Yeah. They used Honeywell, a cut rate, shade tree operation that isn't one of the top three commercial avionics producers on Earth. And the results prove it too â" with dozens of no reported operational interference problems at all. Boeing's profit focused greed is killing ever more passengers per mile, in some alternate universe where your worldview makes sense.

Yes. Other prerogatives now apply; namely arguing that greedy corporations are trying to kill they're customers by resisting regulators.

Holder is a lame duck, so he's saying and doing things that he would have avoided previously. You see, after they claim poverty ("they cut our budget") the next most common excuse of a government official for their offences and failures is "I can't answer for my predecessor/I wasn't in charge at the time." Holder is saying and doing things so his replacement won't have to.

Often the barrel isn't the feature that engenders the greatest significance in a legal sense. There is no functional difference between the barrel of a fully automatic military M-16/M-4 etc. and a semiautomatic civilian AR-15; in the case of Colt or FN manufactured rifles these are often the exact same part. The difference between full and semi auto is found exclusively in the lower receiver.

I don't know if this is why AR-15 lowers are the serialized part, but it wouldn't surprise me. It used to be legal for civilians to buy new manufacture fully automatic rifles in the US and I imagine the ATF would have wanted to record which lowers were which at a time when both were sold.

As for difficulty of manufacture; barrels/chambers are the hardest parts to make, but that doesn't mean they're particularly hard. Small specialty barrel manufacturers and even individual competitors make barrels for themselves and their customers every day. A lathe, end mill and broaching machine constitute the basic tools. Clever buyers can obtain that stuff for under $20,000.

As an NRA member I can assure you they are representing me. I pay them to do so and I observe that they do indeed pursue the agenda I expect of them. Membership fees constitute almost half of NRA revenue. In my case that does not include additional voluntary donations to ILA, which amount to about 300% of my membership fee, annually.

To the extent that the NRA also represents the interests of weapon manufacturers they represent me indirectly, as I am a patron of those manufacturers, and it pleases me when the profits of those manufacturers are protected from politicians and pressure groups and their hysterical gun grabber instincts.

If I were naive I might think it ironic that so many who advocate so loudly for citizen involvement in government indulge so much hate for one of the most legitimate political advocacy operations in the US; an organization that seeks no special privileges beyond rights inherent to our citizenship and does so largely with money voluntarily contributed by millions of common people that have no expectation of a bennie check appearing in their mail. But I am not naive and not at all surprised that an actual manifestation of the desires of actual citizens is anathema for liberals/statists.

He shouldn't have too much trouble finding work. Alton Nolen, the guy that beheaded a co-worker in Oklahoma this morning in another incident that is also Not Terrorism had only been released from prison a year ago:

This guy will plead to criminal mischief or something, do 18 months and return to commit more non-terrorist crimes.

We've had evidence for years. The SEC records from the Madoff investigation showed the same pattern. The auditors and investigators carefully step around the turds, carefully do not look beyond a strictly limited scope of investigation. They do this because they report to corrupt bosses, appointed by corrupt politicians, voted in by an electorate pursing its narrow self interests.

None of the above has changed, so naturally we're doing it all over again. They're quietly loosening lending standards again, only this time they have the Fed to print and keep the banks capitalized while it's happening instead of after the fact, so the next credit bubble detonation will be even more violent.

Enjoy. You voted for it. And you'll keep voting for it as well because doing otherwise would involve correcting too much of the world view you been trained with.

But but but Drones! Government Drones!!!1

Nailing rich people though........ I bet this particular case of government drones gathering intelligence on citizens gets a pass. Because on Slashdot, the only thing worse than rich people are their corporations. This site came to mind pretty fast when I spotted this story.

This worries me. The "usability" folks are at the plate again, wanting to "simplify" things.

Just so you know, I regularly and routinely use advanced features in KDE. I have at least a dozen applications with very specifically configured window positions and decoration settings. The panel is carefully configured to behave how I need it; grouping control and changing the order of applications manually is absolutely essential. I routinely change pager options to suit my current needs at any moment. I have customized the crap out of key maps, file associations, Konsole, Dolphin and Kate.

Notice how I make zero mention of "activities," nepomuk, baloo or akonadi.

If you need to hide some of the "advanced" features behind an "advanced" button to satisfy your notion of aesthetics then that's fine. Two things: 1.) Do. Not. Remove. Features. 2.) Once I've enabled "advanced" features somewhere don't make me do it again.

That way the added burden I face is hitting each "advanced" button once, and only once, and never thinking about it again.

Done right I can imagine a gentle reorganization of configuration being a small benefit to KDE. If you indulge configuration hating zealots that remove capabilities and dumb down KDE you will breed an army of haters. You will live in a world of haters hating on your work for the rest of your adult life.

Keep that in mind as you "simplify."

Tax subscribers. Obviously. The funds will be pissed away giving Canadian cable executives better bonuses

Is Canada still taxing blank media to subsidize the "victims" of "piracy?"

Whatever. Enjoy your cable monopoly Canuckistan. You deserve it. As do we.

First Iran and now Russia. Pretty soon all these tyrannical hell holes will be cut off. Enjoy your fetid lives in your dark little backwater nations. We'll be careful not to be 'imperialist' and interfere with you.

Netflix has worked on Linux for a long time now. Any given Roku can play Netflix streams. Netflix streams play on Android as well. It's possible that most Netflix streaming is done using Linux, given that set tops and smart TVs are typically running Linux.

From UT Austin: On the Cusp of an Ebola Vaccine

Bush built that lab (Galveston National Laboratory) as part of the $5 billion Project Bioshield Act of 2004, one of two, the other being at Boston University Medical Center. These are the places where actual research on ebola, dengue, hemorrhagic fever, SARS and others has been happening for years while you perfected your Bush derangement syndrome narrative.

Ass monkey.

-1 Group Think

Guess the "overwhelming conservative majority" took the day off.

Or maybe you're delusional.