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Taser maker offers electric-shock drones to stop school shootings

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Re: World V USA

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”

Tom Clancy - bizarrely enough, I'd love to think that Clancy was actually an ironic comedic writer rather than a CIA based AI.

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Tripwires and claymores might be more effective.

Why do you think they have "this side toward enemy" printed on them? Obviously aimed at the educational market.

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Re: NRA accepts need for new legislation

I don't mind hunters as long as they clean and eat what they shoot.

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In the UK you can own a tank with a shotgun license.

But we have remarkably few tank based school shootings.

This could be the ultimate anti-NRA tactic, every gay pride parade is led by a pink tank and massed ranks of drag queens with pink AR-15s

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One of the Dalai Llama's less popular t-shirt slogans

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Re: And the problem continues to be

But in the past it was impractical to go around measuring everyone's skull with calipers - now with omnipresent cameras and AI we can do physiognomy cheaply and efficiently

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Re: And the problem continues to be

>So, your government doesn't trust its cops either, huh?

No, that's why we have a couple of regiments of elite guards units surrounding the head of state, although sometimes an illegal immigrant ursine predator does get past them.

But we avoid the problem of a bunch of nut-jobspatriots attempting to break in and hang the vice prime-minister by a cunning plan of nobody knowing or caring who he, or she, is.

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Re: World V USA

America isn't real - it's a scripted reality show shot on a film stage.

That's why when you visit LA or NY or Florida it looks like a film set or theme park - that's all there is.

Although I will admit they did rather 'jump the shark' with the 2016-2020 season

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Re: Another cause of mass shootings -

>If US politicians cared about the lives of babies

They care about controlling women.

If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament

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Re: death-dealing robots, et. al.

Just to be clear Joe Biden didn't kill Kennedy - he missed, because he allowed for the Coriolis effect not realising that the world is flat.

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Re: Or as a gun nut friend

"but I need a 50BMG sniper rifle for home defence"

Perhaps if you are some sort of pathetic liberal

I need 155mm for home defense - if those kids in the next town play their music too loud

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Re: less than the cost of one armed guard

>But where do we find all those "one armed guards"

AtoS here - you only need 1 finger to pull a trigger: approved for work

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Re: And the problem continues to be

>If anyone has a good solution to identify all violent and potentially violent people

They play computer games and listen to that sinful rock music.

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Re: death-dealing robots, et. al.

>How do these people get into schools? Mine has keycard controlled doors

How did a kid get into a small town school in Texas?

Inconceivable - he must be Chuck Norris or a cyber-ninja assassin programmed by Bill Gates and George Soros to drop from a stealth black helicopter on wires like Tom Cruise in MI.

Or same way that Joe Biden got into the Texas Book depository to shoot Kennedy - nobody actually locks doors and door locks on small town schools vary slightly from those on missile silos or bank vaults.

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Re: Another cause of mass shootings -

There was a historical bloke who tried to suggest alternative behavior to this

- but he got nailed to a tree

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Re: less than the cost of one armed guard

>More importantly, what is the profit margin for the supplier?

Pay-Per-Victim

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Re: death-dealing robots, et. al.

>yells at them via precorded voice to stop (or something -- it was in Korean, which I don't understand),

Possible flaw in the plan there

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>Taser should embed auto-targeting tasers into the walls of all US schools - preventing running in corridoors,

I prefer the giant rolling stone ball

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Re: A Modest Proposal For Solving Gun Violence

With New York removing the last of it's phone booths it could replace them with Suicide Booths (tm)

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Precisely, lots of other countries have nukular weapons but only the US used them.

So obviously having nuclear weapons isn't the issue

Therefore everyone should have the right to nukes - the 2nd amendment just says "bear arms" (*), it doesn't specify any limits.

(* an unfortunate bit of bad hand writing has led to a couple of centuries of unpleasantness when the founders just wished Americans to have a tasty treat comparable to Beaver Tails)

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Re: One of the reasons so many Americans are pro-gun

>It's the only thing that will avoid making Idiocracy a documentary.

The one where the celebrity president facing an environmental disaster seeks out the smartest man in the world to solve it ?

If only .....

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ED-209

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Re: NRA accepts need for new legislation

Why ?

Every time there is a school shooting, there is an outcry for gun restrictions. The gun owners and Fox 'News' viewers all run out and panic buy more guns and ammo.

School shootings are great for gun makers/the NRA

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Or just install ED-209 in every school

Microsoft delays next Exchange Server release to 2025

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Re: Well thank Satan for that.

It's the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. Plague, War, Recession and then Exchange Server updates

Higher spec machines lift US PC revenues 40% even as shipments drop

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Re: Elephant in the room...

Companies aren't going to roll out Windows11 for at least another year - we certainly aren't.

Home users aren't buying new machines this year, with Win11 or not, because they all bought new laptops to work from home last year.

Compute responsibly: Yet another IT industry sustainability drive

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IBM

See we aren't making older expensive works redundant, we are merely recycling them

Microsoft: You own the best software keyboard there is. Please let us buy it

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Android

Other than stopping Apple have a complete monopoly on mobile - do Microsoft actually care about Android, or mobile generally ?

Sony launches a space laser subsidiary (for comms, not conflict)

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Re: So Sony wants to fire lasers at satellites

As long as they do it from a volcano lair

Starlink's success in Ukraine amplifies interest in anti-satellite weapons

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Re: Success in Ukraine? PR maybe

A cynical el'reg reader ?

Not at all a slight on Ukraine, just like in a previous conflict it was important to persuade American public opinion to keep the materiel flowing - in that case with Powel&Pressburger movies and David Niven

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Re: Success in Ukraine? PR maybe

Ukraine's ability to prosecute the war doesn't depend on secure command&control links between military units.

It depends on meme-worthy videos of tractors capturing tanks being uploaded to Tik-Tok, featuring on American breakfast TV and the US public not getting bored.

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Re: The internet is two way

>you'd blat the easily located civilian infrastructure underpinning the network on the ground,

They have satellite-satellite links, you only need an individual satellite to be in view of a ground station for optimal bandwidth.

blatting a ground station in a nearby NATAO country might lead to a serious self-own for the blatter

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Re: Physical destruction not practical

But you ping times are going to go up - if you are first-person shooter gaming in the war zone

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Re: Would ground/plane based laser be effective ?

>so the immense cloud of debris the destruction would create wouldn't be likely to affect other spacecraft.

Unless you use explosives to inconvenience the target - at which point half the debris goes into higher orbits.

If you can arrange to disable them with a hammer then they will safely remain in the same low orbit.

Police lab wants your happy childhood pictures to train AI to detect child abuse

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Re: Odd...

Because they need to train a system to determine what a happy child looks like. If your child doesn't like that then you are obviously abusing them - even if no picture of the abuse exists.

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Re: I’m quite old

Is that why tik-tok videos do that ?

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Re: If their "happy" images can't include nudity

'Primitive' women are those that can be shown topless on a magazine cover in a school library without the PTA having a fit of the vapours.

It would be an interesting experiment to determine exactly how 'primitive' they had to be before the AI determined that librarian was to go on a government list.

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Re: Efficiency?

So logically put a gun in all your photos of children and they will be approved

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Re: Australia

Australia - an imaginary country where even the bunny rabbits are venomous and the politicians can overrule the laws of Mathematics

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Re: Nudity = child sex abuse now?

And we need to roll this proven successful program out to your computer at home, and we need to block all that foreign internet - we have Murdoch News (tm) what more information do true patriotic Australians need ?

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Re: The great trust pairing

>The AI then identifies all pictures of non-whites as child abuse.

But this is Australia so that won't be a problem

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The great trust pairing

Police and Government AI

Dear Europe, here again are the reasons why scanning devices for unlawful files is not going to fly

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Re: we signed up to the UN convention of the rights of a child

As long as it doesn't stop British 'children' joining the army at 16

Engineer sues Amazon for not covering work-from-home internet, electricity bills

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>our Jura filled with organic Yirgacheffe

Assuming one of those is the name of your baby (from context hopefully the first)

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I remember when private car parking spots were a taxable benefit - so the names on the spots were removed. BUT everyone knew that the CEO/CFO parked by the door, and heaven help anyone that parked in 'their' spot

New York to get first right-to-repair law for electronics

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It's not about phones

Car makers have a problem. Car dealers don't make money on new sales, they make it all on servicing and trade-ins. Electric cars don't need servicing,

Traditional car makers need a way of locking you into their dealer network permanently.

So arrange that the software is only available to dealers, and the license to the software in your car doesn't transfer with the car.

You now have a choice. Trade in your car to the dealer to buy this years model - or try and sell a used car that can't start because the engine management software is locked because it didn't get a 'security' update.

46 years after the UN proclaimed the right to join a union, Microsoft sort of agrees

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Re: Personal experience

Or UK print unions before Murdoch / Wapping

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