They exist. Qik, UStream, and TapIn are among them. TapIn in particular was designed for protestors and recording authorities, and provides no means to delete footage on the recording device itself - it must be done from the user's account page, by which time the video will have been downloaded and redistributed beyond the user's (or the police's) ability to control.

But how can you be sure?

Problem is that Jesusland states in the Deep South have more to worry about from some oceanborn disaster than residents of northern blue states like Illinois or Wisconsin. Geologically speaking, the "liberal north" is closer to the center of the North American landmass than the "god-fearing south" is - especially when compared to Texas, Louisiana and the FL panhandle.

I'll consider the KF2 if Amazon can prove they've permanently removed the ability to remotely delete files from it. No "Sorry (that we got caught)," no "We really truly promise, cross our hearts and hope to die, that we won't use this remote-kill feature which we've conveniently left fully intact and operational on our store servers." I'm not settling for anything less than "We're sorry we fucked with your property, we were wrong to do it irrespective of any licensing disputes, and we've irreversibly crippled our own ability to ever do it again. Here's proof and here's the list of files to rename or delete on your own device to make sure that even if we change our minds, we won't be able to do it to you ever again." Otherwise, I'll keep steering people toward Nook, BeBook, Onyxbook, Kobo, and other brands. Except Sony, of course.

I'm unwilling to buy a device that I end up not truly owning and controlling. I consider the lack of WLAN connectivity on my BeBook to be a feature after what Amazon pulled with 1984.

We really need a "-1 Trying Desperately to Get That Image Out of My Head"

"The freaking rules," however, are in flagrant violation of at least the spirit, if not the letter, of the biggest "freaking rule" in the nation, the Constitution. Some of us take issue with this and so security becomes a big deal.

Well, granted this is anecdotal, but I just did (almost exactly) that a few months ago. Chicago to Philadelphia and back via Amtrak, and it was all because of the TSA. 36-hour round trip when I've made the same journey by plane in the past and had it take only about 1:45. $300 train fare (after route 42 business-class upgrade and tax) when, due to family members working for Southwest Airlines, I could've flown free.

I'm far from the only one, too. Amtrak's ridership is at a record high and there are a lot of people saying it's all because airports are the worst places in the country now, due 100% to TSA.

And you know what? I'd do it all again. Traveling by train, aside from respecting my rights and dignity, was just plain nicer and more fun than flying. Better legroom, the most polite and friendly staff I've ever interacted with, amenities worth taking advantage of, and the ability to actually look at scenery and pick out interesting detail instead of saying "oh, look, another nondescript dot 35.000 feet away."

So don't write off rail just yet. Air travel sucks enough to push people toward it and make it economically viable. Hell, if they sold it solely on the premise of "speed-competitive with flying, but no TSA" they'd pick up customers in droves. The one bad thing about abolishing TSA is that it would hurt rail travel as people once again became willing to fly.

Except that PreCheck doesn't guarantee anything at all. They still say "we reserve the right to harass you and shred your 4th-Amendment rights just because we can. But if we decide not to, we're giving that special privilege to those who have already forked over cash and information."

No, a better plan is to make TSA-sympathizing political suicide and force Congress to abolish the agency and take all their jobs away. "But creating jobs looks good and I have to create jobs to get reelected!" Nope, not if we fire you based on the kind of jobs (TSA) you're creating/preserving, you don't.

Doesn't always work that way. There are apps like Qik, Ustream, and TapIn that record directly to web-hosted services and which people can watch live as they stream. TapIn in particular was designed for cases exactly like this, uploading immediately and providing no way to delete the video off the server from the phone itself. It's no longer stored on any equipment owned by the videographer and by the time the police can take any action against the company hosting the video, (ostensibly) millions will already have viewed it, saved it, shared it, etc.

Apps like these really deserve more publicity because they're the best weapon we have against police misconduct. Proof of misconduct that immediately becomes widely-available and which is immune to police coverups.

If the crash occurred near a body of water, it's most likely due to laser-equipped sharks. If it happened a sufficient distance from such a geographical feature, it is categorically due to a land shark attack and will be filed as such. Land shark involvement does not rule out laser assistance in the incident. Also, either scenario has a nonzero probability of involving sharks of above-average intelligence or cybernetic bodily components. Due to administrative inefficiencies, classification has not yet drawn suitable parallels between electronic processing capacity and biological intellect, and so robot shark involvement is considered mutually exclusive with genetically-engineered supergenius shark involvement.

Editor's note: The above comment does not account for fatality statistics involving laser-equipped sharks, land sharks, genetically-engineered supergenius sharks, or robot sharks.