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FedEx Asks Permission to Install Anti-Missile Lasers on Its Cargo Jet:
FedEx has asked the US Federal Aviation Administration if it could install anti-missile lasers on cargo jets, according to a request filed earlier this month. The FAA request is set to be published on the public register next week.
Heat-seeking missiles detect and target heat from cargo jet engines, and because these planes are less maneuverable that a fighter jet, they're hard to shake off. Gizmodo reports that anti-missile lasers act like a distraction, shining an infrared laser directly at the missile to disrupt its ability to track a heat signature.
Although it may seem out of left field, supply chain issues have been causing food and product shortages since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Last year, hackers even deployed ransomware attacks on a major agricultural services provider. With those cyberpunk logistics challenges in mind, FedEx's application makes a little more sense.
"In recent years, in several incidents abroad, civilian aircraft were fired upon by man-portable air defense systems," the application letter reads.
[...] When FedEx first tested similar equipment back in 2008, CBS reported the lasers were eye-safe. In addition, Gizmodo reports that the current application includes new features, reporting and important safety information for airline crew. The lasers really shouldn't pose a problem to civilians on the ground, then, and it makes us wonder — should all passenger planes have this tech?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 19 2022, @12:15AM (39 children)
You are never, ever, ever going to get to fire weapons in a military or corporate context, you inbred, color-blind derptard. Deal with it already.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @12:20AM (6 children)
The military doesn't hire transvestites either, so you'll both be sitting on the porch of the old folks home reminiscing about unemployment. You make such a cute couple.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 19 2022, @12:40AM (5 children)
Hey, I *like* some articles of mens' clothing, okay? They're better built than what gets marketed to us and steel-toed workboots are awesome. That doesn't make me a cross-dresser, it makes me someone who likes durability in her clothes.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @01:01AM (1 child)
I can't blame you. How do so many women live without usable pockets?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @02:02AM
They want you instead to wear a giant pocket called a "purse." Alternatively you can just have your boy toy carry stuff for you.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday January 19 2022, @01:18AM (1 child)
Marketed to us ... lesbians (is that right? I'm getting a weak neuron fire on that one), or us women? Seems like there's a huge market gap for women who want the functionality and durability of men's work clothes, but want a little more female-oriented, er, fit? Fashion? Not sure, but something that better matches women's needs/preferences.
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Wednesday January 19 2022, @02:43PM
something that better matches women's needs/preferences
More accurately, body shape. Women need room for hooters, but not for balls.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @01:30AM
I never understood 'boy shoes'.
Feet are just feet, right?
(That and women have been conditioned to cripple themselves from a young age by walking in heels.)
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 19 2022, @01:22AM (30 children)
You haven't been paying attention all these years? I'm less inbred than you are, little Icky van Icky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ2wiXF5x4Y [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @02:13AM (1 child)
Yet still so stupid. Maybe Polish genetics are garbage which would explain why the Germans invaded, what with their love of eugenics and all.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @02:54AM
Racissss bastid.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 19 2022, @02:18AM (27 children)
Considering my ancestry is best described as "throw darts at a map of Europe and probably there's a great-great-etc-grandparent wherever one lands" I'm not seeing the inbredness you're accusing me of.
You, on the other hand, deliberately chose to live in the Peoples' Republic of Cousinfuckistan, which as far as I'm concerned gives you an honorary case of aneuploidy :D Face it, you're not gonna win this one. Or any other one. Lie down and try not to drown on your own spit, grandpa.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 19 2022, @02:53AM (22 children)
There's no "win" here. You're of European stock, exclusively. My ancestry goes back all over Europe, with a bit of Native American thrown in. I am less inbred than you. And, FYI, your silly stereotype of inbred Arkies is both wrong, and misapplied to me. I wasn't born here, I came here to introduce new DNA to the local population.
You could try to get your terms and your stereotypes in order.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @04:20AM (3 children)
Ok, Pocahontas. Just like every other white person in the USA.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 19 2022, @04:40AM (2 children)
I'm not a Democrat for starters. Nor have I ever used my heritage to get a scholarship, or any other edge on my peers. Thanks for playing though!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @05:01PM (1 child)
With the notable exception of just now, right?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @05:49PM
idiot
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 19 2022, @05:42PM (17 children)
You have cultivated the sister-rapist within, as it were, is my point :) And you just...keep...doing it! Ahh, the zeal of the (relatively) newly-converted...
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 19 2022, @05:52PM (16 children)
So you fall into the "all-heterosexual relations are rape" camp.
(Score: 2, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 19 2022, @08:13PM (15 children)
No, just most of what goes on south of the Mason-Dixon line, LOL. Explains how there are so many of you idiots. God, I hope the 'rona does to the South what Lincoln was too kind to. Make sure you go to Sturgis this year, okay?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday January 19 2022, @10:24PM (14 children)
OK, so you're just going back to your earlier post, where you display your ignorance by repeating a tired old retarded stereotype. Got it. It's your choice to remain ignorant, of course, but that ain't how real life is.
If you weren't so afraid of life, maybe you would come to the south, tour it, and find out what it is really like. It's not so different from western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinoi. Or, for that matter, upstate New York - just with less liberal nonsense. For evidence, I'll offer the fact that Arkansas and New York are both guilty of sending worthless SOBs to the state capitols, as well as to Washington, D.C. You just send more worthless SOBs because you have so many more than Arkansas has.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday January 21 2022, @05:02PM (13 children)
Real life speaks for itself. The South is a collection of traitorous seditious shitholes and has been since before the Civil War. There is going to be a housing crisis in Hell when nature does to you what Lincoln should have all those decades ago.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 21 2022, @05:33PM (12 children)
Keep talking out your ass, while you continue to make excuses for the real racists in this country - the DNC.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday January 23 2022, @06:24AM (11 children)
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, but you're drowning in it just the same. Don't say I didn't warn you...!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 23 2022, @02:07PM (10 children)
Oh, you just can't let this one go, can you? ROFLMAO
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 24 2022, @05:57AM (9 children)
Why should I? :) You never seem to goddamn learn: engaging with me, taking my bait, is like stepping into a tar pit. You keep flailing and struggling, and just get yourself deeper into the muck.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 24 2022, @07:54AM
You were born in the muck, molded by it.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 24 2022, @01:14PM (7 children)
I thought the tar baby story was racisssss? Whatever, Auntie Remus!
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday January 24 2022, @05:29PM (6 children)
You'd need to ask a sabertoothed cat about that one, you whiny little pissbaby :) And you...keep...doing it! When you die, I bet I could turn you into a zombie by taking my laptop to your grave site and replying to one of your old comments!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 24 2022, @06:00PM (5 children)
Tarbaby!! ROFLMAO
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 25 2022, @03:57AM (4 children)
Tar *pit,* Runaway. I know you don't read so good, but *do* try not to make a complete moron out of yourself in publ--oh. Guess that horse bolted a while ago, huh? :/
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Troll) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 25 2022, @06:11AM (3 children)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpGL-mj-LEk [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 25 2022, @06:39PM (2 children)
You're the gift that keeps on giving :) You would claw your way back out of the grave just to have the last word.
I am going to test that. I will find where they bury your corona-ridden corpse in 2025, bring my laptop, login to SN, and reply to one of your last posts. I fully expect you to shamble out of the grave, still smoking with hellfire, and post a reply!
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday January 25 2022, @06:43PM (1 child)
No hellfire, unless my fleet of drones remains intact, in which case I'll fire a hellfire missile up your arse. You are well and truly fixated on the hellfire and damnation schtick.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 25 2022, @09:02PM
LOL, like I said, you are never, ever, ever going to get your hands on any rooty tooty point'n'shooties outside your own collection, and never in any context more purposeful than hunting, if you're even capable of that any longer.
What's the matter, Runaway, getting mad? You're making threats now :) And remember, Hell is within you. You have made Hell, and you will find yourself in it for however long you need to be until you unmake it. Don't blame me for your own lack of understanding, or humanity.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @07:25AM (3 children)
"throw darts at a map of Europe"
Azuma Hazuki is a Finnish name? I always assumed you were Japanese.
(Score: 1) by didymus on Wednesday January 19 2022, @10:17AM (1 child)
Would it be too much to ask, that comments stay on topic? Everyone's respective ancestry is very interesting (not), but I seem to remember that this is how the movie "Castaway", starring Tom Hanks and Wilson, began.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @02:55PM
Ancestry gets rather complicated, in large part because most modern nations didn't exist a few hundred years ago, leading to new ethnicities that don't match up very well with genetics. On top of that, there was a fair amount of movement within the various continents due to pressure from famine, drought or war. On top of that, there's also which cultural beliefs a given family chose to prioritize over the others. Most of my ancestry comes from Scandinavia, but virtually all the non-American cultural values I have come from Germany. Which isn't quite right, as only one of my ancestors was living in the area that's now Germany after it became a nation.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 19 2022, @05:31PM
...right, because this is my real name. Definitely. Absolutely. Has nothing at all to do with a story that resonated with me back in high school my first serious girlfriend showed me. Noooope.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 19 2022, @07:13PM
At this point, I'm more than half convinced that Runaway and Azuma are both accounts run by the same individual, just for 'the lulz'.
No other theory has been able to explain what I see across multiple stories and comment threads nearly as well.