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New Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized Drones (404media.co) 60

Posted by BeauHD from the sign-of-the-times dept.
A draft New Orleans Police Department drone manual briefly published online would have allowed police drones to carry weapons with written approval from the superintendent, according to 404 Media. NOPD says the document was only an early draft and that its current policy (PDF) bans drones from carrying weapons or hazardous materials. 404 Media reports: The current version, live as of July 1, has different language: "The sUAS shall not be equipped with weapons or hazardous materials of any kind," referring to small Unmanned Aerial Systems, or drones. According to the NOPD, the operations manual it published to the internet with the rules for weaponized drones was an early draft. "The manual published on July 1 is the current published version of the policy. Earlier versions were draft versions that were presented for review before adoption of the current policy," NOPD told 404 media. "NOPD has made it clear we are not and will not be equipping drones with weapons or other hazardous materials."

NOPD didn't answer follow-up questions about how or why the draft version of the manual was published. But the publication of a police drone manual that opens the door for weaponized quadcopters is important, and comes as drone companies and police flirt with the idea of putting weapons on their drones. New Orleans has long been a pioneer of camera and drone driven policing and the cops have used controversial tactics to get around public scrutiny and regulations. It shows that what the police are circulating amongst themselves and thinking about privately, what they perhaps want to happen, does not match public policy.

Comment Skills shortage my ass (Score 2) 251

by Demonix (#66235932) Attached to: America May Soon Be Facing Largest Labor Shortage in Its History

Experience counts for nothing, certs count for nothing, achievements count for nothing; They either dont want to pay what the position is worth or they think you're too old to do the job.

If you're only going to hire people that have specific experience with your hacked together internal tools at 20% below average market of course you're gonna think you have a skills shortage.

What we really have is a leadership shortage.

Comment Re:Supergirl: a TikTok influencer with superpowers (Score 1) 172

by Demonix (#66215354) Attached to: 'Supergirl' Movie Criticized for Script, Poor Visual Effects

Judge Dredd was also 'propaganda' as you call it; it was an example of facism taken to a ludicrous extreme. This same example was taken even FURTHER than ludicrous w/ Marshall Law.

Thats not to say that they don't have merits; Comics like Judge Dredd, Maus, Tank Girl, et al. were entertaining reads that had room to tell stories to make you think a little deeper about the world around you while appreciating tank girl's missile bra or the artists rendition of a fight through an automated slaughterhouse.

Of course you have the same thing with american comics; DC is/was basically greek mythology stories, while marvel's X-men was a direct reference to the civil rights movement at the time.

One of the problem modern filmmakers/writers have is thinking that comic books are a genre of media and not a medium itself; They aren't adapting comics properly anymore. Marvel was doing it right until Disney took them over and the Spiderman/Venom movies are still getting it right (mostly).

If the Supergirl's writer really only has one writing credit to her name and was given this opportunity I'm chalking this up to another DEI failure.
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Kioxia and Dell Cram Nearly 10PB Into a Single 2U Server (nerds.xyz) 17

Posted by BeauHD from the high-density dept.
BrianFagioli writes: Kioxia and Dell Technologies say they have built a 2U server configuration capable of scaling to 9.8PB of flash storage, which is the sort of density that would have sounded impossible just a few years ago. The setup combines a Dell PowerEdge R7725xd Server with 40 Kioxia LC9 Series 245.76TB NVMe SSDs and AMD EPYC processors. According to Kioxia, matching the same capacity with more common 30.72TB SSDs would require seven additional servers and another 280 drives.

The companies are pitching the hardware squarely at AI and hyperscale workloads, where storage is rapidly becoming a bottleneck alongside compute. Kioxia claims the denser configuration can dramatically reduce power consumption and rack space requirements while remaining air cooled. The announcement also highlights how quickly enterprise storage capacities are escalating as organizations race to support larger AI models, massive datasets, and increasingly demanding data pipelines.

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