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Comment: Re:Citations? They need to be sued heavily (Score 1) 505

Is there any way to get paintballs filled with regular oil-based permanent paint (like typical Krylon spray-can paint)?

There should still be. When I first started playing paintball, the only guns were cattle marking pistols that fired oil based paint and used the small CO2 cartridges. You had to shake up the tube of paintballs or they would wobble and fly in a curve when you fired them. Hurt a lot more when you got hit too.

Comment: Re:Oh great ... (Score 3, Informative) 94

I think this whole snooping on the reporters thing has them deciding to fight back and send a big "F you".

Double plus good on this then. The media has been too damn cozy with both corporations and governments for a while now. Their relationship should be adversarial rather than cooperative.

Comment: Re:One teensy detail (Score 1) 392

by Fnord666 (#43737073) Attached to: Why We Should Build a Supercomputer Replica of the Human Brain

You may be able to simulate all the basic mechanics of a brain and an organism by modeling all the neurons and synapses, but I suspect that the soul and the spark of sentience probably rests in quantum mechanics, string theory, multiverses, or something similar that we presently don't understand. You can build a Watson, you may be able to pass a Turing test but it wont have intuition or inspiration. Nor will it be alive or a real intelligence. It certainly might pass for an "artificial" intelligence.

Why do you think that this spark of sentience would be limited to organic, human brains? If such a thing exists, I see no reason why a silicon mind wouldn't be just as suitable a vessel for this spark.

Comment: Re:Computer Trespass (Score 1) 223

by Fnord666 (#43604713) Attached to: E-Sports League Stuffed Bitcoin Mining Code Inside Client Software

This sounds an awful lot like computer trespass: coercing somebody else's computer into doing something on your behalf. If an individual pulled this stunt, he or she would be in prison.

Based on this section of ESEA's statement, it was an individual who pulled this stunt.

It came to our attention last night, however, that an employee who was involved in the test has been using the test code for his own personal gain since April 13, 2013. What transpired the past two weeks is a case of an employee acting on his own and without authorization to access our community through our company's resources.

Comment: Re:exactly the same as Blockbuster (Score 1) 371

by Fnord666 (#43555353) Attached to: Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads

I still have to pay off the phone.

This is one of the points that the AG contends is unclear and/or deceptive. Specifically

and it will no longer fail to "disclose that customers who terminate their T-Mobile wireless service before their device is paid off will have to pay the balance due on the phone at the time of cancellation."

From your statement above I'm not sure you realize this. The terms of the "loan" for the handset are contingent on you maintaining service with T-Mobile. By tying these two together the AG feels this violates the "No Contract" advertising.

Comment: Re:Profile of attacker already available.. (Score 1) 461

by Fnord666 (#43479153) Attached to: Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President

Also... what exactly does skin contact with ricin do?
According to this, nothing:

The greatest danger from ricin is inhalation. The LD50 (50% chance of a dose being lethal) for ricin inhalation is 22 micrograms per kg. For an 80kg man this would be just 1.76 milligrams. Accidentally cough while opening the letter and its all over. Just pulling the letter out of the envelope would create enough airborne particles to be dangerous.

What I don't understand is this: Does someone think that the President of the United States actually opens his own mail?

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