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  1. Re:most should have been donated on Unabomber Property Up For Creepy Online Auction · · Score: 1

    there is a shortage of the ability to quickly identify and arrest those with ASPD who are harming others

  2. Re:Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, on Zuckerberg Only Eating Animals He Personally Kills · · Score: 1

    wrong, head shots with a .22 sometimes aren't fatal. Seen it a few times myself on friend's farm. Even humans have survived a head shot with .22. Do the humane thing and use a large caliber with wide wound channel.

  3. Re:Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, on Zuckerberg Only Eating Animals He Personally Kills · · Score: 1

    where do people get the absurd idea that firearms kill instantly? sometimes they seem to immediately incapacitate, other times the animal runs away or stands while bleeding out for many mintes. I've seen cattle take a head shot at point blank range and stand there while blood spews out.

  4. Re:Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, on Zuckerberg Only Eating Animals He Personally Kills · · Score: 1

    you have some kind of idealistic world between your ears, with incorrect assumptions about firearms. If you shoot an animal, even in the heart, it may be many minutes before it dies after running away. Even a head shot may not be immediately fatal (I've seen this both while hunting and on my friend's farms). Sound suppressed firearms make loud noises; I've fired suppressed weapons.

  5. Re:Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, on Zuckerberg Only Eating Animals He Personally Kills · · Score: 1

    sounds like vegetarian talk, an unnatural lifestyle for humans.

    . omnivores eat meat, deal with it.

  6. shut yo' ignoran mouff!! on RadioShack Trying To Return To Its DIY Roots · · Score: 2

    Most stores DO carry the LM555, the one near me does.

    http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2062596

    In a hurry, in a pinch, the Radio Shack fixes me up a couple times a month. Not that I like the store, or their prices, but *they there for me, baby!*

  7. Re:most should have been donated on Unabomber Property Up For Creepy Online Auction · · Score: 1

    While the trial transcripts are freely available, the totality of the evidence would be hard to see without paying money. I have a solution for the ongoing cost of his incarceration, that costs less than 20 cents and makes a loud popping noise.

  8. Re:Double the Price, Half the Servers? on After a Lull, Sun Server Business Grows Under Oracle · · Score: 1

    well hello 1990. Serial port is ok, but a management board with network interface that can take ssh AND can put virtual devices in a browser are better. Sun's competitors give you a virtual high-resolution screen, mouse, keyboard, power buttons, DVD drive that can map to local drive or ISO file......The VAR I work at has responded to Oracle's abandoning us and trying to muscle us out in another way, *we steer our clients to alternative hardware solutions* FOAD, Oracle, those our OUR customers and clients

  9. most should have been donated on Unabomber Property Up For Creepy Online Auction · · Score: 2

    Most of these things should have been donated to psychology or criminology school, or similar scholastic endeavor.

  10. let's coin a new term on DNS Heavyweights Raise Concern Over DNS Filtering · · Score: 2

    a HOSTS-tard.

    I'm curious how often the HOSTS-tard updates the hundreds of millions of entries in his gigabytes-large HOSTS file

  11. Plank on 10-Year Study Reveals Electron Shape · · Score: 2

    a standard Plank Length in the U.S. is 8 feet.

  12. Wee little problem on Fukushima To Become Nuclear Dump? · · Score: 1

    the storage tank for the water leaking from two reactors with holes in containment, also has a leak. more of a slow distribution site than a nuclear waste storage site, haha.

  13. Re:Prices went up, sortof on After a Lull, Sun Server Business Grows Under Oracle · · Score: 1

    yup, working as employee for VAR with many partners (HP, Dell, IBM, Sun, etc.) , can affirm Oracle threw their partners under the bus, trying to muscle them out at customer sites, and it only doesn't matter much because the customers are pissed off with Oracle and delighted to be given alternative solutions

  14. Re:Double the Price, Half the Servers? on After a Lull, Sun Server Business Grows Under Oracle · · Score: 2

    yeah, but those *not* running long-obsolete old stuff are the ones seeing the contract jacking price problem. Awesomely impressive your systems are still going strong.

  15. Re:But still no more desktops on After a Lull, Sun Server Business Grows Under Oracle · · Score: 1

    You can actually *test* the code that comes out of your cross-compiler. I've written opensolaris code that was ok on x86 and exploded on sparc, (at time was setjmp/longjmp issues and the way gcc handled them). or you might have unknown endian sensitive bug.

    That actually was a joke at a place I once worked, "did you even check if the code you gave me worked? *shrug* "it compiled ok". Assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups.

  16. Re:If it did cause an accident... on New Siemens SCADA Vulnerabilities Kept Secret, Says Schneier · · Score: 2

    Quit reading tin hat nonsense sites. Have you seen the 1970s systems that control those GE Mark I's? No virus exists for those old things

  17. Re:Geiger counters are not really useful on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    there are procedures to measure contamination in food with GM tube, but difficult and not for the casual hobbyist.

    yes, neutron contamination by ingestion a hard feat to pull off except in the most bizarre of nuclear accidents. thankfully most neutron emitters decay in less than a minute. Those near enough to a ground burst to get neutron field or ingest neutron emitters would be killed by the gammas anyway, so no worries.

  18. Re:Kearny Fallout Meter on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    no, hahaha. Such a meter is to detect HUGE amounts of radiation, way out of the range of the tens of thousands to couple hundred thousand counts per minute of a GM counter to move a leaf on that homebrew meter (would be tens of millions of counts and up)

    I must say the replies to this article are hugely amusing, all the armchair quarterbacks with no real basic knowledge thinking they know something useful. Even the phrase in the article "to set one off", that's not what happens.

  19. Re:Geiger counters are not really useful on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    bullshit, the most harmful type of radiation is from a neutron source, it will activate you (make you radioactive). If you ingest a source then alphas are a concern,but your skin will stop alphas (as almost all from natural sources have about 5 MeV energy), so even touching an alpha source isn't harmful. Common tubes with mica windows can detect alphas, mine does.

  20. Re:Regular salt - it contains potassium-40 on Testing Geiger Counters · · Score: 1

    mod parent down, pure armchair fantasy bullshit.

    You won't get any noticeable measurement above background with table salt.

  21. Re:Not only elderly on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    cell phones do X languages anyway, yours probably has 8 or more to choose. I don't think words take more space than the usual big ugly icons in my phone

  22. Re:When is a phone just a phone? on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    That is the core of the issue, young developers working in a vacuum, making UI that makes sense to them but not a normal person. Thus we have your bad cell phone UI and thus we have Ubuntu Unity. It is scary the same problems are starting to crop up in vehicles, where bad UI can cause the machine to be damaged or someone to be maimed or worse.

  23. Re:So dumb down computing on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    A plus sign and a clock may look like one choice to a person. Instead, they words "add clock" would have been a much better choice. Icons should be removed from most GUI and replaced with words, which are much clearer and can be comprehended faster by the literate.

  24. Re:Not only elderly on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    I hate the majority of icons, they pander to the illiterate or mentally retarded. I can read 20x as fast as I can figure out some badly drawn and poorly chosen figure.

  25. Re:Why do people underthink memory usage? on Preliminary Benchmarks: Unity vs. Gnome-Shell · · Score: 1

    you sure are making a lot of assumptions about how much memory a person's system can address and how much it costs.