"That's for the hackers to figure out!"

The constant 'Pew-Pew-Pew' sounds would keep me awake at night.

My SO loves watching Shark Tank (which I despise, but try to keep to myself). A telling indicator of how busted the current system is that these millionaires (who apparently just don't *quite* have enough lucre yet) always ask the same question: "Do you have a patent?"

Military Intelligence, Virgin Birth...

Still fascinating that no one can agree on the origin of the once slang 'OK'.

They will have to shut this down HARD, to keep us from manufacturing pharmaceuticals and recreational drugs wihout the permission of IP "owners" or our frankly insane drug law enforcers.

Wow: Big Pharma's *and* Big Moral Cop's worst nightmare. Here's hoping, anyway.

I still am not sure why (where the land isn't good enough or worth trying to improve for farming) solar isn't co-habituating with wind farms just to take advantage of the already built power infrastructure. Maybe not enough capacity when both are at or near optimal generating conditions?

Yes; you don't try to cut the fence of the police state prison camp right where the guards are standing - and that is EXACTLY what LAPD is doing to poor (read: minority) neighborhoods.

Tired of the endless WHUMP-WHUMP-WHUMP? well, turn white and rich, Mr. and Mrs. Bootstrap!

I have an overhead bathroom fixture that is a combination light / exhaust / heater. I'd love to replace the tungsten with an LED, but I'm concerned if an LED can hold up to a hot environment such as this without failing or - worst case scenario - catching fire due to overheating.

This reminds me of the systems they tried to impose in the early 70s' US cars: if the seat belts weren't latched, the cars would not start. No, not just an annoying bong for a brief time; the freaking engine would not even turn over. And this being completely analog, system failures happened quite a bit. But fear not! If there was a failure, there was an under hood button you could push to bypass the system. Once. A one-time use, then you had to tow the car to a dealership for a new box. As most everyone by-passed this insanity, the system was quickly dropped.

Here's hoping Intel also comes to their senses about their one-time recovery window (hopefully with some well-deserved threats from the FTC).

In all seriousness: who are these institutions? And do they have bullet-proof methods to warn everyone when (probably not if) they receive NSLs to ignore and keep certain code in place, upon pain of PMITA prison time?

Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks like it already has a crack in the shifter retainer plate and the housing below the shifter (visible in one picture but not another). Also seems odd that he didn't seem to go through the whole pattern, but just first to second. Maybe the printed clutch failed.

I suppose it is well-nigh impossible to ever 3D print semi-conductors, but I hope someone is at least researching the concept.

I think printing your own guaranteed backdoor-free hardware would be a far more important blow for freedom than 3D printing yet another killing machine.

Pod Bay door control.

If every OS and system on the planet is merely your plaything, you are now not just a government agency but a standalone entity that can completely self-fund without leaving a trace, and thus answerable to no one, most especially mere elected civilians.

And if the Senators or POTUS get uppity, well no one that achieves those offices are innocent, thus they are completely blackmailable, if not subject to out and out threats (especially their families).

I think this is the main reason every man that now becomes President ends up with gray hair, regardless of their age.