I have been a member of the unorganized militia, being male in reasonable health most of the time, and am no longer in it since I'm over 45. I'm not that fond of guns, and never got training with one. I've never had any sort of military training. Any militia with people like me in it is not going to be "well-regulated". I do want to have all my Constitutional rights, even the ones I don't care about in practice (nobody has ever tried to quarter troops on the homes of anyone I know, for example).
People forget that personal rights come with personal responsibilities, one of which being called to serve in the unorganized militia (if one fits stated criteria to serve, age, etc) and fight in combat if required to do so. It is compulsory. Refusal during wartime (only scenario where the UOM would be activated and this would apply in) could result in immediate execution or imprisonment.
Nobody requires you to own a firearm. However, you may still be called to serve. If nobody has a spare firearm and ammo to lend you, you may find yourself charging a defended position as the 'meatshield'.
It sure would be nice if our OS ran every single program and app in its own private VM, with individually tailored permissions.
You could do this on linux if you wanted. Using a tool like firejail, you can run all your software in lightweight sandboxes (linux namespaces). It comes with custom profiles for 100+ desktop/server applications and it's easy to write more. I wouldn't recommend converting all of/usr/bin to run under firejail as this would certainly cause issues but, I run all my desktop applications with it and it's worked well.
I believe FreeBSD/PC-BSD have a robust jail system as well. FreeBSD also has 'bhyve' and 'iohyve' which together can now support recent Windows versions that require UEFI support emulation.
Haven't attempted it myself so I have no personal experiences or information on Windows versions and compatibility other than the blog article linked above, but it looks fascinating.
Why not a 5 for "insightful" on this one?...it appears that politics infects/. too.
I believe it's the reverse.
I'd like to share a revelation during my time here on Slashdot. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually sentient beings. Every sentient being on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with scientific debate and falsifiable/testable science versus political agendas but you Slashdotters do not. You move to a discussion and you troll and ad hominem until every logical argument and actual fact is dead. The only way you can survive is to spread to another discussion. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Slashdotters are a disease, a cancer of this scientific debate. You are a plague, and we are the cure.
The difference being that guns are designed and intended to kill.
That's why they work so well to protect life and property from those who would take them violently and why police carry them for the same reasons, duh!
It protects the smaller woman (or anybody less able to physically defend themselves) from the larger (and possibly more numerous) rapist(s)/attacker(s)/home-invader(s).
Privately owned firearms are used for defensive protection in the US on average (often without a shot being fired) anywhere from the bottom-end estimates of ~50,000-80,000 to a middle of ~2,500,000 and higher end estimates go to as high as ~4,700,000 times a year.
Drone operators need to be very careful. Shotguns work on people, too.
Drone shooters need to be very careful. Shotguns (and other nasty surprises) can be attached to drones, too.
I'm a staunch 2nd Amendment/private firearm ownership and castle doctrine believer, but can't we take a damned breath and give laws and regulations a chance to catch up before shooting at shit that poses no serious direct threat of personal harm?
Look, I get there may be some cases where discharging a firearm against a drone might be justified, but holy crap! People act like they're ready to set emplacements for AAA for some idiot that let his drone wander too far because idiot!
Are you really suggesting the government shouldn't be subsidizing new things that make the world a better place when they do not provide immediate profit motive?
Grants and assistance/seed money for scientific research grant foundations, military research projects, space exploration, other pure research/science projects, sure.
Artificially distorting/masking the cost efficiency of one existing service/product versus a 'favored' new service/product through taxes and regulation that cannot otherwise compete only wastes the people's money with artificially-inflated prices (and in the case of energy prices is extremely regressive...it hurts the poorest and most vulnerable in society the fastest and the worst) and actually slows the advancement of the 'favored' service/product by mitigating the financial/economic pressure to improve.
Increases in electricity and heating fuel prices can be measured in human lives lost. How many lives a year every year is it worth to increase energy prices artificially for political/ideological agendas?
The only ones that come out ahead in the end with these schemes are the politicians and their private sector 'connected' cronies. Society and everyone in it pays the costs in lives lost, unnecessary suffering, and the slowing of human progress.
Before rescuing the planet from carbon emissions the Swedes might want to rescue their country first:
SWEDEN IN CHAOS: Number of âno-go zonesâ(TM) INCREASED as police lose control over violence
Sweden turns on migrants amid rise in violence and sex attacks
Sweden on the BRINK: Malmà in flames as vengeful thugs set cars alight
Those who are working towards effectively abolishing national sovereignty and erecting a structure for central global governance know that great changes only occur at times of great turmoil, war, famine, financial/currency system collapses, and anarchy/chaos.
There are some disturbing societal/cultural/political parallels to pre-WW2 Germany occurring in the US. The EU is on fire. Nationalism and populism is on the rise in many powerful nations around the world. The global financial markets are in dangerous territory. Russia and China are flexing their military muscles.
It's not going to take a whole lot at this point to send the world off into a global catastrophic collapse and conflict. What might well emerge scares the crap out of me for the whole of humanity.
I expect that quite soon, as regulatory capture and cronyism kills off small single-proprietor businesses and the few large 'connected' (tobacco co,s, mostly) manufacturers jack up prices for cheap (but legal!) junk as typically happens, that many people will just be paying somebodies' kid brother for one of the rigs he puts together out of used laptop batteries in his basement while he's smoking blunts.
Which would you prefer happen to be in the luggage on your or your family's next flight because TSA missed it? (gasp! inconceivable! right?)
The tools will contain portions that have to be placed on the remote machine, because you're trying to execute their payload in a privileged context on that machine.
But didn't this release also include command servers and user manuals? Things which would never be placed on a device which is the target of a compromise, so even if you assume usage of a "bundle", it's unreasonable to think they would be included in it.
This.
There's no way any 'honeypot' or similar tactic is going to obtain the portions of the tools that are never uploaded to a target like user manuals and command server code.
This is simply a combination of CYA and an attempt at psychological manipulation to try to smoke out whomever hacked into NSA HQ and/or leaked these tools.
Hey NSA, it sucks when the hunter becomes the hunted, doesn't it? Your unconstitutional and criminal actions have now placed you at the top of every private and government hacker's dream-hack list both domestic and foreign, and even inside your organization among your own coworkers. Every last bit of dirt will be exposed for all to see. You are the greater threat to national security and will be dealt with accordingly regardless of what corrupt laws are in place to protect your illegal/unconstitutional actions because you are far-outnumbered and vastly out-resourced.
Dealerships are a tool to "Limit Competition" and options. Not something you should have in a free and open society...
I found where you're confusion originates. It's in thinking that people want a free and open society. You can't have a society with 'safe spaces', 'micro-aggresions', 'trigger warnings', 'right to not be offended', etc etc, ad nauseam, and also have it remain free and open in nature. Heck, many Americans just prior to WW2 thought that Mussolini and Hitler were great examples of how to run a nation until they went all genocidal/homicidal-maniac.
>It is NOT against the law to manufacture your own guns.
It is NOT against the law to manufacture 80% of your own guns. The other 20% requires identifying serial numbers, etc. and you with it. FTFY
You 'fixed' something by 'breaking' it.
You can fabricate the entire firearm yourself. No serial numbers or registration are required *UNLESS* you sell or otherwise transfer ownership of it to another. I could build a hundred unregistered and unmarked ARs or AKs and, as long as they stay mine and in my possession, there are no laws broken.
There's a lot of places on Earth you can go where the right of self defense does not exist. I suggest you move there because those of us that like the US Constitution as it is have no other place to go, thanks to petty tyrants like yourself.
Many of those countries have a higher quality of life and lower violence rates then the US. None of them rely on a 1st or 2nd amendment to achieve this. How does that fit with your ideology?
Yeah, you totally destroyed his point, because as everyone knows, every nation is the same, population numbers and densities are the same, all the ethnic percentages, distributions, and cultures are homogeneous, and laws that work for one people in one part of the world always work for everyone everywhere and that's why all nations have the same laws and types of governments./s
The US government has grown ever more authoritarian and has violated ever more Constitutional limits and civil rights over the last century and has grown ever bolder. Many here have even cheered on government violations of civil rights and limits to government power when it fits their political/ideological agendas. I've warned against this sort of thing for years and was flamed and ignored because for far too many people including many here, the ends justify the means.
With all the support they've received from the public for violating other civil rights and limits to their power for political/ideological goals, are you really shocked or surprised they would violate the 1st Amendment?
If you allow them the power to "reinterpret" one thing, they can and will use the same powers, methods, and tactics to reinterpret anything else they want.
As far as Defense Distributed's 3D printer files, just strip the files of anything tying them to anyone and upload them to torrent sites across the internet. Let them waste time & resources on playing 'whack-a-mole'.
There is no Windows Signature Edition OS. It's a device standard that OEM's agree to not pre-install bloatware and ensure that the hardware will not be throttled down. Microsoft only demands that the hardware runs at its full potential, so that's why bits of the BIOS were locked. Intel/Lenovo developed a new SATA controller firmware that hasn't been included in any install media yet. This is akin to the Skylake support issues that Microsoft is also having. Dell even has a page dedicated to ensuring people can re-install 7 on their devices that Microsoft doesn't include drivers for in their install media. http://www.dell.com/support/ar... [dell.com] This is the exact similar issue that Lenovo is having right now, but their 3rd party support reps (that the original guy from reddit spoke to) do not have the full documentation in their scripts to handle this.
Bullshit. I don't believe a word of it.
When it comes to MS and the PC makers/sellers they've embraced, the long history of their criminal behavior makes the default position that shenanigans are going on unless they can prove beyond a shadow of doubt otherwise.
It's a position MS has worked hard for decades to achieve and they've succeeded.
Considering Windows even has issues when trying to install on these systems...
But is it the Windows 10 Signature edition, or just generic Windows/Windows 10 that failed to install?
My bet is that the Windows "Signature" edition installed on these machines has drivers/code not included (or activated) in generic Windows 10. If so that makes it even worse, as it would prove MS took proactive steps to insure these machines were not actually "PCs" according to standards, and that Lenovo colluded with MS to commit fraud by marketing them as PCs.
Too bad that "Rule of Law" no longer exists even as a goal in the USA.
So says a 3rd party support tech that is only reading the script Lenovo gave them.
Then either Lenovo is lying or MS is lying.
This is like two guys caught by the police standing in front of a burning building that reeks of burning gasoline holding mostly-empty cans of gasoline and lit torches, and each pointing their accusing finger at the other.
As far as I'm concerned, in each case both are guilty and I will treat both MS & Lenovo as "un-indicted co-conspirators".
Family members were asking me just the other day about my recommendations for which PC makers/sellers to avoid. I'll be adding Lenovo to that list.
Except, it's not Microsoft doing this. If you were to try and re-install Windows, it would give a driver error as well. It's a Lenovo issue through-and-through.
From TFS:
...It is locked per our agreement with Microsoft."
If they performed, sounded, and felt the same to play through, I'd be using them. Same with power MOSFETs. Heck, I worked for ProCo Sound Inc. building and testing 'Rat' distortion pedals that used JFETs back in the 1980s. I'm well-familiar with their advantages and drawbacks.
I already stated in one of my posts that I'd love to not have to lug around large, heavy, tube amps to get the sound & feel I want. I'm hoping that someday I won't have to. However, as things stand currently, solid-state/DSP/emulation simply isn't there yet.
of things that will get me on yet another list.....
I want to be on as many government 'lists' as possible.
The more resources they waste on me, the fewer resources they have for the ones that will put them down and wreck their dreams of ultimate wealth, power, and control.
Or maybe I'm actually one of those 'ones'. I guess they'll have to keep devoting resources to find out.:)
And once legal precedent is established, their own legal system and the tools they rely on will subvert their attempts to have it both ways in the future.
"But no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case to trial". Isn't that how it goes when they want to ignore inconvenient laws?
People need more history education and perhaps legal training if they don't get this yet.
I concur. Might want to brush-up on some of the more-recent history.
You don't have to dig deep to find the nuggets with this guy. If the man suggests a judge of (half) mexican descent should recuse himself from a case because of his heritage... that man might be a rednec...er racist.
I'm sure that the judge's membership in an openly racist organization, La Raza, had nothing at all to do with it. Or is it now racist to complain about racists when said racist is one of the 'protected' class?
BTW those military age Syrian men will be vetted, rest assured its still really fucking hard to get here.
Bullshit. There's no way TO vet them! There are no records to check. There isn't even a way to check that they've given their correct name, FFS!
Every single murder committed by these 'refugees' is directly the fault of those pushing to bring these 'refugees' here. Meanwhile, Coptic Christians who are suffering genocide at the hands of these same animals in Syria and elsewhere, and who DO have verifiable paper trails and Coptic priests there to vet them, are being left to be brutally murdered...men, women, and children alike.
The US is turning into everything it used to stand against. It cannot long exist.
OTOH Trump doesn't hide that he's a flagrant racist and that's totally cool.
Found the SJW.
Because, wanting to control the borders and who/what enters like every other nation does is "racist".
Because, not allowing many thousands of unvetted (asking them "are you a terrorist?" is not vetting) Muslim military-aged men from Syria to be shipped into the US is "racist".
I won't be voting for either Trump or Hillary. Both, I'm certain, have more than earned prison cells & orange pantsuits if the legal system actually worked and Rule of Law was still a thing in the US.
Of course, modern solid state amplifiers aren't particularly power limited (at least if you have the cash) and should never be driven into distortion. Effects pedals give you whatever distortion you want and have the advantage that you can turn the amplifier some level other than 11 and you still have the distortion you like.
As a pro-level guitarist for 4+ decades and who also has been designing & building tube guitar amplifiers for nearly as long, I have to disagree.
Distortion type effects pedals are attempts to imitate what goes on in a tube guitar amplifier being pushed to (and past) it's limits and some come close (and many more close enough for the average local artist/band in bar/small-gig venues) but it does not sound nor 'feel' the same to play through for a good guitar player.
Nearly all the flagship lines of the major guitar amplifier manufacturers are tube amps. Most pro-level concert/festival guitar amplifier backlines are tube amplifiers. Fender Twin Reverbs, Super Reverbs, and Marshall amplifiers (often vintage '60s/'70s era) are the vast majority of venue-owned backline kit provided for touring acts (and usually specified by the artist/band in the performance contract 'riders' section) at most large venues.
As to making a home-brew vacuum tube, it is doable but not practical. To get predictable performance mechanical tolerances must be exacting and the materials used in commercial tubes are rather exotic and difficult (if not impossible to come close to) for a home-brew vacuum tube maker. What you end up doing is making a tube using 'best guesses' and test/measure the tube's operational parameters and design the circuit around those parameters, rather than the other way around.
The other problem with the inability to make tubes with fairly consistent and predictable performance and operational parameters is that it makes building things like the typical push-pull 2 or 4 tube Class AB1/AB2 power amplifier extremely difficult, as the tubes must be fairly close in there operational parameters or the unbalanced circuit will likely destroy the tube(s) of one side that conduct the most current. It would also be necessary to custom-wind output transformers to whatever plate impedance the tube(s) happened to exhibit
If you love vacuum tubes and spending exorbitant amounts of time & money mucking about with molten glass and exotic metals for fun, have at it. Just don't expect to build the equivalent of a McIntosh MC30 or a 100-watt Marshall using them.
There is an amazing amount of exacting engineering, sophisticated manufacturing processes/techniques, and exotic materials science in the old commercial vacuum tubes even by today's standards and is pretty much impractical and beyond the means for the vast majority of private experimenters to reproduce in a home shop.
A distributed app collecting signal strength and cell site hardware data could rapidly expose any portable IMSI device. Just needs to be built and publicized by someone with the time, interest, and skill.
I'm an R.F. engineering tech. I even worked for Harris (the manufacturer) back in the early '80s.
I'll bet just comparing phase to obtain directional data and comparing locational data to actual cell site locations should be enough to alert to shenanigans.
With a bit more sophistication the location could be narrowed to within ~10-15ft. Program a consumer hobby drone with the location, attach about a pound of HE to that drone, and IMSI goes bye-bye.
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I have been a member of the unorganized militia, being male in reasonable health most of the time, and am no longer in it since I'm over 45. I'm not that fond of guns, and never got training with one. I've never had any sort of military training. Any militia with people like me in it is not going to be "well-regulated". I do want to have all my Constitutional rights, even the ones I don't care about in practice (nobody has ever tried to quarter troops on the homes of anyone I know, for example).
People forget that personal rights come with personal responsibilities, one of which being called to serve in the unorganized militia (if one fits stated criteria to serve, age, etc) and fight in combat if required to do so. It is compulsory. Refusal during wartime (only scenario where the UOM would be activated and this would apply in) could result in immediate execution or imprisonment.
Nobody requires you to own a firearm. However, you may still be called to serve. If nobody has a spare firearm and ammo to lend you, you may find yourself charging a defended position as the 'meatshield'.
Choose wisely.
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I believe FreeBSD/PC-BSD have a robust jail system as well. FreeBSD also has 'bhyve' and 'iohyve' which together can now support recent Windows versions that require UEFI support emulation.
Howto here: http://pr1ntf.xyz/windowsunder...
Haven't attempted it myself so I have no personal experiences or information on Windows versions and compatibility other than the blog article linked above, but it looks fascinating.
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Why not a 5 for "insightful" on this one? ...it appears that politics infects /. too.
I believe it's the reverse.
I'd like to share a revelation during my time here on Slashdot. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually sentient beings. Every sentient being on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with scientific debate and falsifiable/testable science versus political agendas but you Slashdotters do not. You move to a discussion and you troll and ad hominem until every logical argument and actual fact is dead. The only way you can survive is to spread to another discussion. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Slashdotters are a disease, a cancer of this scientific debate. You are a plague, and we are the cure.
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The difference being that guns are designed and intended to kill.
That's why they work so well to protect life and property from those who would take them violently and why police carry them for the same reasons, duh!
It protects the smaller woman (or anybody less able to physically defend themselves) from the larger (and possibly more numerous) rapist(s)/attacker(s)/home-invader(s).
Privately owned firearms are used for defensive protection in the US on average (often without a shot being fired) anywhere from the bottom-end estimates of ~50,000-80,000 to a middle of ~2,500,000 and higher end estimates go to as high as ~4,700,000 times a year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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Drone operators need to be very careful. Shotguns work on people, too.
Drone shooters need to be very careful. Shotguns (and other nasty surprises) can be attached to drones, too.
I'm a staunch 2nd Amendment/private firearm ownership and castle doctrine believer, but can't we take a damned breath and give laws and regulations a chance to catch up before shooting at shit that poses no serious direct threat of personal harm?
Look, I get there may be some cases where discharging a firearm against a drone might be justified, but holy crap! People act like they're ready to set emplacements for AAA for some idiot that let his drone wander too far because idiot!
Get a grip already! Before somebody loses an eye!
Strat
Are you really suggesting the government shouldn't be subsidizing new things that make the world a better place when they do not provide immediate profit motive?
Grants and assistance/seed money for scientific research grant foundations, military research projects, space exploration, other pure research/science projects, sure.
Artificially distorting/masking the cost efficiency of one existing service/product versus a 'favored' new service/product through taxes and regulation that cannot otherwise compete only wastes the people's money with artificially-inflated prices (and in the case of energy prices is extremely regressive...it hurts the poorest and most vulnerable in society the fastest and the worst) and actually slows the advancement of the 'favored' service/product by mitigating the financial/economic pressure to improve.
Increases in electricity and heating fuel prices can be measured in human lives lost. How many lives a year every year is it worth to increase energy prices artificially for political/ideological agendas?
The only ones that come out ahead in the end with these schemes are the politicians and their private sector 'connected' cronies. Society and everyone in it pays the costs in lives lost, unnecessary suffering, and the slowing of human progress.
Strat
Before rescuing the planet from carbon emissions the Swedes might want to rescue their country first:
SWEDEN IN CHAOS: Number of âno-go zonesâ(TM) INCREASED as police lose control over violence
Sweden turns on migrants amid rise in violence and sex attacks
Sweden on the BRINK: Malmà in flames as vengeful thugs set cars alight
Those who are working towards effectively abolishing national sovereignty and erecting a structure for central global governance know that great changes only occur at times of great turmoil, war, famine, financial/currency system collapses, and anarchy/chaos.
There are some disturbing societal/cultural/political parallels to pre-WW2 Germany occurring in the US. The EU is on fire. Nationalism and populism is on the rise in many powerful nations around the world. The global financial markets are in dangerous territory. Russia and China are flexing their military muscles.
It's not going to take a whole lot at this point to send the world off into a global catastrophic collapse and conflict. What might well emerge scares the crap out of me for the whole of humanity.
Strat
"My box mod is made from Reardon metal!"
I expect that quite soon, as regulatory capture and cronyism kills off small single-proprietor businesses and the few large 'connected' (tobacco co,s, mostly) manufacturers jack up prices for cheap (but legal!) junk as typically happens, that many people will just be paying somebodies' kid brother for one of the rigs he puts together out of used laptop batteries in his basement while he's smoking blunts.
Which would you prefer happen to be in the luggage on your or your family's next flight because TSA missed it? (gasp! inconceivable! right?)
Strat
The tools will contain portions that have to be placed on the remote machine, because you're trying to execute their payload in a privileged context on that machine.
But didn't this release also include command servers and user manuals? Things which would never be placed on a device which is the target of a compromise, so even if you assume usage of a "bundle", it's unreasonable to think they would be included in it.
This.
There's no way any 'honeypot' or similar tactic is going to obtain the portions of the tools that are never uploaded to a target like user manuals and command server code.
This is simply a combination of CYA and an attempt at psychological manipulation to try to smoke out whomever hacked into NSA HQ and/or leaked these tools.
Hey NSA, it sucks when the hunter becomes the hunted, doesn't it? Your unconstitutional and criminal actions have now placed you at the top of every private and government hacker's dream-hack list both domestic and foreign, and even inside your organization among your own coworkers. Every last bit of dirt will be exposed for all to see. You are the greater threat to national security and will be dealt with accordingly regardless of what corrupt laws are in place to protect your illegal/unconstitutional actions because you are far-outnumbered and vastly out-resourced.
Strat
Dealerships are a tool to "Limit Competition" and options. Not something you should have in a free and open society...
I found where you're confusion originates. It's in thinking that people want a free and open society. You can't have a society with 'safe spaces', 'micro-aggresions', 'trigger warnings', 'right to not be offended', etc etc, ad nauseam, and also have it remain free and open in nature. Heck, many Americans just prior to WW2 thought that Mussolini and Hitler were great examples of how to run a nation until they went all genocidal/homicidal-maniac.
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>It is NOT against the law to manufacture your own guns.
It is NOT against the law to manufacture 80% of your own guns. The other 20% requires identifying serial numbers, etc. and you with it.
FTFY
You 'fixed' something by 'breaking' it.
You can fabricate the entire firearm yourself. No serial numbers or registration are required *UNLESS* you sell or otherwise transfer ownership of it to another. I could build a hundred unregistered and unmarked ARs or AKs and, as long as they stay mine and in my possession, there are no laws broken.
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Yeah, you totally destroyed his point, because as everyone knows, every nation is the same, population numbers and densities are the same, all the ethnic percentages, distributions, and cultures are homogeneous, and laws that work for one people in one part of the world always work for everyone everywhere and that's why all nations have the same laws and types of governments./s
You are either disingenuous or a moron.
Strat
Banning books...?
The US government has grown ever more authoritarian and has violated ever more Constitutional limits and civil rights over the last century and has grown ever bolder. Many here have even cheered on government violations of civil rights and limits to government power when it fits their political/ideological agendas. I've warned against this sort of thing for years and was flamed and ignored because for far too many people including many here, the ends justify the means.
With all the support they've received from the public for violating other civil rights and limits to their power for political/ideological goals, are you really shocked or surprised they would violate the 1st Amendment?
If you allow them the power to "reinterpret" one thing, they can and will use the same powers, methods, and tactics to reinterpret anything else they want.
As far as Defense Distributed's 3D printer files, just strip the files of anything tying them to anyone and upload them to torrent sites across the internet. Let them waste time & resources on playing 'whack-a-mole'.
Strat
There is no Windows Signature Edition OS. It's a device standard that OEM's agree to not pre-install bloatware and ensure that the hardware will not be throttled down.
Microsoft only demands that the hardware runs at its full potential, so that's why bits of the BIOS were locked. Intel/Lenovo developed a new SATA controller firmware that hasn't been included in any install media yet. This is akin to the Skylake support issues that Microsoft is also having.
Dell even has a page dedicated to ensuring people can re-install 7 on their devices that Microsoft doesn't include drivers for in their install media. http://www.dell.com/support/ar... [dell.com]
This is the exact similar issue that Lenovo is having right now, but their 3rd party support reps (that the original guy from reddit spoke to) do not have the full documentation in their scripts to handle this.
Bullshit. I don't believe a word of it.
When it comes to MS and the PC makers/sellers they've embraced, the long history of their criminal behavior makes the default position that shenanigans are going on unless they can prove beyond a shadow of doubt otherwise.
It's a position MS has worked hard for decades to achieve and they've succeeded.
Strat
Considering Windows even has issues when trying to install on these systems...
But is it the Windows 10 Signature edition, or just generic Windows/Windows 10 that failed to install?
My bet is that the Windows "Signature" edition installed on these machines has drivers/code not included (or activated) in generic Windows 10. If so that makes it even worse, as it would prove MS took proactive steps to insure these machines were not actually "PCs" according to standards, and that Lenovo colluded with MS to commit fraud by marketing them as PCs.
Too bad that "Rule of Law" no longer exists even as a goal in the USA.
Strat
So says a 3rd party support tech that is only reading the script Lenovo gave them.
Then either Lenovo is lying or MS is lying.
This is like two guys caught by the police standing in front of a burning building that reeks of burning gasoline holding mostly-empty cans of gasoline and lit torches, and each pointing their accusing finger at the other.
As far as I'm concerned, in each case both are guilty and I will treat both MS & Lenovo as "un-indicted co-conspirators".
Family members were asking me just the other day about my recommendations for which PC makers/sellers to avoid. I'll be adding Lenovo to that list.
Strat
Except, it's not Microsoft doing this. If you were to try and re-install Windows, it would give a driver error as well. It's a Lenovo issue through-and-through.
From TFS:
You might want to reconsider your claim.
Strat
Is it really that hard to use JFETs for you?
No.
If they performed, sounded, and felt the same to play through, I'd be using them. Same with power MOSFETs. Heck, I worked for ProCo Sound Inc. building and testing 'Rat' distortion pedals that used JFETs back in the 1980s. I'm well-familiar with their advantages and drawbacks.
I already stated in one of my posts that I'd love to not have to lug around large, heavy, tube amps to get the sound & feel I want. I'm hoping that someday I won't have to. However, as things stand currently, solid-state/DSP/emulation simply isn't there yet.
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of things that will get me on yet another list.....
I want to be on as many government 'lists' as possible.
The more resources they waste on me, the fewer resources they have for the ones that will put them down and wreck their dreams of ultimate wealth, power, and control.
Or maybe I'm actually one of those 'ones'. I guess they'll have to keep devoting resources to find out. :)
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D'OHH!
"I liked it sooo much I signed it *twice*!" :P
And once legal precedent is established, their own legal system and the tools they rely on will subvert their attempts to have it both ways in the future.
"But no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case to trial". Isn't that how it goes when they want to ignore inconvenient laws?
People need more history education and perhaps legal training if they don't get this yet.
I concur. Might want to brush-up on some of the more-recent history.
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You don't have to dig deep to find the nuggets with this guy. If the man suggests a judge of (half) mexican descent should recuse himself from a case because of his heritage... that man might be a rednec...er racist.
I'm sure that the judge's membership in an openly racist organization, La Raza, had nothing at all to do with it. Or is it now racist to complain about racists when said racist is one of the 'protected' class?
BTW those military age Syrian men will be vetted, rest assured its still really fucking hard to get here.
Bullshit. There's no way TO vet them! There are no records to check. There isn't even a way to check that they've given their correct name, FFS!
Every single murder committed by these 'refugees' is directly the fault of those pushing to bring these 'refugees' here. Meanwhile, Coptic Christians who are suffering genocide at the hands of these same animals in Syria and elsewhere, and who DO have verifiable paper trails and Coptic priests there to vet them, are being left to be brutally murdered...men, women, and children alike.
The US is turning into everything it used to stand against. It cannot long exist.
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OTOH Trump doesn't hide that he's a flagrant racist and that's totally cool.
Found the SJW.
Because, wanting to control the borders and who/what enters like every other nation does is "racist".
Because, not allowing many thousands of unvetted (asking them "are you a terrorist?" is not vetting) Muslim military-aged men from Syria to be shipped into the US is "racist".
I won't be voting for either Trump or Hillary. Both, I'm certain, have more than earned prison cells & orange pantsuits if the legal system actually worked and Rule of Law was still a thing in the US.
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Of course, modern solid state amplifiers aren't particularly power limited (at least if you have the cash) and should never be driven into distortion. Effects pedals give you whatever distortion you want and have the advantage that you can turn the amplifier some level other than 11 and you still have the distortion you like.
As a pro-level guitarist for 4+ decades and who also has been designing & building tube guitar amplifiers for nearly as long, I have to disagree.
Distortion type effects pedals are attempts to imitate what goes on in a tube guitar amplifier being pushed to (and past) it's limits and some come close (and many more close enough for the average local artist/band in bar/small-gig venues) but it does not sound nor 'feel' the same to play through for a good guitar player.
Nearly all the flagship lines of the major guitar amplifier manufacturers are tube amps. Most pro-level concert/festival guitar amplifier backlines are tube amplifiers. Fender Twin Reverbs, Super Reverbs, and Marshall amplifiers (often vintage '60s/'70s era) are the vast majority of venue-owned backline kit provided for touring acts (and usually specified by the artist/band in the performance contract 'riders' section) at most large venues.
As to making a home-brew vacuum tube, it is doable but not practical. To get predictable performance mechanical tolerances must be exacting and the materials used in commercial tubes are rather exotic and difficult (if not impossible to come close to) for a home-brew vacuum tube maker. What you end up doing is making a tube using 'best guesses' and test/measure the tube's operational parameters and design the circuit around those parameters, rather than the other way around.
The other problem with the inability to make tubes with fairly consistent and predictable performance and operational parameters is that it makes building things like the typical push-pull 2 or 4 tube Class AB1/AB2 power amplifier extremely difficult, as the tubes must be fairly close in there operational parameters or the unbalanced circuit will likely destroy the tube(s) of one side that conduct the most current. It would also be necessary to custom-wind output transformers to whatever plate impedance the tube(s) happened to exhibit
If you love vacuum tubes and spending exorbitant amounts of time & money mucking about with molten glass and exotic metals for fun, have at it. Just don't expect to build the equivalent of a McIntosh MC30 or a 100-watt Marshall using them.
There is an amazing amount of exacting engineering, sophisticated manufacturing processes/techniques, and exotic materials science in the old commercial vacuum tubes even by today's standards and is pretty much impractical and beyond the means for the vast majority of private experimenters to reproduce in a home shop.
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A distributed app collecting signal strength and cell site hardware data could rapidly expose any portable IMSI device. Just needs to be built and publicized by someone with the time, interest, and skill.
I'm an R.F. engineering tech. I even worked for Harris (the manufacturer) back in the early '80s.
I'll bet just comparing phase to obtain directional data and comparing locational data to actual cell site locations should be enough to alert to shenanigans.
With a bit more sophistication the location could be narrowed to within ~10-15ft. Program a consumer hobby drone with the location, attach about a pound of HE to that drone, and IMSI goes bye-bye.
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