Posts by Don Jefe

German guardsmen growing mono-boobs from drilling with Nazi-era rifles

Re: Totally missing the point of this important research.

Does that mean if I had my girlfriend walk around with two rifles that her boobs would get bigger?

Re: A question

Yes, but old men tend to have saggy man boobs anyway so there's really no available control to use in a study.

Beam me up? Not in the life of this universe

Re: Fascinating...

The 'new' body can't be distinguished from the original and since the 'new' version also gets the memories they are considered not to have died. It is touched on that while the copies stored in the pattern buffer are not assembled into a conscious being, they remain alive, just compressed, as everyone suggests.

Re: just a thought

Yes. It comes up several times throughout all the various franchises that the teleporters in the Star Trek universe break people down atom by atom, store them in a pattern buffer and rebuild them, less any foreign illness at the destination point. In the horribly themed 'Enterprise' series the could only do inanimate objects for a while, the only experiments on living creatures up till that point had resulted in a few lost people (including the son of the guy who invented teleportation) and a dog.

As an aside, it is also touched on that the teleportation tech is a big part of why nobody ever gets 'normal' diseases or infections. Unfriendly bits are not released from the pattern buffer and are destroyed after rebuilding the Human.

I watched way, way too much Star Trek but I haven't read any manuals :)

Microsoft Surface sales numbers revealed as SHOCKINGLY HIDEOUS

Re: "Damn you hamfingered digits and lack of proofreading"

You have to have a silver badge to get the edit button.

Re: Too bad

You can work around the stupid start screen. You can't do anything about the fact it won't run the Windows based software packages that everyone buys Windows for.

Re: there is hope...

People in Maine and New Hampshire polish moose turds as jewelry!

True.

MIT clears itself of responsibility for Aaron Swartz's prosecution

Re: Not neutral.

Prosecutors build their resumes and future political capital by throwing the biggest possible charges at people. If the prosecutors office had not tried to squash Swartz her current and future political opposition would have nailed her as being 'soft'. Collateral damage isn't an issue to prosecutors, as long as they look 'tough' on crime.

The justice system in this country is terribly broken. I don't know how to improve it, but what we have now is insanely ineffective at everything except lining the pockets of a select few.

Robot cop called in after MAD BONGER blown up in LIQUID MARIJUANA EXPLOSION

Re: El Stupido Strikes Again!

Even basic chemistry education is dumbed down here in the States. If kids managed to think about it and apply and combine the concepts they'd learn with a decent chemistry education they might make something dangerous.

Re: Rodenator

Indeed!

I've developed a kit that allows you to convert your Rodenator into a high efficiency bong with a maximum capacity of 50gm of canabis.

The beauty is the rebreather system which not only handles any smoke left in the device, our nearly silent exhaust system allows you to exhale smoke back into the device where it is pumped into the rodents lair. The exposure to the smoke stimulates the rodent brain to produce an exaggerated feeding desire. Allowing you to use traditional traps with nearly any sweet or salty bait to capture them. The rodents are humanely destroyed using your method of choice and you can rest assured the animal will be slow and docile.

Re: Traditionally,

Any specialty woodworking store or house paint supply store stocks high quality acetone. Photography suppliers sell it too, as that's the most common substitute for {beverage} in photos.

Lingering fingerprint fingering fingered in iOS 7 for NEW iPHONE

Re: So, Apple are are adding more <NSA><CIA><DHS> friendly 'identikit' features?

Anytime you are discussing a publicly traded company it is always safe to assume there's a financial hook involved somewhere.

Maybe I'm wrong and the Great Benevolent Fruit Farmers are offering a simple convenience feature. But I'm going to side with history and the general principals of greed on this.

Re: So, Apple are are adding more <NSA><CIA><DHS> friendly 'identikit' features?

I think you've nailed it but I don't think it's surveillance related. This will cut down on sharing your iThing amongst family & school groups and such. Now everybody will have to have their own personal device.

China Labor Watch gumshoes uncover TOP SECRET PLASTIC IPHONE

Re: supprise spot checks

That's how the immigration raids here in the U.S. are done. Someone informs the plant of the scheduled date and no illegal immigrants show up for work that day. The only people who get in trouble are those who weren't willing to play the game.

I suspect the Pegatron facilities inspections are no different.

Crumbs, we're going to lose that public sector bid - Jeeves, send for the lawyers

Re: small as well as big business affected

Providing OTS kit to any government is a loser. The margins are insanely small (far smaller than retail) plus you have to deal with all the bureaucracy and govt people. It sucks.

First burger made of TEST-TUBE MEAT to be eaten on August 5

Re: Isn't that the point of SETI?

The Chinese?

Re: Totally disgusting

Beef is any cut/part of cattle meat: Muscle, organs, testicles, tongue, etc, all beef.

Re: CITES Supper Club

Everything tastes better when it is the last of its species.

Banknote campaigner's Twitter rape threats ordeal: Bloke, 21, cuffed

Austen man, Jane Austen.

Although Austin Powers would be cool the money. He is British and has done wonders in highlighting the diverse and colorful culture of the Britons.

Re: Rewind three or four weeks

Underrepresented groups have a very, very long history of using the same tactics they protest against on their 'oppressors'.

Their actions are defended by the fact they are doing it for a good cause; their cause. In their rabid drive to prove themselves they become the very thing they seek to destroy. Sad really.

Microsoft introduces warning on child abuse image searches

Re: Soo....

You probably have to have Java, Flash and cookies enabled running IE9+ on Windows 7 or better for it to work.

Re: Search Terms & Research/Off Switch

And how do they update the list? Will the government sponsored paedo-image collectors have the filter? I assume they would have to in order to validate the filters. Doesn't that imply the filter can be turned off?

Russian cargo ship drops off spacesuit puncture repair kit at the ISS

Re: The CO2 problem interests me

The CO2 is just vented outside and new air is pumped in from the atmosphere in Studio 51.

Comrade! If you dare f$%^ing swear on the internet, WE'LL SHOOT

Vaginas, Scrotums and Economic Instability

This is what happens when the big weeping vaginas get any kind of traction. You do one thing to shut them up and they keep pushing for more until everyone is forcibly anally penetrated by the 'moral' standards of a few.

I would like to know if there is a link between economic instability in a country and the prevelance of moral crusaders. Anecdotally, it seems that there may be. The louder the voices of the 'morally superior' sphincters, the worse the economic climate seems to be.

Country bursting at the seams with anti-paedos? You are headed toward recession. Anti-abortion people marching everywhere? You've got rising unemployment. Anti-prostitution drives causing traffic snarls? You've got a serious trade imbalance.

British boffin muzzled after cracking car codes

Re: News?

A lot of them also just lean the mixture out a lot for small performance gains. It's pants for the integrity of the valves/engine and gas mileage though.

Presentation

I don't quite understand. Was the plan to publish the paper at the conference or was it just going to be a presentation of findings in the paper?

'First' 3D-printed rifle's barrel splits after single shot

Re: No thank you.

Indeed!

For the proposes of a DIY firearm you are better off using something like a .45ACP or .45 +P round as they have much lower, and safer, case pressure and more stopping power due to the mass of the bullet. A corollary example is how the super skinny tires of a road bicycle are inflated to 90 PSI and on a mountain bike the tires might be 18-20 PSI.

Case pressure is a result of the case volume, powder and primer selection and is not indicative of the total energy transferred by the bullet. Case pressure does affect acceleration and trajectory curve, but less or more pressure, by itself, does not translate to a less or more 'powerful' cartridge.

Re: Solving a problem that probably doesn't exist

In the U.S. you can buy any part of a gun, without a permit or license, except for the receiver. The receiver carries the serial number and, even by itself, counts as the entire firearm for purchase, transfer and licensing purposes.

Re: By far

Yes. It seemed funnier to misplace the apostrophe, considering the earlier debate.

Re: @DonJefe - @murph - @Nuke

The poor fit of the ball was why there was no gas seal. The wadding provided the seal between the barrel and the round. Primitive wadding did not work very well, hence part of the low velocities of old rounds. Accuracy is directly related to velocity so they weren't accurate either. Shotguns still use wadding for the same reasons (albeit plastic wadding in modern shells).

In a rifled barrel the pressure seal is maintained by the rifling cutting spiraled grooves into the bullet. A modern bullet is larger than the inside diameter of the lands in the rifling: If you try to push a bullet down a rifled barrel by hand you can't do it :) Rifling actually allows the bullet to be manufactured to looser tolerances because the 'fit' is actually cut into the bullet as it travels down the barrel.

Military and off the shelf sport ammunition have wide (comparatively speaking) variances in their diameter from round to round as they are cast then clad. When we manufacture our custom match barrels we bore & cut them specifically to the ammunition the client uses which is often either investment cast or individually machined. Ultimately this increases velocity (and accuracy) due to better sealing and consistency as the barrel wears in a reasonably predictable pattern as opposed to the random wearing experienced by using inconsistent off the shelf ammunition.

Re: @murph - Remember the article here about how you'd never 3D print a gun?

The primary role of rifling is to provide a gas seal without the use of wadding. A nice side effect of rifling is that it allows you to control the inflight characteristics of the bullet. You are terriblely oversimplifying the reasons for the close ranges of traditional battles.

You can fire a shaped projectile up to 250 yards effectively using a smooth bore barrel and a round ball about 125 using black powder, much further using modern smokeless powders. The ridiculously huge size of old ammunition, the poor state of black powder, the use of wadding and the lack of knowledge and/or misunderstanding the relationships between the length of the barrel and its impacts on performance. Basically the barrels were too long and the rounds were too heavy for the low amount of pressure created by the black powder and the poor seal provided by wool or cotton wadding.

We manufactured 4,413 high precision rifle barrels for military and sport applications last year and we have done extensive testing and analysis of historic firearms as part of ongoing projects. People oversimplify firearms, but to make one accurate, safe and reliable is a serious engineering project. We also manufacture parts and test rigs for aerospace use. Engineering a quality firearm is more difficult than making parts for planes and satellites.

Re: Gun detection

What about .223, .225 .205 (rare but you see it). There are simply too many non firearm uses for any given hole size. The machine would instantly limit its commercial viability if if couldn't make any size hole within its physical limit.

Re: By far

Yes, t'was most interesting.

Re: Doesn't a rifle

Technically it would be a long gun if the barrel wasn't rifled, but rifle is acceptable term for it.

Re: Waste of time

The design of a 10/22 will not prevent you from modifying it in such a manner. The receiver design is such that all the firing components are inside the single part receiver assembly. The only parts below the receiver is the trigger assembly which you can modify if you want, but it shouldn't be necessary for what you are proposing.

As long as you don't modify the receiver you can do anything you want to a 10/22 safely. Make all the 'skins' you want out of anything you want. It will not affect the integrity of the firearm.

Silicon Valley Cisco reseller charged with $37 million fraud

Counterfeit Products

It doesn't appear to be the case here, but it just occurred to me that slipping counterfeit equipment into the channel would be a great way to hide surveillance kit right inside overseas companies. Fully PRC Compliant Cisco switches.

NASA Van Allen probes discover PARTICLE HURRICANES

Re: Excellent work

The viewers at home will be able to watch an accurate simulation of the spacecraft as it makes its journey!

I'm sure the model will be extrapolated on to show the most gruesome fates for the crew should the shielding fail. After hours of watching breathlessly we'll learn it all went well though and the pilots new arm allows him to give other crew members more down time.

'The Washington elites fear liberty. They fear you'

Re: Colour me shocked...

Some Congresspeople knew about the full extent of it but aren't allowed to say anything. All Congresspeople have access to the information, sort of. When they make a request to view classified information they are sequestered in a little room, alone, with print copies of the information they've requested. They aren't allowed to take notes, take pictures or have staff to assist. They have up no eight hours per session to read, understand and memorize the information in all of the related bills and Justice Department interpretations. It is several thousand pages of information.

Officially, Congresspeople are allowed access to any information. In practice it is worthless, kind of like going into a data center and expecting to be able to magically absorb all the data there by walking in. It's a bunch of shit really.

The FLOATING mobile phone shop on the edge of the Internet

Re: How do they afford them?

The phones cost what the market will bear. They live in an economically depressed place whereas you probably don't, hence, you pay more than them. It's the way it works.

Neither Damascus, Virginia nor Green Cove, Tennessee have mobile service of any kind. The North Slope of Alaska doesn't have much coverage outside of Deadhorse either.

Hooker in Dudley man's car 'just helping to buy tomatoes'

Good Pricing!

Are hookers that cheap over there? The ones our politicians get caught with are far, far more expensive than that.

Keep calm and carry on spying on Americans, US politicos tell NSA

The fact it even came to a vote says more people are dissatisfied than I thought. Maybe the trend will continue and more Congresspeople will actually stand up for their constituency and their country. I'm probably being too optimistic, but I can hope...

IT Crowd thesp eyes giant hot-air-filled FLYING SCROTUM

Re: Embedded YouTube clips

That's it! You can set the record for the first lawsuit related to the project!

Raid millions of bank accounts. New easy-to-use tool. Yours for $5,000

I'm afraid this is mostly you :)

The banks themselves are, generally, fairly secure, it's the users that cause the problems. If anything you should applaud your bank for implementing more security on the user end instead of just eating the loses and making them up with more fees for everyone.

If there's a definable user problem with your widget you should put together a simple analysis of the issue and let the bank and the manufacturer know. I can tell you from experience that usable customer feedback is priceless. Most users just scream BROKEN SUX U GUYZ BLOW and that's really, really difficult to work with.

Comet ISON seen eructating 300,000km-long methane and CO2 BELCH

You just highlighted the problem with giving the press any kind of probabilities: They've got a bad habit of depicting anything other than a 0% possibility as a near certainty.

Man who pulled gun during chess game surrenders to robot cop

Re: Not very impressed

They didn't have a choice, talking to the guy for a few hours was beyond them. Modern police are, by and large, the militarized dregs of society who were either the bullies or the bullied in high school. Discourse isn't one of their strong points. The pilot of the robot probably got the job because he's got a GED; him smart.

One month on, Edward Snowden cleared to leave Moscow airport

Re: Enough Already

UN-AMERICAN??? WTF?

You know who is Un-American; any U.S. President that would support the mass surveillance of our own citizens. The leaders of the government are doing fine demonizing and 'illegitimizing' themselves. Ten million more articles about it won't do those clowns any harm.

I was going to write a big, long post about the complacency of the U.S. populace and the hypocrisy inherent in 'supporting our troops because freedom isn't free' but not doing a damn thing to protect our freedoms beyond occasionally shouting a few platitudes. But I won't. I'll just say: As a flag waving, gun owning, pickup truck driving, business owning American you; sir, can suck the red, white and blue right off my hairy ass. Godless commie.

Are there mountains anywhere in Wales?

Music royalty war spreads to aggregator MediaNet

Re: Most famous gig ...

That's a really good point. It will be interesting to see what arguments the industry uses to try and scale the damages back.

OpenStack faces 'irrelevance and death' without AWS compatibility

Re: doubt it?

I'm sure someone will get around to the API's, but I think the point is he/they want to be the ones to do it. In order to keep potential clients from going to AWS, especially those who may be considering a move to the 'cloud' but haven't settled on a vendor yet. I don't think retention is the issue, it is capturing new users.