The no night flying restriction is incredibly myopic when it comes to search & rescue operations. As an 8-year veteran of SAR ops, I can tell you that most searches start at night. Why? Because it's only after it gets dark that the reporting party decides that they need help. We never ever delay an initial response for daylight hours. Low-cost FLIR cameras are starting to become available. And I'm certainly not going to submit a flight plan 24 hours in advance. 87% of all searches are resolved in the first 12 hours. For this administration to tie one hand behind our backs is further evidence that Washington knows nothing about what goes on in the real world. I have the same opinion towards the line-of-sight rule. We may need to get eyes on in a remote canyon that we can't see from a decent launch point or it might take several hours to hike up to where we would have line-of-sight.

Granted that this is all supposed to be about commercial flying but try convincing some bureaucrat that SAR ops are not. For evidence I point you towards the recent FAA/Texas Equusearch dust up. Personally, I would enjoy introducing said bureaucrat to the family of a missing 3-yr old with the following words, "Allow me to introduce Mr. Head-up-his-ass who won't allow us to use every tool to find your child."

Suddenly, everyone is an "expert" on the subject finding the "cure" on the internet that somehow managed to escape people who have actually been to medical school.

Here's something that I'm having a hard time figuring out. How is it that this particular Apple team has the time and resources to design and make fancy enclosures for the stuff on the van? Speaking more generally, I've noticed that a lot of companies including ones that aren't that big or are even startups are able to do this too. What's the secret to getting some nice molded plastic enclosure without having to spend tens of thousands of dollars on tooling?

Hmm...that's a new one on me. I've been working in a Yocto embedded environment. I'll have to see if nmcli is part of that distro. At least a curses-based version of wicd works now. You still have to build it though.

Well, at least on commercial platforms there is a front end to configure it. On Linux (sans a GUI), you have to edit files. Or at least you did until wicd was finally updated this past December. It's still a major pain though.

Wifi support in Linux is a mess.

Not really the same thing. Gravity's effects are well known but the causes are not understood, yet you don't see masses of people pretending to understand it demanding that obscene amounts of money be spent in an effort to counter the effects. Then again, if that were the case, we might have flying cars by now or easy access to outer space.

I thought this was settled science. Now not only are you trying to tell us that there is debate but also you're making money off of it? What kind of climate scientist are you, anyway?

Here's a musical number that explains it.
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No, it's low T&A.

Wake me when a low-power display can be read in full noon desert sunlight.

There is a way around anybody's law, regulation, or treaty. IMHO, the only reason the FAA is getting involved in this is to make money in the same way that the only reason the FCC is weighing in on net-neutrality is because they have figured out a way to make money off of it, initially in regulatory fees (which will be passed on to the consumer) or in a few years some sort of national internet sales tax.

For those of us old enough to have witnessed the last 40 years of computer evolution, I can tell you with 100% certainty that it's all about the user experience and not about low cost or availability. Apple's successful products are a pleasure to use. Apple's failures weren't. IMHO, nothing that Microsoft makes is a pleasure to use. There was a time when the computer nerd in me enjoyed dinking around in the OS or the hardware but no longer. I have work that I need to get done and anything that impedes my progress or is tedious to use gets tossed out. Sadly, I can't do that for everything I need a computer for (are you listening, Intuit?). I have the same view of the entirety of the web. The whole thing is built like the city of Cairo or the postal system of Costa Rica (pre 2007).

Because their pants are on fire. "Most people support" Wrong. Most people they polled support, perhaps. I, for one, have never been polled by the NYT.
Now, there's an article on Gizmodo that attempts to explain where body fat goes when you lose weight. Apparently, the majority of it is expelled as CO2. If that's true, then all gyms and diet companies and the people who patronize them are contributing to greenhouse gasses and should be taxed accordingly.

There are some markets where XDSL is being tested. It works by ganging multiple lower-speed DSL lines together like a RAID array.