What about walkers? They're using the sidewalk, they should pay for it, and maybe we should tax based on weight of the individual because heavier people put more strain on the sidewalk than lighter people
I'm looking forward to the day where you can not leave your house without being taxed.
Good point. Are we going to have a/. article every time google+ adds something Facebook has? "google+ adds groups", "google+ adds email", "google+ adds advertising", "google+ gives your information away to government"
Yeah, but just wait. Apple will ignore this as hard as they can, claiming it's not important for their market. Then, next year when the iPhone x+1 comes out, they'll innovate it into the phone and the media will declare them geniuses.
Seems inevitable that all phones will eventually move to some sort of inductive charging. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
And you're right it would be all over the media, but only because it's new to the iPhone. It's like when the Mustang and Camaro reached 400+ hp, exotic cars may have been there for years, doesn't make the news any less important.
What if the individual senders didn't know or have reason to know about the limitation of the recipient? I know when I send an email I don't think to myself "hmm, I wonder how big their inbox is and if it's full?... Maybe I'd better ring them before sending the email to make sure there's room".
You can't call them, that's hacking too. FTFA"because it asked members to email and call an employer many times"
Seems to me that increasing that 8 seconds of recon should be relatively academic. How about adding a little parachute that could increase hang time immensely? Also, perhaps adding a gps transmitter would allow for reuse.
8 seconds is with a parachute. FTFA:
"Their first test -- launched from a 37mm flare gun last week at a neighbor's farm -- wasn't exactly a raging success: The powder didn't fully ignite, the miniature camera flew about 30 feet into the air -- apparently too fast to transmit images back to the 5.8Ghz wireless receiver they were using -- and their parachute partially incinerated."
But while you're shooting at the thing in the sky you're giving away your position. The point of a UAV is to see where your enemy is, if your enemy is wasting their time shooting at the UAV in the sky then they've just given away their position. Mission accomplished!
And actually it's not easy to hit something moving at 4mph, especially if it's a good distance away like 300 meters. A man at 300 meters is about the size of the head of a needle held at arm's length, a very difficult target even if it's stationary. These UAVs are much smaller than a man and with a good zoom and image stabilization it would not be hard to capture a good video at 300 yards.
Since it doesn't serve the ultra-rich, the right wing won't support it, no matter how much it might possibly help everyone.
As for the left? They've long since given up doing anything big and useful....
Ryan Fenton
I know you're trolling, but after what happened this week would you really want to give the government control of our cars? I like the idea of being able to jump in my car and drive around regardless of whether or not Congress balances the next budget, don't you? Why would anyone want to give more control to the gov't after seeing how bad they just screwed up? Reminds me of a quote:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it" -- George Santayana
That was two completely different areas, one in computers and one in music, and there was still a trademark battle. Now we have video game Scrolls fighting video game The Elder Scrolls.
I think Bethesda has a case here. If I came out with a game called "Grand Theft" I guarantee you Rockstar would be all over me and I would lose. If Microsoft can own the word "Windows" on anything computer related then Bethesda can own Scrolls for anything video game related
It'll take a lot more than "smart" government officials to fix this.
This article dumbs it down to high-gas mileage = death trap because they're light weight, so solution is make everything have better gas mileage, right?
The only difference between the two would be the radio, my radio will function perfectly for a good couple of miles if you have line of sight to the object (i.e. its in the air and not obstructed by the ground curvature or trees/buildings). At 10k, pretty much the only way you're going to go from the ground to 10k feet is with an EFI that can deal with the barometric pressure change. Thats the only reason you're not going to fly an RC sport aircraft as high as a drone, and only because the drone was designed to deal with 10k+ feet altitude changes.
This isn't even newsworthy, in fact I think this article is a lie. The title is "FAA Looks Into News Corp’s Daily Drone, Raising Questions About Who Gets To Fly Drones in The U.S.", but there is no mention of the FAA proactively going after News Corp, in fact the only mention of the FAA doing anything is an email after the reporter asked if they heard of this "drone": “We are examining The Daily’s use of a small unmanned aircraft to see if it was in accordance with FAA policies.” and the Daily didn't even reply to emails.
Sounds like the FAA weren't all that concerned until this reporter started sending out emails asking questions.
This is not free, the kit to hook up to your electricity is $150. I don't purposely leave things on so I don't think I could turn off enough electrical appliances to ever save that $150, it's not like I could turn off the A/C, fridge, etc.
Also, because I was afeared that some of the stories about people outed for being nicknamed and ended up with lock-outs to their entire suite of Googlies were slightly true. If using my nick on Google+ meant jeopardising access to my control dealies for my Blog*spot public skirt-twisting or AdSense pimping, even temporarily while I argued with a Googlebot, I would be left helplessly rending my garments and shaking my fist at the cloud.
So I took my toys and went home.
this. The cons outweigh the pros. Until I get some kind of guarantee that nothing I ever do on google+ hurts my other google services (blog, email, YouTube ad revenue, adsense, google voice, etc) I will not join google+. If Facebook bans me oh well, I don't lose half the Internet along with it. Google+ is just too big of a risk.
What the hell does user number have to do with it?
And it's extremely well thought out service.
Clue: Just because you don't like it, and don't wish to use it doesn't mean it's poorly thought out. get over yourself.
So if someone doesn't like Google+ they're flamebait and a FB shill?
Microsoft sucks. Facebook sucks. Google+ has yet to prove itself
Google+ seems to me to be more likely to compete with or duplicate posts from Twitter than Facebook. Facebook just has so much garbage on it I don't understand why anyone would be encouraged to use that site. Either way, I like the competition - it has the potential to cull advertisement whoring.
My 2c.
You want google to cull advertisement whoring? Think you're barking up the wrong tree, google lives off advertisements.
Thank you./. is a bit bipolar on the google+ issue. One story it's "google+ sucks, they're _____" and the next story is "google+ rocks, they're ______". So which is it/., is google+ our new savior or not? I'm leaning towards not, lumping everything I do online into one company is a bit much, I sort of like my search engine not knowing who my real world friends are, etc. I can see it now: "you're talking to Tiffany on Google+. She is not listed as your wife. Would you like us to find you hotel deals using Google Search? For an extra $2 we can send a message as your wife's boss through Google+ asking her to come in on Saturday. If she calls to confirm we will reroute calls from her Android phone thru Google Voice and a computerized voice sounding exactly like your wife's boss will confirm."
"1 day, if we stretch it, but probably closer to 8 hours of normal daytime household load."
I read that too, you're right, this system is not adequate, and after 8 hours the car is dead because there is no gas engine in the Nissan Leaf to charge up the battery again.
This seems like a really bad idea, I'd rather they just put 7kw inverter in a car with a switch telling the engine to rev up enough to produce 7k of power with a larger alternator. An ambulance alternator produces 300amps at 14v, about 4.2kw. That's enough to run a 12,000 BTU (1 ton) A/C, a fridge, some lights (preferably florescent) and a computer.
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What about walkers? They're using the sidewalk, they should pay for it, and maybe we should tax based on weight of the individual because heavier people put more strain on the sidewalk than lighter people
I'm looking forward to the day where you can not leave your house without being taxed.
I'm not sure what the cost of Thorium is, but I'm willing to bet 1g of refined Thorium is under $200. I spend that much on gas in a month.
Thorium is $5000/kg these days.
1kg = 1000grams, so that's still only $5 a gram, a gram that produces as much energy as 7,500 gallons of gas. $5 for 7,500 gallons of gas? YES PLEASE
Good point. Are we going to have a /. article every time google+ adds something Facebook has? "google+ adds groups", "google+ adds email", "google+ adds advertising", "google+ gives your information away to government"
Mod parent up. Wish I hadn't wasted all my mod points earlier today
Yeah, but just wait. Apple will ignore this as hard as they can, claiming it's not important for their market. Then, next year when the iPhone x+1 comes out, they'll innovate it into the phone and the media will declare them geniuses.
Seems inevitable that all phones will eventually move to some sort of inductive charging. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
And you're right it would be all over the media, but only because it's new to the iPhone. It's like when the Mustang and Camaro reached 400+ hp, exotic cars may have been there for years, doesn't make the news any less important.
Can we email the Judge or will we go to jail for hacking?
What if the individual senders didn't know or have reason to know about the limitation of the recipient? I know when I send an email I don't think to myself "hmm, I wonder how big their inbox is and if it's full?... Maybe I'd better ring them before sending the email to make sure there's room".
You can't call them, that's hacking too. FTFA "because it asked members to email and call an employer many times"
Another source: "The calls clogged access to Pulte’s voicemail system, prevented its customers from reaching its sales offices and representatives, and even forced one Pulte employee to turn off her business cell phone."
Since you don't know who else is calling or emailing them you could be contributing to "hacking".
Seems to me that increasing that 8 seconds of recon should be relatively academic. How about adding a little parachute that could increase hang time immensely? Also, perhaps adding a gps transmitter would allow for reuse.
8 seconds is with a parachute. FTFA: "Their first test -- launched from a 37mm flare gun last week at a neighbor's farm -- wasn't exactly a raging success: The powder didn't fully ignite, the miniature camera flew about 30 feet into the air -- apparently too fast to transmit images back to the 5.8Ghz wireless receiver they were using -- and their parachute partially incinerated."
Wait until the military figures out you can do the same thing with a $11 keychain camera and a toys 'r us r/c helicopter.
I have a few of those 808 keychain cameras and they shoot remarkably good video considering their size and disposable price.
But while you're shooting at the thing in the sky you're giving away your position. The point of a UAV is to see where your enemy is, if your enemy is wasting their time shooting at the UAV in the sky then they've just given away their position. Mission accomplished!
And actually it's not easy to hit something moving at 4mph, especially if it's a good distance away like 300 meters. A man at 300 meters is about the size of the head of a needle held at arm's length, a very difficult target even if it's stationary. These UAVs are much smaller than a man and with a good zoom and image stabilization it would not be hard to capture a good video at 300 yards.
He's trolling, Don't Feed The Troll!
and apparently someone else is trolling too because they modded him Insightful
Since it doesn't serve the ultra-rich, the right wing won't support it, no matter how much it might possibly help everyone.
As for the left? They've long since given up doing anything big and useful....
Ryan Fenton
I know you're trolling, but after what happened this week would you really want to give the government control of our cars? I like the idea of being able to jump in my car and drive around regardless of whether or not Congress balances the next budget, don't you? Why would anyone want to give more control to the gov't after seeing how bad they just screwed up? Reminds me of a quote:
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it" -- George Santayana
'The idea that a car runs free, those days are about to close.'
Does anyone have a clue what the hell he means by this quote?
Guessing he means the days of us manually driving our cars is almost over, that they'll be self-driving like the google car that crashed the other day
Does this mean people making $60,000 a year won't be buying $500,000 houses anymore?
Which is why Minecraft creator is screwed.
That was two completely different areas, one in computers and one in music, and there was still a trademark battle. Now we have video game Scrolls fighting video game The Elder Scrolls.
I think Bethesda has a case here. If I came out with a game called "Grand Theft" I guarantee you Rockstar would be all over me and I would lose. If Microsoft can own the word "Windows" on anything computer related then Bethesda can own Scrolls for anything video game related
It'll take a lot more than "smart" government officials to fix this.
This article dumbs it down to high-gas mileage = death trap because they're light weight, so solution is make everything have better gas mileage, right?
Not always true: 2001 Ford Explorer 2wd SUV has a curb weight of 3769 and averaged 17mpg. 2011 Ford Explorer 2wd SUV has a curb weight of 4400 lbs and averages 20mpg. 600 lbs (18%) more, 3mpg (20%) better gas mileage.
So go ahead, require better gas mileage, but better mpg != lighter vehicles.
Besides this is already a problem because I can buy a used 2005 (last year they were made) 7,000+ lbs 15mpg Ford Excursion and outweigh almost every non-commercial vehicle on the road by 2,000+ lbs. Even a 2011 4WD Chevy Suburban is over 1,000 lbs lighter than a Ford Excursion.
The only difference between the two would be the radio, my radio will function perfectly for a good couple of miles if you have line of sight to the object (i.e. its in the air and not obstructed by the ground curvature or trees/buildings). At 10k, pretty much the only way you're going to go from the ground to 10k feet is with an EFI that can deal with the barometric pressure change. Thats the only reason you're not going to fly an RC sport aircraft as high as a drone, and only because the drone was designed to deal with 10k+ feet altitude changes.
this "drone" has a operating altitude of up to 1000m and a flight radius up to 1000m on RC, far less than a mile.
I hope someone rates you up. This is not a "drone". The 49 foot, 2,250 lbs Predator is a drone. This is a 5 lbs, 3 foot wide R/C quad-rotor toy helicopter with a video camera attached.
This isn't even newsworthy, in fact I think this article is a lie. The title is "FAA Looks Into News Corp’s Daily Drone, Raising Questions About Who Gets To Fly Drones in The U.S.", but there is no mention of the FAA proactively going after News Corp, in fact the only mention of the FAA doing anything is an email after the reporter asked if they heard of this "drone": “We are examining The Daily’s use of a small unmanned aircraft to see if it was in accordance with FAA policies.” and the Daily didn't even reply to emails.
Sounds like the FAA weren't all that concerned until this reporter started sending out emails asking questions.
This is not free, the kit to hook up to your electricity is $150. I don't purposely leave things on so I don't think I could turn off enough electrical appliances to ever save that $150, it's not like I could turn off the A/C, fridge, etc.
Also, because I was afeared that some of the stories about people outed for being nicknamed and ended up with lock-outs to their entire suite of Googlies were slightly true. If using my nick on Google+ meant jeopardising access to my control dealies for my Blog*spot public skirt-twisting or AdSense pimping, even temporarily while I argued with a Googlebot, I would be left helplessly rending my garments and shaking my fist at the cloud.
So I took my toys and went home.
this. The cons outweigh the pros. Until I get some kind of guarantee that nothing I ever do on google+ hurts my other google services (blog, email, YouTube ad revenue, adsense, google voice, etc) I will not join google+. If Facebook bans me oh well, I don't lose half the Internet along with it. Google+ is just too big of a risk.
What the hell does user number have to do with it?
And it's extremely well thought out service. Clue: Just because you don't like it, and don't wish to use it doesn't mean it's poorly thought out. get over yourself.
So if someone doesn't like Google+ they're flamebait and a FB shill?
Microsoft sucks. Facebook sucks. Google+ has yet to prove itself
Google+ seems to me to be more likely to compete with or duplicate posts from Twitter than Facebook. Facebook just has so much garbage on it I don't understand why anyone would be encouraged to use that site. Either way, I like the competition - it has the potential to cull advertisement whoring.
My 2c.
You want google to cull advertisement whoring? Think you're barking up the wrong tree, google lives off advertisements.
Thank you. /. is a bit bipolar on the google+ issue. One story it's "google+ sucks, they're _____" and the next story is "google+ rocks, they're ______". So which is it /., is google+ our new savior or not? I'm leaning towards not, lumping everything I do online into one company is a bit much, I sort of like my search engine not knowing who my real world friends are, etc. I can see it now: "you're talking to Tiffany on Google+. She is not listed as your wife. Would you like us to find you hotel deals using Google Search? For an extra $2 we can send a message as your wife's boss through Google+ asking her to come in on Saturday. If she calls to confirm we will reroute calls from her Android phone thru Google Voice and a computerized voice sounding exactly like your wife's boss will confirm."
oh come on, that's funny! Mod him up!
"1 day, if we stretch it, but probably closer to 8 hours of normal daytime household load."
I read that too, you're right, this system is not adequate, and after 8 hours the car is dead because there is no gas engine in the Nissan Leaf to charge up the battery again.
This seems like a really bad idea, I'd rather they just put 7kw inverter in a car with a switch telling the engine to rev up enough to produce 7k of power with a larger alternator. An ambulance alternator produces 300amps at 14v, about 4.2kw. That's enough to run a 12,000 BTU (1 ton) A/C, a fridge, some lights (preferably florescent) and a computer.