It's impossible to force a filter on slicers, most are open source and restrictions would just be forked out. Printers and CNC machines themselves are just robots moving how they're told. It's as impractical to make user's hardware scan files for forbidden content as it is to look for CSAM material on a phone or desktop. And as invasive. However the cloud is fair game. Anything created or stored in the cloud like Tinkercad or even a Dropbox folder unencrypted could be scanned for. The legal leverage is much easier there and allocating the resources to scan is relatively trivial.

Political theatre has no limit.

You mean.

News stories or action items become impossible to track. Did this happen an hour ago or 10 years ago? You'll waste more time finding out. That's the point.

YouTube currently has a problem with playing livestreams as long as I'm logged in, ad-blocker enabled or not. They get interrupted and it errors out in about a minute. If I pass the link off to another browser that's not logged in, it plays OK. Even recordings of live streams do it. All other videos are fine.

And they've always been subject to interference from everything from ignition wires to florescent light ballasts. It's not just shielding the radio, in an electric vehicle you have all sorts of noise sources from motors and driver circuits to controller electronics. They all need shielding as well. Auto makers are cheap. They'll do they bare minimum. If you don't have to worry about AM radio, that's a whole bunch of work they won't (have to) do.

When you consider the weight of the additional shielding and other RFI mitigation hardware required to quiet the vehicles electrical emissions enough to allow AM radio reception it technically adds to the weight of the vehicle and therefore reduces the range with the additional power required to move it around. Probably about as much as having a larger person or persons inside would. Of course that can be compensated for in other ways but may add to the cost. Boohoo. They can complain all they want, but as I ham radio operator I'm all in favor of spectrally clean transportation. If there's a radio in it, or around it.

Facial recognition technology is far from perfect. In the rush to tag offenders they'll inevitably flag innocent people and make it impossible for them to go out in public without harassment. Private companies have already had action taken in the US. Rite Aid is banned by the FTC from using it for five years for just such reasons.

I haven't commented on shashdot in years but for your comments I just wanted to say your comment fits the idiocy of what this site has become. Russia agitprop Whatgarbl devoid of any substance. Please actually die.

The problem with that line of thinking, while true, is it's fatalistic. If we accept we're already fucked there is no reason to try to avert disaster.

I'm guessing Bucharest? It's not necessarily indicative of the whole continent. In France where I live we were too far from a dslam to get anything above 7mbit until the fibre rolled in this January. Much of europe's infrastructure is good, but a lot is old and needs to be upgraded, just as it has to be in the states: a much bigger country anyway.

Any chance of getting a location on that apartment building? Might be moving to the area in a year or so. I have 500down 200up FTTH where I live and I cannot live without it anymore (think streaming your media library from your server to a Chrome-Cast in another country).

Unless you want to play a windows game or do something else like 3d modeling in which case it's actually quite handy.

I used to have a G5 tower. Didn't know they came with a liquid cooling option. Mine had a giant heatsink the size of a watermelon and two fans that sounded like a jet taking off when the system really got going.

You probably know this, given the site, but if you stick a paperclip in the little hole, you can get your CD out. I sympathize with the optical drive problem. Has happened to me as well more than with any other component.