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Contrary to the claim in this "study", articles have been coming out over the past 6 years or so claiming just the opposite.
I guess results depend on who is funding the study.Also, I'm sure there's zero bias from the AMA.either way on this topic
http://caledonianmercury.com/2...
another from 2013: http://io9.gizmodo.com/5983991...

Yet another from 2013
https://gigaom.com/2013/02/11/...

I think the first time I saw this in action was in The Dead Pool (the Dirty Harry movie, not Deadpool). It was just an RC car with explosives, but the only difference here is that the "drones" are capable of flight. I'm sure it's been done in other works of fiction as well.

It was done in real life during WW2. The drones were four engine B24 or B17 bombers packed with high explosives and crashed into high value targets. Pilots would fly the aircraft for takeoff, bail out, and the drone would be radio controlled with the help of primitive TVs from another aircraft.

The Germans had remote controlled weapons in WW2, the 'Mistel' being the most famous. It was intended mainly as an anti-ship weapon to be used against Allied shipping mainly in the English Channel and North Sea.

The Mistel weapons that actually saw deployment and use consisted of either the Focke-Wulf FW-190 A-8 or F-8 model or Bf-109 F-4 model single-engine fighter (stripped of weapons and loaded with control equipment) attached by explosive bolts atop a twin-engine Junkers Ju-88 A-4 or G-1 model bomber modified for control-by-wire and loaded with a specially-designed, shaped-charge warhead weighing close to two tons.

Control inputs to the released Ju-88 by the pilot in the fighter aircraft were transmitted by a set of very thin and long wires. The weapon proved not to be very effective as accuracy was an issue. The pilot must simultaneously fly his own aircraft (usually under heavy AAA fire) and guide the Ju-88 visually from his aircraft while staying within the range the control wires allow, which would be an extremely difficult task even for a seasoned pilot who is not under fire.

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

The Germans also used the 'Goliath' wire-controlled mobile mine on a set of small tracks in both electric and gasoline-powered versions.

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

I have to wonder if this story is being put out there as a part of government-directed PR/propaganda groundwork as a prelude to passing far more strict US consumer drone regulations in the near future.

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The Nazi Germans also had glide bombs:

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

Some of the Henschel bombs hand TV guidance and there was a B&V model under development that was radar homing.

The Allies had Glide bombs too most prominent being the American 'Aeronca' GB series and the Azon:

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

However, the fun really started during WWI when the allies developed a primitive cruise missile and the Germans developed a wire guided gliding torpedo dropped from Zeppelin air ships and heavy bomber aircraft:

http://warnepieces.blogspot.co...
http://gizmodo.com/this-flying...

The cruise missile was a bit of a failure but the glide torpedo was tested and might have become a successful operational weapon.

Assange doesn't even REALLY believe he's a target of America. If he did he would stop leaking this stuff. Anyone else remember when wikileaks said it would release documents about Russia? Then the Russian security service threatened them publicly? And then they haven't released any anti-Russia stuff since? Assange even removed anti-Russian documents from the Syria release.

That is nice for you, but the vast majority of the country does not and will not be covered by FIOS as verizon has completed their roll out.
http://gizmodo.com/after-billi...

Nah, it's a lie. And I stand by that. http://www.slate.com/articles/... http://www.yalescientific.org/... http://io9.gizmodo.com/5911969... I mean hell, even Snopes can't verify it: http://www.snopes.com/great-pa... Now, I did that in 5.3 seconds of google searching....why couldn't you?

Let's not forget all those shady start-ups she bought. Marissa Mayer's Yahoo acquisitions

I'm surprised no one else noticed or commented yet on the final images. Elon isn't just talking travel in this clip - not even just settling the planet - he implies subtly that we can bring water back to Mars and terraform it. Mars goes from the red planet, to Red and Green and Blue. Now that's ambition. But, should we expect anything else from an alien

In this universe, electrons are for all practical purposes, immortal. No need to worry about running out of them.

Then you have no idea of differences between trademark, copyright, and patents... You can't trademark sound or lyric

Before correcting me on this, you might want to get an education, because you obviously lack one. Seriously. You can in fact trademark sounds. Want proof? How about a link directly to the government office that grants exactly those kinds of trademarks:

http://www.uspto.gov/trademark...

Seriously haven't you ever seen the beginning of MGM movies with the roaring lion, with the words "Trademark" written on it? Lo and behold, the roaring lion sound is trademarked. And, much more relevant to TFA, an example of a trademarked ringtone is the Nokia jingle. You'd have to be living under a rock to miss either of these, and both can be found on that page I just linked, including their relevant trademark case numbers just for the sound and nothing else.

Furthermore, look at what Monster cable has sued for. It goes WELL beyond the domain of any marks that they currently own, and I even provided examples, such as suing a miniature golf company.

http://gizmodo.com/393365/mons...

I am completely aware of the differences, however it seems that you are not aware of (and thus are uneducated about) what all a trademark covers, nor are you aware of what people have sued for outside of their trademarked domain. Yet somehow I got modded troll and you got modded insightful in spite of the fact that I'm very clearly right and you're very clearly wrong, with proof to back that statement up. Slashdot's wonderful moderation at work. And yes, I'm irked at that, hence the tone of my post.

Again, AMOS-6 was not in any way owned by Facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg begs to differ: https://gizmodo.com/mark-zucke...

As I’m here in Africa, I’m deeply disappointed to hear that SpaceX’s launch failure destroyed our satellite...

In June, wireless headphones started outselling wired ones. http://gizmodo.com/bluetooth-h...

The reality is that the writing is already on the wall. People don't like wires if they can help it. I switched to bluetooth headphones for training because it's a lot easier to do basically anything without a cable flopping around attaching my ears to a pocket.

Bluetooth has its own problems, though. It's easily disrupted by a sweaty body (ironically, since obviously I'm sweating most in the instance where I want them most), and I've had to come up with small hacks when I've got my phone tucked in my cycling jersey pocket, like bundling up some arm warmers so they've got a big gap to my body.

So if Apple has a new wireless standard that they want to throw at me, I'm all for it.

The only time I use wired headphones is at my desk, when my phone is on a dock with an audio out. So that even solves the charging and listening problem.

I get that wired headphones are cheap, but I reckon we'll see bargain-basement headphones being sold for lightning/usb-c ports any day now, or they'll come with 3 connectors in the box.

http://gizmodo.com/itt-is-offi...

I am a current student at ITT. Went to campus today to study and was kicked out. The dean stated they were closing campus early for the holiday. I sat in the parking lot and watched staff go in and clear out personal affects. [...] other rumor is its prep for the shut down. [...]I am one of several students that are suppose to graduate 9/29

And nothing of value was lost.

You're talking about a country where the latest trend is for audiophiles to install their own utility poles with custom transformers to isolate their equipment from noise generated from neighboring houses.

So a country full of retarded audiophiles who have no idea what they are doing, and have never heard of a AC->DC transformers that are in all electronics.

You're talking about a country where the latest trend is for audiophiles to install their own utility poles with custom transformers to isolate their equipment from noise generated from neighboring houses. Yes it's obsessive pixie dust but the Japanese know good audio equipment. Sony and Audio-Technica studio monitors are regularly in the top 10 (excluding vendors who custom make their headphones out of ground up Stradivarius and non-oxidized gold sourced from Kepler meteorites).

Eliminating pests sure worked well for the Chinese, didn't it? http://io9.gizmodo.com/5927112...

Here is a picture of somebody in China hand-pollinating a pear tree due to one of the unintended side effects (no bees): https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9wT...

The Wikipedia article overlooks the fact that the supposedly lost emails were actually found, and found when the party that lost the emails (white house staff) worked with outside vendors to recover them... See, the Bush-era emails were "lost" by accident and the Bush administration worked to find them.

Hillary with malice of forethought, had individuals review every email from her tenure at State, removing half of the emails because her staff alone decided they were "personal" and didn't need to be turned over to government. When asked about the deleted emails, Hillary simply declared them unavailable, having used high-tech means to "scrub" the server ("What, like with a towel"?).

See the difference, one party actively worked to recover the file, the other actively worked to make the emails unavailable.

Jill Stein: WIFI harms our kids(1). Gary Johnson: Jews should be forced to make wedding cakes for Nazi party members by the government(2).
Jill Stein and the green party doesn't believes in a free press, wants flat or negative GDP(3). The GP VP hangs out with holocaust denier and 9/11 truther.(4)
Gary Johnson isn't Libertarian at all.(5)
1) http://gizmodo.com/now-jill-st...
2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
4) http://www.thedailybeast.com/a...
5) http://www.dailywire.com/news/...

The fact the pool turned green, yes. However, the actual reason for it (hydrogen peroxide being dumped in it) was only revealed today everywhere.

Unless by "today" you mean at least 3 days ago, you are greatly mistaken: http://gizmodo.com/we-finally-...

http://gizmodo.com/study-peopl...

They say this is "broadband" speeds, but broadband was redefined last year to require 25Mbps downloads.

So, someone could be sneaky and say 'oh, those 10 Mbps connections aren't broadband anymore', and you just drop out the lowest numbers, and miraculously the average goes up.

Schools were using this trick by keeping the poorly performing students from taking standardized testing to raise their test averages.

Actually, the Speedtest report directly says this is exactly what they are doing. The reported numbers only consider the top 10% of speeds for a given ISP for a given location. So, the number is definitely not an average, even given that the samples are not random, e.g., people with better connections might be more likely to try the Speedtest test.

So, the absolute speed number is not directly useful as a representation of the average or distribution of connection speeds. It may yield some insight after munging it a lot. And the relative different compared to past history may be useful, but that assumes that the same population is being sampled, which is not obvious.

They say this is "broadband" speeds, but broadband was redefined last year to require 25Mbps downloads.

So, someone could be sneaky and say 'oh, those 10 Mbps connections aren't broadband anymore', and you just drop out the lowest numbers, and miraculously the average goes up.

Schools were using this trick by keeping the poorly performing students from taking standardized testing to raise their test averages.

http://gizmodo.com/you-can-now...

> This is huge news - this is first aerial circumnavigation of the globe that hasn't involved fossil fuels.

B U L L S H I T
http://gizmodo.com/flying-a-so...

* There's a 28-person Mission Control Centre in Monaco (60 people to provide round-the-clock coverage)

* It needs a Russian Ilyushin IL-76 strategic airlifter, a four-engine jet originally designed to carry machinery and military supplies into remote parts of the USSR. Yes, a fossil-fuel-burning 4-engine jet.

* The Ilyushin IL-76 carries a ground crew. You see, the Solar Impulse needs people on the runway to grab its wings when it lands. This results in shutting down a regular airport for 20 minutes, and regular passenger flights being delayed for these special snowflakes.

* Oh yeah, the wingspan is so honking big that it won't fit in a regular hangar. And it's rather fragile, so you don't want it sitting out in the open. So the Ilyushin IL-76 also carries around an inflatable hangar.

* The plane *MUST AVOID CLOUDS*. That includes cirrus overcast above it, because then its solar cells don't work.

In short, it's an expensive publicity stunt. And since they needed an Ilyushin IL-76 jet to circumnavigate the globe with them, I repeat... the bit about "fossil fuel free" is absolute bullshit.

Does the iPhone include a Geiger counter? Or is it just something like this i.e. a very expensive screen for a Geiger counter.

No, it uses "green screen" technology as part of motion sensing for the human interface - somewhat like the computer in Minority Report. Once the color key happens it's easy to "sense" motion. As an additional feature the user can be mixed with any background without using out-dated techniques such as matte painting which was used in the old Star Wars movies.

P.S.
I might also mention that, due to financial pressures, necessity dictates that I sell my part-ownership in the Mackinaw Bridge. For a total loss on my part and mere dollars from you I'll sign-over this Quit Claim Deed to you.

The same people who told us climate change wasn't real are now telling us we can't go 100% renewable.

Look at most of the solar and wind facilities being put in.
They're not "100% renewable".

They're hybrid solar/NG and wind/NG facilities. So that when solar or wind production tapers off, they "augment" by burning natural gas.

The Ivanpah solar plant in California generated 46,000 tons of CO2 emissions in its first year.
http://gizmodo.com/if-a-solar-...

A single clean coal plant generates about 1 million tons of CO2 a year (compared to a standard coal plant which pukes out about 10x as much) and recaptures about 90% of it.

Not saying we should continue with coal.

And not saying we shouldn't pursue ever better forms of renewable power and power storage tech.

I'm saying that nuclear and renewables play a complimentary role in an overall plan that delivers power reliably without being subject to huge swings in price.

... nonsense about long lost princes.

The latest nonsense involves a long-stranded black astronaut spending years on a space station; who will share his millions of dollars of back-pay with you after he's finally bought a seat on the next rocket home.

Are we seeing an actual change of the guard, and if so, is it actually to benefit privacy, security, and anonymity, or are we going to find out all these new board members have been compromised/were already working for the government to compromise our security?

I don't really believe that, but it is worth asking and scrutinizing periodically, just like the tor code and processes itself.

Very good question. Schneier has an excellent reputation and has fought considerably to free up encryption etc. On the other hand at least one of the accusations is provably false.

Probably the new board is chosen by the old board to provide a safe set of hands who are unlikely to collapse under pressure. Probably also this was an attack by a group which has a tendency to use false accusations to force people out of positions of power that they want to take over. That is a very serious situation and it's' really important to know who was behind each of the accusations.

Why does every single project meant to keep us secure have someone accused of sex crimes under fishy circumstances? Even Linus gets some of this now. I hope he avoids going anywhere without reliable witnesses present.

Why is there no mention of the fact that one of the alleged anonymous "victims" said that the people who came forward did not speak for her and that the accusations were completely false? I seem to remember that Slashdot never bothered to post that story and yes, I did, in fact, submit it.

Make of this what you will. Do we only cover the parts of the story we want people to hear?

Do you have an example of such marketing? I've never seen it.

Read *between* the lines like an actual human being. Not like a pedant trying to win an argument on a technicality.

https://www.technologyreview.c...

http://electrek.co/2016/04/20/...

"During a presentation following the release of the system, Musk said that in good road conditions âoepeople may [remove their hands from the steering-wheel], but we donâ(TM)t advise that.â "

In other words, you can do it, but we don't advise it. "wink wink [cough]lawyers made us say this[cough]".

That is generally the message they are broadcasting.

http://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-c...

" Even with this early version, itâ(TM)s almost twice as good as a person."

He doesn't say, it makes a human driver safer by acting as a useful failsafe. He specifically says it drives better than people do.

Read between the lines.

http://wccftech.com/tesla-auto...

" The feature itself has gained a lot of fame in the recent months thanks to its obvious novelty value and the fact that it is the first hands-off, self-driving technology on the market today."

Ah, but some of this is journalism and press coverage not actually marketing from Tesla. Right. So what? You think Tesla isn't loaning the cars and press kits to journalists? You think they aren't leveraging that mis information...

https://www.teslamotors.com/en...

They fucking link to it right from their own site. This link is on that page:

http://www.cnet.com/roadshow/v...

And this is the caption:
"Tesla doesn't have a fully autonomous car yet. But, with the addition of Autopilot mode, cruising down the highway is now a hands-off affair."

You can't credibly claim that Tesla isn't spreading the word that autopilot allows for 'hands off driving'; despite the disclaimers here and there.

I don't know that it was ever proven to be deliberate behavior, but they are allowed to do it regardless.

If it is legal and you are free to opt out, then there isn't really a problem. Opt out.

So you see no moral issues with the largest social media site with 1.60+ billion users manipulating the news its users see?

Acceptability is a personal decision. With most unacceptable things, you can either opt out, ignore it, or setup an alternative.

Yes, that has worked well in the operating system arena with Microsoft throwing their whole weight against competitors.

You could also legally call someone names on the street, but it doesn't mean it's acceptable nor that the community should tolerate it.

They already have a procedure similar to this where they harvest and grow unmodified T-Cells. They extract them from vicinity of the tumor and then replicate them.

That's not really the same thing. What's new here is using CRISPR to edit the genes of the T cells. Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/everything-...

And there was a voluntary recall, and his Jeep was one of the ones affected.

• Rare. The isotopes whose properties match the use criteria are mostly generated in breeder reactors or reactors specialized for generating medical isotopes, or as a byproduct of weapons grade plutonium production.
• Expensive. Due to protests over their use, any launch with a RTG aboard undergoes extra scrutiny and requires additional studies before approval. You also need to have extra security to protect the launch site and payload from protesters.
• Produce energy in the form of heat. This is good far from the sun where you need heat to keep your electronics from freezing. But closer to the sun you have the opposite problem, and you have to work hard to expel heat from the satellite. So closer to the sun, an energy source not based on heat is preferable.
• Dangerous. I don't mean they'll burn up on re-entry and spread plutonium all over the atmosphere. The canisters which contain the radioactive materials have demonstrated they will survive re-entry intact in the event of a launch mishap or satellite de-orbit. The problem is after they re-enter, they're a powerful radioactive source in a cannister lost in some random location where anyone could potentially find it. That is not a good combination. Responsible use of RTGs near the Earth means doing a controlled de-orbit of the satellite (not always possible) so RTG lands in the deep ocean, or conducting an expensive search and recovery operation afterwards to find the RTG before thieves do.

Save the RTGs for the deep-space missions. There's plenty of solar energy in Earth orbit to power satellites (solar flux is nearly 2x what it is on the Earth's surface without an atmosphere to scatter and absorb sunlight, and the high launch costs mean you can afford the expensive high-efficiency panels). Batteries (to power the satellite during the 45 minutes it's in the Earth's shadow) can operate for a decade or more, which is about the time you start thinking of replacing the satellite anyway due to its technology being outdated.

Jill Bahring: I Was Not Assaulted by Jacob Appelbaum

So the only incident that isn't anything but anonymous rumor turns out not to be assault at all, but merely a consensual public display of affection. The rest is unsubstantiated smear campaign.

Sounds like the wild eyed futurism of "Closer than we think by Arthur Radebaugh

Of course, in the future world of 2016, we have robot rocket-ships that return to base and land automatically, so who are we to sneer?

An expansion of this lawfirm: http://io9.gizmodo.com/done-17...

Meanwhile Trump has broken no federal laws,

That's not really knowable, as it's a bit of a challenge to prove a negative. It would be more accurate to say that Trump has not been convicted of committing any federal crimes. However, if you've read this fantastic book, you'll agree that it's exceedingly unlikely that Trump has broken no federal laws. Perhaps one might argue that I'm being pedantic, and that you meant "big deal" federal laws, but that's not what you said, and I'm just clarifying.

and has never started a war of any kind,

While Trump has never really been in a position to start a military war, you said "war of any kind". I'd be shocked if Trump hadn't started, for example, a bidding war over a piece of real estate. Again, perhaps I'm being pedantic, but you did say "of any kind".

and actually knows how to use things like Twitter.

This, of all your points, strikes me as the most comical. Donald Trump has his email printed out and handed to him in paper form. Donald Trump dictates his replies, for an assistant to transcribe to actual email. Donald Trump might not even know how to use a computer.

and actually knows how to use things like Twitter.

Are you sure? He may have people for that, but I don't think it's been proven that Trump knows how to use a computer at all.

3) Spying on people from above or looking in their windows

These are all quite dangerous ways to use drones. Short of banning drones entirely, there's no way to stop this from occurring. Therefore, drones need to be banned.

I recommend a Mossberg 500 with, say... an M choke to give you the best compromise on pellet spread but you might want to experiment with that. According to Popular Mechanics you want number 8 bird shot shells with the largest pellet count you can find No. 10 or even 12 bird shot is even better if you can find it. If you live in an urban area blasting at drones with a shotgun might be a problem so your best urban-legal go-to option might be water based. Perhaps a powerful hose, or the most powerful super-soaker you can find but even that would probably not have the range of the shotgun. A more expensive option would be to build you own hunter-killer drone or a drone that snatches the offending one out of the sky and brings it to the ground so you can hold it to ransom. That last solution appeals to my inner nerd, my inner hill-billy likes the shotgun option best while shooting down drones with a super-soaker makes for a fun activity you can engage in with your kids. I also reserve a certain degree of admiration for this Russian reenactor who shot a drone out of the sky with a hand thrown spear.

But not for the burns and rashes? Weird.

http://gizmodo.com/googles-new...

It's not if the movie is #1 this weekend, it's if the movie is #1 for the next few months. The budget was $73million and they grossed $39million this weekend. By Hollywood accounting, that means they made absolutely nothing this weekend. After marketing, overhead, cocaine and hookers, they're probably still $150million in the hole.

Cap'n America thing is at $390 million and still rolling. They've paid off the production, pimps and dealers and now they're putting money in the bank.

There's a good chance that everyone who wanted to see Angry Birds will see it this week and the word will get out that it sucks.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/angry-b...

It matters because they claimed that "trending" was determined by computer algorithms that analyzed what people were actually talking about, but that turned out to be a lie: they were instead determined by people, who necessarily have a bias.

It matters because it artificially shapes how people see the world. Facebook isn't just "a news site" it's also a site that - in theory - shows you how your friends view the world. Except it turns out that conservative views were being censored on Facebook.

This was written by a right-wing wacko who didn't bother to read the Guidelines (which FB posted on the Internet), who doesn't understand how newspapers work, who thinks everybody is conspiring against him, and who libelously accuses people of telling a "lie" when they merely disagree with him, or because he doesn't understand the issues.

Here's the guidelines. The relevant excerpts are:

https://fbnewsroomus.files.wor...

Trending Review Guidelines

(They would override the algorithm if it is obviously a junk topic, like "Pizza rolls," which has no association to a real-world event.)

P. 9

National Story: You should mark a topic as a "National Story" importance if it is among the 1-3 top stories of the day. We measure this by checking if it is leading in at least 5 of the following 10 news websites: BBC News, CNN, Fox News, The Guardian, NBC News, The New York Times, USA TODAY, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BuzzFeed News.

So that's when the human editors intervene -- when the algorithms deliver a high-ranking topic like "Pizza rolls", because it took over on Reddit, they need human editors who can understand it's not a real news story.

A topic does become a national story if it's leading in Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and one other major news source. Fox News and the WSJ should be conservative enough for anybody.

This story came about because, in an attempt to provide balance and objectivity, FB commendably hired a diversity of editors, including conservatives, to make these judgment calls.

The conservative editors didn't like it, because FB's stories weren't conservative as they wanted. Duh. They're conservatives. The rest of the world isn't as conservative as they are. They'll never be satisfied unless it looks like Breitbart or Washington Times.

It's hard to tell from the Gizmodo story exactly what FB stories were censored. http://gizmodo.com/former-face... But it's easy to look at the FB guidelines and see that there are good, reasonable journalistic reasons for selecting or not selecting them.

There's always the "plan B" of moving the games to some other city that's hosted before and therefore already has the infrastructure (e.g. Los Angeles, which I use as an example because they didn't build new stuff last time).

Hey now, the bright automated future is Closer than We Think!

I like this one, where they completely overlook any potential downside.


Also, they totally miss that we could have 40 years of productivity improvements that capital decides to keep 100% and share 0% with labor.

Hey now, the bright automated future is Closer than We Think!

I like this one, where they completely overlook any potential downside.


Also, they totally miss that we could have 40 years of productivity improvements that capital decides to keep 100% and share 0% with labor.

Facebook should get their priorities straight about open source.

I stopped it from auto-updating using the link below:
http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/...

I'll stick with the version I have until Kingdom's Come - or until a better app comes along.

There's a good chance he either is still looking for Dave Kleiman's harddrive or can't decrypt where the wallet was stored.