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Comment Rapid Target Acquisition (Score 3, Informative) 126

... is a requirement for modern wars. Anti-swarm countermeasures. Imagine your AA system being overwhelmed by a coordinated simultaneous assault of 100+ AI-driven drones. Most of the drones are cheap fakes that carry no weapons. You have no idea which is which, you need to acquire and shoot down as many drones as you can, preferably all of them.

Allowing "those systems to help determine who lives and who dies" is never the goal.

Comment Re: Bike Lanes? (Score 1) 239

Oh, come on. There are LOTS of people that do not fit your world view.

What would you tell my friend having asthma? The guy cannot ride a bicycle to save his life but otherwise he's a young professional having a family of his own and living a normal life.

What, Europeans are immune, for instance, to chronic pulmonary diseases?

Comment Re: #pragma Has Its Place (Score 1) 82

The sudden death of one John Q. Public does not change the fact that he resided recently on Main St. 17 where his body was moved from to be buried somewhere else.

Please take care to find the definition of the value of a pointer in the document that you referred me to.

Do not treat standards, esp. a committee draft as Revelation for those are written by humans.

Errare humanum est, perseverare autem diabolicum.

Comment #pragma Has Its Place (Score 1) 82

Sometimes you just cannot escape someone else's mistakes. A case that I was called to deal with recently: GCC considers reading a pointer's value as `using' the pointer and starts yelling at the programmer as if the pointer is dereferenced. For instance, with that particular toolchain, invocation of free(3) followed by printing the address that was passed to free(3) triggered -Wuse-after-free.

Comment Re: Why isn't the headline 'Israeli Spyware'...? (Score 1) 19

It goes like this:
Slashdot: There's a hearing of Meta in the Senate, they cause harm to youth.
You: Meta is a U.S. company!
I: Everyone interested knows that Meta is a U.S. company and this information is irrelevant.
You: But U.S. shot up weddings in Afghanistan and targeted numerous villages in Vietnam! There is evidence!

There is no relation between U.S. wars (just or not)â"or its foreign policy in generalâ"and the questionable conduct of Meta unless one is absolutely sure that anything having any faintest connection to U.S., including its `common' civillian population of any background and walk of life, is inherently evil.

Do you honestly think that Israel and anything related to it is inherently evil? (I assume so.)

Now, by writing off any response of mine, before hearing it, as `excuses', you waived your right for any serious discussion with me. No problem, no response for you.

On the personal level, I give you a free advice (that you may or may not take, I do not care). Read up on cognitive bias (be prepared to read a lof, if you study the matter properly).

Bye-bye.

Comment Re:Why isn't the headline 'Israeli Spyware'...? (Score 1) 19

How about an attempt of keeping the discussion interesting and to the point while preventing turning comments into yet another shit creek --- by avoiding the attention of types that are easily triggered by the word `Israel', those that just cannot stand neutral or positive opinions about the country? You know, those that keep spreading unfounded, biased lies about it like `"targeting" doctors and journalists', `genocide' and other rubbish?

Slashdot readers that care about this item usually know quite well who NSO are. The word `Israeli' is simply noise to them. What about insisting that Microsoft must always be called `an American company Microsoft' or Apple `an American company Apple', huh? Slashdot readers also usually know quite well that NSO is a private enterprise and has no relation whatsoever to the government or to the people of Israel in general: the portion of Israelis that know at all who are NSO is below any significant resolution.

Comment Redistributable Time Savings? (Score 1) 62

How? If you and I save a second each, I cannot transfer the second that I saved to you. I, personally, need to save the amount of seconds it takes to deliver a package so that the new hot tech would have *any* justification (well, assuming that I am not a slave and my hours on the job are limited). Does the tech offset its operational cost?

Comment Re: So what happened on October 7th? (Score 1) 402

Well, you might seen photographs of Israeli soldiers in boxers because they jumped to defend their bases from their sleep between their shifts as guards. Not the first case in human history. They died with honour, as fighting soldiers - naked or not.

You may find footage that shows that, most often, soldiers that man reinforced positions with machine guns were taken out using RPGs or drones carrying explosives. None are small arms.

The real cause of comms breakdown was a SPoF that Hamas exploited - a cellular tower that bridged several systems (one of them was remote control of machine guns on the security fence).

Hamas' attack was carefully planned to be not only a wave of wanton murder and taking hostages but also a by-the-book military assault that targeted C2 first. This assault was performed by very different people than those that entertained themselves with shooting up dancing youths and sleeping children.

Just being curious: did you serve?

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