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by a_p 14y ago
Thank you for this information. One of the difficulties of research in this field is that acceptable tests materials (gelatin blocks) have different densities and structures then battlefield targets. Out of curiosity, what would be the char
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by a_p 14y ago
An automatic rifle is much more dangerous than an automatic handgun, because of the physics involved. When a bullet enters yours body, the rapid deceleration of the bullet creates a shock wave that creates a micro-cavity in your body that l
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In a firefight between two militaries, it is not more dangerous. The danger is that the regular police that only carry sidearms would be seriously outgunned.
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I used to think that the most dangerous thing about the AR-15 was that it had the capacity to hold 30 round magazines. I don't have a good opinion of 100 round drums, because they jam too easily. Then I learned about the Slide Fire [1], a s
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by a_p 14y ago
The threat of changing their CSS to mess with your site reminded me of something a Web 1.0 trolling site did to people who linked to images on their site, causing an unnecessary load on their server. The images that were linked to were usua
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by a_p 14y ago
The Video, Politics, Sports, Business and Entertainment links point to theonion.com. I suggest that you change this. An Onion dev already posted that he had considered screwing with your site when it was using the Onion's CSS. If they did
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by a_p 14y ago
One of the most important things in remote development work is good communication between the employer and the client. This may sound obvious but it is still important. If the employer and the client are not comfortable conversing in the sa
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by a_p 14y ago
Ugh. It's been a while since I played, so I had forgotten about this. It's not as bad as you described it. It's even worse. The hack the creators of SC4 used to get around the problem of traveling the same path twice in one trip is responsi
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by a_p 14y ago
Sim City 4 is single threaded and only uses one core, which is why it is so slow on new hardware. The other major drawback to Sim City 4 is that there is a bug which prevents rich ($$$) Sims from working in the High Tech industry. The only
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by a_p 14y ago
This is the tweet in html character entity form: ه҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈҈
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by a_p 14y ago
There has always been awareness of white collar crime, especially by those who worked on Wall Street. Look at the Google ngram that I linked to. In 1997, when you were 13 or so (you mentioned that you were 20 in 2004), the phrase "white col
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As the author is establishing background for the story, which took place from 2004-2008, he writes "'White collar crime', and the attention that it receives today, did not exist." I'm going to give the author the benefit of the doubt and as
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by a_p 14y ago
Now that computers are ubiquitous in the our culture, I think that people have forgotten how non intuitive graphical user interfaces can be. Twenty years ago, an "introduction to computers" class or video would focus on how to interact with
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by a_p 14y ago
The public's fear of "chemicals" was so great that Dow Chemical effectively dropped the "Chemical", so they now effectively brand themselves as just "Dow". I learned about this name change from what has to be my favorite interview with a CE
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by a_p 14y ago
Moonwalking with Einstein is a fun book, but remember to be wary of books about the brain that are not written by neuroscience experts. From the NYT book review: '(Irregular images aside, Foer’s missteps are few. Discussing the neurological
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by a_p 14y ago
This reminds me of the terms of service of an old trolling site, adequacy.org, which forbade port scans, OS detections, right clicking to view source, etc. "Adequacy.org gives permission for its servers to be accessed by HTTP clients specif
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by a_p 14y ago
I think that it is hacker etiquette to only pass judgement when you are qualified to do so. This is why funny comments that don't require specialized knowledge are upvoted more than insightful comments. The Slashdot comment system tries to
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Does anyone know if the mirror image of this character: “ (U+201C) exists? I'm looking for a character that is the mirror image of the left double quotation mark, where the base is on the bottom and the character tapers from bottom right to
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by a_p 14y ago
The audio file on wikimedia commons provides automatically transcribed closed captioning that is unintentionally hilarious. The Portuguese subtitles include "Tchaaaaahhh puaaaoooooaaahhhhh" and "sshhhhhhshshhhhhhh." http://commons.wikimed