As far as GPS goes; the military's ability to encrypt their GPS signals is one of their most important tactical technologies. If an enemy could gain access to that technology, they could do a lot worse than just knowing where the mines are.

hang on now, there may still be something to that:

What better way to hunt drones than with OTHER drones? Let the remote controlled battle for the skies BEGIN!

When I first saw the article, that's what I thought this was: a license to hunt from an armed drone. I remember several years ago there was a website where you could log in and remotely operate a .30-06 to hunt deer on a Texas ranch. Something like drone hunting doesn't seem that much of a stretch

I think they are really on to something here. Maybe my home town can make a few quick bucks by selling "Velociraptor Hunting Licences."

I'd watch a Stargate Reboot, as long as it had the things that made the TV series great:

Musketeers Assemble!

I've only used CAD and Blender; but I have always done most of my modeling with the keyboard and I use the mouse to look around

I got crucified for expressing skepticism on the last article Gizmodo wrote about this technology; but I guess I am just a recidivist:

This technology looks cool; it looks fun; it looks like something I would love to play with. It doesn't look that useful though; at least not yet, and it doesn't look like the…

I didn't see that information either; but I don't really expect the general news media to go into those kinds of technical details. Someone is going to have to go through the actual leaked document to get those details, and I am WAY to lazy to be that guy :)

I get the feeling that I am going to have a hard time believing that as many things that go wrong in the trailer don't kill everyone in the movie. Apollo 13 had one thing explode and it was a close call; it looks like most of the spacecraft in this movie get totally destroyed...but maybe that's just the trailer being…

Oh come on now, that's obvious:

They didn't actually preform the prank because they didn't need to in order to make the commercial they wanted. Faking it was unquestionably easier.

Yeah; I agree the prank probably didn't actually happen. But I don't agree that the prank couldn't happen for the reasons you stated. As has already been mentioned on this thread, and with all good illusions, the crux is a proper diversion. A good interviewer could easily engage the victim in a little bit of…

I keep seeing arguments like this about various pranks. Recently, it was the one from Japan with the guy being chased by the dinosaur puppeteer down the hallway, and everyone commented that you could see the guys legs. A prank doesn't need to be convincing for very long; it's just about fooling people for a split…

Awesome.

Plus, in the off seasons he could run around the forest and give the cryptobiologists something to study.

So, I thought this was transparent marketing at first too; and it probably is. At the same time, I couldn't think of any dessert names that started with K. I looked it up, and aside from Key Lime Pie, it was looking pretty sparse. Google kinda wrote themselves into a corner with their naming scheme.

Are you kidding? With his near-competence in Excel? He could be living a life of leisure doing data entry all over the world.

Yeah, I know that military GPS is more secure than civilian, but it's not impervious. Like I said before, all technologies have exploits. Encryption works on the network level of wireless technologies, not the physical level. Even if you can't break the encryption, you can interfere with the signal, especially when…

I'm not as convinced. All technologies have exploits. All tactics have weaknesses. In the case of drones; it's a matter of interfering with their absolutely vital communication and navigation technologies. There have been several experiments recently with high-jacking GPS signals to make ships think they are far from…

These kinds of patents are absolutely ridiculous, and are completely anti-competitive.

What I would really love to see is a 40K Battlefield-style game with a large number of playable races and integrated command system with lots of computer controlled underlings. But that's only a pipe dream...