Um, there are massive differences between Atlanta and Liberia.

Do you believe the following are regular occurrences in Atlanta?
1) Family of someone who died of a known infectious disease choose to hand-wash the corpse anyway, with full knowledge of the cause of death. (Note: Many Africans apparently don't believe the disease exists.)
2) Local residents protest the hospital because they believe that the "story" about the infections disease is a coverup for ritual cannibalism. http://www.reuters.com/article...
3) Local residents break in to the isolation ward to remove an infected family member from the hospital

Note that those are cases in an area where part of the funeral rites include (I believe) washing the body of the deceased by hand.

The piss-poor multiplayer (not in terms of actual game design, but in how easy the engine/protocol design made cheating) was probably what killed Crysis' reputation as anything other than a tech demo.

Single player FPS games just don't sell well these days.

The single-player campaign in Crysis was great, I loved it.

The multiplayer utterly sucked. Crytek screwed up one of the fundamental tenets of multiplayer gaming - NEVER TRUST THE FUCKING CLIENT.

Crytek did stupid shit like offload physics calculations to clients (which is why some matches were "DX10-only"), and also have clients do damage calculations.

e.g. if the client said "I fired a pistol bullet and it did 99999999 damage before resists" - well, you'd have an instakill pistol. (This could be achieved by editing an XML). Similarly, armor resists were calculated ON THE CLIENT TAKING DAMAGE - so if you had a vehicle with 99% resistance to all damage types, you were effectively invincible.

My multiplayer experience in Crysis was something like:
1 week of playing legitimately - constantly getting my ass kicked by obvious cheaters
1 week of trying to see what level of cheating I could get away with without people accusing me of cheating - it was shocking how far I could go in this regard (50% damage boosts to everything, no assault rifle bullet spread, 1000 horsepower pickup trucks, AA cannons that could depress their turrets by 30 degrees) without getting noticed because of the attention blatant cheaters received. Even with this, it was only a matter of time in every single game before a blatant cheater would instapistol their way to an attack helicopter with 99% resistance to all damage types and amped-up missile damage.
After that I quit.

This is something that happens routinely due to weather.

Some of what I've been reading indicates that the "AN-26" the rebels thought they shot down was actually this 777.

If you splode something at 25-30k feet with an "illicitly acquired" SAM battery that you're probably not properly trained to use, unless you're an aircraft engineer you might have issues properly identifying the wreckage.

Android encryption is done on a partition basis - so the entire partition is going to get clobbered by the encryption process.

The only way data might "leak" out of this is if the eMMC wear leveller saves off the information somewhere - but this requires a pretty sophisticated attacker to recover. Also, Android's wiping facility has done an eMMC secure erase since ICS (exception - Samsung Galaxy S2 family does either a standard format or a nonsecure erase, since firing a secure erase at Samsung's defective eMMC will send the wear leveller out into la-la-land 5% of the time, and once it goes there, there is no coming back.)

It seemed to me like netbooks stagnated pretty badly... These days, a Chromebook with crouton installed on an SD card makes for a GREAT Linux laptop.

Yeah. People are asking questions because HIS questions are, when taken together, nonsensical.

He's looking for a good host machine to do development for ARM, MSP430, and other MCU embedded targets.

When doing embedded development, there is usually a very clear distinction between "target" and "host" - it is rare in the embedded world for people to use a device as both host and target (since the target is usually pretty weak CPU-wise), but he's implying that he wants to use a device that is usually a target (Raspi, BBB) as a host... Which to anyone that has actually DONE this sort of development is nonsensical. There's some benefit to a BBB self-hosting, but it's silly to do AVR or MSP development on a BBB, unless what he's really looking for is a heterogenous target (e.g. the BBB is part of the target solution, and loads an AVR or MSP at runtime to do realtime tasks - but even this doesn't really make sense due to the BBB's PRUSS, other than the fact that the PRUSS is a bit more difficult to work with.)

If you want a low-power low-cost development environment for ARM Cortex-M, AVR, MSP430, etc. targets, your ideal host system is probably a Chromebook with crouton installed on the SD card.

So either he has VERY special unique requirements that he hasn't clearly communicated, or he's looking in an entirely wrong direction for solutions. Either way, his actually needs haven't been properly communicated.

Yeah. Quadcopters are far less efficient than single-rotor aircraft, and multicopters (hexa, octa) are even less efficient.

The reason people go to hexas and octas is that scaling a quadcopter up to the payload sizes of some of the octas/hexas starts causing issues with blade inertia - an octacopter is more stable.

The main reason quadcopters are doing so well for small aircraft is that at that size class, the mechanical complexity (tail rotor with transmission and collective pitch, plus collective and cyclic pitch control for the main rotor) of a single rotor or dual-rotor aircraft adds a LOT of cost. (The only flight controls of quadcopters are motor speed, with a few exceptions of quads with collective pitch which is still FAR simpler than cyclic pitch control) Once you get to a fullsize helo - it turns out that the quadcopter approach becomes more expensive than a single-rotor AND it's far less efficient.

Kind of similar to how LEDs dominated the flashlight industry for years but only recently became feasible for residential/commercial lighting - incandescent bulbs suffer significantly reduced efficiency and bulb lifetime when scaled down to flashlight sizes.

IIRC, it's spread over many years AND multiple services. The idea behind JMR/FVL is to replace pretty much the military's entire inventory of helos - not just a single service's inventory.

From TFA: "On the other hand, the Samsung watch is the clear winner on overall build quality."

From reality: http://www.androidpolice.com/2...

That's right - it's been only 2 weeks or so since Google I/O and Samsung devices are ALREADY breaking with multiple reports of the same failure mode.

In addition, there are frequent reports of display corruption that doesn't happen with the LG: https://plus.google.com/+Artem...

Well, as far as flying too close to an airport - I think there are a lot of people in that category that aren't trying to hurt someone, but are just plain stupid.

As far as your assertion that the jet will last long enough to turn around and land again - The landing and takeoff phases for an aircraft (most likely cases where it will hit a small RC aircraft) are the most dangerous ones. Typical RC aircraft have components that are harder/stiffer (worse for a jet engine) than a bird - and a bird into a jet engine on takeoff can be disastrous (see the Miracle on the Hudson - yes that was a rare dual-engine birdstrike, but even a single engine out during the most dangerous parts of a flight is a big deal).

I think the problem is that this video was done by a guy who was screwing around and probably not thinking about negative consequences - if he'd coordinated with the fireworks people to ensure that they agreed there were no safety issues he didn't think about, it would be fine. But now, there's likely to be legislation that is going to be directed at this but contain collateral damage.

See the recent rulings on FPV flight - http://www.faa.gov/about/initi... - I believe this was primarily driven by incidents like http://www.ksdk.com/story/news... (due to timing, not THAT specific one most likely, but similar incidents). End result is - because of some people being completely reckless with FPV flights, the FAA has created an effective blanket ban on FPV flights.

So, what makes you so interesting that we would want to waste our limited battery/storage (mostly battery) recording you?

Glass is the worst covert surveillance and recording tool on the planet for a variety of reasons, and this is one of them.