Yes. They decided on the much more mature name of "Bunghole"

Is it pronounced with a short or long i?

The only reason I come to /. anymore. This is where I grep all the puns.

If your commentary on welding is referring to the fillets, I believe they are there to prevent a stress concentration due to the sudden change in geometry. I further suspect that the beams are non-prismatic because it is harder to model that way. If what you want to do is prove the capability of the 3D printing process, it is quicker to copy a known good design. Once they get their legs they will likely start re-thinking the basic shapes. Hopefully by then, calculation methods will have caught up enough so that you don't waste a lot of time trying to define all your little non-round, non-straight, non-uniform thickness jiggery-pokery.

My concern is quality control and (more specifically) material anisotropy. 3D printed parts are essentially all weld. I don't want to have to resort to (expensive) welding NDE over the entire part.

This is why we can't have nice things.

If you wait till the last minute, they only take a minute to fix.

Most of the "3d gun" nutters are specifically printing the lower receiver. Under US law, this is the only part of the gun that is licensed. The rest of it is all accessories. What these nutters are doing is printing the unlicensed receiver and then installing regular gun parts around it. In clear violation of the law, I might add.

I don't know, it sure has sparked an interesting sidebar.

The entire premise is wrong. Why should some customers have a secret handshake that grants them reasonable levels of customer service? Why can't everyone get this level of service? Or, more to the point, why doesn't everyone get this level of service?

Yes, actually. There is a niche in the logistics business of moving pallets from where they are unloaded to where they are loaded. Also, as others have indicated, there are cottage businesses associated with refurbishing and recycling damaged/end-of-life pallets.Some are just stacked. Fancy operations will strap them into pallet sized cubes.

Clearly this is about ethics in gaming journalism; not about threats of extreme violence to silence dissent*.

*Even if it is composed entirely of such threats. Modern political debate. So meta.

Implement true one way encryption by sending everything to /dev/null

Saves on disc space, too!

All of this Bennett Haselton hate sure make me miss the Jon Katz hate.

Wait... nevemind. I don't miss it.

I'd buy that for a dollar.

I'd be happy if we could get a pony.