Another great ruling by Scalia. Seriously someone should do a Kennedy on him. He's the one who organized the scotus coup on Gore in 2000. No I really don't think that someone should do a Kennedy on him. Sorry if that gave anyone ideas. But the guy is an asshole and is hurting the people of the U.S. You know the people: The general populous who he is supposed to help by ensuring the law is applied fairly. Oh wait, he was one of the (ahem, so called) justices that ruled that corporations are people. Go figure. I do hope he has an aneurysm or heart attack though. I don't wish someone would die very often, I can make an exception for him and even Clarence Thomas; come to think of it, maybe especially Thomas... another fucktard of the supreme court of the US.
Not if they're caught in Toronto. Instead of punishing people who set police cars on fire, break windows of businesses, and cause tens of thousands to have to miss work to avoid their fucking riots... instead of punishing them, they arrest the police for throwing the trouble makers in jail. Even if you hate the G8, there is no reason to do what these fucktard 'anarchists' do. They bitch about the rich and their attitudes and meanwhile all they care about is if they get their own way. Same attitudes but at least the rich guys don't prevent people from working.
These guys reminded me of the web developer in this old IBM commercial. Yeah man, let's put flaming skulls on there, it'll be kick ass! If either of those two guys looked at source code they'd probably have an aneurysm.
We had to replace a system at a telco used to figure out all the updates for phonebooks to send to yellowpages. But no-one knew all the details of what it did. We inferred a lot but wanted to look at the code to make sure. The code was written in the late 60s or early 70s and was working good for at least 30 years. Their system deleted files that hadn't been touched in 5 or 10 years. No-one had to do any bug fixes in at least 25 years, so no-one touched or even looked for the source code files in all that time. And that was a good thing because the system had removed the source code at least 20 years before we got there to replace that system.
Fortunately one of the old timers set to retire in the next month came along and said, "I wondered when someone was going to ask to look at the source code again. I kept a copy in my personal directory. Do you want a copy?"
Thank goodness he had it and saved us a ton of time. That code ran fine for all those years and really didn't need to be replaced except they reasonably wanted to maintain only one type of architecture.
If you look, groovetubes sold pretty much all there manufacturing equipment. They might assemble some tubes from parts still in the U.S.A., and they might make some of the parts there, they don't make them all there. And even these are their custom high end line. For the average tube they sell, almost all the tubes on the GrooveTubes site mention that they are made in countries other than the U.S.A. And like I said, even the tubes they sell that they say are assembled in the U.S.A... they only claim to have a "majority" of the parts made in the U.S.A.. But even these are only a small portion of the tubes they sell. Most are made in Russia or China.
I think the very first comment on the "crush facebook" link says it all. Wish I could have modded the comment to the blog 'insightful':
The PC/MAC online market is not going any where. Mobile access will sky rocket because when I am in line at the bank of course I will surf the web. Bottom line = mobile offers MORE time on the internet rather than DISPLACING the time I already spend on there from my computer.
Comment by Kyle Bazzy â" May 23, 2012 @ 5:16 pm
Yeah, regulated by lawyers. What the fuck is up with that? That is why legalize is so hard to understand. It's so they can keep regulating themselves by arguing that the average person can't understand law without a degree. But I guess that is especially true when you invent a language that requires years of schooling to understand. But really, that is just the cost to join the club where you get to fuck with people's lives and if you do something wrong, some other guys in the same club get to judge you, but will be lenient lest they be judged by others in the same club. There should be no self regulated groups.
I guess you've been watching too many TV law shows. Plus you're a shiester if you think suing everybody, and not just a responsible party is a good idea. So this idiot driver ruined some people's lives. And now you're saying that they in turn get to go and financially rape somebody else who has no fault in the incident? Lawyers to defend against frivolous lawsuits are not free and aren't cheap. Why should the guy's girlfriend have to go broke to pay for one when it wasn't her fault. If the guy was driving, he should have put the phone down and kept his hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. Sue him. He's the guilty party. Only a lowlife would want to punish people who didn't do anything.
Office, plus things like Visio and MS Project. And I don't care how much someone argues, Dia is nowhere near a good a product to date as Visio. And there is nothing in the Linux world that even compares to MS Project. There are some apps with 'project' in the name that might even look a little like MS Project, but nothing that can compete. ERD tools are another thing. Yes there are a bunch that run on Linux, but even a mid to low price Windows offering like Toad Data Modeller is head and shoulders above anything you can find for Linux. And the multitude of financials software out there runs on Windows not Linux.
Software vendors simply don't want to deal with the GPL if it means there is any chance that they will have to give away the code they spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to develop. You will find them occasionally making software that will also run on OSX, but again the license there won't force them to give away anything. And I know there is the LGPL, but it still has GPL in the name which rightly scares the vendors. And with the way some of the more rabid FOSS people are, vendors don't want the worry of a v4 of the GPL and/or something that deletes the LGPL, etc. Unless vendors can be guaranteed to make money on their investment they won't write top level code for Linux, and without top level apps, people won't use it... except for programmers who have made tons of decent apps to work on the platform they code entereprise apps for (not the client apps that the bosses use).
Since there aren't any vacuum tubes (valves for our European brethren) being made in North America anymore, guitar amp parts suppliers source new tubes from Russia and other communist (i.e. China) or former communist states (now that Putin has installed himself as supreme soviet, is Russia still non-communist?). For example two major tube makers, Sovtech and SED Tubes are both based in Russia. Most of the North American tube makers sold their equipment to folks in these countries. The tube makers who didn't just scrapped everything. I am pretty sure even GrooveTube are made off shore in one of these countries now.
It's probably a matter of economics. Most of the people recording are new/young bands with not a lot of money doing demos so they can try to be rock stars. These are the people who use a lot of Line 6 stuff because it doesn't cost as much as a real tube amp. Not just the price of the amp but these are the folks who want a zillion effects to go through the amp too. However I know quite a few professional musicians whose sole job is playing music. Out of a a couple dozen (at least) guitarists in this category that I know, I know of only one who uses a Line 6 amp. All the rest use either Fender (the vast majority) or Marshal amps. All tube. And these folks I find tend to use less effects. Generally they've found a sound they like and usually use it. They don't need the million and one sounds on a pod.
Scientists seem to only think about the consequences of actions as they relate to their own research. Unfortunately, and although with the noblest of intentions, they often suffer from ivory tower syndrome and don't consider the implications of their research in a wider general context. No-one is stopping them from researching. The only thing that is happening here is something that seems to be rather new and refreshing: the general populace is finally attaching some ethical restrictions to the work.
The human race is wired for discrimination (it's why tribes form so easily). Discrimination can take the form of racism, but can also be used by insurance companies to exclude people from what I believe should be a fundamental human right: access to health care. Things that can be used to abuse this and generally invade privacy need to be avoided within reason. This seems reasonable. No-one is stopping them from researching genetics. Doctors need informed consent before doing anything to your body, its parts, or your mind. So why the hell shouldn't scientists? Many roads to ruin were paved with good intentions.
Finally: No-one is stopping them from researching genetics.
Someone let me know if I'm missing something (just asking because I know at Slashdot noone likes to tell us how they really feel:). Anyway, isn't the 'time to guess or crack the password' based on a system that let's you try to log in or guess it 1000 times a second or more. Many systems where real users log in should have a 1 - 3 second delay between login attempts or a 10 second wait every 5 attempts... or even 10 minutes. Heck, normal web latency usually means a second delay at least, anyway (granted as technology increases speed this will decrease). With a one second delay and a couple minute wait every 5 attempts, the 3 days would be at least 300,000 days. Make it a 10 minute delay or a lockout on critical systems, then who knows how many days. Likely I wouldn't need that account by then or may have decided to change my password on my own. So to me this whole thing about cracking your password in three days seems extremely far fetched.
So isn't it a case of, in theory typical passwords can be cracked quickly. In reality they can't.
On an aside there is punch line to a joke that says: In theory we're sitting on 2 million dollars. In reality we're living with a couple of whores. On that note, have a nice Victoria Day.
Yeah, but my understanding is that most of the libraries used by/with GCC are GPL. Is that not so? The data is one thing, but once you have compiled your code into an object you still have to link it to the libraries if you want it to be useful. That is unless you want to write from scratch your own drivers, and your own stdio, and mem libraries, etc. All those include files are GPL'd libraries. Therefore I believe you would be using GPL code, so you would have to give away your code if you distribute the program to people. Data is what the code uses. I agree it isn't touched by the GPL. That is why web sites built on GPL code are fine. They are only presenting data not distributing executables, so they don't have to give their codebase away. So C based programs that only present data over a network would be safe from having to give their code away. But most C implementation are not network data presenters in the www sense. They are usually implementation sold to someone. So....
If they had to Google for the code they would take three weeks. They'd first have to wade through hundreds of thousands of web sites trying to sell them range extenders. "Range Extenders, your girlfriend will love our range extender! Try the viagra while you're here!"
No need to be sorry. I don't have problems with people disagreeing when they are being rational and informative, or just being offhand.
I do remember paying for a Java IDE when first learning it at least a dozen years ago. It was the only way to get a decent IDE. But I also remember that for a time even into 2000 it was kind of de rigueur for Java programmers to use a programmers notepad rather than an IDE. And I agree that Java was almost certainly a device Sun was using to try to sell servers. But I think McNealy also saw it as a vehicle to inflict damage to Microsoft.
GCC was a great little compiler to throw on Unix boxes where you didn't want to pay the $2k for CC, but still wanted to compile some stuff. If there was actual money involved you used CC or one of the others.
This was true for established shops with money to spend a couple grand per developer for licensing. But for small start ups it was expensive. And GCC was a hindrance to making money too.:) And finally, I don't think Linux figures into my argument at all. When I first starting doing Java it was on Windows boxes, not Linux or Unix. Eventually I moved to a Unix shop where we did C and Java on Unix.:) HP-UX. But not Linux.
I'll concede a lot of your points. But much of what you are talking about are things that went on in the 90s when Java was still very new on the fringe (it was only first released IIRC in 1995), even up to the first couple of years of the 2000s (some people were still looking at applets!). Things didn't really take off like crazy for Java till the early 2000s. Up till then there was some use but nothing like it is now. So what happened in the 90s has little relevance to what I was talking about (not none at all... but little). And remember that Apache does have its roots in this time period, even if it was first notable for the web server (it was formed in 1999).
I still think that the requirement that forces you to give away your code is what drives many people to Java instead of C/C++. In programming, the lowest common denominator is the new programmer or the start up company. If they can only afford open source that is what they use. If they can only afford to make money and not give away their code by using a language that doesn't predispose them to giving away their hard work for free, they use that language. That is why Linux and MySQL and Java and PHP became popular. The grass roots learned on them and were comfortable with them and when they became senior could direct the companies they worked for to use those technologies too. And since the companies didn't have to give away the hard work for free either, they went with it.
Which in turn allowed companies to make money creating new infrastructure products in a relatively short time for Java. There was a burst that mostly took place in under 10 years to develop the main commercial stuff, servers and whatnot for Java; so it looked rather more extensive than what happened with C/C++ which had at least 30 years prior to do the same.
There were similarities with other technology where the lowest common denominator allowed it to gain momentum and market share. Granted this is about the user, not the programmer, but Microsoft used this technique to the max when it sold people on Windows 98 using rock and roll and cool factor while IBM tried to market OS/2 using 'intellectual advertising' targeted at professionals. I loved those ads. But most people didn't get them. But they understood with the Rolling Stones doing the background of the W98 ads, and the "where are you going to go today" slogans that W98 was cool and the way to go, even if the reality was that OS/2 was better (I used to use it at one time... at work). That drove businesses to make applications for Windows. Eventually the bosses who used W98 at home and found it easy to use wanted it at work. The guy who pays the bills gets his way. Even if it really was crappy for the network. The compromis
Of course obtaining nerves is a problem. To get them you have to take them from somewhere else. They have to disable one part of your body by removing a nerve connection to use it at another point. Granted the ability to walk is more important for most people than being able to say move your arm normally. But why should we have to compromise? I can tell you from experience that having one part of your body, even part of a limb not working right sucks like hell. And cloning removes the problem of rejection. And rejection would be a problem if they tried to use donor nerves (if it's even possible).
None. This isn't the first Slashdot story about a guy combining motion control and a weapon. I wish I could find the story, but at least 5 years ago, maybe more, some guy wired together a turret holding an automatic bb gun and motion sensing and control. And it was a lot smother and faster responding than this. It was kind of funny because he shot the shit out of his brother or friend or whoever it was halfway out in the back yard. It was a couple of bursts and then they stopped.
This would be a good candidate for cloning. i.e. clone the nerves. They don't remotely look like body parts so the average person wouldn't be so squeamish about it, and it provides enormous benefit so the public conceivably would back the research. And... it would give scientists the room to figure out how to clone other body parts in immune system agnostic ways for when people would buy into growing a new foot.
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Another great ruling by Scalia. Seriously someone should do a Kennedy on him. He's the one who organized the scotus coup on Gore in 2000. No I really don't think that someone should do a Kennedy on him. Sorry if that gave anyone ideas. But the guy is an asshole and is hurting the people of the U.S. You know the people: The general populous who he is supposed to help by ensuring the law is applied fairly. Oh wait, he was one of the (ahem, so called) justices that ruled that corporations are people. Go figure. I do hope he has an aneurysm or heart attack though. I don't wish someone would die very often, I can make an exception for him and even Clarence Thomas; come to think of it, maybe especially Thomas... another fucktard of the supreme court of the US.
Not if they're caught in Toronto. Instead of punishing people who set police cars on fire, break windows of businesses, and cause tens of thousands to have to miss work to avoid their fucking riots... instead of punishing them, they arrest the police for throwing the trouble makers in jail. Even if you hate the G8, there is no reason to do what these fucktard 'anarchists' do. They bitch about the rich and their attitudes and meanwhile all they care about is if they get their own way. Same attitudes but at least the rich guys don't prevent people from working.
It's in the Bible. Now I'm going dinosaur-back riding.
Yeahhhhhh... :) As soon as I saw 'iGrill' I hit the back button and stopped reading the article.
Anything that links to anything in the O/S's libraries without an LGPL or similar licensed library in between.
These guys reminded me of the web developer in this old IBM commercial. Yeah man, let's put flaming skulls on there, it'll be kick ass! If either of those two guys looked at source code they'd probably have an aneurysm.
We had to replace a system at a telco used to figure out all the updates for phonebooks to send to yellowpages. But no-one knew all the details of what it did. We inferred a lot but wanted to look at the code to make sure. The code was written in the late 60s or early 70s and was working good for at least 30 years. Their system deleted files that hadn't been touched in 5 or 10 years. No-one had to do any bug fixes in at least 25 years, so no-one touched or even looked for the source code files in all that time. And that was a good thing because the system had removed the source code at least 20 years before we got there to replace that system.
Fortunately one of the old timers set to retire in the next month came along and said,
"I wondered when someone was going to ask to look at the source code again. I kept a copy in my personal directory. Do you want a copy?"
Thank goodness he had it and saved us a ton of time. That code ran fine for all those years and really didn't need to be replaced except they reasonably wanted to maintain only one type of architecture.
If you look, groovetubes sold pretty much all there manufacturing equipment. They might assemble some tubes from parts still in the U.S.A., and they might make some of the parts there, they don't make them all there. And even these are their custom high end line. For the average tube they sell, almost all the tubes on the GrooveTubes site mention that they are made in countries other than the U.S.A. And like I said, even the tubes they sell that they say are assembled in the U.S.A... they only claim to have a "majority" of the parts made in the U.S.A.. But even these are only a small portion of the tubes they sell. Most are made in Russia or China.
Yeah, regulated by lawyers. What the fuck is up with that? That is why legalize is so hard to understand. It's so they can keep regulating themselves by arguing that the average person can't understand law without a degree. But I guess that is especially true when you invent a language that requires years of schooling to understand. But really, that is just the cost to join the club where you get to fuck with people's lives and if you do something wrong, some other guys in the same club get to judge you, but will be lenient lest they be judged by others in the same club. There should be no self regulated groups.
I guess you've been watching too many TV law shows. Plus you're a shiester if you think suing everybody, and not just a responsible party is a good idea. So this idiot driver ruined some people's lives. And now you're saying that they in turn get to go and financially rape somebody else who has no fault in the incident? Lawyers to defend against frivolous lawsuits are not free and aren't cheap. Why should the guy's girlfriend have to go broke to pay for one when it wasn't her fault. If the guy was driving, he should have put the phone down and kept his hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. Sue him. He's the guilty party. Only a lowlife would want to punish people who didn't do anything.
Office, plus things like Visio and MS Project. And I don't care how much someone argues, Dia is nowhere near a good a product to date as Visio. And there is nothing in the Linux world that even compares to MS Project. There are some apps with 'project' in the name that might even look a little like MS Project, but nothing that can compete. ERD tools are another thing. Yes there are a bunch that run on Linux, but even a mid to low price Windows offering like Toad Data Modeller is head and shoulders above anything you can find for Linux. And the multitude of financials software out there runs on Windows not Linux.
Software vendors simply don't want to deal with the GPL if it means there is any chance that they will have to give away the code they spent hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars to develop. You will find them occasionally making software that will also run on OSX, but again the license there won't force them to give away anything. And I know there is the LGPL, but it still has GPL in the name which rightly scares the vendors. And with the way some of the more rabid FOSS people are, vendors don't want the worry of a v4 of the GPL and/or something that deletes the LGPL, etc. Unless vendors can be guaranteed to make money on their investment they won't write top level code for Linux, and without top level apps, people won't use it... except for programmers who have made tons of decent apps to work on the platform they code entereprise apps for (not the client apps that the bosses use).
Since there aren't any vacuum tubes (valves for our European brethren) being made in North America anymore, guitar amp parts suppliers source new tubes from Russia and other communist (i.e. China) or former communist states (now that Putin has installed himself as supreme soviet, is Russia still non-communist?). For example two major tube makers, Sovtech and SED Tubes are both based in Russia. Most of the North American tube makers sold their equipment to folks in these countries. The tube makers who didn't just scrapped everything. I am pretty sure even GrooveTube are made off shore in one of these countries now.
It's probably a matter of economics. Most of the people recording are new/young bands with not a lot of money doing demos so they can try to be rock stars. These are the people who use a lot of Line 6 stuff because it doesn't cost as much as a real tube amp. Not just the price of the amp but these are the folks who want a zillion effects to go through the amp too. However I know quite a few professional musicians whose sole job is playing music. Out of a a couple dozen (at least) guitarists in this category that I know, I know of only one who uses a Line 6 amp. All the rest use either Fender (the vast majority) or Marshal amps. All tube. And these folks I find tend to use less effects. Generally they've found a sound they like and usually use it. They don't need the million and one sounds on a pod.
Scientists seem to only think about the consequences of actions as they relate to their own research. Unfortunately, and although with the noblest of intentions, they often suffer from ivory tower syndrome and don't consider the implications of their research in a wider general context. No-one is stopping them from researching. The only thing that is happening here is something that seems to be rather new and refreshing: the general populace is finally attaching some ethical restrictions to the work.
The human race is wired for discrimination (it's why tribes form so easily). Discrimination can take the form of racism, but can also be used by insurance companies to exclude people from what I believe should be a fundamental human right: access to health care. Things that can be used to abuse this and generally invade privacy need to be avoided within reason. This seems reasonable. No-one is stopping them from researching genetics. Doctors need informed consent before doing anything to your body, its parts, or your mind. So why the hell shouldn't scientists? Many roads to ruin were paved with good intentions.
Finally: No-one is stopping them from researching genetics.
Rhode Island... so doesn't that mean he borrowed mafia money? They're going to chop him up into little pieces and introduce him to Jimmy Hoffa. Now how you doin? All set?
Someone let me know if I'm missing something (just asking because I know at Slashdot noone likes to tell us how they really feel :). Anyway, isn't the 'time to guess or crack the password' based on a system that let's you try to log in or guess it 1000 times a second or more. Many systems where real users log in should have a 1 - 3 second delay between login attempts or a 10 second wait every 5 attempts ... or even 10 minutes. Heck, normal web latency usually means a second delay at least, anyway (granted as technology increases speed this will decrease). With a one second delay and a couple minute wait every 5 attempts, the 3 days would be at least 300,000 days. Make it a 10 minute delay or a lockout on critical systems, then who knows how many days. Likely I wouldn't need that account by then or may have decided to change my password on my own. So to me this whole thing about cracking your password in three days seems extremely far fetched.
So isn't it a case of, in theory typical passwords can be cracked quickly. In reality they can't.
On an aside there is punch line to a joke that says: In theory we're sitting on 2 million dollars. In reality we're living with a couple of whores. On that note, have a nice Victoria Day.
Well I thought this was funny as hell.
Yeah, but my understanding is that most of the libraries used by/with GCC are GPL. Is that not so? The data is one thing, but once you have compiled your code into an object you still have to link it to the libraries if you want it to be useful. That is unless you want to write from scratch your own drivers, and your own stdio, and mem libraries, etc. All those include files are GPL'd libraries. Therefore I believe you would be using GPL code, so you would have to give away your code if you distribute the program to people. Data is what the code uses. I agree it isn't touched by the GPL. That is why web sites built on GPL code are fine. They are only presenting data not distributing executables, so they don't have to give their codebase away. So C based programs that only present data over a network would be safe from having to give their code away. But most C implementation are not network data presenters in the www sense. They are usually implementation sold to someone. So....
If they had to Google for the code they would take three weeks. They'd first have to wade through hundreds of thousands of web sites trying to sell them range extenders. "Range Extenders, your girlfriend will love our range extender! Try the viagra while you're here!"
s/or just being offhand/or AREN'T just being offhand/
No need to be sorry. I don't have problems with people disagreeing when they are being rational and informative, or just being offhand.
I do remember paying for a Java IDE when first learning it at least a dozen years ago. It was the only way to get a decent IDE. But I also remember that for a time even into 2000 it was kind of de rigueur for Java programmers to use a programmers notepad rather than an IDE. And I agree that Java was almost certainly a device Sun was using to try to sell servers. But I think McNealy also saw it as a vehicle to inflict damage to Microsoft.
This was true for established shops with money to spend a couple grand per developer for licensing. But for small start ups it was expensive. And GCC was a hindrance to making money too. :) And finally, I don't think Linux figures into my argument at all. When I first starting doing Java it was on Windows boxes, not Linux or Unix. Eventually I moved to a Unix shop where we did C and Java on Unix. :) HP-UX. But not Linux.
I'll concede a lot of your points. But much of what you are talking about are things that went on in the 90s when Java was still very new on the fringe (it was only first released IIRC in 1995), even up to the first couple of years of the 2000s (some people were still looking at applets!). Things didn't really take off like crazy for Java till the early 2000s. Up till then there was some use but nothing like it is now. So what happened in the 90s has little relevance to what I was talking about (not none at all... but little). And remember that Apache does have its roots in this time period, even if it was first notable for the web server (it was formed in 1999).
I still think that the requirement that forces you to give away your code is what drives many people to Java instead of C/C++. In programming, the lowest common denominator is the new programmer or the start up company. If they can only afford open source that is what they use. If they can only afford to make money and not give away their code by using a language that doesn't predispose them to giving away their hard work for free, they use that language. That is why Linux and MySQL and Java and PHP became popular. The grass roots learned on them and were comfortable with them and when they became senior could direct the companies they worked for to use those technologies too. And since the companies didn't have to give away the hard work for free either, they went with it.
Which in turn allowed companies to make money creating new infrastructure products in a relatively short time for Java. There was a burst that mostly took place in under 10 years to develop the main commercial stuff, servers and whatnot for Java; so it looked rather more extensive than what happened with C/C++ which had at least 30 years prior to do the same.
There were similarities with other technology where the lowest common denominator allowed it to gain momentum and market share. Granted this is about the user, not the programmer, but Microsoft used this technique to the max when it sold people on Windows 98 using rock and roll and cool factor while IBM tried to market OS/2 using 'intellectual advertising' targeted at professionals. I loved those ads. But most people didn't get them. But they understood with the Rolling Stones doing the background of the W98 ads, and the "where are you going to go today" slogans that W98 was cool and the way to go, even if the reality was that OS/2 was better (I used to use it at one time... at work). That drove businesses to make applications for Windows. Eventually the bosses who used W98 at home and found it easy to use wanted it at work. The guy who pays the bills gets his way. Even if it really was crappy for the network. The compromis
Of course obtaining nerves is a problem. To get them you have to take them from somewhere else. They have to disable one part of your body by removing a nerve connection to use it at another point. Granted the ability to walk is more important for most people than being able to say move your arm normally. But why should we have to compromise? I can tell you from experience that having one part of your body, even part of a limb not working right sucks like hell. And cloning removes the problem of rejection. And rejection would be a problem if they tried to use donor nerves (if it's even possible).
None. This isn't the first Slashdot story about a guy combining motion control and a weapon. I wish I could find the story, but at least 5 years ago, maybe more, some guy wired together a turret holding an automatic bb gun and motion sensing and control. And it was a lot smother and faster responding than this. It was kind of funny because he shot the shit out of his brother or friend or whoever it was halfway out in the back yard. It was a couple of bursts and then they stopped.
This would be a good candidate for cloning. i.e. clone the nerves. They don't remotely look like body parts so the average person wouldn't be so squeamish about it, and it provides enormous benefit so the public conceivably would back the research. And... it would give scientists the room to figure out how to clone other body parts in immune system agnostic ways for when people would buy into growing a new foot.