Comment Re:...But he said Please! (Score 3, Funny) 663
...and when it detects Ahmadinejad's voice print nearby it goes kaboom!
...and when it detects Ahmadinejad's voice print nearby it goes kaboom!
Dick Cheney has criticized Obama's handling of this incident, saying that he should have ordered an airstrike immediately to prevent the tech from falling into Iranian hands. Sounds pretty crazy to me.
Also, upon further reading it sounds like the designers may have purposely avoided sensitive cutting-edge technology due to the high probability of a single-engined UAV failing over enemy territory.
These drones do have a self-destruct as well as other "things are going wrong" modes. One of them is to just circle waiting for control communications to be re-established. Another one is an automatic safe landing mode. Some people suspect that this drone may have gone into auto landing mode which would explain why it appears undamaged. For such a sensitive device leading to such horrible PR if captured, I feel perhaps the self-destruct should be the default failure mode
However, having it just blow up in some civilian household would probably not be good PR either.
Wow, thanks so much for making me aware that there is a show called "Lady Hoggers." I have no opinion one way or the other, but the title alone made me smile when I searched and found out it was real.
All this proves is that more parents are reporting to daycare providers that their children deathly allergic to peanuts. I've heard it before. The question is whether the incidents of children who are truly that allergic to peanuts (to the point of coma) has increased or parents whose children have mild peanut allergies have been led to believe they are OMGDEATHLYSERIOUS or at least tell other people it is that severe.
King Crimson.
Please recycle the points, I don't want them.
Also, I recommend you name your firewall Discipline
They aren't exactly an open source company, but a company that has bought the prior commercial sponsors of open source packages. In many cases they then proceeded to bungle community interaction and knock some of the appeal off the original technologies among many decision makers.
Will they license/open this technology? Will they have to charge?
They better warm it up, we all are waiting.
But we're all slashdotters here,...
I'm not!
Yes.
Whatever n00bs, this whole "I have few friends" thread is lame.
I disagree. That "I'm not special enough to be a target" attitude makes sense if you are worried about targeted listening, but what about large scale data mining? Passing everything through a voice recognition package and then searching for keywords or patterns (not to mention patterns of contact) is not impossible.
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