Clearly they have no idea. For instance, do they realize that in WW2 simple firearms such as the Sten were often made using little more than a file and a hammer?

Even the Chinese Norinco SKS rifles were often made in small villages with nothing but hand-tools.

Why is it that brainless bureaucreats float to the top of the septic-tank of power?

Hey, Elon wrote a fantastic computer game while he was still at school -- I'm sure he must have placed it in the public domain so that the Japanese could make an arcade variant called "Alien Invaders". Then he invented the Hyperloop and, being the philantropist that he is, refused to patent it so that Goddard could could come up with the VacTrain (albeit a century earlier). Rumor is that, thanks to a weird temporal anomaly, Von Braun was a student of Musk's teachings in respect to rockets.

There is nothing Musk can't do if he puts his mind to it and when he does, people throughout history simply copy him!
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Slashdot is already just a shadow of its former self. I fondly recall the halcion days when being "slashdotted" meant your webserver would crash with huge volumes of traffic.

Today, even the most popular topics get barely more than a hundred or so comments and many barely make it into double-digits for comments -- a tiny amount compared to the thousands (or more) of posts that almost every topic got "back in the day".

This change to the way ads are served will simply be another nail in the coffin of Slashdot and drive away those who rely on ad-blockers to keep the WWW somewhat sane and protect them from the malware vector that some advertising can represent.

Ah slashdot, we knew you well but now....???

What drone?

So far we have seen ZERO evidence that a drone was involved. Examine the following:

1. the pilot didn't see a drone. In fact he was unaware of the collision until the aircraft landed and the damage was observed.
2. there have been zero credible reports of drone-bits being found in the hole on the aircraft wing.
3. there have been zero reports that Remote ID receivers or similar tech picked up a drone in the vicinity at the time of the incident.

Don't get me wrong -- it MAY have been a drone but right now there has been zero actual evidence released to support the claims being made.

This could have also been:

1. a bird.
2. a piece of material lofted into the air by the strong winds created by the wildfires (well documented in the past)
3. something we haven't identified

There's strong pressure from certain commercial interests to villify recreational drone use in order to clear hobbyists out of the 0-400ft segment of the airspace to make room for delivery drones and eVTOL air taxis. When you look at how long it actually took for the DHS, FBI and FAA to admit that the "mystery drones" over NJ and NY were basically just airliners, the suggestion that certain sectors are keen to vilify drones becomes even more credible.

Don't get me wrong... this may well be a drone and if it was, I'd be leading the lynch mob to deal with the idiot who was flying it -- however, as someone who is well versed in "sciencing stuff" I think we need a modicum of proof (ie: evidence) before we jump to conclusions. Remember the airline pilot who swore he hit a drone while landing at Heathrow? Yeah... it turned out to be a shopping bag. What we think has happened and what *actually* happens are often two entirely different things, sometimes driven by our biases.

Thank God they're keeping the Alienware brand alive -- otherwise we'd have nothing to laugh at when it comes to crappy gaming systems. Oh... I forgot, HP still make "gaming" systems too don't they?

According to Mr Musk's statements on numerous previous occasions, we first set foot on Mars last year (2024) with two crewed and two uncrewed Starships.

I guess the media didn't bother reporting that because Elon wouldn't bullshite us would he?

Oops, I'm running late... I have to catch the hyperloop to LA and pick up my brand new Tesla Roadster.

Ah, Elon, integrity and honesty personified and, now that he's the defacto deputy President of the USA, I see great things ahead for that nation.

Ah... MP/M... I remember it well. I wrote quite a bit of multi-user code running under MP/M back in the day.

To my mind it should have been the winning alternative to MSDOS once 16-bit CPUs hit the scene but sadly, not.

I was diagnosed with Parkinson's about five years ago.

I asked my doctor what I could do to help myself and questioned whether exercise would be of any benefit (use it or lose it).

He told me "no, just take these (carvadopa/levadopa) pills".

Having a background in engineering and science... I did my *own* research.

I discovered that endorphins promoted the release of dopamine. The slow death of the brain-cells that produce most of your dopamine is the root cause of Parkinson's so I figured that perhaps if I exercised enough to create a release of endorphins, it might help restore some of my dopamine levels.

Tried it... it worked. Now I walk 10-20Km a day (that's 2-4 hours!) and I lift weights (put on an inch and a half of lean-mass around my upper arms).

I also found, during my research, that there are definite links betwee caffeine and dopamine production so I stopped taking the pills and now I use shots of carefully timed espresso during the day to modulate my symptoms to a manageable level.

After five years I'm still (caffeine excepted) drug-free and my symptoms have progress only very slightly. By comparison, I met up with a guy who'd been diagnosed at the same time as me (five years ago) and who'd simply followed his doctor's advice (take these pills). He's now a wobbly mess, suffering from significant levels of diskynesia as a result of the levadopa he's been ingesting during that period.

Subsiquently, in recent years (only *after* I discovered this for myself), the medical community is now strongly recommending exercise as a crucial part of the treatment of Parkinson's. My advice: always do your own research and be prepared to try things for yourself, the medical profession seems to move incredibly slowly when it comes to trying new things.

Although this is being advertised as a "security" move, the reality is that it's far more about trade protection.

The US drone industry lags miles behind that of China and it's apparently that there's no way consumers will buy US-made drones unless they are the *only* option so the plan is to make that the case.

To be clear however, DJI (the main focus of this move and the world's #1 drone maker) does have some pretty ratty policies and has, in the past, been caught "repatriating" copies of users images and video to servers in China where the CCP has full access to them.

Apparently *we* (citizens) have to accept that our every move will be tracked, monitored and logged by all manner of CCTV, cellular, license-tag-readers, etc and kept by the government but we can't allow a foreign power to do the same. It's all kind of moot really, when you consider how easily China appears to have hacked telcos, key mail-servers and even the Treasury.

We have to assume that *everything* we do and *everything* we have is known to all major foreign states these days.

Google Earth has nothing on the state-operated sat-mapping systems being run by a host of other countries so why would they need drone footage?

So many investors are going to lose their shirts in the AAM (advanced air mobility) marketplace because we have idiots promising to deliver solutions that simply can't be created given the current state of battery technology. I predicted the failure of these companies and now we're seeing reality bite.

The fact is that we've had this form of transport for decades -- it's called a helicopter yet even though the capability has existed, we don't see much demand for point to point VTOL transport in the formof "air taxis" do we?

So here's the stupid plan on which these ventures are based:

1. let's reinvent the helicopter, even though clearly there's not much demand for an air-taxi service
2. let's use electric power so the range, payload and turn-around capability is significantly worse than a helicopter
3. let's use tiny propellors so there is no failsafe (autorotation) capability in the event of power system failure
4. let's remove the pilot and rely on GPS -- which could go out or be jammed at any moment.

In short -- create a really bad solution for a problem that really doesn't exist.

Watch for more stupid investors who don't do their due dilligence and got an F in science at school to lose their shirts before this fiasco is over.

Yes, AAM may become a viable business but it is *decades* away from that right now and those who try to make it a commercial reality will die on the bleeding edge.

The title of this page makes no sense... combining the revenue per employee of multiple companies doesn't reduce the figure at all -- it simply averages them.

Do they not teach math in school these days?

Why should he apologise?

From this story Phys.org

"the glasses cannot improve scores in professional screening tests, contrary to what the company claims on its website"

Doesn't seem he's "incorrect" at all.

To be fair.. the FAA has been failing very badly of late.

Boeing??? Where was the FAA? "Oh, Boeing's okay, they can self-certify their aircraft, there'll be no conflict of interests there"

Drones over NJ/NY??? Surely the FAA should have come out and made it clear, right from the get-go, that these sightings were almost entirely down to manned aircraf that the FAA knew about and had records for?

Now this drone show which would have been operating under a wiaver from the FAA. That waiver should have required that the operator prove they were managing the risks -- yet clearly they weren't and the FAA were clearly not even checking.

The FAA is a train-wreck right now (IMHO).

Actually, drone shows are safer than lots of things.

For example -- based on the current available historical data, you're far more likely to be hospitalized as the result of a metor exploding overhead than you are by being struck by a drone at a drone light show.

In 2013 a meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk causing almost 1,500 people to be injured, hudreds of those requiring hospital treatment.

Almost a century earlier, at Tunguska, an unknown number of people died in a very similar event.

Yep, falling space rock is still a bigger danger than small drones.