Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins
boingboing.net
Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins
1–10 of 160 posts
Re: Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins
#2It is always intriguing that people in the West are so sheltered from the fact that this has been going on for over a decade. And they then are, not surprisingly, surprised that the people at the receiving end of this and those that are from the area are very upset about it.
What if some other nation had been bombing remote villages in your country whilst attempting to target "terrorists and extremists", but often killing civilians because of misstakes and poor intelligence?
Nice timeline for doing your research: http://www.theguardian.com/Iraq/page/0,12438,793802,00.html
Example of airstrikes killing civilians and accusations of poor intelligence preparations being the cause: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jun/14/iraq.usa
Re: Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins
#3More drone bashing, despite the fact drones are less likely to hit innocent people than manned aircraft, because drones can study a target for extended periods of time, where manned jets have just seconds.
Edit: from the amount I've been down voted, I'm guess you'd be perfectly happy if a manned jet killed innocent people.
If you continue drone bashing, you might succeed in making them use drones less frequently or even stop their use completely, but this will not stop wars. Instead they will use manned aircraft and manned helicopters to do the job, and they kill MORE innocent people than drones.
So please, stop and use your brains for 5 miliseconds before down voting. If you have problems with civilians dying in wars, you have a problem with wars, not a problem with drones. Getting rid of drones will increase the numbers of civilians dying.
Re: Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins
#4[deleted]
Re: Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins
#5More drone bashing, despite the fact drones are less likely to hit innocent people than manned aircraft, because drones can study a target for extended periods of time, where manned jets have just seconds. Edit: from the amount I've been down voted, I'm guess you'd be perfectly happy if a manned jet killed innocent people. If you continue drone bashing, you might succeed in making them use drones less frequently or e…
Send doctors, schools and money and not drones and people around the planet will love, not hate you. Very simple to understand.
Re: Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins
#6More drone bashing, despite the fact drones are less likely to hit innocent people than manned aircraft, because drones can study a target for extended periods of time, where manned jets have just seconds. Edit: from the amount I've been down voted, I'm guess you'd be perfectly happy if a manned jet killed innocent people. If you continue drone bashing, you might succeed in making them use drones less frequently or e…
We need to understand that these death planes save lives: https://medium.com/matt-bors/yemen-bombs-yet-another-wedding...
Re: Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins
#7More drone bashing, despite the fact drones are less likely to hit innocent people than manned aircraft, because drones can study a target for extended periods of time, where manned jets have just seconds. Edit: from the amount I've been down voted, I'm guess you'd be perfectly happy if a manned jet killed innocent people. If you continue drone bashing, you might succeed in making them use drones less frequently or e…
This is true until Turkmenian drones are hunting and killing not-innocent Americans in Kentucky.
Re: Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins
#8More drone bashing, despite the fact drones are less likely to hit innocent people than manned aircraft, because drones can study a target for extended periods of time, where manned jets have just seconds. Edit: from the amount I've been down voted, I'm guess you'd be perfectly happy if a manned jet killed innocent people. If you continue drone bashing, you might succeed in making them use drones less frequently or e…
In this case the strike was actually carried out by attack helicopters, not the drone. The main point of the article is to highlight the poor communication between the various different groups involved in the operation and the overall ignorance of everyone involved, despite many hours of surveillance by the drone.
Re: Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins
#9I was a bit disappointed not to find any thoughts about the proliferation of smaller, affordable drones and their potential uses in assassinating people (by criminals) in the article. It's not hard to imagine this happening sooner or later and it's scary to think about even smaller (insect-size) and more autonomous (no RC operator nearby) gadgets and their potential effectiveness.
How many years till a robotic fly can release a drop of poison in your mouth while you're sleeping? 30-40?
Re: Drones and the rise of the high tech assassins
#10I have been talking about this a lot with my friends. The question I raise is: when is the first private drone murder going to happen in the US and what will the implications be? There was a great ted talk on this http://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_suarez_the_kill_decision_sho...
It's really not even something that's technically difficult. I am just thankful the best minds in the US tend to have plenty of healthy outlets for creativity but the situation in developing nations is not so ideal.