Another exception, also in the UK: The Book of Common Prayer. The Crown holds the rights and they are considered to be perpetual.

Back when Melissa and The Love Bug came out, I was working at an ISP. You'd be amazed (or maybe you wouldn't) at how many techs sent out emails warning everybody not to click on those emails and how many responded by using reply-to-all. It was quite entertaining while it lasted, especially as I was one of the few people in the company who wasn't using Outlook, meaning that my email client wasn't vulnerable.

If all you want to do is prevent their owners from controlling them and most of the controllers use a fairly narrow band, that's all you need to jam. And, you don't have to jam a wide area, just a big enough radius to keep the drones out of your way.

It doesn't really matter what bands the telemetry use; all you need to do is make it impossible for whatever ID10T is using it to maintain control.

Erm, drones typically navigate by GPS signals, without direct control necessarily. They won't continue "straight", they'll follow their flightpath. If under remote control, typical programming has them maintain location for a period of time...

My understanding is that the problem here isn't pre-programed drones, it's drones controlled by fools who are trying to get pictures or videos of the action. If they're programmed to hover if their signal drops, that's fine; they're now a fixed obstacle to be avoided, not a constantly moving distraction.

Like stay parked on a freeway with a wildfire raging nearby?

If you're caught on a freeway between off-ramps, there's not much you can do except sit tight and wait. I know, because I was stuck that way one night for over an hour while the remains of a nasty crash were cleaned up enough to get at least one lane open. I was on the up side of a grade and the wreck was on the down-slope so I couldn't even see what was going on. Naturally, we all turned our engines and lights off to save gas. It was slightly foggy, so the first sign I had that things would be moving soon was when the fog suddenly turned tail-light red. Maybe the CHP should have had the drivers evacuate sooner, but I wasn't there and I'm not in the position to have an informed opinion.

No need for EMTs to improvise. All they have to do is include a Wrist Rocket in their kit, plus appropriate ammo.

If these people are flying their drones unlawfully then reasonable measures should certainly be allowed to stop them.

Yes, they certainly should. Alas, that's not going to stop some fool with more money than brains from misusing a drone that way, or from suing the agency after the fact. And, if they can persuade a jury that their drone wasn't really interfering, they might even collect. This bill is just an attempt to close the barn door before the horse escapes so that those frivolous lawsuits either don't get filed in the first place or get thrown out if they do.

All of those drones are controlled by transmissions on a fairly narrow band. Jamming that band would make the drones continue on in a straight line and eventually out of the danger zone. Of course, you'd have to make sure that they were heading in a safe direction before you started jamming, but the odds are that almost none of them would be heading on a collision course unless their owners were exceptionally stupid.

Having to find important emails in the thousands of spam emails is a problem...

Maybe it wouldn't be such a problem if you deleted everything in your spam folder daily instead of just letting it sit there until it's 30 days old and gets removed automatically.

For trains like that, they probably have one man for each side. Not only that, one starts from the front and the other from the rear so that there's no confusion over which wheel they're hearing.

I don't know if the railroads still do this, but you used to see men walking down the length of a train tapping each wheel with a hammer and listening to the way they rang. They did this because if a wheel was going bad (i.e., cracking) they wouldn't sound right. It might have looked like busy-work, or featherbedding, but it prevented many train wrecks and saved countless lives.

Maintaining a presence on the 'dark' side of the moon so you can have even better astronomy is pretty cool.

Not just better telescopes, or even bigger ones. Imagine how big you can make radio telescopes there, and how much more sensitive they'll be with the Moon insulating them from all of the Earth's radio output.

I think that the idea is that no demon can force you to make such a pact. They can try to trick you, but when it comes right down to it you have to make the decision yourself. You can't even claim that you didn't understand what you were agreeing to because anybody capable of summoning a demon is (or should be) able to understand exactly what the end result of any pact is going to be.

Even their damn name is synonymous with the word search.

Just because you refer to searching as "Googling" doesn't mean that you have to use them for your searches. As I mentioned in another post I use Startpage.com when I want to google for something.