Style, like with apparel, refers to how something looks. So, "assault style", means the individual thinks the gun looks like what might be used in assaults. In short, it probably resembles something he or she saw in an action movie once.
Ammunition consists of powder and shot. If you're electrically detonating it, you don't need the right electrical current, you just need an electrical current. In other words, a "smart" weapon can be trivially modified to work by replacing the expensive biometric portion with a bit of wire and duct tape. Or, yknow, hitting the bullet with something hard, the way we do it now.
And, just like all of those cheap POS HPs and Dells, the average user will just ignore the fingerprint stuff, and the net gain will be pretty much zero.
The possible abuses of a "no gun" signal should be obvious with even a second's thought. For one thing, it'll be trivial for a crook to disable the tech on his gun in advance. Now he's the only person with a gun in that zone. This doesn't even bring up what someone with a slight bit of technical competence could do.
Like what, a rock? A screwdriver, maybe? You just take the smart gun bit off and throw it away. Long as the firing pin hits the round, the gun goes bang. This ain't rocket surgery.
This only sounds easy to someone who doesn't understand that ammunition is commonly manufactured at home. There is no "supply dries up". There's only "aw, that shells kind of annoying to make. The price is marginally higher per round".
You mean like the law requiring handguns to be sold with a lock, and the law requiring parents to secure their gun so the kid can't use it? We have those already. Hell, my state has that law too. This means I get to buy TWO locks with every handgun. I'm sure lock #3 will make the gun magically safe from stupid people.
It doesn't solve any problem. Current guns are non-electronic, and there is no need for an electronic element. Bypassing the security should be trivial if you can use a screwdriver, and anyway, we have trigger locks for safe storage now. If you have to rely on biometric scanners working correctly in an emergency...I'm sorry.
Yes, you can hunt with a 30 round clip. The specific case of duck hunting has a 3 round mag limit for sporting reasons. Most forms of hunting have no legal limit whatsoever. Millions of 30+ round mags have been made. Hell, probably over a million every year in the US alone. 99.999% or so have not killed large amounts of people. Therefore, your statement is obviously wrong.
Or you're hunting in circumstances where you need to shoot multiple targets rapidly, often repeatedly. Wild hogs, for instance. It's entirely normal to fire >10 rounds at one go. The point isn't that you need round #30. It's that you need round #11.
Also, circumstances requiring more than 6 shots are not rare. Let's dial it up to 10, just to make your case easier, shall we? How often do you need more than 10 rounds? According to the NYPD metrics on "shots fired" incidents, about 15% of the time. And those folks are cops, with decent amounts of training.
Of course, if you prefer to ignore data in favor of penis anecdotes, I'm *sure* that's a completely valid point.
Not really. 35%, on average, achieve the same income quintile as they were born into. Given that if it were determined purely by random chance, we'd still get a 20% repetition between generations, it's pretty clear that the "class you were born in is the class you die in" is...kind of an over generalization.
So, if they don't want the handouts...stop them? They're happy because of....something, and you're happy because you have more dollars in your pocket. Win/win?
The boom of the fifties was for a much different, and simpler set of reasons. First, you had an economy adapted to wartime that suddenly got all it's men back from the war. Second, you had a sudden lifting of long-in-place rationing. Thirdly, the war took place on other people's land. That sucked for them, but made us shine in comparison. So, you've suddenly got an influx of workers, a spike in demand, and a lack of overseas competition(and spikes in their demand). That's a great economical mix.
I own a cubify printer. It lacks DRM. I can and have gleefully printed out all manner of self-created items, as well as other things downloaded elsewhere. You can, in fact, buy items from their store. You pay per item if you have them print the item and send it to you(which is fair). You can also buy the model file if the author has chosen to offer it for sale(as I do).
cubify.com offers for sale multiple kinds of 3d printed shoes. One of the types does in fact come with the printer, and can be printed yourself. Crocs are pretty obviously created out of only one material. And, on top of all of this, 3d printers that do multiple materials are already being made. It isn't AS easy, but it's certainly possible. Last, but not least, it's entirely possible to do single print jobs of a single material, then assemble the final thing into a composite item. I've done this.
I was certainly consider McCain until his vp selection, yes. As soon as I researched Palin, though, I knew I couldn't vote for him. Not merely because Palin would be bad if she got into power....but because such a remarkably poor choice called into question Cain's judgement. Presidents have to appoint rather a lot of people. If he's doing that badly for veep, how bad a job is he gonna do on all of them?
The issue is, it's a lot easier to do that directly with the gun than with the printer. Making a reprap requires some fairly accurate stepper motors, access to a RL friend with one to print out bits for you, and a pretty decent, and fairly specific shopping list from the hardware store. A simple firearm basically requires some pipe and a nail. I'm fairly technically grounded, but I opted to get a pre-made 3d printer myself for the same reason that I didn't make my own AR...it's bloody time consuming to do them right. Now, I've explored the overlap of these fields...and it IS interesting, but it's interesting in the same way as replicating a calculator in minecraft.
Operating a purpose built loader mostly involves refilling tubes and pulling a lever a lot. Printing still requires a pretty decent degree of skill.
I popped on to thingverse, and downloaded the AR mag everyone was talking 'bout a while back. When I printed it, the pieces didn't actually fit. It didn't include a spring. The shell didn't fit into my magwell. So yeah, I crafted up a plastic spring(no biggie), and made some size adjustments, and I'm sure I can get it printing...but in the end, that's a lot of work for a plastic five round mag when I can grab a 30 round mag in most places for $7. It's not really an issue. Ammunition printing is vastly more pie-in-the-sky, since arbitrarily mixing together materials is a ways off from home 3d printing at the moment.
No such printer exists yet, and there are notable obstacles to such a thing ever existing. Reprap, etc can print a substantial fraction of their pieces, which is great for availability and cost, but at least a trip to a well stocked hardware store will be in order. And frankly, you can just build a gun with a trip to a well stocked hardware store.
Oh, this is already a thing. Standard residential grade lock quality keys have already been printed, and fully working printable padlocks are already a thing. However, making purely mechanical keys is already pretty common tech.
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Style, like with apparel, refers to how something looks. So, "assault style", means the individual thinks the gun looks like what might be used in assaults. In short, it probably resembles something he or she saw in an action movie once.
Ammunition consists of powder and shot. If you're electrically detonating it, you don't need the right electrical current, you just need an electrical current. In other words, a "smart" weapon can be trivially modified to work by replacing the expensive biometric portion with a bit of wire and duct tape. Or, yknow, hitting the bullet with something hard, the way we do it now.
And, just like all of those cheap POS HPs and Dells, the average user will just ignore the fingerprint stuff, and the net gain will be pretty much zero.
He's referencing Kleck's work on the subject. I presume your "billion to one" number has a source, then?
The possible abuses of a "no gun" signal should be obvious with even a second's thought. For one thing, it'll be trivial for a crook to disable the tech on his gun in advance. Now he's the only person with a gun in that zone. This doesn't even bring up what someone with a slight bit of technical competence could do.
Like what, a rock? A screwdriver, maybe? You just take the smart gun bit off and throw it away. Long as the firing pin hits the round, the gun goes bang. This ain't rocket surgery.
This only sounds easy to someone who doesn't understand that ammunition is commonly manufactured at home. There is no "supply dries up". There's only "aw, that shells kind of annoying to make. The price is marginally higher per round".
You mean like the law requiring handguns to be sold with a lock, and the law requiring parents to secure their gun so the kid can't use it? We have those already. Hell, my state has that law too. This means I get to buy TWO locks with every handgun. I'm sure lock #3 will make the gun magically safe from stupid people.
It doesn't solve any problem. Current guns are non-electronic, and there is no need for an electronic element. Bypassing the security should be trivial if you can use a screwdriver, and anyway, we have trigger locks for safe storage now. If you have to rely on biometric scanners working correctly in an emergency...I'm sorry.
Yes, you can hunt with a 30 round clip. The specific case of duck hunting has a 3 round mag limit for sporting reasons. Most forms of hunting have no legal limit whatsoever. Millions of 30+ round mags have been made. Hell, probably over a million every year in the US alone. 99.999% or so have not killed large amounts of people. Therefore, your statement is obviously wrong.
Or you're hunting in circumstances where you need to shoot multiple targets rapidly, often repeatedly. Wild hogs, for instance. It's entirely normal to fire >10 rounds at one go. The point isn't that you need round #30. It's that you need round #11. Also, circumstances requiring more than 6 shots are not rare. Let's dial it up to 10, just to make your case easier, shall we? How often do you need more than 10 rounds? According to the NYPD metrics on "shots fired" incidents, about 15% of the time. And those folks are cops, with decent amounts of training. Of course, if you prefer to ignore data in favor of penis anecdotes, I'm *sure* that's a completely valid point.
It's cool. They'll just fix it all by making it "In the cloud".
Not really. 35%, on average, achieve the same income quintile as they were born into. Given that if it were determined purely by random chance, we'd still get a 20% repetition between generations, it's pretty clear that the "class you were born in is the class you die in" is...kind of an over generalization.
So, if they don't want the handouts...stop them? They're happy because of....something, and you're happy because you have more dollars in your pocket. Win/win?
Yes please. It would save us a pile of tax money, and Civil War 2 would provide us with good television. I say we go for it.
The boom of the fifties was for a much different, and simpler set of reasons. First, you had an economy adapted to wartime that suddenly got all it's men back from the war. Second, you had a sudden lifting of long-in-place rationing. Thirdly, the war took place on other people's land. That sucked for them, but made us shine in comparison. So, you've suddenly got an influx of workers, a spike in demand, and a lack of overseas competition(and spikes in their demand). That's a great economical mix.
Nah, all of the Jovian moons have an induced magnetic field. No particular reason you couldn't have the same elsewhere.
I own a cubify printer. It lacks DRM. I can and have gleefully printed out all manner of self-created items, as well as other things downloaded elsewhere. You can, in fact, buy items from their store. You pay per item if you have them print the item and send it to you(which is fair). You can also buy the model file if the author has chosen to offer it for sale(as I do).
cubify.com offers for sale multiple kinds of 3d printed shoes. One of the types does in fact come with the printer, and can be printed yourself. Crocs are pretty obviously created out of only one material. And, on top of all of this, 3d printers that do multiple materials are already being made. It isn't AS easy, but it's certainly possible. Last, but not least, it's entirely possible to do single print jobs of a single material, then assemble the final thing into a composite item. I've done this.
I was certainly consider McCain until his vp selection, yes. As soon as I researched Palin, though, I knew I couldn't vote for him. Not merely because Palin would be bad if she got into power....but because such a remarkably poor choice called into question Cain's judgement. Presidents have to appoint rather a lot of people. If he's doing that badly for veep, how bad a job is he gonna do on all of them?
Trust not based on past actions is folly, though.
The issue is, it's a lot easier to do that directly with the gun than with the printer. Making a reprap requires some fairly accurate stepper motors, access to a RL friend with one to print out bits for you, and a pretty decent, and fairly specific shopping list from the hardware store. A simple firearm basically requires some pipe and a nail. I'm fairly technically grounded, but I opted to get a pre-made 3d printer myself for the same reason that I didn't make my own AR...it's bloody time consuming to do them right. Now, I've explored the overlap of these fields...and it IS interesting, but it's interesting in the same way as replicating a calculator in minecraft.
Operating a purpose built loader mostly involves refilling tubes and pulling a lever a lot. Printing still requires a pretty decent degree of skill. I popped on to thingverse, and downloaded the AR mag everyone was talking 'bout a while back. When I printed it, the pieces didn't actually fit. It didn't include a spring. The shell didn't fit into my magwell. So yeah, I crafted up a plastic spring(no biggie), and made some size adjustments, and I'm sure I can get it printing...but in the end, that's a lot of work for a plastic five round mag when I can grab a 30 round mag in most places for $7. It's not really an issue. Ammunition printing is vastly more pie-in-the-sky, since arbitrarily mixing together materials is a ways off from home 3d printing at the moment.
No such printer exists yet, and there are notable obstacles to such a thing ever existing. Reprap, etc can print a substantial fraction of their pieces, which is great for availability and cost, but at least a trip to a well stocked hardware store will be in order. And frankly, you can just build a gun with a trip to a well stocked hardware store.
Oh, this is already a thing. Standard residential grade lock quality keys have already been printed, and fully working printable padlocks are already a thing. However, making purely mechanical keys is already pretty common tech.