Although, if the drones are properly modified, those changes could be... interesting.

I wonder if Alsup himself could file an amicus brief in the appeal.

I think I'll do my initial drone hunting near a gun store. I need a weapon upgrade.

So now we know. Senator Feinstein must have terabytes of porn on her hard drive and the NSA has told her they know about it.

And you aren't complaining that the missing option in the poll is "I am a robot, you insensitive clod!"?

So, next up: A law that makes it a felony for using encryption to conceal evidence of terrorism.

Now they can nail you just for using encryption with your email.

It's the six-pack theory of economics: the price of a six-pack of beer will always remain at approximately one hour's worth of minimum wage.

No eavesdropping is done. All we need is the metadata. That's something that any law enforcement agency can obtain without a warrant.

What does it prove? It could prove to be a huge embarrassment to the target, which is why the target needs to be someone who claims that the metadata doesn't tell anyone anything about your personal life.

I'm not just talking about, "You made 32 calls last year to a phone sex line, each lasting approximately 35 minutes". How about, "I see you made a couple of short calls to a gynecologist. Setting up appointments, perhaps? Then, about 4 weeks later, I see that you spoke with an oncologist for 20 minutes, followed by a 45 minute call to an attorney specializing in wills and probate. Is there something we should know, Senator Feinstein?"

What we really need is for someone to get a hold of some pro-dragnet surveillance politico's, like Diane Feinstein's, metadata and publish a nice analysis of that.

Then she could get up there and tell us how innocent the collection is.

Ejector seat with the control mounted on the turn signal.

I would say that a paraphrasing of that bit of legalese would be "The Nice Classification of goods shall not be used to determine the similarity, or lack thereof, of the goods in question."

I knew this would happen! This continued emphasis on solar power has doomed us. We've used up the sun.

I would think that foods that you want to have a very extended shelf life, and little intention of ever eating very much of, like emergency meals. Maybe MRE's?

Research into how to avoid dragnet surveillance by domestic intelligence agencies.

I would say that squelching climate change research is probably one of the primary purposes of this proposal.