You mean that plane that's getting ready to take off right now? Lucky that nobody was killed at a non-tower controlled airport that would have had no traffic at the time anyways? You sure aren't good at these fact things.
Funny story: I used to work for FedEx and we had a package fall off of our conveyor and into a puddle (it was winter, there was snow melt from the trucks). As is SOP we took the package out of the box to repackage and relabel it. Inside there was t-shirt wrapped around a cat food container containing potpourri and a plastic baggie. Long story short one of our drivers got to be involved in a police sting and the person who was receiving the package was arrested upon signing for the package.
Easy to figure out, send an x-ray detector through the mail. Let us know the results. Either way, stop asking an agent of the government to take things you don't want them to see. Very simple
No, no, and a million times no. The USA has not manufactured the monsters it deserves. Perhaps the government of the US has, but the problem is that when terrorists attack they don't attack the government they attack people, and in quite a few situations attack totally innocent people that have nothing to do with the government that has wronged them and their countries. Say that these guys get released, they obviously hate the united states, and they fly into a building that I work at... how can you claim that I have manufactured a monster that I deserve? I didn't open gitmo, I hate the idea of it, and I sure as hell didn't send a bunch of planes to the middle east to bomb the shit out of civilians. I didn't even vote for the government that did. This is the problem, the government pisses people off but they aren't the ones that take heat for it, the citizens are.
This is actually one thing I have noticed. I'm not sure if it is a reaction to there being so much bullshit propagated by the "real" news-media and the police wanting to make sure some actual facts slipped through, or simply police realizing that transparency can help an investigation, but I've seen more information much sooner than I would expect in an investigation such as this. The fact that the FLIR imagery from the suspect in the boat was released to the public at all, and especially so soon, seemed shocking to me. The police announcing over the radio that they had captured the suspect, and that he was the suspect wanted for the bombings immediately after they captured him also seems abnormal to me, especially since they were very clearly aware that their radio chatter was being broadcast worldwide over the internet.
Let's name other things that could deliver bombs: RC cars, normal cars, those little foam gliders you get from the dollar store, a Frisbee, and tennis balls. So what point were you trying to make?
Ummm... I was responding to a comment that was basically saying rotary wing is useless because fixed wing exists. You appear to be unable to read context of a discussion before picking your own nits. So, kindly GFY
I'm guessing your entire comment was written sarcastically because I could not do anything but laugh as I read it. I sure hope so at least, otherwise I am truly worried about you.
I also like how Tea Party is the new hip insult. Do you know what the Tea Party is, or do you just suggest anyone you don't like must be a member? Not a thing in my comments would have suggested any sort of alignment with the ideals of the Tea Party, so I must assume you are also just an idiot.
The final hilarious part of your comment is you suggesting that I am defending Facebook or something, despite me not mentioning the company even once in my post.
Actually, come to think of it, I am not convinced you read either my post or the one i was responding to. That makes more sense to me.
Step 1) Google warthox.
Step 2) Watch videos
Step 3) Stand (or sit, I don't care) corrected.
I can hit almost 20 mph with my $40 Chinese micro quad, hitting 50 is relatively trivial for a more expensive/powerful machine. Efficiency begins to matter less when you are trying to potentially save a life, especially when your aircraft is unmanned and expendable.
I offer a challenge: fly a fixed wing aircraft to a man in water. Stop the plane, throw down life preservers, and stay exactly above the swimmer with a beacon light to guide rescue swimmers in.
I bet at the beginning of the second sentence fuel efficiency stops mattering as you fall out of the sky and the quad copter begins laughing maniacally.
Rotary wing aircraft exist, and are used because despite the small disadvantages they also offer one huge advantage as well. There is a reason rotary wing is used over fixed wing in rescue operations, and it isn't because they forgot to ask your opinion.
I'm not really scared for my privacy at all, whoever is wiretapping me has the most boring job ever. I am active on RCGroups, somewhat active here, and spend a lot of time looking at tower hobbies, xheli, nitroplanes, banggood, and tmart. I call and text my parents, my fiancee, and various people from work. I almost exclusively email people from work, and I travel to and from Syracuse as needed for medical treatment for my son. Hopefully I just saved the FBI some time and resources. There's little they couldn't just find on my Facebook if they wanted to know any of that.
I understand why other would be concerned about privacy but I quite simply couldn't care less. I don't believe government invading my privacy has made me safer or anything, but it truly has no effect on my life.
You're not wrong, but losing a $1,000 quadcopter, to me, is preferable to losing either the man in the water or sending out a manned helicopter. It will work better than sitting there going "I hope that guy doesn't drown."
Are you stupid or just stupid? You're saying because less kids are kidnapped now nobody should worry about their kid being kidnapped. Less people die of dysentery then they used to, I think I'll go ahead and stick with clean water though. If your child gets kidnapped statistics don't mean a damn thing. To anyone with a life worth living there are more important things than "keeping democracy intact" by going on angry diatribes over the internet. Hell, even us "mindless parent[s]" are smart enough to realize you can't keep a democracy intact when you live in a republic. Some more of us are even active members of our communities, maybe even local governments, and I promise you that does a lot more good for the country than going on brainless rants about how mindless parents are for caring about their children when there are legitimate fears like The Man spying on your every move.
Also, since you are stupid: the comment you were originally replying to was sarcasm. If you're not intelligent enough to recognize obvious sarcasm then maybe the comments section of Slashdot isn't the best place for you. Judging by how twisted you got your panties over this the best place for you is likely either to stay in your mom's basement, or a straight jacket.
There's actually, AFAIK, companies doing this to avoid this "law." Basically you pay a guy for unrelated consulting services, he then flies just because he wants to and gives you the video. By law there is nothing wrong with that, as the flight was for fun and not for commercial purposes and is unrelated to a separate business contract.
I know yelling "slashvertisement" is cool, but is any JavaScript demo that runs good on Chrome an advertisement to you? It seems to me like it just means chrome renders these demos better than other browsers. To the best of my knowledge this is a competition that happens yearly and always gets some tech coverage because seeing what you can do in small amounts of code is pretty cool to people interested in code.
It isn't exactly like Slashdot reaches out of your monitor and shoves articles into your eyeballs, you have to actually click on the links to see the content. What you actually seem to be complaining about is that you don't possess the mental capacity to not click on something you don't want to see.
Let's see:
Have you seen the people the power companies hire to hang off the side of a helicopter to inspect high voltage lines? What if you could do that from the ground? These helicopters crash and kill people, an rc craft crashes and wastes a few thousand dollars and zero lives.
Have you heard of searches for missing people get called off because of nightfall or weather? RC helis are much cheaper, batteries much quicker to replace, and the pilots are never in dangerous situations.
Ever seen any bush pilots? Imagine if an RC aircraft can he called upon in the middle of the night to deliver life saving medications to a remote town without risking a single human life.
Just because some remotely piloted aircraft are used in the field of battle does not mean they are killing machines, or that operators are trained to kill. There are a lot of technologies that were "perfected" on the battlefield that have great civilian uses. Also, you are a fucking moron, asshat.
RC aircraft are being used quite commonly in a lot of film now. Recently there has been a lot of Rally filmed with them and the shots are spectacular. Hollywood uses them constantly, they just don't advertise it because of the negative stigma idiots like the title writer give these awesome tools.
I have a quadcopter the size of my hand that shoots relatively good 720p video. I don't use it to spy on people I use it to take video of my son riding his bike, or nature scenes that I think would look cool (the ascending a waterfall shot is a good one, and very simple), or get unique shots of normally hidden architecture. Am I a criminal?
Do you know the FAA has no legal authority over what happens below 400' above private land far enough away from an airport.
I can say posting ignorant bullshit on Slashdot is illegal, that doesn't mean I have any authority. Did you know that there are guys that operate those little 2/3 channel helicopters inside of malls every day for commercial purposes?
Correct title for article: PGA uses camera to film things. Or: Someone flies RC helicopter. Troll article is troll.
Obviously they should have known NK would pull this shit right? Or maybe could it be that things change and what once was unnecessary can become necessary again? Asshat.
See, the problem is that you're an idiot. It is just stupid to make comparisons like this, I see nobody suggesting you get rid of all your other vehicles and buy a Tesla. Road tripping in an EV is more to say you did it than actually doing a road trip. How often do you drive less than 300 miles a day? For me it is damn near everyday. If it is different for you then it means an EV isn't suitable for you, not that the design is flawed. This is like saying convertibles are stupid because where you live it rains constantly, or someone in Siberia saying motorcycles are stupid because it is too cold to ride. An EV fits a certain use case, outside of that use something else. The people that can actually afford these things love the hell out of them and use them every day, so clearly the car works just fine. All NYT proved is that if you're an idiot you should stick to ICE as it takes enough intelligence to know that your remaining range must be greater than the distance you wish to travel to operate an EV.
I planned to buy this game this Friday, after having read enough reviews I will download an actual working copy of the game rather than pay for a broken one. As far as I know simcity has been very popular with the geek crowd, and by accounts of the few people that have been able to play it it can be a really fun game, so I suspect I am not alone. DRM is actively encouraging piracy. Awesome.
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You mean that plane that's getting ready to take off right now? Lucky that nobody was killed at a non-tower controlled airport that would have had no traffic at the time anyways? You sure aren't good at these fact things.
Funny story: I used to work for FedEx and we had a package fall off of our conveyor and into a puddle (it was winter, there was snow melt from the trucks). As is SOP we took the package out of the box to repackage and relabel it. Inside there was t-shirt wrapped around a cat food container containing potpourri and a plastic baggie. Long story short one of our drivers got to be involved in a police sting and the person who was receiving the package was arrested upon signing for the package.
Easy to figure out, send an x-ray detector through the mail. Let us know the results. Either way, stop asking an agent of the government to take things you don't want them to see. Very simple
No, no, and a million times no. The USA has not manufactured the monsters it deserves. Perhaps the government of the US has, but the problem is that when terrorists attack they don't attack the government they attack people, and in quite a few situations attack totally innocent people that have nothing to do with the government that has wronged them and their countries. Say that these guys get released, they obviously hate the united states, and they fly into a building that I work at... how can you claim that I have manufactured a monster that I deserve? I didn't open gitmo, I hate the idea of it, and I sure as hell didn't send a bunch of planes to the middle east to bomb the shit out of civilians. I didn't even vote for the government that did. This is the problem, the government pisses people off but they aren't the ones that take heat for it, the citizens are.
This is actually one thing I have noticed. I'm not sure if it is a reaction to there being so much bullshit propagated by the "real" news-media and the police wanting to make sure some actual facts slipped through, or simply police realizing that transparency can help an investigation, but I've seen more information much sooner than I would expect in an investigation such as this. The fact that the FLIR imagery from the suspect in the boat was released to the public at all, and especially so soon, seemed shocking to me. The police announcing over the radio that they had captured the suspect, and that he was the suspect wanted for the bombings immediately after they captured him also seems abnormal to me, especially since they were very clearly aware that their radio chatter was being broadcast worldwide over the internet.
Let's name other things that could deliver bombs: RC cars, normal cars, those little foam gliders you get from the dollar store, a Frisbee, and tennis balls. So what point were you trying to make?
Ummm... I was responding to a comment that was basically saying rotary wing is useless because fixed wing exists. You appear to be unable to read context of a discussion before picking your own nits. So, kindly GFY
I'm guessing your entire comment was written sarcastically because I could not do anything but laugh as I read it. I sure hope so at least, otherwise I am truly worried about you. I also like how Tea Party is the new hip insult. Do you know what the Tea Party is, or do you just suggest anyone you don't like must be a member? Not a thing in my comments would have suggested any sort of alignment with the ideals of the Tea Party, so I must assume you are also just an idiot. The final hilarious part of your comment is you suggesting that I am defending Facebook or something, despite me not mentioning the company even once in my post. Actually, come to think of it, I am not convinced you read either my post or the one i was responding to. That makes more sense to me.
Step 1) Google warthox. Step 2) Watch videos Step 3) Stand (or sit, I don't care) corrected. I can hit almost 20 mph with my $40 Chinese micro quad, hitting 50 is relatively trivial for a more expensive/powerful machine. Efficiency begins to matter less when you are trying to potentially save a life, especially when your aircraft is unmanned and expendable.
I offer a challenge: fly a fixed wing aircraft to a man in water. Stop the plane, throw down life preservers, and stay exactly above the swimmer with a beacon light to guide rescue swimmers in. I bet at the beginning of the second sentence fuel efficiency stops mattering as you fall out of the sky and the quad copter begins laughing maniacally. Rotary wing aircraft exist, and are used because despite the small disadvantages they also offer one huge advantage as well. There is a reason rotary wing is used over fixed wing in rescue operations, and it isn't because they forgot to ask your opinion.
I'm not really scared for my privacy at all, whoever is wiretapping me has the most boring job ever. I am active on RCGroups, somewhat active here, and spend a lot of time looking at tower hobbies, xheli, nitroplanes, banggood, and tmart. I call and text my parents, my fiancee, and various people from work. I almost exclusively email people from work, and I travel to and from Syracuse as needed for medical treatment for my son. Hopefully I just saved the FBI some time and resources. There's little they couldn't just find on my Facebook if they wanted to know any of that. I understand why other would be concerned about privacy but I quite simply couldn't care less. I don't believe government invading my privacy has made me safer or anything, but it truly has no effect on my life.
You're not wrong, but losing a $1,000 quadcopter, to me, is preferable to losing either the man in the water or sending out a manned helicopter. It will work better than sitting there going "I hope that guy doesn't drown."
I find this hilarious. I am picturing some 1's and 0's threatening some other 1's and 0's.
*DRONES No more /. before coffee :(
They're going to kill us all (but not from drowning apparently). I'm scared, civil liberties, Obama, predator, privacy etc. Am I /. correctly?
Are you stupid or just stupid? You're saying because less kids are kidnapped now nobody should worry about their kid being kidnapped. Less people die of dysentery then they used to, I think I'll go ahead and stick with clean water though. If your child gets kidnapped statistics don't mean a damn thing. To anyone with a life worth living there are more important things than "keeping democracy intact" by going on angry diatribes over the internet. Hell, even us "mindless parent[s]" are smart enough to realize you can't keep a democracy intact when you live in a republic. Some more of us are even active members of our communities, maybe even local governments, and I promise you that does a lot more good for the country than going on brainless rants about how mindless parents are for caring about their children when there are legitimate fears like The Man spying on your every move. Also, since you are stupid: the comment you were originally replying to was sarcasm. If you're not intelligent enough to recognize obvious sarcasm then maybe the comments section of Slashdot isn't the best place for you. Judging by how twisted you got your panties over this the best place for you is likely either to stay in your mom's basement, or a straight jacket.
I suspect they continue to hold shears. Where do people that are holding shears come into this article in the first place?
There's actually, AFAIK, companies doing this to avoid this "law." Basically you pay a guy for unrelated consulting services, he then flies just because he wants to and gives you the video. By law there is nothing wrong with that, as the flight was for fun and not for commercial purposes and is unrelated to a separate business contract.
I know yelling "slashvertisement" is cool, but is any JavaScript demo that runs good on Chrome an advertisement to you? It seems to me like it just means chrome renders these demos better than other browsers. To the best of my knowledge this is a competition that happens yearly and always gets some tech coverage because seeing what you can do in small amounts of code is pretty cool to people interested in code. It isn't exactly like Slashdot reaches out of your monitor and shoves articles into your eyeballs, you have to actually click on the links to see the content. What you actually seem to be complaining about is that you don't possess the mental capacity to not click on something you don't want to see.
Let's see: Have you seen the people the power companies hire to hang off the side of a helicopter to inspect high voltage lines? What if you could do that from the ground? These helicopters crash and kill people, an rc craft crashes and wastes a few thousand dollars and zero lives. Have you heard of searches for missing people get called off because of nightfall or weather? RC helis are much cheaper, batteries much quicker to replace, and the pilots are never in dangerous situations. Ever seen any bush pilots? Imagine if an RC aircraft can he called upon in the middle of the night to deliver life saving medications to a remote town without risking a single human life. Just because some remotely piloted aircraft are used in the field of battle does not mean they are killing machines, or that operators are trained to kill. There are a lot of technologies that were "perfected" on the battlefield that have great civilian uses. Also, you are a fucking moron, asshat.
RC aircraft are being used quite commonly in a lot of film now. Recently there has been a lot of Rally filmed with them and the shots are spectacular. Hollywood uses them constantly, they just don't advertise it because of the negative stigma idiots like the title writer give these awesome tools. I have a quadcopter the size of my hand that shoots relatively good 720p video. I don't use it to spy on people I use it to take video of my son riding his bike, or nature scenes that I think would look cool (the ascending a waterfall shot is a good one, and very simple), or get unique shots of normally hidden architecture. Am I a criminal?
Do you know the FAA has no legal authority over what happens below 400' above private land far enough away from an airport. I can say posting ignorant bullshit on Slashdot is illegal, that doesn't mean I have any authority. Did you know that there are guys that operate those little 2/3 channel helicopters inside of malls every day for commercial purposes? Correct title for article: PGA uses camera to film things. Or: Someone flies RC helicopter. Troll article is troll.
Obviously they should have known NK would pull this shit right? Or maybe could it be that things change and what once was unnecessary can become necessary again? Asshat.
See, the problem is that you're an idiot. It is just stupid to make comparisons like this, I see nobody suggesting you get rid of all your other vehicles and buy a Tesla. Road tripping in an EV is more to say you did it than actually doing a road trip. How often do you drive less than 300 miles a day? For me it is damn near everyday. If it is different for you then it means an EV isn't suitable for you, not that the design is flawed. This is like saying convertibles are stupid because where you live it rains constantly, or someone in Siberia saying motorcycles are stupid because it is too cold to ride. An EV fits a certain use case, outside of that use something else. The people that can actually afford these things love the hell out of them and use them every day, so clearly the car works just fine. All NYT proved is that if you're an idiot you should stick to ICE as it takes enough intelligence to know that your remaining range must be greater than the distance you wish to travel to operate an EV.
I planned to buy this game this Friday, after having read enough reviews I will download an actual working copy of the game rather than pay for a broken one. As far as I know simcity has been very popular with the geek crowd, and by accounts of the few people that have been able to play it it can be a really fun game, so I suspect I am not alone. DRM is actively encouraging piracy. Awesome.