Yes, they lack both hearts and minds.

Unless the device is just resting there on it's migratory path... or it could have been dropped there by swallows.

The other thing is that they only need a warrant to collect evidence that can be used in a trial. They can essentially do all the surveillance, tracking, etc. they want to without a warrant, then when they have a good idea of where to go to get the evidence they need in court (whether because they learned it through surveillance or planted it themselves) then they get the warrant to collect the evidence they will use against you in court.

The only magical thing about a warrant is that it makes the evidence admissible.

Yeah, because who really needs or wants all those nasty national parks. Sell them to corporations to "develop". If future generations, those worthless ingrates, want to have natural beauty, they can bloody well buy 'em back from the corporations and return them to "pristine" beauty. By god we need the money now!

And why should Wyoming have to pay to predict and monitor hurricanes. Florida, Texas and the rest of those freeloading "water" states can fund a dozen satellites and planes to fly through the storms if they care about them so much. Why should everyone else care about minimizing damage to the Port of Houston, the gulf refineries, or the fruit and vegetable crops. It doesn't affect me... I get all my stuff from Walmart, not any of those places.

Because, nowhere in the Constitution can I find authorization for a National Parks Service, or NOAA, or even FEMA.

You want to have sex with Sarah Palin? That's sick.

Facebook may require real names, but I can't think of any non-real name accounts getting deleted. I know both of my non-real accounts are still up and very active. But, and here is a key point, even if Facebook did decide to go in and blow away my accounts, it wouldn't cripple me online. G+ on the other hand ties to my gmail account, and my Calendar, and if they blow away my G+ account, they also blow away two very critical services they provide to to me under terms that let me stay pseudonymous. That's why I deleted my G+ account. I just couldn't risk losing the rest of my online identity because Schmidt wants to sell my info to marketers. I could have created another gmail account, and play with G+ on it, but after all, what would be the point? G+ is massive Google fail.

Yep, Scientific American is as sad and pathetic as the name implies.

Everything wrong with American science education and the general level of science awareness and knowledge of the American populace is distilled and fermented (that MUST be where the delay comes from) then spewed onto the pages this once great, but not any more, rag.

One of my main sources is the RSS feed and website of PhysOrg. http://www.physorg.com/

Great breadth and depth across science and medicine. Very quick in getting stories out on new developments. And most of their articles provide links to the original research paper or news release.

A hundred years from now we'll be talking about paying reparations to packets that were discriminated against.

Hey, the way I look at it, if they provide them... Free Shirts!