Clearly I was voicing _opinions_! You know, things people think may be right but do not claim as truth. Apparently you have problems with the concept. Attributes like "bullshit" or "nonsense" clearly mark opinions, not statements of fact.

You seem to have some rather serious problem interpreting what people say. I mean that not in the sense that I am trying to insult you, but in the sense that I detect an actual perception problem on your side. Maybe get that looked at, it could help you avoid serious misinterpretations of what people say on the future.

Indeed. Safe individual transportation would be a great boon. And it could revolutionize parts of public transportation in general. Example: Need to transport something heavier? Order a self-driving car of any size desired. Of course, the Taxi-industry will likely be a casualty of this, but no historical job-setting lasts forever.

Same here. From the article, I cannot even be sure they can remotely do what the headline implies.

That is not a PC. That is an embedded ARM system. And really, there is no problem with the PC industry. The days of growth are over, but that is _not_ a problem and everybody sane did expect it. A far smaller PC industry 20 years back managed to have several manufacturers for each component and several models for each and prices where comparably lower than today.

The security problem is mostly solved. Or at least it is possibly and economically feasible to make breaking in prohibitively hard. The "cheapest bidder" and "Microsoft"/"Adobe"/etc. and "cheapest possible programmer" problems are not. For software to improve to acceptable levels of security, my guess would be that you would need to sack 95% of programmers and 95% of their bosses.

While a possibility, I think you are giving them too much credit. I think these people are indeed opponents of individual freedoms and hence are destructive authoritarians of the worst kind.

Oh? And where did I claim that? Apparently you cannot even read. Pathetic.

I cannot determine whether you are trying to be funny or whether you are utterly demented...

Bullshit. Any halfway competent engineer would have though of all that and made sure it does not happen. Really, you have no clue how professionals work.

A "less than halfway competent" attempt is no danger.

As for finding the drone being the intended effect, that makes only sense for a false-flag operation. It is a possibility, but there _still_ is no danger.

Really, stop being stupid. Stop spreading fear.

Making a _deliverable_ chemical weapon requires far far more. Chlorine gas is not something that is effective in small quantities. And for nerve agents, there is not only the delivery problem, but also the slight issue that you do not want to kill yourself making/storing/handling it and it still requires a significant quantity.

Really, you have lost your rationality. Stop spreading fear!

That may be right on the mark....

Bullshit. Making B and C weapons is hard, and delivering them is extremely hard. Nobody capable of that would be so pathetically amateurish to have their recon vehicle found. Stop spreading fear.

Nonsense. Anybody scouting would not have lost the drone. Scouting becomes pretty meaningless if your scouts are discovered.

Nonsense. This is some kid that lost control of their toy. Any halfway professional attempt of testing things would not have lost the drone and nothing would have been found.

Actually, there is no way this can go right. I expect that we will see people having planted evidence on their machines, vigilante murder, false accusations in spades, etc. This may be the absolutely worst thing they could do.