNS resolver bullshit? /etc/resolv.conf and leave it the fuck alone)

  6. Re:hypocrisy on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 1

    Cooking does not destroy prions. The same level of heat required to do that would destroy all the other protein as well.

    Correct butchering can mitigate it however - specifically keeping the blood-brain barrier intact by avoiding breaching the skull, dura, and spinal cavity.

  7. Re:hypocrisy on PETA Wants To Sue Anonymous HuffPo Commenters · · Score: 1

    Or any neurological tissue - you know, like the ones spread throughout the body?

    As well, if they have (or have had) any kind of cranial or spinal injury, the prions could be in the blood, lymph, or other tissue.

  8. Re:fish-eye lens on CurvACE Gives Robots a Bug's Eye View · · Score: 1

    I can't find the article now, of course... but I recall that there was recent work being done on an imaging technique that uses a compound lens. The lens has no "focal length" in that the entire image is sharp, and the distance of every point is known from the single optic device (no need to use binocular vision (or more, or other sensors) to infer the range, as each input from each part of the lens contributes)

    Computer vision could have a field day with that.

  9. Re:Problem on Meet the 23-Ton X-Wing, the World's Largest Lego Model · · Score: 1

    It makes more sense to me that you might classify something as a "wing fighter" while referring to the organizational term, rather than the component that the fighter clearly doesn't have.

  10. Re:Anyone stupid enough to use AT&T on AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans · · Score: 1

    Apparently none of my devices are GSM, then.

  11. Re:Roach Motel - Free Wifi on Cockroaches Evolving To Avoid Roach Motels · · Score: 1

    You forget rod cells.

  12. Re:Roach Motel - Free Wifi on Cockroaches Evolving To Avoid Roach Motels · · Score: 1

    Here's another interesting point...

    Our eyes are not particularly good in the dark, and yet at maximal dark adaptation, a single photon can trigger a response on the optic nerve. All it takes is that a photon cross and interact with a rod cell.

    That's a pretty low energy event for us to detect... so based on that alone I toss out the "too low energy to be useful" aspect.

  13. Re:Similar observation with ants on Cockroaches Evolving To Avoid Roach Motels · · Score: 1

    No, that's called selection pressure.

    Evolution is what happens over the long term when selection pressures are applied.

  14. Re:Problem on Meet the 23-Ton X-Wing, the World's Largest Lego Model · · Score: 1

    You both know "wing" is the name of a group of fighters, right? Not just the component?

  15. Re:cover certain expenses.. on AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans · · Score: 1

    How does that work once your contract is terminated?

  16. Re:Anyone stupid enough to use AT&T on AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans · · Score: 1

    SIM card? What's that? I haven't seen one of those in a phone in years, over here.

  17. Re:Surcharge on AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans · · Score: 1

    That would be a credit card, not a cell phone bill.

  18. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    But I thought your problem was the violence, not the injury? Just because he got stabbed or beaten instead doesn't mean the violence was any lesser. If anything it may have been worse - more savage.

  19. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    What you don't seem to grasp is removing the gun doesn't remove the violence.

  20. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    That's why you come up with some way to pull the trigger remotely :)

  21. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    You flare the start of the barrel and make the cylinder a mating shape to it, and press the cylinder into this flare as part of the trigger pull.

    This forces them into alignment and also forms somewhat of a seal, allowing less energy loss.

  22. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Seems like you could just 3d-print patterns for investment or lost-media casting, too. In fact, this guy does it in his yard.

  23. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    Please tell me when the last time a party other than the Republicans or Democrats held any significant power.

  24. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    No, taking guns away is not the "easiest way" because it does precisely nothing to prevent violence.

  25. Re:3D-Printed Revolver? on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    You seem to (incorrectly) assume that gun means pistol.