Oh, it wasn't a civilian drone - story was wrong.

I don't understand why they had to divert so much for a tiny drone. Seems like a little jog to the left, and another to the right, and an angry finger gesture ...

Buckshot is for bucks. I'd recommend #6 as a first approximation of the optimal solution.

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Liability insurance on my motorcycle (1000cc sportbike) is $14 a month, in Los Angeles. Is it really enough to weigh heavily on your decision?

Yeah I built a NAS with 'disks' and all the new machines just get SSD for local stuff. If/when I am faced with having to be in scenarios where I'm disconnected or poorly connected for long periods of time again I'll have to reconsider, unless we're all sporting 4tb SSDs by then.

I think I saw some in a closet somewhere - I wondered what they were for. I assumed they were just ugly coasters.

What's a DVD?

A tiny percentage of murders in America involve guns like this - they are truly not the low hanging fruit on the homicide tree.

I have video footage of a mall in Asia where the entrance metal detector is shrieking every time someone walks through it; no one is stopped or even slowed down for several minutes until a grubby looking character is pulled aside, based on suspicion of being a Muslim or something I suppose.

Maybe a standard implantation of auto complete is needed too.

I don't completely disagree but you might watch the CPPCON 2014 presentation on the Curiosity rover for some insights into how the industry actually does things. One thing I noticed right off; rad hardened hardware is way behind the latest thing from Intel.

It's basic security practice to never count on something like this, what if something is configured in a way that the only access an attacker has is to the place you drop this file and read it back; do you really want to have a system where someone can slip in, remove a recently dropped file, and kill the system? Perhaps they didn't think they had to consider security but this is also, as you point out, just basic robustness. Also as others state, watchdogs, Our PC software product has a watchdog, and it's sure as heck not controlling a satellite.

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