>I think these are in place. Last time I saw a flight map for a city, there were huge no fly circles around it. I'm not a pilot but I think that's been around for a while.

Except in very specific cases (most of them TFRs, with a few permanent restrictions, specifically IIRC, Washington D.C.) there are no restrictions about flying over cities. According to FAR 91.119, you must be 1000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2000 feet (obviously, except when conducting landing or take-off operations at a designated airport).
In addition, you need to be in contact within any the controlling agency while within controlled airspace.
For example, I can fly over Seattle, at or above about 2100 feet AGL, as long as I am below the overlying class B airspace, without talking to anyone or even filing a flight plan.

No, it will blow away most cars in terms of acceleration. Performance includes many other factors; top speed, handling, endurance, etc. The standard Lotus Exige beats the Tesla in all areas other than acceleration (for example, handling on the Tesla is crippled by tyres designed for low rolling resistance, rather than maximum grip which would reduce range further).

>IIRC in England they tried to run a doctor out of town because her job title said "paeditrician"

I was going to call BS on this because it didn't pass the sniff test; people could not possibly be that stupid. However, a quick Google search confirmed that there is a sustantial basis of truth in your statement. I would like to correct you in that this particular event took place in Wales rather than England, but part of the United Kingdom nevertheless. Shaking my head in shame and dismay...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/901723.stm

I like Windows (XP). Having said that, let me expound further. I like Windows as a desktop operating system both at home and work because all of the software that I want to run is readily available.
I like to run OpenBSD for my bastion hosts (DNS, SMTP, etc.) at work because it's light-weight, secure and so, so seldom needs patching. IMHO, it has a very high ROI. I also have RedHat ES and *cough* Windows 2003|8 servers.

Over the years, I've used Solaris, HP-UX, various flavours of BSD, LINUX and Windows, and the simple truth is, that desite Open Source's huge strides forward in usability and simplicity, Windows is a simpler (note that I didn't say better) choice for the majority of workstation users.

It called an annual subscription. $36 per year gets you all the Pandora you want sans advertising.

It amazes me that people see more value in an ad blocker for ad supported products like Pandora than they do for the product itself.

Stop being cheap and start supporting innovative companies and products.

Is this the programme that rednecks all across America have been hoping for. Trading in all of those cars on the front lawn for a brand spanking new Caddy (with a gun-rack, obviously :)

I've been in head on collision with a drunk driver at a combined speed of 110 MPH. The drunk driver simply swerved into my across my side of the road on a state highway in Idaho. Only one of us was wearing a seat belt (I'll let you guess which one).

It may be true in the rural areas of the US that the risk of an alchohol related accident is lower "at an hour when nobody is on the road", but in most urban areas this is never true.

Having sat in the county courthouse for a day waiting to testify at the trial of the now-drooling-brain-damaged-idiot that ran into me, and listening to the lame execuses that other drunk drivers gave, I can honestly say that I have zero tolerance for drunk driving. It's a great way to seriously mess up your life, and those of others who simply have the misfortune to be in your path.

It's stupid. Don't do it.

I believe that this applies to single cash transactions of > $10k, or multiple smaller transaction that equal or exceed 10k over a specified period of time. Also, only the following companies are required to report these transaction:

  - banks
  - securities companies
  - money services companies
  - casinos
  - gem/precious metal dealers
  - insurance companies

Notably, car dealers are not on this list...

See the federal Bank Secrecy Act - http://www.fincen.gov/

I took a similar approach.

1. Wired a L14-30R into the main panel on a 30 amp breaker.
2. Made a male-male 10AWG extension cord.

The process in a power failure is:

1. Kill the main breaker to isolate the house from utility power.
2. Connect the generator to the main panel with the extension cord.
3. Fire up the generator.

When power comes back on:

1. Kill the generator.
2. Disconnect the extension cord.
3. Flip the main breaker on.

Obviously, there are some risks about having a male to male extension cord and potentially over-volting the panel if you fail to isolate from utility power, so a great deal of caution should be used. This was a "1-hour-to-implement solution", but if you have the time and money, a transfer switch (even just a manual one) is the way to go.

The article is taking about performing a DoD compliant data destruction on this disks, rather than he has taken DoD disks and 'reused' them.

Good data destruction techniques are something that any company which values is IP or customer data will perform on a disk prior to disposal. Data desposed of in this manner cannot, in theory, be recovered.