Just a toy my ass. This is an awesome tool. GPS(-like systems) isn't just for directions, you know. Now I can find the phone number of a restaurant, or a locksmith, or a drug store, or whatever else I might need near my current location. 1km resolution is virtually exact when I am looking for every restaurant in a 15km radius. Even 10km resolution would be good enough for some searches, maybe I want the nearest hospital or zoo.
The problem with your conclusion is that as long as someone owns a copy of the pre-code-removal game, Sony is continuing to break the license by not offering source code to that person. So they cannot "stop breaking the license" without giving that person the source code when he asks for it.
simple solution to that is to cover or remove your license plate when you aren't driving your vehicle. cover isnt infallible, and remove would be a PITA with screws, but I imagine a quick-removal mount would not be hard to come up with, just a latch or two.
Hey kdawson, wake up and smell the 90s. Some of us have monitors more than 640 pixels wide, so your 500 pixel fixed width is just a TAD hard to read when it is 5" wide on the left edge of a 30" monitor. Thank god for firebug, I just had to delete the width style on your container div.
About as well as a proposal to equip soldiers with silly string would go. Laughed off out of hand, impossible to accomplish officially, but wildly useful when actually delivered at private expense.
Screw the $2000 version. For $250 (each, in quantities of 20+) I can give you a UAV with a 30 minute flight time and remote video at a 1 mile range that will fit [no-tools disassembled] inside a shoebox for carrying*, with a MTBF of 1000 hours [in the air]. $10 each for sets of rx/tx crystals, leaving channel allocation as an exercise for the reader. $100 more gets you the transmitter (the radio control), a battery charger, and a video monitor, all of which fits in a second shoebox, but each unit only ever needs one of those (assuming the UAV itself is going to get lost on a regular basis). As a sibling post stated, I don't think any ground unit would not want to have that as a tactical option, and we spend more than that on a good periscope just for looking around a corner. "milspec" is fine and dandy for some things, but we suffer in wars like Iraq and Vietnam where the enemy can do more with $10 than we are willing to do with $1000.
* - given a 14"x8"x6" shoebox... With a 3 segment foam wing that buys you you a 42"x8" wing, a 2 segment boom gives you at least a 32" long fuselage, and the rest of the box is taken up by a two-segment tail, the electronics and mechanical packages. It would carry 1Ah*11.1V in lithium batteries (oh no, a fire hazard!), run on a 5-7" prop geared down maybe 4:1 from a brushless motor. Control would be throttle+pitch+yaw, with a respectable amount of dihedral and COL/COG separation to avoid roll.
PS: Could almost certainly do significantly better on the range with frequencies available to the military. 1 mile is easy with the public no-license-required bands here in the states, and trivial on ham R/C bands.
PPS: Jamming will be a problem. Add $50 to the non-replaceable package cost to get a transmitter that can operate in multiple bands, have different planes for different bands (no extra cost). If XXXMHz is being jammed, fly something on YYYYMHz instead. If they manage to jam every available frequency... you're no worse off than you started. And you can probably get some sort of useful information out of the location of the jamming equipment (trivially triangulated).
onboard avionics consisted of just a three-axis gyro based autopilot (in case of control loss). cameras were medium-resolution still and low-resolution radio-transmitted video, visible light only (well, as little IR as I could manage, you know how CCDs are). gps was only for tagging with the camera, a small non-interactive reciever.
oh yeah, and i flew well outside visual range. thats what the video camera is for. radio and reciever were tested to 1.5 miles, probably good to at least 2 on a good day.
the army can have as many as they want for $2000 apiece. screw hardening, the enemy can knock down 99% of them and they will still be cheaper than any "real" military UAV ive heard of.
A full scale helicopter could not do the things in that video due to a lack of power. That is one of the major differences in scale model aircraft. In a helicopter or plane model that size, you can easily get many times the minimum required thrust, opening up a wide range of aerobatic maneuvers. I have seen 40 gram airplanes that produce 100+ grams of thrust (and can thus easily hover, nose-up). That model helicopter probably weighs something like 5 pounds and puts out at least 40 pounds of thrust (based on the angles required for the nose-up reverse-pendulum maneuver in the video). The same design scaled up for a real (read: armed) military vehicle would be lucky to produce 150% of its minimum hovering thrust (say, 15000 pound helicopter, 20-25k pounds of thrust at max throttle). Add to that that most real helicopters are not optimized for inverted flight and half the maneuvers in the video become even less plausible.
*I* have built R/C planes of the hand launched variety (3-5 foot wingspan) that can stay aloft for 2+ hours on *BATTERIES*. And that's without taking advantage of thermals. What the military could do with a budget and (maybe) fuel cells would amaze you (based on the assumptions your incorrect post indicates).
Has anyone verified that the IMEI is actually inserted into that field in the URL when the widget runs? The author says he tried to not send the IMEI, but maybe it just sends a placeholder value, or nothing at all, by default? I want to see traffic logs of the actual request including the IMEI before I get angry and [continue to] not buy an iPhone.
I love watching games like WoW mangle jargon like that. It is even funnier in this case since "zerg" came from another Blizzard game, giving the people using it incorrectly one less excuse for their ignorance.
Organizing and maneuvering in raids, exploring the world, uncovering quest story lines. Combat that requires interaction (Blizzard take note!). Social aspects of the game. Auctions (somewhat automated) and other transactions.
There are plenty of parts of the game that are fun and not tedious. But Blizzard is "forced" to insert tedious parts so they can make the game "worth" the $15/mo that they charge for it. Imagine how quickly end-game players would get bored if they could raid their zone of choice back to back without "having" to do the tedious parts in between.
I could program my keyboard to send the information, and no automated detection system in the world could find out. Maybe not, but you would still get banned from the game if you got caught. It has happened before.
Bots are not just for leveling up. There are PLENTY of other extremely tedious parts of the game. When I still played WoW for fun, before I started farming gold full time, I used single-purpose "bots" to automate most of the tedious parts of the game. Travel (30 minutes of walking and waiting for boats/zepplins is not fun), harvesting trade skill resources (find minerals, right click, wait 10 seconds, repeat), and combat (both as a melee fighter and as a healer. bots make great healers, especially in raids), all good targets for automation.
I don't have a debit card - they're evil, and unnecessary - I have a credit card, and use a virtual card for many on-line purchases. A card that lets you spend your saved money online is evil and unnecessary, but a card that lets you spend money that you do not have is not-evil and not-unnecessary?
Last time I saw this, the screen resolution section listed 1280x800, but not 1280x960. Now it lists 1280x960, but not 1280x800. And it has never listed 1280x1024, which happens to be the resolution that over 90% of the steam users that i know use. The "Other" category is not large enough to cover these discrepancies. And, to top that off, there isnt even a category for 5:4 aspect monitor sizes. Are those people getting lumped into the 4:3 ratio section? WTF all around
Since your software continues to have bugs, I don't think you can claim that any previous patches were "bulletproof". That being the case, you don't hold a candle to most FOSS teams who get equally good patches for such exploits out in days, if not hours.
Since you brought up tags... How do weird tags (not that "thief" is especially weird) happen? Some random guy adds a "somelongrandomstringofwords" tag. How does that tag get onto the tag list that I see on the front page? I would expect it needs to be tagged that way by a bunch of people before it shows up, but how would those other people know to use that exact same long random string of words?
Someone in charge there actually appears to be the mommy I never had. Fixed that for you. I don't need the government playing the role of my parents when I am 30 years old, I can decide for myself whether a contract with such clauses in it is worth signing.
Most places around here we have unemployment insurance. They walk me out 6 months ahead of time, I spend 6 months "searching" for the job I already have lined up to start 6 months from now, and their unemployment insurance costs go up an amount similar to that I am getting paid by the state (unless they do this on a regular basis, in which case they are already paying an appropriate amount to cover my 6 month vacation).
Once you get a gPhone, you are stuck with Google as your provider. Say what? Why do you think I could not use a gPhone with AT&T, or T-Mobile, or Cellular South, or Verizon, or Sprint, or any other provider? Has Google announced some sort of lock-in that somehow did not become a/. story?
So the probe takes 70kB (minus overhead) worth of readings from its sensors, then sends them out. Then it repeats the process, never having more than 70kB of data in its memory. The question is, how fast can it do that? If it can accumulate and send a 70kB chunk in 1/10th of a second, then we have 700kB/s of bandwidth. If it takes a week to fill up that memory and then transmit it then...
PS: the actual transmit bandwidth is likely higher than described here, since it probably takes less time to transmit the data than to collect it, but this sets a lower bound.
10 years. Tops. In 20 I expect it to be illegal for a human to operate a vehicle on a major roadway. 50% of all accidents are caused by drunk drivers, but 99% of all accidents are caused by human drivers.
I agree. I have put thought into such a device for a long time. Storage and cameras are small enough now that the entire thing could fit in a 6" hemisphere in the center of the roof of the car (inside). I would want 4 cameras, one facing each direction, with peripheral overlap so that a panorama could be made (with no gaps), plus one camera pointing straight down with a fisheye that covers the areas inside of the car that the other 4 cameras miss. As I envision the device, it would record in a short loop, say 5-60 minutes long, with new footage overlapping the oldest, and then you could press a button* to save the last 5-60 minutes and start recording in realtime until another button* is pressed. This eliminates the possibility of it recording things that you don't want, and saves on storage to boot.
* - here "press a button" is defined as some process trivial to a user who has been instructed in its use, but non-trivial for someone naively inspecting the device. We want to be able to start recording under duress, and avoid someone else stopping the recording without our consent. Perhaps the first button is hidden under the seat, and the second "button" is actually a password or physical key.
PS: Feel free to steal this idea, I would rather see someone else make money from it being on the market than wait til I have the time to build it. Ubiquitous non-govt-controlled cameras are the answer to a lot of our current governmental problems.
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Just a toy my ass. This is an awesome tool. GPS(-like systems) isn't just for directions, you know. Now I can find the phone number of a restaurant, or a locksmith, or a drug store, or whatever else I might need near my current location. 1km resolution is virtually exact when I am looking for every restaurant in a 15km radius. Even 10km resolution would be good enough for some searches, maybe I want the nearest hospital or zoo.
The problem with your conclusion is that as long as someone owns a copy of the pre-code-removal game, Sony is continuing to break the license by not offering source code to that person. So they cannot "stop breaking the license" without giving that person the source code when he asks for it.
simple solution to that is to cover or remove your license plate when you aren't driving your vehicle. cover isnt infallible, and remove would be a PITA with screws, but I imagine a quick-removal mount would not be hard to come up with, just a latch or two.
Hey kdawson, wake up and smell the 90s. Some of us have monitors more than 640 pixels wide, so your 500 pixel fixed width is just a TAD hard to read when it is 5" wide on the left edge of a 30" monitor. Thank god for firebug, I just had to delete the width style on your container div.
About as well as a proposal to equip soldiers with silly string would go. Laughed off out of hand, impossible to accomplish officially, but wildly useful when actually delivered at private expense.
Screw the $2000 version. For $250 (each, in quantities of 20+) I can give you a UAV with a 30 minute flight time and remote video at a 1 mile range that will fit [no-tools disassembled] inside a shoebox for carrying*, with a MTBF of 1000 hours [in the air]. $10 each for sets of rx/tx crystals, leaving channel allocation as an exercise for the reader. $100 more gets you the transmitter (the radio control), a battery charger, and a video monitor, all of which fits in a second shoebox, but each unit only ever needs one of those (assuming the UAV itself is going to get lost on a regular basis). As a sibling post stated, I don't think any ground unit would not want to have that as a tactical option, and we spend more than that on a good periscope just for looking around a corner. "milspec" is fine and dandy for some things, but we suffer in wars like Iraq and Vietnam where the enemy can do more with $10 than we are willing to do with $1000.
* - given a 14"x8"x6" shoebox... With a 3 segment foam wing that buys you you a 42"x8" wing, a 2 segment boom gives you at least a 32" long fuselage, and the rest of the box is taken up by a two-segment tail, the electronics and mechanical packages. It would carry 1Ah*11.1V in lithium batteries (oh no, a fire hazard!), run on a 5-7" prop geared down maybe 4:1 from a brushless motor. Control would be throttle+pitch+yaw, with a respectable amount of dihedral and COL/COG separation to avoid roll.
PS: Could almost certainly do significantly better on the range with frequencies available to the military. 1 mile is easy with the public no-license-required bands here in the states, and trivial on ham R/C bands.
PPS: Jamming will be a problem. Add $50 to the non-replaceable package cost to get a transmitter that can operate in multiple bands, have different planes for different bands (no extra cost). If XXXMHz is being jammed, fly something on YYYYMHz instead. If they manage to jam every available frequency... you're no worse off than you started. And you can probably get some sort of useful information out of the location of the jamming equipment (trivially triangulated).
onboard avionics consisted of just a three-axis gyro based autopilot (in case of control loss). cameras were medium-resolution still and low-resolution radio-transmitted video, visible light only (well, as little IR as I could manage, you know how CCDs are). gps was only for tagging with the camera, a small non-interactive reciever.
oh yeah, and i flew well outside visual range. thats what the video camera is for. radio and reciever were tested to 1.5 miles, probably good to at least 2 on a good day.
the army can have as many as they want for $2000 apiece. screw hardening, the enemy can knock down 99% of them and they will still be cheaper than any "real" military UAV ive heard of.
A full scale helicopter could not do the things in that video due to a lack of power. That is one of the major differences in scale model aircraft. In a helicopter or plane model that size, you can easily get many times the minimum required thrust, opening up a wide range of aerobatic maneuvers. I have seen 40 gram airplanes that produce 100+ grams of thrust (and can thus easily hover, nose-up). That model helicopter probably weighs something like 5 pounds and puts out at least 40 pounds of thrust (based on the angles required for the nose-up reverse-pendulum maneuver in the video). The same design scaled up for a real (read: armed) military vehicle would be lucky to produce 150% of its minimum hovering thrust (say, 15000 pound helicopter, 20-25k pounds of thrust at max throttle). Add to that that most real helicopters are not optimized for inverted flight and half the maneuvers in the video become even less plausible.
*I* have built R/C planes of the hand launched variety (3-5 foot wingspan) that can stay aloft for 2+ hours on *BATTERIES*. And that's without taking advantage of thermals. What the military could do with a budget and (maybe) fuel cells would amaze you (based on the assumptions your incorrect post indicates).
Well, not 8 pages but...
Has anyone verified that the IMEI is actually inserted into that field in the URL when the widget runs? The author says he tried to not send the IMEI, but maybe it just sends a placeholder value, or nothing at all, by default? I want to see traffic logs of the actual request including the IMEI before I get angry and [continue to] not buy an iPhone.
I love watching games like WoW mangle jargon like that. It is even funnier in this case since "zerg" came from another Blizzard game, giving the people using it incorrectly one less excuse for their ignorance.
Organizing and maneuvering in raids, exploring the world, uncovering quest story lines. Combat that requires interaction (Blizzard take note!). Social aspects of the game. Auctions (somewhat automated) and other transactions.
There are plenty of parts of the game that are fun and not tedious. But Blizzard is "forced" to insert tedious parts so they can make the game "worth" the $15/mo that they charge for it. Imagine how quickly end-game players would get bored if they could raid their zone of choice back to back without "having" to do the tedious parts in between.
Bots are not just for leveling up. There are PLENTY of other extremely tedious parts of the game. When I still played WoW for fun, before I started farming gold full time, I used single-purpose "bots" to automate most of the tedious parts of the game. Travel (30 minutes of walking and waiting for boats/zepplins is not fun), harvesting trade skill resources (find minerals, right click, wait 10 seconds, repeat), and combat (both as a melee fighter and as a healer. bots make great healers, especially in raids), all good targets for automation.
Last time I saw this, the screen resolution section listed 1280x800, but not 1280x960. Now it lists 1280x960, but not 1280x800. And it has never listed 1280x1024, which happens to be the resolution that over 90% of the steam users that i know use. The "Other" category is not large enough to cover these discrepancies. And, to top that off, there isnt even a category for 5:4 aspect monitor sizes. Are those people getting lumped into the 4:3 ratio section? WTF all around
Since your software continues to have bugs, I don't think you can claim that any previous patches were "bulletproof". That being the case, you don't hold a candle to most FOSS teams who get equally good patches for such exploits out in days, if not hours.
Since you brought up tags... How do weird tags (not that "thief" is especially weird) happen? Some random guy adds a "somelongrandomstringofwords" tag. How does that tag get onto the tag list that I see on the front page? I would expect it needs to be tagged that way by a bunch of people before it shows up, but how would those other people know to use that exact same long random string of words?
Most places around here we have unemployment insurance. They walk me out 6 months ahead of time, I spend 6 months "searching" for the job I already have lined up to start 6 months from now, and their unemployment insurance costs go up an amount similar to that I am getting paid by the state (unless they do this on a regular basis, in which case they are already paying an appropriate amount to cover my 6 month vacation).
zero-gee manufacturing facilities, communications relaying, timeshares for rich vacationers... an orbiting facility could easily pay its own bills.
So the probe takes 70kB (minus overhead) worth of readings from its sensors, then sends them out. Then it repeats the process, never having more than 70kB of data in its memory. The question is, how fast can it do that? If it can accumulate and send a 70kB chunk in 1/10th of a second, then we have 700kB/s of bandwidth. If it takes a week to fill up that memory and then transmit it then...
PS: the actual transmit bandwidth is likely higher than described here, since it probably takes less time to transmit the data than to collect it, but this sets a lower bound.
Why does your OS classify the very limited needs of Puzzle Pirates as "unlimited"?
10 years. Tops. In 20 I expect it to be illegal for a human to operate a vehicle on a major roadway. 50% of all accidents are caused by drunk drivers, but 99% of all accidents are caused by human drivers.
I agree. I have put thought into such a device for a long time. Storage and cameras are small enough now that the entire thing could fit in a 6" hemisphere in the center of the roof of the car (inside). I would want 4 cameras, one facing each direction, with peripheral overlap so that a panorama could be made (with no gaps), plus one camera pointing straight down with a fisheye that covers the areas inside of the car that the other 4 cameras miss. As I envision the device, it would record in a short loop, say 5-60 minutes long, with new footage overlapping the oldest, and then you could press a button* to save the last 5-60 minutes and start recording in realtime until another button* is pressed. This eliminates the possibility of it recording things that you don't want, and saves on storage to boot.
* - here "press a button" is defined as some process trivial to a user who has been instructed in its use, but non-trivial for someone naively inspecting the device. We want to be able to start recording under duress, and avoid someone else stopping the recording without our consent. Perhaps the first button is hidden under the seat, and the second "button" is actually a password or physical key.
PS: Feel free to steal this idea, I would rather see someone else make money from it being on the market than wait til I have the time to build it. Ubiquitous non-govt-controlled cameras are the answer to a lot of our current governmental problems.