Manual override of connection speed is via the 'iwconfig' command. I've done it before. I don't know if you can set a maximum speed, but you can set a fixed speed.
The dead are also a protected class. At least for a time. It's a temporary status, until they are completly faded from living memory plus one generation. That's why it's forbidden to insult the dead of WWI, but perfectly OK to insult the dead of any war older than that.
That's the idea. It's made to be difficult so it can only happen under dire circumstances, and with widespread support.
In practice it's usually simpler to subvert the constitution than alter if. The law says the government cannot ban X, then don't ban X... but just pass enough regulations and restrictions upon X that it becomes impossibly expensive, impractical or unavailable.
Given the difficulties of printing a durable enough gun barrel, there's an easier way: Scour supplies. Our hypothetical youth gang aren't going to have access to a metalwork shop, but enough time searching plumbing components, metal chair legs, shower rails and anything else hollow and tubular will eventually find a decent barrel - just like the IKEA table that happens to have the exact dimensions of a 19" rack. Then they only have to print off the fiddly mechanical bit at the end that actually strikes the bullet. It doesn't even need to last more than a couple of shots, as it could be made cheap enough to be disposable.
I can see potential for criminals to get into some real fun trying to outdo each other for the flashiest gun. Eventually someone is going to realize you can strap twenty-five barrels to one trigger and put a bullet in each for a pistol-shotgun hybrid. Impractical? Yes. Intimidating? Very yes. And it'll compensate for the imprecise aiming.
No bad guy in the US would. It's easy enough to get one legally there in most states, and the black market is full of stolen guns. It's a lot harder in most of Europe - if I wanted a gun I couldn't get one legally, and I couldn't just ask Dodgy Dave down the pub to pick one up - access to illegal weapons requires a certain level of criminal connections beyond those available to the typical street thug or youth gang. That's why our youth gangs use knives to do most of their murdering.
I could adapt a bomb for self-defense. The bomb is wired to a heartbeat sensor. With a big warning label across your chest and back, it might make people think twice about shooting you.
The anti-counterfeiting looks for a trigger pattern. To detect guns you'd need to look for a feature which can be identified by software, is an absolutely essential part of any gun, and isn't going to be found in anything else. The obvious part is the barrel - should be possible to recognise a tube with an internal diameter matching the common round sizes and walls over a specified thickness.
I think part of the problem is a situation the writers of the bill of rights didn't envision: The modern communications megacorp. They certainly had megacorps of the day (The Tea Party was triggered by the East India Company using political connections to get themselves a favorable tax status and using it to undercut independant shipping companies), but they had nothing with the ability to influence public debate of something like Facebook or Google.
They ISP email account - which they'd better hope they never need to recover to, or else that they can dig up that piece of paper they stuffed into the draw some time back when Concorde still flew.
I work in a school too. There are three good reasons for the filter: 1. We don't want some idiotic parent to sue us for traumatising their little angel. 2. We don't want someone in law enforcement filing charges of child endangerment or something along those lines to boost their career. 3. We want the little brats to actually do some work, not spend all their lessons playing Happy Wheels.
What about the bible? No gambling, but it has some pornography, some violent pornography, and a ridiculous amount of violence. Not to mention racism and sexism.
You can make a jammer just by stabbing a knife into the safety door switch of a microwave oven. Illegal as hell, but it'll certainly knock out wireless for some radius.
Slight correction: The ruling is not that health practitioners must refer patients for abortion. It related to supervision of staff. There already exists a law which makes it quite clear that no medical professional can be required to be directly involved in abortion against their objections - the dispute was with middle-management staff, who are in charge of managing those who are directly involved. Minor difference, but important to get the details right.
It's the threat of legislation. The government has repeatidly made it very clear that if all major ISPs do not voluntarily set up filtering, they will pass some form of law compelling them to do so. Faced with the prospect of having to comply with some vague and impossible mandate written by an MP who last used a router in woodshop class, they decided it would be better do so as was asked. Though they certainly dragged their feet over it as long as they can.
I own a product called a Flash Powermop. Here in the UK, Flash is a manufacturer of cleaning products. It's just a mop with replacable heads and a squirter in the handle that can deposit cleaning fluid when a button is pressed.
It doesn't have DRM - it has old-fashioned mechanical limitations. The cleaning fluid comes in an official Flash powermop cartridge. Much old an ancient inkjet printer, the cartridge has only one port, and it's mechanically designed to only dock with the corresponding port on the mop. They really made it solid too, so you can't force it open to refill an empty cartridge. It's basically a rubbery window - the mop has two hollow needles that pierce it. One to let air in, one to get fluid out.
So I cut a hole in the top of the bottle and silicone-sealed the screwtop from a soft drink bottle over it. Now I have a refill board, and an everlasting cartridge. I enough people do this, I'll expect the Powermop 2 to come with a chip in the bottle that records how much has been dispensed.
I've found a few uses for my printer, but not enough to justify the cost of it: - A new hinge cover for a laptop at work. - A soap dish, with a hook to attach underneath the shelf near the bath. - A replacement nozzlethingie for the hoover, to replace the one we lost years ago... and which turned up two days after printing the replacement. - A trebuchet to use in science lessons. - Tiny little boxes to store jewelry in.
It's common enough to print a mould. You make your plastic part, use the plastic part to make an impression in sand, pour metal into the sand. It's just plain old-fashioned metal casting - but the 3D printer can greatly reduce the skill required and the turnaround time for one-off parts.
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Manual override of connection speed is via the 'iwconfig' command. I've done it before. I don't know if you can set a maximum speed, but you can set a fixed speed.
The dead are also a protected class. At least for a time. It's a temporary status, until they are completly faded from living memory plus one generation. That's why it's forbidden to insult the dead of WWI, but perfectly OK to insult the dead of any war older than that.
That's the idea. It's made to be difficult so it can only happen under dire circumstances, and with widespread support.
In practice it's usually simpler to subvert the constitution than alter if. The law says the government cannot ban X, then don't ban X... but just pass enough regulations and restrictions upon X that it becomes impossibly expensive, impractical or unavailable.
Given the difficulties of printing a durable enough gun barrel, there's an easier way: Scour supplies. Our hypothetical youth gang aren't going to have access to a metalwork shop, but enough time searching plumbing components, metal chair legs, shower rails and anything else hollow and tubular will eventually find a decent barrel - just like the IKEA table that happens to have the exact dimensions of a 19" rack. Then they only have to print off the fiddly mechanical bit at the end that actually strikes the bullet. It doesn't even need to last more than a couple of shots, as it could be made cheap enough to be disposable.
I can see potential for criminals to get into some real fun trying to outdo each other for the flashiest gun. Eventually someone is going to realize you can strap twenty-five barrels to one trigger and put a bullet in each for a pistol-shotgun hybrid. Impractical? Yes. Intimidating? Very yes. And it'll compensate for the imprecise aiming.
Actually, for pans, you could do exactly that. Simple whole-frame motion interpolation. Trivial algorithm, I could knock that up in an hour or two.
Not so easy if you have a moving subject though.
No bad guy in the US would. It's easy enough to get one legally there in most states, and the black market is full of stolen guns. It's a lot harder in most of Europe - if I wanted a gun I couldn't get one legally, and I couldn't just ask Dodgy Dave down the pub to pick one up - access to illegal weapons requires a certain level of criminal connections beyond those available to the typical street thug or youth gang. That's why our youth gangs use knives to do most of their murdering.
I could adapt a bomb for self-defense. The bomb is wired to a heartbeat sensor. With a big warning label across your chest and back, it might make people think twice about shooting you.
The anti-counterfeiting looks for a trigger pattern. To detect guns you'd need to look for a feature which can be identified by software, is an absolutely essential part of any gun, and isn't going to be found in anything else. The obvious part is the barrel - should be possible to recognise a tube with an internal diameter matching the common round sizes and walls over a specified thickness.
I think part of the problem is a situation the writers of the bill of rights didn't envision: The modern communications megacorp. They certainly had megacorps of the day (The Tea Party was triggered by the East India Company using political connections to get themselves a favorable tax status and using it to undercut independant shipping companies), but they had nothing with the ability to influence public debate of something like Facebook or Google.
Oh, should give the source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Fox News anchors have already gone on air claiming that body cameras are insulting to police.
They ISP email account - which they'd better hope they never need to recover to, or else that they can dig up that piece of paper they stuffed into the draw some time back when Concorde still flew.
I'll give you 2-4, as I live in the UK. I'd like a citation on 1 though. For one, Muslim prayers are regular as clockwork.
I work in a school too. There are three good reasons for the filter:
1. We don't want some idiotic parent to sue us for traumatising their little angel.
2. We don't want someone in law enforcement filing charges of child endangerment or something along those lines to boost their career.
3. We want the little brats to actually do some work, not spend all their lessons playing Happy Wheels.
Not the Virgin one. You need to enter your Virgin password. That one you set when you signed up, and havn't actually needed to use in ten years.
You can vote for Party Z - one of the tiny little insignificent ones.
What about the bible? No gambling, but it has some pornography, some violent pornography, and a ridiculous amount of violence. Not to mention racism and sexism.
They can't use that approach, because few people actually use the ISP-provided email.
You can make a jammer just by stabbing a knife into the safety door switch of a microwave oven. Illegal as hell, but it'll certainly knock out wireless for some radius.
Slight correction: The ruling is not that health practitioners must refer patients for abortion. It related to supervision of staff. There already exists a law which makes it quite clear that no medical professional can be required to be directly involved in abortion against their objections - the dispute was with middle-management staff, who are in charge of managing those who are directly involved. Minor difference, but important to get the details right.
This particular filter isn't legislation.
It's the threat of legislation. The government has repeatidly made it very clear that if all major ISPs do not voluntarily set up filtering, they will pass some form of law compelling them to do so. Faced with the prospect of having to comply with some vague and impossible mandate written by an MP who last used a router in woodshop class, they decided it would be better do so as was asked. Though they certainly dragged their feet over it as long as they can.
I own a product called a Flash Powermop. Here in the UK, Flash is a manufacturer of cleaning products. It's just a mop with replacable heads and a squirter in the handle that can deposit cleaning fluid when a button is pressed.
It doesn't have DRM - it has old-fashioned mechanical limitations. The cleaning fluid comes in an official Flash powermop cartridge. Much old an ancient inkjet printer, the cartridge has only one port, and it's mechanically designed to only dock with the corresponding port on the mop. They really made it solid too, so you can't force it open to refill an empty cartridge. It's basically a rubbery window - the mop has two hollow needles that pierce it. One to let air in, one to get fluid out.
So I cut a hole in the top of the bottle and silicone-sealed the screwtop from a soft drink bottle over it. Now I have a refill board, and an everlasting cartridge. I enough people do this, I'll expect the Powermop 2 to come with a chip in the bottle that records how much has been dispensed.
I define space as 'high enough that anything with enough lateral velocity isn't coming down.'
I've found a few uses for my printer, but not enough to justify the cost of it:
- A new hinge cover for a laptop at work.
- A soap dish, with a hook to attach underneath the shelf near the bath.
- A replacement nozzlethingie for the hoover, to replace the one we lost years ago... and which turned up two days after printing the replacement.
- A trebuchet to use in science lessons.
- Tiny little boxes to store jewelry in.
It's common enough to print a mould. You make your plastic part, use the plastic part to make an impression in sand, pour metal into the sand. It's just plain old-fashioned metal casting - but the 3D printer can greatly reduce the skill required and the turnaround time for one-off parts.