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  1. Re:Maybe same old 'leave your guns at entrance' ru on 12 Dead, 50 Injured at The Dark Knight Rises Showing In Colorado · · Score: 1

    Colorado has no where near the population density of DC. As in most large cities, there are lots of poor people and gangs - both of which lead to more violence. Gang violence also isn't prevented by the fear of the victim having guns - you're not going to find someone spraying bullets out of a moving car stop to worry that the people they're shooting might shoot back.

  2. Re:Did they consider the liability issue? on Facebook Scans Chats and Posts For Criminal Activity · · Score: 1

    I think facebook probably has good enough lawyers to win a case against someone claiming that. It's not like facebook itself is advertising services to be "predator free"

  3. Re:So what? on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    The death rate in Afghanistan was already increasing dramatically before Obama was in office. The troop surge meant to end the war was unfortunately used to try to retake empty dangerous areas back from the taliban rather than secure populated areas.

    Gitmo was blocked by the GOP in congress saying that prisoners could not be transfered to the US.

    Solyndra was the one failure in a hugely successful $15b program.

    Obamacare includes taxes (on the rich and freeloaders), but that's a scary word in american politics, so no one wants to call it that. It was also a great step forward for the American health care system (more is needed).

  4. Re:They will not like the needed solutions on Boston Using IBM Engineers To Solve Traffic Problems · · Score: 1

    They gave that a try in a few places - it didn't really work out as you can see in this google maps shot: https://maps.google.com/?ll=42.334109,-71.104866&spn=0.001036,0.001206&z=20

  5. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    It's already cheaper for them to not offer me medical coverage, yet they still do, same reason they pay me more than minimum wage.

  6. Re:units! on Pirate Bay Founder Fined For 'Continued Involvement' · · Score: 2

    Looking at the old article, it was 10.6 million Swedish kronor, so I guess he's up to 11.1 million Swedish kronor now.

  7. Re:Why? on Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook · · Score: 1

    Messages sent to your facebook email address show up with your facebook (direct) messages.

  8. Re:Streaming vs Local storage on Young Listeners Opt For Streaming Over Owning · · Score: 1

    Guess you'll just have to sing for the 1.5 minutes in the day when your music isn't available. Music isn't exactly a life necessity, so being without it won't "totally screw" you.

    What happens when your HD/iPod/CD dies and you can't listen? TOTALLY SCREWED!

  9. Re:Classic 2D is best on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    Also, if you replace the gas in your car with TNT it will go faster, promise

    Do I have to use it in powdered form or can I just drop the sticks straight though my gas plug?

  10. Re:Classic 2D is best on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they'll just give film theaters double the film (hopefully they have large platters!) and instruct them to hook the motors up to a 240V source instead of 120V.

    I'm no electrical/mechanical engineer, but I'm pretty sure that you can just double the voltage on any given motor/gear system to double the speed with no negative repercussions.

  11. Re:Neutrinos on Aussie Telco Lays New Fiber For Microsecond Trading Boost · · Score: 1

    They're pretty unreliable though. The tests where they were measuring them would send a huge burst of neutrinos in the hope that the detector would manage to detect just one of them. Would need to be a lot more accurate for a large amount of data to be sent through the Earth.

  12. Re:Dumb law is dumb on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    Do you tell people a car is made to transport people or that it's designed to rotate four rubber tires are varying speeds? You can try to hide it, but guns are designed to kill/injure people (and animals) as their purpose. They way they do that is by firing a bullet.

  13. Re:Dumb law is dumb on Blocking Gun Laws With Patents · · Score: 1

    Cars, Swimming Pools, and Ladders also have alternative purposes than killing people. A gun is designed for the sole purpose of inflicting injury/death.

    Even if 9/10 gun crimes fit into the categories you listed, that's still another 1/10 that are easier to solve.

  14. Re:Huh. on How Many Seconds Would It Take To Crack Your Password? · · Score: 1

    The thing about the length is that calculating everything smaller is fairly trivial (the same as adding one extra letter to the alphabet i.e. 27^6). If he's brute forcing it, he'll just do all the easy ones first. The upper case letters however, increase it to 52^6 as you said.

  15. Re:A New Euphemism! on LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked Online · · Score: 2

    You can also use "leaked" in the reverse sense!

    "Investors leaked money to Bernie Madoff"

    "The convenience store leaked diapers to H.I."

    "My phone leaked private data to LinkedIn"

  16. Re:So.... on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 1
  17. Re:So.... on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 1

    Sorry, the person is almost certainly not going to commit suicide by jumping off the bridge, and they are less likely to commit suicide period.

  18. Re:So.... on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 2

    Can reading a book the wrong way end up with you or the people around you suffering direct serious injuries? Can a kid come across your book and accidentally kill his buddy when they're reading it together?

    I'm not saying you can't have your gun, I'm saying it's more dangerous to be in a house with a gun - the same way it's more dangerous to drive in a car than work from home. Some people find the risks acceptable.

  19. Re:So.... on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 1

    I don't have time to find a list of studies, but I'll do a quick one for you:
    Google results for "bystander killed" in shooting: 57,500
    Google results for "bystander killed" in stabbing: 17,600

    Guns can be dangerous tools - especially in the hands of people that don't know how to use them correctly.

  20. Re:So.... on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 1

    But if you take the gun away, the person is less likely to commit suicide - the same way if you put up a fence along a bridge, people are less likely to commit suicide by jumping off.

    The statistic is right to include suicides as those are deaths that could have been prevented.

  21. Re:So.... on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How many accidental gun injuries/deaths are their in houses that own a gun?

    Now compare that to houses that don't own a gun.

  22. Re:So.... on Venezuela Bans the Commercial Sale of Firearms and Ammunition · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The victim having a gun doesn't help in most cases. Studies have shown that bystanders are more likely to get injured, and having a gun during a drive-by shooting is pretty much useless. Making guns harder to get isn't likely to make those go up.

  23. Re:America what? You mean United States? on In America, 46% of People Hold a Creationist View of Human Origins · · Score: 1

    You identify yourself as "American" rather than someone from your country e.g. "Canadian"? That's got to be confusing when you go through customs and they ask your nationality.

  24. Re:The first? really!? on IE10 Will Have 'Do Not Track' On By Default · · Score: 1

    I don't think Lynx sends the Do Not Track header when it requests a web page.

    It's not really the tracking information being stored locally that's the problem, it's the server-side stuff across ad networks linked by IPs, user accounts, browsers, and anything else that can be used to identify a user.

  25. Re:Yeah right on IT Desktop Support To Be Wiped Out Thanks To Cloud Computing · · Score: 1

    I think many will follow when the first mayor cloud-outage or data breach has occurred

    Or they may move to the cloud when their P3 running the in-house services fails and they don't have a proper backup system, or gets hacked.

    You have to remember that not all businesses have the money for proper infrastructure, security, and staffing, so if the cloud can do all of that for cheaper, and reduce the points of failure to only the internet connection (though only failure to connect to it, not data loss), they're going to see that as a major benefit over managing their own system.

    I know we've had some downtime when a older source control machine went down and there were no spare power supplies on hand to fix it (small company).