Probably inevitable at this point. Killer robots seem to be the future.

All good ideas. Would be very frightening to be on the ground during that though. Just personally kind of a nightmare of mine.

Yeah it would be a really interesting thing to have a robot that figures out peoples motives. Be very useful in close combat I guess.

Well the Tacit Rainbow project used very small jet engines I believe. I think that was sort of a big problem with that project in the 80s, the actual loiter time was much less than what was advertised so they did. But now drones loiter for 14 hours fully loaded, so I think the game has changed.

So hack into their networks and tell their missiles to shoot down their own planes. They would probably have some kind of human in the loop system to try and defeat that. So you launch an initial wave of decoy drones that look the same as the attack drones but cost a fraction. Then you watch their networks to find their command and control. You take out the command and control and hack into their networks and either cause the missiles to fire at their own aircraft or just fire without a target at all and they quickly run out of ammo.

This seems like a good idea to counter the advancements in Russian anti-aircraft missiles. Seeing as how they have come quite a long way it would make sense to use drone swarms to make their life a nightmare. I think the USAF was trying to do the same thing with the tacit rainbow project. Where B-52s would release large numbers of drone like anti-radar missiles that would loiter over the battlefield near suspected anti-aircraft units.

The minute they turn on their radars, BAM, they would have large numbers of drones just seconds away from their unlucky ass. This would turn the job into having to counter the incoming swarm of drones AND then firing missiles at the manned fighters, making a unit that wants to stay mobile pretty much useless because it wouldn't be able to counter the number of targets with a portable amount of missiles (ammo).

I will agree about the tools sentiment. That is where I have picked up a ton useful stuff from Stackoverflow. Check out this tool or check this obscure piece of documentation.

No its just a natural tendency, I wouldn't totally condemn those that do it. But the tendency is there if you don't struggle to solve something, and just grab ready made answers. Cargo cult type characteristics.

Struggle up to a certain point. I had an algorithms professor who said, "spend 30 minutes on a problem", then when/if you get to a dead end after 30 minutes...
Doesn't mean "don't try this problem because this looks hard". Do try, but don't run around in circles.

1. Often leads to mixed up styles and programs that are spottily documented.
2. Tons of example code does little to no error checking.
3. Plus many times when I clean up from example code programmers they haven't really stepped through the new code very well. They get in a hurry meeting the insane deadlines they feed to business and fuck up.
4. Do you really understand something if you cheat on it? How do you really know what you know and don't know if you can't do it yourself (this a serious fucking problem, very few people can truly estimate what they do and do not know) ? That is like saying, why do all of the homework that has been solved before.
5. Leads to the "Then why not use libraries for everything" kind of mentality that we have at my work.

Fair point. If you buy a piece of crap cell phone or change sims it would be hard to pick up on that unless they go through mainstream channels.

The NYPost even brags about their ability to do just that.

  "A good headline kicks you in the eyeballs." NYPost ad

This is about investigator laziness, disregard for law abiding citizens privacy, and expanding power bases for the police, FBI, etc.... What you won't hear until well after the authorities make a power grab are the mistakes of the investigators to use the existing powers they have to foil or stop the plot.

Warrants and limitations on investigative powers are paramount to keeping the rule of law in place. While I can understand streamlining existing warrant procedures to make them more responsive. Such as changing wire taps to follow a person instead of be limited to a selected phone. The powers that be pushed for MUCH more than that. And congress encouraged this behavior in a number of ways, they wrote a blank check after 9/11 for the NSA, FBI, homeland sec for any thing they wanted to "prevent the next 9/11". So in a time of great austerity for many social programs, space, sciences, many agencies and 3rd parties were flush with money to pursue anything they fucking wanted.

Those who want to wear the gold chains but don't want the little people, without the gold chains, noticing their gold chains.

I am not rich, but I certainly have bought shit to fill the whole in what was my personal life. Fill the fucking whole and you won't need a team of therapists that cater to rich people problems (Most likely so that they can have rich people problems of their own). You won't need someone to make you feel good about the fact that you spend money on buying stupid shit to make up for your personal problems.

I also have rich relatives. They are miserable and empty to be around, I would rather spend the holidays at a waffle house with my immediate family who are middle class than in their huge empty mansion.

But those want to defund the FAA so they can put a SCRAM necklace on every fetus.

People in the states sleep rough in far greater numbers than in europe

We would all be thinner too if you could just walk a bit more. Sitting on your ass in AC and only walking to and from the car is not how humans were designed to live. Otherwise we wouldn't get so many damn health problems from sedentary inactive lifestyles.