Encosia
At the time, I remember being incredibly disappointed to see him hide behind the EULA and "This one seems a matter of opinion." That's why it came to mind immediately and I was curious if YC ever took a more respectable position in the interim.
I don't even question that these encounters are happening occasionally, because there are always reckless morons out there to ruin things like this for everyone, but I do question the credibility of this recent hysteria around drones.
Speaking of the laser pointers, I got zapped in the eye with a green laser pointer at night once while sitting in the passenger seat. I happened to be leaning over and looking down at the ground right when they were targeting us. The intensity was much greater than I would have expected a few thousand feet up. It wasn't quite blinding, but super disorienting for a few seconds. Hard to believe that anyone would think it's okay to do that.
For example, this is a report from this year that the FAA categorized as a drone encounter here in my hometown of Atlanta:
> A VFR aircraft receiving ATC service reported passing an object approx 500ft below him at 095. The pilot described the object as round circular, red in color, and reported it could have been a drone or a balloon. A80 ATC did not observe any targets on radar in the vicinity of N7745.
A drone or a balloon? Might as well just chalk it up to swamp gas at that point.
Having been in aircraft looking out and having watched from the ground as my own quadcopter disappeared into the sky significantly closer than 500ft away, I find it extremely challenging to see most reports like that as credible. Yet, the FAA has no qualms with aggregating this junk data into a scary story to sway public opinion. Disappointing.
I'm curious. Have you personally, definitively witnessed a consumer drone in restricted airspace during approach?
If a pilot or passenger sees a bird, balloon, or odd reflection these days, it's a "drone". Be skeptical about the recent uptick in fear mongering about the number of drone sightings in the vicinity of airports and airplanes.
As someone who has spent a fair amount of time in small, four-seater airplanes and also owns a popular quadcopter model, I always feel compelled to add some color to these threads about drones.
When I'm flying my quadcopter, it's extremely difficult to spot once I've lost continuous sight of it. Look away for a second, and you're staring at an empty sky. Even when it's just a couple hundred feet away and you know exactly where to look, the thing is nearly invisible in the air.
Sitting in the passenger seat of a Cirrus or Cessna, I've always been surprised by how difficult it is to spot nearby aircraft. Whole planes, orders of magnitude larger than a consumer drone, are much harder to spot than you'd expect. Even when ATC alerts us where the traffic is, you rarely pick it up visually until much later than you'd anticipate.
Maybe more importantly, many modern drones have geofencing that prevents them from flying into the restricted airspace around airports.
Combining my experience in both situations with the geofencing around restricted airspace, I find it incredibly hard to believe that folks are honestly spotting consumer quadcopters from airplanes in this quantity. It's just not credible at all if you've spent much time around either or both hobbies.
With all due respect to the advice posted so far, it's difficult to offer useful advice without a bit more information about your situation.
If your site depends at all on user generated content (even comments), one active desktop/laptop user is probably worth hundreds or thousands of screenboard users. On my non-corporate-facing sites, IE is still 30+% of desktop usage, even though it's only 5-10% of overall usage.
Also, if you provide an untested experience to your IE users, you're probably bouncing many more users than you realize. Very few people return to a site that doesn't work in their default browser.
nb: I'm typing this in Chrome on a MBP.
Most people don't realize it, but many recent high-budget movies were filmed in Georgia, e.g. Fast Five, Vacation, Ant-Man, all three Hunger Games movies, one of the recent X-Men movies, Flight, etc. After 2008, there was an abundance of empty warehouse space here available at deep discounts, not far from the highest volume airport in the world.
As the economy rebounded, momentum in that industry seems to have remained even though there aren't many empty/cheap warehouses here anymore. A few developers are even working on purpose-built movie studios around town now.
It has been interesting to watch, and certainly could parallel what could happen in the bay area if an exodus to somewhere like Austin began in earnest.
Look into what's been going on in Georgia for the past few years. Not a replacement for Hollywood yet, but it's a good example of how quickly alternatives can take off due almost entirely to geographic differences in the cost of doing business.
> I wonder how much the Edge's performance will affect the average person's decision to use it or not.
About half of people using Windows continue using IE right now. So, "everyone" and "average" definitely refer to a lot of people who have absolutely no idea what any of us are talking about in this entire page of comments. It's so easy to underestimate how little truly "average" folks understand or care about these nuances in the real world outside of a few tech bubble areas.
In my experience, you're dramatically overestimating how many people really understand what a browser is, what IE is, or can disambiguate between Chrome and Google.