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Yes they do https://www.amazon.com/Extra-B...

The Lightning port is not removed but is currently in use for charging.

All the time?

And have you noticed they have THESE?

https://www.amazon.com/CaseyPo...

Or, if you want really nice support, this one has a 3.5mm jack (with I think microphone support) AND a Lightning Headset Jack (although only one of the audio-interfaces can be used at a time), AND a Lightning Charging Port: Yes, it has a little "enclosure"; but I assume that you won't be charging while walking around with your phone; so it hardly fucking matters:

https://www.amazon.com/Compati...

The Lightning port is not removed but is currently in use for charging.

All the time?

And have you noticed they have THESE?

https://www.amazon.com/CaseyPo...

Or, if you want really nice support, this one has a 3.5mm jack (with I think microphone support) AND a Lightning Headset Jack (although only one of the audio-interfaces can be used at a time), AND a Lightning Charging Port: Yes, it has a little "enclosure"; but I assume that you won't be charging while walking around with your phone; so it hardly fucking matters:

https://www.amazon.com/Compati...

How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty

Download a PDF file of the book: Entire book, 312 pages (PDF file)

Review of the book.

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/1...

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Tons of very useful links from the hackaday link, in no particular order:

http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Pa... http://www.lindeni.org/lindeni... https://www.elecrow.com/ https://gist.github.com/probon... https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod... https://www.reddit.com/r/elect... https://github.com/petit-miner... https://www.pine64.org/?produc... https://www.pine64.org/?produc... https://www.pine64.org/?produc... https://www.board-db.org/ https://github.com/NextThingCo... https://detail.1688.com/offer/... https://detail.1688.com/offer/... https://www.aliexpress.com/ite... https://github.com/NextThingCo

Plus this ---> How to hand solder the Allwinner chip

Last, but not least, the following 3 youtube links for more soldering tips and tricks:

https://www.youtube.com/result...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/result...

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/1...

Mod parent up!

Tons of very useful links from the hackaday link, in no particular order:

  http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Pa...
  http://www.lindeni.org/lindeni...
  https://www.elecrow.com/
  https://gist.github.com/probon...
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
  https://www.reddit.com/r/elect...
  https://github.com/petit-miner...
  https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
  https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
  https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
  https://www.board-db.org/
  https://github.com/NextThingCo...
  https://detail.1688.com/offer/...
  https://detail.1688.com/offer/...
  https://www.aliexpress.com/ite...
  https://github.com/NextThingCo

Plus this ---> How to hand solder the Allwinner chip

https://hackaday.com/2018/09/1...

Mod parent up!

Tons of very useful links from the hackaday link, in no particular order:

http://linux-sunxi.org/Main_Pa...
http://www.lindeni.org/lindeni...
https://www.elecrow.com/
https://gist.github.com/probon...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
https://www.reddit.com/r/elect...
https://github.com/petit-miner...
https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
https://www.pine64.org/?produc...
https://www.board-db.org/
https://github.com/NextThingCo...
https://detail.1688.com/offer/...
https://detail.1688.com/offer/...
https://www.aliexpress.com/ite...
https://github.com/NextThingCo

PPH observed:

Those who divide people into two types and those who don't.

Better known as Benchley's Law of Distinction.

The original version, which was part of the great man's humorous "book review" of the New York City telephone book, published in the February 1920 edition of Vanity Fair, is:

There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes, and those who do not.

It was misquoted - without attribution to Robert Benchley - in a New York Times book review in 1949 as:

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who don't.

That's also the form in which it first appeared as Benchley's Law in the 1979 compilation titled 1,001 Logical Laws.

A whole bunch of other variants on the original exist, and Garson O'Toole gathers them in one place in The Quote Investigator's very interesting web page on the subject.

It's well worth a visit ...

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LOL. Her name is Meredith F. Small:
https://www.amazon.com/Our-Bab...

slicing the bread evenly by hand is kind of a pain in the ass

Try something like this: https://smile.amazon.com/Kenle...

I do enjoy it when the reviews get to be tongue-in-cheek, there are plenty of examples. But I only just saw the reviews for these apple headphone adaptors which are apparently...

The best martial art training product...

An excellent popup tent

If you like your whiskey neat and your rifles wooden, this ones for you

I wonder how much you have to pay to get reviews like that

Twenty minutes you total slow coach.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jamie...

Or you could do it with random ingredients in 20 minutes

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

And I have a random Jamie Oliver app that I got free on App of the Day back when I had a Kindle Fire HD

https://www.amazon.com/Zolmo-J...

My take is that none of these times include clear up and you need good knife skills to make the times.

The alternative approach I like is to make a large batch of food that I then freeze as individual portions. So I next weekend I will be making a batch of bolognese source. It will be enough for 12 portions and will take about two hours all told. So that's 10 minutes a meal, and it takes 2 minutes a portion to heat in a microwave, and 10 minutes for the pasta in a pan.

"unlike cutting boads" - Nope - These glass boards are only one type. Nylon exists as well.

On GAN's generally, since no actual research is linked to, here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.266...

That was a profoundly influential paper. A must read for anyone interested in modern AI.

Ian Goodfellow, the primary author, also co-authored Deep Learning, the best book available for learning about deep neural nets.

There have been continuous price increases in the United States. ... Cans of Tuna, for example, went from 6.5 ounces to 6 ounces and the reduction continued to 3 ounces. They found a weakness in the customers. The customer may remember the price, but may not notice that the can size has been reduced by 0.5 ounce, and the amount of water has increased.

Similarly, toilet paper went from being (typically) 4.25" x 4.25" to slightly smaller (and now often not square) without a price reduction - which is, effectively, a price increase. People often simply shop by package price w/o noticing the unit values.

There have been continuous price increases in the United States.

The grocery stores and food producers are extremely hostile toward customers. Cans of Tuna, for example, went from 6.5 ounces to 6 ounces and the reduction continued to 3 ounces. They found a weakness in the customers. The customer may remember the price, but may not notice that the can size has been reduced by 0.5 ounce, and the amount of water has increased.

It's good to make your own bread. For example: Adm Whole Wheat Flour # 17688, $13.98 / Unit (50 lb). When you buy bread, it may be $2.50 per pound or more, and the weight includes the water in the bread. You can buy the flour used to make bread for $0.28, 28 cents per pound.

There are many examples like that.

Currently I am not actually READING any books, I am writing them. I have had one book published by CreateSpace for several years, but have been unable to promote it. Recently I went back to it and discovered a TON of errors, so I pulled it from publication, re-edited it, partially re-wrote it, and have now had it published on Amazon... I would appreciate some feedback on the story... https://www.amazon.com/dp/1720...

The premise here is clickbait, pure and unalloyed.

Without bothering to read TFA, the headline is so deliberately misleading (and, mind you, it's the actual title of this self-styled economic think tank's paper on the subject) that it's perfectly safe to assume that this announcement is solely for the purpose of trying to drum up business for Flassbeck Economics' consultants.

And the results will shock you ... !

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Some reviews:

Reporter by Seymour Hersh review – memoir of a giant of journalism

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You would enjoy:

The Quantum Labyrinth: How Richard Feynman and John Wheeler Revolutionized Time and Reality by Paul Halpen, who worked with both.

The story of the unlikely friendship between the two physicists who fundamentally recast the notion of time and history

Feynmans's antics are quite legendary and discussed here.

The Joy of Linux
A Gourmet Guide To Open Source

https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Lin...

...allow the full range of modern relationships?

You mean like this goatse connector?

But you won't by yourself modify every single analog only device, specially all those that you don't own :

  - rental cars (these tend to be old and with as few options as possible)
  - the speaker set at a friend's appartment when they throw a party, and some iPhone user want to stream their playlist instead of the friend's laptop's.

Uh....did you look at what I posted? It's just a little BT received that plugs into the stereo's aux port, just like an audio cable. You can easily plug it into anything you'd plug an audio (headphones) cable into.

Also, bluetooth won't share sound (e.g.: two users watching s movie from the same tablet in a plane).

If you have a specialized need like this, again, the solution is easy. You get a BT transmitter that sends to two devices, like this:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

I happen to already own one (bought for use with my TV). Plug your lightning to headphones dongle into it, and then use two pair of WHATEVER headphones you want. Easy peasy.

Now, I will grant you, spending $60 on something like that is unappealing (there may be cheaper ones for all I know), but if you've already spent a couple of thousand on phones for you and your girlfriend, plus tickets for the flight to wherever you're going, what's another $60?

Of course, if you want to use your wired headphones, all you have to do is plug the lightning to headphones dongle into the y-splitter, and the headphones into that.

I just don't see the issue. People just want to bitch.

Exactly- the average car on the road is now 10 years old- they're lasting longer these days. I have a 6 year old car- I intend to keep it at least another 6 years (3 average phone lifespans for most people). It doesn't have Bluetooth. I use my analog out every single day.

My Jeep IS 11 years old. It has the OEM stereo, without Bluetooth. For a whole $15, I added one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

Plugged it in and leave it there. Now my phone sends music and GPS directions to my Jeep's stereo flawlessly. And I don't have to fuck around with an audio cable either.

but having bluetooth headphones doesn't help with connecting a phone to an older car or a stereo.

Spend a few bucks for one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

Works great in my Jeep.

than have to worry about keeping the non-replaceable batteries in headphones charged (yet more planned obsolescence).

So get a pair with a replaceable battery like I did. Been using them for 7 years....still haven't replaced the battery anyway though.

They're idiots, all. It's not a "headphone jack," it's an analog audio jack.

It's used almost exclusively as a headphone jack by 99%+ of users. You are technically correct but calling it a headphone jack isn't actually wrong.

It works with headphones, but having bluetooth headphones doesn't help with connecting a phone to an older car or a stereo.

You can buy a bluetooth adapter with a 3.5mm jack to give any device this capability for less than $20. I did this with an older truck of mine that had a 3.5mm jack but no bluetooth. And it's a LOT easier to deal with that plugging in a loose audio cable to my phone every time I get in the vehicle.

BT audio is more complex, costly, and inconvenient.

Oh bullshit. The cost differential is a few dollars at most and your smartphone is going to have bluetooth anyway. It's not complex and it's actually FAR more convenient in a lot of use cases. Personally I absolutely hate wrangling cords which is ironic since I make wire harnesses for a living.

And the "we traded a jack for more battery life" is pure and simple bullshit.

Not really sure how you came to this conclusion. If they pulled out the jack and dedicated that space budget to a batter then it is the absolute truth. It's going to be a marginal improvement but it's one I personally would take every time since I don't use the jack. Obviously others feel the same way.

The DAC in that adapter sucks way more battery than the infinitesimal bit gained by removing the jack.

That is nothing more than an assumption on your part without evidence provided to back it up.

Thank God we haven't done that in automotive yet. You still can buy replacement male and female bits for them. (I have yet to see a computer cable which can be either-gendered referred to in any way other than male or female, though.)

It's funny you mention that.
I couldn't come up with a computer cable related example for one of those either, and the first example that came to mind was actually is automotive related.

I've seen these but didn't know what they were called before:
https://www.amazon.com/Hopkins-47965-2-Pole-Flat-Extension/dp/B0002Q80RW

Yeah it's not like the app store on Android, does anything like this

Yeah. It really isn't like that at all.

Actually it pretty much is, more explanation follows.

If I download the Firefox apk from Mozilla's site, and then install it, the play store does not interfere (assuming I even bother to install GApps).

The same holds true on windows just not edge.

Now I have 2 android 7 inch tablets, 2 android phones, 2 10 inch android combo devices (tablet with keyboard) 1 11.5 inch combo device

Everyone of them came preloaded with GApps and none of them was properly configured to just mount a flash drive if attached. In the case of the small devices they didn't even have USB-A sockets so without an adapter it's good luck putting software on them without intermediate steps.

As I pointed out in another post

https://www.amazon.com/Perform... this tablet was actually locked down and is either by google or the manufacturer unable to operate any browser other than Chrome and an old version of that. I'm in process of disputing the purchase a task that actually has negative economic value for me.

aepervius offered:

p>Until Brexit all laws voted apply to UK. And if you think for a SECOND that the UK government will remove that particular one post-brexit, when they will be lobbied left and right to keep it by content holder, I have a bridge to sell you in London. Cheap.

Is it the Tower Bridge?

Please say it's the Tower Bridge! It'll make such a nice bookend with that one in Arizona ... !

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Search result finds only a $60 option.

Yes, searching for your text exactly finds just a $60 option.

But get rid of the "FC-" part and your link is the first in the list.

So it seems more like their search just plain sucks instead of actual malice.

Search result finds only a $60 option.

Yes, searching for your text exactly finds just a $60 option.

But get rid of the "FC-" part and your link is the first in the list.

So it seems more like their search just plain sucks instead of actual malice.

Product name from previous order: "SHIMANO FC-CX70 Chainring"
Link to still sold product: https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...
Link costs $39. Search result finds only a $60 option. Why am I paying for Prime, yet I get Reamed instead?

You should prolly get some cereal too. Just saying. Survivors luv them some cereal! I can't recommend it enough.

That's certainly not true. On a daily basis, I use my phone to connect to my Schuberth motorcycle helmet headset, a pair of Sennheiser headphones at my desk, and a UE Megaboom. The devices were all paired a long time ago. I can switch between these connections on my phone, at will, with no issues.

Oh yeah - and also throw into that mix the cheap-ass Bluetooth receiver that plugs into the aux port in my Jeep. The phone connects to that without re-pairing just fine too.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

Actually, when ice floating in water melts, the overall water level does not change at all. That's how flotation and water displacement work.

Your 3rd grade child can demonstrate for you, in your kitchen, with an ice cube and a red plastic cup.

Anybody who tells you otherwise is looking for investment dollars, but has nothing to sell.

Actually, when ice floating in water melts, the overall water level does not change at all. That's how flotation and water displacement work.

Your 3rd grade child can demonstrate for you, in your kitchen, with an ice cube and a red plastic cup.

Anybody who tells you otherwise is looking for investment dollars, but has nothing to sell.

Because paper straws do not exist? Of course if disabled people need to use a plastic straw instead of any of the alternatives, they can carry some with themselves though it would be a good idea for restaurants to keep a supply on hand for their disabled customers.

This is very likely the only time the AC expresses any interest in the problems of the disabled, when it is an excuse to say "fucking liberals". If someone were to suggest that laws require restaurants to keep a supply of plastic straws for the disabled the AC would probably post to denounce those "fucking liberals" imposing snowflake requirements on "the market".

kenh quoted TFS thusly:

As a compromise, prison officials offered to download the already-purchased music to a CD, and then mail that CD to someone outside the prison. For a $25 fee.

Then he reacted to it this way:

Is Apple as accommodating when you chose to quit using iTunes?

Will your local cable company burn your 'legally purchased' movies to DVD when you switch to Sattelite TV?

First, Apple is not a cable company. Likewise, cable TV companies, however much they might like to pretend otherwise, are not tech companies, and they are only now beginning to get into content streaming, as their customers become sophisticated enough to realize that "tiered" TV service bundles are simply a pretext to sell them channels they don't and won't watch in order to get the ones they want - and abandon en masse both cable and satellite TV subscriptions in favor of streaming services that actually understand their market. Nor do cable TV companies sell music subscriptions. Two very different business models, two entirely different kinds of product, which you have conflated here.

Having said that, I think it's fair to point out that switching away from Apple and iTunes doesn't mean you have to give up the music you purchased from it. In fact, Apple even offers a tutorial on how convert your iTunes library to MP3s. So, your attempt to further conflate Apple's business model with that of Jpay has no basis in fact. (Full disclosure here: I own an iPad 2 - which I use as an ereader when I'm on the toilet. Otherwise, I'm not at all an Apple customer, nor do I purchase any content whatever from iTunes.)

Your complaint about cable TV companies is, likewise, ungrounded in reality. You do not - indeed, you cannot - "purchase" movies from them. You can, however, opt to pay a premium to watch "pay-per-view" movies in the short time between their theatrical run and their release in DVD/Blueray/digital-download formats - and via HBO and other streaming services. The name of that service should be more than enough clue to the fact that customers who choose that option are not, in any legal sense, purchasing the movies they watch, but instead are merely paying for the privilege of watching them on those services. Give up the services, and you give up the privilege. Likewise, once you watch your pay-per-view movie, if you wish to watch it again, you have the choice of waiting until it's available on the premium channels (which, again, you are paying a monthly fee to watch) or DVD/etc. formats for you to purchase, or paying the pay-per-view fee a second time to do so. Regardless, as long as you're watching them courtesy of a cable/satellite subscription, at no time do you ever actually own them. Period.

Don't mistake this for a defense of Jpay's business model. s entirely based on sweetheart, monopoly deals with state prison systems to exploit a literally-captive audience that could hardly be more corrupt if they were openly run by the Mafia ...

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I'm quoting the sibling post because it's got some good information that's being ignored out of a lack of moderation points for ACs.

That "rando" is Dr. Ripu Malhotra. I put his name in Google and found his author bio on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Ripudam...

His "Cubic Mile of Oil" blog is his means to updates to the book he co-authored of the same name.
https://www.amazon.com/Cubic-M...

I believe this is an authoritative source.

Here's another "rando" that also happens to have a doctorate degree in how the environment works. Dr. Patrick Moore. He was a founding member of Greenpeace but left after they lost their sight on the science behind their motives.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/food...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Greenpeace hates chlorine, because chlorine was used as a weapon in World War One. Well, it's chlorine that keeps municipal water systems safe for drinking. Chlorine is the basis of many medicines. Just like we use nuclear technology to fight cancer, diagnose diseases, explore the universe, and provide safe and plentiful energy. But, because we also used nuclear technology to make weapons, we have groups like Greenpeace opposing nuclear power. Dr. Moore likes nuclear power and he's convinced me to like nuclear power.

I'll take the words of two people with doctorates on the merits of nuclear power over a bunch of "randos" on the internet. Maybe if people stopped to look at the science instead of the hysteria from Greempeace then we'd have a much better world to live in.

But what do I know, I'm just some "rando" typing on a computer in his basement. Don't listen to me, listen to Dr. Malhotra and Dr. Moore.

I'm quoting the sibling post because it's got some good information that's being ignored out of a lack of moderation points for ACs.

That "rando" is Dr. Ripu Malhotra. I put his name in Google and found his author bio on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/Ripudam...

His "Cubic Mile of Oil" blog is his means to updates to the book he co-authored of the same name.
https://www.amazon.com/Cubic-M...

I believe this is an authoritative source.

Here's another "rando" that also happens to have a doctorate degree in how the environment works. Dr. Patrick Moore. He was a founding member of Greenpeace but left after they lost their sight on the science behind their motives.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/food...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Greenpeace hates chlorine, because chlorine was used as a weapon in World War One. Well, it's chlorine that keeps municipal water systems safe for drinking. Chlorine is the basis of many medicines. Just like we use nuclear technology to fight cancer, diagnose diseases, explore the universe, and provide safe and plentiful energy. But, because we also used nuclear technology to make weapons, we have groups like Greenpeace opposing nuclear power. Dr. Moore likes nuclear power and he's convinced me to like nuclear power.

I'll take the words of two people with doctorates on the merits of nuclear power over a bunch of "randos" on the internet. Maybe if people stopped to look at the science instead of the hysteria from Greempeace then we'd have a much better world to live in.

But what do I know, I'm just some "rando" typing on a computer in his basement. Don't listen to me, listen to Dr. Malhotra and Dr. Moore.

Another Anonymous Coward noted:

because, well, why not? 10 times better tweeter sounds and a noise floor so quiet your ears will go DEAF and more channels that Amsterdam has hooker hangouts along the canals. But then there's this poophead here,

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphm...

I make it a rule not to waste mod points on AC comments. I broke that rule for this one, because the amount of technical detail in the link it included, and the links it contains to tools that will let interested parties actually test many of the assertions its author makes are, in fact EXTREMELY informative. Anyone who cares about audio quality for end-user playback needs to understand the scientifically-tested-and-confirmed facts about the physiology of human hearing and the effects of various sampling rates on user-detectable qualitative differences between them.

The article linked does a superb job of providing the factual information that's necessary to understand both the technical issues involved in audio sampling, mixing, mastering, and playback, and the experimental bias that colors most anecdotal observations about the physiological capacity of humans to distinguish between them during playback. If you want to discuss the subject with any real level of technical expertise, you really need to understand the issues it dissects ...

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2xx is a successful response, and I assume they have enough brains to report hitting a traffic limit as an error. Also, they have the entire AWS system at their disposal. Why would they put in traffic limits or de-prioritize themselves vs. their AWS clients?

Why the actual search results aren't in the page body and instead are fetched after page load is a question that I don't even want to try to answer.

On the other hand, I do see 502 and 503 errors related to their (newish) advertising platform. And maybe that was implemented in a way that breaks the rest of the page. Google says this page was updated in the last 3 hours: https://advertising.amazon.com...

Bingo.

Not to mention all this shit is on somebody else's computer. Sorry, but AWS performance is dogshit compared to bare metal. Cheaper in the long run and at massive scale, of course, but you get what you pay for.

If you want bare metal at AWS, you can have it. But with nvme drives and ehhanced networking that gives the VM nearly direct disk and network hardware access, there's not a whole lot of overhead in an AWS VM.

DMCA is for copyright. This isn't about copyright, this is about negligence. Jones' listeners already have a history of going off half cocked. My guess is google, Twitter, etc are worried about a negligence lawsuit the next time one of them fires a gun if it hits something.

They could hide behind common carrier, but that's a very high bar to meet. It means being a dumb pipe, like the telephone company. It wouldn't be worth it. They couldn't even ban trolls from flood posting and the like. No social network could survive that.

Instead they're policing their network as best the can. Make no mistake, they didn't want to kick Jones & his ilk off. His viewer's money spends the same as everyone else's and they'd be happy with the advertising dollars. The final straw was when he mimed shooting Bob Mueller.

If you want a sci-fi take on what they're afraid of go read this. I'm not saying Jones is trying to get somebody killed, but I'm saying words have power (as that Pizzagate business proved) and Jones is using them recklessly.

When was the last time a kid said 'I prefer my chromebook to a windows or Mac laptop?'

I think most people who compare a $200-$300 Windows laptop to a Chromebook picks the Chromebook. I think you're really underestimating how popular Chromebooks are. Remember that those inexpensive Windows laptops are a response to the popularity of Chromebooks.

> I've never heard anyone refer to C/C++ (or languages of similar power) as 'dangerous' before.

It is obvious you haven't been using C/C++ very long, Bjarne Stroustrup said this about C and C++

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

There is even a famous book:

Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming

This article is all over the place, starts with trying to stop crime but ends up claiming crime isn't the problem, it's police corruption, so is this to stop crimes or stopping police corruption? Because there's simpler ways to stop police corruption.

Piloted plane? Is this 2003? A team of automated drones doing wide circles would be much cheaper than even one piloted plane and provide better footage in real time 24/7. Cost of a plane with maintenance, fuel, paid pilot, etc would cost a fortune in comparison.

And what about cameras? Why drones? Yes a drone could cover a wider area than a camera could, but they're also susceptible to weather, higher failure rate, battery replacement, etc. A few cameras with microphones could even triangulate the location of where shots were fired. Drones don't pick up sound so they could not do that. And with 1080p wifi cameras selling for as low as $25 now days you could have dozens of cameras for the price of a decent drone so really drones are too expensive too if the goal is to capture video over a wide area.

And we see shootings in front of cameras all the time, I don't know if cameras actually reduce time or just increase arrest rates.

I like the idea of decreasing crime, I just don't think these people know how to go about it since they're suggesting something as silly as a piloted plane with a camera attached when there are much better alternatives.

These Titan keys are the same hardware as the Feitian FIDO keys, but supposedly with a custom firmware so not a simple rebranding.

I'm curious to know how these compare.

"Chinese for Dummies"

Does the law say you can eat a bowl of Cheerios in the morning? Better put that spoon down! Unless there is a law on the books prohibiting an action, ANY action is essentially legal. There is NO LAW saying you cannot distribute information about building a firearm (in fact, Amazon has a full list of books on how to turn basic materials into firearms), thus the information is completely legal.

What scares me about you and people with your opinion is that you have turned over ALL your freedoms and rights to the Government. You don't get it - they are YOUR RIGHTS, from the Creator and inherent. You choose to surrender ALL to the Government, and let IT dictate what you can do. One of the central tenets of the Constitution was the duties of Government were limited, and - as the Constitution itself says - it lists what the Federal Government can do. If it's not in that list - it cannot do it.

Our system of law is prohibitive, not permissive; it says what you cannot do - not what you can do. If there is no law restricting the distribution of this 3D file, then it is implicitly legal, and a judge has ZERO basis for banning such distribution. There is no legal grounds for Government to "ban" something without a law behind it.

People with your viewpoint on Government and governance are the true threat to freedom. You wish to turn this concept on its head, effectively allowing Government to tell you what you can do. To lose all freedoms and rights and become a mere serf. It is because Government has defined limits to its powers, and that we have the freedom to do as we will if no law restricts, that keeps society moving. Your approach leads to the USSR, to feudalism, to slavery. You willingly clamp a chain around your neck and hand it to your master - because they get to say what you can do. Sad.