Not really. It's 83 feet as decided in 1946 by a US Supreme Court decision of extraordinarily questionable relevance. The FAA has stated they control from the tips of the lawn to the bottom of space (wherever that happens to be). There is no formal law stating this and various lawyers, oddly enough, law claim to different interpretations of various rules and statutes.
Give it a few more years, maybe a person or two killed or maimed by an out of control drone at a sporting/large event, and you will see a federal law extending your property rights into the airspace 5000 feet up or so, with easements for commercial and private aircraft that file flight plans. The drones should (and probably will) be regulated with some caveats. National forest, parks with designated areas, the ocean (not the beach, but 50 yards and out) or your personal property are the only places for hobbiest drones. This is just common sense and will happen eventually.
Drones flown for profit or outside those areas should require a simple license similar to a drivers license or hunting license where you take a weekend class and a test. The drone would have to have a license tag as well, something easily visible from 50ft or less (combination of a few letters, numbers in a color), so you can snap a picture and they can lose their drone and license and be charged for misbehavior. Any drone flying over my property should be at least 500ft up and not able to record zoomed in or high resolution photos or video unless I have given written permission.
Idiots buzzing people, their pets, livestock etc. will only hasten and make the laws more restrictive. If the industry were smart they would start an association and privately license all of those who buy their drones and educate them on sensible behavior.
There already are laws on the books about reckless endangerment, public nuisance and most of your other rants. You lost the argument about having markings visible at 50 feet although I think the city of Hollywood was trying to go that route before the FAA told them that itty bitty cities don't get to make laws about airspace.
If you are in the US, you are already supposed to have registered yourself as an Evil Drone Flying Precriminal and attached said number to the drone although you can use 10 point type. That's so that when they glue the remains of your baby drone together, they know where to send the bill.
If you are doing anything commercial with a drone in the US, you have to pass a test that includes much of a regular pilot license ground school.
Depends on how tall those trees were. If the trees were 50 feet tall, +20-30 would be 80 feet, which is below the 83 feet the Supreme Court specified.
The FAA needs to fix its regs because I don't think people have a right to send drones into my personal space (say, right up against the windows of my house).
The FAA doesn't have any regs. That was a Supreme Court decision and it wasn't about shooting anything down, it was about getting compensation for some chickens with PTSD.
Why did it take GE so long to load up on sensors, and computers, for its multimillion dollar turbines? This could have been done 15 years ago. For the stuff GE sells, it is worth hiring people to squeeze out an extra few percent of performance.
I'm not sure what in the hell this is all about except as MBA babble. GE turbines, fixed and mobile have had an extensive sensor suite for years. Does anybody think you're going to run a multi million dollar device with a couple of gauges and an on / off switch? Maybe they're going to rethink how they put together toaster ovens but that hardly seems to be much of a headline.
It's not surprising to see the western media censoring the second most remarkable fact about this fellow -- he still smokesvideo. Similarly, the officially recognized longest living man and woman on the world and only two humans verified to have lived beyond 120 years of age were both smokers (Jean Calment and Shigechiyo Izumi.
Unlike that non-English video where he smokes almost throughout, in this English speaking video, they blur his cigarette in a crude attempt to hide the fact that doesn't fit in our antismoking Matrix. With the reporter's strong antismoking position thus clear, the implication is that he couldn't get several minutes of continuous footage without the old timer lighting up i.e. the fellow must still be practically chain smoking (not unusual among Indonesian man).
Tar is a pretty good preservative. Cf, the LaBrea Tar Pits....
I wonder if they can count otolith rings like they do for fish? There probably is some sort of (posthumous) dating method short of Carbon 14 that would work on this gentleman (assuming, of course, he agrees to such things).
It's not how long you live. It's how long you live relatively healthy. Once you've lost independence, mobility and a significant amount of your senses live quickly loses it's appeal.
Well it's interesting since the iDevices don't store a fingerprint. They store a hash of the results of a fingerprint sensor. It's not like they can reconstruct a real fingerprint and send it to the FBI. For it to be useful in a forensic sense it the perp would have to put her finger on an 'Apple fingerprint hash device' whose internals were open enough to satisfy a well heeled defense team and Apple use the device to say this person was or was not the person who fingered the phone at a certain time. Sounds like a lot of hassle to go through for Apple just to add a bit of evidence to a criminal case for a couple hundred dollar device with a cracked screen.
Also sounds pretty clunky for a misdemeanor theft case. Mostly, police departments would like you to just talk to your insurance company and forget the phone.
What? What can't you hook to a Mac? Film Scanners, CT scanners, Drones, printers, cameras. All hook to my various Mac boxes. Possibly some POS hardware dingy who's software was last coded when Visual Basic 4 was hot but not much else.
I run the full Adobe suite, Maya, Modo, various Autodesk programs (sigh) on the Mac. I can finally hook to the network at work. Recently, I've dropped Parallels because I just don't need it anymore (and Parallels' business model pisses me off).
Don't know about your world, but mine connects just fine.
I don't know where these figures are coming from but here in SoCal, we've had a pretty mild summer. Not nearly as hot as some years gone by.
For the millionth time - weather is not climate.
If the entire world was Southern California your observation might be relevant to the discussion. OTOH if the entire world was Southern California, global warming would be the least of our problems.
"Ymmm. Hmm. Oh. Hey, Steve - remember that thing we talked about the other day? Umm, the uh, widget interface that looks like a squiggle with projectile vomiting? Well, uhm, uh, wait, no it was the one that looked like Justin Beiber. Or something like that.
Well, anyway, what I wanted to say it that, I think and Mary thinks to and, ummm."
Spare me. I'll take less emotional baggage any day. I'm justl getting to the point where emojis don't give me the shakes.
Yeah, well you're missing something. Physicians typically worked into their 70's (health permitting) because they liked what they did. Now, they're out as soon as the 401K hits a number they are comfortable with. Especially in primary care it is literally decimating the ranks.
Not to feel sorry for people in the top 3%, but I tell folks the same thing that sjibe's wife is saying - if you really like it, fine. Otherwise go into being a high voltage electrician (who get to work outside with wires that don't complain and threatn to sue you and make a shit ton of money).
To remediate the risks, you can simply require that your users always use VPN back to corpnet and don't browse the web on untrusted networks such as hotels, airports, coffee shops and the like.
'Don't use untrusted networks' Giggle. Snort. Cough.
The problem with Unicode in 2016, is that it is no longer about diacritics and special characters, but instead has become all about apple emojis and whether or not they are politically correct. Do we really want that here?
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Recall that, in the early years of our Great Country, Americans freely and openly copied British and French (mostly) industrial designs with impunity since there were not the international agreements that sort of prohibited this behavior.
The US figured that German rocketry tech was free for the taking as spoils of war.
This sort of thing has gone on since Og figured out cylinders are a neat idea when trying to move heavy objects. It is a constant game of cat and mouse, Spy vs. Spy and Sturm Und Drang. Since 'we' are arguably ahead of the Chinese in this theatre once expects the Chinese to be trying to copy us rather than the other way around. Rest assured if that ever changes, we will be glad to reverse roles.
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Not really. It's 83 feet as decided in 1946 by a US Supreme Court decision of extraordinarily questionable relevance. The FAA has stated they control from the tips of the lawn to the bottom of space (wherever that happens to be). There is no formal law stating this and various lawyers, oddly enough, law claim to different interpretations of various rules and statutes.
Give it a few more years, maybe a person or two killed or maimed by an out of control drone at a sporting/large event, and you will see a federal law extending your property rights into the airspace 5000 feet up or so, with easements for commercial and private aircraft that file flight plans. The drones should (and probably will) be regulated with some caveats. National forest, parks with designated areas, the ocean (not the beach, but 50 yards and out) or your personal property are the only places for hobbiest drones. This is just common sense and will happen eventually.
Drones flown for profit or outside those areas should require a simple license similar to a drivers license or hunting license where you take a weekend class and a test. The drone would have to have a license tag as well, something easily visible from 50ft or less (combination of a few letters, numbers in a color), so you can snap a picture and they can lose their drone and license and be charged for misbehavior. Any drone flying over my property should be at least 500ft up and not able to record zoomed in or high resolution photos or video unless I have given written permission.
Idiots buzzing people, their pets, livestock etc. will only hasten and make the laws more restrictive. If the industry were smart they would start an association and privately license all of those who buy their drones and educate them on sensible behavior.
There already are laws on the books about reckless endangerment, public nuisance and most of your other rants. You lost the argument about having markings visible at 50 feet although I think the city of Hollywood was trying to go that route before the FAA told them that itty bitty cities don't get to make laws about airspace.
If you are in the US, you are already supposed to have registered yourself as an Evil Drone Flying Precriminal and attached said number to the drone although you can use 10 point type. That's so that when they glue the remains of your baby drone together, they know where to send the bill.
If you are doing anything commercial with a drone in the US, you have to pass a test that includes much of a regular pilot license ground school.
Please try to keep up.
Depends on how tall those trees were. If the trees were 50 feet tall, +20-30 would be 80 feet, which is below the 83 feet the Supreme Court specified.
The FAA needs to fix its regs because I don't think people have a right to send drones into my personal space (say, right up against the windows of my house).
The FAA doesn't have any regs. That was a Supreme Court decision and it wasn't about shooting anything down, it was about getting compensation for some chickens with PTSD.
Why did it take GE so long to load up on sensors, and computers, for its multimillion dollar turbines? This could have been done 15 years ago. For the stuff GE sells, it is worth hiring people to squeeze out an extra few percent of performance.
I'm not sure what in the hell this is all about except as MBA babble. GE turbines, fixed and mobile have had an extensive sensor suite for years. Does anybody think you're going to run a multi million dollar device with a couple of gauges and an on / off switch? Maybe they're going to rethink how they put together toaster ovens but that hardly seems to be much of a headline.
Nothing to see here, move along.
It's not surprising to see the western media censoring the second most remarkable fact about this fellow -- he still smokes video. Similarly, the officially recognized longest living man and woman on the world and only two humans verified to have lived beyond 120 years of age were both smokers (Jean Calment and Shigechiyo Izumi.
Unlike that non-English video where he smokes almost throughout, in this English speaking video, they blur his cigarette in a crude attempt to hide the fact that doesn't fit in our antismoking Matrix. With the reporter's strong antismoking position thus clear, the implication is that he couldn't get several minutes of continuous footage without the old timer lighting up i.e. the fellow must still be practically chain smoking (not unusual among Indonesian man).
Tar is a pretty good preservative. Cf, the LaBrea Tar Pits....
I wonder if they can count otolith rings like they do for fish? There probably is some sort of (posthumous) dating method short of Carbon 14 that would work on this gentleman (assuming, of course, he agrees to such things).
Those Trumpsicles that you've been snacking on -
They have melamine, ethylene glycol and toxic concentrations of bile. You should just switch to plain ol Kool Aid. It's healthier.
(See, got the conversation back on topic.)
It's not how long you live. It's how long you live relatively healthy. Once you've lost independence, mobility and a significant amount of your senses live quickly loses it's appeal.
Keep going on those kale smoothies!
I back up all my data onto 4.7 GB Truecrypt volumes and burn them to DVD and put them into my safe.
I think DVD is more resistant to EMP than Blu-Ray.
You really think Trump is going to win?
You've just discovered the DRM worm. A real one.
Looks like you'll be buying the White Album again.
Now you've cracked the glass screen.
Oh. Wait.
Well it's interesting since the iDevices don't store a fingerprint. They store a hash of the results of a fingerprint sensor. It's not like they can reconstruct a real fingerprint and send it to the FBI. For it to be useful in a forensic sense it the perp would have to put her finger on an 'Apple fingerprint hash device' whose internals were open enough to satisfy a well heeled defense team and Apple use the device to say this person was or was not the person who fingered the phone at a certain time. Sounds like a lot of hassle to go through for Apple just to add a bit of evidence to a criminal case for a couple hundred dollar device with a cracked screen.
Also sounds pretty clunky for a misdemeanor theft case. Mostly, police departments would like you to just talk to your insurance company and forget the phone.
Have you turned any of the devices on yet?
He's probably dropping it wrong.
Well, you just failed the interview. Two entire sentences without grammatical or spelling errors?
No way, dude.
You bought a Mac Pro (Darth's trashcan) as your first Mac because you wanted to try one?
You are definitely holding something wrong.
What? What can't you hook to a Mac? Film Scanners, CT scanners, Drones, printers, cameras. All hook to my various Mac boxes. Possibly some POS hardware dingy who's software was last coded when Visual Basic 4 was hot but not much else.
I run the full Adobe suite, Maya, Modo, various Autodesk programs (sigh) on the Mac. I can finally hook to the network at work. Recently, I've dropped Parallels because I just don't need it anymore (and Parallels' business model pisses me off).
Don't know about your world, but mine connects just fine.
I don't know where these figures are coming from but here in SoCal, we've had a pretty mild summer. Not nearly as hot as some years gone by.
For the millionth time - weather is not climate.
If the entire world was Southern California your observation might be relevant to the discussion. OTOH if the entire world was Southern California, global warming would be the least of our problems.
"Ymmm. Hmm. Oh. Hey, Steve - remember that thing we talked about the other day? Umm, the uh, widget interface that looks like a squiggle with projectile vomiting? Well, uhm, uh, wait, no it was the one that looked like Justin Beiber. Or something like that.
Well, anyway, what I wanted to say it that, I think and Mary thinks to and, ummm."
Spare me. I'll take less emotional baggage any day. I'm justl getting to the point where emojis don't give me the shakes.
Remember the little closet where they wiretapped everybody in San Francisco, CA, USA? Of course you do this is FBI Slashdot.
Yep. And we know about all the other little closets that everyone else has set up.
Nobody is Mr. Nice Guy (or Ms. Nice Guy, I suppose, this being Slashdot and all).
Older doctors don't always do a great job of keeping up with best practices and the latest methods.
OTOH, having a competent older doc around is often a life saver. Experience counts in this field.
Same as in engineering. It's useful to have an adult in the room at times.
Yeah, well you're missing something. Physicians typically worked into their 70's (health permitting) because they liked what they did. Now, they're out as soon as the 401K hits a number they are comfortable with. Especially in primary care it is literally decimating the ranks.
Not to feel sorry for people in the top 3%, but I tell folks the same thing that sjibe's wife is saying - if you really like it, fine. Otherwise go into being a high voltage electrician (who get to work outside with wires that don't complain and threatn to sue you and make a shit ton of money).
To remediate the risks, you can simply require that your users always use VPN back to corpnet and don't browse the web on untrusted networks such as hotels, airports, coffee shops and the like.
'Don't use untrusted networks' Giggle. Snort. Cough.
The problem with Unicode in 2016, is that it is no longer about diacritics and special characters, but instead has become all about apple emojis and whether or not they are politically correct. Do we really want that here?
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What? Fights about political correctness? On a vaguely tech topics?
With browsers?
Man, this [blinky]is[/blinky] what Slashdot is all about.
Recall that, in the early years of our Great Country, Americans freely and openly copied British and French (mostly) industrial designs with impunity since there were not the international agreements that sort of prohibited this behavior.
The US figured that German rocketry tech was free for the taking as spoils of war.
This sort of thing has gone on since Og figured out cylinders are a neat idea when trying to move heavy objects. It is a constant game of cat and mouse, Spy vs. Spy and Sturm Und Drang. Since 'we' are arguably ahead of the Chinese in this theatre once expects the Chinese to be trying to copy us rather than the other way around. Rest assured if that ever changes, we will be glad to reverse roles.