Malstrond

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by Malstrond 10y ago
Not to mention there is free flight controller software with autonomous capabilites, e.g. APM.
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by Malstrond 11y ago
Which is why I said "a nation state trying to influence you".
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by Malstrond 11y ago
How is this trolling? Not everyone who disagrees with you is a troll. Their intent doesn't seem to be to anger their reader, but to change their opinion. It is political propaganda. Calling it trolling instead of a nation state trying
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by Malstrond 11y ago
Actually it's Dual Stack Lite, so you win an IPv6 address, but lose your publicly routable IPv4 address and port forwarding.
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by Malstrond 11y ago
I thought that when House of Coolness got busted, but he came out on top by offering user data to law enforcement.
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by Malstrond 11y ago
It would not be the first time that obscurity is confused with security.
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by Malstrond 11y ago
The section 336 says that the FAA will not "not promulgate any rule or regulation regarding" if certain criteria are matched. For example that the aicraft is a model aircraft. and c) (2) says that a model aicraft is "flown
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by Malstrond 11y ago
What about these: Historical argument: Model R/C aircraft have been around for longer (including a video downlink and limited autonomous flight like return-to-home) than the term drone has been applied to them, even if it existed befor
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by Malstrond 11y ago
Only if you drive them on public roads. So maybe not a public road -> airspace below a certain height?
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by Malstrond 11y ago
People can be pretty stubborn about that, look at the title of this website. :-) The battle about the meaning of hacker (vs. cracker) was lost in the 80ies, yet some communities continue to use it in the old sense of the word to set themse
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by Malstrond 11y ago
This is already true. Model aircraft have to be flown within visual line of sight (FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012, Section 336), which restricts the height. Commercial use is already FAA territory and you have to be registered (Se
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by Malstrond 11y ago
I'm wondering how this will be implemented. If used recreationally, they're R/C flying models, no matter how much the DJI marketing dept likes the term. So will the the hobby that has been fine for decades be hit too? Will yo
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by Malstrond 11y ago
That is actually better for private operators (aka R/C aircraft hobbyists). In Germany for example: Autonomous flight not allowed, using video downlink to fly (FPV) not allowed, in France extensive licensing is needed for aerial imag
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by Malstrond 11y ago
According to a reddit post the sighting might actually have been due to a fully legal RC field in the area. https://pay.reddit.com/r/Multicopter/comments/3dqoyh/multico...
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by Malstrond 11y ago
Insert generic 'me too' post here: Hah, with both us here, we probably gathered 50% of the ex player base. It's still alive, with little players though. But there is a community team that keeps it running and tries to untangl
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by Malstrond 11y ago
>SID chip-inspired [...] with less influence on popular culture. If you count straight up plagiarism as less influence, certainly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbaland_plagiarism_controver...
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by Malstrond 11y ago
>FOSS of more often then not superior on its merits alone, why does it need a protectionist anti-competitive law to help it compete? If proprietary software is more often then not superior on its merits alone, why does it need a protecti
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by Malstrond 11y ago
Would love to see that big, heavy hex trying to catch a 250mm quad on a 6S LiPo, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxU4GdlTHDg
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by Malstrond 11y ago
Seems to be a rebranded Cheerson CX-10.
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by Malstrond 12y ago
So we're actually training users to behave like what Google's behaviour model assumes to be the behaviour of humas. Because then they won't get annoying captchas.
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by Malstrond 12y ago
Abyss - Cruisin 3: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=61225
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by Malstrond 12y ago
A SiRFstar with satellite prediction (SiRFInstantFixII) might be able to manage it.
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by Malstrond 12y ago
>exif WoW does much more than that: http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-w...
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by Malstrond 13y ago
>it's not appropriate to publicize your strategy for defending Belgium in case the Germans roll through on the way to France. The strategy for defending Belgium in both world wars and the strategy for defending the average citizen a
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by Malstrond 13y ago
Then he should stop underminding the web himself with HTML5 DRM.
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by Malstrond 13y ago
What is your counter-argument to the fact that he turned "on us" in the past when he gave all information on users of the House of Coolness BBS to the authorities, the lawyer Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth, and just about anyone
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by Malstrond 13y ago
No IPv6 :(
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by Malstrond 13y ago
And the same thing with audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abapFJN6glo
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by Malstrond 13y ago
But also keep in mind that when using FOSS software, there is no controlling entity that can forcibly end something and force exit costs[1] and the subsequent training costs for a new product on you. 1: https://joinup.ec.europa.e
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by Malstrond 13y ago
What if you count the exit costs of vendor lock-in as costs associated with that vendor? Suddenly Office is a lot more expensive. "TCO should include exit costs and cost of vendor lock-in" https://joinup.ec.europa.eu&#x

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