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  1. Re:learn the law, son on Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing · · Score: 2, Informative

    ANYWHERE.

    http://www.constitution.org/uslaw/defunlaw.htm

    You can pretty much say it's legal to resist an unlawful arrest to the point of using lethal force to do so if it is truly an unlawful arrest.

    You'll be free of criminal charges - that won't stop the impending unlawful death civil suit filed by the family, so don't think you'd easily get off that scot-free.

  2. Re:Wow, on Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing · · Score: 1

    "Charges of selling seeds where legit... And in YOUR country too. In fact the raid, according to the article, was only at the REQUEST of the US DEA. It's definitely illegal in the USA and our officials have every right to go after him considering he's probably responsible for many seeds in America."

    Are you fucking retarded?

    You can buy hemp seed for birds at Petco - quite often that's seed from medical-grade cannabis. I've grown the shit straight from a bag of bird seed, it was potent.

    How the fuck is selling seeds illegal when I can get them at the pet store? Huh? Tell me, dipshit.

  3. Re:Age and quality. on Slashdot Turns 100,000 · · Score: 1

    I average about 10 posts a day.

    Almost every other day I get 10 moderator posts.

    Coincidence?

  4. Re:There's cyanide in your boogers. on US Patent Office Fast Tracks Green Patents · · Score: 1

    If there were cyanide in your mucous, the result would be BLUE, not the green which is caused by bacterial waste products and mold growing in your sinuses.

    CYANide

  5. I have to wonder what changed? on Facebook Masks Worse Privacy With New Interface · · Score: 1

    Because as I go through my facebook profile, I don't see one thing that restricts me from setting ANY potentially PRIVATE information in such a manner that nobody can see it. In fact, everything I've marked private is still private, as I check from another computer that isn't logged in to facebook.

    Sounds like someone's trying to drum up some bullshit, or they're just fucking blind.

  6. Faster green patents.. on US Patent Office Fast Tracks Green Patents · · Score: 1

    Hopefully this will apply for those with an actual product and not some half-cocked theory without any real testing to back it up.

    Wishing in one hand, the other hand is beneath my asshole.

  7. Re:Bubble on US Patent Office Fast Tracks Green Patents · · Score: 1

    Some of us are in it to stay because we have actual products, expertise, and technology to contribute - most everybody else is full of shit.

  8. Re:Uhhh on US Patent Office Fast Tracks Green Patents · · Score: 1

    "LED's : I don't think they contain that much dangerous chemicals."

    If the word ARSENIDE is present in the diode formulation (such as an indium-gallium arsenide emitter,) then yes, there is a toxic substance. But still, pretty tiny amount.

  9. Re:Uhhh on US Patent Office Fast Tracks Green Patents · · Score: 1

    1. PL-L CFLs need the replacing more often - they way they're designed is absolutely horrible and they burn themselves out because of it. I bought a 3-pack of regular spiral CFLs from Albertsons for $1 (thanks to a then-running Edison Electric sponsored special) and so far these have outlasted every PL-L that my apartment complex uses (all bathrooms use PL-L fluorescents and the new spotlight outside my stairs uses PL-L, and while my CFLs are a year old already, the PL-L tubes aren't even three months old, and they've already blown out.

    Apparently, this is a common issue with PL-L lamps, as my apartment, and other apartment complexes around us that use PL-L, suddenly do not have any in their inventory. They've been replacing them so often they've exhausted what was supposed to be a year's supply in less than three months.

    I'd really just love to move to something like T2VHO micro linear fluorescents. (Don't exist, YET) I like my T5HO lights. Great workshop, horticulture, and general lighting.

    2. Newer designs effectively eliminate this by using a new electrode and ballast type.

    3. Incandescents do not output UV. The gas that surrounds the filament MIGHT produce it, depending on the gas type. Halogen? Absolutely. Oxygen/nitrogen? Nope. Fluorescents, by their design, are UV lamps that have UV shifted to visible wavelengths by rare-earth phosphors coating the inside of the tube. While the tube BY LAW does filter out UV, it doesn't filter it all out (nor should it, as UV, specifically UVB, is needed in small amounts by humans for vitamin D production, a good thing for us indoor types that don't get much sun.) As long as people aren't right up on the bulb (as they would be in a tanning salon) this is an absolute non-issue. After one meter the uW/m-2s-1 of UVB is negligible as far as damage goes.

    4. A full 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom household (assume 3 in living room, 2 in each bedroom, three in each bathroom, maybe six for a small kitchen, couple in the garage, one in the attic, a couple for the back porch and a couple for the front porch, so 28 bulbs,) using nothing but pure CFL lighting has less mercury in all their bulbs combined than in an older house's mercury-based switch in the thermostat control. The average CFL has 4-5mg of mercury, so 28*5 = 140mg. I can get a full gram or two of mercury out of the thermostat control switch, depending upon age. Most houses still use these switches.

    Disclaimer: I just entered the industry as a professional consultant (LEDs) but for most of my horticultural purposes I use purely T5HO, and I use pure CFL around my apartment (2bd 2bth.) Total amount of mercury is 114mg, including my T5HO lighting. While we can't replace mercury yet, we can use less of it in combination with other amalgams to achieve the same results.

  10. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    The fact you think sanity even exists is proof that you're nuts. :)

  11. Re:Why not upgrade the graphics? on Mega Man 10 Confirmed For WiiWare · · Score: 1

    The homing missile did far less damage than the concussion missile - that's why it was rapid fire - it's about as powerful as the standard machinegun, just homing and with a different sprite.

    At least, that's what I understood from a few hacked ROMs I'd played, where they made the homing missile act like a missile, and wipe out half the screen.

  12. Re:Do not want on Mega Man 10 Confirmed For WiiWare · · Score: 1

    And he's getting senile "it's all designed around spikes and pits and even has enemies that jump out of pits to throw you into them" because everything he's complaining about is in at least from megaman 1-4, I just checked it.

  13. Re:Do not want on Mega Man 10 Confirmed For WiiWare · · Score: 1

    Wrong.

    Megaman, in the NES versions, has ALWAYS had a slight (~150-200ms) lag in movement. When you were younger you didn't know about lag, or likely care. You just knew your timing was off and unconsciously you adapted. Megaman's first animation frame is picking up his leg, no movement occurs until the second frame of animation, approximately 150-200 ms later.

    You made me break out my old ATi TV Wonder USB just to hook up the NES and re-test that. I own MM 1-4 and they all exhibit this.

  14. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    "You're apparently rich enough to hang on Slashdot."

    I'm smart enough to use my money frugally.

    "That's pretty hostile of you. Are you sure you haven't taken any "performance enhancers" to help build those muscles?"

    Nope, naturally aggressive, mainly because I'm sick and tired of assholes bossing around the little guy.

    "Our bodies haven't caught up with our current lifestyle yet - arguably they haven't really caught up to even agriculture yet - so why not use our brains to adjust their chemistry to overcome the resulting problems?"

    Do you know enough about your body to just start wantonly adjusting your carefully-balanced chemistry? Are you nuts?

  15. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Quit leaning forwards in your chair. You're stressing the base of your spine and that leads to weakened back muscles, which pull easily because you're CONSTANTLY stretching them as you lean forwards.

  16. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    "Only poor people would be weak any more"

    WRONG!

    See I'm poor and I'm already strong, spending time out int he streets actually doing things tends to do that to a person. See, all that increased muscle mass means jack shit if you haven't trained it. While you're showing off, I'm breaking you down and showing you what REAL power is.

    The second you go to lift somethign heavy your tendons and sinew will RIP and you get what you deserve for takign a shortcut.

  17. Re:Obvious (?) question on Super Strength Substance Approaching Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Just bear that in mind when you take your new body out on the street and someone that spent time actually building up their body (and doing steroids) decides that they want to beat the snot out of you.

    There is no substitute for being active.

    All that muscle won't do you any good if you've not properly trained and toned it. And the first time you try to show off and lift something heavy, watch your ligaments and tendons rip.

    All look, no substance - sounds pretty American to me!

  18. Re:Will be resolved quickly...in CRIA favour on CRIA Faces $60 Billion Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    It's a class action - attorneys do not do the accepting, the class representatives do the accepting.

    Speaking as someone that finished a class-action suit not too long ago.

  19. Re:That's gotta hurt... on Subverting Fingerprinting · · Score: 1

    I'm willing to bet there are far more nerves in the glans of your penis.

  20. Re:Watching 'Bladerunner' too many times? on Subverting Fingerprinting · · Score: 2, Funny

    "We're closer to a working release of Duke Nukem Forever than we are to eyeball transplants."

    We have already made eyeball replacements. Low resolution, only 12x12px, and it transmits the signals to your brain via the tongue, BUT IT WORKS.

    Duke's fucking late to the party, as always.

  21. Re:Well, at least the rest don't do this. on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    "It does take a significant sized bomb to kill, say 200, people in a security line."

    No, it does not. A half-pound black powder bomb with steel BBs would be well more than enough. That's about the size of a tennis ball.

    Imagine a piece of plastique wrapped with shrapnel. Smaller bomb, same power, could use the saved space to add more shrapnel and kill way more people!

    I'm assuming you've only played with fireworks.

  22. Re:Well, at least the rest don't do this. on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 1

    On holidays any main lobby of a terminal will have more people than an airplane - and that's right at the front doors with no security. One bomb and you've just wiped out an easy thousand. Powerful enough to make infrastructure collapse, maybe get up to five thousand on a busy day with one blast.

  23. Re:The real link to the cryptome file on TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, the line is measured in moderator brain cells.

    I've had the first post on a story and had it modded redundant.

  24. Re:These "welders"... on CRIA Faces $60 Billion Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    It takes skill to make a weld that will pass an x-ray inspection, and if you can do it once, you can do it again, on other parts.

    Glad I took metal shop in high school.

  25. Re:Oxidative damage. on Zombie Pigs First, Hibernating Soldiers Next · · Score: 1

    The Nazis did this back in WWII - they removed the blood from German shepherds, replaced with a saline solution, froze the dogs, then thawed, replaced blood, and revived them.

    It became the basis for most cryogenics today.

    As for the dog, it was 1987, between ACS and Trans Time - the beagle had a full body washout and cool-down. In the early 90s a similar experiment was done with a baboon - successfully. I think BioTime in Berkeley did that, my memory's fuzzy.