You wouldn't want people studying Calculus in 2014 from a 1998 book. It would obviously be outdated with all that has changed.
I mean there was the... umm.. and the...

Really though, the last ethics class I took required an e-book with a 3 use license and six month expiration that cost $130. So, after six months, there is no access to the material at all, like a returned library book without even the value of a paper-bound book that could be burned for warmth.

Border patrol in Washington has been using 10,000-pound Predator-B unmanned aircraft with 950-mile coverage ranges for a while, perhaps they don't need to be certified like the insignificant masses. The northern border patrolled from Washington to North Dakota was the claim in Congress in 2012. I only remembered because of a story that farmers were getting annoyed by the low-flying drones with lights and noises disturbing their cattle at night.

The presumption of guilt is valid, with an unnumbered quantity of federal laws on the books it is commonly posed that every person over 18 years of age in the US is guilty of some federal crime. As has been the case in many totalitarian nations, someone just needs to point someone out and let the federal police figure out what they can be charged with.

This would be the happy result. I lack faith in our legal system these days to reach such a conclusion though.

Sounds like they want to charge a premium rate for closed captioning, but I'm not sure how they could spin that as being a good thing.

You don't really expect people who are flying internationally on holiday to accept delays due to some poor people fighting over something. There are the people who get involved in such things, then there are those who fly over them and are supposed to be untouched.
Perhaps if conflicts and wars interrupted flight schedules and inconvenienced more people there would be less of them.

We have SEH and some others growing silicon in the US, though the profits go to the parent company.
US manufacturing seems to interest Asian companies more than any US ones, they exited the US in the 80s/90s and invested heavily overseas. Even Foxconn of suicidal worker fame has been talking about opening US facilities.

The NDAA lets the US government send citizens to overseas prisons, without trial, charges, appeals, and not even a warrant needed.
It's one of the few areas where Congress and the President are in total agreement, citizens are the biggest threat to their power.

Credit card thieves like this are primarily harming banks, the cardholder gets some crazy bills and spends an hour or so on the phone or signing papers disavowing the charges, but they don't bear the cost. Why go after bankers, they're victims here.

lol

It sounds like a government imposition of a policy many companies have resorted to with increased privacy laws and liabilities to companies for protecting data. It was known pre-Snowden that anything stored on cloud servers which included one in the US was subject to warrantless perusal by US authorities, so some providers made an avoidance of US mirrors a marketing point.

Their licensing is off and on all the time, a movie you can stream today might seem to vanish from existence next week without a word and reappear sometime in the future when it's relicensed. Their search system used to take you to those pages to see that the movie is not available, then they stopped doing that so now the only time you see a movie page that isn't currently available is when doing ratings. If you don't see it, you won't miss it seems to be their angle.

It mostly means they're a really bad place for information about movies or what actors have done.

Ignoring all feedback seems a given from the industry executive turned lobbyist who is running the FCC anyway.
Government appointments sold to the highest bidder make for some terrible outcomes.

Lenovo has talked about new assembly lines in the US.
Seems only the Chinese and Japanese think the US can support a growing manufacturing sector anymore.

The people who once made a career as engineers at HP around here were laid off when the lab went to all temps. I guess they've reconsidered that somewhat, but would you want to trust to that? Some must have, and now the pink slips are flying again.

Comcast has a lot of options for its customers. StreamPix is a wannabe competitor against Netflix, and is conveniently integrated in their X1 service so doesn't count against any cap they decide to impose.
Just drop Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and whatever else you have and go with theirs, then you can use your internet cap for other things. It makes a lot of sense, to Comcast Marketing.