<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">With material plenty do you think this is likely? But wait, I thoroughly believe in the right to obtain and bear arms. So we may disagree or which kinds of things are a problem. A nano-factory cannot produce anything it doesn't have a blueprint for. That is one level of control. Nanofactories could come with certain built-in restrictions giving another level of control. The problems could also be addressed by something like the broadcast model proposed by Ralph Merkle (<A href="http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/selfRepJBIS.html">http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/selfRepJBIS.html</A>). <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Generally speaking I am more interested in empowering people and in fighting abuses they actually do commit than in keeping them harmless by decreasing their abilities and access.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- s</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Nov 14, 2005, at 12:05 PM, Dirk Bruere wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 11/14/05, <B class="gmail_sendername">Samantha Atkins</B> <<A href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Please spell out the dangers you allude to.<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> Well, manufacturing weapons, explosives, bioweapons, wargasses etc<BR> That would do for a start.<BR> <BR> Dirk<BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">extropy-chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo/extropy-chat</A></DIV> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>