When I was a kid it was shaving cream. Take a can, put a needle in the nozzle, then melt the nozzle with a cigarette lighter. Once it’s cooled pull the pin out so you have a pinhole nozzle. It’ll spray the shaving cream ten feet or more.

I honestly forget how I learned that trick…

I hope somebody documents every penny Texas wastes on this frivolous crap.

I was going to mention this as well. I doubt it’s the case with this theft given how it was done, but my wife recently finished reading a book about Stéphane Breitwieser who admitted to stealing over 200 works of art from smaller museums throughout Europe in the late 90s. He kept pretty much everything he stole for his personal collection.

To add a bit of context, I listened to a talk about a year ago by retired Admiral James Stavridis (sp?) who served for a time as NATO supreme commander. He pointed out that when you get to a rank like his you will not only have sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution multiple times but you will also have administered it to hundreds of other soldiers & sailors. They take it VERY seriously.

So called “less than lethal” weapons can and do still kill people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Victoria_Snelgrove

My wife has a dog boarding business, and a good number of the dogs have air tags attached to their collars. Most of the owners geofence around our home/boarding facility so that we don’t get constantly nagged by them. But when we drive one of these dogs somewhere (usually to walk/exercise them on a hiking trail etc) we often get alerts on our iPhones about unrecognized air tags that have been nearby us for a prolonged time. It will include a map showing our track and where/when the air tag was detected each time along the way.

So while I don’t use them personally I’ve seen that they do indeed work quite well. Maybe next time I travel I’ll get one for my luggage.

That’s just one way a drone can detonate. It’s simple & effective. The two wires you see in some drone videos are part of the detonator circuit. When the wires touch the circuit is complete and the explosive is detonated. So just crash the drone into pretty much anything and up it goes.

But you can also rig a drone to detonate remotely, which can be helpful in certain situations. Drones that are controlled fiber-optically can be used for precision attacks where you might want to fly them into buildings, etc. and not have them detonate prematurely by bumping into something.

The Ukraine attacks on Russian bombers 4-5 months ago likely used a combination of these. They would want the drones to detonate when they crashed into the aircraft, but wouldn’t want to risk them detonating while they were being transported to where they were eventually launched. When the drones launched near the targets they were likely remotely armed, so that when they crashed they would detonate, but not before then.

It would also be great to know what was damaged/destroyed at each one. Storage tanks are relatively easy to replace, but the distillation columns are the heart of a refinery and much more difficult to repair or replace. A refinery could probably be at least partially working again within a few days if it’s just storage tanks that burned, but destroy the distillation column and the whole thing will likely be offline for months (or years).

You mention it’s listening on port 53, but have you actually tried DNS queries to see how it responds? Will it resolve www.google.com or <reverse_ip>.in-address.arpa?

So glad to hear this. Had Insteon in my old house and moved when they shut down, so I’m mostly using eave now in the new house. I loved Insteon, and kept my hub & plug in modules when we moved. I’ll definitely consider using them again going forward.

“Life was filled with guns and war,” the song begins, “and everyone got trampled on the floor. I wish we’d all been ready.”

Wow, sounds like we’re already living it today…

Simply linking the cars wouldn’t be enough to address an issue like this though. They still need to individually recognize something like the debris this car ran over and deal with it appropriately.

If cars are linked to share data like this then I can easily see a scenario where one model of car with really good sensors sends a warning saying “hey, there’s road debris here”. But subsequent cars still need to be able to see it and avoid it as well. If the sensors in a following car aren’t as good as the sensors in the first car then that second car could still strike it.

Debris doesn’t remain stationary. Each vehicle that hits it will move it, possibly break it into multiple pieces, etc. And eventually, either through that process or by a person moving it, it will cease being a hazard.

I saw a similar video a couple weeks ago. The bridge was mined but the Russians had apparently strung up anti-drone netting all around it as well. Watching the drone maneuver around to find a clear path to reach & detonate the explosives really made me think it was some sort of modern day 3D video game…

Only difference is Costco has plenty of gas for everybody.

So when are they going to launch a dozen or so of these at the Kerch bridge?

Reminds me of the estimated 3,000 pairs of shoes that Imelda Marcos reportedly had.

His boyfriend Putin says it’s a bad idea. That’s enough for Trump.

ISIS has/had for a while a really good recruitment program that identified and groomed Muslim ideologists. I have a distant relative that was married to such a Muslim man. He was recruited by them, eventually proclaimed himself a member, and to make a long story short will now spend most of the rest of his life in jail.

That coordinated remote attack a couple months ago against parked bombers has got to be a huge wake-up call that’s giving military leaders around the world nightmares. I can’t wait to see what way-outside-the-box tactic they dream up next.

I’d be wary of one or more colors fading over time unless you are VERY careful with how you print these. Being monochromatic, QR codes don’t have such issues. It would likely also be easier to recover a faded QR code than a colored bar code.