PS I am not a gun nut. If guns were illegal then printing parts of them using a 3D printer would also be illegal and you could get in a lot of trouble if you do it. But after the fact, don't try to prevent it first.

Is cooking equipment supposed to not work if it figures out it is being used to make drugs?

This is obviously impossible unless almost any moving parts are prevented, or printing with some materials is prevented. That would make it impossible to 3D print lots of stuff that is not illegal.

The effect on open software and hardware is also disastrous.

As others pointed out, currently you can make better gun parts on some non-computerized equipment, so this also does not seem to prevent anything.

If there was exactly one pattern that produced a "gun" then it would be possible to block it. However a gun will work with quite large variations to the pattern, unlike a dollar bill.

...before Linux 7 takes over Linux XP in number of users?

Being able to flawless recall a moment would perhaps be useful, but this is NOT how human long term memory works. When healthy, we revisit and reinforce that which is happy, and helpful, and positive. When we can't let go of the past, that's often tied to things we describe as mental illness. Just ask anyone who's ever been treated for PTSD.

I remember that wave of emotion the first time I ever kissed *THAT* girl. And since we didn't have email or text messages, and I hadn't met her parents yet, I can also take you to the precise place on that Iowa highway where I heard her funeral announcement. I drove a couple more miles in stunned silence, before I realized it was scheduled on my 20th birthday.

I'll turn fifty nine in a week or so. Every year she fades a little more, but stopping to write this brings that hurt back, as sharp as ever.

This is a double edged sword and we should think twice before drawing it ...

As anybody "gifted" with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) can tell you, not being able to forget has major downsides.

The industrial world has a fertility centered around 1.25 - put four middle aged women in a room, they'll have five kids with them. The United States was blessed with a solid 1.6 and we were collecting the best of the best globally.

A year and a half of master race archetype Stephen Miller in charge of immigration combined with the end of Roe v. Wade and we're going to catch up to Italy in short order - a bit less than that 1.25 global norm.

The most warped thing is that, with ideologues doing jobs that ought to be in the hands of pragmatists, when hits like this keep coming, they will employ their belief system to rationalize doubling down, rather than recognizing a disastrous policy and reversing course.

The only thing that might correct this problem is a wave of refugees arriving when Asia spins out over losing its energy supply.

My contact information ain't hard to find, one of y'all drop me a line when America is great again.

I would think the transmission could be for a split second, at random times that only the American military knows, spaced perhaps even hours apart. Transmission could contain GPS coordinates, encrypted, it would be useless for locating because it was so short and frequency chosen to echo off rocks well.

A lot of people want a Mac because they have a nice form factor and they work in the Apple ecosystem. Macbooks were a bit expensive. It's obvious that an iPad masquerading as a Macbook was going to work, because a lot of people like a proper keyboard and don't need touchscreen. Macbook Neo fits a perfect niche. I'm not surprised by its success, I'm just surprised that Apple are. I'm stunned their business case didn't imagine bigger volume. Why buy a more expensive Macbook for basic admin, web browsing, and streaming?

You may be right - I guess I've been thinking too much about Mars missions where it's a lot more important. The moon isn't that far away that it makes a big difference, from what you say.

The radars are not that bad. They are simply lying.

Actually file cabinets typically stored the papers themselves sideways. So this would most be like the existing tab bar being turned 90 degrees and put on the side of the screen. Which does not match the proposed or old design either.

Correct, Google AI was mistaken by sticking that word "Domestic" in there along with "USDA". Only 94.2 million cattle In the USA, which the maximum number of Bison was somewhere around 30 million. This matches the 3x to 4x increase that I expected. I am surprised that the USA has such a small portion of the world total however, but the 1.5 billion number was backed by multiple sources.

I have also heard that both Bison and grass-fed cattle emit less greenhouse gasses than most farmed cattle, not sure what the factor is.

Reasonable to assume that, in fact, we might choose to fly to the moon when it's closer to perigee.

It's become very "I built this with AI" and "how your business is going to improve with AI" and all sorts of terrible content, and GAMES! WTF.