Yup, GCHQ doesnt have a massive budget for no reason. The NSA doesnt put its huge budget into a savings account for a rainy day. The CIA cant even operate on US soil...

If China is doing this and getting away with it, my issue is not with China but with my countries intelligence services not countering it properly.

People like you are the reason I was bored out of my fucking mind during Lit English at school - being forced to read certain books not because they were interesting but because they were "culturally important".

Ohms Law is important - Of Mice And Men is not.

One of the reasons my Lit English teacher hated me, despite the fact that I was devouring books at the rate of one a day in my teens - they just weren't the "right kind of books".

Now Im an adult I get to choose what I consider to be important culture, and it sounds like your idea of culture is very boring. I still read every single day, but what I read probably doesn't meet your approval as "culture".

This really depends on the printer. Older printers, sure, they just accept gcode or the custom format for resin printers, and deal with each layer as they get to it. Dont need anything complicated for that as the OS.

But newer printers.

My Creality K1s all run a full Linux server, for example - you can root it, replace it, SSH into it. And given the K1s are running on Marlin firmware, this isnt a unique setup. During printing they are adapting to temperatures, bed alignments etc on the fly as well.

My HeyGears resin printers also do a *lot* of stuff when printing as well, as they adapt to resin temperature (warmer resin needs lower exposure times for the same outcome), FEP tension etc, so theres a lot of recalculation going on during a print. They also run a full Linux server under the hood.

Newer printers do a lot more than they used to.

They wont be able to get brand new 767 freighters any time soon, not unless the ICAO grants the FAA its waiver to allow new 767s to fly internationally after the emissions restriction cut off date.... And thats unlikely to happen.

Boeing doesnt currently have a product to replace the 767 freighter either - the 787F never came to light, and the 777X-F is significantly larger, and also significantly delayed....

Having the restriction on copying or printing money was easy - currency is well defined, so has a pattern that can be matched against. It succeeded because the restriction was on something that the government controlled the design of anyway (the restriction was only on US currency).

A gun? Theres basically an infinite number of ways this could be designed and printed. Theres no fucking way printer-level restrictions can ever succeed.

This is performative legislation which will accomplish nothing other than allowing for more charges or legal action. It wont prevent a single gun from being printed.

This is the same company that rushed to roll out their brand new premier product, the 787 Dreamliner, on the 8th July 2007, solely to meet the 7/8/7 date...

This roll out ended up being an aircraft that used off the shelf fasteners (ie non-flight-grade) across the airframe, replaced panels and doors with wooden mock ups, and had zero interior installed. Ultimately it set the program back by a couple of years....

Why did they have to use off the shelf fasteners? Because the company forgot to order enough for the first couple of 787s being built at the time, so they decided to go ahead with temporary fasteners instead - Boeing had to go and replace every one of those fasteners with aviation grade ones before first flight, and they then screwed that up by not correctly drilling the countersink hole, which resulted in cracking developing.

The first few 787s were intended to be delivered to customers, but were so custom and overweight that Boeing had to write them down instead.

The 787 program was supposed to be the most successful program in aviation history - instead, with more than 1,100 delivered, Boeing still has more than $10Billion in outstanding debt associated with the design and development of the aircraft and the delivery of the first 600 or 700 aircraft (called "deferred production costs").

Boeing fucked up so badly on the 787 that Airbus, who had in turn fucked up on their initial counter to it, the A330-800 and then the A350 (non-XWB), managed to not only bring the initial delivery between them down from 8 years to 3 years and 3 months, but Airbus actually managed to achieve full profitability on the A350XWB program 7 years ago after less than 1,000 deliveries. Boeing is still paying down its initial debt after more than 20 years, while Airbus is enjoying a profitable income from its product.

The catalog of fuck ups from Boeing over the past 25 years is immense.

Well at least we now know how much US national security actually is valued by the Republicans - turns out its a 25% cut of the action.

Looks like the laws been around for 92 years without being declared unconstitutional - I find it a bit ... odd that it could suddenly be declared unconstitutional, even after 92 years of being in force.

In other words, there should be a period of time after which it cant be challenged on constitutional grounds IMHO.

Bullshit.

I read every day, for at least an hour.

My Kindle stats say I have read every day now for 5 years without a day being missed. Much longer than that if you just count weeks.

There is no shortage of good books out there, there is just a lack of wanting to find something that interests you.

This requires involvement from parents as well, so it wont ever be “fixed”. Schools, even the best ones, are not magical places where everything can be instilled into a child, especially where the childs home life doesnt support the school.

You have to get the TLD recognised by the root DNS servers, or get everyone to add new root servers that recognise the alternative TLDs.

Same reason LetsEncrypt languished for years before they first got a trusted cert provider to let them issue blanket certs, and then they got their own root certs trusted by all the browsers. But that took years.

Not really, depends on the severity of the issue and whether it has been understood adequately enough.

A few of the unmanned Apollo test flights had significant issues for which fixes were only tested in the subsequent crewed flight, for example.

The Starliner capsule had so many issues across multiple missions that it requires a successful uncrewed mission - its the exception, not the rule.

Stop propagating the Republican myth that the USPS is a failed organization - it is not, and the only reason the Republicans push that bullshit is to further their control over it, and justify selling it off.

You are the type of person that the government should be protecting us from.

So Im happy that, where I live, the government is doing its job.

Im also glad I dont live in the US, where people like you seem to have more power.

Most other countries manage it, why not the US?