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The ironing is delicious.

you could always just use a web extension to change all mentions of Trump to Darth Vader.

"Vader slams Obama for 'Star Wars' quip | TheHill" is a much better google result.

Goat

Thank you.

"Can I still fly my plain-old R/C plane? Because that's NOT A DRONE AND NEVER HAS BEEN (except for the ignorant)."

You are going to provide a definition to make a claim like this. Google says R/C planes fall under the definition of drone.

https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

"A remote-controlled, pilotless aircraft or missile."

You dont get to 'distance' yourself from 'idiots' by claiming R/C is not the same thing as a drone. It is, you are just experiencing an Eternal September and dont like it

They could have kept all those shuttle tanks in orbit. They would make a perfect habitat.

My wife and I both switched from Verizon to Google's Project Fi. Even with the ETFs, even with paying the 24-month amortized payments on the Nexus 5X, we're at break-even in four months, and it's gravy from there on out. The cost savings was huge. Once we did the numbers, it was a no-brainer to break our Verizon contracts early. Fi's coverage so far has been excellent.

The characters mean "little ice" and were chosen because "ice" is pronounced Bing in Mandarin.

I received a new View Master VR for Xmas. It's impressed the hell out of everybody I've shown it to, a number of friends plan to pick one up soon.

It uses your smart phone for the display so it's rather inexpensive - while the starter pack (viewer and a demo disk) has a list price of $29.99, Amazon has it for $20.95. It's compatible with apps written for Google Cardboard.

I've written a blog entry about it for anyone interested in more detail.

The cable should be a dumb piece of conductor. A Lightning cable isn't. You might think that the ability to insert it either way would rely on special hardware in the phone, but that's because you're not thinking like a piece of shit that wants to force everyone to buy overpriced cables. In the Lightning cable, the hardware to determine the cable orientation and get everything hooked up right is IN THE CABLE.

That little bump before the Lightning plug? That's a chip. That's where the "insert either direction" magic happens.

About the fifth time you get the this accessory is not supported by this iPhone message on the included cable and charger, you'll start to realize why the whole Lightning system is a horrible idea.

FWIW I rather pay a "premium" on a cable that will not fry my hardware and might burn my house down.

That's the charger, not the cable. Poorly built chargers can catch fire, and they can do that just fine with an Apple approved Lightning cable.

Of course, you also need an Apple approved charger, because iOS won't draw anything past the absolute minimum USB charge if not connected to an official Apple charger.

I did a little search about Churchill. Seems the anecdotal story about Churchill and Mecanno is out there but I surmise it all began with this story included in one of his biographies, "The Last Lion:: Winston Churchill" by Martin Gilbert. The story is about how he helped his young nephews to assemble a Mecanno bridge, which ended up being 15 feet long once he was finished.

Goat

The search engines all assume that you meant 'Beiber' when you typed in 'Becquerel'. They all deliver results of what they think you want, vs. what you actually asked for. Often you're steered toward pay sites.

You should check out this search engine: http://www.google.com/ I assume you've never heard of it but I think it's going to be a big success some day.

I typed in 'Becquerel' (well, technically I copied and pasted from your post) and the first two results are on Henri Becquerel, the physicist, and the unit of radioactivity named after him. All the rest of the results on the first page are also on either the man or the unit named after him from a variety of different sites and none of them were pay sites as far as I could tell.

None of the results on the first page were about 'Beiber' and I couldn't see any indication that this "Google" search engine assumed that I meant 'Beiber'. I'm guessing that either you're using a search engine that takes into account your own personal past history of actual Beiber searches or else you just suck at Internet.

I have a policy that my customers pay me on time. Unfortunately I tend to get strung along for 90 days. Since my policy doesn't have the force of regulation I tend to have to suck it up.

I hate this type of post.

It's defeatist and dispiriting to the reader. By advocating no action ("suck it up"), it supports and encourages loss of freedom, authoritative control, and hopelessness.

It's also uncreative - there's *lots* of things we could do, both as a group and individually, to try to change the situation.

You don't have the will to fight, so go drown your despair in drink. Don't being down everyone else as well.

The OP took the trouble to file suit against the TSA. Looking at his website, he might be a rare case of a lawyer doing an open source 'kind of thing.

I haven't seen a lot of this type of "open source good for the community" from the legal profession. I'm not saying that there's *none*, but it's very rare compared to the number of lawyers around.

Engineers are pretty generous with their time. There's a ton of open source software and designs for hardware, people answering questions, things you can make and modify and use.

A lot of lawyers I talk to claim to be unemployed or under-employed. Looking through the myriad number of social abuses we come across at Slashdot, I've always wondered why some of them don't put their spare time into fixing some of our problems using the court system. If it's their own time and they are otherwise unemployed, it wouldn't be very expensive.

They'd also get a big boost of popularity (and business) from having defended a rights issue. When the police decided unilaterally that recording them was illegal, it took an incident to take it to court, and not a pair of lawyers who had set up a situation, with proper witnesses and affadavits.

Anyway, this guy appears to be doing some legal things in the manner of open source.

Cut him some slack, OK?

I'm sorry, but if you don't know who Forrest Mimms is your probably shouldn't be on Slashdot. BTW unitll about 2011 was still possible to buy an electronics kit with two manuals[(Basic Electronics and Digital Logic Projects) written by Mr. Mimms. https://drive.google.com/file/...

Depends on exactly what the 1st Circuit rules. I very strongly doubt they would rule I don't have standing (which would be the worst case outcome for my ability to prosecute this).

It's possible they might not want to allow an emergency PI/TRO, in which case it'll get delayed on fuller briefing, probably ~1-6 months. They also might deny preliminary injunction and TRO, without prejudice to an ordinary motion for injunction, in which case we're talking 6-12 months.

It's also possible that they'll rule that yes the TSA violated the APA (again) but they'll let 'em get away with it anyway (like in EPIC v DHS, 653 F3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2011)). That would be the worst case outcome on substance. I'd probably try for SCOTUS cert petition if that happens.

We'll find out in about a week, anyway, so no need to speculate too much. Follow me on G+ or Twitter, or watch my TSA litigation page if you want updates. ;-)

Depends on exactly what the 1st Circuit rules. I very strongly doubt they would rule I don't have standing (which would be the worst case outcome for my ability to prosecute this).

It's possible they might not want to allow an emergency PI/TRO, in which case it'll get delayed on fuller briefing, probably ~1-6 months. They also might deny preliminary injunction and TRO, without prejudice to an ordinary motion for injunction, in which case we're talking 6-12 months.

It's also possible that they'll rule that yes the TSA violated the APA (again) but they'll let 'em get away with it anyway (like in EPIC v DHS, 653 F3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2011)). That would be the worst case outcome on substance. I'd probably try for SCOTUS cert petition if that happens.

We'll find out in about a week, anyway, so no need to speculate too much. Follow me on G+ or Twitter, or watch my TSA litigation page if you want updates. ;-)

1) Dog runs from bushes and attacks drone, does damage. Who pays?

Dog owner.

2) Child runs to drone, is hurt. Whose fault?

Child

3) Drone fails in flight, crashes, kills people, destroys property. Amazon pays more than all profits from drone delivery.

Not a question but amazon's fault

4) Teenager is in a field trying a BB gun, shoots at drone. Drone crashes. What then?

Teenager at fault.

5) Someone is testing a Tesla coil in his garage. The huge sparks emit electromagnetic interference, making communication with the drone impossible. Drone cannot be controlled, destroys property. Who pays?

Amazon pays. Failsafe control is part of even the cheapest drones, expect it to be standard.

6) Drone noise and danger reduces the value of houses in a neighborhood. An adjoining county has restrictions against drones; the value of the property there goes up.

No one's at fault. Property values are fungible. I highly doubt the value of land would be lower for a several second drone delivery than a delivery truck driving down the road constantly. You can never buy a house and expect stable property value, and if you do then I have a ... house to sell you. It's in a good location, I promise. *wink*

7) RFI, Radio Frequency Interference: Someone is outside on the street welding something using an electric welder. Electric welding generates interference on ALL frequencies. The drone might receive nothing except noise.

See #5

8) Drone is stolen.

Thief is at fault.

Look drones are not magical. They are not new or unique. None of what you question is even remotely a legal grey area. If you replace the word drone with person, delivery van, or any other word than the mythical "drone" you find so confusing then all cases are very clear cut. But I'm sure you know the risks better than a multi-national megacorproation which armies of R&D teams, rooms full of bored lawyers and lots of money to throw at the problem

I use CallTrack to log my phone calls to a Google calendar, and I use SMS Backup+ to log my text messages (marked read and labeled with SMS) to GMail. Both of these make it much easier to go back and look at what I was doing/who I was talking to on any given day (e.g. using syntax like "label:sms after:2015/12/14 before:2015/12/17" in GMail).

Both of those are extremely useful if I'm going back later (e.g. during billing) to track down details of what I was doing.

I use CallTrack to log my phone calls to a Google calendar, and I use SMS Backup+ to log my text messages (marked read and labeled with SMS) to GMail. Both of these make it much easier to go back and look at what I was doing/who I was talking to on any given day (e.g. using syntax like "label:sms after:2015/12/14 before:2015/12/17" in GMail).

Both of those are extremely useful if I'm going back later (e.g. during billing) to track down details of what I was doing.

Jeff Bezos is not able to understand the obvious problems with drones. He thinks Amazon can make deliveries using drones. He didn't think of these problems:

I think you're right about the feasibility of Amazon drones. I don't think that they are a viable option for delivery services. There are too many variables, not enough space and landing zones, and a host of other issues. I think that cost, payload capacity and package thieves will be the biggest problems. But I thought I'd answer your questions as a rebuttal because they are clearly framed from an uninformed position that is intended to malign drones.

1) Dog runs from bushes and attacks drone, does damage. Who pays?

The dog does. The blades are going to slice the dog to bits. If he survives the owner will pay for his vet bill. No, Amazon will not be liable for it, just like car owners aren't held liable for running over a dog that runs into the road. (Theorically, Amazon could bill the customer's credit card for the drone, but they'll never do that because of the PR repercussions.)

It's also conceivable that the drone's collision avoidance system could be programmed to "see" and evade the dog. Think behavior like Luke's lightsaber practice drone. This level of avoidance is not yet a production option, but is technically feasible and may not be far off.

2) Child runs to drone, is hurt. Whose fault?

Child's fault. Really unfortunate, like when a child runs into the road and is struck. When it's the child's fault, the driver is not charged.

3) Drone fails in flight, crashes, kills people, destroys property. Amazon pays more than all profits from drone delivery.

You should google insurance. It's kind of a thing for all commercial vehicles. Insurance protects people and corporations from from that sort of thing.

4) Teenager is in a field trying a BB gun, shoots at drone. Drone crashes. What then?

Drone and package is lost. If they are able to identify/prove the teenager did it, he'll likely face charges for shooting at an aircraft, destruction of property, and possibly theft. But, most likely it'll just be a write off for Amazon.

5) Someone is testing a Tesla coil in his garage. The huge sparks emit electromagnetic interference, making communication with the drone impossible. Drone cannot be controlled, destroys property. Who pays?

Amazon's plan would use fully autonomous drones. But, even if the drones were under control from an external controller, the loss of signal would trigger its fail-safe return to home feature, where it completely autonomously returns to base and lands safely. If this tesla coil was so large as to create an EMP effect that affect GPS signal or impedes the onboard computer, then the drone crashes. Amazon is liable for property damage and their insurance pays out.

6) Drone noise and danger reduces the value of houses in a neighborhood. An adjoining county has restrictions against drones; the value of the property there goes up.

This argument just won;t fly.(See what I did there?) Drones are far quieter than trucks. But, just like trucks are not allowed in certain areas, municipalities could similarly ban drones. In that unlikely case, Amazon can simply fly around the no-drone zone and delivery will not be available to those addresses.

7) RFI, Radio Frequency Interference: Someone is outside on the street welding something using an electric welder. Electric welding generates interference on ALL frequencies. The drone might receive nothing except noise.

Electric welders don;t produce that much interference, unless the receiver is within a few inches/feet of teh we

4) Teenager is in a field trying a BB gun, shoots at drone. Drone crashes. What then?

Same as when a teenager drops a rock from an overpass onto someone's windshield, causing them to crash when they can no longer see. The one doing the malicious damage is to blame.

5) Someone is testing a Tesla coil in his garage. The huge sparks emit electromagnetic interference, making communication with the drone impossible. Drone cannot be controlled, destroys property. Who pays?

The drone should head back toward some pre-defined point, and at a certain distance from the interference it will re-establish communications. I'd be more worried about it colliding with birds than crashing because of welders.

6) Drone noise and danger reduces the value of houses in a neighborhood. An adjoining county has restrictions against drones; the value of the property there goes up.

At least in the U.S., it's not within their power to do that. Aviation is a Federal matter, and there is little doubt a cargo-carrying drone is more akin to a conventional aircraft than to a toy, regardless of how the registration issue pans out for non-commercial craft.

7) RFI, Radio Frequency Interference: Someone is outside on the street welding something using an electric welder. Electric welding generates interference on ALL frequencies. The drone might receive nothing except noise.

See (5).

8) Drone is stolen.

Cars get stolen too, and we blame the thief.

Jeff Bezos is not able to understand the obvious problems with drones. He thinks Amazon can make deliveries using drones. He didn't think of these problems:

1) Dog runs from bushes and attacks drone, does damage. Who pays?

2) Child runs to drone, is hurt. Whose fault?

3) Drone fails in flight, crashes, kills people, destroys property. Amazon pays more than all profits from drone delivery.

4) Teenager is in a field trying a BB gun, shoots at drone. Drone crashes. What then?

5) Someone is testing a Tesla coil in his garage. The huge sparks emit electromagnetic interference, making communication with the drone impossible. Drone cannot be controlled, destroys property. Who pays?

6) Drone noise and danger reduces the value of houses in a neighborhood. An adjoining county has restrictions against drones; the value of the property there goes up.

7) RFI, Radio Frequency Interference: Someone is outside on the street welding something using an electric welder. Electric welding generates interference on ALL frequencies. The drone might receive nothing except noise.

8) Drone is stolen.

IM+ does, just not the "free version". But it's only $5, and the OTR seems to work pretty well...but both parties must have a client that supports it.

Not always,

https://news.google.com/newspa...

old but still very relevant.

Multiple users have a wired phone line are going to be cheesed off.

Google could offer a list of carriers that sell service on Nexus phones. Or Google could offer an authenticator app that works over Wi-Fi on tablets and on phones whose cellular service has expired. Or, as the featured article points out, passwords will continue to work for the foreseeable future. I can't verify whether Google is already offering passwordless authentication on Wi-Fi devices because the featured article didn't specify which devices are compatible beyond a screenshot stating "To use your phone to sign in, you'll need a compatible phone with a screen lock."

There's a reason Germany doesn't have Google Streetview.

Bull.... Here is a streetview that I just randomly selected in Berlin: https://www.google.com/maps/@5...

Hmm...

I'm not sure psickology is a credible field.

In the States we don't spend until after the collapse. And even then it's only because we need to put the bridge back up.

satya nadella is that u

I googled "is google a verb" and it says yes:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd...

Then I bung it:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=i...

So if even bing agrees that google is a verb, I guess that over rules "anonymous coward who can't capitalize for shit"

The guy is obviously a sociopath.

According to Google CEOs tend to be Psychopaths.

And this guy exhibits the classic traits of a psychopath. Sociopaths tend to be loners and live on the fringe of society and have trouble dealing with people, psychopaths on the other hand are excellent manipulators and easily blend into society. Both have a complete disregard for society, laws and other people however.

I read the Gary Kleck piece and he seems to be pretty biased and actually narcissistic in his presentation.

Hmm, then I apologize for choosing a poor link to use. What I got out of that is "for two decades I have been hearing the same criticisms and none of them are invalid" and I guess what you got from it is "narcissistic".

Better then would be to read his actual book. http://www.amazon.com/Point-Blank-Guns-Violence-America/dp/020230762X The American Society of Criminology awarded Professor Kleck the Hindelang award for this book.

And the other URLs you gave are obviously from pro-gun sites so I didn't go there.

Perhaps you didn't realize it, but the Kellerman study was published in an obviously anti-gun publication.

Also, Arthur Kellerman has been a member of at least one anti-gun organization. (The latter link is to an obviously pro-gun web site, but it reproduces a letter to the editor published in a medical journal by a doctor. The doctor is an obviously pro-gun doctor, but he is providing evidence that Kellerman is an obviously anti-gun doctor, and I don't know how I would go about finding a completely unbiased source you would accept who has taken the trouble to research Kellerman and report on his membership in anti-gun organizations.)

Finally, here is a book I recommend: it thoroughly covers the statistics around violence and gun ownership. It concludes that cultural factors are much more important in violence than the number of available firearms. The Samurai, the Mountie, and the Cowboy

It's scientists trying to deal with an illness and its causes, rather than folks who started with a point and then used Polya's tactics to justify it.

Oh, really? I have provided multiple links to you showing that Kellerman's study was structurally unsound. We cannot put error bars on its conclusions, it had a small sample size, and it only counted defensive uses of a firearm if they resulted in a dead body (which drastically under-counts defensive uses). Even if you believe that it was intended as an unbiased study, its flaws render its results useless.

Also, its predictions have not been borne out in the following two decades. I have provided evidence for you that the number of guns in the USA rose dramatically since the publication of the Kellerman study, while shootings of all kinds (accidental and intentional) declined dramatically. I am not going to claim that the drastic increase in guns caused the decline in shootings; but pretty clearly if a gun is 43 times more likely to hurt you than to be a benefit, the drastic increase in guns should have been correlated with a drastic increase in harm.

Here's a reference that presents these facts. This Economist article has graphs that show firearms deaths declining drastically since the early 1990s at the same time that the number of firearms in the USA dramatically increased. (By the way, the article ends with a sentence saying that the link between guns and violence "is obvious" despite the clear evidence to the contrary presented in the article. I doubt they cherry-picked any data to try to make firearms look less dangerous.)

Finally, if it is unbiased research you want, I recommend you read the Wright/Rossi/Daly book. The Carter administration funded research into gun control, and Wright and Rossi engaged in the research expecting to prove that gun control prevents violence. Their research showed the opposite, and changed their minds on the subject.

This is the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for the Wine (WINdows Emulator) project.

1. What is Wine? What is it supposed to do?

The word Wine stands for WINdows Emulator. It is both a program loader and an emulation library that will allow Unix users to run MS Windows applications in a Unix environment. The program loader will load and execute an MS Windows application binary, while the emulation library will take calls to MS Windows functions and translate these into calls to Unix/X, so that equivalent functionality is achieved.

They'll have no exports. that means no source of cash to buy the things that Mars can't provide -- like modern medical supples, updated electronics, and other manufactured goods.

This may not be a problem.

GDP per capita has skyrocketed in recent decades, and would appear to be on an exponential curve. We're just about at the point where don't need as many workers as we have, to supply everyone with what they want.

The take-away is that automation and efficiency will continue to rise, so that less will be needed to make a self-sufficient colony. Machines which could mine raw materials and build more machines, for instance.

A breakthrough in AI would be enough to put us over the top.

Is it some kind of joke you guy are telling. In This footage, just recording everything for Pre-crime seen and this is it. Facewatch has been updated so that it can be integrated with real-time face recognition systems, such as NEC's NeoFace. But this it is not enough nowadays. For the Cab : https://plus.google.com/102249...

I am pretty happy with Airmail on Mac and Gmail on Android. Clean UI, OS-integrated notifications, fast search, no issues with huge mailboxes.

But if you are looking for Linux/open source, Evolution and Kmail seems to be the only serious alternative to Thunderbird. People are moving away from e-mail to other channels of communication like chat and social, and most are satisfied with webmail for remaining use. So, without commercial incentives, only major desktop environments maintain an e-mail client for completeness sake.

You can read the emails yourself. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t...

The guy is obviously a sociopath.

According to Google CEOs tend to be Psychopaths.

Sigh, bleeding heart study stating the opposite http://www.kcet.org/news/redef...

From what I can find (just the abstract and the letter linked by drinkypoo), the study referenced in the article assumes the heat island effect, then evaluates its effect on tortoises, it doesn't actually attempt to model heat absorption to determine whether the heat island effect would occur. The referenced papers on heat island effects are all about urban heat islands, caused by paving.

So, it appears to me that the author, biologist Barry Sinervo, just assumed that solar farms covered in PV panels would produce urban heat islands similar to urban regions covered in black pavement, and then calculated what would happen to tortoises if they were exposed to the same level of heating as if big chunks of the desert were paved. The study I cited (written by atmospheric and climate scientists) did model the differential heat absorption effects, and found that large solar farms will cause localized cooling, not heating.

So, ignoring epithets like "bleeding heart" and focusing just on the science, it appears to me that Sinervo's assumption of heat islands was unsupported and wrong, though I can see his rationale if one forgets about the energy converted to electricity.

Meta redirects, pop ups, even browser pre-caching could look like a "visit".

Yup. Maybe what we should do is start seriously promoting the idea of pre-loading, and get people familiar with this capability. We could work toward filling everyone's browser caches with copies of not just ISIS pages, but also pages from all other web sites that our governments disapprove of.

We should emphasize that there's no real need to ever actually show these cached copies of pages to the users, unless they actually ask for them. Just the fact that they've been download (and noted by their ISPs) is sufficient to convict them after all. We could catch all sorts of people, innocent and otherwise.

Perhaps if a few cases like this were publicised, and we explained to the confused journalists just how easy it is to frame people this way, we could have an effect.

In any case, any HTML developer should be familiar with the concept. It has a major valid use, after all: It can significantly speed up the speed of a lot of web sites. Any developers not familiar with the tools to do it just aren't doing their jobs right.

Chrome has Session Buddy. I only just found it. https://chrome.google.com/webs...

Well yes, Mars colony as backup for Earth is stupid beyond belief. Only problem is this is exactly what Musk believes he is doing - he thinks he is messiah saving humanity.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Sounds like your IT department needs to look into this

http://www.google.com/intl/en_...

Google has GPOs and tools to integrate with active directory for pushes so your sys admins can control that

Chrome was severely broken from the Dec 2nd to the 8th due to the 48.x upgrade, NTLM didnt work with squid based proxy servers. It broke offices around the world for a week, since chrome auto updates. And if you're a google office user, it impacted your entire company.

Google knew about this issue in regression, fixed it, yet it still made it into production code due to the "devops" mentality..
https://code.google.com/p/chro...

A major problem with firefox, it doesnt support installed certificates in windows. Chrome does. We use certificates tied to the users PC/VM with google office, so users cant log into google email except from their 1 verified instance. (and tied to their mobile iron on the apple/android phone)....

I WANT to use Firefox, but I'm tied to Chrome if I want to read my mail. (we have pop/imap/apps turned off too, since we don't have password access, sigh, i miss thunderbird...)

And this monday, keepass stopped working with my chrome and firefox on my linux box, and firefox uses keefox, chrome uses chromelpass..

JAVA! I still use it for dell idracs, but I cant use chrome to access idracs now. And Firefox with its dell signed ssl cert issues, sigh, always deleteing them after adding them so they dont conflict.

I'm not happy with browsers in general, continuously breaking, non compatible apps..

Have onboard Sync send emails with truck's GPS location to IhateTerrorists@CIA.gov every day

But why? The CIA already knows where many of them are- they literally sponsor them or their allies:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...
http://www.reuters.com/article...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Just google for more: https://www.google.com/search?...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
All this because the US Gov wanted to destroy/weaken the Syrian Gov:
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
http://www.washingtonsblog.com...

Lookup AutoNation Ford Gulf Freeway on Google Maps and then look at the dealership in Street View. You might notice some 20+ large American flags along the side of their parking lot (and multiple smaller ones throughout the inside of the parking lot).

Does a dealership that will indirectly sell to ISIS to make a buck really need to misrepresent itself by using that many American flags?

So is she transgender? Sure looks like it.

Um, bullshit, have you ever heard of "Google Fiber"? You work there and you don't know about this yet? They make a really big deal about it...

Here:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+fi...
https://fiber.google.com/about...

Or, how about:

https://mail.google.com/

OK, maybe a bit sarcastic, but really... A Google employee that DOESN'T know Google is most certainly in the communication business?? Come on... That's all Google is about, is communication.

Um, bullshit, have you ever heard of "Google Fiber"? You work there and you don't know about this yet? They make a really big deal about it...

Here:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+fi...
https://fiber.google.com/about...

Or, how about:

https://mail.google.com/

OK, maybe a bit sarcastic, but really... A Google employee that DOESN'T know Google is most certainly in the communication business?? Come on... That's all Google is about, is communication.

What about my 18 pound Remote control airplane that goes about 50 mile an hour? I'm far faster and far more deadly than any "drone" which is uneducated speak for quadcopter.

Flying your RC model plane inside the stadium during a high school football game? In the exclusion zones surrounding midtown Manhattan, an airport or a forest fire?

Didn't think so.

The hobby --- which demands both a high level of skill and a very significant financial investment ---- has a long and successful tradition of self-regulation.

AMA Safety Code - Academy of Model Aeronautics

a town council willing to be swayed by nonsensical arguments,

Can you PROVE a solar farm doesn't cause cancer? It also seems pretty plausible (at least based on pictures that growing crops under the panels doesn't work too well. And the panels are sucking up solar energy (albeit to output electricity) although sucking up ALL the energy is a bit of an exaggeration.

It seems to me that the town is on very solid ground here. /s