Drones! Or, as they are affectionately called, "Flying Killer Robots!" Apparently they are coming soon to American airspace and they will fix everything , from pollution in Nebraska to checking out pirates to fighting fires! So what is NOT to like about domestic drones, maybe that's the better question! Except for the tiny little problem of them being completely vulnerable to hacking and hijacking by colleges students, that’s all, just a tiny problem, nothing to worry about.
So all of a sudden Fox is <em>concerned</em> about flying death robots? Does that have anything to do with the occupancy of the White House, perchance?
BTW, comparing a drone to a fully-fueled widebody passenger airliner, as that article implicitly does, is patently ridiculous.
Uh, vast, vast difference between the unencrypted &quot;public&quot; GPS feed this drone was using, and the encrypted military GPS feed a Predator or Global Hawk uses.
Also a lot greater likelihood that Predator and Global Hawk have some kind of algorithm for detecting that someone&#039;s fucking with their GPS and ignoring it.
Derrick brought up a good point... &quot;The best part is that they are all Pakistani and Israeli students. &quot;
This got me to thinking. Since these nerdlings are going to wind up dogfighting their drones in the Middle East anyway, why not save billions upon billions of dollars and just settle our disagreements with Call of Duty, MS Combat Flight Simulator, or hell...World of Warcraft?
Yeah. Also note that the entire thing is <em>pure</em> speculation:
<blockquote>However. For that scenario to work, the drone&rsquo;s GPS unit would have to be programmed to use the C/A code in the event the P(Y) code becomes unavailable.</blockquote>
No evidence that&#039;s the case. Having worked in the past on military projects, especially knowing that the attitude towards drones is that they&#039;re disposable and flying them means losing them, the likelihood that someone would think to program a fallback to unencrypted in a scenario that is <em>vastly</em> more likely to happen because of enemy action than anything else (the odds that you&#039;d naturally lose the L1 P(Y) signal but still be able to get the C/A signal on the same frequency? very close to zero) is vanishing. Dozens of people need to be fired if that happened.
Personally, I&#039;m going with Humphrey&#039;s second explanation for the damaged underbelly.
I dunno...the helicopter looked more like an off-the-shelf kind you could buy at radio shack. I&#039;d be interested to see them hack an actual Predator or Global Hawk. I&#039;m betting they could, but they&#039;d need more electronic mojo to do it.
It got to Godwin&#039;s Law 0.84 seconds after becoming self-aware.
Send in the drones There ought to be drones Forget it, they&#039;re here.
So all of a sudden Fox is <em>concerned</em> about flying death robots? Does that have anything to do with the occupancy of the White House, perchance?
BTW, comparing a drone to a fully-fueled widebody passenger airliner, as that article implicitly does, is patently ridiculous.
Uh, vast, vast difference between the unencrypted &quot;public&quot; GPS feed this drone was using, and the encrypted military GPS feed a Predator or Global Hawk uses.
Also a lot greater likelihood that Predator and Global Hawk have some kind of algorithm for detecting that someone&#039;s fucking with their GPS and ignoring it.
Awkard!
Derrick brought up a good point... &quot;The best part is that they are all Pakistani and Israeli students. &quot;
This got me to thinking. Since these nerdlings are going to wind up dogfighting their drones in the Middle East anyway, why not save billions upon billions of dollars and just settle our disagreements with Call of Duty, MS Combat Flight Simulator, or hell...World of Warcraft?
Yeah. Also note that the entire thing is <em>pure</em> speculation:
<blockquote>However. For that scenario to work, the drone&rsquo;s GPS unit would have to be programmed to use the C/A code in the event the P(Y) code becomes unavailable.</blockquote>
No evidence that&#039;s the case. Having worked in the past on military projects, especially knowing that the attitude towards drones is that they&#039;re disposable and flying them means losing them, the likelihood that someone would think to program a fallback to unencrypted in a scenario that is <em>vastly</em> more likely to happen because of enemy action than anything else (the odds that you&#039;d naturally lose the L1 P(Y) signal but still be able to get the C/A signal on the same frequency? very close to zero) is vanishing. Dozens of people need to be fired if that happened.
Personally, I&#039;m going with Humphrey&#039;s second explanation for the damaged underbelly.
Soon, there will be large outlets for all your drone and drone-component needs: Virgin Megastores.
You also have to wonder about the kind of person who would dedicate <em>so much</em> of their time to something they say sucks.
I think it&#039;s time the gubmint got out of the way of our 2nd Amendment rights!
Ohhhhh...good point. The folks that really run things won&#039;t stand for this.
See. We have nothing to fear from Skynet.
Big deal. The Tea Party took over Mitt Romney&#039;s programming a couple years ago.
It&#039;s going to get pretty crowded up there.
I dunno...the helicopter looked more like an off-the-shelf kind you could buy at radio shack. I&#039;d be interested to see them hack an actual Predator or Global Hawk. I&#039;m betting they could, but they&#039;d need more electronic mojo to do it.