Flight plans are for scheduling and routing purposes only. Seperation is maintained by Air Traffic Controlers using surveilance and secondary radar systems connected to automation systems, none of which run M$ Windows I might add.

..she gets mad when I drop an F-bomb when I hurt myself working on something. She doesn't believe me when I say that swearing is a tool to help get the job done.

For most people there is absolutely no benefit received from work that is already completed and sold. If as an electrician I design and wire someone's electrical system I get paid once, there are no future payments if the house is sold or if guests come use the system I installed.

Are you really suggesting that you can't tell the difference between someone from Central America and someone from the Middle East?

Home Depot along with a number of other retailers now accept CFLs for recycling. You no longer have to make a special trip somewhere to recycle your bulbs unless you never shop at these stores.

Why isn't there legislation in place to hold the companies accountable for your data loss if they were not taking appropriate precautions against data loss or breech? As someone who has had data compromised twice in the last year (once through my mortgage company and once through my employer) I feel that being notified promptly is a good first step but making companies accountable for their inaction would be more apt to prevent these events in the first place.

If you manually set the bit-rate of the Netflix stream the quality will be better and more consistent though you may have to wait for it to buffer.

Physical Access to ATC facilities is tightly regulated, unless an employee set up the access point or allowed it to be set up this is very unlikely. Also, the FAA does periodically sweep facilities for wireless devices. That said the FAA administrative LANs are connected to the internet through various firewalls and proxy servers, so with some ingenuity and time someone could gain access. The real question is, what is the FAA going to do about the breech of their employees privacy and security?

The FAA Air Traffic equipment is never connected to any of the administrative LANs, in fact by policy any computer that is going to be connected to operational equipment is not supposed to be used on a public network.

Not to be the fly in the ointment, but WTF is wrong with a mouse? I have been using them for years and if anything would like the option to use a mouse in more circumstances (console games, small devices, etc..)