Archive for January 13th, 2008

Kimber sells guns; people whinge

13 January 2008

Kimber is marketing an SIS pistol. Some people don’t like that:

To the dismay of some Los Angeles leaders, a gun company is marketing a line of high-end pistols named for the Los Angeles Police Department’s Special Investigation Section (SIS), an elite group of plainclothes detectives with a history of fatally shooting suspects. … “It is very disturbing,” said Councilman Jack Weiss. “If any member of the public is shot with one of these guns or, heaven forbid, a cop is shot with one these guns, what would be the explanation?”

The explanation would be that a criminal committed a crime, or an upstanding citizen stopped a crime. There you go.

Just One Question spreads

13 January 2008

Common Folks picks up the JOQ meme.

DoJ amicus on Heller

13 January 2008

I agree with Say Uncle and Joe Huffman that the amicus filed by the DoJ in the Heller case should show to anyone inspecting it that the Bush administration is as bad on guns as can be. More here and here.

HP ipaq 110 Classic hard reset

13 January 2008
  • Power on
  • Press buttons marked Windows ([+]) and (OK)
  • Press button marked [oo] (by reset hole)
  • Press and release button marked 2 with stylus
  • Wait for screen marked “clean boot” to come up
  • Release buttons marked 1

    How to hard reset an HP ipaq 110
    If you hard reset the device, you’ll see something like this:
    success
    If you just reset the device, you’ll see something like this:
    fail
    Source

    Doublespeak

    13 January 2008