Https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia Says otherwise.. Hunt family murders in 2014 is an easy one to see..

I read as well as you do. I was supporting your argument that putting logic in the database is a generally poor choice. Even if you don't deliver to multiple targets initially, you will eventually deal with a customer's falling out with a given DB vendor and have to make the change.

1) We love Oracle's DB.
2) We hate dealing with Oracle, let's go to IBM DB2
3) We love IBM DB2
4) We hate dealing with IBM, let's go to MySQL
5) Wait, Oracle bought MySQL, and we hate dealing with Oracle.See 2
6) OK, let's try PosgreSQL then, it's the only database with a vendor we don't dislike doing business with.

7) Goto 1

Here in Montana, most of the Apartments already have parking spots with power to them - we have to plug our ICE vehicles in over night to make sure they start in the morning when it is -20F overnight.. so a lot of the (Level 1) charging infrastructure is in place, even for apartment dwellers.

Shouldn't today be prime day?

7 is a Prime number. 13 is a Prime number.

12? Meh.

Amazon could have done so much better if they'd had Prime day on prime numbers.

What next? Pi Day on 3/13 next year?

Interestingly, this still won't make sure that the router's radios are in compliance.

Isn't the rule a certain level of ERP (effective radiated power), not raw wattage out of the radio.

How does the stock firmware know to reduce the output power to compensate for the 24dbi gain antenna you attached?

OTOH, keeping the consumers in their legally allocated spectrum sounds like a noble cause, but now it's more difficult to get "below" channel 1 and down into the relatively empty Part-90 allocation I'm authorized to use just below 2.4Ghz

We have an "obesity" problem and at the same time ban walking to school.

If more kids walked to school, we'd have less obese kids.

But let's ban 32oz sodas instead..

MythTV backend - HDHomerun and a PCHDTV card for 3 OTA channels at once, plus a PVR250 fed by my Dish Network satellite box and a LIRC. So that's 4 simultaneous recordings at once. Front ends run the gamut - blueray players over UPNP, WesternDigital TV box, Fire TV Stick, Roku, PS3, several first gen Xboxes with XBMC - and then you have the Android tablets for TV-anywhere.

CMU has a project/site crowd-sourcing Potholes.. http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/co... But then there's also a project that just uses vehicle mounted cameras to do the same. http://triblive.com/news/alleg... No need to barcode the potholes if you use a GPS and optical recognition instead..

IIRC the 40mm grenades can be found and purchased as well, the problem is the $200 tax-stamp for EACH round. So every time you decide to go play, on top of whatever you paid to procure the equipment, there's that $200 transfer fee included in each projectile.

Didn't Tesla already try this?

https://transportevolved.com/2...

Maybe they have a more compelling argument than most, but I agree you can "see where this is heading" and how the rest of the manufacturers are following suit.

I want to know how driving any of these cars is legal any more?

A lot of states and/or municipalities have poorly written laws about using a two-way-communications device while driving.

Since these cars are more computer than machine, and with Onstar or Sync and so forth they may be constantly communicating, it would seem driving one of these vehicles is outlawed in many places.

Even more so if you consider the cars with anti-collision technology.

(Maybe this is what is really driving the autonomous car movement - we can't continue to sell cars that are computers, until/unless the car drives itself, without being in violation of these anti-driving-and-texting/communicating/electronic device laws)

I drove to work today in a 1973 IH Scout II. I doubt I need to worry about IHC sending me a take-down notice..

But from an airwaves perspective, I can sit across the street, point my beam directly at your house, and communicate with my friend on the next block.

You can stop me from erecting my antenna on your property, but you can't stop me from having my RF "trespass" on your property, since you can't regular the spectrum (you can, of course, do passive blocking)

So, in this case, they can ask you to remove the wifi device, just like they could ask you to turn off your phone, or check it at the door.

They can't, however, stop me from using my hotel room across the street to shoot a wifi signal into the park (unless the hotel chooses to evict me)

I believe the tens-of-thousands into Mexico story has been debunked.

More to the point, however please see the Interim 2011 numbers - http://www.atf.gov/statistics/download/afmer/2011-interim-firearms-manufacturing-export-report.pdf - that shows almost 6.4 million firearms manufactured in the US in 2011. Only 290k were exported.

That means more than 6 million new guns were manufactured and stayed in the US in 2011 (and that doesn't count all of the ones manufactured abroad and imported).

6 million.

A couple of people a few quarts shy of a gallon shoot up a few people, it makes news.

What doesn't make news is the other 6 million NEW firearms NOT used in a crime, or the 270 million other (existing) firearms ALSO not used in a crime.

Seems to me, guns must be pretty safe.

http://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/uas/uas_faq/index.cfm?print=go#Qn2 Doesn't address any Line-of-Sight issues. Aside from the autonomous part, I just wanted to note that with an Amateur Radio license you can setup a remote control capable of beyond LOS, along with a video link. Amateur TV transmitters in the 70cm or higher range are available and you can watch them on your old NTSC TV. You could use 6m/50mhz for the control link which has capability beyond LOS, or through the use of a repeater station you could expand that range further (heck, use a balloon mounted repeater over your operation position to increase your LOS distance and you could use all sorts of LOS frequencies and equipment) Or, I guess you could go the other way, and build some high end optics and get them aboard the next AMSAT bird and send the photos back via SSTV or ATV. :D

We walked around the smaller cities, and we used horses and horse drawn carriages in the larger ones.