Same as it ever was: If it is visible from "public space", it requires no warrant. That includes a wide range of situations and I imagine they can easily make the argument for the sky being public space. I do not believe there is any warrant requirement for flying a helicopter over you and taking a peek.

I wonder how useable those quays are for surface craft. I can't imagine there is a large market for billionaire submarine enthusiasts...

That is exactly what I have been considering, I just happen to be lazy. I do not spend extended periods at my desk at home lately, so I have not gotten motivated enough yet.

I used to have this antique desk chair that I loved. It was small, compared to a lot of modern chairs, had no padding (made of wood) and creaked a bit when I moved around in it. Somehow, however, it supported me just right. I gave it to my aunt when I moved across the country, but kind of miss it now.

Well, if we are talking about the images and video they use for control, I bet they have a high latency, low bandwidth connection to Mars. It might make sense to limit the quality of those images.

I would guess that was just for control purposes, to identify and approach objects of interest. They probably have much higher resolution cameras to take pictures of samples once they are collected.

Yep, even things like gears and brakes have no place on a hipster bike. The part of me that like looking cool is always at odds with the part that loves rear racks. The rear racks win.

Good catch. (for those wondering, check the rank on the guy on the hood)

I like the thought of the government coming up with more available radio frequencies. Maybe they can adjust the speed of light for us while they are at it.

My mom does this too. It bothered me at one point, but after working through it logically I cannot conclude that there is any major risk to it. If someone is breaking into your home and digging through your stuff, you probably have larger problems. Besides, in such a case you are still relatively safe unless the…

I understand your argument, but I still believe that learning to code can have a beneficial effect on many people. We should probably not be teaching programming at an early age, but giving people at least a rudimentary understanding can vastly improve their ability to understand the actions of the systems that…

I never noticed that, but it is amazing. Thank you.

It was so ridiculously frustrating that Susan Calvin was not a badass in that movie. I do not get it.

For that one, I used Inkscape and the pencil tool. This tool makes solid shapes (basically loops). I then trace bits that I want made solid, and make simple lines by making very narrow loops (this gives more interesting texture than using a line tool to make single width lines).

Given the mature nature of Linux NTFS support, I have started keeping a large flash drive formatted NTFS for this purpose. I wish Microsoft would integrate some open source file system support into Windows... But I guess that might be wishing too hard.

Unfortunately, it is much more likely you will run into the file size limit for fat32 (4 GB). Really annoying if you ever have to transport ISOs of DVDs across OSs (which I was doing a lot of for a while).

That's precisely the point. Without this illusion, your monitor would not work. The illusion is that two different colors in close proximity make you see a third color.

He didn't really find anything, and he has to make a movie, so I would guess someone is going down there ;) Hopefully he lends that sub to some scientific researchers. There may not be a lot down there, but we know precious little about what there is.

I would buy that in a heartbeat... If there were games that support it. Seems kind of like a catch-22. Does anyone know if there are any iOS games out there that already potentially support a bluetooth controller?

Inkscape will let you create and work with vector graphics. I do not believe there is a filter or effect to do this kind of work automatically in Inkscape, but I had focused my comments on the virtue of manually reproducing a photo in this manner ;)