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Comment Re:3D Printers should be illegal. (Score 1) 380

We don't actually distribute them willy nilly either, but we are allowed to buy them if we are good boys and girls.

And how do you define "good boys and girls"? Do you have to attend a mandatory course on gun safety and stress management? Do you have to pass a test to prove yourself capable of using a gun under considerable stress without incident? No, you only have to be an adult, without a record, and patient enough to wait, what, two weeks or something? This still counts as willy-nilly.

If one had to prove oneself not to be a total boob around guns before being allowed to have one, I would soften a bit on the matter. But the current regulations are ridiculous.

Comment Re:3D Printers should be illegal. (Score 1) 380

It will make governments shit themselves with fear that anyone can create a hand-gun, and then there will be stupid laws, and corporations will see dollar signs and suggest some kind of DRM mechanism in place on "legal" replicators and then we're in the same mess as we are now, only with physical objects. I don't want to have to jailbreak my replicator in the future, or have to reverse-engineer some future closed-spec DRMd object format.

And you're right, I don't know anything about guns. That's kinda the point. I'm living in a country where guns aren't distributed willy-nilly, hence my total ignorance about such weaponry. And I'm quite proud of the fact.

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Submission + - Piezoelectric system replicates muscle motion of human eye (gatech.edu)

Peristaltic writes: Researchers at the Georgia Tech Bio-Robotics and Human Modeling Laboratory are using muscle-like piezoelectric actuators to mimic the motion of the human eye. While the device currently allows a single-degree of freedom, plans include a multi-degree of freedom device that accurately replicates human eye motion for use in robotic systems.

Submission + - BitTorrent Inc. sez: the future of entertainment is RealPlayer (neowin.net)

KingofGnG writes: "BitTorrent Inc., the USA company founded by the original creators of the BitTorrent protocol, is testing new ways to monetize on the content freely available on the file sharing network. The company wants to “rewrite the Future of the Entertainment Industry”, a feat that begins with the bundling of a well-known relic of the multimedia technology past."

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