Well, LAPD flies their helicopters at less than 50 feet altitude, in the middle of the night, in Santa Monica — which is NOT in their jurisdiction.

I've seen 4 X 8 foot panels of plywood flying around a home-remodeling site across the street due to the helicopter down-draft. And this was on a night with no major crimes. That is, it was "just for practice." Never mind that the public, whom they are supposed to protect and to serve, are being awakened for 2-3 hours in the middle of the night, and suffer property damage.

Having personally observed the above behavior, it's essentially guaranteed that TFA's drones will be used in an escalating series of invasive methods – especially ones that the law does not yet specifically prohibit.

LAPD have long been known to be excessively power-hungry, abusive, racist, and eager to use excessive force. These drones are just another tool to enable their continuing subjugation of the citizenry.

Readers who do not understand the "one good seat" phenomenon of curved TVs are politely referred to any elementary geometry high-school textbook.

I work without fear of losing progress in all of the numerous applications I use (pedestrian, scientific, graphical, audio, etc.).

This is with the singular exception of MS Office Applications. They still crash and lose one's input on a regular basis. I save after every sentence I type. This is a behavior developed through many agonizing losses thanks to buggy MS apps. PPT will still corrupt its own files, so I end up with 10-20 versions of the same presentation, simply out of fear for PPT mangling its own files.

NOTE: I have no choice but to use MS Office Apps, as everyone else does.

Wow. OK.

I have not purchased from Amazon for many years, due to their anti-worker labor practices. Now, they have dropped the mask completely and have revealed themselves to be clearly anti-publisher (in an effort to enslave authors).

Wal-Mart style tactics on a National, state-borderless, scale. Please blacklist their domain, as I have.

You should be fired.

Something tells me the this company hasn't thought everything through.

...naturally-grown organic cotton...

Isn't cotton one of the most pesticide-intensive crops around? If, perhaps, they meant to use the other definition of organic — molecules based on carbon, but containing other elements — well, they're being redundant.

...uses entirely organic input materials that can be fully recycled at the end of their life...

From the first image presented, a dual carbon cell looks to require lithium, just like a lithium battery does.

It's already been done, using similar diseases.

See Japan Unit 731 from WWII.

Years ago, before my time, Columbia House or BMG might mail you some records (equivalent to CDs). Later, they would send you a bill for the goods that arrived un-ordered and un-asked-for. Then, mail fraud law caught up, and those scams went away.

This is not that case, but really, I wonder if those laws are applicable to the delivery of packages to the "wrong" person by UPS in such a case. If so, the mis-delivered or un-asked-for delivery is his/hers to keep — no strings.

Or, alternatively, why was something so costly being sent by regular delivery? I mean, really, would you UPS a Lamborghini to your customer?

I noticed this 20 years ago, when students who faithfully transcribed notes in class on their (super-expensive) portable computers usually ended up dropping out of EE/ME/etc. and into "Engineering Management," the home for those who couldn't hack an engineering (or straight science) degree.

They had futures either as court stenographers, or as PHBs.

Yeah, but in my experience, LAPD, SMPD, and so on won't bother responding to your call.

Wow, thanks!!!

I found only one XML file doing just that redirect, deleted and restored, but no luck. I'll have to search harder for the multiple instances you mentioned.

I "opted out" about 10 seconds after seeing that message on a Yahoo site.

The thing is, I strenuously avoid Yahoo. After the latest Firefox update, though, typing a search in the address field doesn't go to my preferred (in settings) search engine, but instead to Yahoo.

Yahoo search results are terrible, but most of the screen is filled with jumping icons a million other things I was not searching for.

After wiping away the flecks of foam sprayed by the article's writer, I had a few thoughts.

* The US Postal Service is a lifeline service provided by our government. Without a reliable source of communication, it would be hard to sustain such a large country.

* Yes, the junk-mailers have been the major profit center of the USPS for a few decades.

* Vast and long-established laws and rulings forbidding tampering with mail (e.g., opening it) protect this basic form of communication. Such legal protections do not (yet) exist for digital communications. Your email is like a postcard.

* Tons of other companies provide the same "digital mail" service. I use them when I travel. Emailed pics of all letters, they open and scan any that I request, or just send everything to me in a big envelope every week or so.

The article kind of smelled like an ad.

I'm looking to buy a router.

Is Linksys or Netgear a good choice?

The inventor used Newtonian physics (300+ years old) to improve on an iron-age (2000-3000 years old) device. And he did it well.

That takes some real balls. I hope he's patented the hell out of it.