"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects" But not on other peoples property, like, say, servers not on your property.

but while it isn't your server it is someone's server, and the same rule applies to their effects. An interesting law that might be passed is that "any party that is holding property or data on behalf of another, must require that a Warrant be served before yielding control of said property or data", forcing cable providers to stop piping every damn packet under the sun directly to the NSA.

Make the punishment death of the highest ranking company member to get them to really fear it.

The "Ban Wifi" option would only work if they also banned ground based radar, FM transmitters, etc... Apparently the device is just poorly shielded and Wifi is one many potential sources of interference.

Especially since the end of the article stated that nobody had ever witnessed any interference in the thousands of hours the panels have been in flight. It's a theoretical problem, but the FAA takes any potential threat seriously.

It's already like $13 on a domestic flight. I've never seen anyone buy one of those snack boxes either, I'm starting to wonder if those snacks get installed at the factory and then never touched. Some poor sucker who takes them up on their offer would find some fossilized cheezits and peanuts that look like raisins.

They dropped more slowly, but have been on a steady decline.

And the thread is Godwined. Awesome.

For centuries people have had seriously inconsistent black powder. Having all of your bullets fire properly is a 20th century invention. Like I said, the tools are there, but manufacturers have machines that do it more precisely than a human is capable of and don't make mistakes (usually).

For powder, this mostly just means some bullets will be hot or smoky or heavy with residue and you'll have to clean your barrels more often.

Cygwin. What's with the love of *sh ? It'd be easier in C FFS.

"5 by 10" ?

The basic chemistry isn't terribly hard, but producing a consistent product is going to be tricky for a guy in his basement. Theoretically nothing is impossible for a really determined guy in his basement, but in practice if the bar is set high enough you can effectively eliminate the behavior from all but the most extreme people. Ultra-extreme people already get increased scrutiny from law enforcement, so the scope of abuse is at least somewhat containable.

Drug cartels today could manufacture their own guns, yet they don't. Or at least not in mass quantities, given how many guns they purchase from the US through various means (including in some cases directly from the US government).

Gun deaths in Australia dropped sharply after the ban was enacted. Here's a Washington Post article about the effect as well. Your figures about the UK are also wrong, but that is more understandable because they changed the way they counted gun crime which made it look like it increased after the ban was enacted--including nonfatal accidents into the records that were previously not recorded.

It would be interesting if the whole thing is a big sting operation. Anybody who places an order for one gets a FBI file.

Not true. Gun regulation is a statistical win. You can't keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill or criminal 100% of the time, but if you work hard at it you can reduce gun deaths by a non-negligable amount per year. Look at European countries. They still have a lot of WWII surplus floating around plus plenty of guns in the hands of really hardened criminals, but thanks to strict regulation they have relatively few gun homicides compared to the US and school shootings are extremely rare compared to the regular occurrence they have become in the US.

I think the barrel and chamber aren't tracked because they are wear items that might be replaced on a gun. The receiver is like the frame on the car. You could build one a lot easier than you could build your own engine from scratch, but it's also the part that you're least likely to replace on the vehicle.

If this takes off (which I kind of doubt outside of the fringe), you could expect the government to start regulating replacement chambers and barrels as well. I would expect it to have the opposite effect that Cody Wilson is intending.

However, this just delays the inevitable. As home manufacturing improves over time, it will eventually be cheap and easy to make your own gun at home, at which point the Genie is out of the bottle. About the only thing left would be strict regulation of primers and maybe gunpowder itself.

Well to wheel efficiency is still better, and smokestacks tend to have better filtering systems. Also, lots of fun torque!