I work directly with commercial and military pilots. Drones scare the shit out of them. Most of these guys have advanced degrees in an assortment of engineering areas.
A goose or a drone hitting the fuselage is not much of an issue for a big slow moving jet, but as we know, ingesting geese can bring a jet down. As well, a smaller, faster moving jet will experience much higher structural damage. I have myself seen, as an Air Force fire fighter, fighters come back with huge parts of their leading edge wing missing, and taking the cable because of hydrolic systems loss. On one occasion, many years ago, we lost a jet due to ingestion, though the pilot "punched out".
Drones *are* a serious issue to aviators.
A bigger question might be why to morons fly drones in the approach path of airports?
So you have stayed in first class hotels that did not have free guest wi-fi in recent years.
Yes, troll. Out of the last 50 hotels I have stayed in, perhaps two had charges that were very minimal.
My point is that offensive and exorbitant wi-fi fees are in fact far and few between, even as the typically "ZOMG THE SKY IS FALLING" Slashdot article tries (and fails) to imply otherwise.
Non-free wi-fi is simply not a huge issue anymore because while many hotels may charge a nominal fee which is their right, they don't block you from creating a wi-fi hot spot.
You probably don't know this if you don't travel a whole lot, as I do.
Simply put, I travel a lot. I have rarely had to pay for wi-fi, and when I did, the cost was negligible, and hot-spots where not blocked if I had chosen to use my cell data plan.
Why did you even bother with the rest of your post?
I don't know why I respond to Anonymous Cowards , they are usually vapid chihuahuas.
In recent years, I have rarely stayed at a first class hotel that did not have free guest w-fi. People expect it and will bail for the local coffee shop if it's not free in the hotel.
My guess is a lot of the offenders are in tourist traps where everything costs a lot.
TP-LINK: "We really don't want to have to deal with the FCC on this, so we're going to huff and puff a little for show, and add this little piece of easily bypassable code to cover our asses..."
You know, there are LOTS of little things that are particular to a particular person that can ID you if tracked. You can be tracked by your farts is the peroper telemitry is in place. Mouse movments? I choose not to be that paranoid.
they aren't going to "allow OCP racks to fit into [their] data centers," they are trying to make OCP adopt their design.
Well, boo hoo. Two companies with some of the largest and most efficient datacenter programs on the planet think they know the Secret Sauce? Surprise, maybe they do. But just go ahead and ignore their obvious expertise because you don't like "Just Be Evil" Google and, well, "Just Be Evil" Facebook...
As long as competitor content isn't slowed down to make your content more attractive, it seams reasonable to me to put caps on out of network usage, but no caps on usage from servers which are wholly owned by the ISP.You have a basic misunderstanding of "Net Nutrality".
Comcast is like a Succubus. Or a crack dealer. You start out with a reasonable rate, and six months later, you look at your bill for $200 and wonder how you got here for a few channels and Internet. Comcast thinks that because they have essentially a monopoly (and why was it not OK for Microsoft, but it's OK for Comcast), that they can continue to squeeze people. Unfortunately, they are probably right.
Granted, this is hardly "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters", and Slashdot did away with that slogan a long time ago, and the New Masters don't seem inclined to bring that ethos back.... But... Nancy Raygun was not a "random person", Miss Raygun was a respected porn actress with many titles, er, under her belt. Have some respect.
But how many non-technical people would know enough to assume that?
All people who are not complete morons understand that your work-issued phone could be monitored. There is a certain "snob appeal" to saying "well, not everyone is technical", but the reality is that this isn't really valid. Everyone with even just several brain cells know a work phone is not for surfing porn or "whatever".
This is a non-issue except for people that want to make issues were there are none.
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So you say. Any studies? Or are you talking out of your ass?
This has what to do with drones? Oh, nothing.
Sure... Maybe... But this is based single reference to a short 5 paragraph "story" on a click-bait site.
I work directly with commercial and military pilots. Drones scare the shit out of them. Most of these guys have advanced degrees in an assortment of engineering areas.
A goose or a drone hitting the fuselage is not much of an issue for a big slow moving jet, but as we know, ingesting geese can bring a jet down. As well, a smaller, faster moving jet will experience much higher structural damage. I have myself seen, as an Air Force fire fighter, fighters come back with huge parts of their leading edge wing missing, and taking the cable because of hydrolic systems loss. On one occasion, many years ago, we lost a jet due to ingestion, though the pilot "punched out".
Drones *are* a serious issue to aviators.
A bigger question might be why to morons fly drones in the approach path of airports?
...How many of these "security research companies" are little more than one or two guys with a blog?
I stay a lot at Sheraton and Westin properties because I have a points account... But you could be right.
So you have stayed in first class hotels that did not have free guest wi-fi in recent years.
Yes, troll. Out of the last 50 hotels I have stayed in, perhaps two had charges that were very minimal.
My point is that offensive and exorbitant wi-fi fees are in fact far and few between, even as the typically "ZOMG THE SKY IS FALLING" Slashdot article tries (and fails) to imply otherwise.
Non-free wi-fi is simply not a huge issue anymore because while many hotels may charge a nominal fee which is their right, they don't block you from creating a wi-fi hot spot.
You probably don't know this if you don't travel a whole lot, as I do.
Simply put, I travel a lot. I have rarely had to pay for wi-fi, and when I did, the cost was negligible, and hot-spots where not blocked if I had chosen to use my cell data plan.
Why did you even bother with the rest of your post?
I don't know why I respond to Anonymous Cowards , they are usually vapid chihuahuas.
In recent years, I have rarely stayed at a first class hotel that did not have free guest w-fi. People expect it and will bail for the local coffee shop if it's not free in the hotel.
My guess is a lot of the offenders are in tourist traps where everything costs a lot.
TP-LINK: "We really don't want to have to deal with the FCC on this, so we're going to huff and puff a little for show, and add this little piece of easily bypassable code to cover our asses..."
It's pretty easily possible for an amateur to put together their own cruise missile
http://www.interestingprojects...
http://www.rense.com/general38...
You know, there are LOTS of little things that are particular to a particular person that can ID you if tracked. You can be tracked by your farts is the peroper telemitry is in place. Mouse movments? I choose not to be that paranoid.
they aren't going to "allow OCP racks to fit into [their] data centers," they are trying to make OCP adopt their design.
Well, boo hoo. Two companies with some of the largest and most efficient datacenter programs on the planet think they know the Secret Sauce? Surprise, maybe they do. But just go ahead and ignore their obvious expertise because you don't like "Just Be Evil" Google and, well, "Just Be Evil" Facebook...
Rod Stewart would travel from London to NY on the Concorde, EVERY WEEK, just to have his hair styled.
Seriously dude, who didn't?
Whoooooooooosh...
The current SQL Server code-base contain little if any of the code from the first version.
He's being awfully "cagey" about it considering he gave most of it away anything. Sounds like an attention seeker.
As long as competitor content isn't slowed down to make your content more attractive, it seams reasonable to me to put caps on out of network usage, but no caps on usage from servers which are wholly owned by the ISP.You have a basic misunderstanding of "Net Nutrality".
Comcast is like a Succubus. Or a crack dealer. You start out with a reasonable rate, and six months later, you look at your bill for $200 and wonder how you got here for a few channels and Internet. Comcast thinks that because they have essentially a monopoly (and why was it not OK for Microsoft, but it's OK for Comcast), that they can continue to squeeze people. Unfortunately, they are probably right.
420 = weed.
69 is, well, 69.
You may continue to speculate...
Other random people dead at ages other than 94!!!
Granted, this is hardly "news for nerds" or "stuff that matters", and Slashdot did away with that slogan a long time ago, and the New Masters don't seem inclined to bring that ethos back.... But... Nancy Raygun was not a "random person", Miss Raygun was a respected porn actress with many titles, er, under her belt. Have some respect.
It doesn't say that on the masthead anymore.
Once again, Slashdot is behind the curve, I read this on TMZ 5 hours ago! Slashdot still hasen't done a follow-up on the Wu Tang album thing...
Why would someone let your employer monitor YOUR iphone?
The employer may require it as a condition of letting you attach your device to their network.
In this case, you tell your boss to *issue you a work phone*, and decline to do *work* on your personal phone.
Certainly you shouldn't be doing work on your personal phone without compensation.
But how many non-technical people would know enough to assume that?
All people who are not complete morons understand that your work-issued phone could be monitored. There is a certain "snob appeal" to saying "well, not everyone is technical", but the reality is that this isn't really valid. Everyone with even just several brain cells know a work phone is not for surfing porn or "whatever".
This is a non-issue except for people that want to make issues were there are none.
I'm sorry, I can't read your Unicode comments... Can you use a text editor like vi or something?.
RMS does not like Unicode. Therefore, I do not like Unicode.