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Homeland Security bulletin warns of weaponized drones and threat to aviation
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an updated terror bulletin on Thursday highlighting the threat of weaponized drones, chemical attacks and the continued targeting of commercial aircraft.
"We continue to face one of the most challenging threat environments since 9/11, as foreign terrorist organizations exploit the internet to inspire, enable or direct individuals already here in the homeland to commit terrorist acts," reads the bulletin.
[...] "The current bulletin introduces unmanned aircraft systems as potential threats and highlights sustained concern regarding threats against commercial aviation and air cargo," said DHS acting press secretary Tyler Houlton in a statement.
There's been an "uptick in terrorist interest" in using unmanned aerial systems as weapons in the United States and other western countries, according to a senior DHS official. These tactics have been used by terrorists on the battlefield, and the department wants to "guard against those tactics being exported to the west," said the official. The official said that DHS wants to be "forward leaning" about seeing what terrorists are doing overseas and tactics they might adopt in the future.
Since the last bulletin, concerns about terrorist targeting aviation sector have grown, said the official. "[T]errorists continue to target commercial aviation and air cargo, including with concealed explosives," reads the updated bulletin.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 15 2017, @08:20PM (2 children)
Well of course concentration of power is the real problem here. But you also outline the key weakness of these businesses, conflicting interests. So rather than lose all these rights, let's just not do that, right?
A key element of any democratic society is division of power between numerous parties. This would be another example of that. We need capable businesses to balance the power of government. The thing I've noticed about those who complain about the power of businesses is that they are the most eager to create the harsh regulatory/litigation environment that creates large business concentrations (there are large economies of scale in dealing with that environment). There's a lot of self-defeating belief systems out there, but this is one of the worst.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Thursday November 16 2017, @12:17AM (1 child)
It's the concentration of natural resources and technology that dictate how large businesses grow through the principle of economy of scale. The regulations are the by-product of the resulting power balance and ownership structures. Throw in some game theory and you'll find that when one players decides against doing the most efficient thing, the other players gobble them up. This can be either taking slaves instead of genocide early on. Or it could be releasing slaves when technology and mercantilism progresses enough.
There's no moral laws to it. No "harsh"ness. Just technology and resource struggles that soon to follow.
Sometimes the technology improves the quality of life. Sometimes it hurts it. Sometimes it's for everyone. Sometimes it limited to a small number of people.
Again, the best you can do is keep mobile and ride the wave out. If you have enough resources spread around enough people since you can't have it all managed by a few, then you end up with a democracy and what you call a "free market". If you have one or two rivers, and one or two mines, then you're going to end up with a couple of families owning everything and eventually fighting each-other over it all.
You call this self-defeating. But I feel denying the reality of things is far worse since it leaves us unprepared to face what's to come. Both sides call it fake news. Both are spreading it. But it's the many who get hurt the most. Maybe if more people were "self-defeated" and stopped buying plastic crap to feed these mega-corps, the power-at-be would be force to interfere or face their own demise. While bread, wine and games kept Rome busy for many centuries, America is dealing with international corporations slowly buying everything.
It's the barbarians at the gate. And we're all ignoring it since it's self defeating to deal with the economy as it really is.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday November 16 2017, @05:01AM
Neither is particularly concentrated. Hobby-size projects aren't going to be competitive for the most part, but big companies have to worry about bureaucratic inefficiencies and conflicts of interest more than the small company.
That is, dominance by government combined with a mentality that sees regulation as the solution to most problems.
There are vastly more than one or two rivers and one or two mines.
I consider them the same thing. As Sun Tzu wrote: