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Comment Re:Insanity (Score 1) 412

Long time ago I has some friend (not partner; I am natural) who was GAY. And he told me that GAY community is quite secretive.

So, I believe that all the Gay Pride movement as well as anti-GAY campaign has no connection with GAYs. It's an organized and well paid aggression against traditional moral from one side and an attempt to raise popularity as a conservative politician from the other one.

Some time ago, Putin required all political organizations obtaining money from abroad to be registered as such. It was a brilliant move of a Real Tyrant: it appeared that almost ALL the political opposition is on USA payroll.

Comment Re:Sounds good to me. (Score 0) 412

1. We have NOT annexed Crimea, we just a) Took it from unlawful possession of other party or b) Agreed to will of Crimean people to become part of Russia. Choose any variant you like, both are OK: The transfer of Crimea from Russian SFSR to Ukrainian SFSR has been done with violation of applicable laws, and will of Crimean people is as valid as will of Kosovar people which you supported when it was good for you.

2. I cannot know for sure who shot the airliner. But what I know for sure: The nominal route goes over Southern Crimea. There was a command from Dnepropetrovsk center to move the route to the war zone, and no Dnepropetrovsk records were given to investigation and no Dnepropetrovsk control people were kept for investigation. It's enough for me to understand who shot it. Also, the BUK rocket weights about 1 ton. When it starts it roars as hell and produces a pillar of smoke. It's impossible to miss a pillar of smoke in a daytime where every dog has a camera in it's cellphone. No pillar of smoke was ever seen.

3. I have a freedom to keep a veggie field and to buy raw milk from my neighbor. You haven't, due to Monsanto (Yes, I read your survivalist sites). I will survive in any crisis, you will not. And all your freedoms are nil and void if you have no freedom to survive.

And BTW you have a Second Amendment. Is it possible to bear arms traveling from, say, New York to San Francisco?

Comment Re:Takes attention away from Putin (Score 1) 412

It's just because of this I don't vote for Putin: He promised to be a "Butcher of Grozny" and I voted for him because in 1990-s I was really tired of reading everyday news about criminal bands from there. You Americans are shaken with a single Boston terror act by Tsarnaev, now please imagine similar acts every day. Instead, he became "Buyer of Grozny", spending terrible amounts of our tax money to bribe Chechens into submission. No wonder they vote for him.

Comment Re:Takes attention away from Putin (Score 0) 412

The price of oil has dropped due to need to punish us Russians for Crimea. Your US fracking companies that go bankrupt in the process are "collateral damage". They need US$80 per barrel to survive. Brent is 50. Sorry but Crimea is ours, period.

The second. We have rushed to supermarkets in panic. I personally have bought a UHD TV for use as a display, a last model of video card for it, a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera and lenses and all accessories for it. And I am a poor scientist with less than average wages. I believe it's quite different from the third world crowds buying flour, isn't it?

Third. I personally hate Putin for being not enough Putin, not too much Putin.

And the last. The persons that have ruined the Russian economy are seen better from Russia than from USA. And, which is quite expected, they all have graduated from USA universities.

Comment Re:Here it is. Hope you can read Russian. Re:sourc (Score 5, Informative) 412

From Wikipedia:
(F64) Gender identity disorders
        (F64.0) Transsexualism
        (F64.1) Dual-role transvestism
        (F64.2) Gender identity disorder of childhood
(F65) Disorders of sexual preference
        (F65.0) Sexual fetishism
        (F65.1) Fetishistic transvestism
        (F65.2) Exhibitionism
        (F65.3) Voyeurism
        (F65.4) Paedophilia
        (F65.5) Sadomasochism
        (F65.6) Multiple disorders of sexual preference
        (F65.8) Other disorders of sexual preference Frotteurism Necrophilia Zoophilia
(F66) Psychological and behavioural disorders associated with sexual development and orientation
        (F66.0) Sexual maturation disorder
        (F66.1) Ego-dystonic sexual orientation
        (F66.2) Sexual relationship disorder
        (F66.8) Other psychosexual development disorders
        (F66.9) Psychosexual development disorder, unspecified

Quotes from ICD-10 itself:
Fetish objects vary in their importance to the individual. In some cases they simply serve to enhance sexual excitement achieved in ordinary ways (e.g. having the partner wear a particular garment).
Sexual orientation by itself is not to be regarded as a disorder.

In other words: If you are GAY you may drive. But if you are excited when your wife wears high heels then you are disqualified.

Full disclosure: I live in Russia.

Comment Re:Do it in your free time (Score 1) 300

To me, nothing seems to prevent life from starting as large as galaxy-sized

For evolution, beings should multiply. Earthly microbes need from 15 minutes to 24 hours to double their ranks. And it took 3.8e9 years and at least 3.8e9*365 divisions to produce a sentient being. If something galaxy-sized can multiply then it needs at least the time the light travels along it (Really, much more time). It means that something 1000-ly in diameter can procreate not more than 13.8e6 times from the Big Bang. There is quite a difference between 3.8e9*365 and 13.8e6.

(I don't discuss the fate and visibility of 2**13.8e6 galaxy-sized beings that were born and died in the process).

Comment Re:Why is this allowed in the first place? (Score 1) 71

Triangulation device with good resolution is by necessity much bigger than the wavelength since it uses directional antennas. And it requires you to rotate it (See the "Fox Hunt"). The trilateration device would be nicer but it works in well synchronized packs only and doesn't seem to be produced easily. And you need a stationary system that stores the history in order to suspect a new base.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

Comment Re:SDR? (Score 1) 71

There are some interesting chips, i mean Silicon Laboratories EzRadioPro Si4464 and the similar ones. They receive a GMSK and I think it's possible to tune them to 900-MHz GSM band. Unfortunately I have no idea about 1800 MHz bands. The specialized GSM modules look more interesting and require less work.

Comment Stingray locator? (Score 1) 71

Some time ago I have worked with a cellular modem. The cellular modem has lots of AT commands including the ones that show the actual frequency, base IDs, power and all this stuff. I also have looked at cellular modules for Arduino, and they have such commands too. I've seen no cellphones that have such functions (I don't count smartphones since nobody knows what kind of malware are there).

In every location there is a fixed set of visible bases. There may be some bases visible intermittently but such bases would have a low power level (Stingrays have a high power level by definition). And this is the one of lots of methods of stingray detection.

What does it mean? That it's possible to assemble the Arduino or PIC with such module and make a simple cellphone with Stingray detector and everything else you like (including the scrambler). Since you need a programmer to load a program such device would be absolutely immune to malware, too.

Comment AMD Vision (Score 1) 97

4 years ago I bought a HP laptop with AMD Vision. I believed it will work OK under FreeBSD since I had some good previous experience with both AMD processors and ATI video. I was wrong. AMD Vision was not fully supported; AMD Vision needs KMS which was not implemented in FreeBSD that time; and AMD Vision uses 2 graphic chips and unused one cannot be idled by any means. FreeBSD bug report didn't help. HP support plainly refused to talk about anything except Windows (Including their own bios).

So I use Lenovo laptops now, and HP is used as server and is hot as hell.

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