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Can PrivacyBadger do 16 things hosts do for speed, security, & reliability:

5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (adds reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS redirect poisoned dns
8.) Protect vs. spam
12.) Keep you off dns request logs

From a HOSTS advocate:
Only if one has that address in their HOSTS file to begin with.

Can't post what I want: Filter error: Lameness filter encountered

but 6 days of phone calls up to 6 a day, then hijacked to a PS3 to face this
http://i60.tinypic.com/2iiip3r...

Still don't know if I should report it to the FCC as at face value it's a violation of the Net Neutrally act. - an ISP can't redirect for profit, thing is I use OpenDNS.

Yes system was check very thoroughly (autoruns) nothing on my end.

If you look at the currents in the Indian Ocean, and trace backwards from Reunion (it and Mauritius are the two dots east of Madagascar), you pass right through the area they've been searching off of Australia.

I'm afraid ocean currents are not as neat as that. They are pretty messy >> http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/orthographic=79.61,-7.51,591

If you look at the currents in the Indian Ocean, and trace backwards from Reunion (it and Mauritius are the two dots east of Madagascar), you pass right through the area they've been searching off of Australia.

I can guarantee you Philips hasn't been tuning shit. They've been stealing the wavelength blends from other people.

I could probably churn out more than 900 pots of basil (a pot being one container large enough to hold a multi-seeded rockwool cube.) In one square meter using an NFT system, you could easily fit 100-120 pots. 4-5 weeks until harvest time, 900 or more per year per square meter is typical.

I built a building in Texas that can do 3,000+ heads of lettuce PER DAY. 20 foot by 60 foot.

I can even do most of your 'superfood' grass crops without light at all.

http://i61.tinypic.com/11ukas6...

[IMG]http://i61.tinypic.com/11ukas6.jpg[/IMG]

see the very bottom right below the zoom?

it shows 1000ft and a line showing how far.

I telnet'ed into your/the site, gave em my email address and have been waiting for a password since.

Rant alert!

I POP3 my email from Gmail, many other accounts specifically hotmail are forwarded to Gmail. It's just safe hex, Agent wouldn't show html code just text only. I've been forced to update from 1.93 to version 6 which is so different I've avoided it. SSL is required so I run/ran stunnel as 1.93 doesn't have it, version 6 does. Stunnel has quit working it's not that hard to configure, but it did stop soon after updating and no version will run now.

There are Persona's now added to Agent's many abilities that to configure it for the first time is time consuming as well as confusing. 1.93 I'd just pull a shortcut to the latest fresh installed OS and not miss a beat, 1.93 took years to tweak to my liking.

It was a time consuming affair more so as I was POPing from two servers at once, Gmail and live.com (whatever MS calls it) I can't access my Hotmail account, but it works, still forwarding my email and all is well, as long as I don't try to access it ever again. I created an live.com account (Windows Insider that couldn't agree to the ToS) using an old account (gmail) and handle that would get thousands of google hits, mostly from tomshardware.com who pulls in Usenet groups, passing them off as their own.

FWIW I use Acerose as my password manager some files date back to 2007 and pry when I started using it I know what my passwords, username, and secret hand shaking are and that they are correct. Damn checking it I find fourteenfiftytwo@live.com I don't remember creating the account but did have a real hard time creating my present live.com account. It was me logging in on one screen with another set to Gmail for the refresh and validation that was never satisfied all for a useless account (I wouldn't give out my mobile number), I don't ever expect a site to call me and I'm on top of my security (as well as I can), and they don't need more info than required to log in, yet post of my life on /. ironic eh?

-an important tangent-

My Mom (82) is not senile but the only way to describe it, not being able to access the internet to her was E-mail, which she hasn't been able to access in ages, I thought differently as I'd prove to her she had Internet access, or fix it to where she did but the complaint was continual only this week did I clue into the problem (it's been years).

I created her an Email account on my Charter account which has always allowed me 6 email addresses, called her up and worked out her username and password (not an easy feat folks) set her up, and it works out I haven't access to her account (important to me, not to her), and wrote her an email so she's have something when she accessed the account, the email wouldn't send.

It took hours to figure it out as I set up Agent a long time ago, just changing servers as IP accounts changed only. the only email program I've configured since is Agent 6 (this week), I'm still working on it's config. So email has never a concern, nor a thought given to there being a problem with it.

Get this, live.com created an outlook account on my system, going as far as adding it's POP3\smtp servers to Agent (an .INI edit, would do it), then setting outlook as the default email service, it's not even on my system, it would just be useless overhead.

Persistent SOBs the Microsoft team. I get this requester http://i60.tinypic.com/nedqok.... continually. I unset auto for the picture - there's a war of emailers going on at a furious rate at this time . Agent and one (outlook)I have never set up, used, let alone ever installed, if auto installed, removed when it caught my eye. (it's a good pic address but I can't access them myself after uploading them, so...(HOSTS file most likely).

My live.com handle which has a Persona of Usenet only and Gmail being my main server (hell so I thought) and a different persona that hasn

http://i62.tinypic.com/4r2hi0....

or mayhaps

http://tinypic.com/r/4r2hi0/8

http://i62.tinypic.com/4r2hi0....

or mayhaps

http://tinypic.com/r/4r2hi0/8

http://i62.tinypic.com/4r2hi0....

Not an Indian but they claim rights to the remains, this area you can't dig without hitting some ceremonial site (Washington State).

Posted to en.wikipedia.org yet some DRM prevents it from being included (ie creator of bust) http://tinypic.com/usermedia.p... and it's a damn statue.

Because I don't have a bachelor's degree. I could learn to make an ARM from sand I find on the street and HR will just send my CV to /dev/nul and that's the end of that.

And please explain how I will learn Altium when I'm unemployed and can't download the legal eval copy?

Plus Altium sucks. To me it almost guarantees the kind of employer who thinks 35 parts on a board and 4 layers is on the same level as solving nuclear fusion power.

Look. This is the kind of complexity I've tackled.

http://tinypic.com/r/detlat/8

You think I'd have a hard time learning Altium? For what?

Here is the pic of the switch in question:

http://oi58.tinypic.com/qyhc0p...

In "normal" mode its set to allow the door to unlock when the external code is entered.

In "unlocked" mode, the door is completely unlocked.

In "locked" mode, the door is completely locked, the external code will not unlock it.

The action to move between the three states is a very deliberate one - you need to lift the switch up and move it, there is an infinitesimally small chance that it was engaged by accident.

Now own a Samsung S5 specifiably because it has a 16.9 Mpix camera

If you are saying that your S5 takes pictures of comparable quality to a DSLR (or a mirrorless camera) with a similar pixel count you are astonishingly clueless. The Sony A7s has 12 Mpix sensor. It images blows any picture taken by the S5 out of the water. The phone can not play in the same league, not in the same game, in reality, not in the same universe, and the Sony has fewer pixels than the phone.

What I was trying to say but pry didn't touch on, is I like one item that replaces many which the cell phone does. One item required is a decent camera and the S5 takes some incredible pictures for a cell phone. killing time recently I took a photo of my pants that shows what it's capable of http://i58.tinypic.com/2zs7iih.... To compare it with a SLR/DSLR would be foolish, just that I still have a SLR; with the case for the attachments it's a troublesome piece of luggage to haul around. and taking pictures is all it does. I haven't used it in quite awhile now

I was very much into photography, but I don't feel a need for a quality camera because of the cell phone even at 5 Mpix. It's always ready, and easy to access.

And there we go again, yet another important upgrade now, in this case an update for Windows Defender so that one won't require a reboot AFAIK.

I may not install the upgrades as soon as they become available and hence they may add up before I finally install them so the occasions for them may be more often than on my machine.

But:
http://i58.tinypic.com/28bbqsm...

So clearly there was 10 occasions in December, 6 in January and 5 so far in February for me.

Eat my ass regarding once a month the second Tuesday.

The ones regarding the base OS alone may be less frequent / once a month and maybe one don't have to reboot more often than that. It's not like I sit rebooting more often than I have to.

Indeed, fuck the Hurry-up-and-Wait, aka pay-to-win.

Social Games, ironically, are neither social, nor games. The bigger problem however though is:

They have ZERO respect for your time OR your space.

i.e. Brave Frontier
Units intentionally don't "stack", thus you are forced to waste gems to "unlock" more inventory space. Of corse you can RMT gems ...

http://i62.tinypic.com/2podt7d... - centrifuges

Damn wrong link was posted
http://i62.tinypic.com/2n8whj.... is picture of centrifuges (they all look alike.), and inefficient enough that many are required. but still the cheapest way.

Since I'm here, a link as a cite: http://www.jpost.com/Defense/S...

http://i62.tinypic.com/2podt7d... - centrifuges

Damn wrong link was posted
http://i62.tinypic.com/2n8whj.... is picture of centrifuges (they all look alike.), and inefficient enough that many are required. but still the cheapest way.

Since I'm here, a link as a cite: http://www.jpost.com/Defense/S...

You have a weird definition of "virus" and "malware".

In my world, Malware includes everything that gets installed on your machine (surreptitiously or not) that does "bad" things ("mal" = (french) bad, evil). That would include worms, viruses, rootkits, unwanted toolbars, home page redirectors, Stuxnet, Cryptolocker, and just about every other form of third-party computer abuse.
Virus is a subset of malware. /frank

I've been accessing the Usenet a long time. viruses; when spyware started appearing and worms popular, people were having a problem differentiating between them when posting. long story short Malware became an accepted and all encompassing term.

So yes it's Malware.

In my world, the last virus I can remember is when the U.S. with support from a controller manufacture, sent out a virus that looked for a specific configuration. It was passed on by autorun/autoplay, when it found it's target began damaging Iran's Uranium centrifuges to where they were continually replacing them out http://i62.tinypic.com/2podt7d... - centrifuges

I haven't run an anti-virus program in ages. My firewall alerts me to potential malware, protects important OS areas, or sandbox's any program it's (I'm) not familiar with; and it doesn't scream when it finds a debugger or similar. Almost anything other than a rootkit or buffer overflow can be found with "autoruns"; at least that's how I play the game.

It's detrimental to the malware of today to format hard drives, due to it's intended "mission" most likely to gather data, open a backdoor or allow itself access to IRC for instructions (how Sony was taken down). www.GRC.com has an excellent article on IRC malware posted many years ago, the word malware won't be used (before it's usage).

When I POP'd my E-mail and saw the same subject in most of them I thought uh-oh.
I can't word it any better than to your reply.

FWIW I'm downloading files from Usenet now, I'm always downloading files; it's reliable. I quit posting long ago when the group I frequented went from a help and support (almost always computer related) to a political discussion area. With the name of 24hoursupport.helpdesk it's surprising anybody finds it for what it's become.

Your time will arrive

There's something both sadly fitting and ironic about your post, given that it's a link to nothing but an empty upload form.

Your time will arrive

A mini drone can fly around the hill in a manner an artillery shell or mortar cant and into your tent with soft squishy humans in it then explode.

Sort of like this.

Don't mind Robert "ArchiBALD" Crowther he's just some fat blogger twerp who is jealous that you can actually write programs on multiple system architectures while he's just some pathetic HTML jockey.

"Were those installs hydroponics or vertical farms?"

Vertically stacked NFT *IS* hydroponics.

Vertical farms and hydroponics have two completely different meanings here in the US, sorry for the misunderstanding.

"What crops?"

Lettuce, fodder grasses, tomatoes, peppers, typical crops.

"What size instillation?"

1/8 acre building.

"What is their yield?"

Depends on the crop. On average we yield 1 acre worth in 1/8 of an acre growing fodder grasses for livestock.

That's all? All that effort and you can only do 8 times better than driving over a field a few times with a tractor towing various implements? (Yes it's a bit more complicated than that I know, but far simpler to what you've got going on.)

" What is the cost per bushel?"

Depends on the crop, oh and the rest of the world doesn't go by bushel, they tend to go by the kilogram.

So what? A lot of French people don't speak any English either. In the US we use bushels for quite a few things, Stay on topic.

Let's take fodder grass, since I'm already on that crop. Roughly $0.50 USD per kilogram. The grass is also grown using a special zero-light technology which the BBC has covered.

Thank you for admitting what I already knew, your high-tech hydroponics is several times more expensive than other more common livestock feeds. So it's no alternative, it's a supplement at best.

"What sort of pest control regimen do you use?"

Most of the buildings are sealed with clean room entrances (the original building in the UK does not have a clean room entrance as it was a prototype/POC building.) Pest control is never an issue. Fungal/mold control is, and we use UV-C LED lighting to treat that, along with ozone generators.

I know farm chemicals can be expensive, but I can't imagine how much all that costs. One screw-up and you'll be looking at total losses. It's bad enough in greenhouses when it happens.

"You'll know those numbers or ones close to it if you are who you say you are, which I don't believe you are."

Meanwhile, in the real world, I keep on designing and testing while you sit around in disbelief and ignorance.

You're the one that hung yourself here.

Nope, you've got that rope GOOOOOD and tight around your own throat there buddy. I never denied what you were saying COULD be built. My contention has always been that the schemes you seem so proud of are not economically viable vs far more conventional, which is what you asserted when replying to sideslash. I've met people who build those sorts of setups themselves, but they do it as a hobby for the challenge and readily admit that such methods of production are uneconomical. That and fresh local produce in Febuary.

On a Mars Colony that tech would be absolutely invaluable. Here on Earth it's an economic dead end unless a comet hits the planet and we all have to live in bunkers for the next 300 years. But as long as it's only private investors burning their money I have no issue with it.

"Were those installs hydroponics or vertical farms?"

Vertically stacked NFT *IS* hydroponics.

Vertical farms and hydroponics have two completely different meanings here in the US, sorry for the misunderstanding.

"What crops?"

Lettuce, fodder grasses, tomatoes, peppers, typical crops.

"What size instillation?"

1/8 acre building.

"What is their yield?"

Depends on the crop. On average we yield 1 acre worth in 1/8 of an acre growing fodder grasses for livestock.

That's all? All that effort and you can only do 8 times better than driving over a field a few times with a tractor towing various implements? (Yes it's a bit more complicated than that I know, but far simpler to what you've got going on.)

" What is the cost per bushel?"

Depends on the crop, oh and the rest of the world doesn't go by bushel, they tend to go by the kilogram.

So what? A lot of French people don't speak any English either. In the US we use bushels for quite a few things, Stay on topic.

Let's take fodder grass, since I'm already on that crop. Roughly $0.50 USD per kilogram. The grass is also grown using a special zero-light technology which the BBC has covered.

Thank you for admitting what I already knew, your high-tech hydroponics is several times more expensive than other more common livestock feeds. So it's no alternative, it's a supplement at best.

"What sort of pest control regimen do you use?"

Most of the buildings are sealed with clean room entrances (the original building in the UK does not have a clean room entrance as it was a prototype/POC building.) Pest control is never an issue. Fungal/mold control is, and we use UV-C LED lighting to treat that, along with ozone generators.

I know farm chemicals can be expensive, but I can't imagine how much all that costs. One screw-up and you'll be looking at total losses. It's bad enough in greenhouses when it happens.

"You'll know those numbers or ones close to it if you are who you say you are, which I don't believe you are."

Meanwhile, in the real world, I keep on designing and testing while you sit around in disbelief and ignorance.

You're the one that hung yourself here.

Nope, you've got that rope GOOOOOD and tight around your own throat there buddy. I never denied what you were saying COULD be built. My contention has always been that the schemes you seem so proud of are not economically viable vs far more conventional, which is what you asserted when replying to sideslash. I've met people who build those sorts of setups themselves, but they do it as a hobby for the challenge and readily admit that such methods of production are uneconomical. That and fresh local produce in Febuary.

On a Mars Colony that tech would be absolutely invaluable. Here on Earth it's an economic dead end unless a comet hits the planet and we all have to live in bunkers for the next 300 years. But as long as it's only private investors burning their money I have no issue with it.

"Were those installs hydroponics or vertical farms?"

Vertically stacked NFT *IS* hydroponics.

"What crops?"

Lettuce, fodder grasses, tomatoes, peppers, typical crops.

"What size instillation?"

1/8 acre building.

"What is their yield?"

Depends on the crop. On average we yield 1 acre worth in 1/8 of an acre growing fodder grasses for livestock.

" What is the cost per bushel?"

Depends on the crop, oh and the rest of the world doesn't go by bushel, they tend to go by the kilogram. Let's take fodder grass, since I'm already on that crop. Roughly $0.50 USD per kilogram. The grass is also grown using a special zero-light technology which the BBC has covered.

"What sort of pest control regimen do you use?"

Most of the buildings are sealed with clean room entrances (the original building in the UK does not have a clean room entrance as it was a prototype/POC building.) Pest control is never an issue. Fungal/mold control is, and we use UV-C LED lighting to treat that, along with ozone generators.

"You'll know those numbers or ones close to it if you are who you say you are, which I don't believe you are."

Meanwhile, in the real world, I keep on designing and testing while you sit around in disbelief and ignorance.

You're the one that hung yourself here.

"Were those installs hydroponics or vertical farms?"

Vertically stacked NFT *IS* hydroponics.

"What crops?"

Lettuce, fodder grasses, tomatoes, peppers, typical crops.

"What size instillation?"

1/8 acre building.

"What is their yield?"

Depends on the crop. On average we yield 1 acre worth in 1/8 of an acre growing fodder grasses for livestock.

" What is the cost per bushel?"

Depends on the crop, oh and the rest of the world doesn't go by bushel, they tend to go by the kilogram. Let's take fodder grass, since I'm already on that crop. Roughly $0.50 USD per kilogram. The grass is also grown using a special zero-light technology which the BBC has covered.

"What sort of pest control regimen do you use?"

Most of the buildings are sealed with clean room entrances (the original building in the UK does not have a clean room entrance as it was a prototype/POC building.) Pest control is never an issue. Fungal/mold control is, and we use UV-C LED lighting to treat that, along with ozone generators.

"You'll know those numbers or ones close to it if you are who you say you are, which I don't believe you are."

Meanwhile, in the real world, I keep on designing and testing while you sit around in disbelief and ignorance.

You're the one that hung yourself here.

It's like the best browser ever:
http://i61.tinypic.com/2yvs96o...
http://i61.tinypic.com/33c5g07... .. said no-one ... well, at some time after 1.0.7 and the present I guess.. considering that's 30+ versions I don't really know where.

Untrustworthy piece of shit browser.

Of course Chrome have crashed a few times too (ran out of filedescriptors in Linux?)

Firefox just became slower and slower, I closed tabs and have open other ones and it have behaved badly and changed around windows very now and then (happened at lots of sessions too) but currently it seem stone dead.

It's like the best browser ever:
http://i61.tinypic.com/2yvs96o...
http://i61.tinypic.com/33c5g07... .. said no-one ... well, at some time after 1.0.7 and the present I guess.. considering that's 30+ versions I don't really know where.

Untrustworthy piece of shit browser.

Of course Chrome have crashed a few times too (ran out of filedescriptors in Linux?)

Firefox just became slower and slower, I closed tabs and have open other ones and it have behaved badly and changed around windows very now and then (happened at lots of sessions too) but currently it seem stone dead.

chug some frosty piss on the way out.

" Do I really need to track you down and dox everything I find to everyone you know? Is that really what you want? Hush up now, it's past your bedtime, junior."

You got so mad over me being right (because you're a total fool in the firt pace) that you had to resort to making threats.

You lost your entire argument.

Oh, and just for fun - I'm a global horticultural research director - four of your Fortune 50 companies DIRECTLY CONSULT WITH ME in securing their automated food production facilities, designing new internet-connected monitoring/control systems, and even down to designing the buildings, hydroponics systems, LED lighting, the entire shebang. I get paid $2500/hr for consultation work. What the fuck are you getting paid?

Oh, look, have a nice guided tour of an FTSE 100 (That's the UK equivalent to Fortune 100) facility I built and designed (and SECURED from SSL/TLS attacks.)

Amateur.

Dox me? I'm already globally known, who the fuck are you, Mr. Nobody? Go take your empty threats to your mother.

"For instance, the line drops on a two meter cable run of DC or AC are going to be the same."

You don't know what you're talking about.

http://tinypic.com/player.php?...

See that nice long run of LED on the bottom row near the end of the video, the one with more red output?

That's 24VDC.

Two meters down, meter shows a drop from 24VDC to 18VDC. From there, the LED units began getting very, very fucking hot as resistance in the conductor increases.

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

See that? I built that. Along with the other building in the video above. From design to electrical, every bit of that is my work.

You have zero fucking clue what you're talking about, sir.

No way there is any impact on healthcare. that's just fucking nuts. lol!!!!!!

No, I was LOL'ing at the teeny tiny little sign that was ostensibly the purpose of the march while having a HUGE banner for the cause they really care about.. If they were marching as "Doctors Against Climate Change" or something, it wouldn't have been funny.

Here's the specific image I am referring to:
http://tinypic.com/r/2mqu44o/8

While I'm sure it was intended as a joke, we do (sadly) have that answer...

Just about 200 pages: http://oi61.tinypic.com/11tbbr...

I like what can be done with an hqx filter in an emulator (in my case, Nestopia).

Or just use emulators which produce a much better end result.

Because the FCC has done such a FABULOUS job regulating teh airwaves, we just HAVE to get them involved in the Internet!

You coul come in Italy in the '80, that due a loophole in the law was possible to broadcast thelevision without license. The end result was a total chaos on TV reception with mandated complex antenna receving systems like this: http://i28.tinypic.com/nn2kvk.... and still have reception problems. Even when a CATV system was in use problem arose as high power transmitter were placed to overcome the signals of other tv stations. The problem born in that small chaos window are still affecting tv reception today after the digital switchover.

That's not a "double height"; today's bays are half- and third- height.

Ahh, thank you for the correction. I guess that makes this a full height drive?
That does sound a bit familiar now that you mention it actually. My memory of "the dark ages" is getting more fuzzy as time goes on.

http://oi57.tinypic.com/2u7lmr...

From left to right in that image is the MFM drive, a more normal 3.5" IDE drive, a 2.5" drive and a CF card.

I was only half joking about its metal casing. Probably not actually steel but between the HD and my foot stubbing it in the dark, it was my foot that gave way and moved, not the HD ;P

SD cards were still new and pricy so I didn't have one on hand to complete the set.
Now I need an SD and micro SD to add in, and somehow squeeze a Sun RMS platter array into the picture and the new cycle of life will be complete!

Yeah they changed that after the outrage.... Here is a screenie from before because I had a feeling that the word army would be gone soon when I noticed it. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pi... Needless to say that the first version was correct and this is just really bad damage control.

I know! How about Big Brother is Watching You! And the face should, of course, have a smile and a pleasant, re-assuring image.

Even better: "The NSA - The only part of your government that actually listens!"

As for the logo, once more 4chan has us covered
http://i59.tinypic.com/2rngfq1...

What's "purely digital" about a LCD? You can have analog VGA inputs, which are digitized in the monitor, then sent over some ridiculously fast serial interface to column driver ICs on the glass... to be converted back to the analog voltages needed to control the LCD shutters.

Guess what? Your LCD monitor has thousands of D/A converters in it!

So for example, a relatively cheap monitor (like mine) 1680x1050, requires 1680x3=5040 columns to be driven in the actual glass. Each pixel has RGB, right? Well, those voltages have to come from somewhere!

www.intechopen.com/download/pdf/11273

Column drivers are the most amazing things I've seen in a while. They are bare dies about 2 x 11 mm with hundreds of pins, attached directly to the flex PCB that drives the glass. Each IC contains hundreds of digital-to-analog converters and opamps! It's crazy! There's usually 10 per panel, so each IC drives about 500 lines. You should see the flex PCBs, the traces are so fine you need a magnifying glass to resolve the traces.

http://oi59.tinypic.com/whmc74...

This is as close as I can get this morning. Yes, those traces are so fine they just look like a green patch.

I'd say that means a LCD monitor is more analog than digital, but that's just me.

So what's so strange about a serial device needing synchronization signals anyways?

Note that I keep saying "keys" but some planes have an electronic keypad where you enter a combination. Here is a picture of a Airbus 380 flight deck door, with the keypad visible to the right of the door: http://i40.tinypic.com/2vuizut...

It is actually pretty well known that the entire Eastern Ukraine is very much more Russian. If you want to argue that the Russians didn't *always* live there, we can continue this discussion with some American Indians if you like.

http://oi40.tinypic.com/tz581....

http://i62.tinypic.com/ienozb.... (Check tab outliner icon up to the right.)

Though I wouldn't call it "work."

I paid close to $300 for an 80 Meg scsi hard drive while my friend had a 200 Meg hard drive the size of a dishwasher (what most thought it was) for his Unix.

I kept backups on 3.5 floppies (one of three) http://i42.tinypic.com/2hwpx82... , then on 700 Meg CD's upto Blueray DVD's that hold some 24 Gigs. Only one BlueRay DVD made it though with no errors, yet no data loss.

It's cheaper, more reliable, and a damn lot easier now to make my back-ups to USB hard drives and sticking them away until needed.

No, you were never a drone pilot.

You were an RC aircraft pilot.

The FCC governs radio rules, we're talking about the FAA, which governs airspace.

The subject title "I was once a drone pilot" was me being facetious of such an absurd charge for flying an RC plane. I was wrong in I thought the FCC was involved; one of those click submit at the same time noticing an error, but too late.

If you break any of those you MUST have a waiver or a Certificate of Airworthiness for the aircraft (just like all commercial aircraft, including that Cessna some guy you know has) or you are breaking the law.

You were never allowed to fly your glider within 10 miles of controlled airport, and 2 or 5 miles of an uncontrolled airport. Ever.

Your ignorance of these rules does not mean they didn't exist.

And ignorance is what I'd of pleaded. I thought I was fairly close to an air port but didn't realize just how close http://i60.tinypic.com/x1ka52.... From the air port to the High School was less than a mile, sure along mile.

The only rule I was aware of was checking transmitter flags to make sure I was on a different frequency. There was one other that flew at that school, using the 100 feet of surgical tubing method. I built a pod for a .079(?) engine to take me up - just sweet.

I wasn't in a club or with others who flew, so knew zero on the legalities of gliding, or flying.

I built 3 Gentle Ladies, the third - the wing and it's angles are perfect, not having others to talk to about how to do "stuff" I stretched my mylar with a cloths iron :}. A heat gun I found out later was the preferred method and sure would of been heck of a lot easier.

At the time Helicopters were the big thing and where I'd of gone if not for a life changing event, I bought an Amiga.

Check it out

So replace the gas motor with a brushless motor and a non-exploding battery, preferably away from the crotchal area.

just checked using developer tools in Chrome.
http://oi62.tinypic.com/w6vxhg...

You're being too kind on the Slashdot beta by just calling it "annoying". It's much, much worse than that. It's pure and total shit.

Excuse me, why do you go to that beta.slashdot.org site at all? I saw it once when it was announced and I never went there again. I'm logged in and I don't get the javascript-heavy design either. For me the slashdot looks almost the same as it looked 15 years ago (1, 2. Perhaps with rounded corners on story titles.

You're being too kind on the Slashdot beta by just calling it "annoying". It's much, much worse than that. It's pure and total shit.

Excuse me, why do you go to that beta.slashdot.org site at all? I saw it once when it was announced and I never went there again. I'm logged in and I don't get the javascript-heavy design either. For me the slashdot looks almost the same as it looked 15 years ago (1, 2. Perhaps with rounded corners on story titles.