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Drones are just helicopters or planes without pilots. There is nothing requiring them to have multiple rotors or look like a quadrocopter. Here is the existing unmanned heavy-lifter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaman_K
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Looks like it's known and was marked as "won't fix", but it seems like a major privacy vulnerability to me. https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=252165
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Here is DARPAs version of the exact same thing, from 8 years ago. https://web.archive.org/web/20081209121430/http://www.darpa.... https://web.archive.org/web/20081204131348/http
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There are numerous problems with this ship but the main reason why it won’t be used is that the US Navy already has a very similar ship that has been in testing since 2006 and is all around better than the vehicle in the article. http:
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Is it technically possible for counties to own the "last mile" and charge companies a maintenance fee directly proportional to the amount of customers that use each service? Can the last mile connection be shared between companies
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It probably wouldn't be hard to make an option that switches between different types of viewing styles, it's all on the software side. Here is one camera that can switch views: http://nightvisionplanet.com/media&#x
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Isn't supporting new features one of the many issues? Each API level has many very useful new features but most users are stuck several versions below. There's also the security issues of having an older version of Android. Each n
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The user who receives it can: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en I don't think they do too much storing of email details, they know that it's a sensitive area and that an employee will e
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You can ban GoogleBot easily, just put a line in your robots.txt file, but then people won't be able to easily find your site using Google services. If you provide value to Google they will make an API to allow accessing that data easi
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>> "Behind the scenes, Google doesn't only have public data," says Suchanek. It can also pull in information from Gmail, Google+ and Youtube."You and I are stored in the Knowledge Vault in the same way as Elvis Pr
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The code is on github so you can host it on your own server fairly easily. The website says that it's very lightweight (everything stored in memory) and currently running on a low cost server. Download a copy now and save it just in ca
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Are there any Noise Cancelling earmuffs that aren't headphones? Is that even possible?
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It's amazing how important organisms that live in our intestines (and other parts of our body) are to our health, mood, immune system, and even our offspring. Related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Microbiome_
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Another method would be to setup a vehicle or box on the side of the road that emulated an emergency vehicle which instructed the light to change to green in the direction that you wanted it (could also be used to change lights to red if pu
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Cloud storage would work best, stored at multiple data-centers for extra redundancy, stored with multiple cloud services to be extra cautious. Gold CDs claim to last 300 years and are not too expensive: http://www.amazon.com/
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If you thought your kids didn't like you before, wait until you install something like this on their phone. Emotions are weird, if you're sitting around worrying about your child then you need a hobby. If it's really a proble
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The TrueCrypt author is anonymous and would have to reveal their identity in order to enforce the license, which they would be very unlikely to do. According to CipherShed's forum the main thing they have to do is remove all references
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The main concern is that a company could come along and pump out all the water from an aquifer or lake that a village/community/town depends on and it would be perfectly legal because "it's my water too". Privatizin
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Same with the half-inch titanium plate upgrade given to Tesla owners. It probably wasn't necessary (and might have been largely a marketing stunt) but going above and beyond at such a critical stage in the companies history will undoub
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Who would you recommend for hero status to tech people?
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Wouldn't it make more sense to make suspected "black hat" SEO not contribute to a websites rankings but also not hurt it? It's always been an issue that someone can purchase links on spam websites and harm competitors, I
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Both objects are traveling at 17,000 MPH and any mistake could kill lots of people and destroy a hundred billion dollar structure and would set humanity back decades in space. "Slow" in space is relative and extremely necessary.
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The title of this article is: "By 2020, you could have an exascale speed-of-light optical computer on your desk" We might be able to rent one and have access to it remotely. Right now it's still in the theory phase, I'm
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Is there anything stopping researchers from opening labs on Indian reservations? There might be some technical requirements (like Native Americans have to be the owners) and it might be expensive, but I'm sure someone in the Native Ame
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You can download other app stores that are usually less strict on the requirements.
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half inch, 12" by 12" for $360 from Amazon: http://www.amazonsupply.com/dp/B00CNM793E (Grade 2) They also have up to 4 inch thick 12x36 inch plate (only $8,000) and several other dimensions of sheets and rods
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I'm not saying that my answer is the correct answer, it's just my current opinion. Do you have anything to contribute to the conversion or do you just like telling people that their opinions don't make sense to you and are th
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Useful to me? None. Useful to spammers? Half a billion emails is very useful. Useful to hackers? Hundreds of millions of records. Useful for fraud? Hundreds of millions of records. Useful for data-mining and intelligence? All of them. Many
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Adobe + Target + PlayStation leaks alone total over 300 million credentials. AOL 2004 = 92 million AOL 2006 = 20 million Apple 2012 = 12 million Blizzard 2012 = 14 million BNY Mellon 2008 = 12.5 million Cardsystems Solutions 2005 = 40 milli
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"Ok, so in the situation that this code is not perfect, which we know it will not be, what code do we run?" You're going to have to ask someone who works at Google that kind of question. Not all of the rules are hard-coded. M
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