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OS X is certified POSIX compliant. But by modifying it you don't neccessarily end up with something inside the standards. Take for instance the guy who modified a shovel and ended up with an AK-47. https://thechive.com/2012/12/0... They do some really weird things with the file-system and Jails, and don't expose the full range of system interfaces to the applications. I don't believe you can take any POSIX compliant code and compile and install it for iOS in the same way you can with OS X. (Version 9 and earlier are not BSD based). If you break the jail, reportedly it's close enough for openssh, but I'm guessing that it's not the case for the intended exposed framework.

And I thing I noticed in research was that Cydia (jailbroke app store) apps were reported as tendeding to break between iOS releases, leading me to believe they are playing fast and loose with the interfaces that aren't exposed through the framework. If not API, at least with ABI.

Yup, you too can own a personally made AK-47, fully automatic, with only one simple to make part not obtained mail order.

That's right. In fact, people have made AK-47 lower receivers out of rusty old scoop shovels, heated and beaten into shape on an anvil with a hammer. Really this should surprise nobody. The Soviets built fully automatic weapons in large numbers during WWII using primitive tools and low quality materials while enduring miserable conditions. Even today, knockoff guns are hand made in Pakistan by village blacksmiths in quantity. You cannot prevent people from making serviceable firearms if they really want to.

The US has just had 8 years of "green jobs" which turned out to be BS. https://www.bloomberg.com/news... AGW mitigation work is the same as bureaucracy, not only does it waste the life energy of the worker trying to solve the wrong problem, it places an unnecessary burden on the rest of us.

We already have clean air and clean water, and those were as you say valuable improvements, but that is not the topic at hand. Trying to mitigate CO2 in the atmosphere is like removing Nitrogen from the atmosphere, there is no benefit because there is no problem. CO2 levels measured scientifically pre-industrial revolution are the same as today: http://drtimball.com/2012/pre-...

The expected sea level rise is somewhere between 6 inches and 2 feet IF warming continues. The wildest projections have it at 6 feet. That is not millions of people displaced. In the modern world, we will just build seawalls, in the third world, people will just move, as this change is not like a tidal wave, it is gradual. There is a lot of evidence that sea levels have been rising for millennia: http://thechive.com/2016/11/03... Those people didn't have gills, they built on dry land and as the sea levels rose, they moved and the stuff they didn't take went under, that's just historical fact and a part of our world.

I don't think the legal fiction of which part is the "gun" part is that relevant here, but here's a great photo documentary of making an AK47 from a shovel. (Somewhere there's an entertaining write-up by the guy who did it, but I can't find that link.)

The barrel is the hard part to source, really, the upper and lower receiver pieces I could totally believe you could do in a small amount of code - the AK is as simple as you can really make it.

You can talk money til you're blue in the face, but watch this little spine tingler.

Check out the murals at the Denver airport.

I'm not saying it's an illurminaty cunspeericy, but it is fucking weird.

... close all the hardware stores. And confiscate all the garden tools

An AK-47 receiver made out of a rusty shovel:

http://thechive.com/2012/12/06...

Perhaps the problem is that the receiver is the legally-controlled part of the gun. Everything else is spare parts. Making receivers is easy now.

I'm no expert, but it seems to me that making a barrel is the hardest part. Why isn't the barrel the controlled part?

http://thechive.com/2012/12/06...

It is amazingly easy to make a functioning firearm. it can be done with very few tools, several of which can be homemade. No 3d printer required. Just because YOU lack the ability to identify that it is simple does not mean that it requires "substantial engineering expertise"

Anyone can turn a barrel on a Lathe. it may not be the best but it will function.
After that, you can turn your shovel into an AK.

Exhibit A: http://thebrigade.thechive.com...

Sorry. That is illegal. You cannot transfer a gun without a serial number.

Wrong. It's illegal to manufacture them for sale without serial numbers. Likewise, there are lots of circumstances where transfers can legally occur without concern for the serial number at all. (Face to face, within the state, for example.)

And, one can put a serial number on a gun one builds from say, a shovel.

In any case, building with intention for personal use, then giving away or selling is perfectly legal, unless you are in one of the retard states.

Even simpler. Use the fuel as the stove.

http://thechive.com/2012/01/11/a-finnish-stove-is-all-the-rage-inwell-finland-12-photos/

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BMO

my personal favorite homemade gun

The basement-dwelling losers of Anonymous got sidetracked by this.

Instead of wreaking havoc on Israel, they all logged into /b/ and pretended to be girls from those photos posting "Ask a girl in the IDF anything!" threads, which collapsed in an orgy of demands for "tits or gtfo!"

Nonsense.

First off, there are plenty of guns out there. Both registered and not. Do you think it's hard to smuggle a 'virgin' gun into the US (along with tons of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamines, etc) ? Second, there are tens of thousands of mills and lathes that are tucked into basements and small shops everywhere. Not only can they make a lower receiver, but they can also make the barrel - something that 3D printers aren't going to be able to do for quite some time. And then there is the old dremel tool for grinding off the serial number of a legit gun.

You simply don't need to invoke 3D printers in this argument. They don't bring anything to the table. Even in countries that are more restrictive than the US, a 3D printer just doesn't help you much. Buy a shovel instead.

Colt should never have been allowed to serialize the lower. You can make a lower out of sheet metal by hand.

You can make SOME lower receivers out of sheet metal by hand, but not an AR15 lower. The AK-47 is far easier to duplicate in that regard. Here's a guy that made one out of a shovel . . . http://thebrigade.thechive.com/2012/12/06/diy-shovel-to-ak-47-50-photos/

Anyways, making a gun at home isn't illegal. All that matters is that one part that is necessary for the operation of the gun be serialized as the receiver so that the whole thing can't be sold/mailed. How hard the part is to reproduce isn't an issue. As a matter of fact you can legally buy partially done receivers where all the work is already done except for a few holes drilled in it or a rail cut and that's fine because until those last couple operations are done its not a functional part (a lot of times you'll see those listed as "80% receivers").

http://thechive.com/2011/07/21/wtf-mate-30-photos/wtf-funny-18-5/

Cookie Monster loves it!

Get it? ABC->Sesame St->Cookie Monster?

Oh nevermind...

The face of Apple has died, and Tim hasn't shown himself to be as charismatic as Steve. Therefore, Apple is faceless.

Ridiculously uninformed: http://thechive.com/2012/07/09/a-little-redneck-innovation-is-just-what-we-need-30-photos/

The recycling symbol, Unicode code point U+2672, has three arrows. These stand for, *in order of importance*,
- reduce
- reuse
- recycle

So you're right that recycling is not the most favourable option. However, it's still better energy cost than option (4): BAU, just dump it somewhere in a lake until this overflows.

For example, processing bauxite into aluminium like that factory in Hungary costs oodles of energy (for the electrolysis). Melting and recycling used drink cans to reprocess the aluminium costs a lot of energy as well, but probably 1 to 2 orders of magnitude LESS than making the original stuff. So this is an example where you're wrong. Of course it depends on the material.

When you talk about "mining a landfill", I hope you understand what this really looks like in practice.. photos

http://thechive.com/2010/10/05/signs-that-are-so-wrong-they-must-be-right-27-photos/

iPhone users are sluts!

They've been faithful to Apple and AT&T for almost four years now.

I've been a BB and Android user for 4 years and I've only had one partner (my wife).....well, maybe two (my hand)

You'd take 10 sex partners if you could get 'em.

Yes, I would

I posted this story yesterday and it was rejected. Interesting how I get MOST of my story submissions rejected, but later duplicated submissions by other posters get published, even though it is against Slashdot rules to accept duplicate story submissions.

And it's a FAKE story (as posted by the hoaxsters). Too bad for the worthless editorial board at Slashdot.

Oh, and the stories that do get accepted by me get editorialized (i.e. the Slashdot editors only publicly acknowledge that I supplied them with a link, otherwise they completely re-write the submission with their poor English and verbal communication skills). Or maybe I'm just an idiot?

To summarize:
1) breaking (idle) "news" story gets submitted and rejected.
2) next day, hoax is confirmed, and story gets accepted as a (likely) true story.

Oh, and BTW, even though the story was proclaimed to be a hoax, it is actually true, only the names, faces and particular circumstances have changed; the same bullshit actually happens at most workplaces.

- Signed,

AWM (Angry White Man)

You are correct:

http://thechive.com/2010/08/11/a-word-from-jenny-16-photos/

All's well, except she already admitted it to be fake:

http://thechive.com/2010/08/11/a-word-from-jenny-16-photos/

I mean...they could be going by these:
http://thechive.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/longest-fingernails-world.jpg

Which, to be honest..would not be too impressive to stick 1TB on a fingernail like that.