http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/gadgets/30017857/printers-capable-of-making-guns
If people really are this stupid and poorly educated, they should not be writing for a living, least of all in the technology section of a website
If people really are this stupid and poorly educated, they should not be writing for a living, least of all in the technology section of a website
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The Customs report, Border Implications from Emerging Technologies, says 3D printers have passed a "tipping point" and will radically change how borders are policed. The ultimate end of the technology could allow molecular-level printing of "gold, gems, food or drugs".
Maurice Williamson: "You could be out of the back of a farm somewhere and break an 18-inch crescent wrench and just go over to the printer and print another one off. That's phenomenal. But not if your neighbour prints off a gun and pops over the fence and shoots you."
Maurice Williamson, who requested the report after publicly voicing concern last year, said he could "almost guarantee" the review would include provisions to deal with 3D printing.
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wongtop: Its alchemy!
UbergeeknzThis printing firearms thing is a load of crap. I can build a firearm out of a length of pipe too, should we ban pipe? How stupid.
SaltyNZ: What Maurice Williamson is *really* worried about is that people might print politicians with their 3D printers, and these would quickly and totally supplant the older model organic politicians. As a solid blob of plastic, they would exhibit greatly enhanced intelligence and utility as well as substantially reduced resource utilisation, compared to organic politicians.
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself - A. H. Weiler
nakedmolerat: quote from stuffThe Customs report, Border Implications from Emerging Technologies, says 3D printers have passed a "tipping point" and will radically change how borders are policed. The ultimate end of the technology could allow molecular-level printing of "gold, gems, food or drugs".
Huh, there is nothing wrong with that statement.
shk292:nakedmolerat: quote from stuffThe Customs report, Border Implications from Emerging Technologies, says 3D printers have passed a "tipping point" and will radically change how borders are policed. The ultimate end of the technology could allow molecular-level printing of "gold, gems, food or drugs".
Huh, there is nothing wrong with that statement.
So, presumably you had the same science teacher as the article's author?
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