Look Ma, No-Hands Fasteners!

theodp writes "Inspired by a daughter who suffered a serious infection from an IV feeding apparatus, the Trib reports an Australian architect has developed high-tech bolts and latches, which can be operated remotely without being touched. The first commercial applications are intended for aircraft, allowing crews to quickly reshape interiors to maximize payload space. BTW, smart fasteners hit Slashdot's radar almost two years ago."

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Re:Secured against unauthorized parties?

[giorgiofr]

Nice to know you live in a commune, in direct contact with Mother Nature, taking care of your peers an putting everybody's needs before yours. I take it this is the reason why you're drilling wells in Sub-Saharian Africa, clothing the poor and feeding the hungry.
Or maybe, just maybe, you're sitting in your chair and posting bullshit on /.

Re:Secured against unauthorized parties?

[giorgiofr]

Wowzer, talk about a rant! Even assuming that ad hominem attacks are in some way compatible with broadside firing (do you even know what ad hominem means?), do you realize that an "unsubstantiated attack" is the exact description of your post? You are certainly no teacher in the art of applying "modest amounts of logic and reason" but that does not surprise me, seeing as the only way to believe in the religion known as communism is to suppress reason. Well at least you'll find yourself at home with all the fundamentalists out there.
Finally, hate to break the truth to you but everyone who's not an anarchocapitalist can only be a communist. Call it a socialist if that makes you feel better (I know truth hurts), but that will not change reality.
You were too stupid to realize that my first post was meant to highlight that condemning the system that gave you almost everything you enjoy in your life is even more stupid than adopting the one that brought everyone of its adopters to their knees. Have a good day. And please keep deluding yourself... It'll make my life even easier.