"Did you mean to ask how much Microsoft pays for blog comments? Or is the astroturfing conspiracy even more twisted and sinister than I can imagine?!  Either way, diydrones.com comments aren't worth much, unfortunately.

Which brings me to Amazon's…"

"It doesn't look like the code is actually available, unless I missed it.

Microsoft also has a very easy to use intent classification and entity extraction service, LUIS, which is perfect for taking text from speech recognition, possibly containing…"

"What's the source of that photo?"

"Do you mean the part about "The Washington Post obtained several hundred of the rogue-drone reports from a government official who objected to the FAA’s secrecy", which is a line that appears in the Washington Post article?  You've copy & pasted an…"

"Why post a Mashable summary of the original Washington Post article, and not a link to the Washington Post article, which is better and has more detail (and did the original reporting)? And even though the Mashable article is from yesterday, it's…"

"This DJI employee seems to be saying it's an elective update: "If you do not want to be subject to this new restriction, you may elect not to install the update" (from http://skypixel.org/post/81975172404)"

"Wow, that looks like a lot of work!  Very interesting, thanks for posting."

"http://www.dji.com/info/news/phantom-2-firmware-update-new-no-fly-z... just says "As with all updates, all users are strongly encouraged to update their firmware immediately""

"Is there a source anywhere for the statement that the firmware update is mandatory?  I'd like to see what DJI actually said, not someone's interpretation."

"I ordered mine already!

Matthew, how far are you from the minimum?"

"This is great. Excellent job of making multi-vehicle operation safer and more fun with enhanced situational awareness."

"Some of these articles are a bit sensationalist, but this is also a real & serious problem.  

"Hackers can target Parrot drones, yes, but that's because those French recreational quadcopters run on Wi-Fi, not on radio frequencies."

APM uses…"

"Note that if you miss the November 15 "Early Bird" registration date, the registration fee jumps from $5,000 to $7,000."

"There's already a pretty large community of people using node-ar-drone, which has a REPL, to program the AR.Drone in a similar way using javascript: (for example, see nodecopter.com)
$ node repl.js// Make the drone takeoffdrone> takeoff()true// Wait…"

"Hitting 4D waypoints is not really pushing the state of the art forward, I tend to think it's OK to drop that part of the competition."