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  1. Re:Why is CP illegal? on FBI Hunt For Child Porn Thwarted By Tor · · Score: 1

    From what we know, an ended life experiences no suffering past death. Child abuse potentially robs young people of mental well-being from the psychological trauma for the rest of their lives. You may consider continued existence to be above all else...but what of living the rest of your life condemned to post-traumatic misery? The numerous victims of such abuse that have committed suicide would - if they still walked this Earth - beg to differ.

  2. Netcraft has to confirm it, though.

  3. Re:Don't you get it? on Apple, Google: Battle of the Cloud Maps · · Score: 1

    Caching and tracking aren't mutually exclusive. If anything, better caching will reduce Google's server/bandwidth load. Which, incidentally, frees up more resources to do important stuff like tracking you.

  4. Re:So basically, freedom is only for the elite? on BitTorrent Traffic Falls In the U.S. · · Score: 1

    We free the not-stupid ones. Makes our job way easier.

  5. Re:This presumes the waste is undesirable... on MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles · · Score: 2

    Even if most condiment manufacturers find it more cost-effective to skip on the coating (for whatever reason), there are bound to be at least a few that use it to set themselves apart as a superior product.

  6. Re:fearmongering on Americans More Worried About Cybersecurity Than Terrorism · · Score: 1
    I think you're both arguing different things.

    Science lies in the realm of that which we can observe and measure. The things that are by definition unobservable and thus unprovable must be articles of faith; even if argued logically they must require an irrational link somewhere. As a man of science and faith, I find it a tragic mistake to conflate the two.

  7. Re:I've used the LRAD... on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 1

    I can neither confirm nor deny that Justin Bieber was only in prototype form during the 2007 surge, and its use was a grey area in terms of the Geneva Conventions.

  8. Re:I've used the LRAD... on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I did a AMA on Reddit about this last year.

    It most certainly did, though I was just a guy on the ground. Bucca was a "temporary" solution that became too permanent for its own good - it was oringinally a UK POW camp set up for the invasion that was slated to be closed until the Abu Ghraib fiasco. For most of these facilities, the prisoners weren't legally prisoners but detainees that were being held until they could be sent to the Iraqi civilian courts for trial or simply released based on intelligence. By '07 most detainees' families were actually receiving stipends from the US government for lost income. A shitty situation to be in, nonetheless.

    Most of the "bum city" pictures you see were from when the camp was re-opened around '05. By the time I arrived in '07 there were permanent structures in my compound - big caravans (sheds) with industrial-sized air conditioning. During Ramadan a few of our detainees were upset that we moved known insurgents to another compound...so they burned down their caravans (rubber bullets, tear gas and LRAD definitely did not stop them from pulling that off). They loved doing this when we would re-build the caravans after a big riot...but that time around, we decided that maybe they wanted tents after all.

  9. Re:Really putting out the welcome mat on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 1

    Most of those "army types" you see smacking down protesters are paramilitary police - armed to the teeth, more trigger happy and less disciplined than actual fighting forces.

  10. Re:Four Year Games on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 1

    Bread and circuses.

  11. Re:I've used the LRAD... on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The LRAD is hardly experimental, and I'd rather listen to it up-close-and-personal again than get pepper sprayed again. If the law enforcement types over there have any sense they won't subject peaceful protesters to this (knowing most cops, they probably will). Of course, if I were a protester I'd have a camera (or CCTV, it is London after all) on hand and be ready to capitalize on any perceived police brutality to further my cause.

  12. Re:I've used the LRAD... on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 2

    It was at Camp Bucca, where the vast majority of the compounds were open-air and larger than a football field. The LRAD's effective footprint was only a small part of an entire compound, and I do believe a hundred rioting detainees qualifies as a crowd-sized target.

  13. Re:I've used the LRAD... on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 1

    Depending on the hearing protection used the LRAD would have to be much closer to really have any disorienting effect. What it will probably do is cause all those without earplugs to scatter away from those that do, if directed at a spot in a crowd like that.

  14. Re:I've used the LRAD... on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Anything that loud can cause hearing damage. It won't fuck your eardrums up like an actual shock wave from an explosion or flashbang, but standing in the beam without earplugs (we never used it for more than 30s or so at a time) sure won't help your tinnitus - my ears rang briefly after someone in my compound accidentally pointed an LRAD in my direction, but there was no lasting hearing loss. It's annoyingly loud outside the beam, but in my experience not deafeningly loud like an rock concert.

  15. I've used the LRAD... on Britain Bringing Out 'Sonic Gun' For Olympics Security · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...while conducting detainee operations (prison guard) in Iraq. It's basically a five-hundred watt directional speaker shaped like a big flat disc that can play back a shrieking wave (sounds like a modulated sawtooth from what I can remember) that's so loud that you'll feel your bones rattle if it's pointed at you - even from a hundred meters away. While we usually used it as a big megaphone, the disruptive tone was really only effective in surprise or as a threat. In compounds where certain idiots used the LRAD repeatedly, the detainees eventually learned to ignore it.

  16. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Planetary Resources Confirms Plan To Mine Asteroids · · Score: 1

    According to the retrieval mission concept from Caltech's KISS, the rock will be parked at a Lagrangian point or lunar orbit.

  17. Re:Mordor Perspective... on LotR Rewritten From a Mordor Perspective · · Score: 1

    sed 's/hobbit/large-footed halfling/g' lotr.txt > pc_lotr.txt

  18. Re:Is there an IRC chat bot? on CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time · · Score: 1

    It's not meant to make sense :D

  19. Re:Is there an IRC chat bot? on CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time · · Score: 1

    [im_alone]: i want u

    [Joanie]: who speaks to wait for yourself

    [im_alone]: :)

    [Joanie]: erik stop saying lol

    [im_alone]: want to love u

    [Joanie]: antelope

    [im_alone]: comeon

    [Joanie]: i dont rule europe

    [im_alone]: what u saying?

    [Joanie]: i can swim for fighting t he are welcome

    [im_alone]: lolz

    [Joanie]: habeeb it!

    [im_alone]: cute

    [Joanie]: teach my pants back today

    [im_alone]: i want to see u nude

    [Joanie]: ofcourse

    [im_alone]: can i?

    [Joanie]: if you like extracting it if you can breed a german bourgeoisie, it, at my tv on, for the sale of the pressure was offered to hear how can breed a room and more, its a long wished-for opportunity was wondering if i have fun

  20. Re:Is there an IRC chat bot? on CMU Web-Scraping Learns English, One Word At a Time · · Score: 1

    http://samy.pl/mvsbot.pl A markov chain-based unintelligent chatterbot. I run a modified version of the above bot on certain popular networks. With automated replies to anyone who PMs it (simple enough to do, the linked bot is public only), it's awesome bait with a feminine nick and an automated "18/f/cali" reply to "ASL?" Make sure you "teach" it a bit first before unleashing upon the deranged masses.

  21. Re:Actually, there are no girls on the internets on Girl Gamers More Hardcore Than Guys · · Score: 1
    One can easily take advantage of that with a Perl script learning via markov chains and a feminine nickname...

    [im_alone]: i want u

    [Joanie]: who speaks to wait for yourself

    [im_alone]: :)

    [Joanie]: erik stop saying lol

    [im_alone]: want to love u

    [Joanie]: antelope

    [im_alone]: comeon

    [Joanie]: i dont rule europe

    [im_alone]: what u saying?

    [Joanie]: i can swim for fighting t he are

    welcome

    [im_alone]: lolz

    [Joanie]: habeeb it!

    [im_alone]: cute

    [Joanie]: teach my pants back today

    [im_alone]: i want to see u nude

    [Joanie]: ofcourse

    [im_alone]: can i?

    [Joanie]: if you like extracting it if you can breed a german bourgeoisie, it, at my tv on, for the sale of the pressure was offered to hear how can breed a room and more, its a long wished-for opportunity was wondering if i have fun

    Automated trolling at its finest!

  22. Re:Clever? on Harvard's Robotic Bees Generate High-Tech Buzz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah, insect puns really tick me off.

    That's like saying arachnid puns bug me.

  23. Bandwidth saturation? on 802.11n Spec Still In The Air · · Score: 1

    I understand that this offers more bandwidth than a traditional 10/100 wired netowork, but what about local bandwidth? With this your LAN traffic is getting broadcast over airwaves, and if enough folks in your vicinity use this won't it crowd out the frequencies and subsequently lower performance?

  24. MOD PARENT UP! on EU Proposing Mandatory Battery Recycling · · Score: 1

    I have been looking for a place to recycle my dead batteries for quite a while, and this is good news! Thanks!

  25. Re:Sure way to burn bandwidth on SpaceX Successful Static Fire · · Score: 3, Funny

    Pfft...I bet they can harness the server heat for fueling the launch!