You may need to run Windows, but that doesn't mean you have to run an ancient version of it. Win7 doesn't actually need defragging unless you use a spinning drive and tend to fill up the entire capacity of the disk *and* do a lot of random writes (you do have a dedicated scratch disk like Adobe recommends, right?), comes with antivirus built in, software and driver updates are automatic (unless the vendor doesn't support them). As to registry correction software...wtf are you doing with your PC? I've used the registry since NT v3.1 and have never needed "correction software" for the registry hives.

"But, we're able to have coopetition, a new word that we're continuing to learn the exactly what it means and how we are able to create swim lane clarity around."

I'm sorry, but my buzzword bingo card just shit it's pants over that sentence. Coopetition and Swim Lane Clarity. That makes Synergy seem quaint.

" A solid lump of flesh and bone or a solid lump of styrofoam, plastic, and some small bits of metal." FTFY

I would worry more about the "potentially explosive" lithium batteries, but the actual energy involved is likely less than the rated capacity of 57Wh (for a DJI Phantom, a fairly large consumer model), or 205kJ of energy. If you consider they fire multiple chickens (at 3-4kg) at a combined vector of aircraft speed and compressor blade speed of 275m/s, the impact energy is north of 300(+/-)kJ. If you're concerned about high temperatures, remember that this is a jet engine made of high temperature steel and ceramics. Don't forget that they also fire 120+g balls of ice into the engines at hundreds of m/s, so it's not all "soft stuff" they test against these engines.

That's not to say that a large drone might not do damage to an engine, but if you combine the chance of an idiot drone pilot *and* the chance of getting ingested into an engine *and* the chance of actually having an impact which severely damages the engine you're talking very very remote possibilities. You may as well start patrolling the highways to make sure nobody flies above them for fear of the drone losing power and diving into traffic. Current laws cover the conditions well enough for general safety (glide slope and general hobby a/c altitude limits).

Perhaps; but unless you're working for someone with black projects, deep pockets, or a paranoid legal department you'll be offering your services as XYZ corporation and corporations don't have criminal records.

That was my first thought. If you can't find someone to hire you, start your own. Corporations don't have criminal records, and unless you are working for someone who screens your employees (and that's slippery ground from a contract work perspective) you are simply doing work.

They should warn them with SAMs. Through center mass.

"in-network value added services"

I just read that as "advertising".

Besides, I though most of the internet traffic was netflix now. Is that all done https in a way that distributed caches are infeasible? I understood that the caching was pretty robust for their traffic.

Oh, please tell me that the "biofuel battery applied as a temporary tattoo converts sweat into energy, and a startup within the center has developed a strip that extracts data from sweat" is really just an electrochemical battery (aka potato battery).

It's like being your own little federal government.

My lost $20 bills never seem to find their way back to me. OTOH, I've never paid a dime for any erroneous charge.

Bet you never saw that coming.

This is one of the two the fallacies of the computer generation.

(1) More efficient machines will reduce the length of the work week. Of course it doesn't, because - as you mentioned - we are all competing, and the length of a first world work week is pretty standard at 40 (+/-8) hours, so nobody who actually purchases a machine will voluntarily pay more per hour, or train more people than is necessary.
(2) People with menial jobs can be more productive elsewhere. No, they can't. They're in those jobs because they can't find anything more productive (i.e. higher paying) to do. It pushes them down the ladder, not up, or out of the job market entirely. Most humans simply have not evolved to the point where they're commercially viable as a resource.

...is not to play.

Easy: provided a maximum allowable weight and altitude for unlimited flying. Rockets are goverened that way - under 3.3 lbs (1500g) and H impulse (approximately - about 2500-3500' AGL for the lightest capable, and maybe 1000' feet for a 3.3lb bird) and you can fly pretty much anywhere you have landing clearance and clear skies.

Make the maximum drone 1500g and limit operations to 1000', exclusive of glide slope for mapped airports.

And, fwiw, I'd bet that a payload intended to disable an aircraft is probably already illegal. Changing the regs for all drones isn't going to stop someone who's already intentionally breaking several federal laws.