Checkout myminifactory

Its turning into a nice thingiverse alternative, and they have a rule that all items must be printable and accompanied by a pic of the print. 80% of the shit on thingiverse has never been printed, and is just a dumping ground for designers. The stl files on thingiverse are often broken and are non manifold or missing vertices, such that they wont slice properly.

Filament is just ordinary plastics, you are sugesting that plastic will become a controlled substance?. Even if it did, making your own filament from recycled plastic is relativly easy, the equiptment to do it costs less than $200. Which will allow you to cutup and convert food packaging, bottles etc and produce filament.

And dont start down the drm route, a 3d printer is a relativly simple device. There are litteraly 1000's of open source designs, 100's of electronics designs for controlling it and 10's of firmwares. There is absolutly no way that anybody can put the genie back into the bottle and enforce drm on to this.

If you have goten into a router, then discovering what the internal network is, is trivial. No matter how much obstication you do, the network interfaces are inspectable. So they may as well be the same as changing them is no protection at all.

Example case

http://www.wheninmanila.com/uk...

There is no evidence the OP is any more than an average programmer. Regardless you cant be a programmer without problem solving skills, and while i agree that skills are variable, that just means that they are more or less able to meet the requirements of the job.

Software engineering requires skilled people. And the job requirment is given to require abilities and skills beyond what for example a store checkout operator would require to meet the requirments of thier job description. Thats also why a developer generaly is paid more than a store clerk.

Having those abilities does not however give somebody the right to be considered a special class of worker, in that they can ignore thier work for hire contracts. The ability to be creative is an expectation , given that software development except in a few very limited cases is still a craft and not a science. A developer has more in common with an artisan, than a scientist.

What you seem to be suggesting is a form of elitism that suggests that these people are "special" and the normal rules of the workplace dont apply to them.

For the tasks that he has been directed to do --- yes.

After all that is what he is employed to do, use his brain to provide solutions, if there are no neurons firing there then the company would be better cutting him loose and employing somebody else with more active cranial contents.

For gods sake, he is hired to be a programmer/developer, he is supposed to be creative. If human creativity was not required to solve these problems then there would be an application sitting in his seat instead of him.

He is not a contractor, he is an employee......

"He is presumably putting the special efforts of his own brain and creativity into it; which is not merely hours of manual labor"

When you hire a programmer, designer, or engineer, they are expected to have a brain, make special effort and be creative (inovative) in thier solutions. Its kinda part of the job description, and if you are paying them for thier work all of the above is pretty much a given.

Its got to be a millenial..

"and that time is being paid for by somebody else".

Let me get this right, you want to be paid by your employer for your work, but still own everything you produce. You are putting nothing into this other than the time you are spending to produce the code, and that time is being paid for by somebody else.

So where is your skin in this game?. Sounds like you want somebody else to finance your enrichment.

You are largley right here, the gains in thoughput in the system will be made by reducing seperation between aircraft, so you can have twice as many aircraft on the same airways. Those reductions in seperation can only go so far, as you have to have a system that can still fail back to stone age (100% down) and still be reasonably safe. At that point controllers fall back to using primary radar, radio and bits of paper in stacks, i.e. how it used to be done before computers.

The improved processing and tracking allows some saftey margins to be compressed, but not many, and not by much.

That is a good point, perhaps this is a way of them being able to "launder" stories obtained by indefensable means.

I think the Sun is more interested in who has been leaking body fluids on who, than any matters of global import. Its like the national inquirer setting up a securedrop site.

But if it allows us to stop digging it out of the ground and burning that, then its a win win.