And they should lose their hardware all the same. Shoot it down and let emergency response do their jobs. If it's unregistered, then the owner is probably gonna be pretty pissed off and learn where not to fly as they buy their next one. Drones are cheaper, but not to the point of disposable technology yet.

Registered owners are required to put their registration number on any drone they fly, and it's per-operator instead of per-drone. So if you have 1 unit or 10, it's still the same 5$ fee and all of your drones fly under the same number. It's no different than registering your car. You personally aren't a moron with your car, but enough have to the point that all cars are required to be registered now. I'm sure there was a lot of resistance when that started too, but now it's just part of car ownership. It's all the same, except you're not having to register each drone individually and if I recall, it's good for 3 years. Unlike the annual required car registration, which is per-car.

I'm honestly glad that they're putting these rules into effect. Just after seeing the recent wildfire fighting efforts impeded by drone owners, and even structural firefighting efforts held up, all because drone owners wanted to get video of the destruction. Really? You're going to get in the way of emergency responders, then complain that something is being put in place to dissuade that? Maybe if all of these idiotic drone owners didn't ruin it for everyone, we wouldn't need these at all. But I'm not only glad to see that these rules are being put in place, I hope that emergency response is authorized to SHOOT DOWN drones that get in the way and fine the hell out of the owners of them.

It may be free, but their ad revenue is directly proportional to their users. If the users leave, because of stupid choices on the part of the service, that revenue dries up and the company goes under. So they should take care not to alienate their users. Once they do, something else that does the same thing as 'Classic Twitter' will come along and everyone will leave the old service for the new service. Shall I remind you of 'New Coke'?

If this happens to my account, I'm calling Twitter out on it. I hate this behavior from Facebook, to the point that I don't even go to the site anymore. If I wanted anything other than most recent at the top, I'd set that myself. Not let some half-wit algorithm dictate what's most relevant in respect to my social media experience. I want to be the half-wit in charge of what's most relevant on my Twitter and Facebook timelines.

Except that InfoSec kinda is warfare. Sure, it's not a shooting war, but it's no less violent, aggressive, and brutal. The phrase 'If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen' comes to mind. Because if you try and sugar-coat InfoSec, you'll end up with a lot of people entering the field that feel as if they got the bad end of a deal and hate their job.

The bank/card issuer. If both support EMV, then fraudulent transactions are handled the same way as they are under Mag-Stripe.

Exactly, and I'd like to wait far less than 2+ hours for game updates and DLC.

You're not thinking of game updates in that, are you? I'd like to have as little active downtime as possible. So with a 50+ Mbps connection, I'm waiting on average less than 5 minutes to have every game updated and without lagging out the connection for over a half-hour as I would on a 10Mbps or even slower connection. Not sure about you, but I'll gladly take the extra speed if it means I'm spending far less time waiting to play games and actually playing them.

100Mbps may be a little excessive, but anything less than 50Mbps is starting to become pretty worthless with how many connected devices there are in homes plus the size of game downloads/patches.

If someone doesn't know the difference between Mbps and MBps, they need to find a new geek news site.

So long as they offer an experience comparable to Steam, including weekly sales and the deeper discounts around Summer/Winter. I've got no issues with always-on, since I'm always connected anyway. Just give users a sane amount of offline time and it's all good.