... disable location services on your phone. You're giving data to a public database and then crying about privacy... just don't give them information.

You are assuming here that you have complete and total control of your phone, completely impervious from overrides by the greasy carriers and their state security handlers.

Someone should contest this (along with warantless wiretapping, GPS tracking, etc) to the Supreme Court because this behavior should be unconstitutional.

A noble sentiment. Problem is, the current US Supreme Court in riddled with partisan ideologues that have no problem with corporations having human rights, the non-judicial killing of citizens, and especially police state surveillance systems.

This grand experiment in representative democracy is over. All we can hope for is bureaucratic incompentence to temper the increasingly ubiquitous tyranny.

The fact that the "helium shortage" [forbes.com] is nonsense made up by bloggers that are dumb enough to think they are smarter than the market, but aren't quite dumb enough to put their money where their mouth is. America's proven reserves of helium will meet current demand for centuries. Unproven, but extractable, reserves are probably an order of magnitude higher. We are not running out of helium, at least not in this millennium.

Fracking *might* have the unintended consequence of liberating co-habitating helium that would otherwise be held. If they're generating millions of gallons of salt and chemical contaminated water, I don't think they'll give a care about wasting helium either.

'We're trying to determine how the surveillance radar information from the JLENS platforms can be integrated with existing systems in the National Capital Region'

I assume they lifted that phrase from the Politburo or the Peoples' Central Committee. [shudder]