3D Printable Ammo Mag Takes Aim at Proposed Gun Laws; U.S. Lags Peers in Life Expectancy

Don't miss a single issue of Slashback. Add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your address book. 3D Printable Ammo Mag Takes Aim at Proposed Gun Laws U.S. Lags Peers in Life Expectancy Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? U.S. Attorney Chided Swartz on Day of Suicide Man Charged With HIPAA Violations for Video Taping Police Hot Comment: The purpose of the second amendment From the Vault: Poll Finds Mixed Support for Domestic Wiretaps Watch It: X PRIZE Mission to Make 'Star Trek'-Style Tricorder a Reality Poll Booth: The status of Java on my machine 3D Printable Ammo Mag Takes Aim at Proposed Gun Laws Defense Distributed says it hopes to preempt any high-capacity magazine ban by showing how impossible it has become to prevent the creation of a simple spring-loaded box in the age of cheap 3D printing. Sound Off>> U.S. Lags Peers in Life Expectancy The U.S. is at or near the bottom in nine key areas of health including infant mortality and low birth weight; injuries and homicides; drug-related deaths; obesity and diabetes; heart disease; and disability, according to a study by the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine. Sound Off>> Ask Slashdot: Are Timed Coding Tests Valuable? xkrebstarx wrote in about a friend who was given a timed coding test by a prospective employer to gauge his coding prowess and asked fellow Slashdotters: "Does coding quickly really indicate a better programmer? A better employee?" Sound Off>> U.S. Attorney Chided Swartz on Day of Suicide In response to Aaron Swartz's request to supplement his Motions to Suppress and Dismiss with a critical document only recently produced to him by the government, the U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz quipped in a court filing the day Swartz committed suicide that the document Swartz is referring to "is relevant, but not nearly as important as he tries to make it out to be." Sound Off>> Man Charged With HIPAA Violations for Video Taping Police Andrew Henderson's camera was confiscated and he was charged with obstructing justice after he recorded sheriff's deputies frisking a bloody-faced man, who was then loaded into an ambulance by paramedics, reports the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The deputy wrote in the citation, "Data privacy HIPAA violation." Sound Off>> The purpose of the second amendment "Arguments about the second amendment used to revolve around whether guns keep us free. These days, however, they're all about whether guns keep us safe. Something significant has already been lost, even if we still have the right to bear arms." --by spikenerd Read More>> Poll Finds Mixed Support for Domestic Wiretaps Seven years ago, The New York Times reported that Americans are growing more and more concerned about the tradeoff between "fighting terrorism" and civil liberties. Forty-seven percent of those polled responded that they did not support "wiretapping in order to reduce the threat of terrorism." Read More>> X PRIZE Mission to Make 'Star Trek'-Style Tricorder a Reality The X PRIZE Foundation has released guidelines and opened registration to its $10 million Tricorder design contest. Timothy Lord caught up with the foundation's Alan Zack at CES to talk about this next foray into outsourced incentivized competitions, what it's going to take to win it and when we can expect to see some prototypes. Watch the Video>> The status of Java on my machine: Enabled Disabled Does not apply (for reasons of availability, etc) I don't know Java is delicious, when correctly prepared. Cast Your Vote>> Follow Slashdot on Twitter and Facebook. To unsubscribe, click here or send an email to: unsubscribe-213087@elabs10.com To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images, please add slashdot@newsletters.slashdot.org to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. Slashdot | 594 Howard Street, Suite 300 | San Francisco, CA 94105 To view our Privacy Policy click here.