As with so many things attributed to tech, this isn't a technology problem. (it's the old "[insert normal everyday thing] on a computer!" that is so often patented as novel, or legislated as if it was completely different from [insert normal everyday thing])
If you've ever dealt with any organization, and any change is proposed, you'll always get the majority of people immediately jumping in to 2 equally unreasonable camps: 1) We must make this change because all change is good, and anyone standing against it is just afraid of change! 2) We must not make this change because all change is bad, and anyone pushing it just doesn't understand what it is that we do!
Unfortunately both groups are morons, and the few actually smart people take a completely different approach: 3) What exactly is changing? How does it compare with what we do now? What are the pros and cons of this particular change? If the pros outweigh the cons, then we should try the new way, if the cons outweigh the pros, we should stick with what we've been doing.
Unfortunately I'm always shocked to see how small a group is in category number 3, and how large a group is in categories 1 and 2, in fact the numbers are so ridiculous that decisions on change are almost always made by people in either category 1 or 2, and rarely by those in category 3.
Any website that has draggable UI, while also being scrollable in the same direction, on mobile device - is worth being broken.
You mean "is already broken". I have a website that I use on occasion that includes a map window on the main page. The map window allows for both scrolling in all directions, and zooming with your fingers on a mobile device. It is far too easy to accidentally zoom the map to fill the window. Once you do that, it is impossible to access any other part of the page as all scrolling will only move the map, and all zooming will only zoom the map. Your only recourse at that point is to re-load the page (and lose all data you've entered so far). This site works great on a computer, but is absolutely hopeless on mobile devices. Unfortunately it's also a website related to travel planning, so my most common use case is to use it on a mobile device.
Have people completely forgotten about cross-compatibility or what? Now!! When all the browsers behave almost identically!
I want to know when you thought we ever had cross-compatibility? The only thing that's changed is which browser the web is built for. It used to be that sites only worked properly in Netscape, all other browsers be damned. Then it switched to IE and forget about using any other browser, and now you'd better use Chrome if you want the web to work. There's never really been a time since the dawn of the graphical browser where you could realistically expect the majority of the internet to "just work" on any browser you chose to use.
The idea of cross-compatibility was always a good one, but the lack of standards adherence in all browsers, and many websites, has always sabotaged it.
Your safari number assumes that only 2/3 of safari users are on iOS (as iOS only has about 18% market share last I checked) Do you really think that many people install Safari on Android?
The most common browser on Android though is actually probably Samsung's bundled "internet" app, though admittedly it's just a crippled and re-branded Chrome. (oh how I wish manufacturers would quit putting their own branded apps on instead of actual working ones...)
Speaking as the person responsible for much of that "retraining" it never ceases to amaze me just how much effort people are capable of putting in to the avoidance of knowledge.
It's not as straight forward as you make it sound. On my car I did not click the update button when I knew doing so would neuter autopilot. In response, Tesla disabled maps and voice controls on my car to force me to update.
They then refused to repair the maps or voice control under warranty unless I agreed to the neutering of autopilot.
It should also be noted that clicking update is not informed consent as Tesla refuses to tell you what has changed on each firmware release until after it is installed, and even then they usually leave it to you to explore and find out.
End result was that I spent many many hours of my own time rooting my car so that I could fix it and put it back the way it was when I bought it (with working maps, voice control, and autopilot). But the fact that Tesla refused to honor their warranty unless I allowed them to remove paid for functionality from my car is a clear cut case of breach of contract, as well as various consumer protection laws governing warranties on goods sold. Unfortunately no government consumer protection agency cares. (Not to mention all the false advertising they're guilty of surrounding these vehicles)
I always say, it's the best car ever made, by the worst company I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I will never give them another penny of my money, and I sure hope someone comes out with a competing vehicle at some point before I can no longer keep this one working without Tesla neutering it.
Tesla by any chance? They also neutered everyone's autopilot without authorization as well. Again they claimed "safety" despite the fact that it was an absolute BS excuse and 100% inaccurate. (The "safety" changes are really PR changes, as they don't improve safety even the slightest bit, but they do love to brag about them in the press. They feel that the pool of non-customers they are likely to impress is larger than the pool of existing customers they are likely to piss off) And they've neutered the acceleration of some cars after purchase as well. They've also been known to show ads on the centre console (for battery upgrades) This is all while the car is still under warranty, and they refuse to honour the warranty and make the car work the way it did when you bought it. Unfortunately in North America your only recourse is to lawyer up and sue. There are no government agencies willing to help (trust me, I've tried)
Europeans have had some success with government consumer protection, but not all that much.
The main takeaway is that all manufacturers these days pull this sort of garbage because they can get away with it. It's considered "normal" for your products to lose functionality at the whim of the manufacturer. People will tell you to just shut up and accept it, but this is not something anyone should be accepting. If you paid for a product, you own that product. The manufacturer has no right to make ANY changes to that product without your express authorization. That includes both improvements, and feature removal. You can authorize them to make these changes, but they can not make them without your approval, and it's time manufacturers get taken to task for it.
Except Spain will absolutely try to block that, and several other countries will support them for fear of lending support to independence movements in their own countries. It's a great theory, but in practice I bet they wouldn't be successful.
Which is exactly why the first thing I do on any computing device (be it a desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, or watch) is to turn off animations, or where that's impossible, speed them up as much as will be allowed. Makes everything feel far more responsive, and makes things actually work.
Animation is not required in a UI. And no, to those who intentionally misinterpret this, that doesn't mean you don't need feedback of actions taken, just that it doesn't need to be animated. The button turning a different colour when you press it makes sense, but it fading to and from that colour while the rest of the UI just sits and waits for it to finish is ridiculous, serves no purpose, and causes your brand new top of the line device to feel like it's 10 years out of date. Unfortunately it's also the norm for almost all OSes at this point.
While many people draw similarities between the 2, the situation is actually quite different.
In the Catalonian case over 90% of voters voted to leave, vs almost a 50/50 split in Quebec. Also Catalonia is financially self sufficient (they transfer more money to the Spanish government than they receive back in services) whereas Quebec is not (Quebec receives more from the Canadian government than they transfer to it)
If you wanted a Canadian equivalent, it would be more like Alberta separating (from a financial stand point) however in that case the level of support is generally thought to be under 15% so it seems unlikely.
The issue is that the EU will not likely accept Catalonia in to the EU. Spain will obviously try to block it, but other EU nations also don't like the precedent it could set by allowing a region to separate but still maintain ties to the EU. Trade deals with other countries are far more likely.
To be fair, a large portion of the Model X reliability issues centre around those absurdly ridiculous and completely impractical doors. The Model 3 doesn't have those, and in fact is missing most of the complicated things that drag reliability down on the other Tesla vehicles, so "average" isn't a bad guess absent real data.
It's not enough to say "past products had X reliability, therefore future products are likely to have X reliability" it's also worth investigating what things tended to fail, and see if those even apply to the new product. It would be the same on a computer, if a specific model has tons of HDD failures, and the new model contains an SSD instead of an HDD, then it would be completely reasonable to assume improved reliability over the previous model until proven otherwise.
As for the Elon quote, I don't think a true statement has come out of his mouth in regards to Tesla in many many years. So I don't exactly take him as an unbiased source.
Your second paragraph answers the question in your first.
There's an ideal field of view for these things where you aren't constantly looking side to side and up and down to see the content. That means that it's more comfortable to sit closer to a small screen than a large one. That's also why the ideal resolution is actually independent of screen size in a properly set up viewing area. The bigger the screen, the further away it will be from you keeping the field of view the same.
What this article is saying is that at 8k, to take advantage of that resolution, you have to sit too close to the tv such that is uncomfortable to watch because you're constantly looking up and down and side to side. Meaning that there is no benefit to anyone watching tv at 8k.
That's not too say there aren't applications for it though, for example virtual reality needs to fill your peripheral vision as well, so more resolution helps there. Also for a computer monitor it may be worth it as you might be willing to look side to side of up and down to see other windows or more text.
But for watching tv or movies? 8k is just a marketing gimmick.
I'm not sure it scales that way. Remember that when you have a projector you also sit further away because otherwise you have to keep turning your head to see the action. I have a 96" screen with my projector, at 1080p it looks gorgeous, I suspect I'd see an improvement at 4k, though only marginally, but if have to be delusional to think I'd see the difference at 8k without sitting uncomfortably close.
The reason TV manufacturers are going 8k isn't because there's a benefit, is because they're trying to recapture the glory days of the SD to HD transition where there was a very visible improvement and most of the world bought new TVs. They tried 3D, but nobody wanted it, so now they're looking at 8k, they'll try something else next, is anything to recapture the glory days. Thing is, that was likely a once in a generation event, combining the noticable upgrade to HD, with the move from CRT to flat panels. They won't recapture that easily.
Studies have shown that the thing that makes people think twice is the perception that they'll be caught, and not the severity of the punishment. From that stand point the publicity around punishing someone helps, but giving them a stiffer sentence does not. (Note I said perception that they'll be caught rather than likelihood of being caught, because the 2 are not really related)
It also doesn't help that the human mind tends to think in terms of exceptionalism, people always think they're smarter than the person who screwed up and got caught, and that those specific circumstances would never apply to them.
As an example, of a surprising way this can be applied though, a jurisdiction that took police resources away from major crimes (murder, rape, etc) and focused instead on minor infractions (jaywalking, graffiti, etc) saw a reduction in the major crimes. It's hypothesized that this was due to the fact that the police were far more visible dealing with that sort of thing than they ever are behind the scenes investigating the major crimes. (To catch someone jaywalking you have to have police on the street watching for it, to catch a murderer its usually lots of research behind a desk or at crime scenes out of the public eye) leading to the perception that the police were "everywhere" and that you'd be caught if you committed any crime.
You're not the only one. I'm keeping my note 4 until someone comes out with a phone that can at least match it's functionality.
Wider screen than the new notes, replaceable battery, HDMI (MHL) output, headphone jack, expandable storage. Those are just table stakes. I also like the IR blaster, and textured back that makes it easy to hold without dropping.
Don't worry, they've also removed the ability to hook up by HDMI while they were at it. No new phones support MHL for HDMI, and the alternatives over USB C don't seem to be popular either.
Unfortunately new phones today are missing a lot of functionality that was common only a couple of years ago. I'm due for a new phone, but until a phone comes out that can at least match the functionality of my 3 year old one, I'm not switching.
For reference, I currently have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4: - user replaceable battery (how do you think I'm still using a phone this old?) - large screen (Samsung's note 8 has a narrower screen despite a bigger marketing number because they screwed up the aspect ratio) - HDMI output (I need ALL apps to be able to be seen on a real screen, not just the small handful that support casting) - normal headphone jack with no dongle required (no forgetting the dongle, any cheap headphones work, as do cheap cables to connect to any stereo) - expandable storage
Several phones have some of these features, I don't think any modern flagship has all of them. So for now, I'm not giving up my current phone.
No other car company has ever reached in to my car after sale and removed functionality without permission. Tesla has done so repeatedly. No other car company has flat out lied about the capabilities of the car I have bought from them to make a sale (maybe exaggerated, but not the flat out lies Tesla tells)
Tesla is by far the least ethical car company out there, and one of the top 10 least ethical companies all around in any industry. Of that I have no doubt whatsoever.
That said, as of right now Tesla has zero competition, no other car company has bothered to even try in this space.
I usually describe my car as the best car ever made, by the worst company to ever exist. The moment a true competitor emerges they'll have my business, and I can guarantee you I will never give Tesla another penny of my money as long as I shall live.
Forget future. AP1 never did what was promised, and never will. That's the point of this.
That and that AP2 also doesn't do what was promised, and also never will (there is not a chance that they'll ever do full self driving with that hardware. You simply can't do it with what they've put on the car, it would never be approved)
The fact that in the USA you don't have to make it from scratch, you can legally buy a kit to convert a legally acquired firearm to a fully automatic one that feeds from large capacity, completely legal, magazines, and you don't even need to pass any form of background check for any of it. It's only illegal if someone happens to notice that you have the end product. In most of the rest of the world the base firearm (an assault rifle) is probably illegal, the conversion kit is definitely illegal, as are the high capacity magazines, and to even own a firearm you need to pass basic background checks, and often a firearms handling and safety course.
Nothing will make it impossible for a determined person to make or obtain a deadly weapon, but these laws have been well proven in most of the civilized world to make the occurrence of such things MUCH less common.
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I feel like you didn't live through the IE vs Netscape era...
As with so many things attributed to tech, this isn't a technology problem. (it's the old "[insert normal everyday thing] on a computer!" that is so often patented as novel, or legislated as if it was completely different from [insert normal everyday thing])
If you've ever dealt with any organization, and any change is proposed, you'll always get the majority of people immediately jumping in to 2 equally unreasonable camps:
1) We must make this change because all change is good, and anyone standing against it is just afraid of change!
2) We must not make this change because all change is bad, and anyone pushing it just doesn't understand what it is that we do!
Unfortunately both groups are morons, and the few actually smart people take a completely different approach:
3) What exactly is changing? How does it compare with what we do now? What are the pros and cons of this particular change? If the pros outweigh the cons, then we should try the new way, if the cons outweigh the pros, we should stick with what we've been doing.
Unfortunately I'm always shocked to see how small a group is in category number 3, and how large a group is in categories 1 and 2, in fact the numbers are so ridiculous that decisions on change are almost always made by people in either category 1 or 2, and rarely by those in category 3.
Any website that has draggable UI, while also being scrollable in the same direction, on mobile device - is worth being broken.
You mean "is already broken". I have a website that I use on occasion that includes a map window on the main page. The map window allows for both scrolling in all directions, and zooming with your fingers on a mobile device. It is far too easy to accidentally zoom the map to fill the window. Once you do that, it is impossible to access any other part of the page as all scrolling will only move the map, and all zooming will only zoom the map. Your only recourse at that point is to re-load the page (and lose all data you've entered so far). This site works great on a computer, but is absolutely hopeless on mobile devices. Unfortunately it's also a website related to travel planning, so my most common use case is to use it on a mobile device.
Have people completely forgotten about cross-compatibility or what? Now!! When all the browsers behave almost identically!
I want to know when you thought we ever had cross-compatibility? The only thing that's changed is which browser the web is built for. It used to be that sites only worked properly in Netscape, all other browsers be damned. Then it switched to IE and forget about using any other browser, and now you'd better use Chrome if you want the web to work. There's never really been a time since the dawn of the graphical browser where you could realistically expect the majority of the internet to "just work" on any browser you chose to use.
The idea of cross-compatibility was always a good one, but the lack of standards adherence in all browsers, and many websites, has always sabotaged it.
Your safari number assumes that only 2/3 of safari users are on iOS (as iOS only has about 18% market share last I checked) Do you really think that many people install Safari on Android?
The most common browser on Android though is actually probably Samsung's bundled "internet" app, though admittedly it's just a crippled and re-branded Chrome. (oh how I wish manufacturers would quit putting their own branded apps on instead of actual working ones...)
My kingdom for some mod points!
Speaking as the person responsible for much of that "retraining" it never ceases to amaze me just how much effort people are capable of putting in to the avoidance of knowledge.
It's not as straight forward as you make it sound.
On my car I did not click the update button when I knew doing so would neuter autopilot. In response, Tesla disabled maps and voice controls on my car to force me to update.
They then refused to repair the maps or voice control under warranty unless I agreed to the neutering of autopilot.
It should also be noted that clicking update is not informed consent as Tesla refuses to tell you what has changed on each firmware release until after it is installed, and even then they usually leave it to you to explore and find out.
End result was that I spent many many hours of my own time rooting my car so that I could fix it and put it back the way it was when I bought it (with working maps, voice control, and autopilot). But the fact that Tesla refused to honor their warranty unless I allowed them to remove paid for functionality from my car is a clear cut case of breach of contract, as well as various consumer protection laws governing warranties on goods sold. Unfortunately no government consumer protection agency cares. (Not to mention all the false advertising they're guilty of surrounding these vehicles)
I always say, it's the best car ever made, by the worst company I've ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I will never give them another penny of my money, and I sure hope someone comes out with a competing vehicle at some point before I can no longer keep this one working without Tesla neutering it.
Tesla by any chance? They also neutered everyone's autopilot without authorization as well. Again they claimed "safety" despite the fact that it was an absolute BS excuse and 100% inaccurate. (The "safety" changes are really PR changes, as they don't improve safety even the slightest bit, but they do love to brag about them in the press. They feel that the pool of non-customers they are likely to impress is larger than the pool of existing customers they are likely to piss off) And they've neutered the acceleration of some cars after purchase as well. They've also been known to show ads on the centre console (for battery upgrades)
This is all while the car is still under warranty, and they refuse to honour the warranty and make the car work the way it did when you bought it.
Unfortunately in North America your only recourse is to lawyer up and sue. There are no government agencies willing to help (trust me, I've tried)
Europeans have had some success with government consumer protection, but not all that much.
The main takeaway is that all manufacturers these days pull this sort of garbage because they can get away with it. It's considered "normal" for your products to lose functionality at the whim of the manufacturer. People will tell you to just shut up and accept it, but this is not something anyone should be accepting. If you paid for a product, you own that product. The manufacturer has no right to make ANY changes to that product without your express authorization. That includes both improvements, and feature removal. You can authorize them to make these changes, but they can not make them without your approval, and it's time manufacturers get taken to task for it.
I somehow doubt the poster I replied to was a government official.
Or those pesky transfer payments you hate so much...
No other country in the world is so hell bent on destroying their own economic engine.
Except Spain will absolutely try to block that, and several other countries will support them for fear of lending support to independence movements in their own countries.
It's a great theory, but in practice I bet they wouldn't be successful.
I turn animation off on all my devices, instantly makes a 3 year old device feel faster than the newest top of the line flagship device.
Of course this being an Apple product, they probably don't allow that...
Which is exactly why the first thing I do on any computing device (be it a desktop, laptop, tablet, phone, or watch) is to turn off animations, or where that's impossible, speed them up as much as will be allowed. Makes everything feel far more responsive, and makes things actually work.
Animation is not required in a UI. And no, to those who intentionally misinterpret this, that doesn't mean you don't need feedback of actions taken, just that it doesn't need to be animated. The button turning a different colour when you press it makes sense, but it fading to and from that colour while the rest of the UI just sits and waits for it to finish is ridiculous, serves no purpose, and causes your brand new top of the line device to feel like it's 10 years out of date. Unfortunately it's also the norm for almost all OSes at this point.
"civil war"
While many people draw similarities between the 2, the situation is actually quite different.
In the Catalonian case over 90% of voters voted to leave, vs almost a 50/50 split in Quebec. Also Catalonia is financially self sufficient (they transfer more money to the Spanish government than they receive back in services) whereas Quebec is not (Quebec receives more from the Canadian government than they transfer to it)
If you wanted a Canadian equivalent, it would be more like Alberta separating (from a financial stand point) however in that case the level of support is generally thought to be under 15% so it seems unlikely.
The issue is that the EU will not likely accept Catalonia in to the EU. Spain will obviously try to block it, but other EU nations also don't like the precedent it could set by allowing a region to separate but still maintain ties to the EU.
Trade deals with other countries are far more likely.
To be fair, a large portion of the Model X reliability issues centre around those absurdly ridiculous and completely impractical doors. The Model 3 doesn't have those, and in fact is missing most of the complicated things that drag reliability down on the other Tesla vehicles, so "average" isn't a bad guess absent real data.
It's not enough to say "past products had X reliability, therefore future products are likely to have X reliability" it's also worth investigating what things tended to fail, and see if those even apply to the new product. It would be the same on a computer, if a specific model has tons of HDD failures, and the new model contains an SSD instead of an HDD, then it would be completely reasonable to assume improved reliability over the previous model until proven otherwise.
As for the Elon quote, I don't think a true statement has come out of his mouth in regards to Tesla in many many years. So I don't exactly take him as an unbiased source.
Your second paragraph answers the question in your first.
There's an ideal field of view for these things where you aren't constantly looking side to side and up and down to see the content. That means that it's more comfortable to sit closer to a small screen than a large one. That's also why the ideal resolution is actually independent of screen size in a properly set up viewing area. The bigger the screen, the further away it will be from you keeping the field of view the same.
What this article is saying is that at 8k, to take advantage of that resolution, you have to sit too close to the tv such that is uncomfortable to watch because you're constantly looking up and down and side to side. Meaning that there is no benefit to anyone watching tv at 8k.
That's not too say there aren't applications for it though, for example virtual reality needs to fill your peripheral vision as well, so more resolution helps there. Also for a computer monitor it may be worth it as you might be willing to look side to side of up and down to see other windows or more text.
But for watching tv or movies? 8k is just a marketing gimmick.
I'm not sure it scales that way. Remember that when you have a projector you also sit further away because otherwise you have to keep turning your head to see the action. I have a 96" screen with my projector, at 1080p it looks gorgeous, I suspect I'd see an improvement at 4k, though only marginally, but if have to be delusional to think I'd see the difference at 8k without sitting uncomfortably close.
The reason TV manufacturers are going 8k isn't because there's a benefit, is because they're trying to recapture the glory days of the SD to HD transition where there was a very visible improvement and most of the world bought new TVs. They tried 3D, but nobody wanted it, so now they're looking at 8k, they'll try something else next, is anything to recapture the glory days. Thing is, that was likely a once in a generation event, combining the noticable upgrade to HD, with the move from CRT to flat panels. They won't recapture that easily.
Studies have shown that the thing that makes people think twice is the perception that they'll be caught, and not the severity of the punishment. From that stand point the publicity around punishing someone helps, but giving them a stiffer sentence does not. (Note I said perception that they'll be caught rather than likelihood of being caught, because the 2 are not really related)
It also doesn't help that the human mind tends to think in terms of exceptionalism, people always think they're smarter than the person who screwed up and got caught, and that those specific circumstances would never apply to them.
As an example, of a surprising way this can be applied though, a jurisdiction that took police resources away from major crimes (murder, rape, etc) and focused instead on minor infractions (jaywalking, graffiti, etc) saw a reduction in the major crimes. It's hypothesized that this was due to the fact that the police were far more visible dealing with that sort of thing than they ever are behind the scenes investigating the major crimes. (To catch someone jaywalking you have to have police on the street watching for it, to catch a murderer its usually lots of research behind a desk or at crime scenes out of the public eye) leading to the perception that the police were "everywhere" and that you'd be caught if you committed any crime.
You're not the only one. I'm keeping my note 4 until someone comes out with a phone that can at least match it's functionality.
Wider screen than the new notes, replaceable battery, HDMI (MHL) output, headphone jack, expandable storage. Those are just table stakes. I also like the IR blaster, and textured back that makes it easy to hold without dropping.
Nothing new is at all appealing in comparison.
Don't worry, they've also removed the ability to hook up by HDMI while they were at it. No new phones support MHL for HDMI, and the alternatives over USB C don't seem to be popular either.
Unfortunately new phones today are missing a lot of functionality that was common only a couple of years ago. I'm due for a new phone, but until a phone comes out that can at least match the functionality of my 3 year old one, I'm not switching.
For reference, I currently have a Samsung Galaxy Note 4:
- user replaceable battery (how do you think I'm still using a phone this old?)
- large screen (Samsung's note 8 has a narrower screen despite a bigger marketing number because they screwed up the aspect ratio)
- HDMI output (I need ALL apps to be able to be seen on a real screen, not just the small handful that support casting)
- normal headphone jack with no dongle required (no forgetting the dongle, any cheap headphones work, as do cheap cables to connect to any stereo)
- expandable storage
Several phones have some of these features, I don't think any modern flagship has all of them. So for now, I'm not giving up my current phone.
No other car company has ever reached in to my car after sale and removed functionality without permission. Tesla has done so repeatedly. No other car company has flat out lied about the capabilities of the car I have bought from them to make a sale (maybe exaggerated, but not the flat out lies Tesla tells)
Tesla is by far the least ethical car company out there, and one of the top 10 least ethical companies all around in any industry. Of that I have no doubt whatsoever.
That said, as of right now Tesla has zero competition, no other car company has bothered to even try in this space.
I usually describe my car as the best car ever made, by the worst company to ever exist. The moment a true competitor emerges they'll have my business, and I can guarantee you I will never give Tesla another penny of my money as long as I shall live.
Forget future. AP1 never did what was promised, and never will. That's the point of this.
That and that AP2 also doesn't do what was promised, and also never will (there is not a chance that they'll ever do full self driving with that hardware. You simply can't do it with what they've put on the car, it would never be approved)
The fact that in the USA you don't have to make it from scratch, you can legally buy a kit to convert a legally acquired firearm to a fully automatic one that feeds from large capacity, completely legal, magazines, and you don't even need to pass any form of background check for any of it. It's only illegal if someone happens to notice that you have the end product.
In most of the rest of the world the base firearm (an assault rifle) is probably illegal, the conversion kit is definitely illegal, as are the high capacity magazines, and to even own a firearm you need to pass basic background checks, and often a firearms handling and safety course.
Nothing will make it impossible for a determined person to make or obtain a deadly weapon, but these laws have been well proven in most of the civilized world to make the occurrence of such things MUCH less common.