A clever strategy that few thought of; it deserved to win.
On the downside, this is surely going to give me nightmares about government drones getting infected with a terrorist virus and unleashing drone-botnet-mageddon on the masses.
On the downside, this is surely going to give me nightmares about government drones getting infected with a terrorist virus and unleashing drone-botnet-mageddon on the masses.
Whether it's a robot uprising, or a bug/oversight in the software, or Big Brother, is up to your own personal taste in dystopian horrors.
I mean, who really thought Bin Laden had that much power or legitimacy?
"For instance—and here is where he displayed prescience—Van Riper used motorcycle messengers to transmit orders to Red troops, thereby eluding Blue's super-sophisticated eavesdropping technology. He maneuvered Red forces constantly. At one point in the game, when Blue's fleet entered the Persian Gulf, he sank some of the ships with suicide-bombers in speed boats. (At that point, the managers stopped the game, "refloated" the Blue fleet, and resumed play.)"
[1]http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/...
now if you were to treat the AR drones competition as some sort of war game, you would have to assume such hacking capabilities on both sides, probably balancing out or interacting in interesting ways...
function () { up(Math.random() * 2 - 1) }, function () { left(Math.random() * 2 - 1) }, function () { turn(Math.random() * 2 - 1) },
A scary thought would be U.S military drones ever getting infected by terrorists, and the source code goes -
function firePredatorMissile(coordinates) { ... }
firePredatorMissile(computedLargestCivilianCluster.coordinates)
And if you combine this with the fact that it can hack nearby drones and control them as well..
In regards to the second point, I think you've been playing too much Black Ops 2.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/insurgents-intercept...
Who wants to guess at when the first p0wned Reaper or Predator takes out a datacenter housing servers for someone who's annoyed Anonymous, or perhaps a competing poker/porn/pills site?
(That'll make a change from the usual "Cascading failures in us-1-east" post-mortem blog posts…)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incid...