Comment: Re:It's not really a problem (Score 1) 65
It could be worse, what if its mission was to probe soil samples 8-(
UC Berkeley Group Working On Creating Inexpensive 3-D Printer Materials 57
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from the make-it-good-then-make-it-cheap dept.
phrackthat writes "A UC Berkeley group, in a bid to drive down the costs of 3-D printing, has been focusing on more natural materials such as salt, wood, ceramics and concrete (the last two, while not naturally occurring, are made of naturally occurring components). The use of these materials create new avenues for architecture, such as printing buildings. Professor Ronald Rael, the head of the project, stated that these materials and the designs they enable will require new IP protections — 'This is going to require some IP protection for designs, so if you design architecture in the computer, you're protected, just as music and movies are.' I wonder if he's ever heard of design patents?"
Comment: Re:Terrorists win again (Score 1) 295
If governments would stop making terrorism so incredibly effective then maybe people would stop doing it.
Comment: Re:Fuck you for bringing in political correctness (Score 2) 227
Although it's never happened before, theoretically a white civil rights group could exist and be an actual non-racist civil rights group rather than just another thinly veiled hate group.
It would just be the most unnecessary and probably idle civil rights group that ever existed.
Comment: Re:Sad legitimate researchers (Score 2) 390
As a side note.... you thought global warming was bad with coal plants and such, just wait until everybody is turning out gigawatts of energy on a personal basis and wondering where all of that heat is going after it has been used for something else!
Huh? Production of heat in the atmosphere would have very little effect compared to augmenting the atmosphere's ability to retain heat. Your hypothetical scenario would more likely solve the problem of global warming instantly.
Comment: Re:Mains humm can help, for once (Score 1) 222
It might work for a battery-powered camcorder if it can visually pick up the hum from indoor lighting.
Comment: Very cool (Score 1) 112
And very useless. The only thing crappier than the payload of a quadcopter is its range while carrying a full payload.
Comment: Re:Software Robotics?!? (Score 5, Funny) 145
At our office we use software hardware. It really saves on the hardware hardware costs.
Comment: Re:Requires more metal (Score 3, Informative) 514
You don't understand how they work. They work more like radar than a magnetic sensor, non-ferrous metals don't stand out as much but they're still very much detectable.
Comment: Re:Requires more metal (Score 1) 514
Around December last year, entering a convention center where politicians often speak.
Comment: Re:Requires more metal (Score 4, Insightful) 514
Both use a metal firing pin and are designed with the non-functional metal piece, the Lulz version also uses some screws for structural strength that would be much harder to replace with something non-metallic.
Comment: Re:stratasys lies about strength? (Score 4, Insightful) 514
When a marketing claim conflicts with real-world-testing-based claims by tinkerers, I consider the marketing claim to be false until proven otherwise.
Comment: Requires more metal (Score 5, Informative) 514
The Lulz Liberator uses more metal parts than the original Liberator...so at least this would be harder to sneak past a metal detector.
Comment: Re:A win for me (Score 2) 703
But it only controls a compound in the capital. The rest is practically ungoverned.
Comment: Re:Did they break any laws? (Score 1) 703
Coca-Cola has an office in Somalia that they use for this...it's resident in Somalia, 0% tax of any kind.
I could see a new Ugland House being built in a well-guarded compound in Somalia if governments were to ever close these loopholes...or maybe even if they don't.