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New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers

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Post by viccis »

crazygringo wrote: post #186
viccis wrote: post #164

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It has been used as an idiom to mean stopping or restarting something (the former in this case) for decades: https://wordspy.com/words/ctrl-alt-delete/ I think it's because most people associate Ctrl-Alt-Del with the process of terminating a process, so they use the key sequence itself to refer to the act of terminating something.

It means restart. It has never meant stop. Even the link you provide says: > n. A metaphoric mechanism with which one can reset, restart, or rethink something. That's what's confusing. The headline makes no sense because it's not about restarting.

The first example:

>It's time to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete on the computerized Bowl Championship Series. Or should we now call it the Bowl Split-Championship Series?

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Post by rangestransform »

tastyfreeze wrote: post #175
rangestransform wrote: post #160

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It’s only theoretically non searchable, IIRC each submitted document has to be OCRed every time a search is ran on the documents, and this is enough of a legal fig leaf to qualify it as not a registry. A sizeable GPU farm would make this basically a moot point.

Oh I agree. It is very likely that the electronic checks are recorded and could be used as a non-official registry of gun owners. I removed my comment to that effect because it is speculation. But, electronic records are so easily recorded that I have little doubt that the electronic checks are in fact an illegal registry.

I could go on a whole tirade about how policing should not scale with technology, Katz v. USA was decided when surveillance had to be done with still images and film cameras, but the horse left the barn long ago and nobody really gives a shit about the constitution anymore.

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Post by 9875325996435 »

kortex wrote: post #663
wtcactus wrote: post #550

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Post by WalterBright »

crote wrote: post #597
Ray20 wrote: post #577

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Yes, and most of this measures result in decisions being made by the most irresponsible people. Prisoners voting is madness. They are in too dependent a position to believe that their vote will reflect their votes. On the contrary, voting should be banned not only for prisoners but also for people working for the government in any capacity. People who live off taxpayers should not be able to decide how to spend their…

> Registration procedures should be more complex and strict, not simpler. If someone is irresponsible, disorganized, or illiterate enough to fail to fill the form on time, then why should we consider their vote meaningful? The US tried to do this kind of "literacy test" before, remember? It's where the expression "grandfathered in" comes from: you had to do an impossible-to-pass test to gain the right to vote - excep…

There is a big problem with people voting themselves money out of the treasury. It gets worse every year.

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Post by jeegsy »

As you might expect on a tech website, folks in the comments have immediately jumped to workarounds for this. Before we do that, spare a thought for whether our government should be allowed to conceive of something like this in the first place.

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Post by stackskipton »

y-curious wrote: post #526
RevEng wrote: post #368

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So it's okay to 3D print a gun as long as you have a serial number? That seems to reinforce that 3D printing shouldn't be banned, especially by blanket technical means.

That is the essence of the weird gun laws. Take a Glock pistol as an example. The only part that has a serial number and is legally “the gun” is the thing you hold in your hand: the frame. It’s plastic and has the trigger and some parts to hold the magazine. The rest of the stuff? You can buy and overnight ship it to yourself legally with almost no regulation (as of 2026 CA requires more gun-like treatment for those…

I just grabbed my glock to check. The frame, slide and barrel are all have serial markings and it's about 15 years old at this point.

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Post by tptacek »

rayiner wrote: post #691
mystraline wrote: post #586

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> Of course prisoners should not be allowed to vote, for the same reason as children. Prisoners in jail can be there for a multitude of reasons. But the main difference is that they were likely of voting age. Some states even do allow prisoners to vote. Who more than anyone here is subject to its laws than people imprisoned? It also naturally penalizes poor people, since they demonstrably get less 'legal equality', a…

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You don't believe in social science. Sorry, I mean social "science". It feels like it'd be rude to quote you on that point, but it's one of your most consistent arguments and it's not reasonable to expect people not to notice the special pleading you're doing around it. It'd be like me suddenly talking about the virtues of DNSSEC.

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Post by mghackerlady »

ptorrone wrote: post #642
dogtimeimmortal wrote: post #583

> blog.adafruit.com Your browser is out of date. Update your browser to view this site properly. Click here for more information if you care about right to repair and the ability of regular people to make a living and choose their own destiny(i.e. live independently of a mega-corp), this type of error message should bother you. HTML is a mature tech. There is no reason for this type of error

(posting this in both comments about this) i am the author of the article. the adafruit blog is not trying to block you my dude(s). we are under constant automated scraping and ddos, largely from ai crawlers, and we use cloudflare to keep the site online at all. the nature of of these things will cause false positives depending on browser, extensions, network, or referrer. the site publishs full-text rss feeds with n…

Is the scraping protection the only thing relying on cloudflare? If it is then there are solutions like anubis that work pretty well

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Post by stackskipton »

rl3 wrote: post #467
phire wrote: post #431

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Blackmail an Executive? That's a complete overkill. It's so much easier just to "recruit" the direct manager of the firmware engineering team. Convince them it's their patriotic duty to add "tracking dots" to the design requirements without drawing attention to where the requirement came from. The engineers implementing it will assume the requirement came from somewhere above, or another engineering team. And if the…

The most unrealistic part here is that you're assuming they can even find their desired firmware manager on the org chart. Moreover, most executives don't require blackmail; they tend to go along to get along.

Yea, just include "All printers bought by US government must have Tracking Dots" and Executives will move that feature to top of backlog without any other concerns.

Big company executives are easiest to control; they want money and all of it. US Government luckily has plenty of it to throw around.

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