The frequency of your incomming AC isn't quite the stable 50/60Hz but they tend to correct it so it averages out to perfect 50/60Hz on a long enough time scale. As I understand it, they use this same type of correction to account for leap seconds, which help keep a lot of cheap clocks running accurately.
This is a story I heard over a decade ago from an electronics teacher, don't know if it's actually true.

Because all watches work exactly like your digital calculator watch?

Nothing flash-in-the-pan about domain-specific languages.
In fact, it's generally considered a smart thing to create domain-specific languages.
You might well have unknowingly created your own, while expanding your configuration file format.
There's no point in learning any of them unless you actually need them, though.

Apart from the EURion constellation you mention, there's also the yellow dot identification: https://www.eff.org/issues/pri....
Point is, it's perfectly possible for governments to legally require chips that would regulate and uniquely identify 3D printers.
GP's point was that government cannot possibly regulate 3D printers. Quite obviously they can regulate printers, so why not 3D printers?
Sure, it won't stop dedicated people from printing "illegal" objects, but the remaining 99.999% of 3D printers would be controlled.

How does government regulate color printers from printing paper money?

Don't worry. Copyright laws written by companies selling parts and deliberate obsolescent products will kill 3D printing before it ever gets to the "in every home" state that could enrich civilisation.

I want one!
It'll go great with my Beats® headphones.

The main problem here is thinking that the political spectrum is one-dimensional.

Quackery like christianity and even unpopular superstitions like mormonism?

This.
The thing is that the vast majority of us aren't assembly experts.
Compilers kick my ass except for the rarest of highly specific cases (all of them SIMD).

More like don't upload your PRIVATE keys to a PUBLIC repository.

Whether he was a traitor or a patriot depends on whether you consider the US government a god-like entity that can do no wrong or one somewhat more human and flawed that requires checks and bounds.

A coward, however, he is most assuredly not, for it takes some huge pair of balls to go up against a government which you have just discovered through objective evidence will stop at nothing, neither legal nor illegal, moral nor immoral, just nor unjust, to wreak vengeance.

He would use no more than what was purchased, so how would they be allowed to charge him more?

Would they be allowed to post-charge for the more expensive shorter flight too, if he somehow didn't make any part of the flight at all?

If you're afraid creating a new product will cannibalise your current market, some other company will create the product and cannibalise your market for you.

Really?

So the fastest way to find whoever cracked a certain safe is to look in the purchase records for any middle-class individuals buying expensive safes?