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mircea_popescu: no see, this is the main reason i like the capitalism-democracy combo : i don't have to do anything.
Vexual: let him sweep the floor with no pay
mircea_popescu: this is pretty funny, guy now wants to work for me, admits he couldn't do as good a job as thje girl.
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Vexual: try that with an xbox, you'd be arrested
Vexual: im putting wiifit sensors under my toilets
Vexual: id send you the log, but it's not really a log
Vexual: maybe that was it
nubbins`: turns out the friction from your strikes wasn't enough to denature the proteins?
thestringpuller: Vexual you and everyone else in the gaming world.
Vexual: fuck the multiplayer and take my money
Vexual: i was looking forward to watchdogs on u sooner
nubbins`: some of the minigames in wii u party or w/e the bundled game is called are pretty cool
nubbins`: great if you have a wii and your buddy has a u, tho
nubbins`: that's because they give you a $250 controller with your u
Vexual: wiimotes must cost a bit, they dont even give you one with a u
nubbins`: you can probably just get gyro arduino shields for cheaper than a wiimote now anyway
Vexual: no, its the phone
nubbins`: anyway, there are tons of videos of people using wiimotes and nunchuks to control robots
nubbins`: but that's what it seemed like in my head
nubbins`: i am kind of just making this up
Vexual: i always thought it was the other way around
nubbins`: nintendo brought the economy of scale
nubbins`: 3-axis gyros were around too
Vexual: nintendo were the first to mass produce such accurate pressure sensores as in thw wiifit board
nubbins`: and it's more than enough to keep a quadcopter in the air
Vexual: i think iphone had it b4 wiimote
nubbins`: consider that a wii motion plus attachment fits in a child's hand, costs $25, and can track acceleration and movement along 3 axes
Vexual: i thought that was pressure sensors?
nubbins`: you can thank nintendo for cheap gyro sensors
Vexual: perhaps i was thinking of my multivitamin
asciilifeform: Vexual: and some taggants, likely, for 'smartasses'
Vexual: wrap the mag around a sparkler and flee
diametric: KRS|gotyawallet: its used to ignite thermite
KRS|gotyawallet: Gribble: magnesium in thermite too i think
mircea_popescu: speaking of the diogene,
mike_c: i have recommended it to several people
mike_c: glad to see the gpg section! very useful stuff.
gribble: BingoBoingo was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 46 minutes and 28 seconds ago: <BingoBoingo> Vexual: thermite is simple and avoids all of the pretense concerning explosives. That the ingredients are essentially rust and aluminum powder or filings means preventing its production is impossible.
asciilifeform: Vexual: this was widely believed, because they don't teach newton's 3rd law any more...
asciilifeform: a modern Diogenes will die comically, 'ipad' crate falling on his head instead of turtle.
Vexual: remeber this bit of cgi genius?
asciilifeform: in the unlikely event of the 'legit' vendors using choppers, they'll go for enclosed airscrews. 'ufo' shape.
asciilifeform: 'here comes the candle, to light you to bed. here comes the chopper, to chop off your head.'
diametric: There have been several deaths just this last year from them
diametric: Or worse, there
asciilifeform: everybody who builds toy choppers has the characteristic scars.
diametric: I still have faint scars from when I was playing with that one larger multirotor.
diametric: The potential damage to property and lives will be way to high. Anything strong enough to carry 5 pound packages is strong enough to kill someone.
diametric: I really doubt that will ever come to fruition. It's just publicity. There's no way their attorneys are going to sign off on something thats going to have that much liability.
asciilifeform: (for product delivery, of things that don't mind being thrown)
Vexual: or a tennis ball
asciilifeform: btw, at the current max range of toy drone, one could achieve very similar results with: catapult.
Vexual: is that one of yours ascii?
Vexual: ALL the money?
asciilifeform: asymmetric: 'we are rich, they - poor, they oughta roll over and die fair and square.'
mircea_popescu: in this sense the us rebellion was asymmetric as seen from king george's palace.
mircea_popescu: "this war is asymetric in that the enemy chooses to not make the same exact mistakes we do"
mircea_popescu: where the idiots are themselves.
asciilifeform: but rather, anyone who can out-think the idiots.
diametric: ah discussing the news about amazons drone delivery publicity stunt?
asciilifeform: when the bureaucrats say 'asymmetric war' and piss their pants, they aren't specifically thinking of bedouins with ak
asciilifeform: solve the general case.
asciilifeform: rf is a more interesting countermeasure than pyrotechnics, because enemy machines can travel by land, sea, hell, sewer line, and not only by air.
asciilifeform: to expect that it will be sent to do some other job is odd.
Vexual: it can climb with better conmtrol than descend
asciilifeform: before you know it, we're back to 1930s state of the art: barrage balloon.
Vexual: or is that for shaft lube?
Vexual: halfway down the tail
Vexual: is that a little raddome on the top of tail?
dub: need to attack from above basically
dub: I think you're going to need to get real lucky to tangle a cord in the prop
mircea_popescu: usualyl in this sort of situation flexible > rigid
asciilifeform: (suggested experiment: two tennis balls, fishing line, an old-style uncaged metal fan, an open field.)
asciilifeform: fishing line may even work, considering what will happen when the rotor winds it up.
Vexual: the theif could trail the piano wire in its path and hope for the tangle
dub: otherwise the limpet needs to aquire taret and track
asciilifeform: for choppers, fly two toys, trailing piano wire between.
Vexual: better make that 1st shot count
dub: hard to deploy right
Vexual: aluminium magnets are expensive too
asciilifeform: flight plan, from the moment of limpeting, should be 'vertical.'
dub: of course they can probably mitigate it when they realise telemetry is not lining up wth flight plan
asciilifeform: for the spark gap...
asciilifeform: one fun possibility: toy turns its rotors 90 deg., they turn into... windmill generators.
mircea_popescu: acetone im telling you.
asciilifeform: dub: the hypothetical was: a toystore chopper limpets on to the larger one. what ought to be in the former.
Vexual: its not actually large though is it
dub: presumably you would harden in the defensive direction (down) while leaving a channel on the harder to target side (up)
asciilifeform: dub: the notion of rf-hardening a widget that includes a large antenna is a curious one.
asciilifeform: dub: why perforate enemy, take him home as a pet.
dub: supposed to be pretty easy
asciilifeform: Vexual: your local toy store still has them.
asciilifeform: Vexual: that's nearly an adult chopper, not comparable to the miniatures at all.
Vexual: do they make a cargo model?
asciilifeform: i'd like to see what one of these does near... an ordinary spark gap.
asciilifeform: death from the air would be a little scarier if they so much as managed to get gps spoofing off the table.
mircea_popescu: its the S-100 model modified
mircea_popescu: it looks more like the end for gracie.