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What would be a better way to handle this situation? (edit) I'm not saying that this is the best option. The government is tasked with ensuring public safety a
by huhtenberg 14y ago
What would be a better way to handle this situation?
(edit) I'm not saying that this is the best option. The government is tasked with ensuring public safety and this is an issue with major public safety repercussions. They cannot just sit and watch this unfold, and what this guy said is basically the most obvious way of dealing with the situation.
- michaelfeathers 14y agoReconciling themselves to the inevitable, perhaps? That is too much to expect from any government, however.
- huhtenberg 14y agoElaborate, please. In practical terms. A month from now here are the measures in place to reduce the public safety risk of this development: *write here*
- smsm42 14y agoHere you go: A month from now here are the measures in place to reduce the public safety risk of this development: None needed.
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- smsm42 14y agoIt is not. Nobody was threatened with this, nobody will ever be threatened with this. This thing is un-concealable and unusable as a real-life weapon in any public safety scenario. If you think anybody with this prototype can threaten public safety you are badly mistaken. The idea that any time anything new happens the government should jump in and prohibit it until it is proven safe is exactly why politicians like this thrive. Instead, people should use their brains and let the government intervene only when actual threat is there, not theoretical lets-cover-our-asses invented threat is touted by politicians.
- huhtenberg 14y agoI'm guessing that one can carry it through the airport security easily enough. It's not that it's printed, it's the fact that it's printed in plastic.
- smsm42 14y agoHave you been to any US airport recently? These guys grab my freaking nuts and touch me in places that usually only myself and my wife are allowed to access. And you say it'd be easy to get through them a piece of a size of a large brick without them noticing? Do you know what mayhem an explosive of a similar volume could create? Something does not add up here with your theory.
- huhtenberg 14y agoYou put it in a bag, obviously. As a bonus, you redesign it into larger number of smaller pieces and spread them over several bags. You can stick your head in a sand as much as you want, but this is a game-changing development. If one can print a working gun, one can conceivably print other interesting things that to date were assumed to only exist in metal, the assumption that was the foundation of respective detection technology. The assumption that is no longer valid.
- yummyfajitas 14y agoYou put it in a bag, obviously. You mean the bag that goes through an X-Ray scanner which detects high density objects?
- npongratz 14y agoIndeed, the same bag that is mysteriously devoid of valuables after it has arrived at its destination.
- akama 14y agoHow many other things would it be possible to print? I do think you are right about it being a game-changing development, but at this moment I don't think there is a lot of threat from it. I think for the next couple of years, we can assume that respective detection technology will be fine.