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General Discussion / Re: Nomorobo Replacement
« Last post by Danjal on Today at 11:56:31 AM »
See if a service like deleteme can get rid of it. If they claim to, it might be worth a look. Basically, right now you've got your number on the proverbial bathroom wall and everyone's calling it. Best to shore up new callers trying their luck at getting a hit than it is to keep hoping whatever service actually works.
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The Workbench / Re: My mods on SKS rifles.
« Last post by monaderio on Yesterday at 08:13:35 PM »
I came across a great picture online that clearly explains the differences between bayonet collars.

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General Discussion / Re: Nomorobo Replacement
« Last post by LESchwartz on Yesterday at 05:41:23 PM »
Honestly your best bet to stop unwanted spam and scam calls is OPSEC. Stop giving out information to third parties or use false information so they call someone else. This is one of the reasons I use an email or letter only policy for nearly every company that "needs" my personal information. With health insurance being one of the biggest breeches of personal information possible to you due to it being "federalized" on servers and constantly hacked to sell on the black market.

Unfortunately, that ship has already sailed . . .

Larry
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General Discussion / Re: Nomorobo Replacement
« Last post by Danjal on Yesterday at 04:12:33 PM »
Honestly your best bet to stop unwanted spam and scam calls is OPSEC. Stop giving out information to third parties or use false information so they call someone else. This is one of the reasons I use an email or letter only policy for nearly every company that "needs" my personal information. With health insurance being one of the biggest breeches of personal information possible to you due to it being "federalized" on servers and constantly hacked to sell on the black market.
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General Discussion / Re: Nomorobo Replacement
« Last post by LESchwartz on Yesterday at 02:09:58 PM »
It turns out that scammers are more resilient then I gave them credit for:  One scammer has repeatedly tried to bypass my black list by calling with different spoofed local numbers.  I then noticed that they also call with different variations of their name.  Things are mostly quiet now as I was able to use "name blocking" using the "contains" option to block them.  Though I have to block multiple names.

We're still getting about a dozen call per day, with all but a couple blocked.  I regularly add the various unblocked names to the blacklist.  However, today's name came through as our health insurance company, with what I assume is a spoofed number.  They're a major player, so i imagine it's a random hit on the scammers part.  Unfortunately, I can't really blacklist my insurance company.  I expect this sort of thing will keep happening and likely increase.

My expectation is that I will need to purchase a converter box either add a line to my cell service (and rely on their excellent blocking service), or put together my own PBX ("press '7' to speak to ...").  I'm leaning toward the PBX, as I can route my number through a VOIP service (like Google Voice) and  drop my land line.  Over the long term the savings from dropping the landline should pay for the hardware.

Besides, it sounds like a fun hobby project!

Larry
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General Discussion / Re: Bombing Iran: Round 2
« Last post by Danjal on March 07, 2026, 09:46:51 PM »
Blueprints aren't, but flat out giving them a nuke will come back on those that did eventually along with the consequences. China, Russia, and the Norks know exactly what they're doing and the rest of the world let them get away with it for profit margins and natural gas.

The Norks were given pretty much the same deal with Russia, Pakistan, and China. Let's be honest here too. If anyone on this board said "Here's the plans to an open bolt sub machine gun, here's my number you can call when you make it so I can walk you through it. But just make a non firing replica that still feeds but doesn't have the firing pin." we'd all agree to string them both up before they got caught robbing the local quikee mart. China, Russia, nd North Korea know damned well what they're doing and what Iran is after here.
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General Discussion / Re: Bombing Iran: Round 2
« Last post by Onepoint on March 07, 2026, 05:23:27 PM »
Blueprints are not radioactive.  Iran has built or reverse engineered much of the strategic stuff they have aside from the stock of air defense and tactical missiles etc they trade for. They will build a nuke using their own fissionable material, but they certainly are not reinventing the wheel as apparently NK did using available open source data and trial and error, hence the push to keep them from creating the material.  China's deal was to dangle the carrot of how to enrich in exchange for oil sales with the cover of saying it was for power generation.  But they didn't need to get them an actual weapon without getting them armed with one quickly if they wanted and it still would not have had a Chinese radioactive signature.
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General Discussion / Re: Bombing Iran: Round 2
« Last post by Danjal on March 07, 2026, 03:23:16 PM »
The warhead problem is more complicated than you think also. Nuclear weapon radiation has its own fingerprint so to say. From this they can get origin as well as other vital information. Feeding the Iranians a weapon would be suicidal for any modern nation if it's used.
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NEW MEMBER INTRODUCTION FORUM / Re: New guy in Texas
« Last post by Greatguns on March 07, 2026, 10:11:35 AM »
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General Discussion / Re: Bombing Iran: Round 2
« Last post by Onepoint on March 07, 2026, 09:53:01 AM »
Yes, China has a large hand in their enrichment program.  But actual warhead development is being helped covertly by NK.  I agree, they have never stopped their nuke program, all the diplomatic efforts have been simple gas lighting since their leader stated they would never give it up and they never adhered to any of the stipulations of any of the agreements they made. And its not for energy security. That's just BS, everyone knows why they wanted higher enrichment than what is called for in a power generation reactor. But while we are cutting through the BS, any claim they were "weeks away" is just as much so.  Especially when Israel and the US have repeatedly attacked their program and claimed it was set back years, while Trump claimed "total destruction" of it just months ago.  Like I said, If China and Russia really wanted them armed with a weapon they would have had it by now, like they have conveniently "developed" hypersonic missiles all on their own that is suspiciously copies of Russian tech.

I have no problem with final confrontation with a govt that has chanted "death to America" for 40+ years, but lets not pretend this was about them imminently nuking anyone, this was about denying resources for a more intense war in the future.  And frankly I am glad someone is finally addressing that elephant on the room, even though it has been and will be even more costly, it could possibly deter a future more impactful and costly war at best, or weigh that in our favor at worst.

 The libertarian idea we can ignore away threats is more than naive, and while I dislike military adventurism, sometimes force projection is a solid defense strategy in a world where there are no perfect solutions to actual threats.
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