I can envision all of those uses for drones. Just not by our federal government.

Give the firefighters wildfire drones.
Give the USGS mapping drones.
Give the NOAA environmental and weather.
Make *ALL* drone data public!

That I would be OK with, especially if said drones were customized to the task at hand. (ie: wildfire drones carry some water/retardant to spray and heat-sensitive camera tuned to look specifically for fire.)

But the NSA/FBI/Big Brother have no legitimate use for drones, ESPECIALLY ones that are aloft 24/7.

*ALMOST* infinite precision? Add another decimal place and you get better precision. Keep adding them and you get infinite precision. Hell, you could keep adding decimal places until you get down to a specific atom! (Although that would be rather silly and probably impossible to actually measure with today's technology.)

You do tests in ideal conditions, so that if/when the test fails, the conditions can't be blamed and you can figure out the REAL reason for the failure and fix it. This is science 101 here...

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. By now you should be smelling the smoke from our burning APU - don't worry; Since the APU only runs on the ground, you are at no risk whatsoever from it."

I run a TCP/IPX network. It's totally WIN

Wouldn't a documentary about the "Happy Birthday" song which only has a single scene in which the song was sung, fall under fair use laws?

"isn't", damnit! "isn't"!

http://xkcd.com/radiation/

I guess he has to update that chart now to account for trips to Mars...

Perl or Bash? Make up your mind!

Uhm, as the husband of a woman who just gave birth, I can attest that women do indeed need more than a week, and giving birth was NOT the equivalent of a day surgery.

I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt here. I've heard the $10 ones can be flaky and not always work well. That's why my dad splurged and got a $25 one. :-P

How is this news? I got a ODB2 -> Bluetooth adapter last year, and that was after a year or two of thinking about it. I use Torque on my Android to track my mileage, chirp at me when I go over a speed I set, and track engine performance.

The only thing here that *might* be news is the gamification of ODB2 stats, but who really cares about that?

Oh, and my dad just picked up a ODB2 -> Bluetooth adapter for about $25 and it works great, so why would anyone want to spend $70 on one!?

Everyone quotes "education" as a copyright exemption, but the education exemption is actually quite narrow. There must be NO other (non-copyrighted) way of showing/demonstrating what you are using, and you must use the LEAST amount of it possible to successfully show/demonstrate what you are teaching.

If you are teaching music, you can't just start playing every album ever made and say "it's education, it's exempt!" You can't even play an entire song and say "did you hear that cord progression at the beginning?". What you CAN do is play the part of the song with said progression. If you were teaching about song structure, then you could use the whole song. Both of these examples still assume there was no other source of non-copyrighted work you could have used instead.

There is at least 1 progress bar which is perfectly accurate!

Actually it's a SimCopter joke - Maxis just likes to re-use it's jokes.