Posts by Haku

V for Vendetta, 1984 etc.

Human population under the thumb of oppressive overbearing regimes.

Oh, sorry, you wanted films predicting the future not the present.

Military helicopter & drone collision over Staten Island, US (Sept 21, 2017)

http://abc7ny.com/drone-hits-military-chopper-over-staten-island-/2443487/ (note: contains autoplay video of the story)

The picture of the broken off drone arm that struck the heli appears to be that from a DJI Phantom.

Not good news for us drone fliers when something like this happens.

Wait, what?

Dyson are going to build something with an electric motor that doesn't produce noise on a decibel level close to that of a jet airliner from a few meters away?

Naaah, I'll believe it when I (don't) hear it!

Bionic dogs.

I've witnessed enough dogs barking & chasing drones to realise there's potential there, we just need to find those dogs that like chasing them and give them bionic upgrades - mechanical legs that are able to run at 50 mph and jump small buildings, titanium jaws & teeth and a sonic bark that knocks out electronics.

Uber articles are like busses.

You wait for one story to come along and suddenly you're deluged with half a dozen of em!

Probe related story?

We should start calling them Moon River stories, after that scene in Fletch.

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission.

Asking for forgivness needs to be more difficult, then people & corporations wouldn't get away with so much underhanded crap.

It's the "up to" part of the reward offer that will make sure those who have discovered the bugs for their own personal gain through selling patches, won't be telling DJI how those patches do their thing.

If they sell the derestriction patch for say $200 then they only need to get 150 customers and they've matched the maximum $30k bounty offer, after that they're laughing.

So now they'll only post fake news for the lulz or propaganda instead of financial gain?

Yeah, that'll work out just fine.

"Boffins from New York University have posed that question in a paper at arXiv, and come up with the disturbing conclusion that machine learning can be taught to include backdoors, by attacks on their learning data."

Oh, you mean like in the old 1980 sci-fi film Saturn 3? And probably several others I can't name right now.

"ultrasonic tracking"

Just read up about it - holy shit! What a bunch of evil scumbags those marketing / advertising people are!

"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing…kill yourself. It’s just a little thought; I’m just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day they’ll take root – I don’t know. You try, you do what you can.

(Kill yourself.)"

-- Bill Hicks - full tirade youtube.com/watch?v=GaD8y-CGhMw

"...but we like totally didn't use it"

Aaa

AAAaaa

AAAAAACHOOOOO!!!

I'm sorry about that, I have a bullshit allergy.

"You can't modify or repair the devices you use."

There's a worrying trend in technology where the manufacturer/creator is doing its level best to stop you actually owning the product you paid them for.

Case in point is the gaming industry where there's an increase in high priced games that contain no physical copy inside the box, just a download code, so you can't sell it on when you've completed it / got bored of it.

Companies like CEX must also be a little worried about this.

I hear some of the side effects to this dance biscuit are:

Bloated ego.

Orange skin.

Decreased capability of understanding basic science.

Inability to distinguish between white supremacists and their opposition.

Talking bollocks.

It looks like they were quite desparate to pin something on him, judging by the last paragraph:

"Previously, FBI agents had tried claiming Hutchins might try obtaining firearms to commit crimes, based solely on his having tweeted about visiting a shooting range in Las Vegas – a common tourist pastime in Sin City."

Talk about clutching at straws!

Hey if he tweets "Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America.", will he get kicked out instead? You know, like those boneheads at Homeland Security did to some Brits a few years back - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/30/tweet_deportation/

"These images will be retained for the purposes of analysis of this project only and will not be speculatively searched or disseminated for any purpose."

*sniff* *sniff*

Eww, something smells.

*checks under shoes*

Nope, not there, the smell must be coming from that statement.

I remember holidaying at that beach.

Though my memories are a little vague because I was 7 at the time, and that was a long time ago.

But it was a good holiday, and there was the time we went on a coach tour that went round the narrow roads on the mountain, and some idiot crashed into the back wheel, of which I was sat right above.

Their Citroen was written off, the coach only needed a new hubcap :)

We've got modern technology now, how about an official bong app?

One in which the loudness is directly proportional to the proximity of the real bell.

Although, once the real bell starts working again, everyone's bell ends.

"Happy" or "Ignorant"?

You can often substitute those two words with each other without changing the meaning of the statement/sencence etc. Look:

"70% of Windows 10 users are totally ignorant with our big telemetry slurp, beams Microsoft"

Still works.

Whilst we're on the subject of food stuff from Morrisons.

I do like their bread from their closest store to me, I vastly prefer it over the offerings from Sainsburys & Tesco, namely because it's denser so when I cut a good 2cm thick slab off a loaf it doesn't cave in or disintigrate when I spread butter from the fridge on it.

To me it's worth going 4 miles to there for that bread than 1 mile to the other major stores.