have enough battery power to power a light visible 3 miles away.
It doesn't; the TFA is poorly written. The night flying applies to drones that can weigh up to just under 55lbs. That's more than enough weight to carry some beefy lighting and a battery to run it.
The 0.55lb weight limit is for flying over people, which is actually more restrictive than the previous laws (which considered anything under 0.55lbs to be a toy and outside of the FAA's jurisdiction). Under the previous law, if you flew a Ryze Tello (for example) over people, it was perfectly legal because the FAA did not consider it to be a drone. Toy drones weren't a free pass to fly wherever you like, though - local ordinances can still ban you from operating a remote controlled flying anything, while standing on their land.
Spying in your widows at your wife or you children... all night every night.
Yeah, I saw that South Park episode, too. It's also total bullshit, because just about every consumer drone has a similar wide-angle lens like what you'd find on a smartphone.
I've personally tried "spying" on my cat with my DJI Spark. I flew it as close to the window as the anti-collision system would allow, and on the video feed you could sort-of make out that there was in fact, a cat sitting on the window ledge. So yeah, if you're pressing your bare ass against the window glass and don't notice some extremely loud buzzing coming from outside, someone could be spying on you with a drone.
People have already tried strapping rockets to cars. It usually doesn't end well, unless the outcome you wanted was some awesome high-speed camera footage and a totaled car. Also, rocket engines tend to use lots of fuel, and once you run out of fuel, gravity takes over with predictable results.
So yeah, unless Elon Musk is getting into the business of expensive car demolition (well, he did send a car off into space), I don't see the practicality in this. Sounds like he's just trolling for attention, again.
...in the fields of battery and medical technology. Yeah, modern smartphones can do some amazing stuff, but playing Pokemon Go still chews up your battery like nobody's business. Consumer UAS technology in DJI's drones is way more advanced than anything I could've imagined when I was a kid, but they're still hindered by incredibly short battery life. On the medical side, I'd have assumed we'd have a cure for HIV/AIDS by now, along with most other major diseases.
As for the negative repercussions of today's technology, I didn't anticipate the retail apocalypse. I kind of miss being able to go to RadioShack and poke around through the parts drawers. As others have already mentioned, there's also social media making it ever-so-easy for misinformation/superstition/idiocy to spread like a plague. Even Disney's Spaceship Earth designers didn't see that one coming. If they did, the ride would end with "Putting the power of the computer in everyone's hands in hindsight, wasn't such a great idea."
Honorable mention also goes to flying cars. I don't know why it never dawned on sci-fi writers how impractical flying cars would actually be, but they sure managed to convince quite a few of my generation that we would've had them by now. When I show people my DJI Spark, I just tell them "This is the flying car I was promised as a kid. I expected something a little larger."
That is a problem of this adminstration's own doing. The unstaffed parks should've been closed. It is absolutely idiotic that the Republicans worried about the potential bad press resulting from the national parks being closed, but not the fallout from literally thousands of government employees getting a goose-egg on their paystub.
They should get real jobs then. You know, like all the peasants. Us peasants who don't merely get paid vacations when our employer runs out of money. Everyone who not a government aristocrat just gets laid off. Cry me a fucking river.
There likely isn't enough jobs in the private sector for all these people. Trivia time: What do you call it when the government invents government jobs for people, so they have some form of employment?
Nice, then we need to expand and enhance ICE and get unconstitutional "sanctuary State/city" laws tossed... More ICE for everyone!
That's what it would actually take if Republicans really wanted to address the issue of illegals.
The wall is just an act of pandering to Republican voters who irrationally believe it will be a panacea for all our illegal immigration woes. The entire mindset behind it is "We want to win the next election, so we need to build that wall", nothing more.
It's flamebait because we don't need your shit us politics in every thread
I realize the reading comprehension level has been dropping on this site, but this wasn't an attempt to shoehorn politics into an irrelevant discussion. Border patrol already uses drones, and the number of drone flights has been increasing.
Damn you contry's getting paranoid. That fear is going to cost you way more than illegal immigration does.
Personally, I don't think the USA should be so paranoid over illegals. But considering the government is actually shut down at the moment over the issue of border security, it's really no stretch to imagine a border patrolled by a fleet of drones.
As a side note, what crack smoking moderator decided my post was "flamebait"? Pointing out that good ol' Uncle Sam would love to use this technology for border security isn't flamebait, it's the logical progression of the path we're already on.
It's only a matter of time before the nationalists start realizing illegals come in through the northern border, too. Canada would shit a brick if we destroyed the nature's beauty with an ugly wall/fence/whatever the hell this is.
Drones that don't have to land are the absolute holy grail of border security. Sure, it's creepy, but if you've seen the movie Real Genius than you know where this is going - you don't develop this sort of technology without already having an idea how it will be used. Sooner or later, they'll tire of having to send people out to arrest illegals, and the government will just equip the drones with less-than-lethal weapons. Mark my words, it's coming.
For all practical purposes, standard flat screen TVs take up no living space when wall-mounted. From the looks of it, this thing takes up a bit of floor space, and you can't even put anything on top of it, unless you wanted the stuff knocked on the floor every time you turn on your "boner TV". It truly is a missed opportunity if LG doesn't have it play this sound effect when it finishes extending.
Furthermore, the whole rollable/disappearing TV concept already exists in a products that have been available for years: A ceiling-mounted projector, and a motorized projection screen.
I hope the aforementioned companies are paying their own engineers well.
Yeah, because the fear of getting caught clearly doesn't factor in. It wouldn't take a genius to catch someone attempting to cash in on their own "exploit", and I'm sure these companies have some very expensive lawyers which could make your life really miserable.
As amusing as I find it that they're giving the middle finger to the basic laws of "supply and demand", by raising the price of services which are seeing diminishing demand, it will cease to be amusing once they start jacking up internet service costs.
I'm already paying $50/mo for crappy internet-only service, which barely works most of the time. There's no other choice of land line ISP where I live, either. Yay capitalism, I suppose.
It's clear from his post he favours compromises so presumably he'd want the insertion of just half the drone into his backside.
The compromise would be the person with the "drones up the backside" fetish can rule 34 that shit and pretend he's looking at me, if that's what helps him fap.
My part of the compromise is trying to keep my lunch down.
Wealth inequality is the weakest argument possible you could make for the average price of a car, since the poor buy used cars.
And how many EVs do you see at Buy-Here-Pay-Here dealers?
You can drop $5000 on an used all electric today that still has a few years left on it's warranty and charge it at home saving far more in transportation costs.
This is the cheapest used EV I found near me. $5.5k and 40% battery life remaining. What planet are you living on?
You still haven't made a single valid or evidence based claim
Yeah, I forgot I was posting on “News for jocks, tree climbing matters.” My bad.
Seriously though, WTF has happened to this site? Modded “troll” because you find technology more interesting than hiking. This place really has become a shadow of its former self.
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have enough battery power to power a light visible 3 miles away.
It doesn't; the TFA is poorly written. The night flying applies to drones that can weigh up to just under 55lbs. That's more than enough weight to carry some beefy lighting and a battery to run it.
The 0.55lb weight limit is for flying over people, which is actually more restrictive than the previous laws (which considered anything under 0.55lbs to be a toy and outside of the FAA's jurisdiction). Under the previous law, if you flew a Ryze Tello (for example) over people, it was perfectly legal because the FAA did not consider it to be a drone. Toy drones weren't a free pass to fly wherever you like, though - local ordinances can still ban you from operating a remote controlled flying anything, while standing on their land.
Spying in your widows at your wife or you children... all night every night.
Yeah, I saw that South Park episode, too. It's also total bullshit, because just about every consumer drone has a similar wide-angle lens like what you'd find on a smartphone.
I've personally tried "spying" on my cat with my DJI Spark. I flew it as close to the window as the anti-collision system would allow, and on the video feed you could sort-of make out that there was in fact, a cat sitting on the window ledge. So yeah, if you're pressing your bare ass against the window glass and don't notice some extremely loud buzzing coming from outside, someone could be spying on you with a drone.
Apple jacks up the price of the iPhone, then raises a stink that one of their parts suppliers is jacking up their prices, too? Oh, the irony.
They're just delivering you more value, or whatever bullshit excuse you used for your price increase, Apple. Capitalism 101, baby.
People have already tried strapping rockets to cars. It usually doesn't end well, unless the outcome you wanted was some awesome high-speed camera footage and a totaled car. Also, rocket engines tend to use lots of fuel, and once you run out of fuel, gravity takes over with predictable results.
So yeah, unless Elon Musk is getting into the business of expensive car demolition (well, he did send a car off into space), I don't see the practicality in this. Sounds like he's just trolling for attention, again.
...in the fields of battery and medical technology. Yeah, modern smartphones can do some amazing stuff, but playing Pokemon Go still chews up your battery like nobody's business. Consumer UAS technology in DJI's drones is way more advanced than anything I could've imagined when I was a kid, but they're still hindered by incredibly short battery life. On the medical side, I'd have assumed we'd have a cure for HIV/AIDS by now, along with most other major diseases.
As for the negative repercussions of today's technology, I didn't anticipate the retail apocalypse. I kind of miss being able to go to RadioShack and poke around through the parts drawers. As others have already mentioned, there's also social media making it ever-so-easy for misinformation/superstition/idiocy to spread like a plague. Even Disney's Spaceship Earth designers didn't see that one coming. If they did, the ride would end with "Putting the power of the computer in everyone's hands in hindsight, wasn't such a great idea."
Honorable mention also goes to flying cars. I don't know why it never dawned on sci-fi writers how impractical flying cars would actually be, but they sure managed to convince quite a few of my generation that we would've had them by now. When I show people my DJI Spark, I just tell them "This is the flying car I was promised as a kid. I expected something a little larger."
The 'wall' plan really has a big hole: Canada. Seriously, if you were a terrorist, which would be easier to cross?
Also sea and air travel. These "build the wall" people are like flat-earthers, blissfully ignorant of the times we're living in.
Furthermore, those wishing to cross illegally need only to dig tunnels.
Come in on a travel visa and don't leave. Far less work than all that pesky digging.
Oh, and anyone who goes to public parks.
That is a problem of this adminstration's own doing. The unstaffed parks should've been closed. It is absolutely idiotic that the Republicans worried about the potential bad press resulting from the national parks being closed, but not the fallout from literally thousands of government employees getting a goose-egg on their paystub.
They should get real jobs then. You know, like all the peasants. Us peasants who don't merely get paid vacations when our employer runs out of money. Everyone who not a government aristocrat just gets laid off. Cry me a fucking river.
There likely isn't enough jobs in the private sector for all these people. Trivia time: What do you call it when the government invents government jobs for people, so they have some form of employment?
Nice, then we need to expand and enhance ICE and get unconstitutional "sanctuary State/city" laws tossed... More ICE for everyone!
That's what it would actually take if Republicans really wanted to address the issue of illegals.
The wall is just an act of pandering to Republican voters who irrationally believe it will be a panacea for all our illegal immigration woes. The entire mindset behind it is "We want to win the next election, so we need to build that wall", nothing more.
A large enough, sophisticated enough 3D printer 10 years from now will have no problems whatsoever printing out a fully functioning production car.
In 10 years, we'll be too busy flying around in interstellar space ships to care about cars. /s
Apple fanboys and girls, I'm looking at you...
Uh, Android didn't even have an app permissions manager until Marshmallow. By default, Android still sends all kinds of information back to Google.
Granted, any smartphone is going to be a privacy trade-off, but especially so when the OS is maintained by an advertising company.
It's flamebait because we don't need your shit us politics in every thread
I realize the reading comprehension level has been dropping on this site, but this wasn't an attempt to shoehorn politics into an irrelevant discussion. Border patrol already uses drones, and the number of drone flights has been increasing.
Damn you contry's getting paranoid. That fear is going to cost you way more than illegal immigration does.
Personally, I don't think the USA should be so paranoid over illegals. But considering the government is actually shut down at the moment over the issue of border security, it's really no stretch to imagine a border patrolled by a fleet of drones.
As a side note, what crack smoking moderator decided my post was "flamebait"? Pointing out that good ol' Uncle Sam would love to use this technology for border security isn't flamebait, it's the logical progression of the path we're already on.
It's only a matter of time before the nationalists start realizing illegals come in through the northern border, too. Canada would shit a brick if we destroyed the nature's beauty with an ugly wall/fence/whatever the hell this is.
Drones that don't have to land are the absolute holy grail of border security. Sure, it's creepy, but if you've seen the movie Real Genius than you know where this is going - you don't develop this sort of technology without already having an idea how it will be used. Sooner or later, they'll tire of having to send people out to arrest illegals, and the government will just equip the drones with less-than-lethal weapons. Mark my words, it's coming.
For all practical purposes, standard flat screen TVs take up no living space when wall-mounted. From the looks of it, this thing takes up a bit of floor space, and you can't even put anything on top of it, unless you wanted the stuff knocked on the floor every time you turn on your "boner TV". It truly is a missed opportunity if LG doesn't have it play this sound effect when it finishes extending.
Furthermore, the whole rollable/disappearing TV concept already exists in a products that have been available for years: A ceiling-mounted projector, and a motorized projection screen.
I hope the aforementioned companies are paying their own engineers well.
Yeah, because the fear of getting caught clearly doesn't factor in. It wouldn't take a genius to catch someone attempting to cash in on their own "exploit", and I'm sure these companies have some very expensive lawyers which could make your life really miserable.
Yes, you'd get much better internet access under communism...
Criticism of certain aspects of capitalism != advocating a switch to communism
At least you had the sense to post A.C. to avoid owning your faulty logic.
Shouldn't they be raising Internet rates instead
Be careful what you wish for.
As amusing as I find it that they're giving the middle finger to the basic laws of "supply and demand", by raising the price of services which are seeing diminishing demand, it will cease to be amusing once they start jacking up internet service costs.
I'm already paying $50/mo for crappy internet-only service, which barely works most of the time. There's no other choice of land line ISP where I live, either. Yay capitalism, I suppose.
The only reason I bought Fire Sticks was to run Kodi. I'd be royally pissed if Amazon pulled the same crap as Sony.
It's clear from his post he favours compromises so presumably he'd want the insertion of just half the drone into his backside.
The compromise would be the person with the "drones up the backside" fetish can rule 34 that shit and pretend he's looking at me, if that's what helps him fap.
My part of the compromise is trying to keep my lunch down.
You want to be left alone. I want to murder you.
Let's compromise in the middle.
You get some mental health help, and I'll try really hard not to post things that set off your illness. Sound fair?
Wealth inequality is the weakest argument possible you could make for the average price of a car, since the poor buy used cars.
And how many EVs do you see at Buy-Here-Pay-Here dealers?
You can drop $5000 on an used all electric today that still has a few years left on it's warranty and charge it at home saving far more in transportation costs.
This is the cheapest used EV I found near me. $5.5k and 40% battery life remaining. What planet are you living on?
You still haven't made a single valid or evidence based claim
Buy an EV if it makes you happy, but it's likely not going to save you any money over simply buying a cheaper, fuel-efficient ICE car. The numbers don't lie.
Short: you're lazy.
Yeah, I forgot I was posting on “News for jocks, tree climbing matters.” My bad.
Seriously though, WTF has happened to this site? Modded “troll” because you find technology more interesting than hiking. This place really has become a shadow of its former self.