And others. I like Synology stuff, I use it. But opening anything up to the Internet isn't safe. You may have full control of your data, but so does somebody else.
Yeah, because they're just going to completely ignore the walls around a nuclear reactor, never perform maintenance, and just assume that all is well without checking, right?
It is industry that we are talking about. That and government. So your (sarcastic) concern might be more realistic than you realize.
cf: Fukashima, New Orleans, Hanford Reservation
Han Solo: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. Voice: What happened? Han Solo: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you? Voice: We're sending a squad up. Han Solo: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous.
I have been flying model RC aircraft for about 20 years and a member of Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) for 19 years. I have about 40 planes that will fall under the registration process. I will be paying ~$200 every three years just so I can fly my aircraft. All of my planes have my AMA number in or on the fuselage and have my contact information inside the fuselage. My AMA membership gets me liability coverage, accident/medical coverage, accidental death coverage, fire, theft, and vandalism coverage, assistance in getting and keeping flying sites, monthly magazine,... What does registering my aircraft with the FAA get me?
If you really have to pay $200 under this program, it would indicate you have a serious multiple personality disorder. I would quit flying and get professional help.
The registration will cost $5 for an unlimited number of aircraft and will be valid for three years.
I'm puzzled how the FAA can impose a new law without any prior discussion nor consultation with the stakeholders, technical experts and public representatives. Isn't there a political process required before this can happen, particularly given that they are collecting money? You know, democracy and all that good stuff.
Did you just come out of cryosleep or something? Even Slashdot has covered this before.
If filing paperwork and paying a government fee officially turns a plastic ~1kg quad-copter into a drone, does that mean that we'll be allowed to mount 50kg Hellfire missiles to them like the government does their drones?
If you can mount a 50kg Hellfire missle to a 1 kg quadcopter (and have it take off), the Pentagon would really like to talk to you nice and friendly like*.
No, the model rocket and traditional radio controlled aircraft activities were largely self regulating. With the understanding that if they didn't do it themselves, the FAA would be happy to ban them. And, prior to this, it worked. Now, no so much.
BTW, you DO have to register certain model rockets with the FAA as well as getting specific clearance for flights for the larger rockets. The ones that go thousands of feet in the air. The little ones only go several hundreds of feet.
Except that you get your money back if you register in the first thirty days. And it's $5 per person for three years. You're gonna get pretty close to the heat death of the universe before you get enough money to even pay back the web site development costs.
I agree with you but I would point out that the FAA has long kept it's finger on model rocketry and radio controlled aircraft. They have been happy to do it with low key regulation and the concept that if they can self regulate and Keep Out Of Trouble, then the long logbook of the law won't bother them. It's a philosophy that has worked with amateur radio for years.
But the sheer number of drones and the various and disparate people crashing them into every object above coffee table height has pushed them to do something.
And something, so far, has been pretty reasonable.
RC planes didn't sell 200 units per day from a single retailer (B&H Photo, NY, selling 200+ Phantoms / day). RC pilots tended not to buzz the Macy's Day parade nor drop down on stadiums full of people nor fly around in controlled airspace. The shear magnitude of this phenomenon is staggering. And that is before Christmas.
This is just another Eternal September, albeit with a physical object. There are going to be so many yo-yos out there buzzing up and down that somebody is going to get into serious trouble. Of course, pasting a number on the shell of a drone isn't going to stop stupid anymore than requiring license plates and driver's licenses has stopped road stupid. The system really isn't onerous. Five dollars every three years to register as many drones as you like. Money is refunded if you sign up in the first thirty days (this should be an interesting test to see if somebody can create a website that can scale).
It looks like you're going to have to attest that you have Read The Fine Manual. Of course, that really won't help, people will do what they want. I now am the proud owner of two Phantom 3's. They're great fun and awfully impressive bits of kit for the money. But the forums are filled with people who are blatantly flaunting the rules - flying over people and houses, fly way past visual control. Modding every little bit they possibly can. There are going to be problems with these things (naturally) and having some way of finding the owner of said drone does make sense.
BTW, if you're looking for a good deal on a slightly abused Phantom, I'd watch eBay and Craiglist on Dec 27th (give people a day to charge the battery). Just make sure you have a set of small torx and hex drivers and a steady hand.
I did some graduate work with this company (I'm a Welding Engineer) and it is indeed interesting, but I realllllly wish they would stop calling it Flash Bainite. There is 0% bainite structure in the material, it can only form with slower heating/cooling rates. Call it "flashite" or something else. The problem with the material is as soon as you heat the material back up you lose all of the bonus properties. Right now all of the panels/pieces that automotive would look to replace with this have lots of spot/mig welds on them, so those areas would be much weaker after the fastening work was done.
If they just called it 'Flash' we would really hate it.
The problem is that they have reconstructed quite a bit of information that they already had or was already public (ie, facebook). They had been in contact with known terrorist suspects, it's just that the contact 'didn't meet a threshold'. So they have tons of information, but they don't want to use it. They just want to collect more information (various omnibus NSA programs).
It's like those people who download every torrent known to mankind. It's a hoarder mentality. We need a thinking mentality.
Google for SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL. All complex ASIC designs are developed in these languages and the design is called RTL (register-transfer level). The company Synopsys has a tool called Design Compiler that converts from RTL to gate level netlists. The netlists are then converted into silicon.
But the entire chip is able to be fully simulated prior to the production of any silicon. Except for the circuit and synthesis (RTL->netlist) guys, nearly everyone else who works on the 'frontend' pre-silicon portion of a chip is doing nothing but writing software and running simulations. The software gets nearly directly converted into hardware.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh stop. Here at Slashdot, we're trying our best to be inclusive.
We confuse everybody.
It does encourage wearing tight-fitting clothes. Disclosure offsets the danger.
Are you kidding? In the US disclosure would be the danger.
You think those packages that open your Synology box to the web are safe?
http://www.secureworks.com/res...
http://forum.synology.com/enu/...
And others. I like Synology stuff, I use it. But opening anything up to the Internet isn't safe. You may have full control of your data, but so does somebody else.
Yeah, it's like they're rent seeking or something.
'Randos' - I like that....
Almost.
Yeah, because they're just going to completely ignore the walls around a nuclear reactor, never perform maintenance, and just assume that all is well without checking, right?
It is industry that we are talking about. That and government. So your (sarcastic) concern might be more realistic than you realize.
cf: Fukashima, New Orleans, Hanford Reservation
Han Solo: [sounding official] Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal.
Voice: What happened?
Han Solo: [getting nervous] Uh, we had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?
Voice: We're sending a squad up.
Han Solo: Uh, uh... negative, negative. We had a reactor leak here now. Give us a few minutes to lock it down. Large leak, very dangerous.
Thorium thorium. Thorium. Thorium Thorium Thorium. Thorium.
(there ya go: you can go back to rest mode)
Vaporware. Vaporware. Vaporware. Vaporware. Beta at best. (remember Beta?)
Come back when you show that thorium reactors are commercially viable and safe, not just demonstration projects.
Water is an excellent moderator.... Of course, water is an excellent solvent - at least at near geological time scales.
If things get really bad, we can ask the Navy to step in. They're pretty good at underwater reactors.
I don't know what weapons World War III will be fought with, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- A. Einstein
1. Buy a number of used Toyota trucks
2. Paint the logo of your worst competitor on them
3. Ship them to the Middle East
4. Profit !
I have been flying model RC aircraft for about 20 years and a member of Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) for 19 years. I have about 40 planes that will fall under the registration process. I will be paying ~$200 every three years just so I can fly my aircraft. All of my planes have my AMA number in or on the fuselage and have my contact information inside the fuselage. My AMA membership gets me liability coverage, accident/medical coverage, accidental death coverage, fire, theft, and vandalism coverage, assistance in getting and keeping flying sites, monthly magazine, ... What does registering my aircraft with the FAA get me?
If you really have to pay $200 under this program, it would indicate you have a serious multiple personality disorder. I would quit flying and get professional help.
The registration will cost $5 for an unlimited number of aircraft and will be valid for three years.
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Go get'em girl! Show us your understanding of constitutional law and write an amicus curie brief to the FAA.
Oh, right. You're not a constitutional scholar. Sorry.
I'm puzzled how the FAA can impose a new law without any prior discussion nor consultation with the stakeholders, technical experts and public representatives. Isn't there a political process required before this can happen, particularly given that they are collecting money? You know, democracy and all that good stuff.
Did you just come out of cryosleep or something? Even Slashdot has covered this before.
If filing paperwork and paying a government fee officially turns a plastic ~1kg quad-copter into a drone, does that mean that we'll be allowed to mount 50kg Hellfire missiles to them like the government does their drones?
If you can mount a 50kg Hellfire missle to a 1 kg quadcopter (and have it take off), the Pentagon would really like to talk to you nice and friendly like*.
* Of course, so would lots of other people.
No, the model rocket and traditional radio controlled aircraft activities were largely self regulating. With the understanding that if they didn't do it themselves, the FAA would be happy to ban them. And, prior to this, it worked. Now, no so much.
BTW, you DO have to register certain model rockets with the FAA as well as getting specific clearance for flights for the larger rockets. The ones that go thousands of feet in the air. The little ones only go several hundreds of feet.
So there.
Except that you get your money back if you register in the first thirty days. And it's $5 per person for three years. You're gonna get pretty close to the heat death of the universe before you get enough money to even pay back the web site development costs.
Heck, they even give you your money back if you register in the first thirty days. Not going to chisel down the national debt that way.
I agree with you but I would point out that the FAA has long kept it's finger on model rocketry and radio controlled aircraft. They have been happy to do it with low key regulation and the concept that if they can self regulate and Keep Out Of Trouble, then the long logbook of the law won't bother them. It's a philosophy that has worked with amateur radio for years.
But the sheer number of drones and the various and disparate people crashing them into every object above coffee table height has pushed them to do something.
And something, so far, has been pretty reasonable.
It's a compromise. Nobody is happy.
RC planes didn't sell 200 units per day from a single retailer (B&H Photo, NY, selling 200+ Phantoms / day). RC pilots tended not to buzz the Macy's Day parade nor drop down on stadiums full of people nor fly around in controlled airspace. The shear magnitude of this phenomenon is staggering. And that is before Christmas.
This is just another Eternal September, albeit with a physical object. There are going to be so many yo-yos out there buzzing up and down that somebody is going to get into serious trouble. Of course, pasting a number on the shell of a drone isn't going to stop stupid anymore than requiring license plates and driver's licenses has stopped road stupid. The system really isn't onerous. Five dollars every three years to register as many drones as you like. Money is refunded if you sign up in the first thirty days (this should be an interesting test to see if somebody can create a website that can scale).
It looks like you're going to have to attest that you have Read The Fine Manual. Of course, that really won't help, people will do what they want. I now am the proud owner of two Phantom 3's. They're great fun and awfully impressive bits of kit for the money. But the forums are filled with people who are blatantly flaunting the rules - flying over people and houses, fly way past visual control. Modding every little bit they possibly can. There are going to be problems with these things (naturally) and having some way of finding the owner of said drone does make sense.
BTW, if you're looking for a good deal on a slightly abused Phantom, I'd watch eBay and Craiglist on Dec 27th (give people a day to charge the battery). Just make sure you have a set of small torx and hex drivers and a steady hand.
I did some graduate work with this company (I'm a Welding Engineer) and it is indeed interesting, but I realllllly wish they would stop calling it Flash Bainite. There is 0% bainite structure in the material, it can only form with slower heating/cooling rates. Call it "flashite" or something else. The problem with the material is as soon as you heat the material back up you lose all of the bonus properties. Right now all of the panels/pieces that automotive would look to replace with this have lots of spot/mig welds on them, so those areas would be much weaker after the fastening work was done.
If they just called it 'Flash' we would really hate it.
Donald Trump in "A Clockwork Orange".
As what, the giant plastic phallus?
The problem is that they have reconstructed quite a bit of information that they already had or was already public (ie, facebook). They had been in contact with known terrorist suspects, it's just that the contact 'didn't meet a threshold'. So they have tons of information, but they don't want to use it. They just want to collect more information (various omnibus NSA programs).
It's like those people who download every torrent known to mankind. It's a hoarder mentality. We need a thinking mentality.
Huh? Can you show an example?
Google for SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL. All complex ASIC designs are developed in these languages and the design is called RTL (register-transfer level). The company Synopsys has a tool called Design Compiler that converts from RTL to gate level netlists. The netlists are then converted into silicon.
But the entire chip is able to be fully simulated prior to the production of any silicon. Except for the circuit and synthesis (RTL->netlist) guys, nearly everyone else who works on the 'frontend' pre-silicon portion of a chip is doing nothing but writing software and running simulations. The software gets nearly directly converted into hardware.
Ah, that's why stuff never works these days.
I can read super fucking fast, so a text summary I could read in 30 seconds would probably be an entire transcript.
Confusing sex and reading comprehension....
You saw it here first, folks.