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Comment Phase-I buy UAV, Phase-II call FAA, Phase-III.... (Score 1) 253

by windseeker on Friday January 07, 2011 @09:22PM (#34800714) Attached to: Honeywell To Sell Miami-Dade Police a Surveillance Drone

From a privacy perspective, this is no different that a current police helicopter. And it's not the drone they showed over and over it the video. It's this guy,
http://www.thawkmav.com/index.php
almost a toy.

The story here is that they under estimated the FAA's concern over UAVs in the National Airspace. Much bigger players than the Miami-Dade police force want permission for this, but so far it has not happened. They have an expensive toy, which can't be legally flown anywhere except military managed restricted airspace.

Honeywell To Sell Miami-Dade Police a Surveillance Drone 253

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 07, 2011 @11:48AM from the setting-trends dept.

AHuxley writes "The Miami-Dade Police Department recently finalized a deal to buy a 20-pound drone from defense firm Honeywell. The drone can fly for 40 minutes, reach heights of 10,500 feet and cruise in the air at 46 miles an hour. As the Miami-Dade Police Department has recently made a lot of budget cuts, the funding may have come from a federal grant. An eye in the sky like over Iraq and Afghanistan may soon be looking down over South Florida 'to keep people safe.' Honeywell has applied to the FAA for clearance to fly the drone in urban areas."

Matching Up Hotkeys for OS X and Linux GUIs? 83

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 27, 2008 @02:17PM from the bringing-on-the-singularity dept.

I use a MacBook Pro for my main machine, but also have a Ubuntu desktop. I get irritated about switching between command-oriented hotkeys and ctrl-oriented hotkeys (cmd-a on OSX = ctrl-a on Linux/windows). I've looked over a lot of forums and have found that Gnome doesn't seem capable of changing hotkeys, while xfce and fluxbox can. The ideal solution would be a way to change system keys in X, or at the system level — that way I can keep compiz. Does anyone have any ideas or know a trick to change system hot keys?

Comment RHEL rebuild distro's (Score 1) 666

by windseeker on Thursday November 13, 2003 @04:57PM (#7468672) Attached to: Ask Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik

Lots of people feel there is a gap in the server market between RHEL-ES at $350/year/box and the $0 Fedora with it's 9 month lifetime. Filling this will be new distributions built from RHEL source code that pride themselves on being nothing but RHEL minus the logos. Such efforts would be easy for Redhat to derail, with oddball build environments, java dependent installers, dependency changes in security patches, etc. while still staying true to the GPL.

Are you worried about the knock-off distro's and would redhat ever change its policies to make them less attractive?

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