You can't get something from nothing. That's a fact. Humans can fill in some gaps and AI could probably do the same, but there is no guarantee the results are correct.

On the other hand, if it could actually discern more from a video (which humans can also do, but probably not quite as well), it might be able to "enhance" individual images to some extent and have accurate results.

That people can be convicted by the results is a little scary, but at some level no different from a jury misinterpreting a low resolution image. Aside from the fact it was a single opinion that swayed that of the entire jury.

The root problem is that we provided the politicians the ability to do this to us. Time zones are also political footballs that could be easily fixed by using local solar time.

What's worse is that the most recent change under Dubya proved what science has been telling us all along: DST increases electricity usage *and* disrupts natural circadian rhythms. DST should be abolished worldwide.

Yes!

It's an old idea, but it's better for humans.

Time zones are political footballs. Not as bad as DST, but they still give political types the opportunity to screw with them. Most time zones are garbage and don't come anywhere near matching solar time.

End DST. Use UTC for official timekeeping. Use local solar time for human needs.

I use ISO 8601 (replacing "T" with a space in human contexts) in my daily life. It annoys some stupid Americans, but they can't deny that they understand what I mean. Everyone understands it universally, regardless of their cultural context, which makes it far superior. It also keeps them in order from most to least significant part - Year, month, day, hour, minute, second, millisecond, and even offset from UTC down to the minute (I think it should have an addendum to go down to the second, but that's just me, since I also advocate using solar time).

Time zones are an artifact of an era when travel was at a fraction of the current speed and communication over long distances was rare/expensive. DST is worse than time zones (it's pure evil), but TZs are only marginally better. Both suffer from the politician problem. When something like that can be politicized, it will be, and they'll screw with/argue it often. They will change it, which will harm not only people, but all the systems people depend upon.

I say end them all. Time zones are pointless when you can readily calculate local solar time. DST is pointless because it has never had an actual positive scientific argument (but there are tons of negative ones). Just get rid of the whole mess and go modern.

I've been advocating this for years. Aside from everyone's excessive conservatism regarding time and their obsession with archaic mechanical watches, I have yet to get a reasonable argument against it. People so obsessed with outdated tech can just use an average local time for the center of their world (home/work/city/etc).

As for noon being solar noon, the problem is that morning/evening will continue to vary, which is why I advocate the use of Roman timekeeping to keep our circadian rhythms in sync with the sun at our latitude.

I have long felt very alone in this, but after writing a lot of software dealing with time over my 20-year (thus far) career, it has always been a nightmare. Worse-yet, implementations of time zones by others can be even more problematic (.NET CF has hard-coded dates that are wrong in it so you have to correct for them when trying to calculate UTC correctly). Every official time should be in UTC in every context. It's arbitrary, but I don't see a better solution. It isn't like travel or communication takes days anymore. A major bonus is that this will also keep it out of the hands of those filthy political types (they love to screw with DST and time zones).

I have also advocated the use of solar time in a day-to-day context, since you can get location and UTC from global positioning. You could even use Roman timekeeping, keeping circadian rhythms tied directly to the sun as your body/mind expects.

In any case, this would completely end the insanity of political time zone fights around zone borders and DST games, which would be a great thing.

I find all natural gemstones silly at this point. You can buy flawless man-made versions of most of them for a fraction of the price of even quite included mined stones. Even when their values are similar, I'd still rather use the man-made ones as they are more energy-efficient.

I'm married, so I've bought a lot of jewelry, and she insisted on diamonds in her engagement ring (I tried to talk her out of it, but the marketing is strong and she wouldn't accept all the reasonable arguments against them). The jeweler insisted natural maintained more value and that man-made ones were close to natural in price. Ultimately, I took their advice on the diamonds, but with the exception of purple & lavender sapphires (which are always natural because nobody make them), all our colored stones are lab grown and I'm happiest with the lab grown stones for everything from quality to price to feeling better about their source...

Considering the evil of De Beers, I hope the company goes under due to their price fixing and that enough of us can prove to others that there's nothing special about a tiny chunk of naturally-occurring carbon.

On the other hand, I was obsessive about using all the recycled (because you have to mine it, might as well reuse what is already available) platinum I realistically could in them, along with having them fabricated by respected artisans, since all the value in jewelry is in the metal and workmanship.

Voting for Hillary is boldly saying you support the rampant corruption in our government. That's before so many other things that are completely screwed up with her and her record.

Thus far, I don't see candidates even in third parties that aren't deeply flawed this cycle. About the closest we have are Darrell Castle from the Constitution Party (but they don't have universal ballot access, so that's hopeless) and Jill Stein from the Green Party. It's bad enough that I might for the first time abstain from voting for president...

I've never understood why senators were fixed at two per state. When established, the senate had the same number of representatives as the house. It should be continually rebalanced to match growth of the house.

SenateSeatsPerState = int(HouseSeats / NumberOfStates)

The problem is that it needs to be told what it's supposed to track and it homes for where it launched. Following someone walking is very different from following someone when they're moving quickly. None of their video showed the latter, which tells me that they couldn't show it (after all, it'd be impressive).

Don't get me wrong, it looks like it'd be handy for a lot of purposes and they're moving in the right direction, but the pet analogy is really what I want to see for action shots. If I am bothering to charge and carry it, it needs to be able to do them with little-to-no planning or configuration. We're talking push of a single button simple. In a way, the best solution would probably be the simplest one: Have the smartphone stream GPS coordinates to the drone while tracking... It'd beat object recognition and keep it close the whole time.

As I think about it more, I can see some great uses for it. It's very cost effective for the capabilities and the size would make it very practical to carry around. I do think the size is great and the way it folds up really small is the best part of it. If I was a travel blogger that wanted to add video of my adventures, this would be an obvious choice.