Norwegian armed forces flying a Quad at a LAN-Party....

Gadgetman

During easter gamers and nerds gather at Vikingskipet(the Viking Ship) for one of the world's largest LAN-Parties
( www.gathering.org )

This year Norwegian armed forces have a big stand in the hope of attracting recruits for the cyber warfare division, and one of the gadgets they're using to attract attention is a student-built quadcopter with camera.
Here's a clip from a newssite. They speak only Norwegian in this clip, and there's no subtitles, but I figure some might want to see it anyway...
http://www.dbtv.no/?vid=2258281031001

OF course, the armed forces doesn't use that quad in real battle situations...
It's a good bet that they use Prox Dynamics PD-100 'Black Hornet' drones s they're developed and manufactured here.
http://www.proxdynamics.com/

LoopyByteloose

Interesting.... but the audio sounds as though everyone has a mouth full of sour and salty pickled herring. I guess that is all Norwegian.

Tor

The video starts off with some horrible ad, and no way to get past it. Which means I won't ever be able to see the actual content.

-Tor

Gadgetman

The ad only lasts for 15 seconds. Then the feature should start automatically.
Which browser are you using?

Tor

I was using the Android browser at the time. 15 secs of ad is too much for me though, I never watch ads - I simply can't stand them.

Erlend

Tor wrote: »

I was using the Android browser at the time. 15 secs of ad is too much for me though, I never watch ads - I simply can't stand them.

Second that! Billions of TV channels are no worth; ads kill your brain and wastes your time. Same goes for net-content. CRTL-C.

LoopyByteloose

I think we have all grown rather sick of 'look at me' advertising of the internet. I detest pop-ups to the point that they make me nervous and I have abandoned all those OSes that insist that dire pop-ups are supposedly helpful and infromative.

But there is some good news on other fronts... at least for Norweigans.

The Economist has come out with a listing of the top countries to be born into for 2013. Norway is third, behind a first for Switzerland, and a second place for Australia.

Twenty-five years ago, the USA was considered the number one place to be born, but I am hard put to find it on The Economist list now. And lowly Taiwan is #14.

http://www.economist.com/theworldin/2013

(By the way, the USA is listed at #16, along with Germany.)

Electrodude

Sorry to, erm, advertise, but if you use Firefox or Chrome then you should install the Adblock Plus addon. I don't ever remember seeing an ad while using it, even on youtube before it shows the movie, and if you do find an add you can easily add a filter to tell it how to block that ad. There's even an option (you might not want it but it's a good idea) to let it show text-only ads like Google suggestion thingies to promote the use of text ads and try to make people not use annoying up-in-your-face ads because annoying ones would get blocked.

electrodude

Heater.

Text only adds can be very annoying.

There you are happily reading some article and all of a sudden you find you have lost the thread of the story. Did I lose my concentration? Did the author screw up? No, you just found yourself reading on into a text add that has been stuffed into the article in a format and font that hardly makes it distinguishable from the article. Really annoying.

On the other hand at that point you realize the article probably isn't worth continuing with so perhaps it's a blessing in disguise.

LoopyByteloose

It is getting to the point that I might have to visit a public library to read anything without advertising embedded in it, or a pay wall jumping up and telling me to register and pay for more info. The halcyon days of the information age have morphed into a new advertising age that is hostile to people that desire just to be well-informed via the internet.

RDL2004

I use a hosts file, Firefox with popups turned off and NoScript. I hardly ever see an advertisement of any kind - unless I specifically allow it.

LoopyByteloose

Yes, if you step away from Microsoft or Apple or Google, you can actually limit advertising. Some might consider it all a rather subversive idea, almost a pinko communist one. But in print media never popped up at you and demanded you register your identity to read or view any further.

Popups turned off and NoScript is a simple, easy-to-do solution. If you don't like it, it is easy to revert to defaults.

RDL2004

I really don't understand the connection you are trying to make between the operating system and advertising on the internet. They have nothing to do with each other. Unplug the cable connecting your computer to the internet and do not run the web browser software. After that, any advertising that you see will be from other software you have installed and not the operating system.

Heater.

The hosts file trick works. but you soon find you need a huge hosts file. AdBlock is a much better solution.

NoScript is a no no around here. I like to play with JavaScript toys like this: http://mrdoob.github.com/three.js/

Loopy,

Yes, if you step away from Microsoft or Apple or Google, you can actually limit advertising.

Yes indeed. Mind you I think Google has been the least intrusive and offensive to me.

Some might consider it all a rather subversive idea, almost a pinko communist one.

Is it subversive to hang up the phone when some company cold calls you? Is it subversive to not answer the phone even? Is it subversive to slam the front door on that salesman, even when he has his foot firmly planted on your welcome mat?

These people are invading our private spaces, our homes, our minds. They want our time, our network bandwidth (which we pay for) our processors cycles, and ultimately our money. We have the right to bar entry.

I have read some articles recently where sites are begging their readers not to use AddBlock because their revenue is falling to nothing. Perhaps it's time they realized that what they provide is not worth the hassle people are suffering to get it. They need a new line of work.

One of my big issues on the WEB today is that if I point my browser at a site, say Parallax, I would rather my browser did not end up downloading stuff from 50 other sites that I know nothing about and did not ask for. That single feature is a big cause of all this over advertizing and JavaScript security issues.

LoopyByteloose

Here is another subversive solution to adware. Use a shared identity and shared password. It is the good old garbage in, garbage out solution.

http://www.bugmenot.com/

Heater.

I like it. Confuse the enemy by appearing to be everywhere at the same time !

Gadgetman

I don't like the Bugmenot site.
They have no quality control of the data, and no way of filtering out sites which really shouldn't be there.

Dating sites(Match.com), networking sites(Linkedin), all kinds of accounts that really shouldn't be in the database...