You sure posted this to Hacker News, but why weren't you spending this posting time fighting crime, poverty and corruption? I guess you endorse those things!

I wasn't elected into office to serve or help anyone. These people are voted in to carry on the duties of a government. Digital gadgets on an airplane is the sort of a low hanging, non-issue that a lazy politician would take up. This is what they call a first-world problem, and FSM knows America has its fair share of non 1st-world problems that need addressing.

The Senator wants to stop a federal agency staffed by non-elected individuals from regulating customers of private businesses while on private business property. Sounds like a step in the right direction to me.

In this case the "private business property" comprises huge, heavy, metal objects carrying large amounts of highly inflammable fuel that are flying through the sky at high speed over the heads and homes of millions of people.

Regulating this activity seems like a step in the right direction to me.

Low-hanging fruit. This is a non-issue that concerns no one but the Senator and her frequent-flyer peer group. I don't vote people into office for taking care of fluff issues, and I hope neither should you. Address what matters, then we can legislate on iPads in the air.

That private business property is flying in public airspace over other entities' private and public property. The federal agency is staffed according to regulations put into legislation by elected individuals.

It astounds me that a non sequitur like this is at the top.

It's pretty good rabble-rousing though.

It's like no matter where I go on the internet, a little bit of Slashdot is always there to welcome me.

The Bravery here is Off The Charts.

The Bravery .. kickass band. Saw them once, too drunk to remember. So, what were you saying again?