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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 …

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 …

Would you care to elaborate? He's from Europe.

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…

I'm not sure what side I stand on here but this definitely seems very excessive. It's also worth noting that this has been going on for a while: https://techcrunch.com/2012/10/06/s…

Yea... not my day

Last time I write stuff while tired...

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 …

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…

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 …

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…

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 b…

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 mayb…

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…

More important is that it's designed to interact with blizzards servers. Adblock is a generic utility

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 Insid…

Islam?

While arguably not correct, is there any particular reason to downvote this? I think it's a fairly valid point

Sounds like Intel's acquisition is working out nicely. Perhaps part of the plan?

"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, li…

Holy shit. Where is all of this being sourced? Is this all "fall of the Soviet Union" stuff where someone wandered into a silo and took apart a bomb?

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 tri…

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 …

Why do all the islands is the Atlantic skew left of the time zone they should be in?

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 ai…