[Info-vax] Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[John Wallace]

On Aug 5, 5:49 pm, Paul Sture <p... at sture.ch> wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Aug 2012 16:04:29 +0100, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 16:38 +0200, Paul Sture wrote:
>
> >>http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/08/the-portable-3d-
> >> printer-that-fits-in-a-briefcase/
>
> >> > (I want that for Christmas !)
>
> >> Ah, a portable 3D printer.  Nice.
>
> > What's giving lawmakers all over the world fits is that these things can
> > potentially be used to print guns and make drugs given the right
> > ingredients!
>
> "Hobbyist builds working assault rifle using 3D printer"
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/30/3d_printed_assault_rifle/
>
> --
> Paul Sture

>From my recollection of the facts, the headline is (as is increasingly
frequent under Lewis Page's editorship at El Reg) somewhat misleading,
and I'm not sure the article is much better.

The 3D printer was used to build a relatively low-tech low-impact part
of the weapon assembly, the piece that holds some of the critical
parts together. The law that says which bits need serial numbers for
traceability required a serial number on this bit but not on some of
the mechanically more critical bits. Maybe that will change now, maybe
it won't; folk like him don't care about the rules anyway.

Laws are for keeping honest folk honest, and sometimes for punishing
the dishonest.