Yeah? Which frequency? Which protocol?

The unfortunate things about these radio transponders is that they come in all shapes and sizes. Trying to tell them apart from a mobile phone or a wifi hotspot is not an easy task. Locating radio signals are great when they are incredibly powerful and transmitted from one location (e.g. Pirate Radio), but not so good if you're equipment is within the licensed ISM bands and behaving correctly.

Worse still you could be looking for something that looks no different to a mobile phone in a world where everyone has a mobile phone. You can buy the transmitter / receiver pair in pretty much any frequency combination. Being illegal is no barrier in this case evidently given the decision to fly at high altitude near an airport.

I am mid way through developing a GPS logger that uses public key encryption to protect privacy. It definitely is possible to make these kinds of device more secure at very little cost.

Hopefully more companies will follow Google and Apple's lead in marketing privacy and resistance to legal attack as features.

The fact that they charge companies to get out of their filtering is probably where they will make their arguments. Maybe claim that there is copyright violation for altering/stealing their content for commercial purposes. If AdBlock didn't try to make money by charging to let companies bypass it they probably wouldn't be able to touch it.

By the way, everyone should switch to AdBlock Edge or another fork that doesn't allow companies to pay to get through.

Isn't that what AdBlock already does? The primary block list is EasyList, which at least back in the day was not maintained by the author of AdBlock.

What TFA and Wikipedia don't say are what game his original prototype actually was. Presumably it was similar to one of the early Odyssey games.

"Withstand" is a relative term... The engine is designed not to explode in a ball of fire and take the aircraft with it if hit by a bird, but that doesn't mean it will continue working properly. At the very least the aircraft will have to loop round and land again for inspection.

As the GP pointed out there isn't a single "intelligence" trait, and your argument doesn't address that. IQ tests measure a very specific ability, and one which has been improving in all races for decades. IQ is affected by many environmental factors too, and it's hard to deny that some races have, on average, much more favourable environments to live in, even within a single country. People can learn to do better at IQ tests with practice.

At most we can say that the evidence suggests that some races are intelligent in different ways, similar to how some people learn visually and some learn through experience. To leap to "black people are dumb", as Watson did, is ridiculous.

My point is that you're trying to simply the complete identity into one document that can ultimately be easily forged.

What do you want to know about me?

My name and age? My passport and drivers licence show that.
My residential address? My drivers licence and council statements show that.
That I'm a valid owner of a property in that council? Any photo ID such as University ID card + council statement shows that.
My medicare status? That's a separate card and then any photo ID will verify that further.

Why distill everything down to one number when there's no need to?

And yet that is exactly how it happens.

A lot of batteries die completely because one cell is faulty. There is loads of info on replacing dead cells in power tool and laptop batteries in the internet, but you can of course recover the remaining good cells and use them for something else. They are popular with people building their own large batteries for solar backup packs.

In Europe convictions are considered "spent" after some time, and you don't have to report them even if they ask. Credit reference agencies and the police are not allowed to reveal those convictions to employers, banks or anyone else.

So, the OP should move to Europe.

No crime should ever prevent a person from voting. It's a fundamental right to participate in democracy, and if the goal is to rehabilitate offenders then they must be able to fully participate in society after they have paid their debt.

Why have the number at all? What's wrong with when you need to be identified to provide identification documents of value?

In Australia you have a points system. You need to generate a certain number of points to be identified like when you apply for a bank loan or something similar. Government issued photo IDs like drivers license or passport are worth the highest number of points, and two of these documents are usually sufficient. Lesser things like bank statements with mailing address, IDs without a photo etc are worth points too, you just need to accumulate more of them.

The idea of a single number being used is kind of scary.

Except that facebook's "like" is not used for feedback. It's in part a tiny show of endorsement and in part a major show of common agreement on a topic. My sister was in hospital recently and posted it on Facebook. Most of her friends, family and myself hit the like button. It was acknowledgement that we saw and read, nothing more.

Facebook doesn't need a "don't like" button, it just needs to change the word "like" to something else.

The stupid thing about that song is that Koreans can say the "L" sound perfectly well. They confused Korea with Japan. A lot of people seem to think that Chinese people can't say L either.