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Malstrond

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    Comment #11545020

    Not to mention there is free flight controller software with autonomous capabilites, e.g. APM.

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    Comment #11234287

    Which is why I said "a nation state trying to influence you".

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    Comment #11234118

    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…

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    Comment #10837933

    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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    Comment #10781895

    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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    Comment #10584001

    It would not be the first time that obscurity is confused with security.

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    Comment #10406756

    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 …

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    Comment #10406624

    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 d…

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    Comment #10406569

    Only if you drive them on public roads. So maybe not a public road -> airspace below a certain height?

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    Comment #10406497

    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 co…

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    Comment #10406457

    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 us…

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    Comment #10406433

    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 …

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    Comment #10249408

    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…

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    Comment #9911079

    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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    Comment #9814563

    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 te…

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    Comment #9812962

    >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_plagiaris…

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    Comment #9770592

    >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 …

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    Comment #9485124

    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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    Comment #9302765

    Seems to be a rebranded Cheerson CX-10.

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    Comment #8696550

    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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    Comment #8510731

    Abyss - Cruisin 3: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=61225

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    Comment #8158846

    A SiRFstar with satellite prediction (SiRFInstantFixII) might be able to manage it.

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    Comment #8031868

    >exif WoW does much more than that: http://www.ownedcore.com/forums/world-of-warcraft/world-of-w...

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    Comment #6885463

    >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 …