In a speech earlier this week, good ole’ Dubya called for better technology to protect our precious US borders. This would include more employees and possibly the addition of drones to monitor the borders. The US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) recently purchased a Predator B drone to assist in the monitoring. The Predator B,…
The FAA is maintaining its ban against in-flight use of wireless devices such as cellphones, regardless of the FCC’s recent proposal to allow such usage. Some of you might disagree, but no regrets here: an eight-hour cross-country flight is bad enough with wailing babies and stuffy air; adjacent passengers with too much time on their…