So why the desire to have a VTOL car right now? The capability to do affordable commuter air is almost in reach and we already have aircraft in the certification pipeline that can fly 2 people on electricity alone for about an hour (see Pipistrel Alpha Electro and Airbus E-Fan). VTOL is something we've been working on for decades and still have issues with reliability (MV-22/F-35 anyone?) but airplanes are inherently stable and incredibly simple once you have a power plant that doesn't suck. If you want to know why GA has been lagging so hard, just about every plane you see has a $30k, 10gph, 258lb, lead guzzling O-360 in it that dates back from the 1930s. And yes, we still use leaded gas (100LL).
In general aviation (anything other than the airlines for our purposes) midair collisions happen with alarming regularity anywhere there is any congregation of aircraft (typically within 10mi of a non-towered airport). Add to this that they are nearly 100% fatal, unlike traffic collisions, and you have a recipe for disaster. There are systems coming online to help mitigate this issue (ADS-B) but they've been in the pipeline for years and won't see universal adoption until 2020 in theory.
At the last company I worked for, we discovered an intrusion when we started getting a ridiculous number of credit card fraud complaints. It should be noted that we sold scientific instrumentation to other small companies and rural markets so it was pretty easy for them to figure where their info got stolen from when they only used their cards for infrequent transactions.
If all the dimming star headlines are piquing your interest, you must read Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained by Alexander Hamilton. It's about the same event being observed but a couple hundred years from now in a post FTL society, so naturally they have to wander out and see what's up. The pair is one of the best recent science fiction stories to come out in the past 15 years.
I love all the FPGA boards coming out but I really wish the software was better. Lattice uses the same synthesizer as Xilinx which is well known to be completely user hostile (will silently optimize huge swaths of code because it doesn't like them). The least headaches come from Altera but that's not a high bar...
In this case, what they mean is that the signal will be truly line of light. As you go up in frequency, radio starts to behave more like light so while you may get some convenient reflections here and there, for the vast majority of the time, if the antenna doesn't have a clear path to the transceiver, you won't know there even is an access point.
Can someone provide an explanation of how this works or provide a reference with an overview? The article is light on details. I assume this means preventing banks extending credit against deposits that don't necessarily exist?
Yes, but you could probably make a case for sending DMCA takedowns to the chromium repo because someone doesn't like that the old versions "circumvent" the ads at which point the ball is in their court. If they fail to take action, they now have knowledge and potentially "intent"
True, but the sites it's working against aren't the content providers, just the advertisers. As such, it's not intending to help you violate anyone's TOS in particular (except maybe and advertiser).
The url's in the lists are (mostly) ad companies though. It just doesn't send the http requests to url's on the list. I could set up a website out of the blue and have it serve ads that would be successfully blocked by any adblock on day one without it knowing about my site specifically
There is one important difference with comparing MDY to adblock though. MDY made software specifically for WoW. Adblock does not make software specifically to target Business Insider or anyone else.
Further, if this precedent was set, you could possibly go after people using out of date browsers that can't display your ad content perfectly or viewing text only or a million other ways in which ads wouldn't be left in their pristine state.
"Anything that fits in the refrigerator and will remain contained within it."
Covers all uses for refrigerators and prevents anyone from putting bulk liquids, penguins, coyotes, live hand grenades, radioactive material, nuclear weapons or Indiana Jones inside.
The difference here is that a drone will not be doing 2200mph over 3k miles so differences in the position of stars won't be particularly noticeable. You may be able to do some trickery with a few outward facing cameras and some software to map the horizon though.
If I really wanted to get around this, you can just use your magnetometer and do a 180 whenever you get interference. Combined with a pressure sensor (typically accurate to within a few feet of altitude if calibrated correctly) you can probably escape without issue. If you really wanted to be a PITA, just pick an arbitrary frequency pair and let https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system be your guide.
I thought the same thing and I totally agree that this should be covered. Thinking more about it though, the media has kinda clung to The War on Drugs any time they need to fill airtime and any time it comes up, they're pretty hand wavy about the underlying statistics. If someone had hard data on this that clearly supported WoD accusation, I feel like I would have seen it already.
"How to make friends and influence people" was actually written more from a sales perspective. The topics usually boil down to efficiently establishing trust with lots of people. While I'm not sure this is really what's being asked, it does actually make a little sense in a capitalist vs communist sort of way.
This.
My company uses about 40% of their engineering time manually completing firmware builds (literally dragging and dropping dozens files back and forth for various in house tools) and dealing with the super awesome proprietary version control system that requires about an hour of clicking around, rebasing and navigating to create a release. We scare new people away who were trained on the cutting edge tools (git, continuous integration, etc) because "we spend a lot of money on these 'professional' tools"
> There's not much on electronics - nothing about how such big pulses are generated, or the clever trick which allows transmitters and receivers to share an antenna without blowing out the receiver.
Well, you have my curiosity now. Any good sources on these?
It's really cool how they can arbitrarily turn the prop on and off like an electric aircraft, even reversing its direction. Might this be one of the earliest examples of thrust reversal for breaking? Also, could this be a more efficient arrangement than IC engine+prop governor?