Month: October 2012

The eagerness of kickstarter producers

Spending his Tuesday office hours meeting individually with each student in his Screenwriting II class at the University of California, Los Angeles, part-time lecturer Sam Albrecht, 33, told reporters that the eagerness and optimism in his students’ gazes had become too much for him to bear. “There’s this earnest twinkle in their eyes when they look at you, like they really believe they have a chance, and—I’m sorry, but it just tears me to pieces,

kickstarter, craigslist, the coop message board, community centers are full of ads like: i am doing a movie, looking for actors, producers, a script, editing, marketing, social media. i have an idea for a great title!

3D printed guns

the second amendment fight comes to 3d printing. fireworks!

Since its inception, it has been legal in the USA to fashion your own firearm, and to talk about doing so. More precise legalities are that it is legal to produce any category of weapon you could ordinarily legally own, so long as you are not providing it for sale or are not prohibited from possessing firearms in the first place. Everything else is free speech, ladies and gentlemen.

this is very eye opening. the second amendment has to deal with an estimated 270M guns in the US plus now you get distributed defense printing guns that can do 100s of rounds.

2013-11-12: cue moral panic in 3 … 2 … 1 …

UAV analysis

What will the market look like for gizmos that prevent airborne cameras from imaging your face? Or what about when small, VTOL drones are actually moving stuff around in the real world. That stuff could conceivably be your latest, packet-switched delivery from Amazon, or it could be the latest methamphetamine delivery from your drug dealer; it will be hard to tell the difference without physical inspection. Law enforcement will want to track — and almost certainly to inspect — those cargoes, and many a sender and recipient will want to thwart both tracking and inspection.