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Comment Re:Fuck Greenpeace (Score 1) 252

Your last sentence is quite ironic (I have little to no idea what you were talking about), but I thoroughly enjoyed your post.

Keep it up, whatever it is (I believe "it" = framing various parties as D&D entities and then, somehow, performing mathematical calculations based on the words describing moral direction, resulting in nonsensical results?).

"Sea Ranger" was my favorite part.

Comment Re:How does an automated shelf work? (Score 1) 106

The shelves come to the human picker with the items for a particular order.

http://www.kivasystems.com/sol...

They describe is as "Kiva is the ultimate goods-to-man (goods-to-person) automation system."

Now they want to replace the word "man" or "person" with "robot".

The next step from there is to automate stocking of the shelves (I'm would bet the shelves come to the loading area when there are items available to resupply them).

Comment Re:We need a movie to spread the word (Score 1) 238

Unfortunately, Real Genius suffers badly from horrific acting (the young teenager and the girl, not to mention most of the others), some terrible scenes (the water party takes the cake), and an unappealing 1980's shooting style that dates the movie badly.

But, the movie holds a very special place in my heart, I love it. Actually, it holds a very special nostalgic place in my heart, my memory of watching it a lot of times a long time ago are special to me.

About a year ago I tried to watch it again, and within 20 minutes I realized I had to stop. I was going to ruin my memories of the movie, as my appreciation of quality acting and good production values had changed considerably.

I love to replay it in my mind though, but never actually watch it...

Always check your optics.

Comment Swiss Banks? (Score 2, Insightful) 335

So are we working to hack Swiss banks or other off-shore financial institutions, looking for tax evasion by US citizens?

It would be a dragnet, but we know there is tax evasion occurring.

This would seem reasonable if the precedent stands. Especially if the evidence can be used for further warrants.

I need to watch Sneakers again...

Comment Re:This makes sense. (Score 1) 134

Taking it a little further, but still not too complicated for advanced physical security:
1. Require HR be present to open the door. This prevents security conspiracy to enter. And if HR conspires then:
2. Have an alert sent to the "owner" of the system, automatically. Head of HR controls the automatic alerts.
3. Control when security can access physical security recording tapes (if ever). HR or even another C-Level should be present outside of "swap the backups" time.

It wouldn't be harder to be even more strict, and not that expensive. And this is off the top of my head, and I haven't done much physical security.

Comment Re:Unlimited = No Sharing (Score 1) 209

T-Mobile doesn't care if you tether/hotspot (since March):
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2...

I didn't even know their policy and tether regularly, but not for large transfer communications on my non-root Nexus 5. Shoot, the carrier can't even prevent tethering on the Nexus 5, it's built into the operating system (and my phone was a private purchase). I'm guessing the carrier can tell if you are tethering, I'm not sure, but then again it doesn't matter to me.

T-Mobile's coverage isn't the best (AT&T has that in my experience, especially outside of cities), but I've seen noticeable rural coverage improvements in the last two years (around the St. Louis area).

Comment Re:Update to Godwin's law? (Score 1) 575

I read the PDF a couple of times, and in terms of suspicion indicators, it seems pretty reasonable to me. Especially since it is specifically for military surplus stores. I would expect more indicators for gun stores to be honest (although the surplus stores I have visited never carried ammo).

There are a couple of things I find comical or don't like:
Suspicion Indicator: Have missing hand/fingers... I laughed out loud at that, then got a little bothered that people with those conditions would be singled out. I would be much less bothered (even supportive) if it mentioned missing body parts that were fresh (bandaged). Chemical burns seems like a reasonable suspicion to me.

Suspicion Indicator: Insists on paying with cash. That shouldn't be an indicator in my opinion. But if combined with some other indicators, it is something to be aware of. And the word "insists" is important, if I am paying with cash I don't insist anything, I just pay. If one were to bring it up by insisting, that would be weird (an indicator).

Bulk Purchase: Meals Ready to Eat (MREs). Having a long lasting food stash is important to me, and I have a considerable collection of MREs and dehydrated foods. I use them while camping so they turn over (I buy the cheap MREs, the older ones). I also have multiple water filters, tons of replacement filter, and other assorted "let's go" stuff.

Otherwise everything seems pretty straightforward. If one mentions violence or aren't familiar with things you are purchasing then I would say it is a fair indicator.

And I don't see the Constitution mentioned, only anti-US commentary is called out.

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