PNAS isn't 'dodgy', but it has a different twist. If you are a member of the NAS (not easy to do) you have a bit of influence - certainly not all that much - to get people to review the paper. It serves as a bit of an old boys club, but it also serves as an additional foil to the insular tendencies of Nature and Science. To be fair, there is so much published that it's hard to pick the winners all of the time. It's not even necessary. Good research tends to get out, maybe not as fast as some would like but it gets out.
And they said I was crazy preparing my zombie apocalypse survival kit.
Hardly. Even the top levels of the US government recommend being prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse. I mean, this is the same group of folks that wants you to get a flu shot.
OK, how about this? Australians drive on the wrong side of the road (when they bother to drive on the road at all). Coriolis forces are the other way around in the Southern Hemisphere - you've got to program that back asswardness in everything. That costs money.
FYI, calling people "sheep" is the easiest way to cause everyone to ignore what you're saying.
Not really, a grammar error will do just fine. The laser-like focus on the misplaced comma will incite a half dozen threads about the Oxford Manual of Style, totally obscuring any point the thread had to make.
Or, you could, for example, keep the perfectly functional operating system you had when you bought the machine. I know, you miss out on the latest shiny and you're vulnerable to some edge case security problem. But it still beeps and whistles like before.
Apple SHOULD do a bit more testing on their upgrades and you'd think because they only have a couple of models of each phone you could manage that, but I guess it's harder than it looks.
Oh get a life, dude. Hundreds of thousands of people without problems and a whole bunch with. What I said is really True Gospel, no matter what the fanbois whine about. Apple has been pretty bad about software / firmware upgrades for years. 10.0.0 - now exactly how useful was that, remember? 10.6.0 (which was supposed to fix things - glitches galore. 10.7.0 - a mess, 10.8 - still pretty iffy for a lot of people.
Hey, I use OS X (and iOS) daily - I like it. I'm just happy to let the bleeding edge get all white and pasty and act as beta testers. Of course, this isn't exactly restricted to Apple - Google, Microsoft, Oracle (well, they never actually get it together), HP (um, ditto) and everybody else has issues.
Just don't get all of your panties twisted about. It's a tool. Not an altar.
I'm glad people don't walk around naked, because I want nudity to be special.
I'm glad people don't walk around naked because I have some modicum of taste and decorum. The vast majority of people really, really need to leave their clothes on.
Except that the magazine in question has 'just' managed a couple of hundred rounds before tanking. So we're back at the learning curve.
I guess what I'm saying is that the tech to make rifle magazines is so generally available as to be useless to try to limit. Even in my tiny little town, there are three or four guys with the requisite machine shop that could crank high quality parts out. As cheaply as the factory? No, probably more hand forming and filing.
But we are NOT anywhere near dumping a file into the a 3D printer and pulling out a magazine, popping it into the rifle and running off to stem the apocalypse. Wake me up when you can. Until then, I've got my Sherline tools and welders and whatnot. And you know what? I've not been bothered by anybody yet. I really don't think the feds care that much. They're too busy entrapping disaffected teenagers.
See my earlier post. Magazines for 'assault rifles' are not high on the list of Difficult Things To Make. The order fulfillment / paperwork / advertising aspect of selling these things is likely harder. If you want one, you go to Shotgun news and order it. If they make it illegal, you go to Shotgun news and order the version that has a plastic tab glued in the bottom so it 'only' holds three or seven or whatever number of rounds is OK.
Why is this at all important? You can make a magazine 'the old way" with a spring, some sheet metal, a spot welder and a metal brake (something that bends sheet metal). Yes, it takes some skill, but you're saying that a 3D printer is at the level of an iPhone?
The canonical 'assault rife', the AK-47, is pounded out in factories that look more like garbage dumps than anything else. If you look at pictures of the magazines you see a bunch that look, well, rather primitive. But they work.
This is not rocket science, folks. It's machine shop 101.
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PNAS isn't 'dodgy', but it has a different twist. If you are a member of the NAS (not easy to do) you have a bit of influence - certainly not all that much - to get people to review the paper. It serves as a bit of an old boys club, but it also serves as an additional foil to the insular tendencies of Nature and Science. To be fair, there is so much published that it's hard to pick the winners all of the time. It's not even necessary. Good research tends to get out, maybe not as fast as some would like but it gets out.
This isn't a race.
Here it is folks, proof positive that methamphetamine is bad for you.
And they said I was crazy preparing my zombie apocalypse survival kit.
Hardly. Even the top levels of the US government recommend being prepared for a Zombie Apocalypse. I mean, this is the same group of folks that wants you to get a flu shot.
OK, how about this? Australians drive on the wrong side of the road (when they bother to drive on the road at all). Coriolis forces are the other way around in the Southern Hemisphere - you've got to program that back asswardness in everything. That costs money.
Oh, we'll pay for it all right. Just a bit further down the road.
No, no. He meant sitting on your duck. His post almost makes sense when you read it that way.
Dunno, 'herd' seems to fit better.
Or perhaps 'gaggle'.
FYI, calling people "sheep" is the easiest way to cause everyone to ignore what you're saying.
Not really, a grammar error will do just fine. The laser-like focus on the misplaced comma will incite a half dozen threads about the Oxford Manual of Style, totally obscuring any point the thread had to make.
All of your food is already irradiated ...
I know this is Slashdot, but most people think that the sun is, in general, a good idea.
Pleasant little sod, aren't you?
Time for your Prozac.
Didn't realize it was that 'old'. I guess no one will steal it.
Or, you could, for example, keep the perfectly functional operating system you had when you bought the machine. I know, you miss out on the latest shiny and you're vulnerable to some edge case security problem. But it still beeps and whistles like before.
Apple SHOULD do a bit more testing on their upgrades and you'd think because they only have a couple of models of each phone you could manage that, but I guess it's harder than it looks.
The company I work for have said there is an issue with 6.1 and the latest MS Exchange. "Dont accept any meeting requests" they say.
So I suspect this parent is not "funny", but on the money.
Sounds like more of a feature than a bug. No more meetings? I'm upgrading right now!
Oh get a life, dude. Hundreds of thousands of people without problems and a whole bunch with. What I said is really True Gospel, no matter what the fanbois whine about. Apple has been pretty bad about software / firmware upgrades for years. 10.0.0 - now exactly how useful was that, remember? 10.6.0 (which was supposed to fix things - glitches galore. 10.7.0 - a mess, 10.8 - still pretty iffy for a lot of people.
Hey, I use OS X (and iOS) daily - I like it. I'm just happy to let the bleeding edge get all white and pasty and act as beta testers. Of course, this isn't exactly restricted to Apple - Google, Microsoft, Oracle (well, they never actually get it together), HP (um, ditto) and everybody else has issues.
Just don't get all of your panties twisted about. It's a tool. Not an altar.
The hell with bedrock! Curiosity has found a piece of metal embedded in rock. Doesn't appear to be Mardi Gras beads either.
They should be tugging on that thing to see what happens!
It's Apple. Don't install ANYTHING until the x.3 version is out. Been that way forever.
It helps if you put the rounds in correctly (pointy end forward). Maybe that's davy's problem.
Well, there is Vimeo....
Or you could Rule 34 it.
I'm glad people don't walk around naked, because I want nudity to be special.
I'm glad people don't walk around naked because I have some modicum of taste and decorum. The vast majority of people really, really need to leave their clothes on.
Except that the magazine in question has 'just' managed a couple of hundred rounds before tanking. So we're back at the learning curve.
I guess what I'm saying is that the tech to make rifle magazines is so generally available as to be useless to try to limit. Even in my tiny little town, there are three or four guys with the requisite machine shop that could crank high quality parts out. As cheaply as the factory? No, probably more hand forming and filing.
But we are NOT anywhere near dumping a file into the a 3D printer and pulling out a magazine, popping it into the rifle and running off to stem the apocalypse. Wake me up when you can. Until then, I've got my Sherline tools and welders and whatnot. And you know what? I've not been bothered by anybody yet. I really don't think the feds care that much. They're too busy entrapping disaffected teenagers.
See my earlier post. Magazines for 'assault rifles' are not high on the list of Difficult Things To Make. The order fulfillment / paperwork / advertising aspect of selling these things is likely harder. If you want one, you go to Shotgun news and order it. If they make it illegal, you go to Shotgun news and order the version that has a plastic tab glued in the bottom so it 'only' holds three or seven or whatever number of rounds is OK.
"The Children" do not want an AR-15. They want an EMP gun.
As a matter of fact, so do I. Ammo is getting hard to get.
Why is this at all important? You can make a magazine 'the old way" with a spring, some sheet metal, a spot welder and a metal brake (something that bends sheet metal). Yes, it takes some skill, but you're saying that a 3D printer is at the level of an iPhone?
The canonical 'assault rife', the AK-47, is pounded out in factories that look more like garbage dumps than anything else. If you look at pictures of the magazines you see a bunch that look, well, rather primitive. But they work.
This is not rocket science, folks. It's machine shop 101.
Please report to the re education camp immediately, citizen.
We will fix that little problem you're having.
(There's an app for that, you know.)
Of course, it shouldn't be too hard for Slashdot to allow for comment editing, right?
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