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posted by martyb on Sunday January 19 2020, @07:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the pointed-comments dept.

Sheffield-based company Viners has produced the "Assure" range, square-ended knives which are "shaped to reduce and prevent injuries, accidents and fatalities." With knife crimes in England and Wales at their highest in a decade, a 3% increase on last year and the highest level since 2009, this new knife is intended to not be used in crimes and only in the kitchen. While anti-stabbing messages have been left on fastfood containers and a crackdown on knife crime has been tried, for which included limiting the sale of knives, so far nothing has blunted the knife based problem.

When have social problems been solved by technical solutions?


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Monday January 20 2020, @02:26AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 20 2020, @02:26AM (#945608) Journal

    But what if a young hoodlum decides to carry a CNC around with them and use it as a weapon? Shouldn't we ban them?

    Not necessarily.
    For instance. a better solution would be to subsidize the development of technologies that allow the attacked to deploy a pure defensive countermeasure in due time.

    For instance, within the time the hoodlum puts you on the CNC carriage and program the specific (based on your body conformation) G-code sequence to slice you up, you should be able to fire up your metal RepRap 3D printer [reprap.org] and print yourself an armor able to resist the specific laser power and wavelength the attacker uses. After all, you are at advantage: you can preprogram your body conformation and use the laser power/wavelength as input parameters.

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