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0 pointsTheSpiceIsLife8y ago0 comments

Another approach is to criminalise possession and sale of ROV components and prosecute with extreme prejudice.

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Zardoz848y ago· 3 in thread

And another brick on the wall...

Do you really think that it would work to avoid to someone grab the necessary components to build a cheap drone ?

What must criminalise is the components to make drones a weapon. Aka, EXPLOSIVES and WEAPONS. And restrict access to chemicals to make explosives.

And this would not work when the guys building it, are living on anarchy place where the effective law are made by they.

matheweis8y ago

Some kind of explosives are trivially made, a fact which is severely complicating basic STEM education as common materials that have other uses but happen to be usable for making weapons are increasingly difficult to obtain...

mncharity8y ago

It also comes up in STEM education content. For example, industrial dust explosions could be a good illustration of several principles (including the importance of surface to volume ratio), but... there are potential downsides to using it. More generally, STEM education remains innocuous only as long as it pervasively fails. If that ever changes, society will have some issues to decide. And not a great track record of handling similar ones. Even a simple matrix of "what do you get when you mix one common household material with another" has some "seriously: don't do that" nodes.

cwkoss8y ago

A person with the right knowledge, time, and some land in the middle of the nowhere can manufacture explosives with no external inputs. Banning explosives can never completely prevent their creation, and trying to do so would have numerous harmful effects to agricultural and chemical industries.

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