I can only look at pictures, I cannot handle the item in question. I have to wait for shipping and sometimes even have to be home when it arrives during business hours or travel miles to a shipping depot - during business hours. If left the item can be stolen from my doorstep, the item can be broken in shipping, I have to use a credit card or other more direct form of payment and cannot use cash. I'm often forced to setup an account and divulge email information for marketing purposes. I could go on but that's a start.... there is indeed some friction in making an online sale, it's often made up by the more competitive pricing and the ability to easily price compare. It's also nice when a site offers online reviews that aren't full of shills.
I just bought some interesting toys from DealExtreme and they ship straight from China. I bought from them because our asinine Govt. has recalled the same product from US sellers (Buckey Balls). I can still get much the same thing from DX with no problem.
So, I suspect that DX won't collect taxes, my money goes overseas. Will this not have the unintended side effect of making overseas businesses more attractive? For many things shipping is just as reasonable if you don't mind a little delay. I'm already forced to buy some things I want overseas, buying more of them isn't that great a stretch IMO and this could certainly make them more competitive...
I'll agree that this is happening but I'd also point out that there are now more hobbyist machinists and that CNC is coming on strong. All sorts of car guys are getting into it and you can find all sorts of custom machined stuff out there even flashlights. I have some hope that this will come back but before it does kids have to see it as "cool" and not something only fat sweaty guys do. Having computers involved, 3D printing, and other cool computer things should help. If I had the time and access to a little training, plus perhaps a reason to do it, I'd learn for sure! I had a lathe willed to me but an Uncle threw it away, he's lucky I didn't beat him for doing so too:-(
You say this but meanwhile in other countries teens are being shaken down by cops to make sure they aren't carrying screwdrivers and people talk about making kitchen knives that cannot be used to stab someone and do it with a straight face.
I'm pretty sure that just because they weren't checking for it didn't make it "legal". If someone had waved one around I wouldn't have been surprised if there were objections raised to having it in a pressurized aircraft. Things might have been a bit more "free" but people certainly weren't stupid.
The first version apparently misfired, the second version corrected that issue. The second version was fired successfully but came apart when equipped with a more powerful cartridge. When using a suitable cartridge it apparently worked just fine - the second revision anyway.
yes, it exploded on the second shot AFTER having a much more powerful shell loaded not because it had any issues after the first firing... I agree some pipe would be an improvement.
For those screaming that it would then have an issue with security I'd point out that the pipe need not be installed in the weapon at all times and that it could be brought through security easily as part of another object - say a tripod for a camera. And no, he wasn't trying to build a gun that could be brought through security although he has likely come pretty close to accomplishing that.
Well consider the audience. I once sat through a discussion at DEFCON about "survival" should the worst happen. Speaker said he didn't like guns or violence and would try to bargain and trade for goods when someone came calling looking for things to survive. This is what's known as a "victim" and the first time someone came knocking they would take everything he had. But he still really believed that he could make it.... This is the mentality you face when talking common sense about this stuff with this group - fantasy land.
Wouldn't having a gun yourself be a rather effective defense? Would said punk be as comfortable approaching you if the chances of you shooting back be much higher?
You're right, I don't own a gun and I support our rights to own guns. I see the minority, those that want to remove the 2nd Amendment, trying to shout and scream things like "think of the children" in order to do this. Thankfully the minority has yet to manage it.
Stronger background checks? Go for it. Assault weapons ban? Get a clue, no way. When the cosmetics are what's used to make decisions common sense has left the auditorium. Magazine limits? Seriously? Our reps don't even realize that magazines themselves can be reloaded let alone that it's possible to swap magazines and continue firing. Printable magazines are also available BTW although I'm told that this is actually a difficult thing to do correctly, something to do with the spring. More people are killed by automobiles in this country and yet we focus on guns. That's okay though as our cars are already so fat it's disgusting as they strive to swaddle us ever more in protective devices. I'm betting more than one person in Boston is a new gun owner after the fallout from the Marathon bombings and I don't blame them. If a manhunt in an urban neighborhood wasn't a wake up call I don't know what is.
BTW, unless you've got some sort of special machine that detects "wrong people" guns will always end up being wielded by them, checks cannot screen them all out. Any competent machine shop can build a damned gun and plans to do so aren't hard to find. The problem is so many people are freaked out by the news and screaming Chicken Little's that it's the "right people" who're going to end up being restricted. It's common sense that if someone is going to break the law that "yet another damned gun law" isn't going to even slow them down. Guns are so easy to get that the Boston bomber twits had a whole arsenal! Oh wait no they didn't...
What will you aim to ban next? Knives? Screwdrivers? Sticks? Baseball bats? Fireworks? Tree stump remover? Model rocket engines? Lithium batteries? Fertilizer? Dry ice? Perfect safety is NOT achievable no matter how many rights you decide to give up...
No it wasn't, this experiment was done outside. The police report clearly states this if you had bothered to read. When I was a kid I did the same thing with dry ice and water as well as vinegar and baking soda. Water and baking powder were also interesting but pretty weak. Friends did all sorts of stuff with powdered iodine. All of us turned out just fine, we didn't have our lives ruined or curiosity killed. My teachers wouldn't have allowed me to do this but they might have demonstrated the reaction to our class as they did many other things. We're destroying our kids...
Sure, I'd be happy to help them but first they need to help themselves. Ask themselves where the MAJORITY of their money goes, take some action like SOME of the book authors have been doing. http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ Instead of insisting on more and more and more they should perhaps look for where their inefficiencies are and fix those?
Maybe when they have done something to clean up their own damned mess they can stop calling their CUSTOMERS thieves I'll have some sympathy? I'm all for spending reasonable amounts of money for things I want. But $25++ for a movie? $20 for a CD? 99cents for a song I like is fine - without DRM - and I buy these fairly often (sorry not when they cost more). More money for an e-copy of a book than a paperback? F-that!
Software isn't physical. If I walk into your store and steal a soda YOU the owner of the store have nothing to sell. If instead I walk into a store, duplicate the soda on the shelf, and walk out - what exactly has the store owner lost? Which of these most closely resembles copying a digital file? Which of these is actual theft? You know that copying a file isn't theft right? It's not prosecuted as such and yet you call it that.
I'm not saying it's okay to copy everything and anything but your analogy isn't right. Given the option to buy something at a reasonable price, with low friction, more people than not will pay. Speaking for myself - my purchases of music have gone WAY up since Amazon started selling 99cent DRM free MP3. Likewise my e-book purchasing PLUMMETED when collusion among the publishers occurred. Likewise with movies which for some odd reason seem to be getting more and more expensive now after a period of time where they were more reasonable - I now purchase mostly box sets and used. DRM might even prevent that someday and then what do you think I will do?
BTW why is it that if I do a job, say build a house, I get paid just once? How come those people get to live in it and I get no rent for my single event of hard work after the sale? How come an artist is entitled to being paid over and over for their single act of work? Why is their work somehow more important than a tradesman's? What did artists do before recording and duplication? Perhaps a poor analogy but think about it. Why are entire systems of hardware and ecosystems of OS being warped to support one group's "rights" exactly?
Wedding dance made famous. Really innovative and interesting. Drove sales of the song, which was a year old, right back up the charts on both Amazon and iTunes. I couldn't help but chuckle. If that were done today ala Dancing Baby http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/after-five-years-dancing-baby-youtube-takedown-lawsuit-nears-a-climax/ then would sales have been driven? How about the charity donations the couple setup? If that were posted today would YouTube immediately yank it? I'm betting yes. DRM could have even prevented them from using the song since it's been proposed that watermarks prevent re-recording. Would DRM have prevented it's use? If the RIAA had their way it would have!
Artists sweat and worry about loss of sales but examples like the above prove that being able to freely use a song don't mean it will lead to poor sales. I understand the concern. Frankly if I were a writer going through a big publishing house being forced to sell my e-copies at higher than bound copy price I'd be VERY worried. what I don't understand is the shortsightedness. Look at the latest SimCity for kripes sakes - I was going to buy that until I heard about the B.S. The new XBOX? always on for DRM purposes? FAIL! I will not be buying one.
So no, I cannot think of a single instance where DRM in any way enhances a product such that it's a good thing for the consumer aka the customer. Want to pin the customer down, tie his hands, force feed him? Better hope no one comes along with an even slightly decent alternative because unless I'm forced I will not subscribe to DRM laden crap and I will break it any chance I get when I'm forced into it ala books and movies. Hell since DRM was lifted from music I've been BUYING bunches of it off of Amazon!
Yes, it's about money. Then you started with the 9/11 conspiracy shit and I realized that yup you're a conspiracy guy. Guys with radiation detectors onsite? Why in the hell would anyone find that surprising and why in this world would the news report it?
Never mind. I'm not going to feed you, it's just not worth the energy banging my head against the wall with one of you guys.
No, seriously. Up until 60 Minutes came along News was considered a sort of loss leader for networks. It was something they felt required to have but no one expected to make money at it. They simply reported the facts and tried to guess the weather. Then 60 Minutes came along. No one expected it would make money. I mean a news show making money? No way! Surprise, it made money. It did REALLY well. Everyone had to have one and then they began to realize they could draw eyes to their news shows. Ever since then it's been downhill. We now have multiple channels dedicated to nothing but "news" and by god if there's nothing exciting going on we'll dig something up! Investigative reporting? Meh, not so much. That requires time and work and someone might scoop us! No, now they just report things as fast as they can and they make them as exciting as they can to draw eyes. The more fear the more people turn on their TV sets and gawk at the shows and yes inevitably the ads. the commercialization of "news" was one of THE worst things to happen to television and hell even print media. One need only look as far as the grocery checkout to figure out how that went too. Why we've even got news channels that skew and spin their views for specific markets. How else can you explain the Faux News channel and CNN and MSNBC all spinning the same stories in different directions? they have all targeted a demographic for their "news" and want eyeballs for their ads.
Frankly it's pretty damned disgusting and disheartening. If you're old enough at all to remember a time when we had news shows with just a scrap of integrity you realize just how far we've fallen all in the name of making a fucking dollar. Bleah!
Car magazines, home improvement magazines, even some computer magazines. I still get paper copies of Wired for kripes sakes. Sure, I love to read on my tablet but i subscribe to at least 5 paper magazines and read those too. the internet is nice and all but it doesn't always give me the same information and I'm okay with both...
Hint: Don't buy the colored ones. The paint chips off pretty easily from those but the chrome ones seem to be fine. I'll be ordering some more in case they try to seal the border on these the way they did with the lasers
An entire hobby needs to be regulated and monitored because ZOMG someone might fly a "drone" over someone else's house? Never mind that the person doing this would almost certainly be violating existing laws on the books, we need new laws like NOW! Why in this world does anyone listen to this idiot?
The public already worries enough about "drones" somehow peeping into windows and it's ridiculous. Gee, a device that sounds like a small lawnmower and has a loiter time measured in a handful of minutes might manage to hover outside my window? With my shades open I presume? I need to freakout over this why?
I for one am THRILLED to see RC aircraft undergoing a resurgence! Get kids away from their game consoles and out building and experimenting with this stuff, hell adults too. I want to build one of these, I will build one of these! I will take pictures of my local park, I will use it to examine my roof, maybe I'll even setup a video feed to fly it with. But somehow because a small minority might get stupid we need to jump up and down waving our hands in the air? NO! A thousand times NO.
What exactly is this moron worried about? It's not like we don't already have cars driving around snapping pics and satellite's too. Commercial planes have been doing this for ages as well and people have found plenty of good uses for the technology. Why does THIS need to be regulated? We already screwed over the model rocket guys, why are we looking to hose the RC guys too?
Hey Eric, suppose someone puts a camera on an RC CAR and drives it into your yard? What then? Do we need a law for that too? Idiot...
You're correct about Unity, I tend to equate them and that's not completely fair. I found this out when I tried an "alternate" distro that had advertised Gnome 3 and I thought I was going to get back something I could better use, close but no it was a PITA too. I'll admit it was still a bit better but not what I was looking for which was the ability to use the OS without having to rethink all the things I'd done before. Perhaps if I spent the majority of my time in it I'd eventually adjust but I don't have that luxury nor am I sure it's what I'd want. Consistency is really something I appreciate when I'm having to jump OS somewhat frequently...
So, like Win8, to become comfortable I have to install additional software? Remove the things that people are used to, ask them to get used to new things, and then provide them additional software to get things back to where they can find things and work. Why not just not make the radical change to begin with? Or move slowly towards that change? Honestly part of the issue was their attitude - we're changing and we don't care if you don't like it, suck it up. Heard by both Gnome users and Windows users. WTF...
I'll look at extensions.org the next time I do an install on a machine that's internet connected. Surprise, many times that's not the case
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I can only look at pictures, I cannot handle the item in question. I have to wait for shipping and sometimes even have to be home when it arrives during business hours or travel miles to a shipping depot - during business hours. If left the item can be stolen from my doorstep, the item can be broken in shipping, I have to use a credit card or other more direct form of payment and cannot use cash. I'm often forced to setup an account and divulge email information for marketing purposes. I could go on but that's a start.... there is indeed some friction in making an online sale, it's often made up by the more competitive pricing and the ability to easily price compare. It's also nice when a site offers online reviews that aren't full of shills.
I just bought some interesting toys from DealExtreme and they ship straight from China. I bought from them because our asinine Govt. has recalled the same product from US sellers (Buckey Balls). I can still get much the same thing from DX with no problem.
So, I suspect that DX won't collect taxes, my money goes overseas. Will this not have the unintended side effect of making overseas businesses more attractive? For many things shipping is just as reasonable if you don't mind a little delay. I'm already forced to buy some things I want overseas, buying more of them isn't that great a stretch IMO and this could certainly make them more competitive...
I'll agree that this is happening but I'd also point out that there are now more hobbyist machinists and that CNC is coming on strong. All sorts of car guys are getting into it and you can find all sorts of custom machined stuff out there even flashlights. I have some hope that this will come back but before it does kids have to see it as "cool" and not something only fat sweaty guys do. Having computers involved, 3D printing, and other cool computer things should help. If I had the time and access to a little training, plus perhaps a reason to do it, I'd learn for sure! I had a lathe willed to me but an Uncle threw it away, he's lucky I didn't beat him for doing so too :-(
You say this but meanwhile in other countries teens are being shaken down by cops to make sure they aren't carrying screwdrivers and people talk about making kitchen knives that cannot be used to stab someone and do it with a straight face.
http://www.dailybulldog.com/db/features/man-arrested-following-screwdriver-stabbing/
http://www.insight-security.com/facts-knife-crime-stats.htm
http://allamericanblogger.com/13474/in-london-its-illegal-to-carry-a-screwdriver-without-a-good-reason-by-the-way-knife-crime-is-skyrocketing/
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/british-doctors-call-for-ban-on-long-kitchen-knives-to-end-stabbings/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1192969/Pointless-The-new-kitchen-knife-chops-wont-stab.html
What's next, bats that can't be used to clobber someone? You call US nuts?! If people want to hurt one another they will find a way....
P.S. OMG they actually made such a knife! Sure hope no one decides to slash someone with it - then what?
I'm pretty sure that just because they weren't checking for it didn't make it "legal". If someone had waved one around I wouldn't have been surprised if there were objections raised to having it in a pressurized aircraft. Things might have been a bit more "free" but people certainly weren't stupid.
The first version apparently misfired, the second version corrected that issue. The second version was fired successfully but came apart when equipped with a more powerful cartridge. When using a suitable cartridge it apparently worked just fine - the second revision anyway.
When was it ever legal to bring guns into the passenger compartment of a commercial aircraft? Citation please...
yes, it exploded on the second shot AFTER having a much more powerful shell loaded not because it had any issues after the first firing... I agree some pipe would be an improvement.
For those screaming that it would then have an issue with security I'd point out that the pipe need not be installed in the weapon at all times and that it could be brought through security easily as part of another object - say a tripod for a camera. And no, he wasn't trying to build a gun that could be brought through security although he has likely come pretty close to accomplishing that.
Well consider the audience. I once sat through a discussion at DEFCON about "survival" should the worst happen. Speaker said he didn't like guns or violence and would try to bargain and trade for goods when someone came calling looking for things to survive. This is what's known as a "victim" and the first time someone came knocking they would take everything he had. But he still really believed that he could make it.... This is the mentality you face when talking common sense about this stuff with this group - fantasy land.
Wouldn't having a gun yourself be a rather effective defense? Would said punk be as comfortable approaching you if the chances of you shooting back be much higher?
You're right, I don't own a gun and I support our rights to own guns. I see the minority, those that want to remove the 2nd Amendment, trying to shout and scream things like "think of the children" in order to do this. Thankfully the minority has yet to manage it.
Stronger background checks? Go for it. Assault weapons ban? Get a clue, no way. When the cosmetics are what's used to make decisions common sense has left the auditorium. Magazine limits? Seriously? Our reps don't even realize that magazines themselves can be reloaded let alone that it's possible to swap magazines and continue firing. Printable magazines are also available BTW although I'm told that this is actually a difficult thing to do correctly, something to do with the spring. More people are killed by automobiles in this country and yet we focus on guns. That's okay though as our cars are already so fat it's disgusting as they strive to swaddle us ever more in protective devices. I'm betting more than one person in Boston is a new gun owner after the fallout from the Marathon bombings and I don't blame them. If a manhunt in an urban neighborhood wasn't a wake up call I don't know what is.
BTW, unless you've got some sort of special machine that detects "wrong people" guns will always end up being wielded by them, checks cannot screen them all out. Any competent machine shop can build a damned gun and plans to do so aren't hard to find. The problem is so many people are freaked out by the news and screaming Chicken Little's that it's the "right people" who're going to end up being restricted. It's common sense that if someone is going to break the law that "yet another damned gun law" isn't going to even slow them down. Guns are so easy to get that the Boston bomber twits had a whole arsenal! Oh wait no they didn't...
What will you aim to ban next? Knives? Screwdrivers? Sticks? Baseball bats? Fireworks? Tree stump remover? Model rocket engines? Lithium batteries? Fertilizer? Dry ice? Perfect safety is NOT achievable no matter how many rights you decide to give up...
No it wasn't, this experiment was done outside. The police report clearly states this if you had bothered to read. When I was a kid I did the same thing with dry ice and water as well as vinegar and baking soda. Water and baking powder were also interesting but pretty weak. Friends did all sorts of stuff with powdered iodine. All of us turned out just fine, we didn't have our lives ruined or curiosity killed. My teachers wouldn't have allowed me to do this but they might have demonstrated the reaction to our class as they did many other things. We're destroying our kids...
Sure, I'd be happy to help them but first they need to help themselves. Ask themselves where the MAJORITY of their money goes, take some action like SOME of the book authors have been doing. http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ Instead of insisting on more and more and more they should perhaps look for where their inefficiencies are and fix those?
Maybe when they have done something to clean up their own damned mess they can stop calling their CUSTOMERS thieves I'll have some sympathy? I'm all for spending reasonable amounts of money for things I want. But $25++ for a movie? $20 for a CD? 99cents for a song I like is fine - without DRM - and I buy these fairly often (sorry not when they cost more). More money for an e-copy of a book than a paperback? F-that!
Software isn't physical. If I walk into your store and steal a soda YOU the owner of the store have nothing to sell. If instead I walk into a store, duplicate the soda on the shelf, and walk out - what exactly has the store owner lost? Which of these most closely resembles copying a digital file? Which of these is actual theft? You know that copying a file isn't theft right? It's not prosecuted as such and yet you call it that.
I'm not saying it's okay to copy everything and anything but your analogy isn't right. Given the option to buy something at a reasonable price, with low friction, more people than not will pay. Speaking for myself - my purchases of music have gone WAY up since Amazon started selling 99cent DRM free MP3. Likewise my e-book purchasing PLUMMETED when collusion among the publishers occurred. Likewise with movies which for some odd reason seem to be getting more and more expensive now after a period of time where they were more reasonable - I now purchase mostly box sets and used. DRM might even prevent that someday and then what do you think I will do?
BTW why is it that if I do a job, say build a house, I get paid just once? How come those people get to live in it and I get no rent for my single event of hard work after the sale? How come an artist is entitled to being paid over and over for their single act of work? Why is their work somehow more important than a tradesman's? What did artists do before recording and duplication? Perhaps a poor analogy but think about it. Why are entire systems of hardware and ecosystems of OS being warped to support one group's "rights" exactly?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JK_Wedding_Entrance_Dance
Wedding dance made famous. Really innovative and interesting. Drove sales of the song, which was a year old, right back up the charts on both Amazon and iTunes. I couldn't help but chuckle. If that were done today ala Dancing Baby http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/10/after-five-years-dancing-baby-youtube-takedown-lawsuit-nears-a-climax/ then would sales have been driven? How about the charity donations the couple setup? If that were posted today would YouTube immediately yank it? I'm betting yes. DRM could have even prevented them from using the song since it's been proposed that watermarks prevent re-recording. Would DRM have prevented it's use? If the RIAA had their way it would have!
Artists sweat and worry about loss of sales but examples like the above prove that being able to freely use a song don't mean it will lead to poor sales. I understand the concern. Frankly if I were a writer going through a big publishing house being forced to sell my e-copies at higher than bound copy price I'd be VERY worried. what I don't understand is the shortsightedness. Look at the latest SimCity for kripes sakes - I was going to buy that until I heard about the B.S. The new XBOX? always on for DRM purposes? FAIL! I will not be buying one.
So no, I cannot think of a single instance where DRM in any way enhances a product such that it's a good thing for the consumer aka the customer. Want to pin the customer down, tie his hands, force feed him? Better hope no one comes along with an even slightly decent alternative because unless I'm forced I will not subscribe to DRM laden crap and I will break it any chance I get when I'm forced into it ala books and movies. Hell since DRM was lifted from music I've been BUYING bunches of it off of Amazon!
Oh, one other thing. I own 4 backpacks. ALL of them are black and at least two have skulls on them - stop the presses!
http://www.jinx.com/home.aspx
Black is probably THE most common color for a backpack....
Yes, it's about money. Then you started with the 9/11 conspiracy shit and I realized that yup you're a conspiracy guy. Guys with radiation detectors onsite? Why in the hell would anyone find that surprising and why in this world would the news report it?
Never mind. I'm not going to feed you, it's just not worth the energy banging my head against the wall with one of you guys.
No, seriously. Up until 60 Minutes came along News was considered a sort of loss leader for networks. It was something they felt required to have but no one expected to make money at it. They simply reported the facts and tried to guess the weather. Then 60 Minutes came along. No one expected it would make money. I mean a news show making money? No way! Surprise, it made money. It did REALLY well. Everyone had to have one and then they began to realize they could draw eyes to their news shows. Ever since then it's been downhill. We now have multiple channels dedicated to nothing but "news" and by god if there's nothing exciting going on we'll dig something up! Investigative reporting? Meh, not so much. That requires time and work and someone might scoop us! No, now they just report things as fast as they can and they make them as exciting as they can to draw eyes. The more fear the more people turn on their TV sets and gawk at the shows and yes inevitably the ads. the commercialization of "news" was one of THE worst things to happen to television and hell even print media. One need only look as far as the grocery checkout to figure out how that went too. Why we've even got news channels that skew and spin their views for specific markets. How else can you explain the Faux News channel and CNN and MSNBC all spinning the same stories in different directions? they have all targeted a demographic for their "news" and want eyeballs for their ads.
Frankly it's pretty damned disgusting and disheartening. If you're old enough at all to remember a time when we had news shows with just a scrap of integrity you realize just how far we've fallen all in the name of making a fucking dollar. Bleah!
P.S. Think I'm full of it? My citation after a 5 second Google search... http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102153/The-Transformation-of-Network-News.aspx
Car magazines, home improvement magazines, even some computer magazines. I still get paper copies of Wired for kripes sakes. Sure, I love to read on my tablet but i subscribe to at least 5 paper magazines and read those too. the internet is nice and all but it doesn't always give me the same information and I'm okay with both...
I call bullshit - citation or it didn't happen. Troll is obvious.
Nah, they're just dull black and come in a scary looking case....
http://dx.com/s/magnetic+balls
http://dx.com/p/neodymium-nib-magnet-spheres-6mm-20-pack-13503?rt=1&p=6&m=1&r=4&k=1&t=1&s=&u=13503
Hint: Don't buy the colored ones. The paint chips off pretty easily from those but the chrome ones seem to be fine. I'll be ordering some more in case they try to seal the border on these the way they did with the lasers
An entire hobby needs to be regulated and monitored because ZOMG someone might fly a "drone" over someone else's house? Never mind that the person doing this would almost certainly be violating existing laws on the books, we need new laws like NOW! Why in this world does anyone listen to this idiot?
The public already worries enough about "drones" somehow peeping into windows and it's ridiculous. Gee, a device that sounds like a small lawnmower and has a loiter time measured in a handful of minutes might manage to hover outside my window? With my shades open I presume? I need to freakout over this why?
I for one am THRILLED to see RC aircraft undergoing a resurgence! Get kids away from their game consoles and out building and experimenting with this stuff, hell adults too. I want to build one of these, I will build one of these! I will take pictures of my local park, I will use it to examine my roof, maybe I'll even setup a video feed to fly it with. But somehow because a small minority might get stupid we need to jump up and down waving our hands in the air? NO! A thousand times NO.
What exactly is this moron worried about? It's not like we don't already have cars driving around snapping pics and satellite's too. Commercial planes have been doing this for ages as well and people have found plenty of good uses for the technology. Why does THIS need to be regulated? We already screwed over the model rocket guys, why are we looking to hose the RC guys too?
Hey Eric, suppose someone puts a camera on an RC CAR and drives it into your yard? What then? Do we need a law for that too? Idiot...
You're correct about Unity, I tend to equate them and that's not completely fair. I found this out when I tried an "alternate" distro that had advertised Gnome 3 and I thought I was going to get back something I could better use, close but no it was a PITA too. I'll admit it was still a bit better but not what I was looking for which was the ability to use the OS without having to rethink all the things I'd done before. Perhaps if I spent the majority of my time in it I'd eventually adjust but I don't have that luxury nor am I sure it's what I'd want. Consistency is really something I appreciate when I'm having to jump OS somewhat frequently...
So, like Win8, to become comfortable I have to install additional software? Remove the things that people are used to, ask them to get used to new things, and then provide them additional software to get things back to where they can find things and work. Why not just not make the radical change to begin with? Or move slowly towards that change? Honestly part of the issue was their attitude - we're changing and we don't care if you don't like it, suck it up. Heard by both Gnome users and Windows users. WTF...
I'll look at extensions.org the next time I do an install on a machine that's internet connected. Surprise, many times that's not the case