NOTE: The term 'drone' is being mis-applied here, just as 'hacker' is mis-used by the general public to mean a bad thing.
As a rural landowner who also flies Radio-Controlled aircraft and UAVs, I see this issue from several angles.
- Hunters and fisherman who conduct themselves ethically and within the law deserve to not be disturbed or have their 'prey' scared off.
- Despite earlier remarks that hunters 'have the right' to hunt/fish unmonitored- this is obviously untrue since game-wardens exist.
- Simply flying an RC Airplane or AUV with a video downlink does not constitute monitoring or invasion of privacy any more than your next-door neighbor kid in his treehouse. The fact that he may be able to see into your yard or back windows does not give you the right to shoot him dead.
- UAVs are noisy- too noisy to sneak up on people, but they sure can spook wildlife...
- This issue is being blown completely out of proportion. Nearly all UAVs are flown for recreational purposes, there are very -very- few UAVs being used anywhere for this or any other surveillance purpose.
- The odds of ever encountering one of these outside of town is amazingly tiny- the odds that one is being used to monitor your hunting/fishing is orders of magnitude smaller than than your chance of winning the PowerBall lottery.
- It is foolhardy to use any method (e.g., noisy car stereo, UAV or otherwise) to harass anybody.
- Although I do not agree with many of the extreme views and methods of PETA, I do feel the use of game-cameras, UAVs, and other methods to substantiate/verify reports of abuse or illegal activity by hunters or polluters is valid and beneficial.
- Some of my neighbors own small aircraft and have full visibility of my place, they even sometimes do touch-and-go landings on my RC airstrip. Does this bother me? No, its good, friendly fun- we just wave and smile and often take pictures of them (they love the copies! ). If UAVs bother you so much, you can always 'moon' them.;)
- This is being used as a diversionary issue for simpletons to get themselves all worked-up over, yet it really has no impact on their lives. It is being used to distract your attention from other more important things. Please pay attention to the man behind the curtains instead...
- Not all uses of UAVs are so controversial- my neighbors benefit from aerial photos showing which parts of their cotton fields need special attention (insect infestation, weeds, erosion, dry spots, inundation).
Incidentally, the term has been used both ways, and has etymologically distinct roots, so millionfold meaning 'a million times' is valid. I can't link directly to it, at the sixth entry (-fold) at Miriam Webster's.
Now I'm looking at all this from a humorous point of view, so please don't take this wrong, but just because something is listed in a dictionary does not make it correct. They simply cite common (mis)usage of words.
Case in point: The aforementioned website listing for the word http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/theory/ "theory" indicates it is a synonym for hypothesis, which is absolutely, deadly wrong. The layman misuse of scientific/mathematical terms is pretty frustrating. The meanings of the terms conjecture, hypothesis, and theory are are very distinct and do not overlap, there is no ambiguity here whatsoever.
One of my favorite quotes from Babylon 5 is "If you can not say what you mean, you can never mean what you say". I try my best, but often do not succeed.
2 to the millionth power would be a gazillion times bigger than the universe would it not? One is a measure of volume, the other of energy- but if all the mass in the universe were converted to energy, it might just work out to be pretty close...;)
The/. title "Comet Unexpectedly Brightens a Millionfold" demonstrates a common mistake.
Each "fold" means a doubling, or 2 to the n'th power. For example, three-fold is 8-times. Take a piece of paper and fold it three times- unfold it and count the number of rectangles outlined by the creases. This is where the expression actually came from...
People incorrectly use the "fold" term because they think it sounds more intelligent, but they demonstrate their ignorance by misusing it.
A brighting of 2 to the millionth power would be so massive that we and our entire solar system would be almost instantly vaporized and blown away by the photons striking us.
The BSG scripts and visuals are much better than I ever expected, but the intentional camera shake is distracting and drives me crazy. A four-year old child with a camcorder could do a beter job...
The only problem I have seen with 7.0 is the inability to compile kernels (2.2.17 / 2.4.0-test8), which forced me to abandon 7.0 altogether.
Reading the RedHat bugzilla postings, they mention that the Release-Notes discribe the simple workaround for this. I don't normally read release-notes because they tend to contain nothing more than fluff, but RedHat does have some good info in there, however there is NO mention of the CC=kgcc work-around...
This was a definite oops. I forgive them, but it was a serious mistake from a developer point of view.
N0GNU (Ham radio callsign [really!], not anti GNU)
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NOTE: The term 'drone' is being mis-applied here, just as 'hacker' is mis-used by the general public to mean a bad thing.
As a rural landowner who also flies Radio-Controlled aircraft and UAVs, I see this issue from several angles.
- Hunters and fisherman who conduct themselves ethically and within the law deserve to not be disturbed or have their 'prey' scared off. ;)
- Despite earlier remarks that hunters 'have the right' to hunt/fish unmonitored- this is obviously untrue since game-wardens exist.
- Simply flying an RC Airplane or AUV with a video downlink does not constitute monitoring or invasion of privacy any more than your next-door neighbor kid in his treehouse. The fact that he may be able to see into your yard or back windows does not give you the right to shoot him dead.
- UAVs are noisy- too noisy to sneak up on people, but they sure can spook wildlife...
- This issue is being blown completely out of proportion. Nearly all UAVs are flown for recreational purposes, there are very -very- few UAVs being used anywhere for this or any other surveillance purpose.
- The odds of ever encountering one of these outside of town is amazingly tiny- the odds that one is being used to monitor your hunting/fishing is orders of magnitude smaller than than your chance of winning the PowerBall lottery.
- It is foolhardy to use any method (e.g., noisy car stereo, UAV or otherwise) to harass anybody.
- Although I do not agree with many of the extreme views and methods of PETA, I do feel the use of game-cameras, UAVs, and other methods to substantiate/verify reports of abuse or illegal activity by hunters or polluters is valid and beneficial.
- Some of my neighbors own small aircraft and have full visibility of my place, they even sometimes do touch-and-go landings on my RC airstrip. Does this bother me? No, its good, friendly fun- we just wave and smile and often take pictures of them (they love the copies! ). If UAVs bother you so much, you can always 'moon' them.
- This is being used as a diversionary issue for simpletons to get themselves all worked-up over, yet it really has no impact on their lives. It is being used to distract your attention from other more important things. Please pay attention to the man behind the curtains instead...
- Not all uses of UAVs are so controversial- my neighbors benefit from aerial photos showing which parts of their cotton fields need special attention (insect infestation, weeds, erosion, dry spots, inundation).
Consider: http://www.suasnews.com/2012/01/11389/dallas-meat-packing-plant-investigated-after-drone-images-reveal-pollution
Incidentally, the term has been used both ways, and has etymologically distinct roots, so millionfold meaning 'a million times' is valid.
I can't link directly to it, at the sixth entry (-fold) at Miriam Webster's.
Now I'm looking at all this from a humorous point of view, so please don't take this wrong, but just because something is listed in a dictionary does not make it correct. They simply cite common (mis)usage of words.
Case in point: The aforementioned website listing for the word http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/theory/ "theory" indicates it is a synonym for hypothesis, which is absolutely, deadly wrong. The layman misuse of scientific/mathematical terms is pretty frustrating. The meanings of the terms conjecture, hypothesis, and theory are are very distinct and do not overlap, there is no ambiguity here whatsoever.
One of my favorite quotes from Babylon 5 is "If you can not say what you mean, you can never mean what you say". I try my best, but often do not succeed.
ron
ron
The /. title "Comet Unexpectedly Brightens a Millionfold" demonstrates a common mistake.
Each "fold" means a doubling, or 2 to the n'th power. For example, three-fold is 8-times. Take a piece of paper and fold it three times- unfold it and count the number of rectangles outlined by the creases. This is where the expression actually came from...
People incorrectly use the "fold" term because they think it sounds more intelligent, but they demonstrate their ignorance by misusing it.
A brighting of 2 to the millionth power would be so massive that we and our entire solar system would be almost instantly vaporized and blown away by the photons striking us.
ron
The BSG scripts and visuals are much better than I ever expected, but the intentional camera shake is distracting and drives me crazy. A four-year old child with a camcorder could do a beter job...
Did you update your gcc RPM's with the updates posted to all the mirror sites several weeks back ?
I do a LOT of C/C++ coding, and have not seen such problems with the updated compiler.
ron
The only problem I have seen with 7.0 is the inability to compile kernels (2.2.17 / 2.4.0-test8), which forced me to abandon 7.0 altogether. Reading the RedHat bugzilla postings, they mention that the Release-Notes discribe the simple workaround for this. I don't normally read release-notes because they tend to contain nothing more than fluff, but RedHat does have some good info in there, however there is NO mention of the CC=kgcc work-around... This was a definite oops. I forgive them, but it was a serious mistake from a developer point of view. N0GNU (Ham radio callsign [really!], not anti GNU)