If you're designing new drone prototypes, then yes, they can be weak. That is what experimentation is all about.

But then again, this place will be equipped with a wind tunnel and those can simulate very high winds if required.

A story on the same blog posted 4 days ago shows that HSBC's corporate banking site was jsut blocked because the CDN Akamai got blocked. Apparently, "HSBC uses Akamai as part of the secure login system for clients".

What the blog doesn't say however is that many corporations in China are already paying for proxies outside of China that they access through VPNs, so as to circumvent China's great firewall. And that HSBC probably scrambled to remove the login dependency on Akamai as soon as it received customer complaints about the problem. So I can't say what the economic impact is going to be, but companies are certainly trying to mitigate the effect this has on them and route around the problem.

Also note that Akamai's CDN is also used as a big ad-delivery network, so the economic impact notwithstanding, most Chinese users are now browsing the internet without seeing ads, which for once translates into a much more positive experience for users in China. And the only problem there is that this blockage of internet ads probably won't last very long, because advertising companies will do everything in their power to fix the problem and circumvent Akamai.

Using that word "sluts" to call those women says a lot more about you than it says about me. I assume this means you were raised in a place where most of the people around you still hold puritanical beliefs.

My personal problem with the non-condom related rape allegations is that the women continued their relationships with Julian Assange and even bragged publicly about having sex with Julian Assange.

Now granted, I'm not opposed to reclassifying the legal definition of rape to make it slightly broader than it is currently being enforced, and I'm not opposed to going after those perpetrators internationally through extradition treaties, but my problem comes from the fact that Julian Assange seems to be treated very uniquely in this regard and I just can't accept this as being a random coincidence.

Had Julian Assange not faced this threat from being imprisoned in a US gulag for his entire life, or worse, you and I both know that he would have just gone back to Sweden and been exonerated (fairly or unfairly, but that would have been the outcome for sure). I've been to Sweden and I can promise you it's not the feminist utopia you think that it is.

Diaphragm was actually the word I was looking for.

If allegedly lying about wearing a condom counts as rape after the fact and justifies extradition, then we should designate all women, who ever allegedly lied about not wearing a female condom, or who allegedly lied about being on birth control, as rapists as well. After all, it works both ways.

I guess we'll have to wait until a woman republishes embarrassing US State secrets for that to happen.

Amazon allows you to sell a book for one penny and then make your profit on the shipping charge. For all you know, the buyers were doing the same with PS4s and reselling them at cost + shipping. It's probably a great way to get raving 5 stars reviews from your customers. Also since the customers are locked into the shipping charge with the PS4 itself, you could probably upsell them on extra PS4 cables and extra PS4 accessories at a real monster's premium.

Putting aside your main point, which I agree with.

Blackberry doesn't need to be modified to run android applications. It will run most of them if you just repackage and sign again the application for blackberry.

One caveat thought, if your app is using specific Google android sdks like the Google Maps sdk for instance, you may need to rewrite your app to use the web api of Google Maps instead of its android sdk api.

Scammers also sell anti-scam services. Personally, I would be even more suspicious of someone who wanted to help me and sell me something to get back at those scammers.

I assume you meant a chart like this one. The other link you provided sends me to a gas cost calculator.

I love how the chart purposefully EXCLUDES countries with large land masses and lower population density like Australia, Canada, Norway, Russia, etc. Unfortunately, it's a complete no-brainer that countries with higher population density need to prevent people from driving their own car. One way is to increase the gas tax. The other way is to make the drivers license for new drivers insanely expensive and almost impossible to get.

Build your own drone and fly it around to take some nice aerial shots. Just don't do it like this guy. His drone looked way too nice. He was lucky to recover it from Nepal customs after two weeks. See if you could build yourself a cheap weather balloon, or a foldable motorized flying wing large enough to take the altitude.

Yes, but if we don't like the type of moderation on Slashdot, we're free to go to another site. With the government, we're not free to do that (at least, not if they have their way).

This system, if implemented, will just drive radicalized speech underground and out of the public eye. It's not going to solve anything, except increase the number of people who want to rebel against the government, and make them better at hiding their trails.

This payment api they're retiring was far from their usual free offering. It was a payment api. It was getting a cut of every transaction.

That being said, the article is click-baiting us, it's discontinuing a service that nobody uses. Google Wallet isn't being discontinued for other goods, just digital goods. And it isn't being discontinued for in-app payments on Android, or on Google Play, only third party web sites selling digital goods with Google Wallet are going to be affected, which means practically no one.

If you had a third party global web site selling digital goods, it never made any sense to use Google Wallet in the first place. So it's not so much Google abandoning a product feature. It's actually a digital market that never saw the need for Google Wallet over competing options, and finally Google waking up to that fact.

It isn't even competition in this case. Cabs and "ride sharing" augment the capabilities of public transportation. They do not subtract from it. Most people do not live right next to a convenient hub of public transportation. You often need to drive there, or have someone drive you to it. Also for the very few customers that "ride sharing" might actually take away from public transportation, it's a drop in the ocean. "Ride Sharing" simply can't scale like Public Transportation can.

Uber's insurance is explained here, and its legalese can be found here. I haven't looked for Lyft's policy, but I assume that Lyft's policy can be just as easily found.

And yet despite all those penalties, racial discrimination still happens systematically during peak hours. During peak hours, taxi drivers can easily pretend not to have seen someone hailing them down if they know they can easily pick up someone else just as easily.

And in a way, Uber and Lyft's processes nicely solve that problem, since for them, they're not allowed to pick up people who are hailing them visually. They can only pick up the people that have hailed them electronically through a mobile app. So choosing your customer based on skin color is much less of a possibility for Uber and Lyft drivers, because now there is an electronic paper trail if a driver suddenly decides not to pick up a potential customer he has agreed to pick up electronically.

The electronic process of ordering rides through a mobile app also solves the problem of displaying a license. By ordering a ride through Uber, you see the picture, you see the id, and you see the rating of who's going pick you up before they do pick you up. Just try to get that level of information the next time you call for a Yellow cab, you won't get it.

Not only that but in a few big cities, where the number of medaillons stays stagnant despite the desperate need of additional taxis on the road during peak hours, Uber and Lyft are serving the needs of an underserved market. Because I can tell you, in my personal experience, it's not just black people that can't find a cab sometimes. As a white person who sometimes really needs a cab in San Francisco during peak hours, I've simply given up trying to find one. I can only assume that only customers from five star hotels and hot supermodels can catch cabs during those hours, because I see many cabs during those times, and I've used my phone to call cab companies as well, but those cabs are certainly not stopping for me, or they have the light on signaling that they're on their way to pick up someone else.

If I really need a car after work for some reason, I'll drive my car in, clogging up the system even more, and I'll risk paying insane parking fees for the entire day (despite the fact that I might only need the car for a fraction of that time, to go somewhere after 5 PM, that's not easily reached with public transportation).

I agree with your comment about data privacy, but what do you mean by flexible mail aliases? I have about a dozen email aliases linked to each email address on Google Apps Premier/Business, they all seem to work just fine. The filtering and dot notation also seem to work well.