At my local bank you need the ATM card to get into the lobby after hours.

Or, at least, some random card with mag stripe. It doesn't appear to make any difference.

Not to mention that there must be hundreds of websites detailing construction and programming of said devices. Dozens of forums. Even advertisements. Perhaps more surprising is that there is more than one manufacturer of small, GPS control multirotored devices available from such nefarious outlets as Amazon.com. An interested person could learn themselves some valuable skills just by using the Internet and even better, contribute positively to the economy by spending money.

I guess I'll go and turn myself in now. That will cause me to spend more money on lawyers, allow the government to expand the incarceration industrial complex, contribute to generation of more laws and in general, help this great country of ours.

It's the American way.

You're hired. Or under arrest.

Things are so confusing these days.

Oops. TMA (Too Many Acronyms).

AMA = Academy of Model Aeronautics as well as the American Medical Association.

You made need additional caffeine to distinguish the two in the last couple of posts.

Actually, this model is pretty widely used. The FAA and the ARRL (American Radio Relay League - amateur radio) work closely together and the ARRL is even responsible for first line enforcement. I'm not sure the AMA is a good example at all since it really doesn't make any broad rules of conduct other than some weak ethics rules. Remember, AMA enrollment in the US is, and has been, below 50% for a very long time. The FAA works closely with a number of industry and private groups including 'hobbyist' pilots (and then goes on to ignore everyone including themselves, but we are talking about the FAA).

But various government agencies do often work with outside groups on an effective basis. Sometimes for the benefit of society, sometimes not.

99% of the ATM's around here dont stand alone. they are in a small concrete building that has air vents. the other 1% are the little fake ATM's at liquor stores and shady party stores that nobody sane would insert their card into.

so no, I wont be seeing it around here.

Partying with you must be lots of fun.

Mr. Shotgun....

"Can I make a suggestion that doesn't involve violence, or is this the wrong crowd for that?"

No, half of the "developers" said they were working on IoT in a survey they had to complete to get a free magazine subscription. There is no reason whatsoever to believe the results of that survey have any connection to reality, or that the people taking the survey were even developers.

When you start hating lingo, it means you are old.

So I could pay pi dollars for a pie?

Not true. Even a press release cannot contain materially false financial information. It can contain puffery, and hype, but it cannot contain outright false financial information about revenue or profits. Public companies are not allowed to lie to the public about their finances.

You are free to believe that victimhood justifies censorship. But then it would be hypocritical of you to participate in a march to defend free speech.

With pair programming, you may have two programmers sharing a keyboard, and alternating writing chunks of code.

I can usually look at a section of code, and reliably know which of my coworkers wrote it, even when they follow the style guidelines. Do they use an if-else chain, or a switch statement? Do they use #define's or prefer enums? Bitfields, or masks? Often I can tell who wrote it just by looking at the comments. Some people are neurotic about grammar and using complete sentences. Others prefer minimally concise fragments.

That kind of depends on the stylesheets, pre-compiler style enforcement routines, and the fact that a shit-ton of corporate code is often improved incrementally by multiple authors.

'course, there's still the comments that you could use, but who does that?