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bykwbauer
018 @02:13PM
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Attached to: Hack On 8 Adult Websites Exposes Oodles of Intimate User Data
wtf?
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bykwbauer
018 @02:06PM
(#57518937)
Attached to: A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize
All depends on your allowed timeframe. Just like with perpetual motion machines, it all depends on where you close the system.
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bykwbauer
018 @05:37PM
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Attached to: Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections
Did she personally do anything on US soil?
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bykwbauer
018 @05:36PM
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Attached to: Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections
So every person in Europe that comments on Facebook or Slashdot about how the USA sucks because we still mostly honor the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution should be charged with election fraud? Somebody, somewhere paid for their internet connection so money was spent to "promote" that message. Such comments are extremely political in nature. Such comments can be expected to influence an election just as much as comments about supposed Klansmen.
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bykwbauer
018 @05:32PM
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Attached to: Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections
I am fairly certain that those countries where those operatives are operating are trying to do exactly that.
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bykwbauer
018 @05:31PM
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Attached to: Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections
She was not in the USA, dope. Is the US going to go after every foreign national that posts online comments about the US or stuff happening in the US because such comments may influence somebody in the US?
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bykwbauer
018 @05:24PM
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Attached to: 3D Printers Have 'Fingerprints', a Discovery That Could Help Trace 3D-Printed Guns: Study
So, gun control and such things work out very well in fictional universes.
Shall we discuss how well they work in OUR UNIVERSE?
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bykwbauer
018 @05:20PM
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Attached to: 3D Printers Have 'Fingerprints', a Discovery That Could Help Trace 3D-Printed Guns: Study
As if a known criminal dealing in black market guns is going to run NICS checks on his customers!
As long as your universe includes only law abiding purchasers and law abiding sellers, then universal background checks are universal. As soon as you are willing to admit that criminals are people who knowingly violate the law, then universal background checks can be seen for what they really are: a hindrance to the legal purchase of a legal firearm. They have zero effect on the illegal sales of firearms.
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bykwbauer
018 @05:15PM
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Attached to: 3D Printers Have 'Fingerprints', a Discovery That Could Help Trace 3D-Printed Guns: Study
Given that the "successful" terrorists are sponsored by some government or another, exactly how does the civilian market for weapons actually affect their ability to obtain weapons?
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bykwbauer
018 @05:12PM
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Attached to: 3D Printers Have 'Fingerprints', a Discovery That Could Help Trace 3D-Printed Guns: Study
That wired article is ridiculously flawed. One of the more glaring errors is when it states that an AR-15 lower "encases the rifle's action." That is a completely false statement. The lower holds the trigger assembly. The buttstock is attached to the lower. The upper encases the bolt and the barrel is mounted onto the upper. Most people are most worried about what is in the upper because everything that actually contacts the bullet or casing (therefore able to leave marks) is in the upper.
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bykwbauer
018 @05:05PM
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Attached to: 3D Printers Have 'Fingerprints', a Discovery That Could Help Trace 3D-Printed Guns: Study
You can sue any gun manufacturer that produces faulty guns. A gun that actually hits the target it is pointed at is not faulty; that is the definition of functioning properly.
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bykwbauer
2018 @05:36PM
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Attached to: Researchers Bypassed Windows Password Locks With Cortana Voice Commands
But saying that Bob or Jane cannot be expected to have more knowledge than Grandma and Grandpa is a departure from the path.
"Hey, this is fixable by doing X"
"Retired old farts can never be taught to do X"
"What do retired old farts have that somebody would physically break into their house to mess with their computer"
"What about government employee's with Top Secret clearance?"
Okay, I give up. sgrover is correct. As long as we hand out Top Secret clearances to people as unreliable as Hillary Clinton, we can never be secure.
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bykwbauer
2018 @05:30PM
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Attached to: Researchers Bypassed Windows Password Locks With Cortana Voice Commands
Nah, the script will have Cortexa talking to Alana. No trademarks infringed.
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bykwbauer
2018 @05:27PM
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Attached to: Researchers Bypassed Windows Password Locks With Cortana Voice Commands
Monster_user can Harry Potter the USB NA into the port. No physical contact necessary. That is why he is a monster!
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bykwbauer
2018 @05:19PM
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Attached to: FBI Again Calls For Magical Solution To Break Into Encrypted Phones
I have been hearing Liberals and Progressives telling me for 2 weeks non-stop how the US Constitution only gives me the right to use whatever tools were in existence at the time it was written (or amended). Personal computing devices most certainly did not exist in the early 1790s when the amendments known as the Bill of Rights were adopted so they cannot possibly be covered by the 4th Amendment anymore than television and radio are covered by the 1st Amendment.
Don't like it? Then get of the Leftist bandwagon trying to completely ignore one-tenth of the Bill of Rights and stop promoting false ideas about what rights we have.
If you support a string of lies against one right, those same lies will be used against your interests in regards to other rights.
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