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Comment: Re:Another missing option (Score 1) 81

by c0lo (#43824771) Attached to: In terms of general neatness, I am ...

And it is against my religion to clean a bathroom. It only must be done when the bugs are about to mutate an immunity to chlorine bleach.

Without exposure, there's no evolutionary pressure to develop such an immunity.

At most, they'll evolve enough to organize themselves in a "collective brain" able to perceive a threat of any nature (that is: non-bleach specific) - given the time required to do this, I think you should be safe without cleaning your bathroom ever is your life-time... or, if I'm wrong, it will be only for a short time (if they do develop such capabilities during your lifetime, you'll be dead soon enough to make my assessment a good approximation).

Comment: Re:Makes perfect sense to me (Score 1) 978

by c0lo (#43818381) Attached to: White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care

If you think you care so much about metric, why can't you tell me how many liters per 100 km your car takes? Its *your* car... no one is stopping you.

Who says I can't? It's quite easy where I live: the pump dispenses liters of petrol and my car's odometer is in km. Lately, it has been about 7.2 L/100 km - a sign the car is quite old now (about 3 years ago, it was closer to 6.9 l/100km for the same trip).

Comment: Re:I hope the criminal take up 3d printed guns- (Score 1) 503

by c0lo (#43813989) Attached to: Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal

Personal manufacture though is your right and the government should not be given the power to force changes in these weapons just so that there job becomes easier.

Ummm... is that so? Note: Australia is a democracy and the cited law wasn't issued by a govt. decree or something, it did pass through parliament.

Comment: Re:Oh, well... (Score 2) 503

by c0lo (#43813713) Attached to: Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal

In NSW the manufacture and possession of firearms is already governed by the Firearms Act 1996 (NSW)

Define "manufacture". Depending on the definition of it, obtaining plans/dies for the purpose of manufacturing *is* part of manufacturing. So maybe they are saying that they think the definitions under the law cover downloading patterns.

IANAL, downloading and printing the parts need not to constitute manufacture... after all, one may consider them art/sculptures.
Putting them together is something different. NSW firearm act, Sect 50A

(1) A person who manufactures a firearm is guilty of an offence under this subsection unless the person is authorised by a licence or permit to manufacture the firearm. Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 10 years.

(2) A person who manufactures a prohibited firearm or pistol is guilty of an offence under this subsection unless the person is authorised by a licence or permit to manufacture the prohibited firearm or pistol. Maximum penalty: imprisonment for 20 years.

...

(5) In this section:
"manufacture" a firearm includes assemble a firearm from firearm parts.

Comment: Re:Ammunition (Score 1) 503

by c0lo (#43810057) Attached to: Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal

Ammunition ... is harder to get in Australia

I wouldn't bet (second link to show that the charges may be powerful enough).

Yeah, probably not a good idea unless you know exactly what you're doing. And even then, maybe not so smart anyway...

(speaking of smart... like using a plastic gun to shoot real bullets would be a smart idea anyway)

Comment: Re:Oh, well... (Score 2, Insightful) 503

by c0lo (#43809957) Attached to: Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal

Because cops never lie, amirite?

In the context of this very issue, what exactly would be the point of lying? Making/owning a gun in Australia without license is already illegal.

BTW, I'm pretty sure Oz already has various departments for consumer protection and safety. It's not their job.

Yeah, sure, the NSW police would better keep their mouth shut, their test and the risks they discovered are not at all relevant... after all, the police isn't meant to protect anyone, much less for protecting a consumer, they'll lie to you most of the time and they only have in mind how to bust you and spend the taxes you pay... Clearly, nothing more than a band of thugs.
The consumer protection agencies are in charge of testing everything that can cause harm, even when it's already illegal, amirite?

What planet are you living on? "Planet America" perchance?

Comment: Re:Oh, well... (Score 1) 503

by c0lo (#43809889) Attached to: Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal

Re "As they aren't in control of the downloads, they can't have a say in banning the download either)" ...
How many submarine cable landing sites in Australia? In theory every request via BT could be looked at for that ~file "checksum".

In practice, you didn't hear of Tor and/or proxy SSL/HTTPS services, did you?

Comment: Re:Make metal ilegal too... (Score 5, Informative) 503

by c0lo (#43809661) Attached to: Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal

I see no problem which what the police are saying here, but it is a very difficult thing to regulate.

No need of additional regulation, in Australia is already forbidden to make/assemble guns without a license. The actual point they were trying to get across:

“My greater concern is that someone would do this, make one, and then suffer the consequences and kill themselves [after a catastrophic failure]. They don’t want to shoot someone, they’re just fascinated [by 3D printing]. If we didn’t alert someone to what happened to us, we would be considered negligent.

Comment: Re:Oh, well... (Score 5, Informative) 503

by c0lo (#43809611) Attached to: Australian Police Move To Make 3D Printed Guns Illegal

It's a sad situation when the law enforcers decide what the laws are.

Nothing special about the 3D printed plastic gun: unauthorized manufacturing (or even assembling) a firearm of any kind in Australia is already prohibited (so no, this is not a case in which the police would decide what the laws are. As they aren't in control of the downloads, they can't have a say in banning the download either).

What the TFS fails to mention: the NSW police guys seems genuinely more worried about someone hurting oneself in an attempt to fire one (the first gun printed by the NSW police exploded during tests) :

“My greater concern is that someone would do this, make one, and then suffer the consequences and kill themselves [after a catastrophic failure]. They don’t want to shoot someone, they’re just fascinated [by 3D printing]. If we didn’t alert someone to what happened to us, we would be considered negligent.

“Don’t try it, no matter what end of this gun you can be on, you could die. Do not download, do not manufacture The Liberator,” the Commissioner concluded.

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