If You Want Your Five Bucks Back, The FAA Is Refunding Drone Registrations. Good news for drone hobbyists who were noble enough to register their aircrafts but could really use $5 right about now: The US Federal Aviation Administration is refunding registration fees and removing names from its registration database. The FAA first started requiring drone owners to register small aerial vehicles on December 2. The registrations cost a small fee and lasted three years. In a statement at the time, US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx explained why it was our civic duty to register our flying toys: “Make no mistake: unmanned aircraft enthusiast. The FAA still urges drone owners to register drones, but can no longer require they do so, and will remove registrants from the database as long as they fill out this form and can confirm they only used their drone for recreational purposes. Unfortunately for enthusiasts, this probably isn’t the final word on drone regulation.

Good news for drone hobbyists who were noble enough to register their aircrafts but could really use $5 right about now: The US Federal Aviation Administration is.

An FAA special committee consisting of representatives from 7. Amazon, AT& T, and the NYPD) met last week to discuss a proposal for a remote drone identification system. Such a system, which would allow officials to ID drones and their owners from the ground, could lead Congress to reinstate the registration requirement. The group is meeting again on July 1.

FAA in September. So it’s entirely possible anyone who removes their name from this list will soon have to re- register. Invincible Iron Man Trailer. Enjoy your drone freedom while it lasts.

Follow These People on Twitter to Help You Understand the Trump/Russia Connection. It’s a lot, right?

It’s a lot, right? It is a firehose of news. How are we supposed to live our lives, cook a meal, uncrimp our hunched-over necks? Even when I shut my. Last night, in a thrilling drama that entertains the sort of people who stay up late chatting on Twitter about Senate votes, three Republicans voted against their.

It is a firehose of news. How are we supposed to live our lives, cook a meal, uncrimp our hunched- over necks? Even when I shut my computer, it still flashes its little light in the corner, ready to alert me to the horrors of the world like some kind of pulsing Hellmouth. But one doesn’t want to be uninformed!

So here is my solution, sort of, when I can restrain myself from nervously tapping and clicking my phone for new news, kind of like one does with a rosary, if a rosary also had the power to deliver jolts of terrified adrenaline: I head on over to Twitter. But, instead of traveling aimlessly down that endless media highway, absorbing the random thoughts of random people of my totally un- curated Twitter feed and thinking dimly “that’s interesting about how children should be bored in the summer” or “wow, that headline has the suffix . In addition to the accounts that everyone follows—The New York Times, The Washington Post, Maggie Haberman, Preet Bharara, etc.—I glance at this short list a few times a day to keep me up to date.

Take a look! NB: This won’t necessarily reduce the amount of time you spend online—these people are prolific tweeters, writers, lawyers, and podcasters, and even just this smallish group could send you down some winding Twitter rabbit holes. Have other suggestions? Leave them in the comments and I’ll adjust my list on Twitter. Benjamin Wittes is the co- founder and editor- in- chief of Lawfare, which is devoted to the discussion of “hard national security choices” (itself worth following: @lawfareblog). He was an editorial writer for the Washington Post for nine years and is now a senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution.

His feed serves as both information/entertainment on its own and as an excellent shunt toward other legal tweeters. Chafetz is law professor at Cornell and author of the forthcoming Congress’s Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers. According to Steve Vladeck, the editor- in- chief of Just Security (see below), he’s particularly good on the powers and role of Congress. Abramson is an attorney and professor of English at UNH and is apparently devoting his every waking moment to explaining stuff on Twitter. He has 1. 18. K followers, so I guess a lot of other people need these explanations, too. I like his lengthy threads explaining complicated matters in short sentences, because hey—if I had any kind of attention span I wouldn’t be on Twitter in the first place.

Here’s the start of an epic thread tweet, this one on criminal versus non- criminal investigations: A site dedicated to law, rights, and national security. Its co- editor- in- chief, @steve. Black Ops 15Th Prestige Hack Xbox 360 Usb Update. I like Just Security for commentary on international events, especially when my attention is so glued to Washington.

Goldsmith is a Harvard Law prof, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a co- founder of Lawfare. His laconic commentary isn’t especially hilarious, but then, what is hilarious about national security these days? But his annotations on current- events media alert me to what stories aren’t getting enough attention, as well as longer- form commentary for perspective.

Finally, a brief shout- out to Matt Tait (@pwnallthethings). Tait writes primarily about cybersecurity, but Benjamin Wittes notes that he also follows Tait for stuff in the legal/political/security area too.