Perhaps that is because it was written by SS-Oberscharführer Lennart Poettering.

So you regularly float at an altitude of 20 to 100 feet, do you?

I'd say if it's over my property at a low altitude, yes, I should have the right to shoot the thing out of the sky, and further, if I can determine who was flying it, I should have the right to sue them.

Drone operators are getting an incredible sense of entitlement out of playing with their toys. I think it's time for some serious and substantial financial penalties.

Keep your fucking toy way from my fucking property.

Well, they should get to the freaking out part because Zirconium isn't exactly uncommon or difficult to produce. Its a by product of all sorts of mining processes and fairly common within the Earths crust.

And if you want to throw prices out there, $900/ton for Zirconium makes it cheaper than stainless, so if anyone was going to freak out about it ... they would have.

Yea, Swift is as capable of doing this are Perl or Python is. Just because you can write a one liner that is essentially function_call_to_a_million_lines_of_C_code() doesn't mean you can do anything in the language. Apple certainly hasn't ported the kernel or any substantial parts of the OS to Swift and they aren't going to.

Swift is for people who don't know how to code, not for people who do. People who do know how to code still use C.

No, it says more about the bad benchmark than anything else.

I'm not impressed that ARM can NOP as fast as an i3 to put it bluntly.

I say this because if you look at the bench marks and the way they did it. They compile arm variants in fully optimized mode, and x86 variants generic x86 code. From that point on, reading is a waste of time. Might as well compile with debugging on from a bench mark perspective.

Its intentionally skewed.

Not in an airplane. Only when calibrated and stationary and there is no change to air pressure occurring. So basically no where outside of a completely controlled/sealed lab.

In the real world a gust of wind can give you enough of a pressure differential (not from the wind itself, just the actual static pressure change) to sway your measurement hundreds of feet. They are also sensitive to light and heat, and you can easily sway 20-30 feet from just moving the drone from a sunny area to a shaded area.

A laser altimeter doesn't suffer from those problems, granted, but putting those on drones means installing a device thats large and costs more than the drone itself in most cases.

Did any one really think he was going to get a pardon? At least this soon anyway...

Put aside whether or not you think this was a good action, the government can't afford to have anyone who thinks that their personal issue with the government is worth dumping classified information all over the place. Snowden may well be right, and perhaps he'll get his pardon someday, but right now the government still cannot afford to make it look like there is any chance you will get off for breaking the law. And Snowden definitely broke the law, albeit perhaps for a reason that could be justified.

Snowden will get his pardon if subsequent events show that a consensus has formed on whether he did a good thing. However, they want to make very clear to people that you may get vindication, but you will pay for your action in the meantime, so you'd better seriously think over taking the steps you are taking.

This is pure necessity until there is some way found to close the hole that he represents in the process.

I was just being mischievous. I think the editors are... adequate.

No kidding. They need to be dropped on to the street from a very high altitude.

The way DICE has treated it, it's worth about whatever I can find stuck between the lint at the bottom of the pockets of my pants. Everything they've done in the last 12-24 months has only served to devalue the site.

That's all I've got to say about that.

Because rockets were actually working at that point, maybe not refined, but still useful. Quantum computer is not useful in any way at this time.

Quantum computing is still at the mumbo jumbo stage where they make really bold claims about what it can do in 1 or 2 really specific instances that all of 8 people on the planet care about, but then never follow through with a quantum machine that out performs a classical one in any way.

Oh, and the answer(s) may not even be right and has to be checked using classical methods anyway.

Show me one that doesn't require a special FAB to produce the actual chip, at which point you can't control whats actually going on in the chip itself.

There are NO open source CPUs, only open source designs.

It stops being open source when it needs to run on a proprietary FPGA.

Why would I give slashdot access to my Google account info? See I created separate accounts instead of bitching that people could figure out that I was a douche across all my sites using the same account.

And lets point out, I'm using an account thats 15 years old, you aren't even logged in.