Would a trained helicopter pilot, acting as a private individual (not a bear-in-the-air speed trap), be allowed to do that? As you ponder that, consider: would the same be allowed to hover over power lines? Not saying the drone hovered over power lines, merely pointing out that
Drones typically don't go up very high, and rarely into air-traffic altitudes. Low-altitude flight rules are different, precisely because an uncontrolled flight into terrain has so little time. This is why we have things like "ground proximity warning," "minimum safe altitude," and "terrain awareness."
As a consequence, I believe the drone pilot cannot be trusted with aircraft, and therefore ought to lose that privilege (i.e. his pilot's license). If he had none, he should get jail time for public endangerment. Someone should also lodge a complaint with the FCC over his dangerous use of a remote-control aircraft.
The FCC didn't give a shit three years ago, when the car-warranty scammers were robo-calling every phone number, including cell phones. How many thousand complaints did they get over that one? No, the FCC didn't do jack until the robo-callers called a US senator. That got them shut down.
Or look at the recent SOPA/PIPA debate, and the ensuing MegaUpload takedown. No SOPA/PIPA? No matter!
Why should I believe these new "rules" have any real meaning, for either the FCC or the miscreants?
"So hackers could not exploit the bug in the meantime." Only the hackers (crackers?) that don't already know about it, and have no way of learning from their black-hat friends.
Any video from Barney Frank or Maxine Waters. They were basically screaming Bolsheviks for years, and now they're aligned with Obama, so calling them "Obama's screaming Bolsheviks" isn't a stretch at all.
I agree in part (at least with the sentiment, if perhaps not the expression), but don't think the EU or its remnants won't move to block such a MicroNokia merger. The EU already hates Microsoft, and is not afraid to put M$ on a short leash, unlike the US DoJ kid-gloves approach to M$'s criminal behavior.
The general tone of your response is "but it works fine for me!". Spoken like a true M$ shill. I've seen FOSS devs burned at the stake for saying that, and rightly so.
Claimer (not a disclaimer): I neither use nor develop C# or.NET programs, so I have no vested interest in their success or failure.
"Blogger" is his title-of-the-moment. He's also been called "activist," "lobbyist," and "lawyer." Whichever title is most convenient to the topic at hand, is the one he'll use.
1. CFC's are much denser than air. The lightest possible CFC, which would be CH2FCl, would have an atomic weight around 62, much heavier than N2 at 28. How can something that wants to stay so close to the ground, even in the presence of normal Brownian motion, affect something so high up?
2. Ozone is also denser than air, by roughly 50%. Isn't it being produced up there by ionizing resulting from absorbing UV rays? Thus, ozone is the evidence, not an ingredient, of ultraviolet blocking?
I'm very interested in a summary explaining why my junior high chemistry and physics are wrong in this case.
I do appreciate your concern for "the message" as you put it, but (1) I do have a telescope, and (2) I still enjoy hearing someone who wants to convey a passion for the subject at hand, whatever that subject may be. Richard Feynman is just as much fun to listen to as Anna Russell ("I'm not making this up, you know!").
First, the story about Commodore trying to revive the 64 line, and now this. It was the two of them together, that enabled me to wreck my last year of college beyond all hope of repair.
I had gotten a 300 baud modem for my C=64, but to get something "real" I had to type in a Kermit transfer program in Commodore BASIC, then use that program to download a Kermit program with built-in VT52 emulation. That transfer took over 3 hours, but oh boy was it worth it. I wasted many nights, dialed in to the campus VAX/11-750, chatting and emailing on Bitnet, trying hacks in Pascal, and generally being a kid in a candy store, all from my dorm room.
The good ol' days weren't really that good, but they were exciting, in that it was a thrill to see what dedicated hacking could get a machine to do.
I think the metric you want for this is cost per distance. The easy way to get it, is to divide the cost per volume (dollars per gallon, or euros per liter) by the fuel efficiency (miles per gallon, or kilometers per liter). The distance denominators cancel out, giving cost per distance.
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Would a trained helicopter pilot, acting as a private individual (not a bear-in-the-air speed trap), be allowed to do that? As you ponder that, consider: would the same be allowed to hover over power lines? Not saying the drone hovered over power lines, merely pointing out that
Drones typically don't go up very high, and rarely into air-traffic altitudes. Low-altitude flight rules are different, precisely because an uncontrolled flight into terrain has so little time. This is why we have things like "ground proximity warning," "minimum safe altitude," and "terrain awareness."
As a consequence, I believe the drone pilot cannot be trusted with aircraft, and therefore ought to lose that privilege (i.e. his pilot's license). If he had none, he should get jail time for public endangerment. Someone should also lodge a complaint with the FCC over his dangerous use of a remote-control aircraft.
The FCC didn't give a shit three years ago, when the car-warranty scammers were robo-calling every phone number, including cell phones. How many thousand complaints did they get over that one? No, the FCC didn't do jack until the robo-callers called a US senator. That got them shut down.
Or look at the recent SOPA/PIPA debate, and the ensuing MegaUpload takedown. No SOPA/PIPA? No matter!
Why should I believe these new "rules" have any real meaning, for either the FCC or the miscreants?
"So hackers could not exploit the bug in the meantime." Only the hackers (crackers?) that don't already know about it, and have no way of learning from their black-hat friends.
The GLib layer contains those abstractions in the GTK+/GNOME stack.
"Carriers don't have access to the contents of the [SMS] messages." Then how the hell do they get them to my phone in a human-readable format?
True, but the lessons learned tend to be much more memorable.
You're proving your own point.
Any video from Barney Frank or Maxine Waters. They were basically screaming Bolsheviks for years, and now they're aligned with Obama, so calling them "Obama's screaming Bolsheviks" isn't a stretch at all.
Right, because all of Slashdot knows the anti-Christ will be a white Republican.
I agree in part (at least with the sentiment, if perhaps not the expression), but don't think the EU or its remnants won't move to block such a MicroNokia merger. The EU already hates Microsoft, and is not afraid to put M$ on a short leash, unlike the US DoJ kid-gloves approach to M$'s criminal behavior.
As if people needed yet another reason to avoid using Perl...
Let's hope their European nodes didn't use any certs from Diginotar.
But at least they weren't using RSA tokens for authentication.
.NET is a framework.
.NET programs, so I have no vested interest in their success or failure.
C# is the language.
The general tone of your response is "but it works fine for me!". Spoken like a true M$ shill. I've seen FOSS devs burned at the stake for saying that, and rightly so.
Claimer (not a disclaimer): I neither use nor develop C# or
Until you plug in that infected USB thumb drive.
Or that infected USB hard drive.
Or insert that CD that was made from the infected gold master.
Insert your own flamebait joke here.
Wait, did I say "insert"? D'oh!
"Blogger" is his title-of-the-moment. He's also been called "activist," "lobbyist," and "lawyer." Whichever title is most convenient to the topic at hand, is the one he'll use.
In the theory, that is, not the ozone layer...
1. CFC's are much denser than air. The lightest possible CFC, which would be CH2FCl, would have an atomic weight around 62, much heavier than N2 at 28. How can something that wants to stay so close to the ground, even in the presence of normal Brownian motion, affect something so high up?
2. Ozone is also denser than air, by roughly 50%. Isn't it being produced up there by ionizing resulting from absorbing UV rays? Thus, ozone is the evidence, not an ingredient, of ultraviolet blocking?
I'm very interested in a summary explaining why my junior high chemistry and physics are wrong in this case.
Maybe they're trying to breed worms that can pilot a spacecraft?
One: a single point of failure. One evil-doer + one compromise in the system = panic from false alarm = ignoring future alarms.
Two: replies to that many messages will turn into a back-jam on the SMS.
Does Washington DC care how badly they cock it up? Of course not.
Unless you say something un-flattering about Michelle.
It wasn't too long ago that we were warned how much the Internet electron-pushing was contributing to global warming.
Now, we hear that global warming is inhibiting our ability to download our Internet pr0n?
Sounds to me like a self-regulating system with a negative feedback loop.
I do appreciate your concern for "the message" as you put it, but (1) I do have a telescope, and (2) I still enjoy hearing someone who wants to convey a passion for the subject at hand, whatever that subject may be. Richard Feynman is just as much fun to listen to as Anna Russell ("I'm not making this up, you know!").
Salman Khan may yet do one. He did one for the Hubble image that turned up hundreds of galaxies, where we had never seen anything before.
First, the story about Commodore trying to revive the 64 line, and now this. It was the two of them together, that enabled me to wreck my last year of college beyond all hope of repair.
I had gotten a 300 baud modem for my C=64, but to get something "real" I had to type in a Kermit transfer program in Commodore BASIC, then use that program to download a Kermit program with built-in VT52 emulation. That transfer took over 3 hours, but oh boy was it worth it. I wasted many nights, dialed in to the campus VAX/11-750, chatting and emailing on Bitnet, trying hacks in Pascal, and generally being a kid in a candy store, all from my dorm room.
The good ol' days weren't really that good, but they were exciting, in that it was a thrill to see what dedicated hacking could get a machine to do.
I think the metric you want for this is cost per distance. The easy way to get it, is to divide the cost per volume (dollars per gallon, or euros per liter) by the fuel efficiency (miles per gallon, or kilometers per liter). The distance denominators cancel out, giving cost per distance.