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.

Because at the time you never had to do that for any other drive type. Floppies, cds, and even hard drives were able to be removed without damage.

With this attitude, we are never getting our flying cars. I'm starting to think The Jetsons was fiction.

"More human than human" is our motto.

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.

My company sold appliances that used zipdrives as part of the update process. Trust me it was significantly higher than 0.5% of drives. It would eventually happen to any drive that was used on a regular basis. Or one that sat in a box unused long enough, Or one that was used on a semiregular basis. That is to say, it happened to any drive, regardless of how it was treated. We're just lucky that we shipped these with hardrives that were surprisingly much much less reliable. So people were too busy complaining about the hard drive failures to complain about the zip drive issues. But if you asked, they'd be like oh yeah the zip drive failed too.

Eh, no it does not. I bought a lifetime subscription to Musicmatch Jukebox. Where the hell is that now, Yahoo? I want a version that works on windows 11, dang it.

Did you ever use it side by side on a computer that also had Netscape or Ie on it? It was worth paying for one, it was painfully slow.

Okkkay..Well now you have. Adjust your memory correctly. Browsers weren't free initially. Yes, people paid for them. That was the whole juice behind the Netscape IPO. It was as you may well know, Microsoft who started giving away the inferior, but free internet explorer which caused Netscape to do so and basically lose their main revenue stream.

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.

Minidisc is a true Magneto-Optical drive and is very very cool technology, but unfortunately Sony really strangled the shit out of it in the name of copyright enforcement. There were a couple of models of PC interface, but you couldn't do audio with them. The audio devices didn't allow doing high speed copies, and would respect the copyright bit. If you were a nerd you could get the decoder and encoder chips and just not connect that pin (srsly) and strip out protection but you couldn't just buy a device like that off the now ubiquitous usual suspects^Wservices because they didn't yet exist :)