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Comment Not enough Licenses (Score 1) 46

It may seem like alot, but 1M will not be nearly enough.... Here is why:

- There are about 10M RV owners in the US, and quite a few live in them year-round. Many of the ones I know are full time telecommuters

- Quite a few people living in Rural areas do not have Cable/Wired-ISDN/4G connections

- Boats/cars/trucks

- Military *will* want access....
So, I imagine the first round of being able to "purchase" a station becomes available, it will be sold out in days (if not hours) of the offering....
(Too bad you can't pre-order....)

Technology

Submission + - ARM Announces 64-Bit Cortex-A50 Architecture (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: "ARM debuted its new 64-bit microarchitecture today and announced the upcoming launch of a new set of Cortex processors, due in 2014. The two new chip architectures, dubbed the Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57, are the most advanced CPUs the British company has ever built, and are integral to AMD's plans to drive dense server applications beginning in 2014. The new ARMv8 architecture adds 64-bit memory addressing, increases the number of general purpose registers to 30, and increases the size of the vector registers for NEON/SIMD operations. The Cortex-A57 and A-53 are both aimed at the mobile market. Partners that've already signed on to build ARMv8-based hardware include Samsung, AMD, Broadcom, Calxeda, and STMicro."

Comment Re:the cat (Score 1) 437

This is why I won't buy a kindle.
One of the dangers that this shows is straight from 1984... How can we trust history when it can be deleted or altered at whim. How can we be sure if the books we download are not altered in any way - At least in Non-DRM form, they can be archived to ensure the consistency of the text over the passage of time

After all, We've always been at war with... (checks kindle) EastAsia

Comment Re:Niche operation perhaps... (Score 1) 137

But we need to do something besides crop dusting. Look at the deadzone in the Gulf of Mexico if you have any doubt.

Because of high concentrations of pesticides - If you could spray more frequently, you would not need the high concentrations, therefore less run off... A UAV could be as cheap to operate as any other farm implement without needing specialized training to operate.

Postal/parcel delivery of perhaps the most important things, like organ transplants or something. Otherwise the use is over the top.

Have you ever tried to get next-day delivery to a rural area? There are many parts of the country still that are over 200-300 miles from any major airport. Private pilots are often contracted by the USPS to ferry mail back and forth to these areas.

Search and rescue, maybe. Would Steve Fossett have been found any sooner?

Quite possibly - Pilots are limited to how long they can fly per day. Because there is a shortage of qualified pilots, it limits the time and increases the expense of search and rescue operations.

Comment Re:Niche operation perhaps... (Score 5, Insightful) 137

I believe that it would be more than niche applications. There are many areas in aviation where UAV's would be a boon.

For example, UAV's could be used for fire suppression applications - Whenever there are forest fires (or even the threat of), UAV's could be prepositioned and in the air in a matter of minutes.
Crop Dusting - UAV's could perform this function with better precision, for longer hours.
Post/Parcel delivery
Search and Rescue

All these applications are prone to pilot fatigue and are dangerous commercial applications - I am sure there are many, many more applications where UAV's would make more sense and improve aviation safety.
Math

Submission + - Psychologists Don't Know Math

stupefaction writes: "The New York Times reports that an economist has exposed a mathematical fallacy at the heart of the experimental backing for the psychological theory of cognitive dissonance. The mistake is the same one that mathematicians both amateur and professional have made over the Monty Hall problem. From the article: "Like Monty Hall's choice of which door to open to reveal a goat, the monkey's choice of red over blue discloses information that changes the odds." The reporter John Tierney invites readers to comment on the goats-and-car paradox as well as on three other probabilistic brain-teasers."
The Internet

Berners-Lee Speaks Out Against DRM, Advocates Net Neutrality 187

narramissic writes "Speaking before the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee advocated for net neutrality, saying that the Web deserves 'special treatment' as a communications medium to protect its nondiscriminatory approach to content. Berners-Lee's more controversial statements came on the topic of DRM, in which he suggested that instead of DRM, copyright holders should provide information on how to legally use online material, allowing users the opportunity 'to do the right thing.' This led to an odd exchange with Representative Mary Bono who compared Berner-Lee's suggestion to 'having a speed limit but not enforcing the speed limit.'"

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