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  1. Re:Or... just hear me out here... on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    You're like the fifth person to state this. Who the hell are you hunting with? I would be unhappy on General Principle (and his army of ants) and not hunt with them again. No! Even if "safe" you do not fire over my fucking head. (It is pretty safe though. I am still not okay with it.)

  2. Re:"...the same as trespassing." on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    I have seen the text we type here. The last thing I am doing is accepting porn advice from Slashdotters.

  3. Re:"...the same as trespassing." on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    I do not have rock salt loads. If I shoot someone my goal is not to hurt them. No, that is not my goal at all. I would much rather not shoot anyone, however. Having been shot at and returned fire in an active combat zone was not something I enjoyed. I would take no pleasure in taking someone's life but, if I am shooting at someone my goal is certainly not to cause them pain.

    My primary defensive weapon is just a Mark II in .22lr because I am more than comfortable firing more than once and will be willing to load an additional magazine if required. I really do not want to scare my neighbor's wife - she cleans my house. I also do not anticipate missing, life is not like movies where you dodge bullets. I am a fine shot because I practice regularly and maintain my skills.

    Really though, it is like throwing rocks at an intruder. We have done so since age immemorial. Today we just throw rocks a little faster and a little more accurately.

  4. Re:"...the same as trespassing." on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    In many rural areas they have an exception for a gun firing shot. They are much slower and heavier rounds or much smaller rounds and do not travel as far as those fired from a rifle. Handguns, also slower and sometimes heavier, are also prohibited but that is for a different reason I suspect.

    Many areas no longer have this exemption but a number still do. As a bit of a hobbyist I have looked into the laws in a variety of places where I have spent time. They do not usually advertise this exemption any more but the exemption is *maybe* still on the books.

  5. Re:Windows 10 sucks on Windows 10 Launches · · Score: 1

    I might, if I were gay and into fat people with low self-esteem.

  6. Re:One-Way Upgrade??? on Windows 10 Launches · · Score: 1

    My understanding is that you will be able to go back forever. You should be able to do it automatically. You may have to call for activation - such has always been the case since the start of activation. The one month is for an automated removal of 10 when following the upgrade path. Source: Current MVP still in the program.

  7. Re:Download the ISO on Windows 10 Launches · · Score: 1

    Or use a keyfinder app (like Magic Jellybean) and get the key.

  8. Re:Windows 10 sucks on Windows 10 Launches · · Score: 1

    We do not care if you use a Mac. We do not care if you are gay. We do not care if you are black. We do not care if you are a transsexual.

    It is you who cares enough to rant about such things. Calm down. Nobody is going to judge you over your OS. Your OS is not better than any other OS, it is just an OS that you use to get stuff done. Do you really mind that I use Linux? Does it bother you if I boot to Windows? Would you like to judge my penis while you are at it?

  9. Re:Windows 10 sucks on Windows 10 Launches · · Score: 1

    All confirmed by netcraft?

  10. Re:Windows 10 sucks on Windows 10 Launches · · Score: 1

    No, that is because your father is a rapist.

  11. Re:Windows 10 Sucks on Windows 10 Launches · · Score: 1

    I bit my tongue and installed a systemd update today. It rebooted. I did a kernel update, firmware update, and a grub update... I was not scared of those. Systemd had me a bit worried that I was going to have to fix crap. I can happily say that I did not have to kick anything at all.

  12. Yeah those companies are just paying for ads because it is tradition and not because they have millions of data points that track purchase times and places to verify those ads are watched and acted on. Yup... You are definitely right and they are wasting their money.

    You serve no valid function and are summarily dismissed. Have a day.

  13. Re:There we go again on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    Nah, the advertisers are paying. They pay the site owners/operators.

  14. Re:Here's a thought... on UK Campaign Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Delete Embarrassing Online Past · · Score: 1

    It will never be possible to scrub your internet things. I prefer it that way. Your hope is not going to change things. Right this minute someone is making a screen shot of this very thread. Why? They have no life. However? I would not be at all surprised to see such. They probably keep a nice archive on their spare hard drive. They might even have backups.

  15. Re:Here's a thought... on UK Campaign Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Delete Embarrassing Online Past · · Score: 1

    Note to self: Apply for job at copyright office.

  16. The lists are retarded. I figured I would look up someone's claim that they can not be cured. Yeah... About that? Sex offenders have a lower rate of recidivism than any other criminal except murderers. This was true even before Megan's law. This was true before the witch hunt. We may want to think about that law before we make a bunch of criminals (who have learned new skills in prison and are now angry and hopeless while free on the streets) unwilling to be idle any longer.

  17. Re:Embarrassment on UK Campaign Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Delete Embarrassing Online Past · · Score: 1

    I do not quite fit in the boomer generation. I turned 18 in 1975. (Get off my lawn. No, really, you can chill on my lawn but it would be smarter to come inside where you're welcome and it is not raining.)

    Anyhow, you're damned right I have an embarrassing past! I am pretty sure my penis was one of the first things uploaded to the internet. I drank for 40+ years. I used opiates - including IV use - for almost as long. I was a functioning addict, thank you much. Damned right, I have done some stupid shit.

    If I did not have an embarrassing past, if I had not made mistakes, how would I learn what to do?

  18. Re:Embarrassment on UK Campaign Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Delete Embarrassing Online Past · · Score: 1

    I would agree that if you like to post pictures of yourself with sharpies up your ass that is none of your employer's business.

    However if you are an asshole online you are probably just as much of an asshole in real life and your resume might not suggest that because, what the previous post was saying was, your resume was written by someone else.

    I am an asshole you insensitive, dirty bag, cow-screwing, pig-dog, clod!

    There are likely pictures of my penis online. I can not be certain. If there are? I am proud someone felt it was worthy the space to save it and even prouder that they felt it was worth sharing. Shit, just ask me and I will show you. I may show you even if you did not ask - depends on the circumstances and drugs/alcohol involved. The scary part is that I am running for state Senate.

  19. They are obviously watching otherwise they would not be paying. I suppose you know better than the experts who track these sorts of things. I am not sure why you think a company is solely motivated by greed in one thread and then presume that they are paying for ads for no reason in another. Just because you do not watch ads does not mean that they are not being watched. They are, they are selling things through them still, and this is unlikely to change in the near future. But you know better... Cute.

  20. Re: Now I won't feel guilty about using Adblock on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 2

    It is not too bad now. It is up to version 31.something. This box has the beta track on it. One has the dev track. Another is stable. Add the extension to install Chrome extensions and it is quite customizable.

  21. Re:Amazon doesn't understand helicopters on Amazon Proposes Dedicated Airspace For Drones · · Score: 1

    I am afraid I do not have that much faith in the justice system or the average person sitting on a jury any more. :/ On the other hand, I had not thought about a bird taking out a drone. That adds a new and novel way to think about things.

    I do not see anything good coming from this. When I first read about Amazon wanting to use drones I had assumed it was a joke or that they meant to get stuff to a distribution site and were talking about large drones in the future. I never read the article because I felt they could not be serious and it had to be just wishful thinking aloud on their part. I figured it was some PR person spouting gibberish...

    *sighs* I really did.

    I did not think anyone could be that dumb. I am still hoping it is a bad joke or a small follow up so that they don't look too silly when they say that they are not going to go with the drone idea.

    I am hoping...

  22. Re:Slashdot is guilty too on Advertising Companies Accused of Deliberately Slowing Page-load Times For Profit · · Score: 1

    No novella this time...

    With traffic circles (rotaries or roundabouts) and yield signs (as well as following the rules of the road) there is no need for a single stop sign which would save an immense amount of time and fuel. If you wanted you could get yield signs instead of a traffic circle and just use the rules for a multi-stop scenario (such as the rules of a four way stop). It requires educated drivers who obey the rules of the roads.

    Roads are often left with crappy sections that remain unimproved (and go without needed repairs) as it is far more likely to slow traffic down in congested areas than a speed limit sign. Speed bumps do the same thing but are actually bad for road maintenance equipment.

    Rather than improve two sections of road they will improve one. An example is when the road narrows from something akin to 4 lanes from 2. Even though plenty of traffic is going to keep going they just widen the exit road to as locals are likely to use it - even though it puts traffic into the urban areas.

    Signage, signs could be vastly improved by simply using a variety of colors and sticking to them. When you are pointing to a inner-city route from the highway, make it blue or green or something. When you are pointing to a new highway merger make it a different color, etc... Humans will easily adapt and we will be safer for it. This has been tried and shown to be successful. But, that paint is damned expensive and comes premixed. Strangely - every state pretty much has its own group at the DOT to make their signs. Georgia actually makes a bunch for other states but there is no giant vendor really. There probably should be. Then they could afford the expensive equipment to blend the paints - they could even make the paints. There is such a company but they mostly do federal signage. Why not the states? They often have people who have worked there for a long time and states want to retain control. Additionally, a lot of funding for roads comes from the federal budget.

    Want to make intersections safer? Install a center lane. Better? For the same amount of space (yes, really - look at it from above) install a rotary. "But, nobody can drive in a rotary!" They can, they will, it will improve safety and throughput.

    There is a few. I do not have a conspiracy theory. It is just protectionism and power usually. There is some incompetence and bureaucracy involved as well. Some is malicious. Usually you find that either in cities with a history of it (Chicago, New York City, and oddly Buffalo spring to mind). I never saw more graft than I saw in Buffalo. They have a "Skyway" which is a highway that runs above the city. It is great to get to Niagara. I swear the entire thing is routed along land that was owned by Important People® who made a lot of money during the project. Any expansion and changes are damned expensive and slow. It was a dumb idea to begin with. It was, however, constructed well. Top notch there from my slightly better than layman's view. I did not do construction or anything but I witnessed a lot.

  23. Re:No shit ... on Honeywell Home Controllers Open To Any Hacker Who Can Find Them Online · · Score: 1

    Nothing is hack proof if it has a connection. Nothing... Not one thing ever.

  24. Re:BSG had it right: Safe Network = No Network on Honeywell Home Controllers Open To Any Hacker Who Can Find Them Online · · Score: 1

    You are confusing nerds with geeks. Nerds may not watch television at all. Geeks watch BSG, pretend to be nerds, and bite the heads off chickens.

  25. Re:Why do you need this stuff on the internet at l on Honeywell Home Controllers Open To Any Hacker Who Can Find Them Online · · Score: 1

    I bought the domain localhost from a buddy. It works. The good news is that, for an extra $20, he configured it for me.