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Comment Re:Redefine (Score 1) 226

by bstag (#51164785) Attached to: FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress

There already is a definition of what a model aircraft is - it must be remote controlled, flown within visible range, and for recreational or hobby purposes.

Most drones will fail this, employing cameras and GPS to allow flying outside visible range.

So no, RC planes, line controlled planes and kites are immune from FAAs interference[*], Most drones are not.

[*] Outside the 5 mile zone around airports - inside they have carte blanche and can say you can't play with lawn darts if they so choose.

While Drones may fail this, Multi rotor copters won't. Please quit combining the two.
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Submission + - MS-DOS Not Stolen, New Forensic Analysis Concludes

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: Challenging earlier assertions that Bill Gates got the rewards due Gary Kildall, a forensic analysis conducted for the latest issue of IEEE Spectrum concludes that the landmark MS-DOS operating system which Bill Gates and Microsoft licensed to IBM was an original piece of work, not stolen goods. Using his company’s CodeSuite forensic software, Bob Zeidman said he found no evidence that QDOS or MS-DOS was copied from or was a derivative of Gary Kildall's CP/M. So, what do you think of Microsoft expert witness (pdf) Zeidman's "if-the-codebase-doesn't-fit-you-must-acquit" arguments?

Comment Re:ROS is great, but only insofar as WG makes it (Score 1) 65

by bstag (#39510669) Attached to: Needed: A LAMP Stack For Robotics
Some of us are exploring and documenting on the way while cussing loudly. As for being specific it generally relates to the platform they implemented ROS on. If we did the stacks in the manner of processing stacks and platform stacks as separate. It could be a boon to the usability of the community stacks. Some of the community has done this in their stacks already. WG does not push this maybe moving to its own foundation with its own future will drive this style of change. As someone who feels your same frustration daily I can only dream. Since right now publishing a repository one only needs to send a email to a list saying here I am.

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