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  1. Do I have this straight? on Company That Made the First 3D Printed Metal Gun Is Selling Them For $11,900 · · Score: 1

    A pretty much untested version (2000 rounds is untested) of a 100+ year old design that costs about 10 times what a high quality normally made one costs. Yes, that's just stupid.

  2. Re:"Impact on self-driving cars?" - None on Toyota's Killer Firmware · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You may be and so may I be but the people that sue (and there will be many) won't really care if self driving cars reduce deaths. They will only be looking a one or two deaths at a time.

  3. What WiFi Problem? on Apple Blocks Lawrence Lessig's Comment On iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch · · Score: 1

    I handed out 23 5Cs to my staff a week after it was released. I also updated 10 iPads of various models to iOS 7. I've yet to have anyone complain about WiFi problems either on our work network or in the field on client networks.

  4. Best Clancy Quote on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    Way back when John Grisham's first book had hit it big Clancy was being interviewed on one of the morning shows. They asked him with the popularity of Grisham's book would he ever write a book with a lawyer as a hero. His answer was, "I think I'm a pretty good fiction writer, but I'm not that good." (Paraphrase from a 20 year old memory.)

  5. Re:We lost a good one here. on Tom Clancy Is Dead At 66 · · Score: 1

    Agreed, though with today's CG tech Red Storm Rising would have been a hell of an HBO miniseries.

  6. Re:How long before... on DARPA Hydra: An Unmanned Sub Mothership to Deploy Drones · · Score: 1

    What do you think a cruise missile is. They've had the ability to have nuclear warheads since their inception.

  7. Re:Tired of this use of my taxes on DARPA Hydra: An Unmanned Sub Mothership to Deploy Drones · · Score: 1

    We've always killed people that we don't like as have our enemies. At least with drones we don't have to risk our pilots life.

  8. Re:So much for... on Teenage League of Legends Player Jailed For Months For Facebook Joke · · Score: 2

    Reread the Second Amendment and diagram the sentences. Maybe then you will understand what it is saying. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. It doesn't say "...the right of the states militia to keep and bear arms..." And many constitutional authorities believe the meaning of the word "regulated" in the amendment was. To adjust for accurate and proper functioning.

  9. Re:He'd fail my class. on Interviews: Freeman Dyson Answers Your Questions · · Score: 2

    I believe the word "almost" in his answer would be the reason.

  10. He should know about failing business models. on BlackBerry CEO: Tablet Market Is Dying · · Score: 1

    Pity Mr. Heins didn't see his own business model going down the tubes 5 years out.

  11. iGoogle on Google Keep End-of-Life Date Forecasted · · Score: 1

    The started having a banner that iGoogle was going to be turned on in November of 2013 in mid 2011. There is no reason to think they would shut down something like Google Keep without at least that much warning.

  12. Re:Man, oh man! on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    It would cost more than the mere cost of filtering. They charge to deliver that junk mail and the best part for the PO is a lot of the work is done for them by the shipper.

  13. Attn: Iranian Air Force on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 1

    If you would like to test your new jet please feel free to fly it out to one of carriers. We will be more than happy to have the best radars made test its' stealthiness. We will also test its' combat effectiveness. Signed Commander, US 5th Fleet Manama, Bahrain

  14. Shouldn't the headline read... on How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry · · Score: 2

    The Arms Industry helps game makers by letting them, for a price, use the name of their product.

  15. Re:Uh yeah on With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory · · Score: 2

    From your data either they don't need a keyboard, can't afford a keyboard or or too ignorant to know they are out there.

  16. Re:Looks like the AG actually read the law on Texas Attorney General Warns International Election Observers · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, Bush possessed satanic powers that let him in on things nobody else knew. But if you want to be an idiot, go right ahead.

    Speaking of idiots... did you know only Congress can declare war on another nation? You might want to brush up on your recent history, since it's a well known fact (among those of us who don't suffer from selective memory) that Bush invaded Iraq prior to getting a Congressional declaration of war. So, you know, pot, kettle, all that jazz.

    Which is well within the powers granted by the "War Powers Act".

  17. Now all they need... on Ultra-Powerful Laser To Be Built In Romania · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now all they need is a really big shark.

  18. It is really simple. on Why Are Operating System Version Names So Absurd? · · Score: 1

    Names can be protected by Trademark law. Numbers can't be.

  19. PCs are now a commodity. on PC Makers In Desperate Need of a Reboot · · Score: 1

    PCs are a commodity. Even those with high end needs no longer have to buy a new box every year and they don't have to buy it from a high end maker.

  20. Re:Government Computer Skillz on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 2

    You just keep counting on those legal provisions.

  21. Re:Government Computer Skillz on DOJ Says iPhone Is So Secure They Can't Crack It · · Score: 1

    Waterboarding is one option.

  22. Re:Real reason on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    Well, more along the line of there probably won't be a successful 9/11 style attack because the passengers now know the outcome. But the passengers of United Flight 93 who knew what the other planes had done and reacted as would today's passengers are still just as dead. If you took the money being spent on TSA security theater and simply put two well trained Air Marshals on every flight you might fix even the end up dead part and have lots of money left over for explosives detectors both at the airport and on the planes as well as R&D into better less detectors. Like ones that the would be hijacker doesn't know he is being detected or even checked.

  23. Re:Real reason on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 2

    I have no idea why I put the word "security" between "airlines" and "that" in the first sentence of that post.

  24. Re:Real reason on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 1

    Hell, the vast majority of airlines security that flew on September 11, 2001 didn't get flown into buildings by terrorists and neither did all of the planes that flew in the US before 9/11. In fact the only other plane I know of that was intentionally flown into a building has happened since the TSA was up and running and it was the Cessna in Florida. Which I will agree wasn't a TSA issue.

  25. Re:You Don't Invalidate Basic Rights on Poll Finds Americans Think the TSA Is 'Doing a Good Job' · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wonder what percentage of that 54% have ever flown on an airline and more specifically since the TSA took over security?