skillissuer

study or preprint?

at least glass is nontoxic

it was ridiculously expensive and almost useless. it's a tank sized dazzler, and it's also very visible to everyone when in use

today we have more powerful lasers that are also more compact, lighter and more efficient. i heard there's some use in ground based missile defense, and that even some combat shootdowns happened, but it's still highly experimental and needs power source. fine on CVN, less so on land

here you have perun video on this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGzL3fZgPZY

i think there's also a kind of anti-IR guided anti-aircraft missile thing that consists of IR laser that is supposed to burn its sensors, and it might be mounted on some western jets. it's also much closer range and not sure if it's a thing. it's also much easier than burning missile part that is not a sensor, like in GBAD scenario

tank of lasers, you say?

Freedom is when nothing works, got it

but there already is some form of address that govt knows, in most of cases, right? when govt needs to deliver something to you, like, say, court order, they need some address

out there it works like this: there is a legal requirement to have registered an address. it's on you, because when it's not done, some important papers might end up somewhere where you have no idea they might be. it's not in ID, and based on this couple of things are determined like voter lists per district or what tax office are you associated with

okay so in absence of federal ID how do you authenticate anything when dealing with govt things? just by SSN? we have something similar, but years of security malpractice by people who were not trained to do this made these numbers public to probable attackers, so authentication with just that is not considered secure for a couple of years by now. instead, with anything important (like taking a loan, opening bank account, buying a car or real estate etc), you have to also provide your ID number which doesn't have this problem

but wait there's more

on top of that, for a year of so, govt implemented a switch in that service from upthread, you can also access it offline. this switch allows you to deactivate your SSN-like number so that anything authenticated with that when it's off is considered legally void, and probably won't work in the first place because it's supposed to be checked in national db. when you have to authenticate something legitimately, you can switch it on for a day, then switch it off again. this was in response to incidents of identity theft

for some things, but not all things, you can also use digital signature

this is the kind of shit that didn't ever happen even in the most brazen ripping-copper-from-the-walls years of 90s privatization in eastern block. yall elected your own yeltsin and now you'll deal with consequences

from what i understand, lack of single national ID gives (part of?) legal justification for this bullshit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_caging that republicans use for voter suppression. idk details, american would have to weigh in

i bet that both of ukrainian users are real mad about it rn

it's not even the first time it's caught on video, it's their design, you'd guess they'll know how to deal with it, but no

expected demining of this one is supposed to be done with heavy machine gun fire from far away, because there's explicitly no safe way to even approach this thing