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Comment Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership (Score 1) 1232

unless they are trying to steal guns. Guns are worth a lot on the black market (Im assuming, but it seems reasonable), especially good ones in excellent condition. All they have to do is wait for you to leave your house. Unless you're a agroaphobe, we all leave sometime.

A smart band of crooks could hit houses with a week of recon easily enough. Most gun cases or lockboxes are either portable or can be broken into without much effort.

Comment Re:So Proud of Gun Ownership (Score 1) 1232

A trained soldier with an assault weapon who has no fear of hitting innocent bystanders would mow down teacher with guns easily enough.

But arming teachers is just a silly idea. A shooter can just as easily spray a classroom from the outside, before a teacher even sees them. Unless you are going to put up bullet proof glass in all schools, or concrete walls. At which point schools have become prisons.

As the GP posted, the rarity of these event seems to be being ignored at the moment. It is just not that big a deal when looked at rationally. There are so many other ways we can save more lives. ROI my friends.

Comment Re:Its becoming clear (Score 1) 306

If belittling others is fun to you, you need to reevaluate your priorities.

The religious need our help, they were raised with a handicap which they need to overcome. Alternately we can leave them alone with this limitation as long as it doesn't affect us personally. Honestly I see both sides of the argument and respect the points both sides have.

The issue is not whether religion needs treatment, but whether we have the right to force that treatment on others.

United Kingdom

Electrical Grid Hum Used To Time Locate Any Digital Recording 168

illtud writes "It appears that the Metropolitan Police in London have been recording the frequency of the mains supply for the past 7 years. With this, they claim to be able to pick up the hum from any digital recording and tell when the recording was made. From the article: 'Comparing the unique pattern of the frequencies on an audio recording with a database that has been logging these changes for 24 hours a day, 365 days a year provides a digital watermark: a date and time stamp on the recording.'"
Crime

Search For "Foolproof Suffocation" Missed In Casey Anthony Case 379

Hugh Pickens writes "The Orlando Sentinel reports that a google search was made for the term 'foolproof suffocation' on the Anthony family's computer the day Casey Anthony's 2-year-old daughter Caylee was last seen alive by her family — a search that did not surface at Casey Anthony's trial for first degree murder. In the notorious 31 days which followed, Casey Anthony repeatedly lied about her and her daughter's whereabouts and at Anthony's trial, her defense attorney argued that her daughter drowned accidentally in the family's pool. Anthony was acquitted on all major charges in her daughter's death, including murder. Though computer searches were a key issue at Anthony's murder trial, the term 'foolproof suffocation' never came up. 'Our investigation reveals the person most likely at the computer was Casey Anthony,' says investigative reporter Tony Pipitone. Lead sheriff's Investigator Yuri Melich sent prosecutors a spreadsheet that contained less than 2 percent of the computer's Internet activity that day and included only Internet data from the computer's Internet Explorer browser – one Casey Anthony apparently stopped using months earlier — and failed to list 1,247 entries recorded on the Mozilla Firefox browser that day — including the search for 'foolproof suffocation.' Prosecutor Jeff Ashton said in a statement to WKMG that it's 'a shame we didn't have it. (It would have) put the accidental death claim in serious question.'"

Comment Re:LOL, American "democracy"! (Score 1) 584

Then you are the exception. Voter fraud in the US is VERY rare. And statistically speaking meaningless.

Which is the point. The only reason ANY hurdle to voting should be in place is if there is a risk of fraud. If not, then open and easy should be the default. This is what happens when one party tries to manipulate the system to increase their chances of winning. It hurts all of us. Voter registraiton is adequate in the VAST majority of situations to maintain a fair election. Even if you multiply the voter fraud reports by 10x you are still talking about a statistically insignificant number. Compare that to the idea of ANY number of people not being able to vote when they should have, and you will start to see the problem.

And if you think that this is REALLY about non citizens voting, here is a good article on the results in Florida and Colorado voter role purges.

http://www.npr.org/2012/09/20/161437481/voter-purges-under-review-ahead-of-election-day

Comment Re:it's too fast (Score 5, Interesting) 500

Wish I had mod points for the parent here.

The key point HFT people keep harping on is increased liquidity. The issue is that at some point, a point we reached long ago, that increased liquidity became meaningless to investors and the HFT tax became a burden. Even institutional investors pay this tax. Only other HFT traders care now.

They are skimming money off the top, adding ZERO value to the market, and pissing off just about everyone.

But they have the money, so they can prevent regulations from limiting this... (plus regulaiton are always bad, right?)

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