Now it should be simple to make a smartphone app to control the camera. Before, you had to get the API from the manufacturer, sign an NDA, often pay money and then pour through the poorly documented mess.
It's easier for the average idiot to use a 3D printer than it is to set up a CNC mill.
But a 3D printer will get you a bunch of cheap plastic parts and a CNC mill can actually make most of a gun (you'd need a specialized lathe to make a barrel with any degree of accuracy and safety).
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.
And they spent years, millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours doing so. I'm sure that the folks at NASA are pretty happy with modern toolsets. My father worked on the Saturn V instrumentation - Op Amps the size of cigarette boxes, telemetry transmitters the size of breadboxes with 300 baud max speeds. Graph paper. Slide rules. Simple changes requiring weeks of rework.
Linux and associated bits and pieces are a big step in the right direction.
I'm certainly not a big fan of using food crops for alcohol production, but Brazil seems to be quite successful at sustainably producing alcohol fuel from sugar cane. (Yeah, you'll probably blast me for being ignorant about some aspect of Brazilian agri-biz.
And here is your answer: Brazilian sugar beet production is based on slash and burn of the Amazon. It is as sustainable as a smile on Larry Ellison's face and about as real.
True enough, but one confounding factor is this run up to Homo Industrialis has relied on cheap energy. There will ALWAYS be energy sources - at a cost. If costs rise too quickly, they can take the economy with it (since it's basically a giant Ponzi scheme). How to balance energy costs and supplies in the long run is one of the big questions.
And, of course, there is Anthropogenic Global Warming caused, in part, by these same fuels.
wtf is the Daily Mail doing here? It is a tabloid.
The "article" had more information about his stupid home than anything about his shady business practices or how no one noticed anything wrong with these devices.
You're supposed to look at the nice pictures running to the right side of the 'article'.
On OS X, you can easily create bootable images of drives using programs like SuperDuper! and Carbon Copy Cloner (stupid names). You can encrypt these files, put them on various types of drives and OS X can boot off of USB and FireWire drives which makes backups and restores pretty easy.
OS X also allows for encrypted sparseimages (folders) that can be stored on Dropbox or similar. Between the two concepts, I avoid the hassle of whole drive encryption and just worry about encrypting some of my data.
I would think that Windows would have similar functionality - mostly the ability to create bootable backup drives - is this not so?
This is interesting - went to set up two factor authentication; logged into the Apple site, then went to the passwords and security section, which asked for my two 'security questions' - which I never gave them. At this point, you can't get anywhere else. You're dumped to a KB article that is clearly incorrect and other than waiting online for an AppleDrone to tell me it's not really a problem (the usual Apple response to things), there is nothing else I can do.
Perhaps it's embroiled in this little issue. I suppose I'll wait a bit to see what happens.
My Hamilton auto is in need of repair/replacement(between repair cost and shipping to Switzerland it'd be just as cheap just to buy a brand new one which I've already decided against -- too bad Rolex doesn't make non-blinged to hell(and reasonably priced) watches any longer), so instead of just buying a Casio pathfinder series.
Last time I was in Peurto Vallarta there were plenty of folks selling Rolex's.
If you're in.300 winmag territory, then yes, the.223 is likely a poor choice. In Colorado or Alaska brush, it's fine (again with certain caveats, I would not recommend it to someone without quite a bit of discipline and I wouldn't select it as a primary deer gun if I had a choice).
More anecdote: I go the local rifle range pretty much every other month. I hike almost daily. In Alaska, deer season is August through December.
I see lots of hunters - have yet to see a single AR anything or any gun that remotely looks like an assault rifle in the field. I see lots of 'tactical' guns at the range.
Whatever floats your boat (or puts holes in it) but they're not often used as hunting weapons.
Hit a deer with anything in the guts and it will run a few hundred yards. A.223 (or.22) in the right hands, under the right conditions is perfectly adequate.
Would I recommend that to the once a season hunter whose heart will go bounding off the scales as soon as he sees something with a 2 inch rack? No. That guy needs all the help he can get (including target practice, but we won't go there).
Go grab some bear spray. Works better, is safer. A recent issue of 'Outside' magazine had an article by someone who is well known in the bear-defense community (can't remember his name, has been writing for a while on the subject) who has at least some half reasonable data showing that bear spray is considerably better than firearms.
Anecdote: I've seen 4 cases of armed guys attacked by Brown Bears (non fatal). In every case, they didn't have time to use the gun. If you have time to shoot the bear, it's likely that you don't really need to - it's doing a bluff-charge. You can use bear spray when you're not sure that you want to kill the animal - gives you quite a bit more defensive latitude. Shooting a bear stands a good chance of wounding it (bad outcome) or killing it (not such a great outcome, now you have to skin the damn thing and haul out the meat).
I still carry a 12 gauge loaded with slugs on occasion, but most of the time I just carry the spray and a small air horn (they hate the noise).
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Now it should be simple to make a smartphone app to control the camera. Before, you had to get the API from the manufacturer, sign an NDA, often pay money and then pour through the poorly documented mess.
Progress!
It's easier for the average idiot to use a 3D printer than it is to set up a CNC mill.
But a 3D printer will get you a bunch of cheap plastic parts and a CNC mill can actually make most of a gun (you'd need a specialized lathe to make a barrel with any degree of accuracy and safety).
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.
You have to get a background check to write VBA code
You have to admit that a mental health evaluation would be reasonable.
At least afterwards.
If we want to change this, we need to get state level boards of education to adopt different standards. That's how change will happen.
Except that many of the state Boards of Education are grappling with such esoteric topics as the validity of evolution or the value of pi.
We're doomed.
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And they spent years, millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours doing so. I'm sure that the folks at NASA are pretty happy with modern toolsets. My father worked on the Saturn V instrumentation - Op Amps the size of cigarette boxes, telemetry transmitters the size of breadboxes with 300 baud max speeds. Graph paper. Slide rules. Simple changes requiring weeks of rework.
Linux and associated bits and pieces are a big step in the right direction.
I'm certainly not a big fan of using food crops for alcohol production, but Brazil seems to be quite successful at sustainably producing alcohol fuel from sugar cane. (Yeah, you'll probably blast me for being ignorant about some aspect of Brazilian agri-biz.
And here is your answer: Brazilian sugar beet production is based on slash and burn of the Amazon. It is as sustainable as a smile on Larry Ellison's face and about as real.
True enough, but one confounding factor is this run up to Homo Industrialis has relied on cheap energy. There will ALWAYS be energy sources - at a cost. If costs rise too quickly, they can take the economy with it (since it's basically a giant Ponzi scheme). How to balance energy costs and supplies in the long run is one of the big questions.
And, of course, there is Anthropogenic Global Warming caused, in part, by these same fuels.
It's complicated.
wtf is the Daily Mail doing here? It is a tabloid.
The "article" had more information about his stupid home than anything about his shady business practices or how no one noticed anything wrong with these devices.
You're supposed to look at the nice pictures running to the right side of the 'article'.
R the FA, indeed.
So... two wrongs make a right.
No, but three do.
Loose change, not loose screws.
On OS X, you can easily create bootable images of drives using programs like SuperDuper! and Carbon Copy Cloner (stupid names). You can encrypt these files, put them on various types of drives and OS X can boot off of USB and FireWire drives which makes backups and restores pretty easy.
OS X also allows for encrypted sparseimages (folders) that can be stored on Dropbox or similar. Between the two concepts, I avoid the hassle of whole drive encryption and just worry about encrypting some of my data.
I would think that Windows would have similar functionality - mostly the ability to create bootable backup drives - is this not so?
This is interesting - went to set up two factor authentication; logged into the Apple site, then went to the passwords and security section, which asked for my two 'security questions' - which I never gave them. At this point, you can't get anywhere else. You're dumped to a KB article that is clearly incorrect and other than waiting online for an AppleDrone to tell me it's not really a problem (the usual Apple response to things), there is nothing else I can do.
Perhaps it's embroiled in this little issue. I suppose I'll wait a bit to see what happens.
My Hamilton auto is in need of repair/replacement(between repair cost and shipping to Switzerland it'd be just as cheap just to buy a brand new one which I've already decided against -- too bad Rolex doesn't make non-blinged to hell(and reasonably priced) watches any longer), so instead of just buying a Casio pathfinder series.
Last time I was in Peurto Vallarta there were plenty of folks selling Rolex's.
Christ. And I thought Alaskans were weird for flying to Seattle and buying big ticket items.
At least we all drive on the same side of the road. (Well, mostly. Seattle traffic is pretty random these days.)
Ah, no.
"Jersey Shore" is a cultural travesty of the highest order.
Everything else is just above the noise floor.
Sounds like a three year old male infestation.
They can be a real problem sometimes.
Hey, maybe your Rest Home and mine can play Battleship together. Over modems!
Frosty reception? I beg to differ, people all over the internet seem to love it.
Reddit is "all over the Internet"?
The world has become such a sad place.
If you're in .300 winmag territory, then yes, the .223 is likely a poor choice. In Colorado or Alaska brush, it's fine (again with certain caveats, I would not recommend it to someone without quite a bit of discipline and I wouldn't select it as a primary deer gun if I had a choice).
Deer? I hunt a more dangerous game .
Rabbits?
More anecdote: I go the local rifle range pretty much every other month. I hike almost daily. In Alaska, deer season is August through December.
I see lots of hunters - have yet to see a single AR anything or any gun that remotely looks like an assault rifle in the field. I see lots of 'tactical' guns at the range.
Whatever floats your boat (or puts holes in it) but they're not often used as hunting weapons.
Hit a deer with anything in the guts and it will run a few hundred yards. A .223 (or .22) in the right hands, under the right conditions is perfectly adequate.
Would I recommend that to the once a season hunter whose heart will go bounding off the scales as soon as he sees something with a 2 inch rack? No. That guy needs all the help he can get (including target practice, but we won't go there).
Go grab some bear spray. Works better, is safer. A recent issue of 'Outside' magazine had an article by someone who is well known in the bear-defense community (can't remember his name, has been writing for a while on the subject) who has at least some half reasonable data showing that bear spray is considerably better than firearms.
Anecdote: I've seen 4 cases of armed guys attacked by Brown Bears (non fatal). In every case, they didn't have time to use the gun. If you have time to shoot the bear, it's likely that you don't really need to - it's doing a bluff-charge. You can use bear spray when you're not sure that you want to kill the animal - gives you quite a bit more defensive latitude. Shooting a bear stands a good chance of wounding it (bad outcome) or killing it (not such a great outcome, now you have to skin the damn thing and haul out the meat).
I still carry a 12 gauge loaded with slugs on occasion, but most of the time I just carry the spray and a small air horn (they hate the noise).