Can you please stop starting comments in the subject line?

Anyway, how do you know that it wasn't a drone? A $250 plane, $50 battery and about $400 worth of assorted electronics including a Pixhawk autopilot module, a lidar, and an airspeed detector will get you 30+ minutes of flight time out of a fixed wing aircraft which can definitely carry and subsequently drop a cargo weighing a pound — and handle its own takeoff and landing. Is that enough like a drone for you? Remote telemetry costs more.

Not having fucking jetliners filled with fuel hitting them, I'll warrant.

So how many layers of chicken wire do you have to hang to completely block cellphones? Is it just one? That stuff is cheap enough to where it's fairly feasible to actually do that.

I don't think the problem is the guns, I think the problem is the mentality, and hiring people with that mentality on purpose. And that mentality is that "civilians" (like the cops are, though they think otherwise) are a lower form of life.

I presume you would need orders of magnitude more energy than is really feasible to ride on a magnetically bottled cushion of plasma. But it would still be a cool inspiration for special effects.

Or maybe it's not a lot of hyperbole. Maybe drug companies don't actually take as much care as you think they do. Maybe you're just making unfounded assumptions because they make you feel better.

The truth is that there isn't a recall every time a defective drug is found; and there is no reason to believe that every defect is detected. The drug manufacturers do not take the care that you think they do; at best, some of them do.

And you're taking it on faith that the pill was made correctly, when it often wasn't. So what's going to change?

>rubber band

See Beelzebub's post below yours.

This is exactly the kind of thing the OP was talking about.

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BMO

In mid-air, no less! One of the flight crew puts on his super suction shoes, depressurizes the cabin and walks out and gets the krazy glue and sticks a new one on.

I mean, I can't tell you the number of times I've had flaperons fall in my back yard, along with flight crew whose super suction shoes failed.

Are there any factories along the Indian Ocean fabricating these parts for Boeing?

This may qualify as the single most retarded post in the history of the Internet. Congrats.

You do understand that ocean currents are not straight lines, right? For chrissake it's taken years for the Tohoku tsunami's wreckage to make it the Pacific Northwest.

If you troll the sale section on hobbyking, and source parts like the control system on eBay, you really can build a small drone for under two hundred bucks. That's including the battery, the radio, and the charger. If you restrict yourself to a certain class of drone you can even use recycled Li-Ion batteries from old laptop packs, and knock another twenty bucks or so off of that. And we're talking GPS waypoints here, not just a toy. And well into the double-digit minutes of flight time. That's sufficiently close to "anyone"

There's a helluva lot of other volatiles in an office building. I'm looking at my office, seeing office furniture, clothing, plastics, heck probably even the carpet when the temperatures get high enough. Fires have destroyed other steel-framed buildings, so why exactly would the Trade Towers be exempt?

That's the point, Apple is running on cachet now. I just saw the latest hip, cool product to go with the Apple watch. It's... a watch. Because it's such a shit watch, that you need another watch on the other side of the band to actually be a watch. The Apple Watch is an awesome watch clasp, but a shit watch. If anyone else had brought out that product, it would have bombed immediately.

I am not one of those people who will tell you that Apple
never did anything good, or even right. I am telling you that Apple has done many wrong things, and all the things they have done right were done under Jobs, and they are coasting on that. That will take them very far, much farther than most people think. But eventually, when they fail to repeat their successes for long enough, their cachet will fade. It's happened before, and it will happen again, unless they take on strong leadership again.

The problem with that is that someone on this site has managed to pretty well call everything that has happened in the industry since forever. The problem with that is that it's not the same someone each time. But it does mean that you can't just write something off because it was said on slashdot...