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Comment Re:Not just cars - in many home goods like furnitu (Score 3, Informative) 60

Correction. US Government agencies can pass regulations with the force of law, completely outside of their authority. Only Congressional (CRA) and legal challenges serve to bound that. The regulations often cause irreversible effects, helpful, harmful, or otherwise in the meantime, even if they are eventually found to be an overreach, which rarely happens.

The Congressional review authority is rarely used, and even more rarely is it successful, since the president (with vested interested) can veto it. In effect, a veto proof majority is required for CRA to be successful.

For example, under the current congress, only 47 items have been looked at, 9 have been approved by both bodies of Congress, and all have been vetoed.

Comment Refer to 10 U.S. Code  246 (Score 2) 503

10 U.S. Code § 246 - Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.

Comment Re:$36? (Score 1) 646

5 button Simplex locks have just over 1000 combinations... meaning on average you can find the right one in about 500 tries. At 2 seconds per try (which is actually rather slow after you get the hang of it), iterating through takes about 15 minutes to get in. If one knows the general pattern used by listening one time (two sets of presses) this further reduces the search space.

I hope your daughter never has to be left alone more than 15 minutes.

If they had only used a 6'th button on a standard Simplex lock...

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