"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?"

"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)"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I created a publicly editable doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qgIsv3PRRvjHoQhu2mVVLAghJvLMdxz... where you can add links to slides and videos."

"BTW, supposedly the camera image in a Google Hangout will appear mirrored to you, but not to other people in the hangout (according to https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-plus-discuss/1LCxk7Trs_U)"

"(There's a web interface for IRC at http://webchat.freenode.net/ )"

"I've created #dronecon on IRC at irc.freenode.net for conference chat."

"You might want to link back to the earlier post or include the speaker schedule in this post: http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/drone-con-111"

"Is there a Google Hangout version too (without ads)?"

"Arthur, it looks like full_all.json is a pretty small subset of their data.  For example, here's a map plotting all the positions from a snapshot of full_all.json about 10 minutes…"