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In 2018, an unidentified nonstate actor used two explosive-bearing commercial drones in the attempted assassination of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. It'
by jessaustin 5y ago
In 2018, an unidentified nonstate actor used two explosive-bearing commercial drones in the attempted assassination of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.
It's funny to see the phrase "nonstate actor" here, when we're assured that ransomware script kiddies who use Coinbase are all "state actors". Maduro knows who sent the drones. [0] Why is even IEEE Spectrum in ideological thrall to the military-industrial complex?
[0] https://thegrayzone.com/2019/08/06/interview-venezuelan-president-nicolas-maduro/ https://thegrayzone.com/2019/08/06/interview-venezuelan-pres...
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoWhy would think that the IEEE has been enabled by something else than the military-industrial complex?
- jrochkind1 5y agoIndeed. 1989: > For computer scientists, the role federal funding plays in shaping research in their field presents both good news and bad news, according to the preliminary report on a study by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Science Policy Committee of the Special Interest Group on Automata and Compatability Theory. The good news is the fact that no abatement is in sight for the dramatic rise in federal support of computer science research https://www.the-scientist.com/profession/does-dod-funding-skew-computer-science-research-62152 https://www.the-scientist.com/profession/does-dod-funding-sk...
- splithalf 5y agoIn theory it could all be a vast conspiracy of the news media to misinform people, sure, but that would be a conspiracy theory.