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At first I thought this was a trojan horse for the NYTimes to gather demographic information about their readers (household income, age, employment status). But then decided the A/…

Agreed, there is no 14 CFR (part 61 or other) regulation that I'm aware of. But the regulations are very concise, and not thorough enough to evaluate every possible scenario. The p…

Pilot, not attorney. I'll be shocked if FAA permits this -- though happy to see anything that helps make more general aviation enthusiasts. What I infer through having read various…

The effects of hypoxia are profound on human performance -- it's not as simple as being unconscious and incapacitated, it can be irrational and incoherent. As an example, listen to…

My guess was a variation: as a warning to ground personnel not to touch that area of the fuselage, as after any recent firing of the GAU-8 that area would be "HOT PLATE".

When I decided I was going to get my pilot license I planned to do so efficiently, without burning cash unnecessarily (yeah, right) -- I was prepared with my own plan for every fli…

New York Times intro paragraph on the topic: The former National Security Agency contractor who revealed the U.S. government's top-secret monitoring of Americans' phone and Interne…

Yahoo is not acquiring Tumblr in the traditional sense. Tumblr is the new Yahoo. What has been Yahoo up until now will begin to play a secondary and support role to Tumblr. So Flic…

Perhaps rather than killing the technology off this time they tried to get rid of the person in charge of the technology. Of course, if this isn't fixed soon...

The biggest reason we wanted to use iCloud is: background syncing (i.e. not just when the app is in the background, when the app isn't even running). For apps that get a fair bit o…

I tried to add iCloud features to an app as part of a contract gig. It was disastrous. The paying customer knew we were capable, but began to wonder what was going on with us -- it…

Don't you all know what this means? Someone gone and caught the big phish. Bruce's site is hacked. Clever self-referential hackers. We're all done for.

or this boat just made him happy twice in one day.

Can another tactic be employed in this battle against patent trolls?... Public education programs targeted to residents of East Texas. Documentaries, billboards, sophisticated adve…

How does this hurt Microsoft? If everyone is tossing their netbook every 6 months, doesn't Microsoft get them to pay the Windows licensing fee more frequently?

The captions on the video are epic. Don't miss a watch with the CC on.

149 kts occurs daily -- at altitude. For example the current winds aloft forecast for BML shows 155 kts at 30,000 feet: http://aviationweather.gov/products/nws/fdwinds/dynamic/bost…