> ...when the enemy begins targeting them directly

And at that point, the civilian population will realise what a really bad idea drone warfare is. It's all rosy whilst running an unequal contest, blowing up a bunch of Taliban with little ability to fight back. If an enemy with the ability to fight back is engaged, bombs will start falling on the drone pilots, and the civilian population will realise that drone warfare has turned them into human shields.

The Pentagon has posted a really interesting video, about the process that they use to manufacture these medals.

For low bit rate voice (down to 1400bit/s) you can use codec2.

The background to this project is that a newly elected government held a big "vox poluli" talk fest called 2020, which was to lay out a "big vision" for Australia. A result was the announcement of $50 million funding for a bionic eye project. It's entirely possible that there is an element of "gung ho" about it in that a large chunk of money was laid down for a project that made politicians look good and was easy for the public to understand.

Having said that, there are some pretty smart people involved. As an Australian taxpayer, I'd hope that they are aware for the problems you raise and, given the grandness of the project, would plan on addressing such tough, tough problems. Given your area of expertise, maybe you should contact them? There might be some pretty exciting work to be done in collaboration?

In the final version, they plan on having an external camera, and stimulating the optical nerve. Presumably this bypasses the retina (or are the retina and optical nerve the same thing? I'm no expert.) Does this sound feasible? The background to this project is that it builds on previous work in Australia, on cochlea implants.

I concur. MSBuild is shit. sources and dirs forever. I like to know what I'm linking into my binaries - if they would just fix manifest generation and c# build stuff in the public version, I'd have a very hard time even sympathizing for msbuild folks.

The compiler at least through and after Windows 7 was most definitely a msft compiler. I'm actually really surprised at this claim. Why do you think all the MSFT devs are stuck in C89?

The executive is pretty much unrestricted in how it chooses to deal with classified information, since that's where the ability to classify stuff comes from.

Watch the entire video. They attacked people attempting to help the wounded, as well.

Have a read of Manna, by Marshall Brain ( How Stuff Works founder). It predicts workers being managed by computers, then extrapolates the results. The results aren't pretty.

By a company called Radiata, bought by Cisco in 2000. Radiata was a spin off from a Macquarie University/CSIRO research collaboration, founded by the research leaders at Macquarie University (Skellern and Weste). Here's a picture of the MU/CSIRO protype, taken around 1996. I know this because I (and 3 others) designed and built the pictured prototype.

Huh - sure enough they now leverage the compiler from outside the WDK.

I sure as shit wouldn't pay for Visual Studio. I guess it's time for some other compilers to step up!

It's worth noting that Visual Studio wasn't always free.

More to the point, though, I doubt they're going to stop shipping the WDK, and that DOES include a C compiler. I hope you like nmake, though!

But:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Rupert+Murdoch+and+Doctor+Frank-N-Furter

has 41,500 hits. What's that say?

Yeah. You definitely gotta shop around in order to find good deals, but they are out there. I've had had particularly good experience in Canada, actually, for stuff that will normally get you chucked out of a datacenter in the US.