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The ability for something to do damage depends on it's momentum, and that is highly dependent the mass and centre of gravity of the object as it applies force against something. You do a 1kg drone a serious disservice comparing it to an iron mallet. A drone is a complex shape and its weight is distributed over a comparatively large area. While crashing it will be taking a complex path to the ground. When comparing the likelihood of it killing you remember it's far more likely to be the same as a falling iron mallet, horizontally, hitting a person by the handle rather than the iron centre part. You're far more likely to get a bruise from the mallet's handle.

Not really. The primary cause of momentum is the acceleration from gravity which is essentially constant for a falling drone, air resistance is just a counter-force proportional to the velocity squared. That is to say, the reduction from air resistance only becomes significant when you're falling very fast. A skydiver has a terminal velocity of about 195 km/h, but already a high diver from a 30m height will be close to 100km/h. I know my buddy's DJI Phantom goes up to 120m by default, at that height you'll be at 90% of terminal speed. Unless it's extremely small or light like a feather or a coin, any object dropped from a big height is a lethal weapon. When the rotors stop the body of a drone is quite compact and holds a heavy battery, it'll fall pretty much straight down. You can see a good example of a drone coming down after a complete power loss here.

As for the actual impact the higher the velocity, the less it matters how it hits you or how soft or elastic it is, a stick of butter dropped from a skyscraper will still hit you like a brick. We have a pretty thick skull but the sheer momentum will be like being hit in the head with the full swing of a baseball bat, your brain will bounce around in there like the ball in a pinball game. Sure there are arguably worse things to be hit by, but for the most part we secure tall objects. There's falling coconuts and big icicles and such we can't fully control, but drones are a new threat in the hands of idiots. They're not very dangerous, but in the hands of idiots many things are dangerous.

A car driver losing control and injuring a pedestrian would serve more time.

It would depend on the context.

For instance, a car driver losing control and injuring a pedestrian during an illegal sideshow in a crowded street would probably serve more time, but a ninety-year-old with a valid drivers license losing control when driving to the farmers market, or someone losing control because he didn't install his tire chains during a winter morning before going to work, would probably get a more lenient sentence.

Rumor has it Steve Jobs invented the iMac after snorting several lines of ramen seasoning packets...

ahahaha

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Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun

There's a proposal for the first SLS mission to be an around the moon shot http://jalopnik.com/nasa-may-send-astronauts-around-the-moon-on-the-first-t-1792586594. There are a lot of problems with this; Amy Shira Teitel discussed it in detail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdrEzIlecIk&t=3s. This would make it even more of a bad idea. Right now the SLS mission proposal is just highly unsafe, redundant, and not part of a coherent program. This would make it super-super redundant.

Then rich people want to move in, build a ... Outback Steakhouse

Patton Oswalt, Steak (NSFW)

True. Just don't mention the war.

Hasn't this option been available on YouTube for ages? :-) Music usually has links to iTunes, Amazon, etc.
Gee, here's an radical idea -- make it EASY for the viewer the ability to buy what they are watching!
I only wish the REST of the entertainment industry would get with the program.

i.e.
A friend of mine noticed that "Hawaizaada" trailer was available in 1080p and used to be in Netflix. Yet if the viewer wants to purchase a legal copy they have to track down a crappy 480p DVD version off Amazon!? Why isn't a streaming option available??

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

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> The end of the Terminator clip is cut off. In the full version, he clearly runs away.

Nope. You see him flung against the gate and he falls to the ground, and you don't see him after that... but to me that scene implied the Terminator broke his neck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIP78IA1k_s

That's nice, but the Swedish Chef predates Supreme Court Nominee Bork by a decade. The Muppet Show had a greater worldwide impact than some parochial bit of politics.

But good luck getting Elon Musk to focus on the practical and eminently desirable target of the Moon. He isn't interested. It's only Mars for Elon.

- what 'practical and eminently desirable target of the Moon'? You might as send whalers to the Moon, it's about as practical as anything else.

If it is about observations people are not necessary, robots transporting and serving telescopes would not do worse than a meat bag who needs perfect human liveable environment to survive.

I think yahoo is the worst email service provider, but we can do one thing i.e. "RESET YAHOO PASSWORD".If you need any kind of help or you forgot your account password, you can visit here https://www.youtube.com/watch?... It will help you to fix this issue.

Hudson

Or you could watch Linus' Google Tech Talk circa 2005.

And that's the problem, that SVN has crap handling of colliding values. They use their own homebrew NoSQL store, FSFS, which doesn't handle things like duplicates in any way because it's NoSQL and web scale and stuff, like MongoDB. So the message here is "don't build your app around a crap NoSQL database store", not "SHA-1 will kill you".

Anyway, I've gotta get back to my job shovelling pig shit, and administering anal suppositories to sick horses.

Stallman is rightly concerned about the DoD developing and/or weaponizing material like this.

Not really. There are more ch and sh sounds by vocabulary, but not necessarily in spoken language. It might be helpful to conclude the sound of German based on Hitler speeches, Höcke speeches and https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

SJW (Learning a new meme SJW) https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Also at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao_1fEPNcHg.

>require manufacturers to sell replacement parts and repair tools to independent repair companies and consumers at the same price they are sold to authorized repair centers

It so happens Apple does NOT sell any parts/tools/manuals to their "authorized repair centers". What they do is let you use the name, and in exchange get paid $18 per item you ship to Apples Texas facility for exchange, all while charging your client $149-1299.

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

>require manufacturers to sell replacement parts and repair tools to independent repair companies and consumers at the same price they are sold to authorized repair centers

It so happens Apple does NOT sell any parts/tools/manuals to their "authorized repair centers". What they do is let you use the name, and in exchange get paid $18 per item you ship to Apples Texas facility for exchange, all while charging your client $149-1299.

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

This is a TERRIBLE IDEA!

Get a clue. If a state makes a law that anyone can get access to repair parts and manuals the manufacturer will close all authorized service in that state. Require shipping the device out of state for repair.

Congrats, you just described APPLE _right now_. Yes, Get a clue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is a TERRIBLE IDEA!

Get a clue. If a state makes a law that anyone can get access to repair parts and manuals the manufacturer will close all authorized service in that state. Require shipping the device out of state for repair.

Congrats, you just described APPLE _right now_. Yes, Get a clue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I sure am happy that I can repair my old pinball machines, that every nut and bolt has a part number so I can find a replacement part.
Addams Family Pinball Repair - Part 1 of 2, The Transistor
They sure wouldn't have lasted for 30 years without repairs.
They still fulfilled their role and made money for the original owner somewhere.

SF5 has a famous bot that plays online and routinely racks up win streaks hundreds of matches long, and would be (and occasionally has been) the highest ranked player in the world if Capcom didn't step in. With instant (modulo latency and input delay) reactions and complete knowledge of frame data and hitboxes, it's almost trivial to write an unbeatable bot.

Check out matrix.org. It's a federated, open-standard, rich communication protocol. It can't do everything of Slack and Whatsapp yet, but it's moving along fast and you can help. There are already several clients to choose from, as well as integrations with other networks, APIs, and bot-like tools etc..

We used it at linux.conf.au 2017 to (inofficially) bridge between Slack and IRC, and had an update of ca. 33% of the conference within 3 days or so, while the number of Slack users went down to a low one-digit figure.

#matrix on Freenode is bridged to the main discussion room, so pop on over if you want.

Here's Matthew (one of the project leads) at FOSDEM (with video):
https://fosdem.org/2017/schedu...
https://fosdem.org/2017/schedu...

and my little lightning talk at LCA:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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For the record, I'm not disagreeing, since with the exception of the A/C bit, I've heard about the rest through various outlets for me to consider it reliable.

that A/C thing was even caught on video.

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

The FAA must be referring only to incidents in the U.S. Here's a video of a drone striking the winglet of a commercial airliner, and I can only assume it happened outside the U.S.; I don't recognize the city in the background.

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

It's the first clip, the strike happens at about 30s. Scary.

I never blamed Clinton/Obama for Bill Maher endorsing pedophilia

Olathe community stunned, saddened by bar shooting

Ahh nuts, I included the wrong link for my 2015 incident -- that one wasn't confirmed.

But this one was :

2011: http://www.suasnews.com/2011/0...

Looks like their link to the video is broken, but here's another copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This incident was shown to be a structural failure rather than unmanned aircraft collision. Your link actually says that -- they originally thought it was a drone, but further investigation showed that there was no collision at all, only a structural failure.

That said, there have been some incidents in the US over the years that have been confirmed/well documented ...

1990: http://articles.latimes.com/19...

2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

2015: http://www.suasnews.com/2015/0...

And outside of the US, there's this --

2011: http://gizmodo.com/5831849/her...

It ain't legal ripping ROMs down in the swamp boy

Amos Moses - Jerry Reed

Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling nearly managed this several years ago. Here is the proof: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Funny you mention worms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSv581S8HVM. Here's another video showing it off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWQnzylhgHc.

We're still a long way away from understanding this well enough to do anything really crazy, but we're starting to get a grasp of how it works.

Funny you mention worms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSv581S8HVM. Here's another video showing it off: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWQnzylhgHc.

We're still a long way away from understanding this well enough to do anything really crazy, but we're starting to get a grasp of how it works.

I take it you use the term 'oh-so reliable website, Web MD' in a cynical sense, as trusting WebMD regarding diabetes, cancer and vaccines, is about the same as trusting wikipedia regarding Trump vs. Clinton/Obama.
Here's an interesting presentation regarding HFCS/fructose.

It wasn't reducing logic gates, but clever chip economy.

See: 1984 Steve Wozniak: Developing Floppy Disks

I've followed Phillip Turner's 1st Amendment audits for a long time and it was very good to see him prevail in court. Very, VERY good.

This was a huge win for everyone in the US that gives a damn about the 1st Amendment.

*(His Youtube channel is "The Battousai", so people call him "Batt" or the Batman.)

You have the absolute right to film the police in public, period. Watch and learn, kids: https://www.youtube.com/user/T...

You don't know my father's side of the family. They are well off, but are rather fond of attacking one another. I have that trait but have curbed it, but I also have health problems preventing me from being well off. My dad sued his brother for really stupid reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/result... Some of them want to abuse you.

I have a 4 year old Tesla model S with 50,000 miles on it. I have not noticed any loss of range or performance. The general consensus among owners is that there is a 5% loss of range at 100K miles. Now Tesla has a much better battery thermal management system and a better chemistry than a number of other manufacturers (i.e. Nissan, GM, etc.)

Degradation turns out to be around 23 miles per 100,000 miles driven.

Here's an excellent talk by one of the foremost experts on lithium ion battery degradation.

Tesla is NOT using the same battery tech as everyone else. Here's a good talk about them.. Dr. Jeff Dahn is one of the foremost experts on battery failure.

Tesla also has active battery thermal management using liquid cooling. The Nissan Leaf, by comparison, does not. Tesla's chemistry is also a lot better than the chemistry used in the Leaf.

And here is why...

MSMBC ginning up fake Tea Party is racist story:

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

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Idiocracy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwZ0ZUy7P3E) working as planned.

They are only incentivized to fix the issue as long as the fix costs less than the legal costs of not fixing it.
Fight Club recall formula

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