You know what is prior art though? The F35, any helicopter with an onboard nightvision system and helmet-integrated display (AH64, RAH66), and every UAV in existence.

The Chinese government HATES it when people measure and publish "unofficial" pollution level readings...you can bet that pollution controls upwind of the US embassy are especially strict.

Something like this

On a serious note, that could actually be illegal in some places.

THIS. He massively increased the politicization of the issue and almost single-handedly created the incentive to turn climate denialism in the US from a fringe conspiracy theory to a mainstream belief. I don't think things would be massively different today if he had stayed out of climate issues, but the brakes wouldn't be dragging nearly so hard on the science train. I don't think climate policy would be more contentious than any other environmental policy issue.

I'd say the biggest catastrophes in climate policy are:

1. Al Gore, for contributing massively to the politicization of climate science

2. Disinformation campaigns funded by fossil fuel companies and conservative think-tanks

3. Michael Chrichton's State of Fear, the Book of Revelation for climate denialists.

I went to g2reader and didn't miss a beat.

That's assuming the planes aren't all the same spec, and the probably are (at least at this level since interiors haven't been fitted). They can just reassign planes and only 2 will be delayed.

A lot of wiring insulation these days is made of a soy-based material, critters love to chew on it!

Patent to be purchased by fossil fuel company in 3,2,1...

Hahaha holy hell, imagine how batshit-crazy that guy is! If that was in a 15-minute period, those shocks were less than 5 seconds apart on average!

"GAHH, THE WAITING! *ZAP* MAKE IT STOP! *ZAP* I CAN'T TAKE IT! *ZAP*"

I probably hate waiting more than anyone else alive today, and I figure I would press that button somewhere between zero and 2 times, depending on how curious I feel about the operation of the button and how much being zapped hurts.

Rapelcgvba SGJ!

You forgot about one of the dangerous communists he was tracking, Isaac Asimov.

(TFA in that link is worth a read, or you can read my spoilers)

To be serious, I'd have to imagine they're wasting the vast majority of their resources on this crap. There are a lot more Linux users, privacy advocates or cipherpunks than terrorists in the world, and that's not even getting into the human rights activists, world leaders, phone users from the Bahamas, etc.

Really? Check out the beards on Islamic fundamentalists and l33t *nix sysadmins. Are you ready to assume that's a coincidence?

They give you the Five Eyes exemption until you do something really dangerous like read a Linux magazine or look up encryption tools. Then you've shown that you are a potential threat like all those shady characters who live in every other country on the planet.