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Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw

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Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw

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Of course its illegal everywhere to kill people with chainsaws.

Even Texas? (yes I know, I deserve to be downvoted, guilty pleasure)

Depends on if they are looking at you threateningly...

Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw

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Here's a video of the helicopter chainsaw http://youtu.be/Mfz1YrpMbBg

Wow very different. Mine had no cable or a very short one - the chainsaw was directly under the helicopter.

More like this? https://youtu.be/rF1vfMM3W08?t=133

Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw

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If you're also in Australia, popsci.com has some idiotic redirects to popsci.com.au that throw errors when they can't find a localised version of the article you're trying to reach. I don't think I've ever had one actually work.

Seriously, this deserves an automatic penalty until they fix their issues. Business Insider do the same thing. What's to localise though? We speak English! dang... if you're reading this, anything you can do? Very frustrating for the many Australians who read articles on HN. (a side note: when are U.S. sites going to stop treating Australians as second class citizens? We are a pretty wealthy nation filled with people…

> a side note: when are U.S. sites going to stop treating Australians as second class citizens?

Once we figure out how to digitally accept kangaroo pelts as payment.

Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw

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Seriously, this deserves an automatic penalty until they fix their issues. Business Insider do the same thing. What's to localise though? We speak English! dang... if you're reading this, anything you can do? Very frustrating for the many Australians who read articles on HN. (a side note: when are U.S. sites going to stop treating Australians as second class citizens? We are a pretty wealthy nation filled with people…

> a side note: when are U.S. sites going to stop treating Australians as second class citizens? Once we figure out how to digitally accept kangaroo pelts as payment.

Cool, so we'll just continue pirating your content and bypassing your filters at record levels then :-)

Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw

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This should be illegal everywhere. I'm really afraid of the not too distant future when drones are cheap and autonomous enough so that they are able to be controlled by a small crazy group and used to harm lots of people. I don't think we as a society are prepared for it.

Sorry, but you could have made your point in a more hackerish way by saying that the Islamic State is looking into using off the shelf drones to widely distribute Cesium 137 dust harvested from Medical X ray equipment. A devout martyr would have no issue with preparing the Cesium and assembling the device.

Such a weapon would cause great economic damage if used in an urban area, as the city would have to be evacuated until a thorough and expensive clean up was completed by thousands of workers in bunny hazmat suits.

Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw

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I seriously want to start a drone defense company.

Defending people from drones? Or using drones to defend people? (Or both?)

I like the framing you've used there, but mostly military drones are used to "attack" people

Re: Finnish Filmmakers Gave a Drone a Chainsaw

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post #17
post #9

This should be illegal everywhere. I'm really afraid of the not too distant future when drones are cheap and autonomous enough so that they are able to be controlled by a small crazy group and used to harm lots of people. I don't think we as a society are prepared for it.

I seriously want to start a drone defense company.

Best options are probably Thors, missle turrets, photon cannons or void rays. Eventually war will be teenagers sitting at computers moving swarms of autonomous machines on a virtual map, and South Korea will take over the world.
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