Indoors stereo vision is so hard that if the DelFly actually navigated by stereo vision, this alone would be truly groundbreaking. Especially given the limited processing power on this thing. However, judging by the papers publicly available, the actual collision avoidance on the DelFly seems to rely on optical flow, and complementary, a new model of texture analysis called "appearance variation cue". Both of which do not inherently rely on stereo vision. I might be missing something from the more current papers though.

I never quite understood why many hardware producers do not provide linux drivers, or at least the means for third parties to write them. They simply have to conceal the fact that they are stealing from the open source community!

It also depends on your definition of "porn". For me, "porn" is visual material produced and distributed with the intent of getting people aroused. The stuff in an encyclopedia is documentation, not porn. If Sanger held his ridiculous definition to printed encyclopedia, he would probably have to denounce them to the FBI, too, on the grounds that there may be some material in them some people could probably wank off to. He did not, of course, because his intent is not to protect anyone from "porn", but his intent is to harm Wikipedia by running a gross propaganda campaign and by abusing the legal system to damage the project. Just to keep in line with Sanger's train of thought, one could also wonder about this man's own sexual preferences, considering all the hours he obviously spent digging out the last peace of "porn" from Wikimedia sites, with a determination to find "gross" material probably surpassing that of 99% of all Wikipedia users. The more I think about it, the more I am beginning to suspect that he might get some kind of kick out of this meticulous research. Now normally I do not care what gets random people aroused, it is definitely none of my business. However, with a public conduct like Sanger, throwing around accusations and denouncing honest people as criminal perverts, his personal motivations should not be beyond scrutiny.

Wikipedia does not "host an enormous amount of extremely gross porn". Sanger is a liar and a tool for censorship and comservative hysteria.

it has been mentioned that solar power is bought with state intervention - however, without state intervention there obviously would be no nuclear power, either, and I didn't hear many conservatives complaining then.

... don't expect the stuff Lenovo developed by themselves to be as good as the productlines they did when they were still IBM. I'm writing this on an newer IdeaPad with some pretty annoying quirks, noise, heat, keyboard layout, wifi and sd drivers... not exactly IBM quality here.

The German magazine "Spiegel" mentions that the GW are not a measurement, but a number extrapolated from the total of registered solar plants and their expected performance. The Reuters article mentions government support for the German solar industries, but neglects to mention that financial support was recently cut, leading to a series of bankruptcies. -- http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/solarzellen-liefern-leistung-von-20-atomkraftwerken-a-835417.html -- http://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Weitere-deutsche-Solar-Pleite-article6262036.html

If you are willing to pay significantly more for less performance, just to have the terrible burden of having configuration options taken away from you, then that's the choice for you, yeah.

... supposedly equaling China. These have been a concern to the US navy since the Soviets equipped their fleet with missile boats, haven't they? I mean I've played my deal of Harpoon, and these things are pesky no matter what the opponent is named, and also they are quite affordable to many smaller countries. Also, and somewhat strangely, I can't find a word about the defense against "carrier-killing missiles" or something comparable in the Diplomat article, but a lot about penetrating air defenses, which hopefully (and probably) isn't too high in the US navy's planning priorities with regards to the PRC.

but I didn't speak up because I was no pirate.

to ordinary people all the time, all around the world. it has to happen to a a rich guy in a poor country for the sheepish majority to see what an unchecked police force can do to people.

"I like x", and as such should be considered speech, no matter how narrow the possibility of expression through this means of a like-button is.

I was referring to the slashdot title which does a bad job at conveying what the journal article is about. I can see nothing asinine about that.

absolutely. which other androids did accidentally delete a good part of the universe, meddle in AI, replicate their friend to give him a solid beating, build opposing armies that make peace at the first occasion, make a perfect cybernetic poet, arrest the tyrant who employs them, create probabilistic dragons, boost a plants birth rate, facilitate mind swaps, create a democratic civilization in a box, and attempt to create universal bliss?

to be peeled would that make sense economicalistically? durrr....