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Comment Re:Sounds like win-win to me! (Score 1) 666

You have to live in a state that allows a class C weapon. This includes fully automatic firearms. If you live in such states, you can buy any fully automatic firearm from a licensed dealer regardless of the age of the firearm.

If you buy a pre 1986 device you can purchase it in any state provided you pass the background checks and pay your money.

Comment Re:I must have the enzyme for french fries. (Score 1) 309

I think it's obvious that the bacteria are transferred after birth.

The real story behind this article is the 'lateral gene transfer between strictly aquatic bacteria and human intestinal bacteria'.
This article makes it seem like 'Japanese Guts Are Made For Sushi' is the story. But anyone who is exposed to these bacteria and has a 'sushi' diet will have these enzymes in their gut.

Comment Re:Ah, so it is the bias, not the money you object (Score 4, Interesting) 973

Pure horse shit.

Did you listen to the radio chatter? Did you read the captions supplied?

Once again, for the obtuse who refuse to look, listen, and think:

That gunship was called in by a ground unit, Hotel 26, which was under fire. Bullets were being fired at a US ground unit from this location. The gunship came in, and cleared away armed personnel. In fact, that reporter was embedded with an enemy unit, just like reporters have been embedded with US forces. The only mistake made in the entire video was the identification of a camera as an RPG.

Personally, if it were my call, I probably wouldn't have fired on the van. I say, "probably". I might have, had I actually been there. But, the van had no internationally recognized markings on it - no Red Cross, no Red Crescent. I saw people in a van aiding and abetting a member of an armed group that had fired upon our side on the ground.

Unless and until you understand that Hotel 26 had taken fire from this area, and almost certainly THESE ARMED PEOPLE, then you have zero understanding of what you saw on the video.

Comment Re:Too bad we don't have rules to deal with this (Score 1) 839

Have the light lean forward when a good bit of the time they are strung from wires above. Couple that with the wind which is driving the snow onto the lights and your engineering fix just broke.

How about going back in time to flags that say stop and go. They are even color coded and can be lit with a single lamp.

No that wouldn't work either. People forget that they need to pay attention while driving. Driving in snow, ice, high winds, rain, etc. just means you have to pay more attention. Turn down the radio, hang up the phone, put the coffee in the cup holder and pay attention to what you are doing.

If the traffic light is obstructed or you can't tell what color it is, slow down! The correct answer is not to speed up and pretend you are the only person on the road.

Networking

Submission + - Handmade vs Commercially Produced Ethernet Cables 2

An anonymous reader writes: We have a T1 line coming into our satellite office and we rely fairly heavily on it to transfer large amounts of data over a VPN to the head office across the country. Recently, we decided to upgrade to a 20 Mbit line. Being the lone IT guy here, it fell on me to run cable from the ISP's box to our server room so I went out and bought a spool of Cat6. I mentioned the purchase and the plan to run the cable myself to my boss in head office and in an emailed response he stated that it's next to impossible to create quality cable (ie: cable that will pass a Time Domain Reflectometer test) by hand without expensive dies, special Ethernet jacks and special cable. He even went so far as to say that handmade cable couldn't compare to even the cheapest Belkin cables.

After years in the field, I've never once ran into a problem with handmade patch cables. A lot of the media professionals I've worked with over the years have been down this same road with expensive, supposedly better cables for high end A/V installs they have all said the same thing, "The expensive cables consistently performed as well as their homemade or budget-brand counterparts, but rarely have they performed better."

My question is this: What Would Slashdotters Do? Do you create your own cable or do you bite the bullet and buy it from some place?

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