"-200VDC is discharged over the data lines of the host device."
is all it says, but the charge will be tiny, i find it doubtful that this will do anything beyond maybe fry the usb controller or possibly some diodes.
isn't $800 a bit much, a few years ago there were lots of rumors you could buy one around Brussels for less than half of that. I certainly hope they cracked down on illegal arms dealers in the meanwhile.
We have had these pills for as long as i can remember, the only difference is that now everyone gets them, not just hose living close to the nuclear plants or research centers. But since this is a tiny country it's only a small part of the population that didn't already have them.
Belgium simply doesn't have enough manpower to monitor all potential jihadists. It has the largest number of muslim citizens to go fight in Syria per capita out there. I imagine you could automate most of the monitoring of chats etc online, but when you need to monitor group audio sessions with dozens of participants in a pool of maybe millions of gamers. How do you manage something like that ?
Dave Jones from EEVblog noticed this after debunking some myths about a kickstarter project (the infamous batteriser)
Here's his video about it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
those DJI's measure altitude is with pressure and temperature sensors, and it can drift A LOT, so it is very possible that the true height was much higher or lower.
The thing is, atoms are very, very small, but they still have a finite size. A hydrogen atom, for example, is about 0.1 nanometers, and a caesium atom is around 0.3nm. The atoms used in silicon chip fabrication are around 0.2nm.
I'm not convinced there's any real progress here, I actually thought most of these implants were closed-loop already.
However this still seems VERY crude ! What's going on here is that they're detecting patterns that are empirically determined to trigger an onset of an attack, and then just blast some indiscriminate region of the brain with electric pulses of which the parameters are also determined empirically..
Ok, it's a good progress for people that really need it, and for whom there are no alternatives, but it also shows how primitive this technology still is, and how little we still know about signalling in the brain.
RTLSDR has pisspoor dynamic range (8 bit ADC), sure you can do some triangulation, but it will be very inaccurate & unreliable.
Also current generation technology has a bandwidth of ~10MHz, RTLSDR can only do about ~3MHz max.
(example of triangulating a VHF signal here : http://www.rtl-sdr.com/triangu...)
There's plenty of cheap SDR projects out there nowadays, much, much better than the RTLSDR. And if you're serious, really advanced hardware will only set you back a few thousand $$$. (http://www.ettus.com/product/details/E310-KIT)
oh i agree, but this never stopped anyone. also 3G for telemetry sounds nice, but i guess you could just slap a phone on an ardupilot or any other controller as well..
Also 3DR's APM/pixhawk is way too expensive for what it is imho.
so since they have an accelerometer, gyro, compass (orientation), GPS (position), and now even barometer and temperature sensor (reasonably accurate altitude w/ high update rate), all they're missing is a few PWM outputs to directly fly a plane, helicopter, or multirotor as a full-blown auto pilot.
I know it's peanuts to interface an MCU with an android phone over UART over USB, but i'm guessing it is also possible on iShizzle, be it over some proprietary interface as opposed to plain old TTL UART.
Let's see how long it takes before the first iPhone "drone" kits arrive in the store.
from personal experience i can tell you that anything nearby operating around 1500 MHz (even a simple clock line or other unshielded electronics) will simply kill GPS reception completely.
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.. a virus on a galactic scale.
"-200VDC is discharged over the data lines of the host device." is all it says, but the charge will be tiny, i find it doubtful that this will do anything beyond maybe fry the usb controller or possibly some diodes.
yet another device to charge, what will the autonomy be on these $160 suckers ?
one could argue that you could easily blind a human pilot with a floodlight, he will also not know if there was an object in front of him or not ..
same thing Hitler did after the invasion of Poland.
isn't $800 a bit much, a few years ago there were lots of rumors you could buy one around Brussels for less than half of that. I certainly hope they cracked down on illegal arms dealers in the meanwhile.
We have had these pills for as long as i can remember, the only difference is that now everyone gets them, not just hose living close to the nuclear plants or research centers. But since this is a tiny country it's only a small part of the population that didn't already have them.
Adblock Plus also blocks all the advertisements on bitcoinwisdom, so why would anyone bother with this extension ?
AAAAAAAND IT'S DOWN
wouldn't that be XSS and thus not allowed by JS ?
Belgium simply doesn't have enough manpower to monitor all potential jihadists. It has the largest number of muslim citizens to go fight in Syria per capita out there. I imagine you could automate most of the monitoring of chats etc online, but when you need to monitor group audio sessions with dozens of participants in a pool of maybe millions of gamers. How do you manage something like that ?
+1 for all parents if i had the modpoints
Dave Jones from EEVblog noticed this after debunking some myths about a kickstarter project (the infamous batteriser) Here's his video about it : https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
those DJI's measure altitude is with pressure and temperature sensors, and it can drift A LOT, so it is very possible that the true height was much higher or lower.
payload is 150 to 350 kg ... /yawns
The thing is, atoms are very, very small, but they still have a finite size. A hydrogen atom, for example, is about 0.1 nanometers, and a caesium atom is around 0.3nm. The atoms used in silicon chip fabrication are around 0.2nm.
source: http://www.extremetech.com/com...
I'm not convinced there's any real progress here, I actually thought most of these implants were closed-loop already. However this still seems VERY crude ! What's going on here is that they're detecting patterns that are empirically determined to trigger an onset of an attack, and then just blast some indiscriminate region of the brain with electric pulses of which the parameters are also determined empirically ..
Ok, it's a good progress for people that really need it, and for whom there are no alternatives, but it also shows how primitive this technology still is, and how little we still know about signalling in the brain.
RTLSDR has pisspoor dynamic range (8 bit ADC), sure you can do some triangulation, but it will be very inaccurate & unreliable. Also current generation technology has a bandwidth of ~10MHz, RTLSDR can only do about ~3MHz max. (example of triangulating a VHF signal here : http://www.rtl-sdr.com/triangu...) There's plenty of cheap SDR projects out there nowadays, much, much better than the RTLSDR. And if you're serious, really advanced hardware will only set you back a few thousand $$$. (http://www.ettus.com/product/details/E310-KIT)
isn't this just more war rhetoric ?
disable 3rd party cookies. problem solved.
care to share a link/source ? I have never seen any flight controllers that run directly from a phone.
oh i agree, but this never stopped anyone. also 3G for telemetry sounds nice, but i guess you could just slap a phone on an ardupilot or any other controller as well.. Also 3DR's APM/pixhawk is way too expensive for what it is imho.
so since they have an accelerometer, gyro, compass (orientation), GPS (position), and now even barometer and temperature sensor (reasonably accurate altitude w/ high update rate), all they're missing is a few PWM outputs to directly fly a plane, helicopter, or multirotor as a full-blown auto pilot. I know it's peanuts to interface an MCU with an android phone over UART over USB, but i'm guessing it is also possible on iShizzle, be it over some proprietary interface as opposed to plain old TTL UART. Let's see how long it takes before the first iPhone "drone" kits arrive in the store.
don't you think it's funny that 20 years ago everyone wanted -flat screens-, and now everyone wants to back to curved displays.
from personal experience i can tell you that anything nearby operating around 1500 MHz (even a simple clock line or other unshielded electronics) will simply kill GPS reception completely.