So the wave of drone accidents and regulations being reported on recently are starting to paint a great picture of why we don't have flying cars yet, nor will we.

You're like one of those cartoon characters that has an angry defensive outburst whenever someone disagrees with him, tsotha.

We call that "projection".

And then gets particularly petulant and childish, screaming and stomping around, when it's pointed out -- how defensive, petulant and childish you're behaving.

That too.

I'm surprised to find someone so socially awkward she doesn't realize how other people see her. This article isn't about you, is it?

Far, far more people are injured and killed by balls used in sports than R/C models.

Well that sure seems like a bold statement to make with no links. Can't help but notice you have links for everything else...

Although it agrees with what I said about baseballs and common sense, so thanks for that.

That's the difference - common sense. People playing in a park are not using the velocities those balls reach during sports.

Drones though are just one mechanical failure away from lethal force given the height and mass they generally have during operation, all without any effort. To move a ball with enough force to hurt someone requires conscious action.

Your comparison of drones to balls is absolutely absurd.

I imagine that significantly more people have been injured and killed by kites than R/C models.

Common sense... *sigh*

Presumably, you also think that kites should be treated the same way?

I'm not sure why anyone would think that given how much less mass they have, and the fact they are almost entirely physically controlled. If a string breaks they flutter to the ground, not plummet.

And baseballs, footballs, soccer balls?

These objects basically hug the ground and don't have the ability to rapidly change course, nor are they generally operating at speeds that can cause much harm. Note however that baseballs ARE dangerous enough that people batting generally confine themselves to specific areas for that purpose, because they could in fact hurt someone.

When's the last time you saw someone playing baseball (with a bat, not throwing) in the middle of a festival or crowded park? You are basically saying you would do that if given a choice?

If drone operators had 1/10 the common sense the average baseball players had you wouldn't see regulations like this.

How is it not sane to think that the people who could be potentially hit by your craft would have something to say about it flying over them?

I find this a perfectly reasonable law. Don't forget it means that could could fly on private property NEXT to the public property and film from there, as long as you are not directly over the public area...

LAX T-Mobile service was pretty good for me just a few weeks ago, way better than the LAX WiFi!

I've pretty much given up on airports and hotels to provide usable WiFi, I just tether now pretty much anywhere if possible.

I see. You assumed you'd find certain kinds of comments and shot your mouth off before checking to see if they were actually there. That may fly in your women's studies class, but next time why don't you check first and save us all some trouble.

I'll give you a little hint for next time: You're not gonna find too many guys under 45 on slashdot, so even if there were actually something to your fantasies about what young men say and do, if they actually behaved like you imagine, you wouldn't see much of it here. The only person here acting like a child is you.

And you'd have to be using your own private definition of "petulant" to find it in my comments. It's true I've lost patience for the kind of transparent bullshit you're peddling, but that's not the same thing.

Organic honeybee producers never had much of a real problem, it was really only large scale agricultural bees that had issues - it never really was at the point of crisis, like everything else these days it was just being used to scare you for someone else's gain.

Lots of government money happily funneled to useless bee research...

As an aside honey is really good for you, you should have some when you can - it's great to replace sweeteners in things like tea or cereal. It has lots of health benefits and never goes bad. Believe it or not it also relieves pain from bee stings when a bit is applied topically to the stung area (I know that that sounds absurd but all I can say is that it works and works quickly).

We've already seen ALL of those comments right here, so you can't say it doesn't happen.

Which comment are you talking about, specifically? Which comment that's not obviously meant to be a joke expresses these sentiments. I'd particularly like to see where someone expresses the feeling any women who's old enough to be their mother should treat them like a child.

Young men all over the industry are constantly being excused for everything under the sun, up to and including the criminal offense of attempted rape because "they lack people skills"...

This is just flat out bullshit.

So I should hire old women without people skills because people in other companies hired young men without people skills who later turned out to be a problem.

Seems legit to me. You're a genius.

Watching porn is not dangerous

You, sir, are not watching the right kind of porn.

Who is to say if a call was really pocket-dialed, or the call was triggered by a third party on a hacked phone....

The real question is why ANYONE would think you have to like all the people you work with.

You don't have to of course. You are just an idiot if you don't seek that out when you have the ability - which all developers do because of the ease of finding work currently. I feel sorry for people who have more trouble finding work, who do not have that flexibility...

If you think about it, if you are working with a lot of people you don't like as a developer you are spitting on the less privileged. Or you are a masochist, which is fine - I also don't have to work with you.