0924: "3D Printer"

[pigsfromagun]

Alt text: I just can't wait for the Better Homes and Gardens list of helpful tips for household reuse of sixteen-inch acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene phalluses.

I dread the day when this becomes a commonplace prank.

[wallacoloo]

Is that a penis he's holding in the third panel?

[pigsfromagun]

Is that a penis he's holding in the third panel?

I think it's the wrench that he had in the first panel. Implying that he's fixing his 3D printer?

[wizdave]

Is that a penis he's holding in the third panel?

I think it's the wrench that he had in the first panel. Implying that he's fixing his 3D printer?

Or he could have just printed the wrench with his 3D printer ala this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw&feature=player_embedded

[FCN]

Wouldn't that just be a dildo?

[brakos82]

Is that a penis he's holding in the third panel?

Yay, I'm not the first one to think that.

[sabik]

Didn't Charles Stross have something like that in a novel that went on sale a week ago, and for which he posted sample chapters last month?

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-st ... three.html
(Note: NSFW text. What would you expect in a novel called "Rule 34" ?)

Admittedly those were 8cm, not 16in...

[ManaUser]

But... who prints their spam?

[jpk]

But... who prints their spam?

Don't you? I know I hate reading stuff on screens....

[hintss]

someone designed a dildo a while ago and posted it on thingiverse, but it seems to have been deleted

also, did the forum link disappear from xkcd.com?

[nmp303]

Right, people, Randal gave us an order! By next Wednesday, he should receive a package with all the penises we printed

By the way, who here has worked with 3D printers before?

also, did the forum link disappear from xkcd.com?

Yes, a few days ago. I wonder why.

[hintss]

someone made plastic poop. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:9955 sigh.

[scarletmanuka]

also, did the forum link disappear from xkcd.com?

Yes, a few days ago. I wonder why.

Did you know that "Individual XKCD Comic Threads" is not the only part of the forums?

A short sojourn into "Site/Forum Issues" might very well prove enlightening, particularly such threads as "Forum link on the main XKCD page?" or "Forum Link Gone".

[Hooch]

someone made plastic poop. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:9955 sigh.

Plastic poop has been around since Jimmy Kimmel was on The Man Show.

[obarey]

Shouldn't the plural form of "phallus" be "phallii"?

[Hirg]

also, did the forum link disappear from xkcd.com?

Yes, a few days ago. I wonder why.

Did you know that "Individual XKCD Comic Threads" is not the only part of the forums?

A short sojourn into "Site/Forum Issues" might very well prove enlightening, particularly such threads as "Forum link on the main XKCD page?" or "Forum Link Gone".

I don't remember that one. Which xkcd comic was that?

[Fixblor]

Is that a penis he's holding in the third panel?

Most likely, the answer is "sort of".

XKCD is generally SFW, but having an explicit dildo depicted would be NSFW.
So, what looks like a dildo that is not a dildo? ... particularly for the stick-figures and simple-outlines style of drawing currently in use here ...
Solution: a crescent wrench.

Wrenches are associated with fixing things, so the cover is plausible.
Covert phalluses often pretend to be ordinary household tools or appliances.
For example ...

[KittenKaboodle]

Didn't Charles Stross have something like that in a novel that went on sale a week ago, and for which he posted sample chapters last month?

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-st ... three.html
(Note: NSFW text. What would you expect in a novel called "Rule 34" ?)

Admittedly those were 8cm, not 16in...

Well, that burrned my cheese. But it just goes to show you, the more things change the more they stay the same:

You stare at the lappie in horror. About sixty dozen overlapping windows are warning you that spyware has been detected, inviting you to download an antivirus package from the app store of a fly-by-night scamware vendor in Hainan. You ken it's the same site as the URL on the dildo. "Jesus ****," you repeat.

Just in case anyone had any doubt, the printing in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw&feature=player_embedded is not shown in real time, I'd guess the actual time was somewhere around three orders of magnitude longer than shown. One could drive to the adult novelty store and get a nice silicone dildo quicker than one could print a stiff ABS one and for likely less money than the consumables for the 3D printer. Sure people will say "the price will come down as they get more popular" but have you bought an inkjet printer cartrige lately? The machines might get cheap. but they'll put RFID tahgs in the consumable cartriges so you can't use third party consumables, and then charge you an arm and a kidney forthe consumables.

[hintss]

just imagine thingiverse in 12 hours: there will be some dildos posted that haven't been deleted by admins yet, and the rest will be stealth dildos.

oh, and a handy tip: skeinforge doesn't print really thin walls, so making a hollow object with 0.05 mm walls or so with a second object inside will only print the object inside, but the outside object will show up on renders

[feyayeruka]

man, I never thought of using a crescent wrench as a dildo!
*runs off to toolbox*

[Uzh]

man, I never thought of using a crescent wrench as a dildo!

Rule 34...

Georg

[_sw]

What? Spam prints itself now?

[Fixblor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw

Question: What kind of reflective optical magic is being used to scan the interior and unexposed portions of these items?
Let me guess, "smoke and mirrors", or could it be just plain old "TV magic".

Oh well, maybe when they start making MRI/3D-printer combo-units I can finally get that new brain I've been asking for.
Brings new meaning to the word "neuroplasticity".

[neoliminal]

I keep thinking of potential trojans that might get hidden inside 3-D printer plans.

Imagine downloading plans for a vacuum cleaner and halfway through your carpet it starts to tell you how you can purchase inexpensive Viagra.

[JudeMorrigan]

Shouldn't the plural form of "phallus" be "phallii"?

No. If you're going to be a PHPI and refuse to use the (perfectly acceptable) anglicized plural, you'd have to go with phalli. Phallii is indefensible.

[Uno]

I keep thinking of potential trojans that might get hidden inside 3-D printer plans.

Imagine downloading plans for a vacuum cleaner and halfway through your carpet it starts to tell you how you can purchase inexpensive Viagra.

Or your dildo suddenly claiming to be Umfufu, the widow of the deposed king of Nigeria, requesting your help with a money transfer.

[feyayeruka]

I keep thinking of potential trojans that might get hidden inside 3-D printer plans.

Imagine downloading plans for a vacuum cleaner and halfway through your carpet it starts to tell you how you can purchase inexpensive Viagra.

Or your dildo suddenly claiming to be Umfufu, the widow of the deposed king of Nigeria, requesting your help with a money transfer.

or Umfufu, the widow of the deposed king of Nigeria, requesting your help with a Viagra transfer.

[Fysicist09]

So where does this printer fall into the chart from xkcd.com/678 ?

[freakish777]

You wouldn't download a car, would you??

[nogling]

Shouldn't the plural form of "phallus" be "phallii"?

Just "phalli" - the only Latin words that have a double "i" in the plural form are ones that end with "ius".

But since we don't speak Latin, in English, "phalluses" is an acceptable plural.

Just like the appropriate Latin plural of "penis" is "penes", but in English we say "penises".



I can't believe I just de-lurked to clarify the Latin plural of "phallus"....

*sigh*

I suppose there are worse ways to join a forum...

[SlyReaper]

So where does this printer fall into the chart from xkcd.com/678 ?

"We haven't finished inventing it yet, but when we do it'll be awesome".

[pscottdv]

Can be built entirely out of parts that can be printed by itself!

[eidako]

If access to this technology were readily available, it would have the potential of raising issues similar to the encryption and file sharing controversies of the past. Consider lockpicks, of which possession by unlicensed persons is prohibited in most jurisdictions. Would this also make having CADD models of lockpicks, or distribution of models over the Internet, a punishable offense? What about the duplication of patented designs? After watching the legal system hemorrhage over the existence of the Internet, imagine what would happen if tangible objects could be arbitrarily duplicated.

[philsov]

What? Spam prints itself now?

Occasionally, yeah. Every now and then the fax/copy machines at work receive spam for low cost health insurance or vacation trips or some crap thanks to the fax connection.

The implications with 3D would be even more annoying.

[dp2]

Is that a penis he's holding in the third panel?

Most likely, the answer is "sort of".

XKCD is generally SFW, but having an explicit dildo depicted would be NSFW.

"Generally" is right.

[rhomboidal]

I use extra thick paper in my dinky inkjet just to delude myself that I technically own a 3D printer.

[wallacoloo]

If access to this technology were readily available, it would have the potential of raising issues similar to the encryption and file sharing controversies of the past. Consider lockpicks, of which possession by unlicensed persons is prohibited in most jurisdictions. Would this also make having CADD models of lockpicks, or distribution of models over the Internet, a punishable offense? What about the duplication of patented designs? After watching the legal system hemorrhage over the existence of the Internet, imagine what would happen if tangible objects could be arbitrarily duplicated.

Imo, there are far more important things to worry about than legality. These machines are still evolving; people are equipping them to print with more and more different materials. What happens when anyone who wants to can print a nuclear missile in their own garage?

[FertRaccoon]

If access to this technology were readily available, it would have the potential of raising issues similar to the encryption and file sharing controversies of the past. Consider lockpicks, of which possession by unlicensed persons is prohibited in most jurisdictions. Would this also make having CADD models of lockpicks, or distribution of models over the Internet, a punishable offense? What about the duplication of patented designs? After watching the legal system hemorrhage over the existence of the Internet, imagine what would happen if tangible objects could be arbitrarily duplicated.

Imo, there are far more important things to worry about than legality. These machines are still evolving; people are equipping them to print with more and more different materials. What happens when anyone who wants to can print a nuclear missile in their own garage?

This would involve printing with Plutonium, which would be hard to come by. Even expanding this idea to printing any explosive still comes up against the limits of Chemistry. One could probably print out a functional revolver and bullets, but the bullets would not have any explosive in them.

[Xeio]

I don't want a 3D printer until it can print other, smaller, 3D printers.

[not baby Newt]

If nuke printing was possible, it'd be a similar legal situation to lock picks. Perhaps anyone with a printer would be eligible for prosecution for preparation of criminal activities. Later the only legal ones are locked down like an Xbox/ps3 and no creativity allowed. Incidently lobbied for by fashion industries etc.