DD pulled the official versions from everywhere. As I am sure you know quite well, the genie is out of the bottle and you can't stuff it back in by just pulling the "official copies." All of DD's files can be found still.

That said, DD's files are at this point a tiny offering in a sea of designs.There are STL files for more gun parts than you would ever dream of available from dozens of websites, many, if not most of which, are beyond US control. The interest is anything but "insignificant."

As for the cost of a 3D printer...what do you consider "not cheap?" Is $179 not cheap? That is the cost of the current "best value" printer. You can of course spend more, or less, than that.

I'm old enough to remember bells on streetcars.

More flamebait. Either all network news is "news" or none is. Please keep the political opinions on Twitter.

This article has no place on Slashdot. As others have already posted it is flagrantly nonfactual flamebait. I can see all of this I want on Twitter.

Social Media has created legions of single-issue social justice warriors. The basic scenario is "OMG, they support eating babies" or some equally non-nonsensical claim. This means that EVERYTHING else the company, organization or individual supports is automatically ignored and/or trivialized. It is a stupid way to look at the world, and a stupid way to spend your life. There are LOTS of issues that a company the size of Google must address, chief among which is still being in business tomorrow. If they can accomplish that and do ANY good along the way, count yourself lucky, at least if it was YOUR issue they did good for. If you honestly expect anyone to cut their own throat just to please your own personal two-penny agenda you are being naive.

So by your way of thinking, EVERY SINGLE media product EVER made MUST be remastered to be ADA compliant at the cost of the original maker. Ernest Hemingway will be thrilled to hear that. So will the millions of Doctoral students who will now discover that in order to publish their thesis, they must PAY to have it made ADA compliant.

Buh -- bye Windows.

"The United States Government Will Likely Be the ONLY Customer For Smart Guns" Absolutely no one with any experience using guns will willingly buy one. For a comprehensive, 3,000 word essay check the article by Jon Stokes here: http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/...

There is no such thing as "Earth Citizenship" so scratch that one. Nation of origin, hmmm, well okay for first generation, I would assume that would be the legal precedent, lacking any local governmental body to which you could apply for a change in citizen ship, you should retain your original one. Second generation? Now we have a problem. Hopefully, by the time there IS a second generation on Mars, there WILL be local government. If the local government is a recognized State or Territory of an Earthbound government, again, I see no problem (other than the usual political squabbles that is). The one problem I foresee, is that "Corporate Governmental Entities" (you heard it here first), should and *must* be banned absolutely by International Law PRIOR to this happening.

"if it tried to bring the money back to the U.S." Until it does so, this issue *IS* bullshit.

Until advertisers commit to NOT invade personal privacy, there ARE no acceptable ads. I am all for funding the Internet through advertising revenue, it was a model that worked well for television and with suitable modifications works well for the Internet. But it is an established FACT that people will not make the moral choice when money is involved and that goes double for advertising executives.

This is one of the most lame-brained ideas I have ever heard. Even the two solutions offered by Microsoft are unacceptable. It needs to either default to "OFF" or be removed from Windows. This is an epic privacy and security failure in the making. I cannot believe a sane engineer came up with this it had to be a marketing drone with zero clues.

I can mathematically prove that you are a figment of my imagination. This is like that old saying about logic...it's a way of going wrong with confidence. Obviously some PR flake wrote the press release, no sane engineer would ever have made such statements.

In regards to Keck's first postulate, that hypersonic missiles travel faster than current missiles (read ICBMs) it is simply untrue. Even the long obsolete Minuteman II missiles were capable of achieving escape velocity, something that a hypersonic missile has yet to demonstrate. Regarding his second postulate that they possess greater maneuverability than what the current defense systems are designed to destroy, that is also suspect. Even ICBMs were capable of mid-course maneuvering, and as above, no hypersonic missile has demonstrated any capacity for "evasive maneuvering"...yet.

From Wikipedia: "Ubuntu (/ubntu/ oo-buun-too; Zulu/Xhosa pronunciation: [ùúntú]) is a Nguni Bantu term (literally, "human-ness"") roughly translating to "human kindness"; in Southern Africa (South Africa and Zimbabwe), it has come to be used as a term for a kind of humanist philosophy, ethic or ideology, also known as Ubuntuism or Hunhuism (the latter after the corresponding Shona term) propagated in the Africanization (transition to majority rule) process of these countries during the 1980s and 1990s." As such, Canonical itself is on shaky ground as this could be construed as violating clause "C) Terms that Disparage, Falsely Suggest a Connection with, or Bring a Person, Institution, Belief or National Symbol into Contempt or Disrepute" of USPTO regulations.