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Comment Re:Well (Score 5, Insightful) 510

any company that wants to start a taxi company can start a service

You're really naive. Why don't you start Shavano's Taxi in NYC? Think you can? Taxi service is highly regulated everywhere. The prices are set by the local authorities, who have the ability to deny licensing to anybody they want to. It's a rigged game.

Comment Re:It's not JUST EE's. . . (Score 1) 401

Most security gigs are tailored around having a military background. You might not have noticed yet but give it another 10 years and you'll start to get the picture. (Sort of like being ex-military is an unwritten prerequisite for a lot of police forces now.) That's why the TLA agencies (and cops for that matter) all have that "kill dem all, let gwad sort 'em out" attitude. (see sig below)

Comment Re: Uncomfortable Relationship (Score 1) 250

My only knowledge of this subject came from a 45 minute long class I had to take before getting my concealed carry permit. It was a pretty casual overview of Florida law.

Here's the actual relevant Flarda law, and it appears to my non-lawyer eyes that having a posted sign is sufficient grounds for having someone arrested. Your state is likely different, but we are pretty liberal here with regard to guns, so if your state is different, it's probably MORE stringent, not less.

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0800-0899/0810/Sections/0810.09.html

Comment Re: Uncomfortable Relationship (Score 2) 250

You can't just define an arbitrary access list in your head and call something private. It is or isn't.

Wrong.

You can have public access but still limit that access in any way you want (unless you are some sort of entity which is required to conform to equal opportunity laws.) Next time you go get your pork skins at walmart, take a look by the door, and you'll see a sign that says something like "no firearms allowed on premises". They can do that. If you're caught violating that private policy, you can be arrested for trespassing.

Same thing at disney world.

Submission + - Quick look: 10 cool analog computers (networkworld.com)

coondoggie writes: Analog computers had their heyday from about 1940 to the late 1960s but their important legacy lives on. According to a Wikipedia definition, “An analog computer is a form of computer that uses the continuously changeable aspects of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities to model the problem being solved. In contrast, digital computers represent varying quantities symbolically, as their numerical values change.” Most were designed for very specific applications, like heavy-duty math or flight component simulation. Here’s a look at just a few — there were many, many more examples – of some of the cooler analog computers.

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