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Comment Re:Willing to bet.. (Score 1, Insightful) 1706

First: you may run. I may not. Bravery is sometimes described as not the absence of fear, it is the control of it.

Second: Not everybody is required to own a gun and just a couple of people in the theatre could have stopped this goon. (Also, practice can be fun.)

Third: There is a simple solution to this. If another person with a gun is pointing it at the goon who is shooting unarmed people, then you don't shoot him, you help him.
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Submission + - EFF: Americans may not know it, but many are in a face recognition database now (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by colinneagle
colinneagle writes: People are not going to, nor should they have to, start walking around outside with a bag over their head to avoid security cameras capturing images of them. Yet "face recognition allows for covert, remote and mass capture and identification of images — and the photos that may end up in a database include not just a person's face but also how she is dressed and possibly whom she is with. This creates threats to free association and free expression not evident in other biometrics," testified EFF Staff Attorney Jennifer Lynch about What Facial Recognition Technology Means for Privacy and Civil Liberties.

There are 32 states that use some form of facial recognition for DMV photos. Every day, Facebook happily slurps up and automatically scans with facial recognition software about 300 million photos that users upload to the social networking giant. "Face recognition is here to stay, and, though many Americans may not realize it, they are already in a face recognition database," Lynch said. In fact, when you stop to consider Facebook "at least 54% of the United States population already has a face print." Now it purchased Face.com which had 31 billion face images profiled.

Submission + - Man who protested TSA by stripping is acquitted by judge (oregonlive.com)

Submitted by AbrasiveCat
AbrasiveCat writes: In an update to an earlier Slashdot story http://idle.slashdot.org/story/12/04/18/1637222/man-protests-tsa-with-nudity, the Portland Oregon man who was arrested after stripping naked at a TSA checkpoint at Portland Airport was acquitted of indecent exposure charges. He successfully argued that he was protesting TSA actions, and his actions were protected speech under the Oregon Constitution.

So our answer from Alice's Restaurant for everyone to strip for TSA.
"You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them. And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement."

Comment Re:Don't know why - but I like it (Score 1) 2288

by marklark (#35897958) Attached to: Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements?

The only thing you missed is the point: GP was raised metric.

Also, unless you're using a laser interferometer or somesuch, you're not really going to measure out 0.36 extra millimetres, are you?

Real work would be done by placing the posts approximately 1' 2-1/2" apart and letting the variation in materials make up the difference.

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