If people are so much more critical of grammar than they are about misinformation, it's a good thing I never tried to be a journalist.

Understanding the components and assembly of a machine makes me an "internet tough guy"?

It's exactly a paperweight until the remaining 20% is milled. There isn't a place for the trigger, hammer, or safety - it's solid metal in that area.

I'm guessing that "east" is supposed to be "easy" and that's accurate. It is legal to sell, but there are hoops to jump through. From what I understand, it's difficult to find an FFL willing to deal with that kind of transfer (of a non-serialized gun). Once you've serialized it and it goes through an FFL transfer, it isn't so secret anymore and the papertrail begins.

OMG, I'm so mortified that I made such a simple mistake!

It's almost like I was more concerned with the content of my message than the approval of a slashdot grammar nazi!

Wait, no - I'm not mortified at all. I think that might have been a burp.

No, and his machine doesn't even make a complete lower receiver - it can only finish the remaining 20% of an 80% (complete) lower receiver.

The difference between a full-auto receiver and a semi-auto AR-15 receiver is 1 hole. The rest of the full-auto portion of the fire control group is several internal components that his machine has nothing to do with.

I built my 2 AR-15 rifles, this stuff isn't rocket science - but it's probably a little to advanced for any liberal journalist.

Solid != soft

The lower karat weights of gold were made to reduce cost and improve the hardness of the metal.

this happened over a month ago.

I wonder if it was harder to write the commentary or to watch the show?

I can't stand TV cop shows that even show a computer - because 99% of the time it's complete bullshit.

Good question! Nobody ever hears anything about games once they're purchased by Microsoft.

This is perfectly illustrated and explained in the first 5 minutes of the movie "Idiocracy"

When I switched my 4 lines to AT&T, T-Mobile continued to bill me for 3 months on the numbers they no longer had.

Now, of course, the only people who will talk to me about it are collection company zombies who know nothing beyond their script.

My Chrome on Android (cyanogenmod 11 and now 12) doesn't crash either.

I can't completely disagree with that, but there will always be someone to maintain the equipment at regular intervals. They're not unmanned 24/7, someone is there occasionally to maintain and service the equipment. These sites would definitely need fuel level monitoring automation. I was thinking more of gas stations and truck stops where the high volume of fuel sold would require constant monitoring of the fuel levels, a mundane task better left to automation.

I don't think it's to get rid of people, but taking away a responsibility from unreliable people. There will always be need for someone on site, but can they be trusted to catch a problem (like a low fuel tank) and notify the right people in time to actually do something about it?

The station can't sell gas they don't have, so it's in their best interest to never run out. By connecting them to the internet, an automated system can be used to monitor level and usage to make predictions about when the tank will need to be refilled. A properly configured system would place an order for more fuel with enough lead time that when the fuel truck arrives the station has both not run out, and is in need of refill.

People are unreliable, especially when it comes to repetitive and mundane processes. Machines don't care how often they have to perform an action, neither do they get bored doing them.

There are guys like Matthew James Taylor and David Walsh who code new and innovative interfaces and widgets - but even their sites are database driven (even maybe homegrown) CMS that they use to display their code inventions.

I write extensions for a popular CMS which make it more useful for myself and others, but an HTML/CSS only designer will have a tough learning curve to jump into that type of development as there are many languages working in concert (PHP/ASP/Java, JS, JSON, XML, SQL, INI, HTML, CSS, ???) with HTML/CSS being perhaps the least used.

Not that I couldn't, but I wouldn't hand code an entire site these days. Efficiency and productivity is the key now and you just can't compete with a modern CMS in those regards.