It doesn't really matter what bands the telemetry use; all you need to do is make it impossible for whatever ID10T is using it to maintain control.

Erm, drones typically navigate by GPS signals, without direct control necessarily. They won't continue "straight", they'll follow their flightpath. If under remote control, typical programming has them maintain location for a period of time...

My understanding is that the problem here isn't pre-programed drones, it's drones controlled by fools who are trying to get pictures or videos of the action. If they're programmed to hover if their signal drops, that's fine; they're now a fixed obstacle to be avoided, not a constantly moving distraction.

Like stay parked on a freeway with a wildfire raging nearby?

If you're caught on a freeway between off-ramps, there's not much you can do except sit tight and wait. I know, because I was stuck that way one night for over an hour while the remains of a nasty crash were cleaned up enough to get at least one lane open. I was on the up side of a grade and the wreck was on the down-slope so I couldn't even see what was going on. Naturally, we all turned our engines and lights off to save gas. It was slightly foggy, so the first sign I had that things would be moving soon was when the fog suddenly turned tail-light red. Maybe the CHP should have had the drivers evacuate sooner, but I wasn't there and I'm not in the position to have an informed opinion.

No need for EMTs to improvise. All they have to do is include a Wrist Rocket in their kit, plus appropriate ammo.

If these people are flying their drones unlawfully then reasonable measures should certainly be allowed to stop them.

Yes, they certainly should. Alas, that's not going to stop some fool with more money than brains from misusing a drone that way, or from suing the agency after the fact. And, if they can persuade a jury that their drone wasn't really interfering, they might even collect. This bill is just an attempt to close the barn door before the horse escapes so that those frivolous lawsuits either don't get filed in the first place or get thrown out if they do.

All of those drones are controlled by transmissions on a fairly narrow band. Jamming that band would make the drones continue on in a straight line and eventually out of the danger zone. Of course, you'd have to make sure that they were heading in a safe direction before you started jamming, but the odds are that almost none of them would be heading on a collision course unless their owners were exceptionally stupid.

Having to find important emails in the thousands of spam emails is a problem...

Maybe it wouldn't be such a problem if you deleted everything in your spam folder daily instead of just letting it sit there until it's 30 days old and gets removed automatically.

For trains like that, they probably have one man for each side. Not only that, one starts from the front and the other from the rear so that there's no confusion over which wheel they're hearing.

I don't know if the railroads still do this, but you used to see men walking down the length of a train tapping each wheel with a hammer and listening to the way they rang. They did this because if a wheel was going bad (i.e., cracking) they wouldn't sound right. It might have looked like busy-work, or featherbedding, but it prevented many train wrecks and saved countless lives.

Maintaining a presence on the 'dark' side of the moon so you can have even better astronomy is pretty cool.

Not just better telescopes, or even bigger ones. Imagine how big you can make radio telescopes there, and how much more sensitive they'll be with the Moon insulating them from all of the Earth's radio output.

I think that the idea is that no demon can force you to make such a pact. They can try to trick you, but when it comes right down to it you have to make the decision yourself. You can't even claim that you didn't understand what you were agreeing to because anybody capable of summoning a demon is (or should be) able to understand exactly what the end result of any pact is going to be.

Even their damn name is synonymous with the word search.

Just because you refer to searching as "Googling" doesn't mean that you have to use them for your searches. As I mentioned in another post I use Startpage.com when I want to google for something.

You might try Startpage.com because it doesn't keep track of your IP, does everything over https and doesn't remove punctuation "to get you more results" when you put the quotation marks around a phrase to make sure that you only saw results with the exact phrase. Much better than Google!

We can strive to ensure that everyone has the same opportunities.

That we can. What we can't do (without things like quotas) is ensure equality of outcome, which is what this article is really about. No matter how neutral and objective Microsoft's hiring practices are, they can't hire women who don't apply there and won't hire women who aren't qualified. There's also, of course, the problem that HR is again confusing credentials for ability, but that's an ongoing issue that's as much of a problem for men with great computer skills but no degree as it is for women.

1. I am an American citizen, and I have the right to enter my country.

Wrong! The first and only thing she says is, "I want my lawyer!" Then she waits until the lawyer's there, and follows his or her advice to the letter. At this point, she's not in a court and there's nothing to stop the Immigration agents from assuming that her use of the Fifth Amendment implies that she's got something to hide.