Recent content by Eslader

I'm being scornful of the specific language in the article, which suggests that an ordinary window blind will stop bluetooth transmissions.

tests have already shown that a drone was able to infect a network by connecting to a Bluetooth mouse and injecting malware into it. It won’t be long before businesses and governments will have a reason to keep their blinds closed 24/7, in order to keep drones from being used to hack into their...

GFCI and GFI are the same thing. Kinda like "color" and "colour." Btw, it's also code in the US to have a GFI in wet locations like bathrooms, but GFI outlets aren't 100% reliable (nothing is) and so I still wouldn't dry my hair in the bathtub. Well actually, I wouldn't dry my hair in the...

And if I recall, that "up to" time is hovering the drone on a windless day with no camera. So... Yeah, you're probably not gonna get that flight time.

The (small) media company I work for wants to get into drone work. At first I thought they only wanted to do the photography side, but they're also interested in exploring thermal work. I see a lot of resources out there but being 100% ignorant of all things thermal, it's hard to separate the...

Some of that might come down to a 1st amendment issue. Murder is illegal, but it is not illegal for me to explain that one way to murder someone is to point a gun at them and pull the trigger.

Yup, Wednesday works for me. Looks like I can make it out there by around 5pm. I'll meet you in the parking lot next to the baseball fields. I'll either be in a black sedan or a red sports car.

Tuesday and Friday have the lowest chance of rain. I can do either one, just lemme know a day in advance so I can have the batteries charged. HQ: No problem - good to see you're still around!

Welcome! If the others are as busy as I've been this summer, not much flying has gotten done. I'm ready to change that. My work's not far from Corcoran. Be happy to meet you at 5pm or later after Labor Day with my Typhoon. I don't see any concerns (airspace-wise) with that community park at the...

You'd have to codify that in law, because there's no way the stores are going to want to do it. The $5 is nothing, but if people find out that they have to study and take a government-mandated test to fly legally, 9 times out of 10 they'll buy a Playstation instead. Which would be a good...

The real problem is that they aren't targeting what they need to target if they're truly interested in people following the rules. Why can I wander in to Best Buy and walk out with a drone, and be flying it that evening? The salesgoober certainly isn't going to tell me that there are a bunch of...

Or someone tripped you. That used to happen sometimes when someone was walking across campus with a stack of 'em.

8 gigs is bare minimum for a low-end Windows 10 system in my opinion. Which is crazy if you were around in the days when 256k of ram was enormous, but such is progress. And like I said when I initially recommended it, this is for people who want to go to the next level of video editing. If you...

If you're editing in 4k yes. Step it down to HD and it does fine on less-than-bleeding-edge hardware. And if you only have an average computer you're probably not driving a 4k monitor anyway so... ;)

Absolutely agree. Blackmagic is for when you find the easy stuff too limiting and want to expand.