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Much like an approach to learning software, I'd say pick a project that you'd like to control in some fashion. Could be something like:

- Turn on a desklamp when I enter the room

- Remotely open my garage door without modifying the hardware

- Tell me the status of the sprinkler system

One good place to get ideas is look at a product that does something interesting, but you want it to do more. Examples from my own current project list:

- LED strips with a remote control that give the option of 16 colors. Modifying said controller to give me more colors (as the LEDs are RGB LEDs)

- Hacking a wireless power socket to not need the remote but be computer controlled.

If nothing else, pick up a copy of Make magazine and have fun...
This sounds like a plea for DARPA blue sky funding more than a near-term warning - and even the specific example (Blue-on-blue air attack) is common enough most of us know the terms and can think of examples.

Sorry - we can certainly inject a few poor souls with various compounds but there is a world of difference between a coked-up weight lifter with weaponry and an effective soldier who can choose targets and not commit atrocities during withdrawal.

Want to make super soldiers - train them constantly and expensively, have clear objectives and morally acceptable enemies (this is a big one IMO) and a support network of medical and friendships to help cushion the horrors.
Its called special forces - and its expensive.
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"Air hosts/hostesses have none of those attributes - they are merely parrotting rules handed down to them, without putting any thought into them."

Seriously? They're required to "parrot" the rules; it's their job. If they didn't do so there would probably be even more disrespectful people like you on the plane. They ask very little of you as a passenger; you can still be "free and responsible" without acting like simple rules don't apply to you.
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I don't think I've ever been more appreciative of any single Senator than I am now for Claire McCaskill and her comments in this article.

A plane I was on just last week had a flight attendant that made the claim that he could check some sensor and tell us which mobile devices were on within the plane at any time. After the flight, I checked in with my family (Two teenagers, myself, and my older parents) and discovered that every one of us had taken that as a challenge and left our devices on.
>"You really want that moral equivalence"

Strawman.

>"as do things like deliberate starvation."

How do you think economic sanctions have affected populations in Cuba, Iran and Iraq over the years? Why do you think the rest of the world sees the US as a bully?

People like Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot are easy. But when people trot around on their moral high horse like "our" own countries haven't done despicable (read: "evil") things is where the real problem lies.

In case you hadn't heard, we got rid of Hitler. But that took people on the outside to recognize what was happening on the inside.
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Gene therapy has limited use, but some success stories already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_therapy#2007 and is advancing slowly but surely without government funding :)
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Are you OK with losing me as a customer? Because I don't have a smart phone.
I like it!

I was gently confused by the "We put a feedback link on everypage" comment.

(http://imgur.com/YoB3G)

Is that only for people signed in?
> Speaking for myself, I have no respect for authority that does not stem from experience, knowledge, wisdom, etc. Air hosts/hostesses have none of those attributes..

s/no respect for authority.../no respect/

Flight attendants have experience of being flight attendants, moreso than you I assume, and they're doing the job they're paid to do (which is in part to enforce those rules).
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Windows Phone and Windows 8 marketplaces are the best of the app markets in this regard. There is almost always a "try" mode and it can be time, transaction or feature restricted or just the full app with ads.

It's in one way a drawback to WP developers. They have full control on whether to provide 'try' option or not but almost every user expects the app to have the option before putting in money. So not providing a 'try' option will be a lose-lose situation for the developer. But it's a huge boon to the user. I've tried countless of apps only to end up not purchasing many as they are poor or sometimes the trial app is good enough to use.
You may find this an interesting read:

http://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-How-Luxury-Lost-Luster/dp/01431...

It goes into how the goods are nearly always made in low-cost countries like China & Philippines these days, and that the demand for them is purely status-driven.
Most large planes aren't designed to do aerobatic maneuvers. Doing a barrel roll could rip off pieces from the control surfaces, cause an engine to separate, or tear off an entire wing. That's assuming the flight control software will let you try that in the first place.
This seems like a list of debunked myths that no one actually believed anyway.
(While a couple specific devices are open, most Android devices are closed; it does a disservice to connect the notion of "Android" with "open". Your point stands, however, with that detail fixed, although the process for setting up Debian or Ubuntu Core in a cheroot to get a nice ssh server with a decent shell and a package manager is a lot more complex than Telesphoreo on an iPhone.)

That done with, from the "average user's perspective", jailbreaking an iPhone 4 gets you more freedoms from less invested time and with less required knowledge than even a a "truly open" Nexus device: the tools are more centralized and easier to find how-tos that expect nothing more than "I sort of know enough to use YouTube", they are less technical to operate (and often even quite graphical; sometimes even having been embedded in web pages for a "slide to jailbreak‘ experience: I don't think I've ever seen a hack quite as smooth as comex's JailbreakMe 3.0), and due to Substrate it is infinitely easier to intstall the one or two custom changes you want rather than thinking about choosing and installing a custom version of the entire OS or having to screw around with risky patch files or incredibly complex baksmali instructions.
In my opinion "Be so good they can't ignore you" is helpful with the first question.
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i see alot of insightfull opinions and provided very interesting and helpful links.
But we haven't heard of you yet.
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Getting out of your seat on a taxiway is a bad idea. Planes do occasionally bump into one another. How'd you like to be standing up looking for your carry-on inside this CRJ when this happens:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayCWSm1f9qk
Tumblr has a plenty mature community — and one focused on very serious issues (Tumblr helped surface the Trayvon Martin story, for example). I know college professors who post there regularly. There are artists who do amazing things there (see: http://annstreetstudio.com/). They would probably benefit from a customizable approach as well.

I think this is a mistake and you may find it hard to find users willing to submit content because you're not giving them much encouragement to post.

EDIT: Upon reflection, this statement was a bit harsh and I tempered it a bit, but I do hope you consider ways to focus on the user as much as the creator.
Reminds me a bit of The Superest. In the case of The Superest, two artists take turns creating super heroes/villians that could defeat the previous character. http://thesuperest.com/
The 3D ones we rendered ourselves and the others are photos we took.
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Great suggestion. Yes makes a lot of sense. We'll add those today.
Thanks, much appreciated and some great info
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No descriptive Readme or whatsoever!?
I have seen repeatedly comments appearing on subjects like these, written by relatively new accounts and supporting some form of surveillance measures. What they have in common is, that they just make a 1-sentence statement "we should be thankful that someone is protecting us", and provide no further arguments for their case. But them being troll baits might be more realistic. After all we are still arguing about it.

If you are trying to nit-pick about word definitions, kindly include the second part of the definition, that clearly supports my use of the word for comparing good/bad quality: "2.	qualitative - relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities".
Perhaps its just how your body is build? Do you have any problems related to APT? I would tell about your concern your yoga teacher. He can help you design yoga routine to fix that if its an issue.
Anyone can point out the differences between this and TotalFinder from BinaryAge (apart being free)?
Today I end a blog project that has run 1,095 days in a row.
> speculation about problems in the air by experienced aircraft operators is the only clue that we have just up to the point where people die

You mean that in a decade it hasn't been possible for the FAA/FCC to get hold of an airplane, some devices and actually test that proposition?
"I've often thought about setting up an installation with one pixel per person"

The problem with this kind of simple scatterplot is that there is an maximum density that you can represent, when the dots start to overlap. And you can't tell what that maximum density is by looking at the map, so it in effect misrepresents the data. The example in the article compensates for this by allowing zooming, but the problem is still there at most zoom levels. To avoid this you need to use one of the techniques that tessellates the plane and colors each tile according to the average value in the tile.
The docs are bit short for the moment. But simply put, montag is a bit like hobix and relies on the command line and yaml/json files. Docs will be added as the project gains momentum
I've had more than one brand manager tell me that in any other situation, the designer behind the items would be able to walk into a job with them due to their new designs being so good.

Thank you for telling us your experience. That was exactly the point I was trying to get through. The market that buys cheap to reasonable copies would never be able to pay the premium price of the original merchandise, thus there's no loss there.

However, the role of the high quality counterfeiter and the market that they aim for should be better understood in order to be economically explored. Though not by litigation, but by normal market channels.

In the end, instead of paying lawyers to pursue the lost revenue, we could create new brands that would fit the expectations of these unharvested markets.
What happens when the avionics hears intermodulation distortion?

What instruments would/could be (or are) affected by signals from consumer electronics devices?
Let's say I want to take down a plane with radio interference. What is the most plausible attack vector? What devices have the highest ratio of distortion to size?
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I got one when I was 28, 2 years later I'm almost good. Breaks(I use MacBreakZ on OSX and Workrave on Windows), Colemak, Kinesis keyboard, trackball and regular stretching helped me a lot.
I'd be more interested in this project if it had documentation.

Still I have spent several hours over the past few days reviewing various static site generators to see how well they fair against my own personal requirements:

* https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators

Perhaps unsurprisingly my own tool https://github.com/skx/templer is currently in the lead. The biggest failure I've seen with most of the static site generators I've reviewed has been complete failure to successfully handle symbolic links.
Visiting in Chrome on OSX, it started a download of the SoundCloud widget HTML.
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I think the FAA is acting like an idiot, here, but it'd be good to look at this from their side.

This falls under the "stuff that might make me look bad" category. You can be the guy who prevents electronic devices on planes for 50 years and it doesn't matter. But if you're the guy that approves them and then there's a crash? Better get your Senate suit out of the cleaners, because all of those politicians writing you letters to "do something" will be the first ones asking you the tough questions on national TV. They'll be first in line to take credit if the result is good, but it's all on you if the result is bad.

It's very difficult to set up a politically-derived organization that can deal with risk effectively. Instead on manageable risk, it's much safer and easier to push for situations with no risk at all -- take the TSA, for instance.

No bureaucrat gets fired for being too careful. This is an issue that might very well end up requiring legislation to fix.

ADD: One more note. Every day there are millions of passenger miles flown on airlines. Surely the law of large numbers says that we're already performing an experiment on electronic device radiation and the cockpit. There's no way you can get 100% of the devices off. Somebody left their phone in the carry-on. Somebody's PC refuses to shut down. Somebody forgets to turn his kindle off. Dozens, if not hundreds of times each day, planes are flying in difficult weather with all kinds of electronic devices transmitting all kinds of garbage. Yet we've never seen a flight failure due to electronic interference.

And of course the pilots are up front using all sorts of consumer devices as well.

We've already done the experiment, at least in smaller numbers. Whether or not there's a problem when hundreds of devices are on is certainly an open question, but whether or not a few of them are going to take down a plane is already settled.
My experience is quite contrary. I've lived (and actively cycled) in three cities: San Francisco, London and Helsinki and although London is absolutely the worst of these three to cycle from the safety perspective, I nevertheless learned to enjoy cycling in traffic. I've rarely been more alert and present in the moment as during my morning rides to work. It gave me quite an adrenaline rush and I felt great afterwards.
Not a great choice of title given to apes and monkeys we look like mutants.

But the article is about artificial enhancments and perhaps the bongionic(Bong+Bionic) man may have been a better choice, even if it is a made up word (all words start somewhere). I say bongionic as it is about `enhancment drugs` (all drugs enhance, some enhance drowiness or lower states of mind, just some positive definition used for sheep fashion) and borg like augmentation and the ethics and moral aspects.

Given we have some standards even in war like chemical weapons are bad and torture of prisoners being bad. Also the aspect of a soldier surrendering in a posion cloud would kind of break both those standards. In general we have certain weapons that we agree should not be used on each other. Sadly thought that does not stop them being done in secret or in other forms and `tested` on our own people, as highlighted about the testing of LSD in the article.

That all said, dispite the morals, this type of finance of research projects does have a positive outcome for the populus. It's just at what price we think is right.

But researchers are great at telling you that they want the next set of research funding targeted at, subliminal meme selling at its best even. I do wonder if you realy want to win a war, just send them lots of researchers to help them and after a few years they wont be able to afford a war, win win chuckle.

But the old saying about how war advances technology, it is also the possibilities of war that help keep some extra momentum. They also say it was war technology that put a man on the moon; Though they never mention the technology that got them back.

Bottom line, they may not create a superhuman they want, but they certianly will create some cures for other now and happening issues in health as a sideline.

I'm also reminded of a Star Trek TNG episode http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Hunted_(episode)

The question from that is can you restore the soldier to normal and with that we have a track record of being very slow to spot and treat the signs of even mental negative changes of ex soldier (though getting better every day). Not sure how you can improve some aspects behind having a heads up display and enhanced vision turning all hostiles into mario or the like to obviscate the emotional impacts later on. Does raise many question, but these are in many ways issues we have today still and with that we will just end up building nanobot armies in the end, too what end I'm not sure anybody knows or wants to find out. But they want to do it, that war technology research and costs, both fiscaly and moraly have a very undefined standard which we can only guess upon.
Here is the context that makes these features not seem ad hoc:

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/ecmascript-5-caja-retrofitti...

Many of the additions (including object.freeze) and changes were made for the purpose of making JavaScript usable as an object capability language. Mark Miller explains the background and some of the changes in the video linked above.
Speaking for myself, and with my NIH syndrome firmly in place, unless you have documentation you'll find momentum is going to be very slow to build.
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There is a drug called modafinil, is not an amphetamine in the strict sense of the word but it can keep you awake for many hours, is used to treat narcolepsy and its already being used in the military.
>So on an airplane, if there are tens or hundreds of devices, you get a real mass of interfering signals.

I'd wager large and ridiculous amounts of cash that many people just stash their devices without actually turning them "off" or into any kind of "airplane mode".

So where's this danger?

What about devices that don't have an "off"? I've gotten into more than one argument (and nearly ejected from a plane) over a Kindle, since even when "off" there's still text on the screen. It took the words of about 4 other passengers to convince the FA she needs to educate herself about e-ink.

The ire here is because the FAA's rules have no intelligence behind them.

"Electromagnetic interference"

Science doesn't add up. Try again.

"Distraction"

You don't stop people from reading books.

"Danger in case of turbulence or sudden movement"

Again you don't stop people from reading books.

I, and a great deal more air travellers, would have more respect for the rules if they showed the slightest inkling of having any kind of common sense or conistency to them. When a five year old can point out something wrong with your rule, you are doing it wrong.
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Node.js also compiles/runs on the RPi without issue.

EDIT: On Raspbian, haven't tried with FreeBSD.
I'm also a Chrome user on OS X, but I can't reproduce this... Maybe check if it's one of your extensions?
Seems like it's broken at the moment. I'll check in later. Neat idea and execution!
This was an unwelcome surprise for me too.
And this is why we can't have nice things. "The rules," as you so aptly scare-quote, are not there solely to govern the actions of a single human being. They are there so that the system, as a whole, functions. A word exists for this: society. Unless the rule is unjust, you are not the final arbiter of whether or not a rule should be followed. What you find sensible and reasonable may not actually _be_ sensible and reasonable beyond first glance.

Yes, this rule appears to be monumentally stupid. However, another person in this very thread has raised a good (though possibly misinformed) point regarding frequency intermod. Sometimes we simply can't test all circumstances and the FAA has made a (potentially dumb) judgement call in favor of overwhelming paranoia for safety instead of letting people fling colored birds at green pigs below 10,000 feet.

Being free does not give you license to discard that which you, in your own self, deem insensible when you are existing in a space where anyone but yourself exists. You operate in a world with billions of other humans, each with competing goals and diverging motivations. The least you can do is play by the rules that we, as a group, have decided are the compromise.

As a bit of site commentary, I notice your post getting more and more grey as people remove points because they disagree. In this instance, I added a point because, though I disagree, I think that your post is a useful addition to the commentary.
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Wouldn't make an important decision based on them. They are good, but a lot of what they do isn't nearly rigorous enough to risk lives.
Two days ago I flew VIE-MXP. I didn't turn off my iPad, nor my I put my iPhone on flight mode. Yet, I'm still here typing this.
Does this happen to you when you interact with it or when the page loads?

EDIT: might it also be the effect of one of the extensions you might have installed?
From my understanding in a lot (at least a few) National Parks not all of the land is owned by the park. There are spots of land in the parks that are privately owned; and, some people have decided to build homes on that private land in the National Parks.

CBS Sunday morning had a piece [1] on the whole deal with people building homes in national parks.

[1]http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57530300/national-par...
Automatically downloaded a soundcloud file. It then told me "This site is requesting you download multiple files. Allow or Deny." Running Chrome for Android.
Visions of planes with sponsored by starbucks on the back made me chuckle. But I'm all for sending them too the front line.

Though with planes now, easier to replace have a remote pilot and with that can easily change and negate that entire issue. Or combination of the two with sleep detection alerting a remote pilot to take over with a remote control pilot ability. Certainly one when a fighter pilot ejects in training and can moral feel safe that a remote pilot can fly the plane away from the populus impacting landings.
"I think most people on HN are smart enough to realize that the chances of winning a Nobel prize are very small; it doesn't need continual restatement."

I think few on HN realize that the chances of building a very successful company is very small ...
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Everybody and their uncle (including me) has written their own static site generator too, I don't understand why this is on HN?
I assumed the project was an art joke or something until I discovered some code
Flight attendants will have encountered turbulence.

Most of them will have seen a major injury because someone didn't have their seat belt on when they were instructed to (usually due to turbulence). Not to mention countless minor injuries.

Most will have experienced sudden stops or changes in direction whilst taxi-ing. Most will have seen passengers luggage fall on to other passengers because they got up too soon.

They have experience, they all have basic aviation knowledge, a lot of first aid knowledge. The grandfather post is disappointing from swombat.
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I think you may have commented on the wrong post :)
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Of course it is harmless. But don't do it! It is part of a disinformation campaign/honeypot. The flights to area 51 are full of people secretly renditioned for watching youtube on commercial flights...