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  1. Re:Gun to the Head on Fingerprint Purchasing Technology Ensures Buyer Has a Pulse · · Score: 2

    Blood pressure is a wildly varying metric.

    Try it. Measure your blood pressure at various points of the day over a week.

    I'd also be interested how one might reliably check blood pressure with access to only a finger.

  2. Re:How about O2? on Fingerprint Purchasing Technology Ensures Buyer Has a Pulse · · Score: 2

    Erm, no? HIPAA talks about medical records. If all you're doing is keeping a particular biometric, that would not fall under HIPAA.

  3. Re:Ideology is what it's all about on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 1

    ... because those two companies are the totality of BSD users. Yep.

  4. Re:Ideology is what it's all about on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 2

    Someone doesn't seem to understand the difference between consumer and enterprise, or what MTBF is.

  5. Re:Linus Torvalds is his own worst enemy on Linus Torvalds Explodes at Red Hat Developer · · Score: 1

    In order to love others, one must first love himself.

  6. Re:Another test I'm seeing more of on New GPU Testing Methodology Puts Multi-GPU Solutions In Question · · Score: 2

    UE3 uses some kind of deferred loading. Notice when you first enter the menu and whatnot that everything looks like garbage for a moment - the hitching you see at the start is because of texture uploads to your VRAM and the like.

  7. Re:sounds like a great mythbusters episode... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 2

    There's a difference between skin contact with a good thermal conductor at "normal" temperatures, and sandals against something even hotter than the already ridiculously hot air.

  8. Re:Second type of target... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 1

    And thus the cycle repeats, because you'll get your ass blown up with the asses of those around you.

    Who's at fault? EVERYONE. Stop pointing fingers, because it does not make you any less wrong.

  9. Re:sounds like a great mythbusters episode... on al-Qaeda's 22 Tips and Tricks To Dodge Drones · · Score: 2

    1. Even if you could see that, ROE would prevent engaging because they can't tell if you're a hostile just from your footprints.
    2. You can't do that anyway. You watch too much sci-fi.

  10. Re: translation on CAPTCHA Using Ad-Based Verification · · Score: 1

    If they want to make tracking you a condition of using their site, it's their site so either put up with it or don't use their service.

    Or find a way to bypass it, because once the HTML reaches my computer, fuck you I can do what I like with it.

  11. Re:Usability on Blender 2.66 Released · · Score: 1

    Yep. Nevermind that they overhauled the UI between 2.4 and 2.6, throwing just about everything away in the process.

  12. how bout them changelogs? on Blender 2.66 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    How about linking to the changelog instead of directly to the download page? Or even better, both?

  13. Re:no serial install? on Debian Project Releases 7.0 "Wheezy" Installer Candidate · · Score: 1

    The trouble is that com port may not be correct, or it's parameters. You can try to choose sensible defaults, but the fact is they won't work everywhere.

  14. Re:First purchase on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    You said ripe, not rip. I know what you meant, I was just being silly.

    You also said "and protection training an aggressive dog is useless / dangerous" which means.. don't get a protection trained dog? Which is it?

  15. Re:Cellphone companies suck even more on White House Petition To Make Unlocking Phones Legal Passes 100,000 Signatures · · Score: 1

    I used to live in Maine. I know what the weather is like near the border, and I want no part of it.

  16. alarm system and burglar bomb on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    Burglar Bomb.

    That is all. (it's hooked into your alarm system, and releases tear gas)

  17. Re:First purchase on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    1, what does it mean to "ripe" someone's face off?

    2, every lovable dog I've known would love an intruder as well, or just hide.

  18. Re:Ironic on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 3, Informative

    Spread spectrum and frequency hopping are two different things. You seem to be mixing them up or considering them the same thing.

  19. Re:Ironic on US Stealth Jet Has To Talk To Allied Planes Over Unsecured Radio · · Score: 1

    Yes, they use spread spectrum for a variety of reasons. The frequency hopping is also "secret" and is related the key (word of the day).

  20. Re:no serial install? on Debian Project Releases 7.0 "Wheezy" Installer Candidate · · Score: 1

    You can. You just have to roll your own CD image, or boot from PXE or the like so you can pass arguments to the boot kernel.

  21. Re:Wrong wrong wrong on Debian Project Releases 7.0 "Wheezy" Installer Candidate · · Score: 1

    Thank you for the correction, soulskill. Please do slap Timothy with a large trout for us.

  22. Re:Hands in the air, drop that Prince of Persia on CT State Senator Wants To Ban Kids From Using Arcade Guns · · Score: 1

    Guns project pieces of metal at high velocity. Why someone would want to do that has nothing to do with it.

    Some of us enjoy doing so to master the skills/controls required to do it accurately. Not all of us wish or would kill people (or even animals) with them.

  23. Re:Sane politicians on CT State Senator Wants To Ban Kids From Using Arcade Guns · · Score: 1

    Part of the problem is that sane and responsible people do not want such jobs.

  24. the subject field on CT State Senator Wants To Ban Kids From Using Arcade Guns · · Score: 1

    is not the appropriate place to start the body of your message.

  25. Re:pedophiles on CT State Senator Wants To Ban Kids From Using Arcade Guns · · Score: 1

    A majority must, because these shitheads keep getting voted in.