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Comment Re:Scary as hell (Score 1) 346

Tiny drones lack range, though

True, which is why Ukraine has developed "mother" drones that carry smaller drones into the theater of battle. They have also deployed cargo container type boxes full of drones, that not only got the drones geographically close to their target, but also served as a communication and charging hub for them near their targets.

Comment Not specific to Steam (Score 1) 26

I feel like this is an excuse to do away with physical gift cards to save money. If the "scamming" is primarily just a method of moving money, then ANY other gift cards for any other services can be used. This includes debit gift cards, Walmart gift cards, on and on.

Unless someone knows how this is only specific to Steam in some way?

Comment Scary as hell (Score 4, Insightful) 346

This should scare the hell out of most everyone, as this is really about as bad as biological warfare. Just to put some numbers in perspective, China produces around 40 million drones annually. Consider how easy it would be to produce, say, one million drones that include an explosive device. Since these drones are autonomous the usual methods of interfering with their RF, or even for fiber controlled drones, the cutting of the fiber cable by a powerful laser, will do nothing.

This is the future, and it will revolutionize warfare. Pure volume of drones can defeat anything we currently have to defend against them. You just send a swarm of drones, or a drone one after another after another spaced 10 seconds apart, until whatever they are targeting has been destroyed. 10k drones targeting the US's ports on both coasts... destroy the bulk of imports and exports. 10k drones targeting tractors and other agricultural equipment in the US's breadbasket - famine. Really, it's hard to understate what these could potentially do.

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