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  1. Re:Weight on FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    On Earth, or some other low-gravity planet? Of course the should have written "mass", but I doubt the lawyers know the difference.

  2. Too the moon, Alice! Too the moon!

  3. Re:Nice analogy on US Cyber Criminal Underground a Shopping Free-For-All (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...and I forgot to mention the loads of undercover ATF just waiting to bust someone. A gun show is really no different than a gun store, just more like a flea market.

  4. Nice analogy on US Cyber Criminal Underground a Shopping Free-For-All (csoonline.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nice F'ing analogy; a gun show. Has he ever been to a gun show? Most of the tables selling guns are FFL. The rest beef jerky, tools, ammo, etc. Sheesh, you have to be an FFL to be a "dealer". There are no unlicensed "dealers". Sure, there are a few with signs hung on their backs with a long gun on shoulder, advertising a private sale, but they are few.http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/12/07/203211/us-cyber-criminal-underground-a-shopping-free-for-all#

  5. Re:Reconstructing the mind at the quantum edge on Take a Visual Tour of CyberKnife Radiosurgery (jeffreifman.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh buzz off Deepak Chopra.

  6. Re: Cracked solder joint on Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Though it is non trivial to get lead based parts. I wonder if it was a crack on a PCB solder joint?

  7. Re:What a strange land down under. on Australian State Bans Possession of Blueprints For 3D Printing Firearms (computerworld.com.au) · · Score: 1

    bran*dish - wave or flourish (something, especially a weapon) as a threat or in anger or excitement.

  8. I never said ours wasn't. Preferably I should be able to buy a full auto, short barreled rifle, at the corner store with no nanny state interference.

  9. You can have my guns when you pry my thumb drive from my warm, pasty hands.

  10. Man, what a nanny state. Need to put that defense distributed torrent back up.

  11. Re:Yes, yes, i'll buy a Tesla. on Tesla To Voluntarily Recall Every Model S Because One Seat Belt Came Apart (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    Who can afford one? Apparently 90k people. Not me though, at least not with college savings for 2 grade school kids. Though I plan on buying one when they come out with the lower price model. Had my eye on a VW TDI but they blew it. Being an EE, I like the simplicity of an electric car. Hoping the next one will still have AWD option with insane mode.

  12. 5% on 737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seems to me 5% should be well within the margin or error. Are they trying to save fuel by cutting it that close?

  13. So I got down modded for pointing out religious righteousness. Fuck you, whoever you are; probably a evangelical Christian.

  14. Well the 1A protects you from the law, not public opinion. He voluntarily resigned.

  15. Well it is made up of the religious righteous.

  16. Re: probably, detects superheterodyne stage on Getting Started With GNU Radio (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Well there are ferrite isolators. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

  17. Re:Why the hate for digital? on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    The digital give me too much information, sort of like a standard calculator that shows full display width precision, vs engineering notation on my RPN (really showing my age now). Also when comparing parts it's easier to just look at the approximate difference in dial movement than remember the two numbers and subtract them in my head. I'm not a mechanical guy though, an RF/Microwave EE, so that's just how I think. I hate digital watches too, rather I have a 24 hour analog watch.

  18. Re: Verniers on When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Ditto. I have Starett analog caliper and micrometer, and another Starett analog caliper in metric. I HATE digital calipers.

  19. Re:So are we at Wall-E levels of inactivity yet? on The $6,000 Computer Desk That Lets You Lie Down While You Work · · Score: 1

    What chair did you buy?

  20. Re:RadioShack on Forrest Mimms Has Done Much More Than Most Engineers Know (hackaday.com) · · Score: 0

    Oh, and I have a home lab. I don't need a fucking maker/hacker space.

  21. Re:RadioShack on Forrest Mimms Has Done Much More Than Most Engineers Know (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    There have always been kids who makes stuff. It just seems recent since they blog about it now. Internet sales killed off RS' business.

  22. Re:lol, sure... on Microsoft Resurrects the Title of President · · Score: 1

    "I work for a company that makes recruiting software, and the number of applicants per position for dev jobs is only a fraction of what it is for others." Sounds like the software you write is shit.

  23. Follow the $ on Government Still Hasn't Notified Individuals Whose Personal Data Was Hacked · · Score: 2

    Delayed long enough for OPM beurocrats to retire and form Identity Theft Guard Solutions LLC to make bank?

  24. Brilliant on Wired: IBM's School Could Fix Education and Tech's Diversity Gap · · Score: 2

    So one can get a 4 year HS degree and 2 year AA, now combined into a 6 year HS+AA degree. Brilliant!

  25. Re: I should also point out... on Windows 95 Turns 20 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Same here. Being able to download at 28k from a BBS while playing Wolfenstein was years beyond windows.