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    Anything but trying to solve the underlying problems. Bonus: someone makes bank.

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      There’s literally no number of children that can die before reasonable action is taken.

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        It’s not the number that matters, it’s whose kids it is getting killed. If someone were to shoot up a school filled with politicians’ kids you’ll see some change rapidly.

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          When a dude’s gettin’ bullied and shoots up his school

          And they blame it on Marilyn and the heroin

          Where were the parents at?

          And look where it’s at

          Middle America, now it’s a tragedy

          Now it’s so sad to see

          An upper-class city havin’ this happenin’…

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          but its less likely to happen since private schools tend to be in wealthy areas, and is probably gated up. and PRIVATE school admins/rich parents are very quick to get rid of “problem students” aka “quiet dismissal but not outright expulsion”, a public schools wont do that, unless it becomes serious. i was in a sub about youtube channels owner(used to follow who sent thier kid to a private school, he was forced to leave because he was displaying aggressive behaviour from seizure meds, and the school was pressuring/ostracizing the students to leave the school, last i heard the kid sits at home and does nothing.)

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        Pray for your drone overlords to suicide bomb the mentally disturbed with too many guns before it’s too late!

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        Just waiting for the reports of privacy violations, and noise issues, let’s just hope that’s as bad as this gets.

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      I actually saw a news segment on the demo, and they said they would be thrilled if they were able to put these in every classroom and never have to use it. Im sure you would, buddy…

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    ✅ Don’t fix the underlying program
    ✅ Give $557,000 to a miltech company
    We did it Patrick! We saved the city!

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    what a great use of tax dollars. I’m sure the super rich asshole who owns this drone company has no personal relationship with with the legislators supporting this BS whatsoever.

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    “If you’ve got something that’s preemptive, that’s immediate, that’s already there, you just can’t kill that many people in 10 to 15 seconds,” Marston said.

    That’s their bar? Killing people for up to 15 seconds That’s not so bad?

    How much you want to bet it’s using AI to determine who the shooter is. How much you want to bet is capable of false positives…

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      How much you want to bet is capable of false positives…

      Confidently wrong false positives, but only more than 60% of the time.

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      “The high-tech drones, which are piloted by a team of former military men and nationally ranked professional drone racers…”

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        former military men

        Cops.

        nationally ranked professional drone racers

        Jimmy is one of the cops’ kids and needed a job. He’s nationally ranked #2863883.

        Gotta learn to read between the bullshit 😁

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          Oh… They might log into their account for the remote piloting app, making the drone deploy within 15 seconds.

          But then they have to navigate the school manually and find the shooter. But have you ever tried to navigate a high school you’ve never set foot in before?

          The main building has three flores (2, 3 and 4), between 1990-2015 they added the A, B and C buildings. A and B are on a hill, so A only has floors 1 & 2, B has floors 3 & 4. You have to go through the science building to get to the C building. Last year they added the L building next to the track. Weirdly L is right next to A (but it’s shaped like an L) also it’s not physically connected to the rest of the buildings, you have to cross the courtyard. The science building doesn’t have a letter, but it’s next to the gym, you can’t miss it.

          Alright pilots, the shooter is in the M building pop up extension. Go get em.

          And a short 45 minutes it’s all over…

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      But on the upside the drone fleet will always be monitoring and collecting data as far away as their little robot eyes can see

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    drones can soar through school halls at 100 mph […] and can fly through double-paned glass

    Ah yes, let’s fly a deadly projectile through the hallway … maybe shatter some glass for extra shrapnel. What could go wrong?

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      It’s probably safer than other solutions that other countries have tried… Certainly safer than, say, banning firearms.

      So many countries tried that option and have you seen their school shootings statistics?

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        So many countries tried that option and have you seen their school shootings statistics?

        Have you seen the size of their firearm and miltech industries? Pathetic! Guns are a tool for wealth accumulation through creating an arms race where one didn’t previously exist!

        (I’d sarcasm tag except I’m starting to be convinced that the above is in fact the motivation behind it all)

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    You may ask yourself, "What is that beautiful drone?"
    You may ask yourself, "Where does that attack drone go to?"
    And you may ask yourself, "Is this right, is this wrong?"
    And you may say to yourself, "My God, what have we done?!"
    
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    I just hope your constitution protects drone rights.

    The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a drone swarm is a good guy with a drone swarm.

    Murrka yippekayeee mothafucka or something like that (never been on that continent).

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    Yes more weapons instead of tougher laws on existing weapons.

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        State sponsored actors? I’m 30% on that, 70% on one of the kids doing it. Maybe I have too much faith in today’s youth and their capacity for tech.

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          Maybe I have too much faith in today’s youth and their capacity for tech.

          Sadly, I think maybe you do. 15 years ago, sure. Today, most of these kids aren’t using real computers. They grew up on Android or iOS devices, they’re using Chromebooks in school. They don’t actually know what a filesystem is, they don’t actually know what a network stack is. They’ve never just messed around with an os or pirated a video game.

          I don’t think it’s the kids though, I guess I’m just pretty cynical about the current state of technology. It’s advanced a lot in the past couple of decades, but I’m not sure it’s really improved. It used to be that computers were a powerful tool that we could take advantage of, and they could make things easier and be a lot of fun to play with too. These days it feels like we’re the tools and the technology is taking advantage of us. And I think this generation that grew up on mobile devices has it the worst. Tech has really been able to sink its teeth into this generation, and they can’t escape it.

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            You say this, but there was that autistic kid that fucking hacked rockstar with a fire stick so hackers will always be around, but they probably always be the most autistic people you have ever met

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              It’s true, there’s always the exceptions, the edge cases. But if I’m thinking about this statistically, who’s likely to breach this first? How many hackers from column A are hammering on this, how many from column B? I just think state actors and corporate interests are in fact the thing to watch out for. There just seem to be much fewer gen z computer geeks than there were millennials.

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                Maybe Apple Computer colluded with the United States government dumb everybody down to keep themselves safe safer Who Knows lol

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                  When you have a small elite, they don’t need to collude, they just develop a common climate of thought and common understanding of the future.

                  What pains me to think about - that these people are really brilliant for the most part, those whose names I know. Even Steve Jobs. And they were brilliant still for a few years after getting significant power.

                  That power still corrupted them, and this amount of “brilliant” is like a whole era, a whole phenomenon of humanity, being proven wrong.

                  Early 90s Apple is very nice to learn about, and early 90s Microsoft was powerful, but not evil yet, and early 90s Oracle was a really good company. And remember what Google was in its early years, they seemed the front line of the new age of openness and freedom. I won’t say anything good about early Facebook, but apparently it too managed to be good for someone.

                  So much for corporate propaganda.

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                  Heh, maybe the problem started when they changed their name. They aren’t “Apple Computer” any more, they’re just “Apple”. That must have happened somewhere around 2005.

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              Autistic doesn’t equal genius.

              Autistic special interest is not about knowing a subject well, it’s about fetish\fixation on that subject ; say, I’ve done a lot of fixing old AfterStep dockapps that don’t compile anymore, or programs from the 90s for X11, to reproduce the vibe of using a Unix-like system then. I still haven’t written a single Linux or FreeBSD driver. I haven’t even written a single Java program. BTW, found the old (Sun-era, judging by the icons and pics there ; old doesn’t mean obsolete for me, I’m fine with simple OOP and don’t need generics or lambdas or such, I know these are cool) “Java Tutorials” on the Oracle site and realized that those are almost as easy to use to make your own simple applications as TCL documentation, except Java is far more powerful (due to ability to use all the Java libraries around). And now I do know what I want to make, so the next weekend might not go in vain.

              There’s genius (I dunno, someone like Wernher von Braun), there’s autistic (someone like me or your random strange kid, a real life Asakura Yoh), and there’s autistic genius (multiply the rareness of both and get the probability of a person being that ; I suppose the kinds of genius to make rare notable achievements are usually both, but not always).

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          Could be some incel hackers from 4chan. Like people who engage in swatting would like this.

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            See, but even the swatters are script-kiddie equivalents. Most of the ‘computer nerds’ that some people in this thread are fetishizing / waxing nostalgic about were just following advice and guides of much more capable adults in the various industries. So if any smart person starts releasing guides about the drones’ systems, then sure, we’ll see some kids hack them, but I doubt we’ll see it happen, considering the drones’ rarity and limited access for most folks.

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    can fly through double-paned glass

    um, how

    Also I wonder how long it will take before this tech gets used for situations other than mass murder events

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    High speed LETHAL Drones flying through schools DOESNT effect Children! DRAG Queens EXISTING does!

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      You wait and see how quickly these things are repurposed to go after a man in a dress reading a book within 100 yards of kids.

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    It’s frightening that this is the state of gun ownership in the US, and that the companies making the poison are probably now also selling you the cure. But all things considering, this might actually be a useful application of the tech.

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      Sure thing, buddy, corporations, and police forces and governments never overreach or do things they’re not supposed to do or get hacked or have crazy fucking leaders telling them what to do, I want you to think about what you just said and tell me again if it’s a good idea https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU

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        I literally prefaced it with a bunch of skepticism, and yes, I could have added potential misuse. If you just want to argue for argument sake, Reddit is a better place for you.

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      Yes instead of actually tackling the problem let’s give the tech bros more money to solve it.

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        the companies making the poison are probably now also selling you the cure

        I swear, the reading comprehension of some people…

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        how indoctrinated do you have to be to dismiss the wish for less gun violence as agenda pushing? You 2A nutjobs are almost as delusional as MAGA trumpeteers, sucking corporate dick which would be more than happy to unload a 9mm in your back if it helps their profits even slightly

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          Second amendment nut job. Ahahahaha ok. I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about but you clearly don’t know either so I guess I’m OK

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            you are reading a news article about how schools have to use unmanned robots to fight school schooters and are defending the practice of the second ammendment by trying to discredit the concernes of a US citizen, you are indeed a gun nutjob

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                all out of discussion points so you run away? You rightwing populists are not better than your TACO lmao How about you enter a debate with me based on facts? Running away won’t solve anything in your life, take that as a life pro-tip free of charge