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Comment Nonsense... it is 100% effective (Score 5, Interesting) 490

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/07/f-22-germans/

"In mid-June, 150 German airmen and eight twin-engine, non-stealthy Typhoons arrived at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska for an American-led Red Flag exercise involving more than 100 aircraft from Germany, the U.S. Air Force and Army, NATO, Japan, Australia and Poland. Eight times during the two-week war game, individual German Typhoons flew against single F-22s in basic fighter maneuvers meant to simulate a close-range dogfight.

The results were a surprise to the Germans and presumably the Americans, too. “We were evenly matched,” Maj. Marc Gruene told Combat Aircraft’s Jamie Hunter. The key, Gruene said, is to get as close as possible to the F-22 and stay there. “They didn’t expect us to turn so aggressively.”"

Comment Potentially a felony (Score 1) 547

A friend of mine was planning on leaving work and wanted to do the same thing.

I advised her that on a properly set up IT framework, their IT staff would know
she deleted files. Unfortunately, once a file is deleted, there is little evidence
to show, that you had the right to delete it. FWIW, since it resides on their
computer... you really can't call it a personal doc anymore.

I told her, open the files you want to delete in a text editor and fill the file with
zeros instead.

As any true geek knows... this is still 'deleting', but with much less of what would
appear to be malice or intent. Plus, modifying a file might not trigger the same
flags that a delete would.

Of course, all the above is moot, if the company employs SVN, Git or any other
versioning methods.

-AI

Comment Re:My little sister picked my BB gun's trigger loc (Score 3, Interesting) 646

The trick is to teach kids how to handle the gun so that you take away the mystery. When I grew up we had guns in the house and not locked up at all. My dad's shotgun and hunting rifle generally were leaning up in a corner. No trigger locks. If he'd been hunting earlier that day they may very well be loaded.

It was like that from birth till I moved out. Wanna know why me and my siblings didn't die horrible deaths? Because we didn't feel a need to secretly "play" with the gun. If I wanted to go out and shoot it all I had to do was ask and my dad would take me out shooting. Not only that, but during those shooting sessions he taught me exactly how the gun worked, how to safely load and unload it, and how to handle it. Even if I HAD handled the gun while he was gone I was perfectly capable to doing so safely.

As they say: if you have a pool in the backyard, which do you think would be more effective: Putting a fence around it, or teaching your kids to swim?

Wish we could score to a +10.

Education is the key to most 'problems'.

My dad let me shoot a nice big magnum when I was really little. KA-POW!

Wasn't about to touch ANY gun after that.

Then when I was old enough, he took me out, taught me how to
use a gun, clean it, actually hit things with it.

And best of all, he let me shoot a pew, pew, .22

I thought... what a bastard. Not all guns will break your arms? Lol.

-AI

Comment Re:Bla Bla Bla.... (Score 1) 181

The author can wax poetic all over it. I think it's worthless garbage. So much so that I now filter my facebook stream and have it hide anything posted by friends that has the word "Shared" in it or "Liked" in it.

I personally look at this new trend as proof that Facebook has jumped the shark like MySpace did. so the next big Exodus is about to happen to the next social website service....

Seconded...

and please alert your single lady friends (who am I kidding) that when they start to put
those sappy ass, trust or relationship or the meaning of love crap, we get it... someone
shat on you and now you're depressed... thanks for sharing it with your 60 friends.

BTW. Didja know only a tiny percentage of your "friends" see your posts?

-AI

Comment Re:Glacially slow news day? (Score 1) 196

I thought that stopped to be news after the first 20 or so TV mysteries where the police requested the phone details of the murder suspect, so it MUST have been around the first half of the 80s.

What is really difficult is going thru life 'with at least half a brain'... and then realizing
you're a half up on everyone else around you.

-AI

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