I included commentary on this in a video I posted almost three weeks ago. The bottom line is that they chose an absolute worst-case scenario, something that has prompted DJI (the maker of the drone used) to demand that the video and findings be withdrawn (copy of the letter).
It seems that this test may have been more about promoting the university than gaining actual scientific evidence (note the prominence of the university's name on the wing under test). This is supported by a comment on the video I posted in which one viewer states: "University of dayton is seriously the lowest ranked school in the state of ohio, people from dayton...it is mostly trailer parks. All the women there know how to work on cars. Not a bad thing if you need a clutch rebuilt. Dayton isnt actually a city anymore but now a poor suburb of Cincinnati (best city in the world)"
Totally true. I'm 65 now and when I recall taping music from the radio... onto reel-to-reel tape originally and then onto cassettes once they appeared. Hell, the music industry survived that "piracy" so I'm sure they'll survive a little stream-ripping.
Excuse me... to me it looks like the UK (and members of FiveEyes) have actually been *sprinting* towards a police state and some are already well within sight of the finish line.
Have you ever noticed that when we (the great unwashed) break a law it is called an "illegal" act -- but when the state breaks the law it's simply called "unlawful"?
"Illegal" acts are inevitably subject to huge censure (fines, imprisonment, etc) -- whilst "unlawful" acts are simply dismissed as "gosh, we got caught, we'll try to cover up better next time" and nobody even gets their wrist slapped.
What's more, "the great unwashed" in many countries (such as New Zealand) are now so busy simply trying to house, feed and clothe their kids that they're almost completely unaware of what's going on -- which leaves the state free to embark on petty vendettas and repeated "unlawful" acts without having to worry about being held to account.
You forgot to mention that Davinci Resolve has provided free upgrades (version and release numbers) since way-back so you can either use the free version (which is perfectly adequate for most people's needs) or spend a paltry $300 for extra features (mainly aimed at studios) and a life-time of free version upgrades.
The "free" version is miles ahead of most other "paid" NLEs and doesn't have crappy watermarks or other restrictions. It's brilliant. The "Studio" version ($300) adds some cool extra effects and features but they aren't "must have" elements for most users. I liked the free version so much I ponied up the cash and bought the Studio one... not because I needed the extra features but because I believe that good tools are worth paying for.
Be aware that the latest version (V15, only relased a few weeks ago) is nowhere near as solid as the previous one but I expect that within a few minor revisions it'll be as good as V14 is (which I use daily).
Wow, I used to trust Ars to bring me researched, objective science and technology news -- but no more.
What a piece of sensationalist tripe this is!
How do I know?
Well I live in New Zealand, one of those countries which has this tick -- in fact we only have two tick species here and this is one of them.
Neither our cattle, sheep nor people have been brought to their knees by this pest and the countryside isn't over-run with a red tide of invading creatures.
Sorry Ars, you've just been relegated to "tabloid tech" in my book.
Such a shame.
Who *can* we rely on for *real* news and not this click-bait sensationalist crap?
I fly drones at a local airfield and can vouch for the fact that they're a very effective method of getting rid of birds from such places.
When I first started flying at the airfield there were healthy (albeit not for the aircraft that used the place) populations of gulls, pluvers and (at certain times of the year) ducks. It was impossible to deter those birds using ground-based techniques but chasing them well beyond the airfield boundaries with a small racing drone has resulted in a dramatic drop in numbers.
Since I started driving the birds away (be still all you animal-rights activists) there has not been a single bird-strike at the airfield.
Of course the media would rather report that, as a drone flier, I could be spying on people, carrying high-explosives and trying to bring down airliners -- but then again we all know that what you read in the media is (these days) far from the truth.
Could someone please tell Google of this ruling? Or does it only apply to organizations which have fewer than some secret number of corporate lawyers and funds with which to fight a prosecution?
It's gotten so bad that one of our local news sites here produces near 100% CPU utilization of the (admittedly older) dual-core (4 logical cores) 2.4GHz processor running under Linux in my web-browsing PC. It pegs the CPU for nearly 30 seconds per page and I can't do much else during that time because of the high CPU usage.
Seriously... you need *that* much resource just to show us some text and a few pictures????
Ah, how fondly I remember the days of 1200/75 modems when good designers spent hours trying to make BBS screens load just a few seconds faster. These days, optimization and elegant simplicity are cuss-words within the online development community I guess.
So how much $ does Cox get to cover the costs associated with each copyright complaint from the record labels?
I'm assuming that there *is* a payment, since there is obviously a cost.
Cox should hike the fees associated with processing such complaints by a *significant* amount.
And if the record labels expects Cox to work on their behalf for free, how can they complain when some of Cox's customers expect to get their music for free?
Okay, General Relativity makes it an impossibility to exceed the speed of light because the mass of an object increases as it near's C. Since the mass increases, the amount of energy/force required to accelerate it further also increases -- wash, rinse, repeat.
Clearly, at some stage (due to the increasing mass of the object), the force required to exceed C becomes infinite(?) and therefore C can not be exceeded under any circumstances.
But how does this work when the force is provided by gravity?
Galileo pretty much proved that the acceleration of a mass by gravity is unaffected by the magnitude of that mass. So, if a gravitational field (such as that of a black hole) is creating an acceleration of x meters per second per second, an object should continue to accelerate to and beyond the speed of light, even though its mass increases (infinitely) as it approaches C -- n'est pas?
Yes, I am ignorant but I'm sure some physicist can put me straight on this.
People are switching to streaming (VOD) services at a surprising rate (as they did with music) but it seems that the MPAA still isn't happy.
If they wan't to kill piracy, why not set up their own dropbox service and write their own plugin for Kodi and effectively out-pirate the pirates.
Hell, if they did that (thus legitimizing this activity) I'd gladly pay $100 a year for access. Now let's see, $850m divided by 100 -- gosh, they'd only need 8.5 million subscribers to completely wipe out their current (alleged) losses.
Sounds do-able to me.
But then again, we all know that some people (and organizations) aren't happy unless they're complaining about something and if there was no piracy, the MPAA would be very sad indeed.
You must be new to this game. You can't bring facts into an argument where the MPAA or RIAA are concerned, that's against the rules. I'm sorry, you're fired!
They hired the New Zealand police to do that to Kim Dotcom. I gather there was nothing in the way of censure dished out to those police by our courts when it was deemed to be "unlawful" so chances are they could hire them again at a very competitive rate and, if they throw in airplane tickets, they'd probably even do the job in other countries if asked nicely.
Even if it was an error in the Intel data-sheet, didn't Apple actually *test* this machine under load before they released it?
Did they not see for themselves that there was severe thermal throttling going oin and say "that's not right" - before sending it back to the lab for some changes?
Right now, the link to the YouTube channel is producing an internal server error (500) and the "Something Went Wrong" message.
I strongly suspect the channel has been nuked by Apple -- they (or at least the company they hire to squash alls sorts of tenuous copyright infringements) has likely filed multiple copyright strikes and YouTube will have pulled the plug, pronto!
Let's see them try to break into my voice/SMS-only 2G bar-phone with their fancy gear! Bahahah!
But seriously, this might mean that lawmakers will be more predisposed to drop the need for a search warrant in respect to searching someone's phone. It would be much easier to lobby that the need for a warrant could now significantly hamper investigations because of the short window of opportunity.
So don't look too smug, Apple may have shot you all in the foot.
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Welcome to the modern world... where money outranks rights, ethics and morality every time.
I included commentary on this in a video I posted almost three weeks ago. The bottom line is that they chose an absolute worst-case scenario, something that has prompted DJI (the maker of the drone used) to demand that the video and findings be withdrawn (copy of the letter).
It seems that this test may have been more about promoting the university than gaining actual scientific evidence (note the prominence of the university's name on the wing under test). This is supported by a comment on the video I posted in which one viewer states: "University of dayton is seriously the lowest ranked school in the state of ohio, people from dayton...it is mostly trailer parks. All the women there know how to work on cars. Not a bad thing if you need a clutch rebuilt. Dayton isnt actually a city anymore but now a poor suburb of Cincinnati (best city in the world)"
Can we have a link to material that might verify this claim?
Totally true. I'm 65 now and when I recall taping music from the radio... onto reel-to-reel tape originally and then onto cassettes once they appeared. Hell, the music industry survived that "piracy" so I'm sure they'll survive a little stream-ripping.
Isn't Canada the place that put a media tax on CDR/RW disks and such -- because their poor music industry was so hard-done-by?
My advice to Canadian musicians and singers: take a teaspoon of cement and harden up!
Can someone remind me again just how much Uber lost last year?
Is this a "technical" hitch or simply a lack of money?
"steps towards a police state"???
Excuse me... to me it looks like the UK (and members of FiveEyes) have actually been *sprinting* towards a police state and some are already well within sight of the finish line.
Have you ever noticed that when we (the great unwashed) break a law it is called an "illegal" act -- but when the state breaks the law it's simply called "unlawful"?
"Illegal" acts are inevitably subject to huge censure (fines, imprisonment, etc) -- whilst "unlawful" acts are simply dismissed as "gosh, we got caught, we'll try to cover up better next time" and nobody even gets their wrist slapped.
What's more, "the great unwashed" in many countries (such as New Zealand) are now so busy simply trying to house, feed and clothe their kids that they're almost completely unaware of what's going on -- which leaves the state free to embark on petty vendettas and repeated "unlawful" acts without having to worry about being held to account.
"letting them unlock the car and start the engine"
Since when do EVs have "engines". I thought they had electric motors.
You forgot to mention that Davinci Resolve has provided free upgrades (version and release numbers) since way-back so you can either use the free version (which is perfectly adequate for most people's needs) or spend a paltry $300 for extra features (mainly aimed at studios) and a life-time of free version upgrades.
The "free" version is miles ahead of most other "paid" NLEs and doesn't have crappy watermarks or other restrictions. It's brilliant. The "Studio" version ($300) adds some cool extra effects and features but they aren't "must have" elements for most users. I liked the free version so much I ponied up the cash and bought the Studio one... not because I needed the extra features but because I believe that good tools are worth paying for.
Be aware that the latest version (V15, only relased a few weeks ago) is nowhere near as solid as the previous one but I expect that within a few minor revisions it'll be as good as V14 is (which I use daily).
Worst phone I ever had was an LG... never again.
LOL... I thank Venezuela for demonstrating how ineffective drones would be in this role!
Proof that the media is blowing the risk way out of proportion!
Watch this video, it puts some of the risks in perspective.
Wow, I used to trust Ars to bring me researched, objective science and technology news -- but no more.
What a piece of sensationalist tripe this is!
How do I know?
Well I live in New Zealand, one of those countries which has this tick -- in fact we only have two tick species here and this is one of them.
Neither our cattle, sheep nor people have been brought to their knees by this pest and the countryside isn't over-run with a red tide of invading creatures.
Sorry Ars, you've just been relegated to "tabloid tech" in my book.
Such a shame.
Who *can* we rely on for *real* news and not this click-bait sensationalist crap?
I fly drones at a local airfield and can vouch for the fact that they're a very effective method of getting rid of birds from such places.
When I first started flying at the airfield there were healthy (albeit not for the aircraft that used the place) populations of gulls, pluvers and (at certain times of the year) ducks. It was impossible to deter those birds using ground-based techniques but chasing them well beyond the airfield boundaries with a small racing drone has resulted in a dramatic drop in numbers.
Since I started driving the birds away (be still all you animal-rights activists) there has not been a single bird-strike at the airfield.
Of course the media would rather report that, as a drone flier, I could be spying on people, carrying high-explosives and trying to bring down airliners -- but then again we all know that what you read in the media is (these days) far from the truth.
Could someone please tell Google of this ruling? Or does it only apply to organizations which have fewer than some secret number of corporate lawyers and funds with which to fight a prosecution?
Facebook? What's that. Is it something you use when you don't have a real life?
It's gotten so bad that one of our local news sites here produces near 100% CPU utilization of the (admittedly older) dual-core (4 logical cores) 2.4GHz processor running under Linux in my web-browsing PC. It pegs the CPU for nearly 30 seconds per page and I can't do much else during that time because of the high CPU usage.
Seriously... you need *that* much resource just to show us some text and a few pictures????
Ah, how fondly I remember the days of 1200/75 modems when good designers spent hours trying to make BBS screens load just a few seconds faster. These days, optimization and elegant simplicity are cuss-words within the online development community I guess.
So how much $ does Cox get to cover the costs associated with each copyright complaint from the record labels?
I'm assuming that there *is* a payment, since there is obviously a cost.
Cox should hike the fees associated with processing such complaints by a *significant* amount.
And if the record labels expects Cox to work on their behalf for free, how can they complain when some of Cox's customers expect to get their music for free?
Do these people not know how capitalism works?
Okay, General Relativity makes it an impossibility to exceed the speed of light because the mass of an object increases as it near's C. Since the mass increases, the amount of energy/force required to accelerate it further also increases -- wash, rinse, repeat.
Clearly, at some stage (due to the increasing mass of the object), the force required to exceed C becomes infinite(?) and therefore C can not be exceeded under any circumstances.
But how does this work when the force is provided by gravity?
Galileo pretty much proved that the acceleration of a mass by gravity is unaffected by the magnitude of that mass. So, if a gravitational field (such as that of a black hole) is creating an acceleration of x meters per second per second, an object should continue to accelerate to and beyond the speed of light, even though its mass increases (infinitely) as it approaches C -- n'est pas?
Yes, I am ignorant but I'm sure some physicist can put me straight on this.
People are switching to streaming (VOD) services at a surprising rate (as they did with music) but it seems that the MPAA still isn't happy.
If they wan't to kill piracy, why not set up their own dropbox service and write their own plugin for Kodi and effectively out-pirate the pirates.
Hell, if they did that (thus legitimizing this activity) I'd gladly pay $100 a year for access. Now let's see, $850m divided by 100 -- gosh, they'd only need 8.5 million subscribers to completely wipe out their current (alleged) losses.
Sounds do-able to me.
But then again, we all know that some people (and organizations) aren't happy unless they're complaining about something and if there was no piracy, the MPAA would be very sad indeed.
You must be new to this game. You can't bring facts into an argument where the MPAA or RIAA are concerned, that's against the rules. I'm sorry, you're fired!
Fuck off... I've got a drawer full of stolen handbags and drive a stolen ride every day.
These people don't know me!!! :-)
They hired the New Zealand police to do that to Kim Dotcom. I gather there was nothing in the way of censure dished out to those police by our courts when it was deemed to be "unlawful" so chances are they could hire them again at a very competitive rate and, if they throw in airplane tickets, they'd probably even do the job in other countries if asked nicely.
Even if it was an error in the Intel data-sheet, didn't Apple actually *test* this machine under load before they released it?
Did they not see for themselves that there was severe thermal throttling going oin and say "that's not right" - before sending it back to the lab for some changes?
It would appear not.
Right now, the link to the YouTube channel is producing an internal server error (500) and the "Something Went Wrong" message.
I strongly suspect the channel has been nuked by Apple -- they (or at least the company they hire to squash alls sorts of tenuous copyright infringements) has likely filed multiple copyright strikes and YouTube will have pulled the plug, pronto!
Let's see them try to break into my voice/SMS-only 2G bar-phone with their fancy gear! Bahahah!
But seriously, this might mean that lawmakers will be more predisposed to drop the need for a search warrant in respect to searching someone's phone. It would be much easier to lobby that the need for a warrant could now significantly hamper investigations because of the short window of opportunity.
So don't look too smug, Apple may have shot you all in the foot.