Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun
by yodsanklai on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @07:41PM
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I wonder if we'll be able to 3D print WMD or very dangerous things one day. Viruses for instance?
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Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun
by toomuchtodo on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @07:48PM
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That's what is so silly about this.
Anyone soon will be able to SLS (laser sinter) guns at home. How many people can you kill with a gun? 50? 100? 200? What happens when I'm able to build viruses and bacteria at home with openly available DNA sequences?
Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun
by bbcbasic on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @09:26PM
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So normally law abiding people suddenly become murderers because a 3D printer can produce a gun?
Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun
by toomuchtodo on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @10:35PM
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No, that risk is an inherent part of being alive, and that restrictions crafted should carefully be considered.
Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun
by rcpt on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @08:30PM
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Somewhat related is the recent controversy about whether or not to publish a paper that shows how easy it is to produce a variant of avian H5N1 influenza that can spread between mammals:
http://www.nature.com/news/mutant-flu-paper-published-1.1055...
Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun
by Crito on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @07:46PM
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The ability to synthesize arbitrary chemicals is unlikely to come from 3d printers. Significant developments there will be seen coming a long way off in university laboratories, with equipment advertised in places like Nature.
Re:The guy making it easy to 3D print yourself a real gun
by A_COMPUTER on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @09:21PM
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http://openpcr.org/
You can replicate DNA with this.