Oh come on. A school with one teacher who can intelligently teach electronics and programming is far ahead of one or two parents who know the stuff and take the time to teach their kids.
I wish she hadn't said that only grown ups are allowed to touch the circuit breaker box. For most part the circuit breakers are designed to be remarkably safe.
The breakers themselves are remarkably safe (but see below) but what they control might not be. Want your young kids to be comfortable switching them on and off while you are working on the garbage disposal?
Or maybe people wouldn't mind their kids switching things off while your NAS is busy writing a file?
And then there is the actual possibility that a breaker carrying a big enough load could fail while being switched and there be an arc-flash that breaches the shell of the breaker?
In recent years there have been a number of reports of counterfeit circuit breakers out of China that made it into the distribution chain - for those that think it is impossible for a breaker to fail catastrophically while being switched under load...
It's best that children not switch breakers on and off. Ada was right. You are wrong.
The new (and maybe old) Hero cameras have a WiFi link off camera that I believe can be used to capture video. Put a small SD card in the camera and either let it fill up or forget to turn on the record video mode...
FTFA: "The FAA last May said the number of reported laser incidents nationwide had risen for the fifth consecutive year to 3,592 in 2011. Pointing a laser at an aircraft can cause temporary blindness or make airliner pilots take evasive measures to avoid the laser light."
It's time that these idiots - yes, the people pointing lasers at aircraft - get taught that they are endangering a lot of people's lives.
With publicity over the punishment for doing it, other idiots may just learn something. Just telling the one idiot that they did a bad thing that could have led to a crash doesn't serve the larger purpose of stopping this behavior.
The kid gets 30 months (probably much less if he behaves) in jail but is now much less likely to bring down a plane by blinding the pilot. So, hopefully, are many others who see that there are actually consequences for these stupid kinds of actions on their part.
Next up - the idiots flying their multicopters and model airplanes into airliner takeoff and glide paths...
Depends on if the sender had read receipt turned on and if the receiver allowed acknowledging read receipts to where the sender would know that the mail had not been ultimately received and read.
On another note, I had an ISP do a mail server upgrade that when it went live, sent backed up mail out to everybody. I got mail intended for people I didn't know, people I did know, personal e-mail meant for others, etc.
Just deleting e-mail is probably quite a bit better than sending it all to the wrong recipients. I still wonder how they managed that - but they did. And I immediately dropped them as my ISP.
Suborbital also includes the recreational flights up and then back down to the same launch location.
That Texas is going so hard for this business is interesting because New Mexico built a whole space port near White Sands just for Virgin Galactic and other enterprises - then the state legislature pretty much bungled it. VG has been talking about ducking out of their contract since NM hasn't met their obligations.
With Texas going whole hog, it looks like "oops" for New Mexico...
I don't get all the local channels, but I get all but one and live pretty far away from the transmitters. The quality is far beyond satellite and cable even when you pay for the supposed HD channels. Those just aren't compressed quite as regular D and besides the image aspect ratio. Over the air antenna is probably the best you are going to get. And it is free. So what if you don't get all the shopping channels and the hands in your pockets preachers.
I think you are incorrect to classify those who would try that as dumb and then say they would be the ones who might fly near an airport.
Did you know that a model airplane has successfully crossed the Atlantic ocean? It flew from Maine (IIRC) to England. It was flown manually for takeoff, aimed basically northeast, and was landed manually in England when it flew over the landing field. In between it used GPS to fly waypoints and a satellite phone to uplink flight data, coordinates, and other status information.
Many people are flying model airplanes and multicopters with cameras like the GoPro Hero line on the nose, either with or without a separate video camera to give an "in the cockpit" view. There are boards available for about $100 that will superimpose a heads-up display over the video signal that shows altitude, airspeed, heading, vector back to home, battery and motor status, etc. The data section also records GPS location which can easily be overlaid on Google Maps to draw not only a real time flight path in 3D but also to allow flying with synthetic terrain. In other words, you can fly in total darkness and even in weather if your model is able to take the winds, rain, snow, etc.
The software that attempts to fly itself should signal be lost is built in to a number of different flight controller boards. Losing the control signal can be dangerous as there are whirling props that can slice and dice tissue nicely. You can also have a few pound hunk of metal, plastic, and wood fall out of the sky and lose a substantial investment. The auto return software merely levels the craft, takes it to a preset altitude, and brings it back to where it took off from. It is the pilot's responsibility to make sure that their operation of the multi (or even regular planes) does not put it in the flight path of real aircraft and that any return home maneuvers don't either.
But there are much better ways of getting video back from a model craft than using a smart phone - though that is how some of the people launching balloons to try to set altitude records both document and track their flights.
All you need is a technician's class amateur radio license to transmit video remotely from a model aircraft back to you. There is plenty of hardware made specifically to do just that as well - without modification.
It also had people on board and was a test of the systems. No doubt that once the systems are proven, the people will come off, and the thing will be run lower and lower and faster and faster until it would cause even battle-hardened pilots to soil their drawers.
A computer can act on inputs a lot faster than humans. The only thing (and it is a big thing) that humans have going for them is complex thought and the ability to think abstractly while maneuvering for the kill.
But a computer-controlled and armed helicopter can basically maneuver at the limits of the flight envelope constantly without exceeding it. That will make it a very difficult opponent to defeat. Give it the power to compute many different scenarios simultaneously and then choose the one with the highest probability for success and it will be hard, if not impossible, for even abstract human thought to compete.
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Oh come on. A school with one teacher who can intelligently teach electronics and programming is far ahead of one or two parents who know the stuff and take the time to teach their kids.
Get out of the "hate the schools" mind set.
I wish she hadn't said that only grown ups are allowed to touch the circuit breaker box. For most part the circuit breakers are designed to be remarkably safe.
The breakers themselves are remarkably safe (but see below) but what they control might not be. Want your young kids to be comfortable switching them on and off while you are working on the garbage disposal?
Or maybe people wouldn't mind their kids switching things off while your NAS is busy writing a file?
And then there is the actual possibility that a breaker carrying a big enough load could fail while being switched and there be an arc-flash that breaches the shell of the breaker?
In recent years there have been a number of reports of counterfeit circuit breakers out of China that made it into the distribution chain - for those that think it is impossible for a breaker to fail catastrophically while being switched under load...
It's best that children not switch breakers on and off. Ada was right. You are wrong.
At supercircuits.com they have cameras built into screw heads and lots of other covert cameras...
The new (and maybe old) Hero cameras have a WiFi link off camera that I believe can be used to capture video. Put a small SD card in the camera and either let it fill up or forget to turn on the record video mode...
I need to chime in on this with the mvps hosts file too. I use it and I love it.
As they say, there's no place like 127.0.0.1!
Highly recommended!
I bet flooding it with CO2 might have an effect, though. ;-)
A half-watt laser won't make it to a plane? Are you dumb or stupid?
Those are your only choices. Please pick one.
Note - the part about "It's time that these idiots..." was not part of the FTFA. Forgot the paragraph break formatting...
FTFA: "The FAA last May said the number of reported laser incidents nationwide had risen for the fifth consecutive year to 3,592 in 2011. Pointing a laser at an aircraft can cause temporary blindness or make airliner pilots take evasive measures to avoid the laser light." It's time that these idiots - yes, the people pointing lasers at aircraft - get taught that they are endangering a lot of people's lives.
With publicity over the punishment for doing it, other idiots may just learn something. Just telling the one idiot that they did a bad thing that could have led to a crash doesn't serve the larger purpose of stopping this behavior.
The kid gets 30 months (probably much less if he behaves) in jail but is now much less likely to bring down a plane by blinding the pilot. So, hopefully, are many others who see that there are actually consequences for these stupid kinds of actions on their part.
Next up - the idiots flying their multicopters and model airplanes into airliner takeoff and glide paths...
Depends on if the sender had read receipt turned on and if the receiver allowed acknowledging read receipts to where the sender would know that the mail had not been ultimately received and read.
On another note, I had an ISP do a mail server upgrade that when it went live, sent backed up mail out to everybody. I got mail intended for people I didn't know, people I did know, personal e-mail meant for others, etc.
Just deleting e-mail is probably quite a bit better than sending it all to the wrong recipients. I still wonder how they managed that - but they did. And I immediately dropped them as my ISP.
Suborbital also includes the recreational flights up and then back down to the same launch location.
That Texas is going so hard for this business is interesting because New Mexico built a whole space port near White Sands just for Virgin Galactic and other enterprises - then the state legislature pretty much bungled it. VG has been talking about ducking out of their contract since NM hasn't met their obligations.
With Texas going whole hog, it looks like "oops" for New Mexico...
I don't get all the local channels, but I get all but one and live pretty far away from the transmitters. The quality is far beyond satellite and cable even when you pay for the supposed HD channels. Those just aren't compressed quite as regular D and besides the image aspect ratio. Over the air antenna is probably the best you are going to get. And it is free. So what if you don't get all the shopping channels and the hands in your pockets preachers.
I think you are incorrect to classify those who would try that as dumb and then say they would be the ones who might fly near an airport.
Did you know that a model airplane has successfully crossed the Atlantic ocean? It flew from Maine (IIRC) to England. It was flown manually for takeoff, aimed basically northeast, and was landed manually in England when it flew over the landing field. In between it used GPS to fly waypoints and a satellite phone to uplink flight data, coordinates, and other status information.
Many people are flying model airplanes and multicopters with cameras like the GoPro Hero line on the nose, either with or without a separate video camera to give an "in the cockpit" view. There are boards available for about $100 that will superimpose a heads-up display over the video signal that shows altitude, airspeed, heading, vector back to home, battery and motor status, etc. The data section also records GPS location which can easily be overlaid on Google Maps to draw not only a real time flight path in 3D but also to allow flying with synthetic terrain. In other words, you can fly in total darkness and even in weather if your model is able to take the winds, rain, snow, etc.
The software that attempts to fly itself should signal be lost is built in to a number of different flight controller boards. Losing the control signal can be dangerous as there are whirling props that can slice and dice tissue nicely. You can also have a few pound hunk of metal, plastic, and wood fall out of the sky and lose a substantial investment. The auto return software merely levels the craft, takes it to a preset altitude, and brings it back to where it took off from. It is the pilot's responsibility to make sure that their operation of the multi (or even regular planes) does not put it in the flight path of real aircraft and that any return home maneuvers don't either.
But there are much better ways of getting video back from a model craft than using a smart phone - though that is how some of the people launching balloons to try to set altitude records both document and track their flights.
Maybe if we tow slogan banners we can get the out under the First Amendment?
Absolutely wrong, mabhatter.
All you need is a technician's class amateur radio license to transmit video remotely from a model aircraft back to you. There is plenty of hardware made specifically to do just that as well - without modification.
And it isn't even 200+ mph. Airliners on approach are closer to 150 or so.
Finally an HP ink cartridge seems cheap!
That's going to be a big print head seeing how the Large Hadron Collider has a circumference of 17 miles...
It's going to be a long time before anyone figures out how to make a desktop 3D printer that can transmute elements.
I think we're safe from that scenario.
A fusion reactor print head... That would be innovative.
I sure wish I had $90k to spend on one (the fully loaded, highest range one). I'd buy one in a second.
I have to commute a fairly long drive and any of them could do that. But the top end ones with the biggest batteries have some good legs.
I just read the Tesla blog and looked at the data. They have Broder, and if the NYT refuses to repudiate the story, the NYT cold.
There does need to be a lawsuit. Big time.
I think his computer is running so fast, time slows down for him.
And what was that famous monkey's name? ;-)
Or "In Time"...
It also had people on board and was a test of the systems. No doubt that once the systems are proven, the people will come off, and the thing will be run lower and lower and faster and faster until it would cause even battle-hardened pilots to soil their drawers.
A computer can act on inputs a lot faster than humans. The only thing (and it is a big thing) that humans have going for them is complex thought and the ability to think abstractly while maneuvering for the kill.
But a computer-controlled and armed helicopter can basically maneuver at the limits of the flight envelope constantly without exceeding it. That will make it a very difficult opponent to defeat. Give it the power to compute many different scenarios simultaneously and then choose the one with the highest probability for success and it will be hard, if not impossible, for even abstract human thought to compete.