Tasing by police obsolete?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

http://news.discovery.com/tech/robotics/taser-drone-could-stun-criminals-with-80k-volts-140310.htm

"The drone can be deployed when an alarm is triggered. It can find a subject and send live video to the owner's phone and ask if you want to authorize the subject or detain them," Chaotic Moon explained, according to RT. "If you detain them, it drops into fully autonomous mode to detain them until police arrive -- if needs be, stunning them with 80,000 volts of electricity to render them incapacitated."

Chaotic Moon wants to add pepper spray to CUPID in the near future. The firm is also working on an UAV that interferes with intrusive paparazzi drones, using an electromagnetic pulse to zap the offending drone's electronic system and causing it to crash.

That last bit...Am I the only person that sees the drawback in that item?

[Faust]

Those drones are expensive, if someone was to deliberately try and get tazed  by that wearing clothing that acts as a complete circuit they could blow the drones circuitry or even better wear something insulating and use the taser cabling to pull that fucker out of the sky.

As to the EMP, I've been expecting EMP to be deployed in urban situations ever since the first person videophoned police brutality. Assuming their own drone doesn't fall out of the sky if it gets caught in the field.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I love how our fascist overlords are developing and adopting these technologies, joyfully oblivious to the fact that they have just invented hackable law enforcement. Sooner or later people like me are going to be able to take charge of whole squadrons of robot police.

Lulz to follow

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I love how our fascist overlords are developing and adopting these technologies, joyfully oblivious to the fact that they have just invented hackable law enforcement. Sooner or later people like me are going to be able to take charge of whole squadrons of robot police.

Lulz to follow

It's already happened.   

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Those drones are expensive, if someone was to deliberately try and get tazed  by that wearing clothing that acts as a complete circuit they could blow the drones circuitry or even better wear something insulating and use the taser cabling to pull that fucker out of the sky.

As to the EMP, I've been expecting EMP to be deployed in urban situations ever since the first person videophoned police brutality. Assuming their own drone doesn't fall out of the sky if it gets caught in the field.

EMP paparazzi drone, it falls into crowd.  The end.

[Faust]

I love how our fascist overlords are developing and adopting these technologies, joyfully oblivious to the fact that they have just invented hackable law enforcement. Sooner or later people like me are going to be able to take charge of whole squadrons of robot police.

Lulz to follow

The Horrible truth of it is innocent people will be exploited by this.  Say for example you have a public event with strict security. Someone looking to perform a terrorist attack unable to gain access could potentially attach an improvised explosive to one of these without being noticed, outside the zone of heightened security. The drone obliviously flies into the area with a high volume of people and detonates over their heads.

[Faust]

Those drones are expensive, if someone was to deliberately try and get tazed  by that wearing clothing that acts as a complete circuit they could blow the drones circuitry or even better wear something insulating and use the taser cabling to pull that fucker out of the sky.

As to the EMP, I've been expecting EMP to be deployed in urban situations ever since the first person videophoned police brutality. Assuming their own drone doesn't fall out of the sky if it gets caught in the field.

EMP paparazzi drone, it falls into crowd.  The end.

Oh yeah. What goes up...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I love how our fascist overlords are developing and adopting these technologies, joyfully oblivious to the fact that they have just invented hackable law enforcement. Sooner or later people like me are going to be able to take charge of whole squadrons of robot police.

Lulz to follow

The Horrible truth of it is innocent people will be exploited by this.  Say for example you have a public event with strict security. Someone looking to perform a terrorist attack unable to gain access could potentially attach an improvised explosive to one of these without being noticed, outside the zone of heightened security. The drone obliviously flies into the area with a high volume of people and detonates over their heads.

Or just stampedes the crowd with a dozen drones flying at head level.

[Scilon Agent]

I for one welcome our new fully automated, robot having, paparazzi drone shooting, bandit tazing overlords.

To a The New World Order and the civilization of humanity one volt at a time!

[Faust]

What I hope to see is the Paparazzi developing more agile, evasive drones capable of outmanoeuvring police drones.
I want to see an urban drone arms race.

[Scilon Agent]

I want to see an urban drone arms race.

You are prophetic. I can see drone swarms gracefully outmaneuvering the large, bulky and menacing security drones.

People see the future and the present as bleak, dark and ugly. I see mostly laughs and opportunity to grin.

[Faust]

Well considering you can get a drone now no bigger than a pint glass, it wont be hard. Load out to manoeuvrability is already the number one performance constraint of drones. If you add clunky battery packs for taxers and shit the lighter drones aren't going to have a problem zipping away from you.

[hooplala]

http://gizmodo.com/is-there-a-drone-flying-around-the-harlem-building-coll-1542174350

[P3nT4gR4m]

I want to see an urban drone arms race.

You are prophetic. I can see drone swarms gracefully outmaneuvering the large, bulky and menacing security drones.

People see the future and the present as bleak, dark and ugly. I see mostly laughs and opportunity to grin.

We park our cars in the same garage. The truth of technological advancement has always been (and probably always will be) a pretty even mixture of win and fail.

This maximises lulz potential for the ones who accept this, given we have the horror on the faces of techno utopianists when their pet technology gets used to kill people and cognitive dissonance on the faces of the luddites when they realise that what they thought was going to end the world or throw us into totalitarian hell, has just cured cancer.

My hot pick for the next few years is privacy. We're fast approaching a point where privacy, in any way shape or form, will be theoretically impossible. My guess is we'll have the usual mixture of bad shit and good shit - governments trying to play big brother v's a 100% granular, open source, biotech SDK.

[Cramulus]

These headlines sound like the setup for a 2014 remake of Hackers.

it's like how in Robocop 3 that goddamn 9 year old girl could take control of an ED209 using a speak & spell.