Triangulate the source of the jamming (not difficult), lock in a course using the onboard IMU, accelerate to maximum speed possible with motors/controllers even if beyond normal safe parameters. Do not abort run under any circumstance.
One USAF jammer operator having a bad day.
Next jammer solicitation has an autonomous CIWS mount in it.
Next set of firmware has IR communication with a swarm of like minded drones who will continue the retribution run at all costs.
USAF ends up having to spec up a drone jammer that has better air defence capabilities than an Aegis cruiser because even Aegis probably can't engage several hundred targets at once.
I can't see this being a sensible tool to use given the trivial marginal cost of its target - it does look like they're assuming that their buy cost for a drone (Reaper/Globalhawk) is the baseline for everybody else, whereas the *real* cost is probably comparable to or a little more than a Katusha rocket, and in any arena where the USAF will be engaging (Posse Comitatus applies to the USAF, yes?) they could be looking at hundreds or thousands of the things.
Let's rebrand this from "Drone Jammer" to "Intelligent Flak Magnet" as that's the way it's going to go.
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This idea is far from new. A company called Cuthbertson was doing this to Landrovers in the UK in the 1950s. Somehow or another I suspect that the kid who came up with this idea isn't 50 years old now.
Nothing new under the sun, just some people egocentric enough to think that there is.
I figure that we'll come up with some new "journaling" file system that never overwrites ANY old information, and basically keeps ALL versions of any given file (and maybe redundant copies to boot). Why bother erasing anything if you'll never run out of any room?
This is pretty much what Netware has been doing forever. It's not a JFS, but it does have the revision control stuff. The main problem I could see with this would be Netwares memory requirements for large volumes (I had a 56GB drive array on a NW4.11 box which needed the better part of a gig of RAM just to mount).
The best keyboard I have ever found was one IBM used to sell as an external for the Stinkpad.
It has the same action as the better Stinkpad keyboards (like my old 701 butterfly) and has a trackpoint. Only two buttons but I can type all day on it and never have to move more than my fingers to work on it.
The worst keyboard I have ever met was the Qtronix thingy that Corel were shipping with the Netwinder at the beginning. If I can pick up a keyboard and flex the ends by an inch then it is not for me. The fact that it had a tactile response like typing into dead flesh didn't help.
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Triangulate the source of the jamming (not difficult), lock in a course using the onboard IMU, accelerate to maximum speed possible with motors/controllers even if beyond normal safe parameters. Do not abort run under any circumstance.
One USAF jammer operator having a bad day.
Next jammer solicitation has an autonomous CIWS mount in it.
Next set of firmware has IR communication with a swarm of like minded drones who will continue the retribution run at all costs.
USAF ends up having to spec up a drone jammer that has better air defence capabilities than an Aegis cruiser because even Aegis probably can't engage several hundred targets at once.
I can't see this being a sensible tool to use given the trivial marginal cost of its target - it does look like they're assuming that their buy cost for a drone (Reaper/Globalhawk) is the baseline for everybody else, whereas the *real* cost is probably comparable to or a little more than a Katusha rocket, and in any arena where the USAF will be engaging (Posse Comitatus applies to the USAF, yes?) they could be looking at hundreds or thousands of the things.
Let's rebrand this from "Drone Jammer" to "Intelligent Flak Magnet" as that's the way it's going to go.
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Nothing new under the sun, just some people egocentric enough to think that there is.
This is pretty much what Netware has been doing forever. It's not a JFS, but it does have the revision control stuff. The main problem I could see with this would be Netwares memory requirements for large volumes (I had a 56GB drive array on a NW4.11 box which needed the better part of a gig of RAM just to mount).
It has the same action as the better Stinkpad keyboards (like my old 701 butterfly) and has a trackpoint. Only two buttons but I can type all day on it and never have to move more than my fingers to work on it.
The worst keyboard I have ever met was the Qtronix thingy that Corel were shipping with the Netwinder at the beginning. If I can pick up a keyboard and flex the ends by an inch then it is not for me. The fact that it had a tactile response like typing into dead flesh didn't help.