ChurchHatesTucker (profile), 10 Jan 2014 @ 11:48am
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As the Boing Boing article quoted above explains, this seems to be a requirement of the US government, and is designed to prevent machines being sent to Iran in violation of the embargo placed on that country.
I'd have thought GPS was precise enough to distinguish between "moving it across the shop" and "shipping it to Iran."
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Wat
I'd have thought GPS was precise enough to distinguish between "moving it across the shop" and "shipping it to Iran."
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