Yah, but I would have become a lawyer in the early 70s....long before the law glut...

After the Russkis launched Sputnik, there was a massive push in the US for science and engineering in education. I'm old enough to remember if personally - science, math and engineering were all the rage. And Progress - we weren't scared of what science would do - it was going to build The Future! If not for this big push, I wouldn't have wasted all my time on technical studies and be a millionaire lawyer now...

Heck, state law in a lot of states allows common civilians to use deadly force in an encounter like this, much less the military.

HA! I always found this annoying. Rather than argue with the salesperson about whether they get my info (both at Radio Shack and everywhere else) I just tell them I'm Larry Talbot, and I live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.

80% of kids have smartphones? I'm glad I'm not a kid today. My father was too much of a Luddite to get a color TV - no way would we have been allowed to have cell phones. much less smartphones, and he probably wouldn't have tolerated a PC or the internet in the house either. We would have grown up in a strange informationless cut off parallel universe from all the other kids.

HA! This reminds me of my days at Rice University, in the early 70s. The Post grad students there each year would award one of their number the "Young Marsden" award. It was presented to the student whose work had been most egregiously ripped off by a faculty member that year. It was called the Young Marsden award, in memory of Marsden, since Rutherford and Geiger got credit for his work on alpha particle scattering

Links? Perhaps you meant Lynx?

SO...you think a medical certificate should be required to fly a 20-30 pound drone, but any schlub with a driver's license can pilot a 2 ton UPS truck on public streets to deliver packages? The medical certificate shouldn't be required for general aviation pilots, much less drone pilots - studies show it doesn't make a difference.

IE's replacement will provide a more Windows Phone like Internet browsing experience to desktop users. We're all gonna love it.

I'm not saying we won't get our hair mussed...

Like William Gibson says, "The strreet finds its own uses for things".

I don't wanna live in a world with a tech based series that is worse than Scorpion. I hate any TV series or movie where there are characters who are supposed to be extremely smart being played by actors who are, to be kind...not extremely smart..

The only place I ever see Windows phones is on TV series as glaringly obvious product placement...never seen one in the wild.

And, since the Republicans are totally incapable of understanding how to select a candidate that anyone will vote for, she will be elected president. And no, I don't think that is a good thing.

Don't worry - the aliens are waiting for us to finish the process of nuclear disarmament - then it will be safe to proceed with their invasion.