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Comment Re:And yet... (Score 1) 2987

Look up New Hampshire gun laws and tell me it's difficult, because it's not. I don't even need a permit and there's no waiting period, I could get one right now! It would be easier for me to run out and buy a handgun than it would be to buy a Wii-U deluxe gaming system.

Don't say it's not easy, because it's so very easy.

Comment Re:And yet... (Score 1) 2987

Still less people killed and not for a lack of trying. Americans are lazy, it's a lot easier to squeeze a trigger than to run around trying to melee everyone. Plus with a knife you actually have to face your victims. But with an assault rifle you can just fire it all around you and have no idea how many people you killed, or who you killed.

Using bombs are another way to kill your victims without facing them. I suspect a lot of these lunatics don't have the guts to face their victims. That takes a special kind of crazy.

Comment Re:And yet... (Score 1) 2987

We don't have to make it easier for psychos to kill large numbers of people on a whim.

We should at least ban assault rifles. You do not need an assault rifle unless there's a zombie apocalypse, and that's not happening. And you don't need high capacity magazines either. Give people a chance of rushing you between clips.

Sure killings will still happen, but not as many and amazingly enough there were probably plenty of people who tried and failed before they were stopped. I'm guessing that most psychos with an assault rifle successfully killed someone once they got their finger on the trigger.

Comment Re:Careful you don't run afoul (Score 1) 299

If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

It should be obvious that if nobody was allowed to have a gun, then gun packing criminals would be able to target anyone who doesn't look like an undercover police officer. Just the possibility of someone having a gun probably makes them more cautious. I might not have a gun, but I would not like to advertise to the world that I do not have a gun. I might have one, or maybe not. If someone stops by your house and asks you to sign a petition against gun ownership, you might not want to sign it.

Comment Re:Careful you don't run afoul (Score 2) 299

So when the invader comes you have to go get the gun out of the safe before he shoots you? I hope you remember the code under that kind of pressure!

By the same logic, a panic room would be much more effective.

You don't put guns in the gun safe. You booby trap the gun safe for when they beat the code out of you.

Comment Re: Denier (Score 1) 605

If you go to a hospital in an economically depressed area, you have a lot of people coming in with trivial issues that have no place in an ER. They're not paying for it, why should they care? And they have nothing else to do, so waiting in ER for a runny nose isn't a problem for them. This is our future with universal health care.

Instead, go to one in an affluent community and you will see lower wait times and people coming in with more serious health problems.

Comment Re:Q on Skyfall? Not so bright. (Score 1) 441

I'm assuming he didn't just hook it up raw, and that there was some sort of protection hardware/software you couldn't easily see that Silva's computer was able to get around. I think the incident was supposed to be more indicative of Silva's competence than Q's.

What I found far less believable was that the key for this brilliant hacker's "polymorphic encryption" (the tangled web of lines, shapes, and scrolling hex code) had the cipher key stored in plaintext, which was also easily visible to a virtually computer-illiterate old man in a stream of hex values.

Why hook it up? You would think they would disassemble the disk, then scan the platters for old and new data.

The plain text password was funny.

Comment Q on Skyfall? Not so bright. (Score 3, Funny) 441

Skyfall spoiler!!!! stop reading you have not seen the movie yet !

They referenced Q on Skyfall as an example. Idiot hooked up Silva's laptop to the MI6 network and then powered it up. An experienced IT person would know that would be a very stupid thing to do.

If you work in IT, learning new technology is part of your career, it never stops, you're doing it all the time.We know the old tech and the new tech. Anyone who states otherwise has no idea what they are talking about.

Comment Re:Wireless (Score 1) 168

Also, if you have one of their older routers, your wifi speed will suck at 802.11g speeds(~28Mbps). You might have to get tech support to ship you a newer router that supports 802.11n to get faster speeds over wifi.

Comment Re:Silly (Score 1) 388

Now, the major problem with things like soda isn't that it is soda, it's that it is a high calorie beverage that gives you zero nutritional value. That means to get proteins and nutrients, you have to eat other things which also have calories and you will become hungry for those things because your body won't allow you to fall over dead without letting you know something is missing. You get fat from soda because you have to eat other things with it. That goes even for diet soda (to a lesser extent). It also goes for anything that is high density fat/carbs, but lacks nutrition you need.

So, if BPA has made an epidemic of anything, I'd say it was more like an epidemic of being "slightly chubby", but not one of obesity.

I agree that non-diet soda is very bad for you. But the real problem is that sugar drinks allow you to induce ridiculous amounts of sugar into your system at a very fast rate and unless you have an urgent need for it, it's probably going to fat, not to mention the insulin issues afterwards. Non-sugar soda doesn't have this problem.

Fruit juice is bad for the same reason. If you ate the fruit instead of extracting the sweet juice directly from it and drinking it, your body would process it over a longer period of time instead of giving you a quick sugar rush.

Comment Re:Silly (Score 1) 388

Looks like you were modded down for telling the truth. Makes you wonder how many "fat asses" are on /.

Maybe sending BPA supplements to places suffering from famine would help?

Does a "Hormonal Imbalance" allow one to defy the first law of thermodynamics?

Comment Re:Silly (Score 2) 388

When I was a kid, the McDonald's large was the size of their smallest adult cup today, and the largest sandwich you could buy was a single quarter pound of meat.

At least as far back as 1982 you could get a double quarter pounder with cheese, you just had to ask for it and they would make it for you. You would be surprised at how flexable they can be.

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