No, there really *is* pussification of society going on in the Western world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

this is what is actually happening in the West. All the 'will to power' is being bled out of life, participation in 'the power process' is being relegated to the top 1%. Ordinary people are being taken so far out of just participation in their own lives that they are feeling increasingly helpless and having to create artificial ways to feel like they have some kind of control and participation.

The thing with drones today is that its at a bit of a cusp in the technological capability.

Personally, I see 'drones' which you have to control manually, with joysticks, as 'RC toys'. Whereas the new generation of programmable drones (fly a loop at this orientation, this diameter and centered at this altitude) are flying robots. Its this later generation thats going to (er) take off. Likely to be MUCH safer, more precise.

One very interesting application I read about was 3d printing; quadrocopter drones with cans of foam which can be sprayed at programmed points building structures.

'Everything not forbidden is compulsory' or 'Anything that is not compulsory is forbidden.' take your pick...

I once moved from one NZ city to another by train. I showed up at the station with suitcases, several large cardboard boxes, even some furniture. I loaded it all on the overnight train. No one batted an eyelid!

I very much doubt you will avoid the TSA groping.

You seriously think the TSA is going to miss an opportunity for more security theater just because its a train??

Right now you might not need a TSA groping to get on a train but theres still time.

If the DHS/TSA have anything to do with it I'm sure that the lack of groping and 'security' delays on the train will be an obstacle that suitable laws will overcome.

I think some people view this in a similar way to the military and 'acceptable losses' or 'collateral damage'. They think that since, in military operations, a certain level of combat casualties, innocent civilian casualties or friendly fire incidents are unavoidable and an acceptable 'cost of doing business'.

They fail to recognise the difference between the civil legal system and warfare. And remember, the USA has been at war for most of its existence, its become a way of life and just background noise in the news media.

I'd be surprised if women are allowed to murder in Saudi Arabia.

If you normalised for income, wouldn't the stats then say that poor black people are much more likely to murder than poor white or asian people?

I still think that parking a fucking huge electromagnet right outside the evidence room is the way to go...

They have to plug into a port.

Every port is occupied. They have to unplug something to plug their gadget in. When they do that, *poof* pupu go byebye.

I did my first computing course in 1980, I had a ZX81, I was running Linux in 1992.

I'm now 51. Guess I'm not a 'digital native'!?!?!

I get the feeling Mozilla don't want anyone to use their browser...

I was thinking that.

No, Mozilla.

The message this sends to the web developer community is "Don't bother with Mozilla because no one will keep using it so just develop for browsers that actually get used."

I believe that the head of the NSA has already indicated that he believes there should be a framework to give, eg the Chinese, access.