Uh huh.

Art blogs.

Pretty much do exactly the opposite of anything advocated on art blogs and you're going the right direction.

The latest Android has icons are so abstract they are effectively meaningless. The clock looks like a pie chart; they can't even suffer the hour tick marks that might assist in conveying "clock." The "text" app is a huge left double quote — so out-of-context that it has no association with the concept of "communication." The Google Drive icon is a three color triangle that bears zero resemblance to any sort of storage concept. Basically you must read the label of every icon and slowly try to associate these pictorial abstractions to their actual purpose. In reality users are just memorizing the locations of these meaningless icons, and if you were to rearrange their locations they'd be totally lost.

It sucks. It's stupid. And I'm 100% certain there is a cabal of "art" fucks behind it.

No. Don't think of Stop signs. Stop signs aren't trying to convey an association to anything. You can't buy and eat a box of "stops." Many, many road signs use useful pictographs to convey things; a vehicle skidding due to ice; immigrants hand-in-hand running across a road, the silhouette of a bounding buck.... GUI icons need to convey association; storage, trash, communication, people, news, dates and times, etc.

Trying to boil all these things down to abstract vector art is idiot.

Good luck jamming inertia

...and right there you've just narrowed the pool of potential threats. Defense isn't about guarantees. Raising the bar is all you can ever achieve.

Give them "enough resources" and they'll nuke you from orbit.

Yeah, well word #2 in this story's subject is "Detecting," so I went with that. Silly me.

Detecting the "pilot" is actually the hardest part. $200 buys a programmable autopilot that will drop a UAV on any GPS coordinate the batteries can reach — sans pilot. Signals can come from any radio system, including ubiquitous ones like cell towers, so good luck finding that needle in the urban haystack.

You just pull that figure out of your butt?

Not that a 2 lbs craft is harmless, but 2 lbs is light. According to the FAA the upper limit for "recreational" UAVs is 55 lbs. It is easy to get into the 10's of lbs with big, extended range batteries, a high res camera, multi-axis gimbal, etc. Really easy. Whipping along at modest 60 mph you can cover 10-15 miles on today's batteries.

Anyone that can't see the potential of that is a fool.

The typical multirotor "drone" is necessarily built very lightweight; the electronics and motors are not typically shielded much at all. The brushless motors emit stupid amounts of RF energy due to unshielded motors, multiple banks of ESC's covered by nothing but heatshrink, etc. It shouldn't be particularly hard to spot a fast moving, localized source of RF noise at frequencies typical of multirotor motors.

Then there is heat. The ESCs and motors are HOT. Again, mass must be minimized so there is no easy way to hide that heat. A bright infrared spot zipping along at 50' altitude shouldn't be hard to detect.

For things that are piloted with FPV cameras there is a big video return signal coming off the craft. Due to antenna size this is usually some UHF frequency and fairly loud. The range of possible frequencies is vast, but in the real world there are a limited number of cost effective miniature transmitters available, so it isn't difficult to anticipate the likely frequencies.

Seems like there are a number of tell-tails that shouldn't be hard to exploit if you are serious about it have the means...

Clinton giving MFN status to China did more damage to the US than anything else. We have created more surplus working class than we have Fergusons to warehouse them.

No, they are not. They export some commodities, but beyond that they add no value to anything. Their factories are shut because their labor laws and practices make them non-viable. No significant intellectual property is created there, despite their vaunted "free" education. Rampant, endemic corruption keeps investors out.

I understand that people invent strange concepts such as that to rationalize their world view when reality fails to cooperate. Worse, I understand the people of Greece are prone to indulge such falsehoods, which doesn't bode well for their post-Euro future.

Covering your weapons in mirrors is stupid and impractical. The "just put mirrors on everything LOLZ" trope your kind always trots out doesn't become more feasible just because you're naive enough to keep repeating it.

Defense is always more expensive that offence. It's easier to break things. That's why being wealthy is important to self preservation.

Hillary et al tell us we deserve more bennies and the "rich" need to pay their "fair share"... and the rest is so much noise from the `vast right wing conspiracy' that goes in one ear and out the other. As long you can stand there and tell people they deserve things they know they don't you can do anything you want. All else is forgiven.

Go ahead obummer, veto it. Your low information constituency is oblivious in any case, but at least you can have your spokesfuck tell us how you protected us from the evil capitalist pigdogs.

Good thing the brilliant Great Leaders of Argentina banned gold trading almost three years ago. No wonder their economy is the pride of South America. They've applied their benevolent justice to thwart every scheme those dirty capitalists have attempted!

You're exhibiting some reading comprehension problems.

Google has not stated that outside contributors must not use exceptions. They declare:

The "We" in that is inclusive. Google themselves "do not use C++ exceptions." They also elaborate on exactly why they themselves do not use exceptions.

There is no reason to interpret the Mozilla policy as applying only to outside submissions either. Unless, of course, this is not to your liking and you invent fictional reasons.

Cite some. How you know this about non-publicly facing policies is an interesting question.... but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt if you do, remembering that others around here might call you on it if your claims aren't correct.

And Microsoft doesn't count. They've integrated their deviant compiler with their proprietary OS according to their own questionable design and vertical implementation.