Slashdot Mirror

Pteranodons would be more stealthy. No one expects to see any, so won't be looking.

This one looks different, but is along the same lines and apparently has been around since at least 2011.
http://www.prioria.com/maveric...

Maveric is a lightweight, single-person portable unmanned aircraft system (UAS) capable of fully autonomous operation.
[...]
        Single-person portable and operable
        Rugged carbon fiber composite airframe
        Camouflaged bird-like profile

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

The tech has huge tentacle applications.

... my old Cyrix 200+ with 75Mhz Motherboard running Windows 3.11 and DOS 5 around anymore. Dang, missed a free laptop. ...

However; I do have my Sharp PC 1403 lying right here, strip-printer, datasette and all. I wonder it that counts. It *is* a PC - as in Pocket Computer - but a PC none-the-less. It's got kick-ass multimedia capabilities too - as you can see here. I'd be impressed if they get Windows 10 running on that.

But I'll also take the free Laptop, thank you.

Never mind.

Oh wait, look!

never be elected.

No matter the joke that either/both of the other parties nominate, you can count on the libertaians to be the punch line.

They cannot be taken seriously and always are the crazier aunt or uncle at the family reunion

Put a criminal traitor who ran-off to China and then Russia handing them uncounted numbers of secrets along the way into oone of the highest positions of government???? SERIOUSLY?!?!?

This is what your brain looks like on drugs....sizzle....sizzle....

never be elected.

No matter the joke that either/both of the other parties nominate, you can count on the libertaians to be the punch line.

They cannot be taken seriously and always are the crazier aunt or uncle at the family reunion

Put a criminal traitor who ran-off to China and then Russia handing them uncounted numbers of secrets along the way into oone of the highest positions of government???? SERIOUSLY?!?!?

This is what your brain looks like on drugs....sizzle....sizzle....

And seriously, if you need to go to McDonalds and configure a VPN to watch porn you should probably try to put that effort into improving your career prospects so you can afford an internet connection at home.

Agreed, though this does seem to be a minor setback for Starbucks in its path toward becoming "Coffee for Men" and the home of the full body latte. (One of the few ways it seems we may not be moving toward Idiocracy these days.)

What do you have against Frankenstein?

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

WKRP "As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"

Yes we should deport all muslims, and christians, and anyone else who believes in abrahamic religions. These violent religions are a scourge on this earth.

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

Shut up and drink your melamine.

No, that is for the infants. I will stick with the eggs and watermelon, thank you very much.

Shut up and drink your melamine.

No, that is for the infants. I will stick with the eggs and watermelon, thank you very much.

"If not, good luck keeping London as the de-facto headquarters for the financial sector in Europe."

Interestingly enough, none of this legislation applies at all, whatsoever, to those financial institutions, not because they have been exempted from this legilstaion, but because these institutions are located within a sovereign corporate state that exists centered in London City, ambiguously named The City of London. This state is absolutely outside of the law of Great Britain. It is also known by another name - "the Crown". "The Crown" is not a reference to the queen nor royal family head, but to this corporation-dominated state. Have you ever heard of a "crown colony"? Those were run by this corporate oligarchy, ever protected from the laws of democratic republics.

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

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

Anyone who reads a book or watches TV depicting criminal behavior should be charged with said behavior. A service that provides support or hosts a site that is pro ISIS should be guilty of a felony ?? How about they be notified and asked or told under some valid law or jurisdiction to take down such a site first.

She turned me into a Newt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Maxo-texas said "All he had to have was one AR weapon and 4 magazines and you'd be looking at 280 dead instead of 80 dead. And he would have probably killed several more police officers too.

Automated cars would prevent terrorism however. Builtin pedestrarian avoidance. Make it impossible to run over a pedestrian and impossible to move if sensors are blinded and automatic wifi-reporting when a vehicle is put in to service mode (it better be at a recognized service location) and constant wifi reporting (if a vehicle goes dark, it becomes suspicious on police checks).

AR type weapons can maintained a sustained rate of fire (including magazine swaps) of 30 shots per 22 seconds while hitting targets smaller than human torsos with a near 100% accuracy rate. Check out the gun enthusiast real time comparison of AR 15 to AK 47 (on youtube). There's a reason NATO declared the AR15 a more effective fighting weapon. Lighter bullets, less kick (you can put it against your nose and pull the trigger without injury also on youtube) means you higher number of bullets (and 5's are fine to kill you. You don't need 7's)."

---

How about another actor maintaining over 1 shot per second with accuracy on targets as small as a bowling pin after 4 months training. Note: This is a mixture of AR like weapons, shotguns, and handguns.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The effective range of AR-15 is over 400 yards fired semi-automatic.
http://www.diffen.com/differen...

That means with decent training and no exceptional skill you can hit everything you shoot at under 100' away.

Summary: The death count (especially among the police officers) could have been much much higher if the person owned a modern AR type rifle and spent a few months training to use it and swap magazines.

AR 15s have 50 shot and 100 shot magazines.
http://www.sportsmansguide.com...
http://www.impactguns.com/ar15...

And you can see the comparison here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

22 seconds for 30 on target shots with targets much smaller than a human torso.

;)

Not really, Dale Myers explains in this 2005 MIT Open Course Ware video in 1971 he was faced that last Skylab flight for 1973 could have been the last manned spaceflight for the US. At that time Apollo Soyuz was not scheduled. Myers and other high level NASA officials were aware of inherent limitations of the Shuttle. The STS program could have easily not occur if 1972 was not an election year and Nixon had to get delegates from California and Florida (even though McGovern was trailing way behind). Listen to Dale Myers explain, he was there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is one of 15 videos on systems engineering were MIT brought in several key people of the STS program. Including Kraft (I think) describing Frosch's meeting with Carter, "How much you need? Frosch, "$600 million." Carter, "I will get it." I was pleasantly surprised to see this story get more exposure. Though a partner like Mondale didn't help Shuttle but yet this is worth noting.

Many other fascinating aspects in this video series (gets me thinking ISS must have a whole host of stories of the good, the bad, and the marginal). Aaron Cohen describes how his friends showed the 747 can ferry the orbiter when they built a RC model. Cohen said this made so many things in design much easier (no need for jet engines on orbiter, 747 can carry orbiter from many places including those if orbiter had to make emergency landings). Other aspects like orbiter goes through 15 different flight regimes during entry (no way a human can manually pilot it from Mach 25 to subsonic), also several tons of lead were placed in aft of orbiter for CG control. Yep, several tons of "useless mass" was brought up and down on 135 flights.

the "useful theater" we do today - reinforcing that, an extract from Beyond the Fringe, The Aftermyth of War

Commander (Peter Cook): Perkins - The war's not going very well. War's a psychological thing, Perkins, rather like a game of football. You know how in a game of football ten men often play better than eleven. Perkins, we're asking you to be that one man. Perkins, I want you to lay down your life. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It'll raise the whole tone of the war. Get up in a crate [RAF slang for an aircraft] Perkins, pop over to Bremen, take a shufti [slang for a look], don't come back. Goodbye Perkins. God I wish I was going too.

Perkins (Jonathan Miller): Goodbye sir - or is it au revoir?

Commander: No, Perkins.

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

Around 14 percent of people carry the APOEe4 mutation... shrinking brain by age of three...

Finally! An explanation for those crazy-ass Trump supporters that started off as Sanders supporters...

And then something like this happens that shatters our illusions, and tells us that British people can be just as dumb as anyone else.

Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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

Then how do you explain this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soXkFMO4ixI

The US space program is essentially a gigantic playtoy for white males
I liked this better the first time I heard it. As for this bit, Spending on social programs is never wasted as it goes directly to the people who need it most. Yeah, that is an awfully big assumption, no corruption or misdirection of funds?.

An LCD with sufficiently low latency can do it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

...quality of sex? They're literally fucking shit. How can you make that attractive? It's feces, the food you ate 8 hours ago, complete with thousands of species of bacteria, and deadly gas. And some people with defective firmware respond to that. I guess this is foreplay to them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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

Except he backtracked on that and said he wouldn't...

"I'm changing. I'm changing. We need highly-skilled people in this country. If we can't do it, we will get them in. And we do need in Silicon Valley, we absolutely have to have."

And he's flopped back and forth a few more times since then.

Trump will say whatever the hell he thinks will get him elected. You'd have to be retarded to believe that he means any of it.

Except here's him being consistent in his opinions since 1980. That's a better track record than all the real politicians, especially Hillary "Marriage should be between a man and a woman oh wait not anymore" Clinton.

His mistakes were many. J'acusse!

The Top 10:

• Ignoring the TOS;
• "Experimental artwork" - come on ... this is part of the "90% of everything is crap" aka Sturgeon's Revelation; On the Internet, 99%; (see Facebook);
• Spare copies of anything important;
• The crime of using a computer while stupid;
• Too arrogant to ask for advice from someone who would know "what happens if" and how to avoid it;
• Seeing all those ads for "external BACKUP drives" and not asking "Why would I need one?"
• Ditto portable usb sticks that "let you carry your DATA around with you";
• Ignoring all the stories of people who lose all their DATA and ACCESS to their account because of sucky passwords;
• Not keeping his mouth shut - better people think you are a fool than prove them right;
• The biggest one: Thinking that "bad publicity" will get Google to "do something about it." HAHAHAHAHA!

What a maroon.

Anyone that reacts to a VP pick is a dumb fuck. VP is literally the most meaningless position in our government.

Unless you're president Kennedy. Or president Nixon. Or unless the VP needs to cast a deciding vote on some very serious matter before the Senate (you do know that's part of the job, right?).

Let's see, LBJ was simply selected by JFK to secure the southern vote and spent most of his time as VP feuding with Bobby. Of course LBJ didn't even have a VP to cast a tiebreaker after Kennedy was shot (wasn't till his full term that he brought on Hubert Humphrey as VP immortalized in this Lehrer song). Nixon picked Spiro Agnew (good choice there). Ronald Reagan picked Alexander Haig? (just joking). And of course we all know GHWB picked Dan Quayle(e)?

On the other hand, the Dems have had better luck recently with with Mondale, Algore, and Joe "3-am" Biden...

Of course not: it will take a large, unwieldy bureaucracy to ship them all to the FEMA camps. Duh.

Well, we've already got a fine one in the Beech Grove suburb of Indianapolis...

Maybe they need a way to keep the driver involved: steering wheel pressure sensors, or eye sensors.

That's what Mercedes did, their vehicles disengage the driving assist features if you take your hands off of the wheel for longer than ten seconds.

Here's someone defeating the disengage function with a soda can.

he really bears no marks of being a person who could be sold as a moderating influence to Trump.

It kind of makes you wonder if Trump actually is on the conservative side of the divide, despite spending plenty of money on democrats in the past (and avowing liberal opinions).

tbh he comes across as kind of a blockhead, so maybe he matches Donald Trump. I can't stand listening to him, so in that sense he matches Trump.

In the final episode, they'll find a giant statue of Steve Jobs buried in the sand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvuM3DjvYf0

There was an episode of the "Tales of the Unexpected" TV series in 1981 that had a similar premise https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Tales Of The Unexpected: Hijack (Series 4 Episode 17)

Why just Imagine the outrage if Hillary Clinton's "mentor" was Senator Byrd, a KKK leader. Oh, wait. That Happened.

"Trump is RACIST! LISTEN AND BELIEVE!" -- Protip: If you want to know more about the Dixiecrats and how the Republicans destroyed Racism in the south watch Hillary's America.

Why just Imagine the outrage if Hillary Clinton's "mentor" was Senator Byrd, a KKK leader. Oh, wait. That Happened.

"Trump is RACIST! LISTEN AND BELIEVE!" -- Protip: If you want to know more about the Dixiecrats and how the Republicans destroyed Racism in the south watch Hillary's America.

Shining in your eyes

Look up "asynchronous time-warp". /thread

Pretty much this. Here's a video explaining time warping, it also has some links for more details in the video description.

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

And then anus writes a letter....

Would you have us stand back and watch while people self destruct, killing themselves a little bit at a time?

We do that all the time with lot's of things, including drugs which are already legal, like alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceuticals. Some of these pharmaceuticals, by the way, are identical to illegal drugs, but in a more pure and profitable form. For example, people under extreme pain may be prescribed or given diamorphine as a pain killer. You might know it by its more common name, heroin.

I disagree with the legalization argument, based on the fact it will be really bad for a lot of people to fall into drug dependency.

You hold the more common viewpoint of how addiction actually works, i.e. that you take the drug too much and then you are unable to stop, all else being equal. Up until recently, in spite of being pro-legalization, so did I. However, it's apparently not as cut-and-dry as that. Kurzgesagt made a pretty good video outlining why this model of addiction is harmful and the evidence against it.

single shred of evidence

If you mean ignoring all the evidence against her, simply because the corrupt Justice Department didn't actually indict her for breaking the law. Here is the "no evidence" you're asking for ...

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

It could also be spelled Brak

Interestingly back in the day the laws and courts were more sane and it wasn't illegal for companies to circumvent Nintendo's lockout technology and there were a few companies that produced unlicensed games for the original Nintendo. Even more funny, one of the companies that was (in)famous for doing so produced a lot of bible themed games that they sold through Christian stores because Nintendo started to lean on retailers to stop them from selling unlicensed games.

There were even more primitive versions of "DRM" in older PC games such as the game periodically requiring the user to enter the fifth word on the seventh page of the manual under the assumption that people with a copy wouldn't have the manual. A few others had codewheels that came with the game that served a similar purpose. Eventually this resulted in the pinnacle of copy protection.

The Corporate Overlords want Clinton.

I see that you know nothing about the Democratic Party, yet think you do.
Next time, RTFM.

Your smug ignorance is depressing.

Watch and learn.

-jcr

Never ever believe anything you hear... and only half of what you see.

It would be nice if we were all capable of being skeptics to the truth. Unfortunately, we're not physiologically built for that. As Wired Magazine explained so well in an article back in 2009, our dorsolateral prefrontal cortex filters out information it determines to be unnecessary, including information that does not agree with our perception of the world. The vast majority of people do not understand this, so they naturally prefer to listen and associate themselves with information that only reinforces their world view, rather than challenge it.

So, yes, if the leader of a British political party says that being an EU member has a bad return on investment, and enough people feel that is true, then the society will not challenge that viewpoint. Even when individuals like John Oliver thoroughly debunk those perceptions, those opposing viewpoints are dismissed quicker than you can type "> /dev/null". And it's why, no matter how many times Donald Trump praises the leadership qualities of despots, he still has a much stronger chance than he should at becoming president. All it takes is enough people to "feel" that he's the better candidate.