Nonsense. Rosen reported that the DPK was going to detonate another nuke. That isn't sensitive material. Rosen didn't go into the means and methods in his reporting. Just that a detonation was coming up. BFD..
You've got my vote. Where can I send my slashdot subscription fee?
This "stories" has all the hallmarks of some marketing dribble written by Snapchat. It has the right buzzwords, is full of itself, and touts some silly app as the future of the Internet.
When did Slashdot sell its soul and start accepting stories from companies?
JJ Abrams tell Jon Stewart that "he never liked Star Trek" on The Daily Show. Well, now he's had a chance to kill it by turning it 100% into a modern day blockbuster action flick and shirking any attempt to tackle an interesting philosophical or ethical dilemma as the main plot. As the modern reemergence of comic book and super hero movies have shown, those films are a dime a dozen that anyone can do. Tackling something deeper while still holding our attention is the hard part. The Watchmen was a good candidate for it but fell short. I'm sure JJ Abrams would rather cover up the complicated parts that question good versus evil with another lens flare.
Where are the mod points when you need them? You hit the problem squarely on the head with the JJ Abrams reboots. Star Trek has been reduced to an action flick. Something that will be forgotten in a month. A lot of action, pretty visuals, with a big fat void in the middle. I've seen both now and they are utterly forgettable.
Ok, so you can buy a portable EMP that can impact electronics 1-2M away. Assuming you upped the power source enough to reach that Reaper drone at anywhere from 10k to 50k high, you might be good to go. Of course, you'd probably need a full-sized tractor trailer to haul the power supply.
As for shooting them, if a drone is flying at 100m, yes, it might be vulnerable to small-arms fire. Though, with your shotgun, you'd probably only get one shot before the drone, moving at an average of 200mph, is out of range.
Then again, most drones, at least the ones the public has seen in combat, aren't stupid enough to fly so low.
The problem is the average citizen can't, legally, get his/her hands on some SAMs. Plus, do you know how much a Stinger costs on the second-hand market? There is the whole import problem too. A directional EMP (if there is such a thing) would probably rank in the top ten list of weapons Joe Citizen is NOT allowed to own. Shooting them isn't an option either. Most are too high, too fast, and shooting at them with automatic weapons would draw massive amounts of attention.
Passive measures are probably the best we've got for now. Safety in numbers. Do your naughty business in cities or underground.
Cue the flamebait accusations....
I'm can't disagree with the U.S. Government's position on this one. If data is sent via the Internet, the world's biggest public network, and isn't encrypted, then why should anybody need anything to read it? Unreasonable search and seizure doesn't apply when one person is talking to another person on a street corner...or on the world's biggest public network.
Encrypt your messages and then an argument can be made for 4th Amendment violations.
When Joe User exceeds his monthly data plan, he has to pay more just for the privilege of viewing a video ad...to access his own Facebook page.
You're probably more right than you realize. Fedora Project has taken an odd turn over the last 2-3 releases. This password masking issue is only the latest of "change because we can" versus "change because it's broken" attitude.
How the hell did you get marked Insightful? Go install Fedora while sitting at your desk in your cubicle at work...the same cubicle where people can walk up behind you and YOU WONT EVEN KNOW IT. Sysadmins don't have to live in the server room just to install an OS these days. .
So, profits are down and the answer is to lay off the people who bring in the profits? Or the people who build the products that make the money?
How is this right in any sense of the word? Instead of spot layoffs to raise the stock price a few cents, AMD should be focusing on beating the tar out of Intel, Nvidia, and ARM manufacturers. Or wondering why AMD doesn't have a chip that can drive a tablet?
How long have you been downloading "warez"? A year? There was a time when the keygens bundled with apps included trojans. When "legit OS" versions were modified to load a trojan AND access an IRC channel where it sat...waiting to be abused. When opening a PDF or CHM would cause the computer to open browser windows to ad-infested sites AND click on those ads so the malware author got paid. Etc...etc...etc...
That you've never encountered a virus or trojan doesn't mean they aren't out there...it just means your experience is rather limited.
You're assuming the perp plugs in the laptop to his network. Why would he do that? Network access isn't needed when wiping laptops. Just pop in a bootable CD or USB flash drive, wait a few minutes, and laptop has been wiped.
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