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Also, I work a lot in Django, and love the new site.

I know people with multirotor craft that have 5-10km radio range; that should tell you something: at that range there's no way the drone is in sight range, though it is possible (and even common) to have FPV video, but that really doesn't give you the kind of vision needed to avoid all kinds of risks (especially other aircraft, closing at high speed from behind).

Fighting the use of the term "drone" is like trying to change the popular use of "hacking". It's too late, and I'm not sure why it really matters. I don't think anyone is really confused when I say I'm flying a drone what I mean - they know it's not an armed Predator.

http://www.ttb.gov/spirits/faq.shtml

This is different from brewing beer, cider and winemaking, which are quite differently regulated.

If this was tech companies claiming to no longer comply with NSL's, I'd be at very least suspicious as there'd be no way to test these doubts short of another Snowden. But this is law enforcement, subject to all kinds of scrutiny in courts across the US. It'll be much easier to see whether Apple and Google are successful at resisting their demands.

Also, whether there's a military presence in the area or not is irrelevant to their needs - the military doesn't provide tactical support in law enforcement actions.

I'm not taking the position that it's a sane use of resources or a necessity (I don't think it is)...

I only wish my bank (Wells Fargo) supported SMS alerts for transactions - if there's one thing I don't mind getting frequent notifications about, it would be this.

The problem I see is that the perception of what warrants a given rating varies pretty widely, and most sites do a terrible job of trying to help their users calibrate their ratings. I monitor Yelp regularly for my girlfriend, who owns a wine bar. Her ratings are generally excellent - over 4 star avg., with most ratings at 5 for the past two years. However, every once in a while we see an anomalous rating - for instance:

- one current 3-star says "I have to be honest, I didn't have anything to drink, I was with friends waiting for the midnight showing at the theatre next door. However, it was packed and happening and EVERYBODY was having a good time."

So this person, who wasn't a patron, but who had nothing but positive impressions, still left what ultimately will be considered a sub-standard rating. This is actually most common for us with 3-stars - they are generally very positive reviews, with nothing negative at all, but with what most Yelpers would consider a sub-standard rating.

Mostly when I look at Yelp ratings, it follows the same pattern - 80% of the ratings seem to correlate closely with the reviews and the typical Yelp ratings standards. 10% seem to be using a different rating standard. And 10% are just weird.

He would, no doubt, be given a lengthy federal trial, likely found guilty and serve Federal prison time, while receiving moral and legal aid from many corners, particularly organizations concerned with civil rights, whistleblowing, and journalism. His conviction might even be eventually overturned.

Indefinite detention works (in that it has not been stopped) because those who are imprisoned without due process have few mainstream defenders - plenty of people object to the methods, but are ho-hum on the actual people involved. Assange's detention without due process would be a political nightmare for the administration at very least.

Treason is a crime against one's own country; the US cannot try him for treason, nor can Sweden.

Let's not exaggerate here.

There's also a huge correlation between unlicensed riders and serious injuries. Motorcycle riders are far more likely to be unlicensed than car drivers - last I heard was something like 3-4 times as likely.

Unlicensed motorcycle riders are over twice as likely to be in fatal accidents than licensed motorcycle riders.

I ride 15,000-20,000 miles a year - I'm well trained, equipped, and experienced. A lot of bike owners ride weekends, occasional trips, etc. I actually don't ride much on the weekends - and when I do, I'm pretty shocked how bad (dangerous, rude, etc) the riders are compared to the commuters I mostly see.

That's a very weird statistic. Sure, since those riders spend most of their 30 years riding time over 25yo.

From your link: "The highest death and injury rates were among 20-24 year-olds, followed by 25-29 year-olds."

In other words, the bulk of deaths on bikes are young, inexperienced, and/or unlicensed riders.

Also, bike deaths are far more likely to involve alcohol than car deaths; so if you're like me and you don't drink before riding, you've just improved your chances.

Shorter names weren't seen as necessarily good - at least within some of the conversations around this TLD's inception there was some scorn for the overly techie, terse TLDs and domain names.

Not going to post a torrent though - mostly cuz you all can figure it out anyhow. The images are all of the form:

NNNNNN01.JPG on that S3 bucket.

NNNNNN is the object ID (the internal record ID of the work of art) zero-padded to 6 digits. The object ID is the same value that appears, for instance, in the URL on their online collection:

URL for Irises: http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artObjectDetails?artobj=...

URL for the full-rez image on S3: http://gettylargeimages.s3.amazonaws.com/00094701.jpg

You figure it out :)

There's also the more focused, but less functional, Getty Museum online collection, which has (more or less) the same museum objects, and also has links to download the images where available.

Note, this is ~5000 images out of a collection of hundreds of thousands of objects. This is the easy stuff - public domain objects, with no rights/contract issues, with available, high-quality imaging, fully owned by Getty.

Many other institutions have open APIs for their collection data, and often for images as well. See:

Cooper-Hewitt (data released on github) Brooklyn Museum (API) Powerhouse Museum (API) Rijksmuseum Indianapolis Museum of Art (also data on github) Europeana (a EU-wide consortium) DPLA (similar to Europeana, but in the US)

Also, lots of other institutions have open access to their images - many much more comprehensive than The Getty (not to sound bitter, but Getty is getting a lot of press for this where others have lead for years). It's really an imperative at this point - and for most institutions more a matter of when (since few have substantial technical staff) than if. The Getty is an exception, having a large, well-funded staff, but tends to be conservative in policy changes.

For other examples of cultural institutions sharing images widely:

National Gallery (high rez) Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Met

All this just off the top of my head -

Ever since Bridgeman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Corel_...) most museums have accepted that no matter how much effort goes into the imaging, some imaging simply does not qualify as novel enough to warrant new copyright. This ruling is, as I understand it, not actually binding in other districts, but it's generally accepted.

Because imaging of flat art, without a frame, is inherently intended to add as little interpretation as possible, it's generally accepted that reproduction imaging of 2D art is not copyrightable. This is the Getty's own position (I worked there until a few months ago, from the same department that brought this project out).

Any other questions I can answer about this project I will.

I live in Long Beach, where TED is held, and I had personal experience with someone using Google Glasses while driving during this years event - I was on my motorcycle a few blocks from the convention center, and I finally pulled over (in heavy traffic) and waited for him to get well away from me before I entered traffic again.

I hope these things are banned from use while driving - it's bad enough trying to stay alive on the roads as it is.

Hobbyists everywhere can have this - Arducopter (DIYDrones.com) and other projects have had this for years. Arduino + compass + GPS + accelerometer + altimeter + optional XBee radio (~2km+ range on some models) + autopilot software... preprogrammed routes, live telemetry and course changes via Xbee and ground control software.