When encryption is outlawed, only the outlaws use encryption.

Might be even better if like a chameleon it had some lcd panels that could give off the average color of whatever it's trying to blend with. In the video, it looks extremely invisible against a gray background, because the drone is grayish. But it's not that great against a green background. If it could change to green, or to white, or to black, depending on the background, it would be excellent.

Also, we already a form of invisibility. It's called cover of darkness, and operating at night. Most stealth ops prefer the night for that reason. But it's not always feasible, because while you're more invisible at night, so too are all your enemies. Daytime lets you see your enemies, which is good, and this motion blur effect provides a good asymmetry where you can stay invisible while the enemy is not. They'll just have an ambient some of hundreds of whirling motors, but can't pinpoint any in the cacophony.

I hate to say it, but Microsoft has a reasonable approach with their planned disc-to-digital system. All the benefits of physical discs: visiting a friend's house with the disc, selling the disc, plus all the benefits of a digital license: can run on a handled and other diskless systems. The idea that "the last account where the disc was used" would be the licensed owner gives a lot of flexibility, and the 2 biggest are going to a friend's house or traveling with a handheld.

Of course, the devil's in the fine print. Let's see how their revocation system works for games using a 7-year music license. Steam has a good policy that if you own the game, they won't revoke it due to license lapses; but Steam also sucks in that you can't just take a disc to a friend's house -- they have to log into your steam account (which isn't the end of the world). But Steam won't sell the game once its licenses to content expire. And *many* games these days are cutting costs by licensing music for only a few years instead of in perpetuity. I don't know, yet, how Microsoft will deal with that. If they revoke your game once it's infringing on IP due to a lapsed music license, then it's crap.

I think folks with multiple personalities or talking voices / thoughts are basically multitasking. Their brain is acting like multiple independent mini-brains.

The more that centralized AI turns into crippleware, it will allow local AI to flourish. Even if open models are not as good, the mere fact they won't be crippled will make them better in many use-cases.

Up to $7 bn, the same way I get up to 100 Mbps. It's always one-tenth of the advertised figure.

I'd love if we'd confuse everyone by also creating a www TLD. Maybe also a http and https TLDs.

You need say "Warp". OS/2 Warp.

5-digit slashdot id or shorter is old man territory! /s

Another loophole is to outsource to private contractors. The state/city/municipality still gets their sweet delicious federal funding, and their private contractor does the dirty work of running the license plate readers.

Another loophole is to feign ignorance. Most states and cities operate under the protocol of "if we're not caught, then it's not illegal" (of course, this only applies to THEM not to YOU). So they can keep doing surveillance, but clandestine. And just never use it as admissible evidence in court. But they can continue to use it for investigation and tracking, but deny it. And they're willing to risk this tripwire approach to legal theory because all state and city officials operate under qualified immunity, or even total immunity. So there's never any consequences if they're caught after the fact of violating the law. They get a slap on the wrist, and told to stop doing it.

I get DOS'd often. I have an email address that is very a common name, and people when drunk THINK it's their email address and attempt to "recover password" too many times until my account is locked. It happens about once a month, and is very annoying.

Because China values North Korea as a buffer state between it and South Korea. And China is a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council.

East Germany unified with West Germany because of the Soviet Union's acquiescence. And the USSR, now Russia, is also a veto-wielding permanent member of the UN Security Council. All 5 veto-wielding permanent members of the UNSC must agree before any planet-scale action is taken.

I don't see any wording in the law to provide a gap between successive 5s ads, so companies are free to just string together 20 of these 5s ads and capture you for 100 seconds.

Legal code is like Software code. Intentionally leaving backdoors in it means it was theatre all along.

Your nerd pass is hereby rescinded.

So, let me get this straight.. The TVs will monitor you. But the monitors won't monitor you. Brilliant!