You don't have the courage to say that to someone even on Slashdot, let alone face to face, coward.

And you expose your true self... as a selfish prick.

They already can't drop the package onto a covered porch the way they're operating now, unless they're doing it as a bombing run and calculating the arc so as to miss any roof over it...

I have all you have plus children on minibikes, quads, and sometimes lawn tractors, and people sawing up stumps with a chainsaw at the tree service less than a block away. The owner drops them off there so poor people in the neighborhood can get some nice wet firewood to choke us all with. I'd barely notice a drone dropping a package off on my roof from ten feet above it, let alone in my yard.

If you mean using SMARTDRV you could theoretically ctrl-alt-del and then shut it off, as it was supposed to flush buffers when you did that. For anyone else's solution, no clue.

It could also be hidden from Wingdings or... (wait for it) ...Impact.

If the animal is hidden from view then it's irrelevant to this discussion since the drone only can react to what it can sense.

The AGI won't need to identify us. It doesn't even need to keep score. All it needs to know is see human, shoot human.

But it isn't. It's easy enough to use stereo vision to measure the distance to an object and then determine whether or not it could get into the drop zone even if it started moving at top speed with no acceleration time. Also, if it was "worried" it wouldn't drop things from such a height.

Ask your city managers to prohibit drones.

Drones are dangerous. We have heard of only a few serious accidents. If drone delivery continues, there will be many more accidents, including a package delivered by a drone hitting someone.

It would mean that there's an 83% chance that the rest of us would be spared from more posts expounding on your silly line of reasoning.

If that's the case, the next time you play Russian roulette, why don't you go ahead and put in 5 bullets?

If what you say is true, then why is everyone freaking out over the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons?

*That* depends on the movie. Some movies NEED to be long, others need to be cut. But making each movie the same length is a really bad idea. (E.g. I saw a version of War and Peace that was so long it ran in two days. It didn't need to be cut, but the break was necessary.)

They came out here first, at a time when they were still useful. CDRWs were very expensive and/or slow. Most of the old ones were SCSI, and most people didn't have a SCSI interface in their PC. As I was a nerd with a Unix and Unixlike background I did, and my employer kicked down a Philips CDD521 with the 2x upgrade that they had been using to write masters and had only recently obsoleted with a 4x Plextor. This is sometimes said to have been the first CD writer, but I think I read somewhere that there was a Sony drive first that came only in a rack mount case.