Hint of Herring - Slashdot User

Comment Re:But ... (Score 1) 846

by Hint of Herring on Friday July 27, 2012 @03:59AM (#40788017) Attached to: The World's First 3D-Printed Gun

The death stats you list are GUN death stats. Of course places with more guns will have more gun related deaths. Those numbers aren't even homicides. They are total death rates including accidents and suicides. Not to mention the data is ridiculously out of date. The Canada data is from 1992 which is before most Canadian gun legislation was even in place. So basically your numbers have nothing to do with the rest of your post.

Gun laws are so varied in the states that it doesn't make any sense to compare at the national level. If you look at the state by state breakdown, the states with the most restrictive gun laws are also the ones with the highest murder rates. The District of Columbia completely banned handguns until 2008, but had the highest murder rate by a lot. To the tune of 46.4 per 100,000 in 2004.

Compare that to the states with the loosest gun laws and you'll see they often have rates in the 1 or 2 per 100,000 range.

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Submission + - Fly-By-Wire Contributed to Air France 447 Disaster

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Saturday April 28, 2012 @04:56PM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Telegraph reports that although fly-by-wire technology has huge advantages, Airbus’s 'brilliant’ aircraft design may have contributed to one of the world’s worst aviation disasters and the deaths of all 228 passengers onboard Air France Flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. While there is no doubt that at least one of AF447’s pilots made a fatal and sustained mistake, the errors committed by the pilot doing the flying were not corrected by his more experienced colleagues because they did not know he was behaving in a manner bound to induce a stall and the reason for that fatal lack of awareness lies partly in the design of the control stick – the “side stick” – used in all Airbus cockpits. “Most Airbus pilots I know love it because of the reliable automation that allows you to manage situations and not be so fatigued by the mechanics of flying," says Stephen King of the British Airline Pilots’ Association. But the fact that the second pilot’s stick stays in neutral whatever the input to the other is not a good thing. “It’s not immediately apparent to one pilot what the other may be doing with the control stick, unless he makes a big effort to look across to the other side of the flight deck, which is not easy. In any case, the side stick is held back for only a few seconds, so you have to see the action being taken.”"

Comment Re:Roundabouts (Score 0) 299

by Hint of Herring on Saturday February 18, 2012 @09:57PM (#39089787) Attached to: Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead

Sounds like you're part of the problem...

Philippines Call Centers Overtake India 165

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday November 26, 2011 @01:51PM from the help-is-just-a-hemisphere-away dept.

New submitter ajitk writes "This year, call centers in the Philippines employed 50,000 more people than those in India. From the New York Times article: 'More Filipinos — about 400,000 — than Indians now spend their nights talking to mostly American consumers, industry officials said, as companies like AT&T, JPMorgan Chase and Expedia have hired call centers here, or built their own. ... Nevertheless, the financial benefits of outsourcing remain strong enough that the call center business is growing at 25 to 30 percent a year here in the Philippines, compared to 10 to 15 percent in India. In spite of its recent growth, the Philippines is a much smaller destination for outsourcing more broadly — India earns about 10 times as much revenue from outsourcing.'"

WikiLeaks Starts Mass Mirroring Effort 586

Posted by timothy on Saturday December 04, 2010 @08:01PM from the mirror-mirror-on-the-net dept.

A beautiful mind writes "WikiLeaks is asking for hosting space on Unix-based servers. The replication is implemented by a rsync+ssh based push that copies static files to a known path, authenticated via the private half of this public key. The complete website is a few GB in size, making it feasible to replicate on a large scale. The mirror list will be published when the number of independent mirrors reaches 50." Note: wikileaks.ch seems to be down for the moment, but eventually the above links may require that instead of 213.251.145.96. See also this WikiLeaks address finder. And for even more news, try this Twitter search.

Comment Re:If it violates an amendment (Score 2, Insightful) 312

by Hint of Herring on Saturday August 28, 2010 @04:20PM (#33405068) Attached to: Full-Body Scanners Deployed In Street-Roving Vans

I have absolutely no problem with using this technology at our borders, scanning cars parked on the departures curb at the airport, etc. I wouldn't want it roving through my neighborhood, though, and it probably won't because good luck prosecuting anything uncovered by this under normal circumstances (i.e. where Kyllo applies).

I would be all for it if it actually meant AT THE BORDER. The problem lies in "at the border" being legally defined as "within 100 miles of the border". According to the ACLU, two thirds of US citizens live within that range.

Rob Malda Answers Your Questions 221

Posted by Roblimo on Friday October 12, 2007 @01:22PM from the pants-are-still-optional-but-not-for-you dept.

Last week hundreds of you posted questions for Slashdot's CmdrTaco, AKA Rob Malda. Today we present his answers to 10 of the highest-moderated questions. CT: You can continue to sign up for 10 year anniversary parties but we're already working on shipping shirts so you won't be able to get a care package... but you can still try to run for the big grand prize by just taking videos of pictures or just doing something cool at your parties to prove that we should have been there.

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