And with all the benefits twitter provided, it would have been retarded to send that information as an 'emergancy alert' type of message, flooding people with information they didn't need.
The reason social media is useful in events like theses is NOT ONLY because of the large amount of data that comes in quickly, its because people can find information that THEY NEED. Spaming everyone with a bunch of useless shit just gets them to turn off their feed of said useless shit.
My wife is a chronic pain patient. I can't think of a single doctor that is 'afraid' to prescribe her high dosage opioids. They don't even hesitate a little bit. More often than not, if she ends up with a new doctor, the first thing she has to tell them is 'no, I don't want a higher dosage'.
If you know of a doctor thats scared of the DEA, thats because he's shuffling cases of opioids out the back door illegally, not because he's afraid they're going to come after him for giving someone a prescription.
In the IRS's defense... A) they are NOT that bad. Contrary to the stories your grandpa told you about how evil they were. I've never seen an example of the IRS going after anyone who didn't deserve it or wasn't just a random audit (I was randomly selected for audit, which was awesome as I netted about $5500 out of the deal in the end) B) most of the people who want to reduce or eliminate the IRS are evading taxes, which is they feel is justified and is part of their reduce or eliminate the IRS kick.
You're just being ridiculous at this point by dragging the IRS in.
Okay, you guys don't get this Internet thing. The Internet is a collection of private and public networks all connected together in a massive mesh.
You already own your own infrastructure. You already have your own Internet. If the US is spying on you in your own country, its because you're letting them by using US services and providing data to the NSA yourself. If your country laid a pipe to the US data centers for back feeding that data, its most certainly YOUR problem. There is absolutely no dependency on the US that you don't create yourself. The only possibly one you have is for.com/net/org/edu... and thats already solved by.....br and the fact that the US doesn't actually control all the root zone servers for DNS.
Drop routes containing AS numbers assigned to US companies, find the various AS numbers used by spy agencies located outside the US and drop those routes as well. Turn off any direct connections to the US. Problem solved. This isn't even a little bit difficult. Hell, I shut off countries selectively on a regular basis within my own Internet within my organizations departments. (Looking at you China), its trivial at the border routers.
This 'speech' is a posturing crock of shit. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if this is just like all the countries in the middle east that tell us how much we suck for doing things like Afghanistan and Iraq, or our treatment of North Korea, Syria and Iran publicly... while privately begging us to blow those countries off the face of the Earth for them.
And whats really sad, at the time I'm writing this, it appears no one on slashdot understands how the Internet works either as all the posts seem to think that the US controls networks in other countries through some sort of magic.
People's fantasy about religion is no different than those who have a fantasy that they know it doesn't matter.
What you're doing is no different than what any religion does, and because its your fantasy... that is of course, okay.
I too find it amusing that so many people think their religion is 'the right one' and others are wrong. I'm a religious person myself (obviously) but it always makes me feel sad when someone uses religion as a reason to hate/harm someone else. I've never experienced an actual religion where you were supposed to do anything other than love and try to help your fellow mankind, yet every single one of them gets warped around to evil by some jackass loud mouth.
Every religious person on the planet really needs to remember:
No, we can't because there is no real research to prove or disprove the idea.
To date, every bit of 'research' thats been done has been utterly tainted from the start to lean in the direction of the extremely biased funding organizations wanted outcome.
We can put it to bed when we have a real study.
Do I think its harmful? Meh, as a parent, yes. I think GTA can easily give kids the entirely wrong ideas about how to do things in life, if they don't understand the difference between satire in a fictional world and real life. The same is true for books and television. It most certainly CAN skew their perspective of the world, you have to make sure you consider what they are absorbing, regardless of medium it comes in. Video games are no different than books, television shows, and hanging out with a bad friend.
I've sat down with my son and played GTA V every day since its came out for 30 minutes or so, he absolutely loves it... he's 5 months old. In the 2-6 year old range, I'm going to be a LOT more selective about what he sees, and I'll have to see when I start relaxing on that, it may not be till he's much older. They are little sponges, you DO have to be careful what you give them to consume until they form a reasonable picture of right and wrong. They come out essentially blank and learn everything through brute force.
If you haven't had a child, watching a newborn learn to move is literally watching them form a database lookup table for inverse kinematics through brute forcing the inputs. Its frustrating as hell to watch, and beautiful at the same time, but it makes it a little more understandable that we don't remember that time in our lives, I think thats a safety feature so we can't remember the most frustrating existence there is.
Correction: a scientist that doesn't want to improve source quality isn't a scientist.
Some can argue that they don't have time or budget to do so, but flat out not wanting to is a failure of the process itself. Its not someone you want to trust to make predictions on data.
You need to lear to use words you actually understand. Luddite does not mean what you think it does. Congratulations, you just made yourself look like a douche while calling some else names.
And there are another batch of laws that can be used to counter that law and make it the fault of the pedestrian.
Why do you people think some random douche off the street is going to suddenly outsmart the lawyers who deal with people far more clever trying to out smart them every single day?
Its been on the news in Atlanta, man gets hit in the crosswalk, gets ticketed, drive not ticketed.
I do know a guy who got out of such a ticket by immediately chucking his keys into the neighbors lawn (out of reach), before the cops got on scene. Boy, were they pissed!
No you don't. No such event has happened anywhere other than an episode of Reno 911. Reno 911 is not reality, stop trying to act like it.
Thats one of the biggest bunches of bullshit that has ever been said by newly drinking and driving morons. There is no requirement for the cops to see the keys in the ignition, near the car or anything else. You don't get to skirt by with your 'clever' little trick. Sorry, you or your friend is full of shit. There are hundreds of different counters they can use to argue with you about it, but they don't. They just take your ass to jail for trying to bullshit them AND dui.
You're just repeating a high school meme spoken by idiot kids.
Its always your fault if you hit a parked car, but that doesn't mean that parking your car in the middle of the road at a green light doesn't mean you hold some responsibility for the accidents that happen.
Is not nearly as bad as its made out to be by whining assholes who want to control everyone else in the world and tell them how to live. Unless you're shotgunning a cigarette from someone else, its EXTREMELY unlikely it will actually be what kills you.
Though if you're under 400', it's pretty much open season And yes, the US and Canada have some of the loosest air regulations around - it's generally a lot tighter and a lot more expensive to fly anywhere else in the world.
Neither of which all you to fly an unmanned aircraft beyond visual line of sight regardless of altitude without specially obtained waivers, of which almost NONE have been granted to random civilians. Without radio control? Not going to happen. That includes autonomous flight. If you want to do any of that, you've almost certainly got a connection to the military in order to get the require permissions.
Do you really think its a great idea to let any random fuck put an aircraft in the air without seeing what its doing and having it come through someones car window due to a bug in some software or radio glitch?
Besides, why the hell should an organisation charged with the responsibility of keeping the airspace *safe* be placing so many hurdles in the way of a project that is designed to do just that?
Because lots of people claim ridiculous shit all the time, and without the actual knowledge of a pilot and the regulations related to such as well as UNDERSTANDING why those regulations exist, you will most certainly fuck up many things that we already know how to avoid.
Its not just your airplanes in the sky asshole. THATS why you are being restricted. You've not done a single thing they ask you to do, and you think you know better than they do about what should be done. How can you possibly make that claim when you don't know what they are wanting you to learn in the first place.
You're just being an arrogant prick who wants to stick it to the man. Grow up, you don't know everything, and you clearly don't know that much about general aviation regulations and why they exist. This process seems stupid to you because you are ignorant.
Yeah, the interesting thing was that I was seriously considering making this an open-source project, or at least releasing it to the public domain so that no commercial interest could "own" it and use that ownership to extort the marketplace.
So you want it to fail to gain acceptance?
Public domain would be fine, if you license it as GPL you've doomed it as no commercial entity is going to bother certifying your equipment or designs only to have it be easy to rip off by anyone else. You are destroying the incentive for it to be built. If you're going to use some OSS license, don't be a douche and doom it to obscurity. Use some non-virus like license.
The CAA is telling you that this is something that will have a major effect on aviation if you succeed, and you're getting all huffy and puffy about it. Listen to what they are telling you again. THIS IS IMPORTANT, IT WILL HAVE COMMERCIAL RAMIFICATIONS, IT NEEDS TO BE HANDLED AS SUCH. Don't be a fucking greedy douche and shitcan the whole thing because OMG SOMEONE MIGHT MAKE IT COMMERCIAL. Its going to HAVE to be made commercial. If you don't do it, someone else WILL. If YOU do it, YOU have SOME control over what happens.
IF and thats a really big if, your hardware and software work as well as you claim, you could be rich tomorrow, and you could do so without screwing everyone over in the process as YOU are the one with the tech right now and YOU are the one with the power to negotiate rights... non-exclusive rights. Or more appropriately, exclusive rights for say, 5 years to some company to fund commercialization and then you can sell it to other organizations after that, there by accomplishing both tasks.
You're getting all 'stick it to the man' and all you're doing is cutting off your nose to spite your face. If you don't do it, or you do something retarded like GPL it, cutting out all commercial interest in it, you're just going to remove all the power you have from the situation.
If your hardware/software works as you claim, finding funding needed to continue your research would be absolutely trivial.
Have you even looked?
It isn't bureaucratic nonsense. I fly R/C as well as hold an expired pilot license. Just because you've flown R/C for 40 years doesn't mean you actually understand how general aviation works. I meet old guys at the field every weekend that have no fucking clue that they can't launch an aircraft to several thousand feet because we're only a few miles off the end of a major airport runway, and it doesn't take much altitude to end up in the glideslope of a large commercial aircraft.
In America, the ground exam is cheap and requires you to know the regulations, which would be a considerable start. Any R/Cer who's using FPV should know the FARs anyway, if you intend to fly outside of visual line of site, you MUST know the FARs as you're now playing just like every other plane in the sky and everyone needs to be on the same page.
The drone pilot doesn't have a choice, his transponder is hard wired on when the aircraft is powered. After 9/11 turning off transponders is not so much an option anymore. All so, even in IFR flight, you ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR FOLLOWING VFR RULES TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY GIVEN VISIBILITY.
You'll still fail your IFR check ride if its 0 visibility and you keep your head down on the dash the entire time you're flying.
I guess this is the TimeMachine of passwords — only an improvement for those who never otherwise bother with it.
Is this supposed to be some kind of half assed passive-agressive insult?
You're trying to make it out like TimeMachine isn't what EVERY OS should come with built in? Its arguably the best snapshot backup system for end users thats ever been made.
Like wise, you're trying to make it out like users who can suddenly use a 'harder to hack than reading your PIN while you type it' security features, isn't worth bothering with even though it will make it so normal people suddenly stop leaving their phone laying around unlocked for anyone to dick with?
You're just trying to hard to be anti-apple, or you're utterly ignorant of how the world around you works. Not really sure which.
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Not everyone has cable, and not every cell service provider sends emergency alerts.
Cell service providers will very shortly considering its a legal requirement now being rolled out.
And with all the benefits twitter provided, it would have been retarded to send that information as an 'emergancy alert' type of message, flooding people with information they didn't need.
The reason social media is useful in events like theses is NOT ONLY because of the large amount of data that comes in quickly, its because people can find information that THEY NEED. Spaming everyone with a bunch of useless shit just gets them to turn off their feed of said useless shit.
Considering all modern mobile phones do emergancy alerts already anyway, this is pretty dumb.
You sync clocks via GPS, just like everyone else. It's accurate to nanoseconds for practically no charge.
My wife is a chronic pain patient. I can't think of a single doctor that is 'afraid' to prescribe her high dosage opioids. They don't even hesitate a little bit. More often than not, if she ends up with a new doctor, the first thing she has to tell them is 'no, I don't want a higher dosage'.
If you know of a doctor thats scared of the DEA, thats because he's shuffling cases of opioids out the back door illegally, not because he's afraid they're going to come after him for giving someone a prescription.
In the IRS's defense ... A) they are NOT that bad. Contrary to the stories your grandpa told you about how evil they were. I've never seen an example of the IRS going after anyone who didn't deserve it or wasn't just a random audit (I was randomly selected for audit, which was awesome as I netted about $5500 out of the deal in the end) B) most of the people who want to reduce or eliminate the IRS are evading taxes, which is they feel is justified and is part of their reduce or eliminate the IRS kick.
You're just being ridiculous at this point by dragging the IRS in.
Okay, you guys don't get this Internet thing. The Internet is a collection of private and public networks all connected together in a massive mesh.
You already own your own infrastructure. You already have your own Internet. If the US is spying on you in your own country, its because you're letting them by using US services and providing data to the NSA yourself. If your country laid a pipe to the US data centers for back feeding that data, its most certainly YOUR problem. There is absolutely no dependency on the US that you don't create yourself. The only possibly one you have is for .com/net/org/edu ... and thats already solved by .... .br and the fact that the US doesn't actually control all the root zone servers for DNS.
Drop routes containing AS numbers assigned to US companies, find the various AS numbers used by spy agencies located outside the US and drop those routes as well. Turn off any direct connections to the US. Problem solved. This isn't even a little bit difficult. Hell, I shut off countries selectively on a regular basis within my own Internet within my organizations departments. (Looking at you China), its trivial at the border routers.
This 'speech' is a posturing crock of shit. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if this is just like all the countries in the middle east that tell us how much we suck for doing things like Afghanistan and Iraq, or our treatment of North Korea, Syria and Iran publicly ... while privately begging us to blow those countries off the face of the Earth for them.
And whats really sad, at the time I'm writing this, it appears no one on slashdot understands how the Internet works either as all the posts seem to think that the US controls networks in other countries through some sort of magic.
People's fantasy about religion is no different than those who have a fantasy that they know it doesn't matter.
What you're doing is no different than what any religion does, and because its your fantasy ... that is of course, okay.
I too find it amusing that so many people think their religion is 'the right one' and others are wrong. I'm a religious person myself (obviously) but it always makes me feel sad when someone uses religion as a reason to hate/harm someone else. I've never experienced an actual religion where you were supposed to do anything other than love and try to help your fellow mankind, yet every single one of them gets warped around to evil by some jackass loud mouth.
Every religious person on the planet really needs to remember:
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
No, we can't because there is no real research to prove or disprove the idea.
To date, every bit of 'research' thats been done has been utterly tainted from the start to lean in the direction of the extremely biased funding organizations wanted outcome.
We can put it to bed when we have a real study.
Do I think its harmful? Meh, as a parent, yes. I think GTA can easily give kids the entirely wrong ideas about how to do things in life, if they don't understand the difference between satire in a fictional world and real life. The same is true for books and television. It most certainly CAN skew their perspective of the world, you have to make sure you consider what they are absorbing, regardless of medium it comes in. Video games are no different than books, television shows, and hanging out with a bad friend.
I've sat down with my son and played GTA V every day since its came out for 30 minutes or so, he absolutely loves it ... he's 5 months old. In the 2-6 year old range, I'm going to be a LOT more selective about what he sees, and I'll have to see when I start relaxing on that, it may not be till he's much older. They are little sponges, you DO have to be careful what you give them to consume until they form a reasonable picture of right and wrong. They come out essentially blank and learn everything through brute force.
If you haven't had a child, watching a newborn learn to move is literally watching them form a database lookup table for inverse kinematics through brute forcing the inputs. Its frustrating as hell to watch, and beautiful at the same time, but it makes it a little more understandable that we don't remember that time in our lives, I think thats a safety feature so we can't remember the most frustrating existence there is.
Correction: a scientist that doesn't want to improve source quality isn't a scientist.
Some can argue that they don't have time or budget to do so, but flat out not wanting to is a failure of the process itself. Its not someone you want to trust to make predictions on data.
When did Mozilla know jack shit about proper code reviews.
Everything they do seems to indicate just the opposite, they fracking suck at writing clean bug free code, and suck just as much at reviewing it.
They seem to be projecting. Trying to act like they are good at something they suck at while claiming others aren't good at it.
Contrary to to your ignorance, then just like now, not everyone on the planet was a bigoted asshole.
Red lights are iffy, ex: sometimes folks need a simple answer to pick something up along the way.
Oh how oh how did you survive before cell phones?
You need to lear to use words you actually understand. Luddite does not mean what you think it does. Congratulations, you just made yourself look like a douche while calling some else names.
And there are another batch of laws that can be used to counter that law and make it the fault of the pedestrian.
Why do you people think some random douche off the street is going to suddenly outsmart the lawyers who deal with people far more clever trying to out smart them every single day?
Its been on the news in Atlanta, man gets hit in the crosswalk, gets ticketed, drive not ticketed.
I do know a guy who got out of such a ticket by immediately chucking his keys into the neighbors lawn (out of reach), before the cops got on scene. Boy, were they pissed!
No you don't. No such event has happened anywhere other than an episode of Reno 911. Reno 911 is not reality, stop trying to act like it.
Thats one of the biggest bunches of bullshit that has ever been said by newly drinking and driving morons. There is no requirement for the cops to see the keys in the ignition, near the car or anything else. You don't get to skirt by with your 'clever' little trick. Sorry, you or your friend is full of shit. There are hundreds of different counters they can use to argue with you about it, but they don't. They just take your ass to jail for trying to bullshit them AND dui.
You're just repeating a high school meme spoken by idiot kids.
Its always your fault if you hit a parked car, but that doesn't mean that parking your car in the middle of the road at a green light doesn't mean you hold some responsibility for the accidents that happen.
Is not nearly as bad as its made out to be by whining assholes who want to control everyone else in the world and tell them how to live. Unless you're shotgunning a cigarette from someone else, its EXTREMELY unlikely it will actually be what kills you.
Though if you're under 400', it's pretty much open season And yes, the US and Canada have some of the loosest air regulations around - it's generally a lot tighter and a lot more expensive to fly anywhere else in the world.
Neither of which all you to fly an unmanned aircraft beyond visual line of sight regardless of altitude without specially obtained waivers, of which almost NONE have been granted to random civilians. Without radio control? Not going to happen. That includes autonomous flight. If you want to do any of that, you've almost certainly got a connection to the military in order to get the require permissions.
Do you really think its a great idea to let any random fuck put an aircraft in the air without seeing what its doing and having it come through someones car window due to a bug in some software or radio glitch?
Besides, why the hell should an organisation charged with the responsibility of keeping the airspace *safe* be placing so many hurdles in the way of a project that is designed to do just that?
Because lots of people claim ridiculous shit all the time, and without the actual knowledge of a pilot and the regulations related to such as well as UNDERSTANDING why those regulations exist, you will most certainly fuck up many things that we already know how to avoid.
Its not just your airplanes in the sky asshole. THATS why you are being restricted. You've not done a single thing they ask you to do, and you think you know better than they do about what should be done. How can you possibly make that claim when you don't know what they are wanting you to learn in the first place.
You're just being an arrogant prick who wants to stick it to the man. Grow up, you don't know everything, and you clearly don't know that much about general aviation regulations and why they exist. This process seems stupid to you because you are ignorant.
Yeah, the interesting thing was that I was seriously considering making this an open-source project, or at least releasing it to the public domain so that no commercial interest could "own" it and use that ownership to extort the marketplace.
So you want it to fail to gain acceptance?
Public domain would be fine, if you license it as GPL you've doomed it as no commercial entity is going to bother certifying your equipment or designs only to have it be easy to rip off by anyone else. You are destroying the incentive for it to be built. If you're going to use some OSS license, don't be a douche and doom it to obscurity. Use some non-virus like license.
The CAA is telling you that this is something that will have a major effect on aviation if you succeed, and you're getting all huffy and puffy about it. Listen to what they are telling you again. THIS IS IMPORTANT, IT WILL HAVE COMMERCIAL RAMIFICATIONS, IT NEEDS TO BE HANDLED AS SUCH. Don't be a fucking greedy douche and shitcan the whole thing because OMG SOMEONE MIGHT MAKE IT COMMERCIAL. Its going to HAVE to be made commercial. If you don't do it, someone else WILL. If YOU do it, YOU have SOME control over what happens.
IF and thats a really big if, your hardware and software work as well as you claim, you could be rich tomorrow, and you could do so without screwing everyone over in the process as YOU are the one with the tech right now and YOU are the one with the power to negotiate rights ... non-exclusive rights. Or more appropriately, exclusive rights for say, 5 years to some company to fund commercialization and then you can sell it to other organizations after that, there by accomplishing both tasks.
You're getting all 'stick it to the man' and all you're doing is cutting off your nose to spite your face. If you don't do it, or you do something retarded like GPL it, cutting out all commercial interest in it, you're just going to remove all the power you have from the situation.
If your hardware/software works as you claim, finding funding needed to continue your research would be absolutely trivial.
Have you even looked?
It isn't bureaucratic nonsense. I fly R/C as well as hold an expired pilot license. Just because you've flown R/C for 40 years doesn't mean you actually understand how general aviation works. I meet old guys at the field every weekend that have no fucking clue that they can't launch an aircraft to several thousand feet because we're only a few miles off the end of a major airport runway, and it doesn't take much altitude to end up in the glideslope of a large commercial aircraft.
In America, the ground exam is cheap and requires you to know the regulations, which would be a considerable start. Any R/Cer who's using FPV should know the FARs anyway, if you intend to fly outside of visual line of site, you MUST know the FARs as you're now playing just like every other plane in the sky and everyone needs to be on the same page.
The drone pilot doesn't have a choice, his transponder is hard wired on when the aircraft is powered. After 9/11 turning off transponders is not so much an option anymore. All so, even in IFR flight, you ARE STILL RESPONSIBLE FOR FOLLOWING VFR RULES TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY GIVEN VISIBILITY.
You'll still fail your IFR check ride if its 0 visibility and you keep your head down on the dash the entire time you're flying.
If the sensor is embedded in the button, dirt may be able to enter the device, but that doesn't mean it can enter the sealed button/scanner.
I guess this is the TimeMachine of passwords — only an improvement for those who never otherwise bother with it.
Is this supposed to be some kind of half assed passive-agressive insult?
You're trying to make it out like TimeMachine isn't what EVERY OS should come with built in? Its arguably the best snapshot backup system for end users thats ever been made.
Like wise, you're trying to make it out like users who can suddenly use a 'harder to hack than reading your PIN while you type it' security features, isn't worth bothering with even though it will make it so normal people suddenly stop leaving their phone laying around unlocked for anyone to dick with?
You're just trying to hard to be anti-apple, or you're utterly ignorant of how the world around you works. Not really sure which.