The wing is left in the frame by Trappy intentionally - not all pilots do it however. He flies FPV and having a portion of the wing in view gives him a frame of reference. By all means do it better if you can, he's posted all the details on how he did it online... FWIW I'm pretty sure he did it more for himself and not to please others. His video in the Alps are incredible too but yeah there's a wingtip in view lol.
MANY pages of build details and back and forth on how best to build it etc. I believe this will seriously answer most any questions you have and he gives some radio info too I think. The vids in the Alps are AMAZING! I guess if I had been smart I would have submitted this way back when. D'oh! Hackaday.com linked to some of his earlier stuff and got me interested FWIW.
I read a forum where much of this was posted and I'll try to find it for you. For starters check out this site where they post many of their vids:-) http://vimeo.com/riscyd It's going to take me awhile to find this in my history, some of the vids out there by others buzzing windmills are also "interesting"
I have two 47inch LCD, is that too much? Should I count the three 24inch models I use for computer monitors? What about all of my laptops? you might be right - too much LCD!
I believe this was done by Team Black Sheep - if so he lives somewhere near the Alps and not in the US so that might be difficult. He's got some truly incredible videos posted of flying in the mountains, with no peeps!, that are truly awesome.
Hrm, these guys have been doing this in the Alps and elsewhere. Posting information on how it's done and build information to forums, and helping to refine the DIY aspect of this hobby for over a year. They have flights over multiple MILES in multiple countries, and they fly the plane via an onboard camera. Yeah, it's not NEW news for those who pay attention but it is really cool and geeky and I'm glad to see it's becoming more mainstream with the exception of the fact that now authorities will see it and try to slap it down:-(
Umm, MC isn't halting payments - at least not yet according to the umm articles linked. Mega was mentioned as one of the services in particular that the *IAA would want this halted with - supposedly since I haven't found them mentioned in my searches. Mega is simply stating that IF this were done it a) wouldn't impact them overly much and b) if they are doing something illegal why not come after them directly?
Frankly it's a disturbing prospect that someone could knock down a company by simply trying to strangle funding in this manner - we shoudl all be concerned. I also wonder if Mega has considered that they might also go after the advertisers payments in some way also.
I don't see good coming of this at all IF indeed the *IAAs have found a way to twist the arms of funding supplies like this.
The crypto release was a few months ago - it had ZERO to do with the AES crypto used for calls and texts and only had anything to do with the traffic management. The crypto for calls and texts is solid.
5.0 though is pretty suspect however it's pretty recent and I wouldn't think it would have penetrated the market fast enough to have a cascade effect like this before bugs being noticed. I guess maybe we'll see if Skype ever tells anyone anything or they quickly release new code. As it stands now I'm running fine on older code and the network seems okay...
Were all of your clients up and running when this occurred? I've now spoken to two people who had theirs crash but that's far from a smoking gun.
The question would be - what took down the Supernodes? Skype uses a number of them, not all owned by Skype. Kill enough of them and the remaining supernodes have so much traffic hitting them they go offline too. It's a cascade problem and one Skype is apparently trying to fix by bringing up more of their own nodes to bolster the network while public nodes rebuild. This still begs the question - why did they begin to fail in the first place?
A couple of things come to mind...
1) Code has been released that supposedly reveals the underlying crypto that Skype uses for their traffic management. Did someone use this to somehow crash nodes? If so, how? I came home to find my Skype client toes up with an app crash and it's NOT the newer 5.x code that's been recently released so WTF? My Skype client NEVER crashes and is behind a NAT so this would seem to indicate someone was using their protocols maybe? Anyone know anything? Anyone else have a client crash like this? 2) Was there a zero day exploit in Skype code that allowed for a DOS and was then used to somehow kill supernodes and maybe other nodes directly? Skype admits to some sort of a bug but gives no details! 3) Skype uses some sort of centralized authentication server or service, blocking Skype on a network is as easy as blocking access to that service. Did someone attack that? Did it go down on it's own? I don't think this would have killed off online clients though - how often does Skype authenticate?
Skype needs to give some answers. If this is a bug in deployed code we need to know if it exposes machines to exploits and they need to patch ASAP. The answers they have given so far haven't said much of anything - why?
Slow things down by folks being less willing to use their computers. The network would probably fly, usage however would likely shrink. Why would we want to discourage usage of a resource that promotes sharing, learning, and connectivity?
Ah yes and only those with deep pockets should be able to afford to have it aplenty. This isn't water, it's information, it's knowledge, it's news, and yeah it's horse p0rn. These companies, in this country, are given monopolies in various areas. They take their profits and they fail to upgrade their networks - they have a captive audience. Worse they take money from the Govt. to build out their networks - and then DON'T. At this point I believe at least one "plan" has FAILED in each of the states in this country if not more. It's disgusting and to then limit bandwidth to assist the carriers that have failed to live up to promises they have made and money they have taken - I have no sympathy for them.
You know the best way to get broadband in many towns in the US? Get your local town council to start talking about doing it themselves. Suddenly out of the woodwork carriers that had heretofore snubbed your backwater will suddenly appear like a genie from a lamp ready to grant you broadband if you'll just give them a monopoly. Turn them down and watch them lobby State Govt to get your plan outlawed or even made illegal.
So no, I'm not real sympathetic. This isn't some huge mess caused by zillions of users wanting too much bandwidth it's too little bandwidth provided by a carrier who's trying to squeeze every last dime they can from every source. No sympathy from me. Paying by the gig will certainly slow things down, tell me again why we want to slow things down exactly? Meanwhile the likes of Google are working on devices that use the "cloud" for everything lol.
Why exactly must the pipes only be used for those things that you or others deem "responsible"? Perhaps I want to read a tech blog or forum like Slashdot but someone else who deems that useless says it's not responsible - see where I'm going? I have a huge pipe at home, thank you Verizon, but I don't abuse it and only use full capacity in bursts, thank you Bitorrent. Why is this sort of thing a problem? I was offered and paid for a big pipe. If I were a Comcast customer and my big pipe was unable to perform despite their promises I'd have an issue with their infrastructure. I'm okay with not being allowed to use full capacity full time but from those graphs it's obvious that, if true, peak hours for them is pretty much most of the time normal people want to use the damned pipe. Paying by the gig will simply stunt the use of the resource, why would we want to encourage that? Wouldn't it be better to enhance the infrastructure instead? Lots of things to learn on the 'net so encourage it. Lots of stupid stuff too but that's interesting to others and who am I to say it's a waste? I'd only agree with a by the Gig plan if those gigs were awful cheap and then they'd be in the same place they are now. Oh and I would want them to provide me a tool to monitor my usage - that would be accurate and something I could trust. Yeah right....
So carriers are apparently looking for both users and content providers to pay for the same thing and providers liek Google want us to use even MORE bandwidth? Not to mention rumblings of carriers going to pay as you go plans more and more. Somehow I don't see this working out so well!
It's not a genre I'm into but he's making some pretty good sales numbers with his books and is pretty freely telling people how he's doing it. If I were a publisher I'd be terrified:-)
I'm not locked in - I strip the DRM from every Kindle book I buy although that's few and far between since the moron publishers jacked prices to the Moon.
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He also didn't have a working Windows for quite some time but instead an artful screen show. He spotted GEMS at one of the big tech conferences in 'Vegas, sent his minions over to take copious notes, killed it by announcing something "better" was coming, and then got to work building something to show. GEMS died on the vine because everyone ASSumed Microsoft would build something to kill it and GEMS couldn't get enough developer support to continue. Microsoft had a HUGE marketing campaign for their vaporware back then - and it worked. When Windows 1.0 was released it was pretty compared to say Desqview but it didn't multitask and background apps were halted for foreground tasks - I hated it. In the end I managed to stay away from Windows until Win95 at home but had to suffer with it at work. I wish I'd known about Linux back then and grown up with it:-(
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The wing is left in the frame by Trappy intentionally - not all pilots do it however. He flies FPV and having a portion of the wing in view gives him a frame of reference. By all means do it better if you can, he's posted all the details on how he did it online... FWIW I'm pretty sure he did it more for himself and not to please others. His video in the Alps are incredible too but yeah there's a wingtip in view lol.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1279141
Over 100 pages of details and questions etc. This guy and others have been doing this for awhile :-)
Got it! Trappy is the guy who does many of these vids and here's where he's building what he feel sis the best plane for the job http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1279141
MANY pages of build details and back and forth on how best to build it etc. I believe this will seriously answer most any questions you have and he gives some radio info too I think. The vids in the Alps are AMAZING! I guess if I had been smart I would have submitted this way back when. D'oh! Hackaday.com linked to some of his earlier stuff and got me interested FWIW.
I read a forum where much of this was posted and I'll try to find it for you. For starters check out this site where they post many of their vids :-) http://vimeo.com/riscyd It's going to take me awhile to find this in my history, some of the vids out there by others buzzing windmills are also "interesting"
I have two 47inch LCD, is that too much? Should I count the three 24inch models I use for computer monitors? What about all of my laptops? you might be right - too much LCD!
Yes, they showed up and he let them view the video through the goggles as he buzzed them. Seriously, they were actually cool about it.
I believe this was done by Team Black Sheep - if so he lives somewhere near the Alps and not in the US so that might be difficult. He's got some truly incredible videos posted of flying in the mountains, with no peeps!, that are truly awesome.
Hrm, these guys have been doing this in the Alps and elsewhere. Posting information on how it's done and build information to forums, and helping to refine the DIY aspect of this hobby for over a year. They have flights over multiple MILES in multiple countries, and they fly the plane via an onboard camera. Yeah, it's not NEW news for those who pay attention but it is really cool and geeky and I'm glad to see it's becoming more mainstream with the exception of the fact that now authorities will see it and try to slap it down :-(
Umm, MC isn't halting payments - at least not yet according to the umm articles linked. Mega was mentioned as one of the services in particular that the *IAA would want this halted with - supposedly since I haven't found them mentioned in my searches. Mega is simply stating that IF this were done it a) wouldn't impact them overly much and b) if they are doing something illegal why not come after them directly?
Frankly it's a disturbing prospect that someone could knock down a company by simply trying to strangle funding in this manner - we shoudl all be concerned. I also wonder if Mega has considered that they might also go after the advertisers payments in some way also.
I don't see good coming of this at all IF indeed the *IAAs have found a way to twist the arms of funding supplies like this.
The crypto release was a few months ago - it had ZERO to do with the AES crypto used for calls and texts and only had anything to do with the traffic management. The crypto for calls and texts is solid.
5.0 though is pretty suspect however it's pretty recent and I wouldn't think it would have penetrated the market fast enough to have a cascade effect like this before bugs being noticed. I guess maybe we'll see if Skype ever tells anyone anything or they quickly release new code. As it stands now I'm running fine on older code and the network seems okay...
Were all of your clients up and running when this occurred? I've now spoken to two people who had theirs crash but that's far from a smoking gun.
The question would be - what took down the Supernodes? Skype uses a number of them, not all owned by Skype. Kill enough of them and the remaining supernodes have so much traffic hitting them they go offline too. It's a cascade problem and one Skype is apparently trying to fix by bringing up more of their own nodes to bolster the network while public nodes rebuild. This still begs the question - why did they begin to fail in the first place?
A couple of things come to mind...
1) Code has been released that supposedly reveals the underlying crypto that Skype uses for their traffic management. Did someone use this to somehow crash nodes? If so, how? I came home to find my Skype client toes up with an app crash and it's NOT the newer 5.x code that's been recently released so WTF? My Skype client NEVER crashes and is behind a NAT so this would seem to indicate someone was using their protocols maybe? Anyone know anything? Anyone else have a client crash like this?
2) Was there a zero day exploit in Skype code that allowed for a DOS and was then used to somehow kill supernodes and maybe other nodes directly? Skype admits to some sort of a bug but gives no details!
3) Skype uses some sort of centralized authentication server or service, blocking Skype on a network is as easy as blocking access to that service. Did someone attack that? Did it go down on it's own? I don't think this would have killed off online clients though - how often does Skype authenticate?
Skype needs to give some answers. If this is a bug in deployed code we need to know if it exposes machines to exploits and they need to patch ASAP. The answers they have given so far haven't said much of anything - why?
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/0109dnbusindict.5a69f16b.html?ocp=2#slcgm_comments_anchor
Apparently things didn't end well for a few folks...
This may shed some light...
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/0109dnbusindict.5a69f16b.html?ocp=2#slcgm_comments_anchor
No actually they weren't all redacted and this has had impact. Lost jobs at the very least, I've not heard of any deaths yet.
As to diplomacy - do you show everyone your cards while playing poker?
Slow things down by folks being less willing to use their computers. The network would probably fly, usage however would likely shrink. Why would we want to discourage usage of a resource that promotes sharing, learning, and connectivity?
Ah yes and only those with deep pockets should be able to afford to have it aplenty. This isn't water, it's information, it's knowledge, it's news, and yeah it's horse p0rn. These companies, in this country, are given monopolies in various areas. They take their profits and they fail to upgrade their networks - they have a captive audience. Worse they take money from the Govt. to build out their networks - and then DON'T. At this point I believe at least one "plan" has FAILED in each of the states in this country if not more. It's disgusting and to then limit bandwidth to assist the carriers that have failed to live up to promises they have made and money they have taken - I have no sympathy for them.
You know the best way to get broadband in many towns in the US? Get your local town council to start talking about doing it themselves. Suddenly out of the woodwork carriers that had heretofore snubbed your backwater will suddenly appear like a genie from a lamp ready to grant you broadband if you'll just give them a monopoly. Turn them down and watch them lobby State Govt to get your plan outlawed or even made illegal.
So no, I'm not real sympathetic. This isn't some huge mess caused by zillions of users wanting too much bandwidth it's too little bandwidth provided by a carrier who's trying to squeeze every last dime they can from every source. No sympathy from me. Paying by the gig will certainly slow things down, tell me again why we want to slow things down exactly? Meanwhile the likes of Google are working on devices that use the "cloud" for everything lol.
Well for Comcast anyway, Verizon is doing fine for me with pretty high capacity...
Why exactly must the pipes only be used for those things that you or others deem "responsible"? Perhaps I want to read a tech blog or forum like Slashdot but someone else who deems that useless says it's not responsible - see where I'm going? I have a huge pipe at home, thank you Verizon, but I don't abuse it and only use full capacity in bursts, thank you Bitorrent. Why is this sort of thing a problem? I was offered and paid for a big pipe. If I were a Comcast customer and my big pipe was unable to perform despite their promises I'd have an issue with their infrastructure. I'm okay with not being allowed to use full capacity full time but from those graphs it's obvious that, if true, peak hours for them is pretty much most of the time normal people want to use the damned pipe. Paying by the gig will simply stunt the use of the resource, why would we want to encourage that? Wouldn't it be better to enhance the infrastructure instead? Lots of things to learn on the 'net so encourage it. Lots of stupid stuff too but that's interesting to others and who am I to say it's a waste? I'd only agree with a by the Gig plan if those gigs were awful cheap and then they'd be in the same place they are now. Oh and I would want them to provide me a tool to monitor my usage - that would be accurate and something I could trust. Yeah right....
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/08/european-carriers-want-content-companies-and-smartphone-makers-t/
So carriers are apparently looking for both users and content providers to pay for the same thing and providers liek Google want us to use even MORE bandwidth? Not to mention rumblings of carriers going to pay as you go plans more and more. Somehow I don't see this working out so well!
If you're an author then I strongly urge you to read this guy's blog -> http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/
It's not a genre I'm into but he's making some pretty good sales numbers with his books and is pretty freely telling people how he's doing it. If I were a publisher I'd be terrified :-)
http://imaddicted.ca/ebooks/using-inept-to-strip-drm/
That should help :-)
I'm not locked in - I strip the DRM from every Kindle book I buy although that's few and far between since the moron publishers jacked prices to the Moon.
what I want to know is can inept strip the DRM from these books? http://imaddicted.ca/ebooks/using-inept-to-strip-drm/
That they failed to renew right? It wasn't stolen, it was up for grabs - yes?
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He also didn't have a working Windows for quite some time but instead an artful screen show. He spotted GEMS at one of the big tech conferences in 'Vegas, sent his minions over to take copious notes, killed it by announcing something "better" was coming, and then got to work building something to show. GEMS died on the vine because everyone ASSumed Microsoft would build something to kill it and GEMS couldn't get enough developer support to continue. Microsoft had a HUGE marketing campaign for their vaporware back then - and it worked. When Windows 1.0 was released it was pretty compared to say Desqview but it didn't multitask and background apps were halted for foreground tasks - I hated it. In the end I managed to stay away from Windows until Win95 at home but had to suffer with it at work. I wish I'd known about Linux back then and grown up with it :-(