c4ss:
$25 Gun Created With Cheap 3D Printer Fires Nine Shots
When high tech gunsmith group Defense Distributed test-fired the world’s first fully 3D-printed firearm earlier this month, some critics dismissed the demonstration as expensive and impractical, arguing it could only be done with a high-end industrial 3D printer and that the plastic weapon wouldn’t last more than a single shot. Now a couple of hobbyists have proven them wrong on both counts. …
This gun was printed by a $1,725 Lulzbot A0-101 consumer-grade 3D printer.
(Source: newkidsonmycock11)
Speechless
If you know what this means, you’re a very informed citizen. Congrats.
c4ss:
Verizon Wireless Secretly Passed AP Reporters’ Phone Records to Feds
If you are a customer of Verizon Wireless, you might want to consider switching carriers in light of the Associated Press phone snooping scandal.
When the feds came knocking for AP journalists’ call records last year, Verizon apparently turned the data over with no questions asked. The New York Times, citing an AP employee, reported Tuesday that at least two of the reporters’ personal cellphone records “were provided to the government by Verizon Wireless without any attempt to obtain permission to tell them so the reporters could ask a court to quash the subpoena.”
A quick refresher on the back story: It emerged Monday that the Justice Department obtained AP journalists’ phone records as part of what is believed to be an aggressive probe into a leak about a foiled terror plot, which led to a May 2012 AP scoop. The government seized the records for more that 20 separate phone lines assigned to AP staff in April and May of 2012, the AP reported. The seizure of the records has prompted a backlash from media organizations, while Attorney General Eric Holder has tried to justify the intrusion by insisting that the leak “put the American people at risk.” The AP says that it published the story only after receiving assurances from the government that “the national security concerns had passed.” …
c4ss:
Larry Page wants to ‘set aside a part of the world’ for unregulated experimentation
Google CEO Larry Page is holding a rare Q&A session with attendees of today’s Google I/O keynote, and he’s been offering up some pretty unfiltered answers. In response to a question about reducing negativity and focusing on changing the world, Page noted that “the pace of change is increasing” and said that “we haven’t adapted systems to deal with that.” Specifically, he said that “not all change is good” and said that we need to build “mechanisms to allow experimentation.”
That’s when his response got really interesting. “There are many exciting things you could do that are illegal or not allowed by regulation,” Page said. “And that’s good, we don’t want to change the world. But maybe we can set aside a part of the world.” He likened this potential free-experimentation zone to Burning Man and said that we need “some safe places where we can try things and not have to deploy to the entire world.” Google is already well-known for coming up with some pretty interesting ideas — the idea of seeing what Page could come up with in this lawless beta-test country is simultaneously exciting and a bit terrifying.
c4ss:
So true. It’s sad, really.
Bombshell: White House Knew of IRS Scandal 5 Months Before Election
The New York Times is now reporting that the Obama administration did in fact know of the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups a full 5 months before the election. Linking this to Obama himself will likely be more difficult, but it’s pretty clear at this point that his administration knew exactly what was going on, and they covered it up for until after the election.
Remember, the low-level workers busted for the scandal point-blank say they were just following orders from up above. We already knew this led to somewhere in Washington. The fact that it actually leads to the Obama administration itself is proof that this isn’t just a small-time scandal — this should end Obama’s presidency. He should resign or be impeached, immediately.
(Source: priceofliberty)
Israel’s leaders on African migrants.
