Can you please stop starting comments in the subject line?

Anyway, how do you know that it wasn't a drone? A $250 plane, $50 battery and about $400 worth of assorted electronics including a Pixhawk autopilot module, a lidar, and an airspeed detector will get you 30+ minutes of flight time out of a fixed wing aircraft which can definitely carry and subsequently drop a cargo weighing a pound — and handle its own takeoff and landing. Is that enough like a drone for you? Remote telemetry costs more.

So how many layers of chicken wire do you have to hang to completely block cellphones? Is it just one? That stuff is cheap enough to where it's fairly feasible to actually do that.

I don't think the problem is the guns, I think the problem is the mentality, and hiring people with that mentality on purpose. And that mentality is that "civilians" (like the cops are, though they think otherwise) are a lower form of life.

I presume you would need orders of magnitude more energy than is really feasible to ride on a magnetically bottled cushion of plasma. But it would still be a cool inspiration for special effects.

Or maybe it's not a lot of hyperbole. Maybe drug companies don't actually take as much care as you think they do. Maybe you're just making unfounded assumptions because they make you feel better.

The truth is that there isn't a recall every time a defective drug is found; and there is no reason to believe that every defect is detected. The drug manufacturers do not take the care that you think they do; at best, some of them do.

And you're taking it on faith that the pill was made correctly, when it often wasn't. So what's going to change?

Unfortunately the top-selling Lexus is the ES series, which is anything but an enjoyment to be in. It is not by a long shot the worst car ever, but it is also far away from being the most enjoyable.

Another Lexus was also chosen by the Top Gear guys as The Worst Car in the History of the World, as well.

If you troll the sale section on hobbyking, and source parts like the control system on eBay, you really can build a small drone for under two hundred bucks. That's including the battery, the radio, and the charger. If you restrict yourself to a certain class of drone you can even use recycled Li-Ion batteries from old laptop packs, and knock another twenty bucks or so off of that. And we're talking GPS waypoints here, not just a toy. And well into the double-digit minutes of flight time. That's sufficiently close to "anyone"

That's the point, Apple is running on cachet now. I just saw the latest hip, cool product to go with the Apple watch. It's... a watch. Because it's such a shit watch, that you need another watch on the other side of the band to actually be a watch. The Apple Watch is an awesome watch clasp, but a shit watch. If anyone else had brought out that product, it would have bombed immediately.

I am not one of those people who will tell you that Apple
never did anything good, or even right. I am telling you that Apple has done many wrong things, and all the things they have done right were done under Jobs, and they are coasting on that. That will take them very far, much farther than most people think. But eventually, when they fail to repeat their successes for long enough, their cachet will fade. It's happened before, and it will happen again, unless they take on strong leadership again.

The problem with that is that someone on this site has managed to pretty well call everything that has happened in the industry since forever. The problem with that is that it's not the same someone each time. But it does mean that you can't just write something off because it was said on slashdot...

We've got a long way to go before we reach the scale at which classical physics breaks down :)

Now I'm imagining drone-killing silly string.

But then we started administering it to combat troops, who came home hooked on it. And they proceeded to get their friends and lovers hooked on it.

The K6/3+ had adequate FPU, although yes, the P2 had more. But it was a seriously fast little processor, and while the P2 was only available in a slot package, it was still pinned. Aside from fp, it was actually faster than a P2, for less money. And the fp wasn't really all that bad.

That's not how it works. These drugs are cheap as hell to produce, that's why there's so amazingly much profit in selling them. Prohibition, yeah, but if they were expensive to make then the economics still wouldn't work out. The crime comes from junkies who can't get their fix... you can see where this is going.

Now meth, that's a get-up-and-do-things drug. That's genuinely harmful to society. Sure, some people just get up and clean their bathroom. And some people go out and look for fun, in a condition in which their judgement is severely impaired. But yes, we wouldn't have stupid restrictions on antihistamines if we didn't have evil drug policy.

If you can think of a reason why I shouldn't dislike Apple, why don't you let me know what it is? I was a Mac user in the Lisa days, which is to say, as long ago as was possible. And of course, an Apple ][ (and //) user before that. I know why I hate Apple, it's not just on a humbug.

It only works if the game is sufficiently realistic, and they cannot hide the goods from the player base by simply logging out. If those swords have to be carried, transported, and stored somewhere, then that player has now made himself a game objective. Newbie swords are fast and easy to make out of readily available materials, so there's a lot of them in the world and it's difficult to remove them all from the game. If he wants to buy them all, he's got to have a way to transport them. A magical means of transporting them should itself have a cost and perhaps other limitations to make it unattractive. A physical means has its own issues, like now being a target for players and NPCs alike. Assembling a caravan takes time and effort and the criminal underworld will get wind of what you are up to and make plans accordingly.

As well, someone purchasing all the swords in the region is a noteworthy event. It could be a prelude to war! Where are these weapons going? The authorities are surely going to want to know.

Well, people are paying to play EVE, so I guess the answer is yes.