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  1. Re:Define "working" on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 3, Informative

    What did you expect from a 25 dollar gun that is in its beta stage?

  2. Re:Why not just 0? on NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Last three times I almost had an accident was because of a buxom woman in either a low top or shorts. So add that to the list.

  3. Re:Related question on Ask Slashdot: Do You Trust When a Vendor Tells You To Buy New Parts? · · Score: 1

    older car with turbo and regular oil in rough environment I could see a 2,000 or even 1,500 mile oil change routine.

  4. Re:so... on Biometric Database Plans Hidden In Immigration Bill · · Score: 1

    Does not include the possibility of switched blood at birth. or chimera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)#Human_chimeras or even artificial change of blood dna via bone marrow transplant or some miracle type event http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hDSMTLf9ZPhxPRc0vqBgvc9NEFRw

  5. Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 1

    Odd I have about five friends who have prevented crimes with firearms without ever firing a shot. The mere sound of a shotgun being racked was enough to stop breaking in and entering. Even if you think about it makes sense. A criminal wants something for nothing. A criminal considers your life worth nothing. When the stakes are higher as in the threat of loss of life to the criminal a criminal will not take the chance. This is also why having a dog in your house is better than an alarm system. As well as most mass murder events in the US have occurred in areas where firearms are restricted.

  6. Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 1

    It's about training. If you don't train your kid to keep their finger off the trigger and safety off when walking around the house then yes your chances of random gun discharges when asking them to pickup a loaded weapon increase substantially. When my mother was a little girl she hunted rabbits with a .22 at age 8. She never accidentally shot anyone and provided food for the house. There are a ton of 30 year olds I would never trust with a firearm around me and there are bunch of 8 year olds I would have no problem with. It's about proper training and respect for a firearm. By the way, your chances of dieing are greater with a trained doctor than by anyone with a firearm in the US.

  7. Re:Barrel and slide/bolt too? on 3D-Printed Gun May Be Unveiled Soon · · Score: 1
  8. Re:Oh boy. on Microsoft Ad Campaign Puts a Hotspot Inside a Magazine · · Score: 2

    Because he would be looking at the magazine too.

  9. Re:That doesn't mean it wasnt jammed on Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing · · Score: 1

    9/11 is a perfect example of a double attack. The second plane hit was timed to get news coverage and kill emergency service personnel responding to the scene. Another good one is the Bath school explosion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster He blew up his truck specifically to kill first responders and kill wounded. In Vietnam snipers would wound a person then kill anyone that came close. In Iraq and Afganastan I hear some cell phone IED are set up as a double tap with one going off and then next timed to kill people responding to the disasters. I hear road bombs are set the same with one to the side of another so if a truck goes around an explosion area it drives into another one. It makes sense to a terrorist to attack the people helping victims. Terrorism is about fear and attacking people helping, or victims spreads more fear.

  10. Re:That doesn't mean it wasnt jammed on Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing · · Score: 0

    I'm no expert but from what I understand terrorists like to do a double tap kind of damage where you have initial trauma than follow that up with more trauma to anyone coming in to assist the fallen. Putting a jammer up after an initial bombing attack could stop a secondary detonation and actually help track who built the devices.

  11. Re:Use SMS in emergencies on Boston Officials Did Not Shut Down Cell Network After Marathon Bombing · · Score: 3, Funny

    After Katrina I had a friend who was worried about their father and could not get through the cell network. I recommended SMS she got through but all he said was call me.

  12. Re:Cool story bro. on TSA Log Shows Passengers Say the Darndest Things · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem with zero tolerance is the world is not black and white. true the large number of people saying they have a bomb as a joke should get the full treatment. But just asking if your searching for a bomb, or do you think I have a bomb is not a threat or should even be treated as one. The comment "I hope the residue doesn't show up on the test." is just as innocent. The could be a miner, a farmer, special effects expert, fireworks technician, or just gone shooting. That is not a threat. Asking questions or non-threatening statements should not cause an airport to be shutdown or criminal prosecution.

  13. Re:For Fuck's Sakes on Scientists Create World's First 3D-Printed 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    " intellectual value of the internet drops 90% on april 1st" It's the internet dropping the intellectual value is like dividing by zero.

  14. Re:Correct me if im wrong on NetWare 3.12 Server Taken Down After 16 Years of Continuous Duty · · Score: 1

    They were probably running it out of pure curiosity on when it would fail. I've seen another company running a netware 4.1 for the same reason. Doesn't even have tcp still using ipx.

  15. Re:Brainstorming on LazyHusband Smart Phone App Compliments Your Wife for You (Video) · · Score: 2

    Think you forgot Honey I have a headache. Do you think she is pretty? I saw you looking at her. How do I look in this? Does this dress make me look fat? Do you know what today is?

  16. Re:Knows and Presumes are not the same thing on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1
  17. boneless chickens on Man Has 75% of Skull Replaced By 3D-Printed Materials · · Score: 1

    Now if only they could use technology for the boneless chicken industry. Those poor chickens have been suffering for a long time.

  18. Re:Trauma on Man Has 75% of Skull Replaced By 3D-Printed Materials · · Score: 2

    Think I met someone like that at the DMV.

  19. Re:Conspiracy! on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 1

    I don't see how "plethora of people who flock to the emergency room" raises it. I've seen a number of people flock to ER and Clinics and they get charged to high heaven to be there. I had an emergency clinic visit and got one prescription nurse took my vitals and saw the doctor for for five minutes 150 dollars. I saw ten people in the waiting room. I was there for half hour. That is a very profitable business model. Properly run that should bring a significant income to any business. As far as what was lost on that visit was 1 tongue depressor, one ear scope cover (disposable) Three pieces of paper, some paper on the table I sat on and four rubber gloves. Pay for 4 people (admin, nurse, doctor, janitor) and the facility.

  20. Re:Conspiracy! on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 2

    I've been to the hospital a number of times with friends. I've seen a number of screw ups from sexual assault ( male nurse found I was watching the girl and disappeared) to the wrong armband being put on a patient after she had been there for three days. I want to have my records, because if anything is wrong in there I will be pay for it with my life. Not the doctor that goes home at the end of the day, not the nurse that is wondering if her makeup is good enough, not the hospital administrator that is willing to raise the insurance payments. Me, I have to live with any inaccuracies, I am the one who knows what happens every day of my life and can apply that to what is in those records. It is ultimately me who pays for it financial and health wise. I should be able to see all of it. I should be able to ask questions. I don't care if it list ED if I have ED but I will be pissed if it lists it and I don't. I saw a guy that lost a job because his medical record had him listed as clinically depressed because a MD prescribed an antidepressant for its side effect. I need to be able to clean those items up. I need to be able make it lists the proper blood type or the proper allergies or even a DNR.

  21. Re:Conspiracy! on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 2

    no lets let him suffer in pain from an obvious axe wound because years ago we abused our prescription regime and got him addicted to oxycotin and have no evidence of him trying to get any lately.

  22. Re:Conspiracy! on Most Doctors Don't Think Patients Need Full Access To Med Records · · Score: 1

    I really don't have a problem with how much Doctors are paid. I have a problem with hospital prices, I understand the cost of doing business but the amount of admin overhead in hospitals is outrageous. I blame government bureaucracy spilling over into health care for most of that. But I don't think I should be charged 7 dollars for an aspirin. or 19 dollars for a bandaid. As well most medical research is pointed at patented solutions as opposed to the solutions that work just to have the income. Having an expensive heart medication on the market for decades that doesn't work and may cause heart failure but never pulled or ever prosecuted by the FDA is crazy. I can see the need to have money for research but your really need to change your business model if its killing people.

  23. Re:20,000+ people got a free lesson! on FTC Goes After Scammers Who Blasted Millions of Text Messages · · Score: 1

    I have found the opt out process is usually pretty vague. on the order of being hidden in the basement of the headquarters office, fallen behind the back of a file cabinet guarded by a Siberian tiger and artfully touched up with bit of chewing gum. Or seven pages into a website at the very bottom of five screens of scrolling under a hyperlink marked "other". or a telephone number that is only answered by one lone guy in India between the hours of 2:015 and 2:17am

  24. copper wire on Russians Find "New Bacteria" In Lake Vostok · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it runs away from heated copper wire?

  25. steadystate on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Set Up a Parent's PC? · · Score: 1

    Setup her system with windows xp with steadystate. When she wants to make changes once a month come in as admin and make the changes to the system. But remember it is dangerous to have your parents on the internet. Do your best to Keep your parents off the internet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9R-2X9Bl5w