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  1. Re:"Bulletproof glass" mistake? on MythBuster Developing Light-Weight Vehicle Armor · · Score: 1

    a stupid pistol

    What do you mean, a zipgun?

  2. Re:As usual on MythBuster Developing Light-Weight Vehicle Armor · · Score: 1

    True, but how many of the Mythbusters results are positive?

    http://mythbustersresults.com/

  3. Re:To all "They're not REAL scientists!" posters on MythBuster Developing Light-Weight Vehicle Armor · · Score: 1

    [A] "treadmill" that sits under the car wheels and spins with the wheel so the car can "drive" while going nowhere (they exist, you'll see them in plenty of mechanics' shops) [...]

    That device is called a dynamometer.

  4. Re:Why DDOS? on Anonymous Launches Attack On Sony · · Score: 1

    Ok so if you dont like Nazi, what would you call them.

    Hmm... How about "Anonymous?"

  5. Re:...liabilities on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    I personally have seen an inmate hit with a taser, and then get beat because he refused to lay stils ordered.

    Ignoring the fact that the CO with the taser kept jolting him, which lead to muscle contractions, which lead to four other COs hitting him with 4' long hickory riot batons.

    This went on for almost 5 minutes until a Lt showed up, seen me and a co-worker obviously writing down the names of the officers involved.

    Don't the COs you witnessed have to be exposed to a Taser shock as part of their training? It seems insane/deplorable that a person with the authority to tase people, (or a schoolchild, for that matter), would be oblivious to the reality of electrically-induced convulsions... Or are these COs (and LEOs) being willfully ignorant, making a false accusation of "resisting" in order to realize some sadistic desire, etc.?

    In the experience you described, you didn't mention attempting to stop or discourage the incident... (I'm not trying to be judgmental; I wasn't there, obviously, and I applaud you for writing up the perps). Are you not a CO, or were there a professional/cultural factor at play, that you can elaborate on?

  6. Re:...liabilities on StunRay Incapacitates With a Flash of Light · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military&%238364;

    Steps for improving this link:

    1. Replace "Military&%238364;" with an actual article.

    2. Replace "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/" with "https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/"

  7. Re:Nudity would be ok if not for Satan on Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism · · Score: 1

    1) shame from nudity

    You seriously want to see everyone naked? Further, don't clothes have any other functions? E.g., uniforms, winter coats, waders, control-top pantyhose, sports bras, etc?

    2) hard work for sustenance

    So a god was going to build our skyscrapers, grill our steaks, and wire our grids, but then... The god says: "Satan! Buddy! I've got a little problem involving this uh, contract, see... Anyways, I was wondering... [whisper whisper]"

    3) painful childbirth

    Which invisible super-friend invented this little miracle?

    See Genesis 3.

    Er... I'll get right on that, as soon as I finish this current issue of Scientific American, alright? =)

  8. Re:Naturally, on Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism · · Score: 1

    Are there circumstances caused by the religion itself that would lead to a priest to having unsupervised access to a baby, or are priest-baby encounters more likely to be opportunistic?

  9. Re:What's funny is on Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs · · Score: 1

    Maybe if we could get all the addicts to sniff spray paint it would be the final solution. [...] Or we could just gun them down.

    Haha that's brilliant! Maybe if we can get "b4upoo" to sniff hydrogen cyanide, we wouldn't be exposed to her/his/its nauseating ideas anymore.

  10. Re:Tortious? on Hackers Steal Kroger's Customer List · · Score: 1

    Okay. Now pay with the credit card that lists your name and zip code.

    To what end? So I can sell my marketing data for the handsome sum of $0.00, or so I can leave a paper trail for ("anti-terror," et al.) government profiling/data mining? I'll pass.

  11. Re:Nova Documentary on Flight 447 on Robots Dive Deep To Solve Airliner Crash Mystery · · Score: 1

    You're welcome. =)

  12. Re:Torrents on 'Zodiac Island' Makers Say ISP Worker Wiped an Entire Season · · Score: 1

    Or one could just decide not to be a stupid moron and make at least just one fucking backup, for fuck's sake. Instead of infringing the copyright by spreading it without license.

    Go ahead and trust copyright holders not to let human culture rot under lock and key; I don't. Copyright is an arrangement between copyright holders and society, and the former have been reneging on their part of that arrangement. As far as I'm concerned, due respect for copyright law in its current form has been forfeited.

  13. Re:Torrents on 'Zodiac Island' Makers Say ISP Worker Wiped an Entire Season · · Score: 2

    "Stealing" does not mean same thing as "preserving".

    "Copying" doesn't mean the same thing as "stealing."

  14. Re:Nova Documentary on Flight 447 on Robots Dive Deep To Solve Airliner Crash Mystery · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Sorry, too late. on AP Adopts Firefox's 'Do Not Track'; Others On the Way · · Score: 1

    It isn't so much that it is complicated, it is that it is an extra step or two, and they don't care.

    This sounds like an iron-deficient fist problem.

  16. Re:OK, I'll admit on AP Adopts Firefox's 'Do Not Track'; Others On the Way · · Score: 1

    What's worse about this, is that it is implemented by an iframe.

    NoScript can be used to block IFRAMEs.

  17. Re:Does it surprise anyone... on Paul Allen Rips Bill Gates In Autobiography · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Not safe for work. on Nuclear Crisis Stopped Time In Japan · · Score: 1

    (Working at home and the wife thinks I'm playing because I link to two seconds of Mr. Bean saying "magic, snort, snort".)

    You got off easy. I just got fired for playing that video. Nineteen fucking years with the company. =(

  19. Re:Worst headline ever. on Nuclear Crisis Stopped Time In Japan · · Score: 1

    There used to be hobby standards that relied on the NTSC color subcarrier.

    Some TVs and VCRs can (or at least, could) have their clocks synchronized by being tuned to PBS for up to a few minutes. Is this the same technology?

  20. Re:I lost my laptop. My dog ate my homework. I was on BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    What I want to know is: why do people store all of this information on individual laptops?

    Two words, mschaffer: Plausible deniability.

  21. Re:Why SS numbers? on BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Why would BP need to collect social security numbers?

    Maybe so they can try to recoup some of the money they're losing to paying out these claims? I wouldn't put it past 'em. =)

  22. Re:Oh, Dear God No! on BP Loses Laptop With Oil-Spill Claimants' Personal Info · · Score: 1

    [...] the best way to cap the data leak would be to nuke it ...

    Hmm... EMP in the laptop's last-seen general vicinity? You may be on to something, vlm.

  23. Re:I've cracked it! on FBI Wants You To Solve Encrypted Notes From Murder · · Score: 1

    If this is the case, you can throw statistical analysis and standard cryptanalysis out the window, as it won't make sense in this context. ... The only way they're going to get this solved is to get into his mind.

    You've just described Forensic Psychocryptanalysis.

  24. Re:No life on ISP's War On BitTorrent Hits World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    Well World of Warcraft sucks anyway, so why care about the difficulty for them to be playing.

    Because this issue provides a platform from which to assert the customers' right to use a protocol without interference, when those in positions of power claim that that protocol has no legitimate uses.

  25. Re:Did some digging on ISP's War On BitTorrent Hits World of Warcraft · · Score: 1

    [We] will continue to work with the game supplier and our technology supplier to solve the remaining problems as soon as possible.

    Who's this "technology supplier;" Macrovision? Fuck you, Rogers. Fuck you long time.