Look, I'm not going to say that it didn't suck and I never got to see the follow-ups on this, I appreciate you digging them up.
Depending upon where he lived folks cutting between houses to get to a bus stop isn't unreasonable. I live in the area and while not familiar with that specific neighborhood I am familiar with how homes are built around here in swaths and it doesn't surprise me that someone was cutting through the yard like that - there was probably even a worn path! Figuring out where they were actually walking should have been easy, they probably did it every single morning along with other children.
In the end justice was served, the guy was acquitted as he should have been. Frankly it should never have gotten to court and some prude woman shouldn't have called a cop, if her husband had had a clue he would have stopped her. I agree that they likely trumped up things to get into the home - honestly I wonder why they felt a need to search in the first place. I believe that they should be punished however as someone who has caught a cop dead to rights LYING in court I know better. Cops LIE and I've caught them at it twice inside of a courthouse, they really don't like it. If you've got the misconception that I lead the police cheer squad then you've never seen me post before:-)
As I said the truth is in-between. The woman did indeed see him, probably spotlighted by the dark outside and the bright inside. She was an idiot for making a big deal out of it and he wasn't too bright for having an uncovered window. Not too bright but not doing something criminally wrong - there's a difference.
In the end the guy got screwed and hopefully the police ended up looking damned foolish. Sadly the end result wasn't publicized nearly as much as the initial arrest. Case in point, I believe the arrest made Slashdot, the clearing of this guy did not! I think that sucks.
As for Thin Blue Line. http://www.amazon.com/Thin-Police-Sheriff-Decal-Sticker/dp/B003GD4FP4 This is a sticker that is displayed by family and by officers on their cars. It tells police officers that the person in the car is a "member of the club". I'm actually pretty surprised to find it available on Amazon as that wasn't the case when I first learned about it and explains the explosion of the damned things I see EVERYWHERE. As explained to me by a police officer's wife - if she is pulled over and can somehow let the officer know that she really is a member of the "club" she will likely be let go. Considering it worked twice for speeding tickets I'm aware of I believe her. She would simply keep her husband's business card with her license so that the officer would see it. It helped that she knew many of the people her officer worked with too and they recognized her car. I went ballistic when she told me about it and every time I see one of these - at least a few times a day when I drive - it irritates me. When she got her's she had to get it via her husband from work, looks like they have gotten more popular. Gee, wonder why? Between seeing police officers lie in court, fabricate evidence, lie to me on the street, not know the law, joke about targeting specific groups of people for fun, and this kind of crap I think it's safe to say that I am quite wary of anything having to do with the police. My respect for them is badly tarnished.
P.S. Having to SHOW an officer how to lift a print off of my car after it had been broken into was also award winning! Grrr....
This video ought to help explain. If I have followed correctly there at the beginning and towards the middle where they discuss the revocation I believe this is true ->
I think you and maybe one or two others are the only ones who actually watched the video. A shame you came in AC and my mod points are spoiled by posting:-(
Wrong. the hackers own the revocation list in this hack, they use it to smack a buffer actually. That portion of code is also something Sony cannot revoke or update apparently. Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84WI-jSgNMQ&feature=player_embedded#! around the 3:50 mark they get into how they used the revocation buffer but watch the previous stuff too as they explain how Sony does what they do regarding updates etc.
Ding! Ding! Winnah! - the revocation list is one of the things owned by this, in fact I think it is part of the exploit used to grab the keys (lol). Go watch the vids - the last of them is the most revealing at just about the 4min mark where they use a LARGE revocation list to overwrite a buffer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84WI-jSgNMQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=187s
Custom firmware is coming I suspect. Pirated games will take longer, these guys did NOT get the key required to sign a game and get it past the GameLoader. They were looking to load an entire OS not a game through GameLoader. someone else will have to grab those keys, these guys are apparently not interested in promoting piracy...
They cannot revoke this and they cannot update the private keys. The revocation list is owned in this hack and the loader where these keys were pulled is at such a low level that Sony cannot update it. Perhaps new consoles will be updated but not the zillions already out there...
Oh and they can sign new firmware so Sony updating firmware isn't going to help. Near as I can tell this DOES bust the PS3 "forever" - or at least the one I own:-)
For starters they OWN the revocation list with this hack - in fact that list was part of the hack. Go ahead and update the list:-) Secondly they haven't cracked the keys for the GameLoader code and they don't intend to - they want to restore the ONE feature Sony removed, loading Linux. Others will no doubt use this hack to grab the keys needed for signing games to be run by the GameLoader but these guys simply wanted something lower.
Expect custom firmware ala PSP. Sony is hosed on this one and it was primarily because some jackass hardcoded a "random" key in the crypto that OBTW is in a part of the system Sony cannot remotely update. Whoops!
This doesn't allow for "jailbreaking" it allows for code to be signed - the box can remain untouched. In fact one of the IRC questions asked of them was why couldn't they create a BluRay exploit loader and they stated that they didn't have the keys for the GameLoader - and weren't looking for them! These guys aren't interested in piracy they are interested in loading their own code, their own OS, you know the feature that Sony took away.
Now, I fully expect that those keys are just as poorly secured and since with this new capability the revocation list is 0wned I expect that the GameLoader keys WILL be found by those who would really prefer to pirate vs load Linux - but it won't be these guys. So in the end you will probably have custom firmware ala PSP and folks doing who knows what to copy games. Honestly one of the worse things I think might happen is hacks to the online games - man that will suck for those who play online. All Sony had to do was follow best practice and actually use a RANDOM number for the random number instead of hardcoding if I followed the presentation correctly. I suspect someone will be fired and rightfully so! Oh and this is such a low level hack that apparently Sony cannot update the code that was compromised. Ouch!
1st of all I wasn't siding with them somehow making her out to be more credible. Lookup thin blue line and perhaps that will be clearer.
2nd of all - was she trespassing? Where does it say that? Is walking in front of the home at the sidewalk trespassing? Window in front was indeed apparently across the street from a bus stop. If what he says is true and it was dark then umm he was lit up like a Christmas tree to those outdoors - surely you have seen this before? Friends say he was drunk, nah he says he was drunk the night before. Hellooo? Maybe still a little drunk or maybe just hung over not thinking? Do you see no concern about a guy spotlighting himself naked in front of a school bus stop at all? No potential for issue here?
In any case clearly not as cut and dry as some dude was in his house naked and arrested for it and she did not stand on tippy toe in his backyard for a peek. The truth is somewhere in between...
Yes, that's the one I recall - woman walking her kid to the bus stop yes? Dark outside, light inside? If so he was lit up like a Christmas tree to anyone outside. Appeared in a window of his door and front window... Hrm!
Now the time discrepancy is interesting. If she cannot recall the time exactly then obviously she didn't call right then and there. He seems to know where he was when he was naked, perhaps not a stretch. I have been known to walk around naked in my place too - but not in front of windows in bright light when it's dark out!
anyway, the truth is likely somewhere in between and a matter of perception. He thinks it was no big deal he was in his home, his neighbors on the other hand who can possibly see right in might think it's awful. Was it intentional? Only he knows for sure but obviously he wasn't keeping his windows covered very well. I wonder how the case turned out?
Oh and no it doesn't surprise me that somehow a police officer's wife is somehow more credible. If I see one more "thin blue line" sticker on a car I'm going to puke.
Read this article when it appeared in the Post and couldn't help but wonder - how do they use the DMCA to have brain dumps taken down? If I recall and summarize a question in my own words and the answer - whay is this an issue? Is it not a derivative work?
Then that's different than the one I've heard of. There is most certainly one out there where a guy would stroll around in front of a window while the kids stood at the bus stop. Got a link to the one you're talking about? I'd be interested in the knife on as well. I know that at least one guy has gotten sued in NYC for having an electrified "trap" that caught a persistent burglar. I also know that booby trapping a car to prevent theft will get you into trouble:-(
As for the B&E then sue thing - I personally know of one of those as well. Junkie breaks into cops unlocked house, LARGE dog ignores him until he settles in to wait for the undercover cop to come home, dog mauls junkie. Cop comes home and calls for help, cop gets sued - and loses. Bet that's the last time he does that!
I'd mod you but I've already posted:-( I knew that 4chan had some interesting boards that weren't full of crap but wasn't aware of the Robotics area. The Goonies in Eve have certainly proven to be entertaining:-)
I believe his arrest might also have had something to do with his walking around naked in front of a window in full view of a bus stop full of kids? Just a guess that had something to do with it so you might want to provide that bit of context...
Why is this a big deal? I have seen a few posts here that don't understand this, that don't understand why someone has to use up DAYS of time to charge a phone, why kerosene isn't good enough etc. The best was the guy who thinks solar is crap because his big dollar system only runs a few lights, a TV, computer, and bummer can't run the stove. Seriously?!
^^ That's a damn good story about a couple who took a trip through The Democratic Republic of Congo in a Toyota Landcruiser. Dude when you have to bribe someone to ferry you across a river using a battery borrowed from a village far away just to start the damned engines you know you are NOT in the developed world anymore. When a broken down truck sits in place with people living in it and guarding it for a YEAR while awaiting replacements parts you know things are fucked up.
This guy's accounts of what it was like to make this trek to include just how clueless damn near everyone was he asked concerning conditions speaks VOLUMES. People here, including myself, bitch about organized religion and whatnot but wow over there that seems to be one of the only halfway stable support systems going on.
After reading that I understood just how important some simple things can be when you can't just flip a switch and make it happen. The corruption down there just really screws everyone too:-(
Their 150W equal super spot looks an awful lot like the Sylvania Ultra series I've seen in the stores. Checking the Sylvania site though I don't see a bulb that looks like that with multiple lenses like I could swear I've seen in Lowes:-( I would sure like to know more about how these things perform real world before plunking down cash. Buying the $30 units from Lowes (cheapest around I could find) was one thing since I have so many different places to try a standard bulb but floods and spots not so much - I only have two places and they cost 3x as much. In the right place, in the right fixture, LED beat any other bulb IMO...
BTW Costco has been selling some LED strips for under counter mounting that run off of a 5volt transformer, can be chained together, and have an IRDA remote for cheap. I haven't been able to find them on their site to link but are called Peli Link Lights. Each module is a foot long and you can chain up to 9 of them. They use stereo headphone style connectors to join. Adhesive mounts that come with them blow but zip tie saddle mounts solves that cheap. Check them out:-)
If you want to build your own lights DealExtreme sells high powered LEDs mounted and pucks to drive them too...
I'm not sure I agree on your efficiency there. I have replaced 60+W incandescents with the curly CFLs that used something like 15W and am now replacing THOSE with LED that use 8W and are rated as "40W replacements". Except that they produce as much or more light than the CFL in the right fixture! In one case in particular the change in brightness was striking and a very large improvement.
I am using the $30 Sylvania "Ultra LED" lights which are new and part of their High Performance Series. Lowes, in the US, sells these cheaper than anyone I've found BTW. In a "can" fixture in the ceiling in my bathroom they proved to light instantly as compared to the slow glow curlies and to provide MORE light. In the light fixtures on my porch however they proved too directional and created bad shadows. In my normal bathroom sconces they work awesome and in my nightstand lamp they also work great. Used in a freestanding torch sort of light they threw too sharp a shadow line as most of the light went up and not out. I have yet to find one of either CFL or LEF that can replace a single bright 100W incandescent in a ceiling fan I have.:-(
I have begun using some other LEDs in a pendant fixture that used to use incandescent and it's working okay but not as well as the Sylvania bulbs. The LED is a much whiter\bluer light than CFL in my experience so far but they are WAY cooler and use way less juice. The cost is a bit rude but so far they seem to be holding up very well - for the price they had better.
In any case for efficiency I'd argue on the side of LED over CFL for sure based on my experience. Perhaps if I wasn't driving them from 120v mains that wouldn't be the case and I realize that in the case of running them off of a battery they aren't using 120v. I'd still argue for LED though since they are much less fragile!
What I'd really like to know is how well the Sylvania Ultra LED floods work. The price of admission has been too high for me to try them yet but if they work well I have several 150Watt floods I'd LOVE to dump! These are on motion sensors and swapping them so high in the air would be a chore but the overall cost savings long term might be worth it if someone could vouch that they don't suck:-)
So are you saying we should wait until they have done this to lots of other places and finally gone after one that we really really care about like Amazon? Somehow that doesn't seem so smart to me and it would certainly have allowed precedent to be set...
Odd... I use it to get downloads of game maps made by authors who cannot afford a web host. I have used it to download game patches too. I have myself used it to give files to friends that were too big to email or send via Skype. Files that were not infringing for sure!
Honestly downloading pirated content from a site that no doubt logs your IP address and the fact that you just downloaded an entire file completely, sans even SSL crypto BTW, seems pretty stupid to me.
These are electric and are flying wings. I believe he has tested his 27mile claim flying out of a valley near his home. It's pretty awesome video to say the least!
I think for some reason the fact that he did this one near a major US city that has a fear of airplanes got this more attention than some of his other stuff flying in unpopulated areas. I agree that his other stuff is better, the mountain vids make me wish I could fly like a bird for sure!
Yeah, lots of coverage from other countries of this it seems and a few guys in the midwest here too of course:-) Vids of folks buzzing windmills are interesting lol
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Look, I'm not going to say that it didn't suck and I never got to see the follow-ups on this, I appreciate you digging them up.
Depending upon where he lived folks cutting between houses to get to a bus stop isn't unreasonable. I live in the area and while not familiar with that specific neighborhood I am familiar with how homes are built around here in swaths and it doesn't surprise me that someone was cutting through the yard like that - there was probably even a worn path! Figuring out where they were actually walking should have been easy, they probably did it every single morning along with other children.
In the end justice was served, the guy was acquitted as he should have been. Frankly it should never have gotten to court and some prude woman shouldn't have called a cop, if her husband had had a clue he would have stopped her. I agree that they likely trumped up things to get into the home - honestly I wonder why they felt a need to search in the first place. I believe that they should be punished however as someone who has caught a cop dead to rights LYING in court I know better. Cops LIE and I've caught them at it twice inside of a courthouse, they really don't like it. If you've got the misconception that I lead the police cheer squad then you've never seen me post before :-)
As I said the truth is in-between. The woman did indeed see him, probably spotlighted by the dark outside and the bright inside. She was an idiot for making a big deal out of it and he wasn't too bright for having an uncovered window. Not too bright but not doing something criminally wrong - there's a difference.
In the end the guy got screwed and hopefully the police ended up looking damned foolish. Sadly the end result wasn't publicized nearly as much as the initial arrest. Case in point, I believe the arrest made Slashdot, the clearing of this guy did not! I think that sucks.
As for Thin Blue Line. http://www.amazon.com/Thin-Police-Sheriff-Decal-Sticker/dp/B003GD4FP4 This is a sticker that is displayed by family and by officers on their cars. It tells police officers that the person in the car is a "member of the club". I'm actually pretty surprised to find it available on Amazon as that wasn't the case when I first learned about it and explains the explosion of the damned things I see EVERYWHERE. As explained to me by a police officer's wife - if she is pulled over and can somehow let the officer know that she really is a member of the "club" she will likely be let go. Considering it worked twice for speeding tickets I'm aware of I believe her. She would simply keep her husband's business card with her license so that the officer would see it. It helped that she knew many of the people her officer worked with too and they recognized her car. I went ballistic when she told me about it and every time I see one of these - at least a few times a day when I drive - it irritates me. When she got her's she had to get it via her husband from work, looks like they have gotten more popular. Gee, wonder why? Between seeing police officers lie in court, fabricate evidence, lie to me on the street, not know the law, joke about targeting specific groups of people for fun, and this kind of crap I think it's safe to say that I am quite wary of anything having to do with the police. My respect for them is badly tarnished.
P.S. Having to SHOW an officer how to lift a print off of my car after it had been broken into was also award winning! Grrr....
This video ought to help explain. If I have followed correctly there at the beginning and towards the middle where they discuss the revocation I believe this is true ->
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84WI-jSgNMQ&feature=player_embedded#!
Oh and if you looking to pirate listen to this part too -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84WI-jSgNMQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=795s
I think you and maybe one or two others are the only ones who actually watched the video. A shame you came in AC and my mod points are spoiled by posting :-(
Wrong. the hackers own the revocation list in this hack, they use it to smack a buffer actually. That portion of code is also something Sony cannot revoke or update apparently. Watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84WI-jSgNMQ&feature=player_embedded#! around the 3:50 mark they get into how they used the revocation buffer but watch the previous stuff too as they explain how Sony does what they do regarding updates etc.
Ding! Ding! Winnah! - the revocation list is one of the things owned by this, in fact I think it is part of the exploit used to grab the keys (lol). Go watch the vids - the last of them is the most revealing at just about the 4min mark where they use a LARGE revocation list to overwrite a buffer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84WI-jSgNMQ&feature=player_detailpage#t=187s
Custom firmware is coming I suspect. Pirated games will take longer, these guys did NOT get the key required to sign a game and get it past the GameLoader. They were looking to load an entire OS not a game through GameLoader. someone else will have to grab those keys, these guys are apparently not interested in promoting piracy...
They cannot revoke this and they cannot update the private keys. The revocation list is owned in this hack and the loader where these keys were pulled is at such a low level that Sony cannot update it. Perhaps new consoles will be updated but not the zillions already out there...
Oh and they can sign new firmware so Sony updating firmware isn't going to help. Near as I can tell this DOES bust the PS3 "forever" - or at least the one I own :-)
For starters they OWN the revocation list with this hack - in fact that list was part of the hack. Go ahead and update the list :-) Secondly they haven't cracked the keys for the GameLoader code and they don't intend to - they want to restore the ONE feature Sony removed, loading Linux. Others will no doubt use this hack to grab the keys needed for signing games to be run by the GameLoader but these guys simply wanted something lower.
Expect custom firmware ala PSP. Sony is hosed on this one and it was primarily because some jackass hardcoded a "random" key in the crypto that OBTW is in a part of the system Sony cannot remotely update. Whoops!
This doesn't allow for "jailbreaking" it allows for code to be signed - the box can remain untouched. In fact one of the IRC questions asked of them was why couldn't they create a BluRay exploit loader and they stated that they didn't have the keys for the GameLoader - and weren't looking for them! These guys aren't interested in piracy they are interested in loading their own code, their own OS, you know the feature that Sony took away.
Now, I fully expect that those keys are just as poorly secured and since with this new capability the revocation list is 0wned I expect that the GameLoader keys WILL be found by those who would really prefer to pirate vs load Linux - but it won't be these guys. So in the end you will probably have custom firmware ala PSP and folks doing who knows what to copy games. Honestly one of the worse things I think might happen is hacks to the online games - man that will suck for those who play online. All Sony had to do was follow best practice and actually use a RANDOM number for the random number instead of hardcoding if I followed the presentation correctly. I suspect someone will be fired and rightfully so! Oh and this is such a low level hack that apparently Sony cannot update the code that was compromised. Ouch!
1st of all I wasn't siding with them somehow making her out to be more credible. Lookup thin blue line and perhaps that will be clearer.
2nd of all - was she trespassing? Where does it say that? Is walking in front of the home at the sidewalk trespassing? Window in front was indeed apparently across the street from a bus stop. If what he says is true and it was dark then umm he was lit up like a Christmas tree to those outdoors - surely you have seen this before? Friends say he was drunk, nah he says he was drunk the night before. Hellooo? Maybe still a little drunk or maybe just hung over not thinking? Do you see no concern about a guy spotlighting himself naked in front of a school bus stop at all? No potential for issue here?
In any case clearly not as cut and dry as some dude was in his house naked and arrested for it and she did not stand on tippy toe in his backyard for a peek. The truth is somewhere in between...
Yes, that's the one I recall - woman walking her kid to the bus stop yes? Dark outside, light inside? If so he was lit up like a Christmas tree to anyone outside. Appeared in a window of his door and front window... Hrm!
Now the time discrepancy is interesting. If she cannot recall the time exactly then obviously she didn't call right then and there. He seems to know where he was when he was naked, perhaps not a stretch. I have been known to walk around naked in my place too - but not in front of windows in bright light when it's dark out!
anyway, the truth is likely somewhere in between and a matter of perception. He thinks it was no big deal he was in his home, his neighbors on the other hand who can possibly see right in might think it's awful. Was it intentional? Only he knows for sure but obviously he wasn't keeping his windows covered very well. I wonder how the case turned out?
Oh and no it doesn't surprise me that somehow a police officer's wife is somehow more credible. If I see one more "thin blue line" sticker on a car I'm going to puke.
Read this article when it appeared in the Post and couldn't help but wonder - how do they use the DMCA to have brain dumps taken down? If I recall and summarize a question in my own words and the answer - whay is this an issue? Is it not a derivative work?
I think I've heard ideas along these lines before...
Then that's different than the one I've heard of. There is most certainly one out there where a guy would stroll around in front of a window while the kids stood at the bus stop. Got a link to the one you're talking about? I'd be interested in the knife on as well. I know that at least one guy has gotten sued in NYC for having an electrified "trap" that caught a persistent burglar. I also know that booby trapping a car to prevent theft will get you into trouble :-(
As for the B&E then sue thing - I personally know of one of those as well. Junkie breaks into cops unlocked house, LARGE dog ignores him until he settles in to wait for the undercover cop to come home, dog mauls junkie. Cop comes home and calls for help, cop gets sued - and loses. Bet that's the last time he does that!
I'd mod you but I've already posted :-( I knew that 4chan had some interesting boards that weren't full of crap but wasn't aware of the Robotics area. The Goonies in Eve have certainly proven to be entertaining :-)
I believe his arrest might also have had something to do with his walking around naked in front of a window in full view of a bus stop full of kids? Just a guess that had something to do with it so you might want to provide that bit of context...
Why is this a big deal? I have seen a few posts here that don't understand this, that don't understand why someone has to use up DAYS of time to charge a phone, why kerosene isn't good enough etc. The best was the guy who thinks solar is crap because his big dollar system only runs a few lights, a TV, computer, and bummer can't run the stove. Seriously?!
READ THIS! -> http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50799
^^ That's a damn good story about a couple who took a trip through The Democratic Republic of Congo in a Toyota Landcruiser. Dude when you have to bribe someone to ferry you across a river using a battery borrowed from a village far away just to start the damned engines you know you are NOT in the developed world anymore. When a broken down truck sits in place with people living in it and guarding it for a YEAR while awaiting replacements parts you know things are fucked up.
This guy's accounts of what it was like to make this trek to include just how clueless damn near everyone was he asked concerning conditions speaks VOLUMES. People here, including myself, bitch about organized religion and whatnot but wow over there that seems to be one of the only halfway stable support systems going on.
After reading that I understood just how important some simple things can be when you can't just flip a switch and make it happen. The corruption down there just really screws everyone too :-(
Their 150W equal super spot looks an awful lot like the Sylvania Ultra series I've seen in the stores. Checking the Sylvania site though I don't see a bulb that looks like that with multiple lenses like I could swear I've seen in Lowes :-( I would sure like to know more about how these things perform real world before plunking down cash. Buying the $30 units from Lowes (cheapest around I could find) was one thing since I have so many different places to try a standard bulb but floods and spots not so much - I only have two places and they cost 3x as much. In the right place, in the right fixture, LED beat any other bulb IMO...
BTW Costco has been selling some LED strips for under counter mounting that run off of a 5volt transformer, can be chained together, and have an IRDA remote for cheap. I haven't been able to find them on their site to link but are called Peli Link Lights. Each module is a foot long and you can chain up to 9 of them. They use stereo headphone style connectors to join. Adhesive mounts that come with them blow but zip tie saddle mounts solves that cheap. Check them out :-)
If you want to build your own lights DealExtreme sells high powered LEDs mounted and pucks to drive them too...
I'm not sure I agree on your efficiency there. I have replaced 60+W incandescents with the curly CFLs that used something like 15W and am now replacing THOSE with LED that use 8W and are rated as "40W replacements". Except that they produce as much or more light than the CFL in the right fixture! In one case in particular the change in brightness was striking and a very large improvement.
I am using the $30 Sylvania "Ultra LED" lights which are new and part of their High Performance Series. Lowes, in the US, sells these cheaper than anyone I've found BTW. In a "can" fixture in the ceiling in my bathroom they proved to light instantly as compared to the slow glow curlies and to provide MORE light. In the light fixtures on my porch however they proved too directional and created bad shadows. In my normal bathroom sconces they work awesome and in my nightstand lamp they also work great. Used in a freestanding torch sort of light they threw too sharp a shadow line as most of the light went up and not out. I have yet to find one of either CFL or LEF that can replace a single bright 100W incandescent in a ceiling fan I have. :-(
I have begun using some other LEDs in a pendant fixture that used to use incandescent and it's working okay but not as well as the Sylvania bulbs. The LED is a much whiter\bluer light than CFL in my experience so far but they are WAY cooler and use way less juice. The cost is a bit rude but so far they seem to be holding up very well - for the price they had better.
In any case for efficiency I'd argue on the side of LED over CFL for sure based on my experience. Perhaps if I wasn't driving them from 120v mains that wouldn't be the case and I realize that in the case of running them off of a battery they aren't using 120v. I'd still argue for LED though since they are much less fragile!
What I'd really like to know is how well the Sylvania Ultra LED floods work. The price of admission has been too high for me to try them yet but if they work well I have several 150Watt floods I'd LOVE to dump! These are on motion sensors and swapping them so high in the air would be a chore but the overall cost savings long term might be worth it if someone could vouch that they don't suck :-)
I believe he lives in Sweden, I'd love to see that conversation lol :-)
So are you saying we should wait until they have done this to lots of other places and finally gone after one that we really really care about like Amazon? Somehow that doesn't seem so smart to me and it would certainly have allowed precedent to be set...
Odd... I use it to get downloads of game maps made by authors who cannot afford a web host. I have used it to download game patches too. I have myself used it to give files to friends that were too big to email or send via Skype. Files that were not infringing for sure!
Honestly downloading pirated content from a site that no doubt logs your IP address and the fact that you just downloaded an entire file completely, sans even SSL crypto BTW, seems pretty stupid to me.
These are electric and are flying wings. I believe he has tested his 27mile claim flying out of a valley near his home. It's pretty awesome video to say the least!
I think for some reason the fact that he did this one near a major US city that has a fear of airplanes got this more attention than some of his other stuff flying in unpopulated areas. I agree that his other stuff is better, the mountain vids make me wish I could fly like a bird for sure!
Yeah, lots of coverage from other countries of this it seems and a few guys in the midwest here too of course :-) Vids of folks buzzing windmills are interesting lol
Watch some of these :-) http://vimeo.com/riscyd