Essentially all items can be broken down into a base material that doesn't really reflect its value.
You buy a real life loot chest and get a Jackson Pollock painting. You can't really argue that it is only worth the price of the canvass and the paint.
All of this stuff is off the shelf components. It is the absolute standard stuff that anybody that plays with RC gear uses.
All the flight control and way point planning is done via iNav - https://github.com/iNavFlight/... Flight controllers are ~$20-$50 off ebay The radio receivers are generic, $20 items. GPS module is $20
It is all done in the 2.4g band. There isn't anything to detect, parse or cross reference. It's all consumable crap made for peanuts in china. There is nothing special about anything I'm using. The radio I use is an FrSky taranis which has millions of sold units and is the number 1 most popular radio in the hobby.
Because it's cheap, allows more complex flight paths and the ability to accurately position hold.
Once you are in the air it is very difficult to measure how far you have traveled without GPS. Dead reckoning is fine if you want to just fly-by, but to know you are at a particular location you need gps.
If you were really trying to take out a planes engines you would use a swarm of drones that would launch at once to a predetermined altitude. Then let the plane fly into the cloud. One should hit an engine.
Getting a single drone into a planes engine on purpose would be hellishly hard. I race drones and a standard race gate is 1.52m x 1.52m. People hit those stationary gates every race and get taken out. Trying to hit one moving at 180mph even on a known path would be down to pure fluke.
I have several wings that are fully autonomous, they navigate a pre-determined flight path, take actions at certain gps co-ords and then fly back to me. The total radio connection time is arming the flight controller at launch and then radio control to land. Even then I could let them land auto if I wanted but that would probably break them.
The only way to shut them down is to shoot them down or spoof local GPS enough to put them into the ground / solid object.
How much does an employee cost you if their machine is offline?
My IT team had a big number written on the wall of their office which was the revenue per hour that would be lost if the system went down. It was a huge eye opener for a lot of them.
So, what does it cost you if she is offline? Lenovo or Dell business solution with a next business day replacement isn't cheap, but could be a LOT cheaper than losing her for a week.
Well socialised healthcare is something that I 100% agree with and fortunately live somewhere that has it.
I also think you give competition too much credit. Insurance underwriting is highly concentrated into a small number of organisations. The vast majority of insurance offerings are underwritten by less than 20 companies world wide.
You really are fixated on whether people are fat or not aren't you.
How about considering things other than being fat. And then have that kid raised well, well education, well exercised, well integrated into society etc. Just because the had a toy when they were 4 or 5 should not be able to be used against them when they are older. And just because there might be other things that a parent screwed up it doesn't mean you can justify anything.
The societal norms I am talking about are things like the separation between juvenile criminal records and adult ones. Or that we don't allow minors to vote, drive or drink alcohol.
But I'll be honest and that sounds like a massive pain in the ass.
I don't wear a watch / fitness tracker anyway, so it's a bit irrelevant. But my wife has one of the garmin watches and if it had to be plugged in to download data it would be instant game over. Perhaps time will show me that I'm the fool, but I don't care that her heart rate, gps position or whatever else is available to garmin. I feel that the risk of someone stalking her or trying to do her harm via that data is such a small risk as to be negligible.
Your comment is also focused on those behaviours that you can control. Imagine instead the situation where you had an erratic heartbeat event while you were 4. That even was detected by your fitness device and as a result, at the age of 21, no insurer will give you life insurance or your life insurance has exclusions for any heart conditions or is prohibitively expensive. This is despite never having any other issues, never being diagnosed with any heart conditions and despite being otherwise healthy in every way,
The topic of this article is devices collecting data on kids. Kids are not old enough, in possession of enough knowledge, or empowered enough to make decisions about things that may negatively impact them 15 years in the future when they are an adult.
The fact that an option may exist to reduce your premium through giving an insurer access to your fitness monitor is not a bad thing. The option for you to get a discount through other activities is also not a bad thing. However in both of those cases it is you that is making the informed choice.
But a device which collects data on a minor, that then provides that data to organisations that may then use that data to discriminate against them in the future, through no fault of their own is a problem. This concept is recognised repeatedly already through our societal norms and laws.
Fitness tracked I can get. As it could potentially impact future insurance or medical aspects.
Apps on a phone that report clicks or usage time to better target ads. They get a pretty big meh from me. My kids have no purchasing power, and they nag me to buy them shit constantly. So a change in what shit they are nagging me for is a pretty nominal outcome tbh.
My thought is you always need to show me how that data is can be used in a manner that causes risk or harm.
One reply above talked about a fitness tracked for a kid. If that data was sold to an insurance company and that then affected an individuals premium then I can absolutely see an issue.
Or if there was an app that would upload photos to a general database, timestamped and with a location.
But I am trying to understand how a physical toy, which is what the article referred to, that might potentially report usage stats or even potentially location could be an issue.
For example I've bought my eldest daughter a Sphero Bolt for Xmas. It's a programmable robotic ball thing. She can control it via an app and it contains a raft of various sensors. I absolutely assume that if will be sending usage stats back to base. I really need to know what outcome I need to be concerned about here, because I'm struggling to come up with them.
And all the airlines I fly with in Australia allow bluetooth connections but require the cellular to be turned off. Depending on the plane there are restrictions around bluetooth during taxi, takeoff and landing. But not inflight. 747 for example are only while inflight, a320, a380, 787, 737 are on all the time.
Not in the US, but guessing this is a similar tax setup.
But as an employer I absolutely hate hate hate hate Payroll tax. It's technically not that much, and pales into insignificance compared to others. But I find something truly obnoxious about paying a tax to employ someone.
Production will move at most 800km. Components will be sourced en-mass from china, shipped to vietnam and then assembled into the final product with a "made in vietnam" sticker.
That putting tarrifs on a particular country will make production move ~800km to a different country that is very much under the geographic sphere of influence of the 1st?
That significant supply chain production will remain in the 1st country and only a negligible amount of money will change path.
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Essentially all items can be broken down into a base material that doesn't really reflect its value.
You buy a real life loot chest and get a Jackson Pollock painting. You can't really argue that it is only worth the price of the canvass and the paint.
Personally I think it is a massive over reaction. Personally I'd be more worried about red necks taking pot shots at aircraft.
All of this stuff is off the shelf components. It is the absolute standard stuff that anybody that plays with RC gear uses.
All the flight control and way point planning is done via iNav - https://github.com/iNavFlight/...
Flight controllers are ~$20-$50 off ebay
The radio receivers are generic, $20 items.
GPS module is $20
It is all done in the 2.4g band. There isn't anything to detect, parse or cross reference. It's all consumable crap made for peanuts in china. There is nothing special about anything I'm using. The radio I use is an FrSky taranis which has millions of sold units and is the number 1 most popular radio in the hobby.
Because it's cheap, allows more complex flight paths and the ability to accurately position hold.
Once you are in the air it is very difficult to measure how far you have traveled without GPS. Dead reckoning is fine if you want to just fly-by, but to know you are at a particular location you need gps.
All DJI drone will go into failsafe mode and either hold position or return to base. They could also have been setup to fly a predetermined path.
Building an autonomous drone from cheap off the shelf parts is trivial.
If you were really trying to take out a planes engines you would use a swarm of drones that would launch at once to a predetermined altitude. Then let the plane fly into the cloud. One should hit an engine.
Getting a single drone into a planes engine on purpose would be hellishly hard. I race drones and a standard race gate is 1.52m x 1.52m. People hit those stationary gates every race and get taken out. Trying to hit one moving at 180mph even on a known path would be down to pure fluke.
I have several wings that are fully autonomous, they navigate a pre-determined flight path, take actions at certain gps co-ords and then fly back to me. The total radio connection time is arming the flight controller at launch and then radio control to land. Even then I could let them land auto if I wanted but that would probably break them.
The only way to shut them down is to shoot them down or spoof local GPS enough to put them into the ground / solid object.
In the OP's case though she is remote in another city. So if there is a hardware failure how long till recovery?
How much does an employee cost you if their machine is offline?
My IT team had a big number written on the wall of their office which was the revenue per hour that would be lost if the system went down. It was a huge eye opener for a lot of them.
So, what does it cost you if she is offline? Lenovo or Dell business solution with a next business day replacement isn't cheap, but could be a LOT cheaper than losing her for a week.
Well socialised healthcare is something that I 100% agree with and fortunately live somewhere that has it.
I also think you give competition too much credit. Insurance underwriting is highly concentrated into a small number of organisations. The vast majority of insurance offerings are underwritten by less than 20 companies world wide.
You really are fixated on whether people are fat or not aren't you.
How about considering things other than being fat. And then have that kid raised well, well education, well exercised, well integrated into society etc. Just because the had a toy when they were 4 or 5 should not be able to be used against them when they are older. And just because there might be other things that a parent screwed up it doesn't mean you can justify anything.
The societal norms I am talking about are things like the separation between juvenile criminal records and adult ones. Or that we don't allow minors to vote, drive or drink alcohol.
Maybe.
But I'll be honest and that sounds like a massive pain in the ass.
I don't wear a watch / fitness tracker anyway, so it's a bit irrelevant. But my wife has one of the garmin watches and if it had to be plugged in to download data it would be instant game over. Perhaps time will show me that I'm the fool, but I don't care that her heart rate, gps position or whatever else is available to garmin. I feel that the risk of someone stalking her or trying to do her harm via that data is such a small risk as to be negligible.
I guess time will tell.
Your comment is also focused on those behaviours that you can control. Imagine instead the situation where you had an erratic heartbeat event while you were 4. That even was detected by your fitness device and as a result, at the age of 21, no insurer will give you life insurance or your life insurance has exclusions for any heart conditions or is prohibitively expensive. This is despite never having any other issues, never being diagnosed with any heart conditions and despite being otherwise healthy in every way,
The topic of this article is devices collecting data on kids. Kids are not old enough, in possession of enough knowledge, or empowered enough to make decisions about things that may negatively impact them 15 years in the future when they are an adult.
The fact that an option may exist to reduce your premium through giving an insurer access to your fitness monitor is not a bad thing. The option for you to get a discount through other activities is also not a bad thing. However in both of those cases it is you that is making the informed choice.
But a device which collects data on a minor, that then provides that data to organisations that may then use that data to discriminate against them in the future, through no fault of their own is a problem. This concept is recognised repeatedly already through our societal norms and laws.
Fitness tracked I can get. As it could potentially impact future insurance or medical aspects.
Apps on a phone that report clicks or usage time to better target ads. They get a pretty big meh from me. My kids have no purchasing power, and they nag me to buy them shit constantly. So a change in what shit they are nagging me for is a pretty nominal outcome tbh.
My thought is you always need to show me how that data is can be used in a manner that causes risk or harm.
One reply above talked about a fitness tracked for a kid. If that data was sold to an insurance company and that then affected an individuals premium then I can absolutely see an issue.
Or if there was an app that would upload photos to a general database, timestamped and with a location.
But I am trying to understand how a physical toy, which is what the article referred to, that might potentially report usage stats or even potentially location could be an issue.
For example I've bought my eldest daughter a Sphero Bolt for Xmas. It's a programmable robotic ball thing. She can control it via an app and it contains a raft of various sensors. I absolutely assume that if will be sending usage stats back to base. I really need to know what outcome I need to be concerned about here, because I'm struggling to come up with them.
and there is not one actual example. Not one.
I mean, fear mongering is fine. But seriously could you not find even ONE example of the abuse of privacy for a kids tech toy?!?!?!?!?! FFS.
Pick up your game click bait shite.
Hahahahahahahahhahahahhahah.
Oh god please tell me you aren't serious!
The US got caught monitoring Angela Merkel's phone and you call the Germans crappy allies!
FAA changed those rules in 2013.
And all the airlines I fly with in Australia allow bluetooth connections but require the cellular to be turned off. Depending on the plane there are restrictions around bluetooth during taxi, takeoff and landing. But not inflight. 747 for example are only while inflight, a320, a380, 787, 737 are on all the time.
Funny. Evil. But Funny.
Really curious. Why won't my bluetooth headphones work on a plane? They did on my flights on Friday so I'm wondering what changed?
Not in the US, but guessing this is a similar tax setup.
But as an employer I absolutely hate hate hate hate Payroll tax. It's technically not that much, and pales into insignificance compared to others. But I find something truly obnoxious about paying a tax to employ someone.
Are you serious? I actually can't tell.
Production will move at most 800km. Components will be sourced en-mass from china, shipped to vietnam and then assembled into the final product with a "made in vietnam" sticker.
The message is what exactly?
That putting tarrifs on a particular country will make production move ~800km to a different country that is very much under the geographic sphere of influence of the 1st?
That significant supply chain production will remain in the 1st country and only a negligible amount of money will change path.
Thats the message?
Uh huh. Thats why South Australia became a net EXPORTER of electricity for the first time ever in 2018.....