The feature in question apparently deactivates the alarm if you wave your hand anywhere from 2 to 8 feet beneath the unit. How they possibly thought that this wouldn't be accidentally triggered is beyond me. Something tells me that they didn't actually do very much QA at all.
What I don't understand is why you would want to disable your smoke alarm. You installed it to protect your family what circumstances would make you want to turn if off? If you burned something on the stove, open a window. Don't turn off thr smoke detector, it's just doing it's job. I know that I would forget to re-enable it after the problem was cleared. It's a dangerous option.
I think you might want to read the citation from the Nobel Committee. It wasn't just for the photoelectric effect.
True, but this is what the Nobel web site says: The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
Assuming the NSA wasn't actively threatening/blackmailing politicians into compliance with their long-term goals? Probably most of the third-party candidates, especially those with a libertarian bent. This shit didn't "just happen", there have been deeply entrenched vested interests on both sides of the aisle angling for this for a long time. Hell, I usually ignore elections as ineffective, but if real progress hasn't been made (not just promises) on reigning in the NSA by election day this year I'm standing in line to vote all third-party, and recruiting all my friends to do the same. It may already be too late at this point, but if we don't at least try we've got nobody but ourselves to blame. And a congress packed full of deadlocked ideological nutters that at least kind of want to serve their constituency can only be an improvement over the current situation.
Hell, maybe we could make an event out of it - live music, BBQ, the works. Draw a big crowd to the minimum legal distance from the polling place, and encourage them to vote for anyone without a D or R beside their name. A zero-day "Vote out the Sock Puppets" campaign. Give the apathetic a reason to show up that has nothing to do with politics, and let peer pressure and their own distaste for entrenched politicians do the rest. After all you can listen to music, eat your burger, and generally shoot the shit just as easily while standing in line.
This is my greatest concern. Still after all the time this spying has been public, no one seems to think it's a threat to the entire system of government of this Republic. Blackmail. Blackmail. The President of the U.S. and his ruling party which the NSA reports to has the emails and contact lists and meta data of every member of the opposition party. Also the same data on every judge including the Supremes and every reporter in the world. Doesn't anyone except me see that the system can no longer function under these conditions. Add to that secret courts, secret letters requiring further secrecy and as far as I'm concerned, this Republic has evolved into some kind of a fascist state. Nice experiment too bad it only lasted 225 years.
That's a nice idea. But can you point to a collection of Representatives, Senators, and a President we could have elected over the past 12 years that would have prevented this?
now gays. Can't Americans just stop acting like utter fucking cunts for a few moments and work on their hatred? I'm guessing it's religious in nature; after all, religious texts are full of specious, homophobic nonsense. Thank fuck that shit is on the way out.
This is why the Republican (American Taliban) party is unelectable. They spend all their time shoving their religion down the throats of non Republicans and then are amazed that those folks don't want to vote for them. I live in Arizona and I'm a fiscal conservative but Republican Taliban obsession with their religion is just wrong.
...just keep chipping away at the rights, little by little.
We're getting close to the point of not needing a warrant or consent at all.
Anyone want to lay bets on when that will finally happen? I'm sadly not optimistic that it may not happen in my lifetime.
:(
Hell, I'm 74 and I believe it will happen in MY lifetime. The terrorists in 9/11 won. The have managed to destroy what was the U.S. I knew when I was young. All in the name of fighting terrorism.
You Canadians can always do what we Americans have done. If you don't like provisions of your Constitution, just declare it a "Living Document" and throw out the parts you don't like. Make sure that your government is powerful enough to not have to listen to the people anymore and have a court system in your pocket too. We Americans have thrown out the 1st amendment as shown by Arizona trying to discriminate against non Christians with SB1062. They're working hard to throw out the 2nd amendment. The 4th amendment is toast. The Supremes deciding that anywhere within 100 miles of any border or international airport is a Constitution free zone and the government can confiscate any computer they wish without probable cause. That your everything on line is fair game for the NSA... Need I go on?
As much as I loathe Internet Explorer, this sort of response is unproductive. A lot of people are forced to use Internet Explorer who are neither idiots nor prey on them. Public access computers in libraries, computers in businesses and non-profits that have limited IT resources, and schools in lower income areas are also large users of Internet Explorer.
Such blind, fanboyish hatred doesn't serve those users at all.
I have a LG refrigerator and drive a Kia. (The NSA already knew that) Both of those Korean companies have websites that are made specifically for IE. When you log on they specify IE is the only browser supported and I can attest that Fire Fox does not properly render some pages. As I use a Mac, I have limited access to the web sites.
Do you really hope we mere mortals would have hard information about this ? But really, if the NSA is doing industrial espionage on Petrobras, do you think the little American Oil companies would get that data ? The affirmation that only the large corporations that are in bed with govt would get some of that data is essentially a given, no proof needed. It's too obvious. But more focus with being in bed with govt than being big.
And if they are doing industrial espionage, do you not think that they are using the political data they amass to influence elections here at home too. Please understand that the NSA reports directly to the Executive branch and the big boss is the President of The United States. I find it hard to believe that the NSA is not feeding the Prez private emails from the Congress and the Judges. The NSA also now has all the contact information from all journalists so all sources are know also. Of course the President doesn't want the program stopped, it's his keys to the kingdom. And if a Republican get elected, he will want to continue it also. To stop the NSA turns Superman into an ordinary human male.
Your whoosh implies that Akratist was joking. I don't think that was the case. I am sure they 100% believe in the corruption of our elected officials.
Is there anyone who believes that the U.S. Government hasn't become a huge banana republic? We need to find a way to get term limits and get rid of the cancer that Congress has become. That includes the politically driven Supreme Court also. This is why big government is not good.
Surveillance Watchdog Concludes Metadata Program Is Illegal, "Should End"
Any rational person with half a brain would come to the same conclusion.
However, two of the five people on that committee had no problem with the program. What do schools teach anymore that 40% of the people on this committee and at least that percentage of the population and people in Congress believe it's not unconstitutional?
Maybe they wouldn't directly put the public good ahead of profits, but they might put limiting their liability ahead of their profits.
Having a large accident would be a large liability for an energy company, and they would naturally take steps to avoid it.
While companies exist to make money the idea that only the government really cares about the people is a little too simplistic. Especially when you start talking into account how government entities like the NSA "care" about the people.
It does work that way sometimes. Here in Arizona, APS used to provide both electric power and natural gas. They replaced a bunch of gas pipe with a material that was supposed to be superior. I guess it was never tested in the extreme heat because it started cracking and leaking. The leaks caused a couple of explosions and when a local Phoenix TV reporter was killed by an explosion things started happening. APS replaced all that new pipe with a proper heat resistant pipe and the sold the entire gas operation for ten cents on the dollar to South West Gas in Nevada. For profit corporations do do the right thing at times. They just need some prodding from some more powerful entity.
There! I feel the hot breath of reform already. Big brother is a subcontract.
Now the secret courts will have to examine secret accusations with extra secrecy. The NSA building data centers will be reversed, so that the commercial sector can occupy this function. And send the bill for "services".
Yes, and this morning I saw a beautiful flock of pigs flying in a vee formation. It was breath taking. You can always tell when a politician is lying... his lips are moving. Double down, change the subject, find another crisis and the press will cover our butts.
The US parties may collude on a variety of things (like counterterrorism, or if you prefer, "counterterrorism") but they have significantly differing views on the relationship of the role of government to the citizenry and the economy. For instance, on the national level, the US Democratic party has been pushing for things like the recent health-care reform laws (for good or ill), additional environmental regulation, increases in the minimum wage, and other increases in taxes and spending which see the government taking a larger role in the economy, including transfer payments (welfare, etc). They also resent military spending as a rule. The Republican party pushes for less government involvement in the economy, lower/flatter tax regimes, market solutions to issues like healthcare and wages, and a regulatory regime which is not simply less stringent, but also more streamlined where it is in fact present (and they do not resent military spending, at least not as a rule).
Things are different outside the economic arena, true, but 2008-2016's top issues were, in order: the economy, the economy, and the economy. So.
I look at it as the Democrats are the Socialist, spread the wealth and tax the working people party and the Republicans are the American Taliban. Kill all the gays and jam some version of the Christian religion down everyone's throat. Neither of them represent the values I have.
They have the right. They have exercised that right. The government has responded through the appropriate democratic process, as expressed by the representatives who (after much political debate) voted to pass the act.
Except no one read it. Remember " you have to pass it to find out what's in it"?
Name a single innocent person who has been affected by the NSA. NSA is not the threat, it's the maniacs that for example leave bombs at public sport events or goes shooting at a school.
You have to be kidding. Have you not seen the cost so far the the American economy? Cisco, Boeing, all the cloud services have lost millions to billions because foreign customers will no longer buy American technology. You think that doesn't hurt every one of us?
There was, once upon a time, a Constitution with a 4th amendment. I don't trust my government anymore. They lie like rugs. The sample doesn't have to be anonymous. They have your vehicle license number. It's probably also a way to help fill the national Police DNA database. No, sorry.
This never would have happened when the Constitution was in effect. None of the three branches of government actually do what they were designed to do in the Constitution. We have the Executive branch making laws, such as declaring changes in the health care law without going through Congess. Clearly a violation of law. We have Congress not passing budgets which is their job and giving away powers like controlling the money supple to the Federal Reserve. The Supreme court won't touch any of this and they pretty much just decide what they personally feel rather than the law. Example; corporations can spend huge sums of money to buy corrupt Congress people and Senators because corporations are people. If corporations are people, why aren't they limited to the same spending limits people are?
It's almost as if British English and American English are separate dialects. In which case arguing over which one is 'correct' is fairly useless, no?
That's the way it is in some parts of the world. When I was in the Peace Corps in the Ivory Coast West Africa, I taught at the University of Abidjan. My best friend also taught there. My friend was British and I'm American. The University labeled his classes as "English" and mine as "American". I sometimes still slip and spell color as colour.
....In addition, if 'the whole thing falls apart' then we as a nation are fucked.
As far as I'm concerned "we as a nation" ARE ALREADY fucked... When both parties shit on the Constitution, and any amount of truth from the government is non-existant, we are swirling down the toilet... I'm a Army vet, and love this country and the Constitution, and before anybody decides to label me, I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN, NOT A DEMOCRAT, NOT A LIBERTARIAN, I AM AN AMERICAN!!. What is happening to the country I love makes me absolutely sick... Frankly, I'm glad I'm in my 60s, and not a young'un anymore, as I don't want to see where this country will be in 10-20 years.....
I'm one of you, too. I'm in my 70s and I feel fortunate that to have lived in this country when we were indeed free and had no nanny state to look over our shoulders. Why do I have to pay more for a plastic bucket because there is someone so dumb they don't keep their babies out if it. How much money, in time and manpower did it cost to mandate that all buckets have safety labels on them. Just one instance of the Nanny State. It never stops. My mantra has been for many years; Every day the city makes new laws, the county makes new laws, the State makes new laws and the Congress makes new laws. Every one of those laws is something you could do yesterday but can not do tomorrow. Old laws are never removed. At what point are all of our freedoms gone? Throw mission creep into the mix and you end up with out of control organizations like the NSA. The poeple who claim "I have nothing to hide are precisely the people who allow this to happen. They throw away their rights to say no to searching their homes and vehicles and don't believe the 5th amendment is needed. These were and are rights that were given to all of us and I am saddened to see how they are thrown away by uneducated people and stolen by power hungry politicians of both parties.
You don't need term limits when you can vote for the challenger.
However, this takes an educated electorate, so good luck with that I guess.
No you can't. The reason we are stuck with the crappy politicians we have is because the left and the right are so far apart that no red State would ever vote for a Democrat and no blue State would ever vote for a Republican. The politician in office is usually not challenged by others in his/her party so they basically have a job for life no matter how crappy they are. That is what we have now. Senators are especially difficult to pry out of their seats.
When I was in the Peace Corps (American) in Africa, I met several Dutch Peace Corps volunteers. They were all multilingual and their English was almost perfect. They told me that when you come from a small country surrounded larger countries that speak other languages, you learn their languages. They were all great people. The world could use more people like the Dutch.
And don't forget; The NSA can't track and tap the phones of us with POTS like they can you folks with cell phones. Therefore they must force all of us to have cell phones so we can be tracked and listened to. Warrants are only needed with POTS.
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Those corporations can then use and abuse that technology in ways which may ignore the law, and bypass any oversight, just like the NSA.
The feature in question apparently deactivates the alarm if you wave your hand anywhere from 2 to 8 feet beneath the unit. How they possibly thought that this wouldn't be accidentally triggered is beyond me. Something tells me that they didn't actually do very much QA at all.
What I don't understand is why you would want to disable your smoke alarm. You installed it to protect your family what circumstances would make you want to turn if off? If you burned something on the stove, open a window. Don't turn off thr smoke detector, it's just doing it's job. I know that I would forget to re-enable it after the problem was cleared. It's a dangerous option.
I think you might want to read the citation from the Nobel Committee. It wasn't just for the photoelectric effect.
True, but this is what the Nobel web site says:
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1921 was awarded to Albert Einstein "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect".
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobe...
Assuming the NSA wasn't actively threatening/blackmailing politicians into compliance with their long-term goals? Probably most of the third-party candidates, especially those with a libertarian bent. This shit didn't "just happen", there have been deeply entrenched vested interests on both sides of the aisle angling for this for a long time. Hell, I usually ignore elections as ineffective, but if real progress hasn't been made (not just promises) on reigning in the NSA by election day this year I'm standing in line to vote all third-party, and recruiting all my friends to do the same. It may already be too late at this point, but if we don't at least try we've got nobody but ourselves to blame. And a congress packed full of deadlocked ideological nutters that at least kind of want to serve their constituency can only be an improvement over the current situation.
Hell, maybe we could make an event out of it - live music, BBQ, the works. Draw a big crowd to the minimum legal distance from the polling place, and encourage them to vote for anyone without a D or R beside their name. A zero-day "Vote out the Sock Puppets" campaign. Give the apathetic a reason to show up that has nothing to do with politics, and let peer pressure and their own distaste for entrenched politicians do the rest. After all you can listen to music, eat your burger, and generally shoot the shit just as easily while standing in line.
This is my greatest concern. Still after all the time this spying has been public, no one seems to think it's a threat to the entire system of government of this Republic. Blackmail. Blackmail. The President of the U.S. and his ruling party which the NSA reports to has the emails and contact lists and meta data of every member of the opposition party. Also the same data on every judge including the Supremes and every reporter in the world. Doesn't anyone except me see that the system can no longer function under these conditions. Add to that secret courts, secret letters requiring further secrecy and as far as I'm concerned, this Republic has evolved into some kind of a fascist state. Nice experiment too bad it only lasted 225 years.
That's a nice idea. But can you point to a collection of Representatives, Senators, and a President we could have elected over the past 12 years that would have prevented this?
No.. no... and hell no!!
now gays. Can't Americans just stop acting like utter fucking cunts for a few moments and work on their hatred? I'm guessing it's religious in nature; after all, religious texts are full of specious, homophobic nonsense. Thank fuck that shit is on the way out.
This is why the Republican (American Taliban) party is unelectable. They spend all their time shoving their religion down the throats of non Republicans and then are amazed that those folks don't want to vote for them. I live in Arizona and I'm a fiscal conservative but Republican Taliban obsession with their religion is just wrong.
...just keep chipping away at the rights, little by little.
We're getting close to the point of not needing a warrant or consent at all.
Anyone want to lay bets on when that will finally happen? I'm sadly not optimistic that it may not happen in my lifetime.
Hell, I'm 74 and I believe it will happen in MY lifetime. The terrorists in 9/11 won. The have managed to destroy what was the U.S. I knew when I was young. All in the name of fighting terrorism.
You Canadians can always do what we Americans have done. If you don't like provisions of your Constitution, just declare it a "Living Document" and throw out the parts you don't like. Make sure that your government is powerful enough to not have to listen to the people anymore and have a court system in your pocket too. We Americans have thrown out the 1st amendment as shown by Arizona trying to discriminate against non Christians with SB1062. They're working hard to throw out the 2nd amendment. The 4th amendment is toast. The Supremes deciding that anywhere within 100 miles of any border or international airport is a Constitution free zone and the government can confiscate any computer they wish without probable cause. That your everything on line is fair game for the NSA... Need I go on?
As much as I loathe Internet Explorer, this sort of response is unproductive. A lot of people are forced to use Internet Explorer who are neither idiots nor prey on them. Public access computers in libraries, computers in businesses and non-profits that have limited IT resources, and schools in lower income areas are also large users of Internet Explorer.
Such blind, fanboyish hatred doesn't serve those users at all.
I have a LG refrigerator and drive a Kia. (The NSA already knew that) Both of those Korean companies have websites that are made specifically for IE. When you log on they specify IE is the only browser supported and I can attest that Fire Fox does not properly render some pages. As I use a Mac, I have limited access to the web sites.
Do you really hope we mere mortals would have hard information about this ?
But really, if the NSA is doing industrial espionage on Petrobras, do you think the little American Oil companies would get that data ?
The affirmation that only the large corporations that are in bed with govt would get some of that data is essentially a given, no proof needed. It's too obvious. But more focus with being in bed with govt than being big.
And if they are doing industrial espionage, do you not think that they are using the political data they amass to influence elections here at home too. Please understand that the NSA reports directly to the Executive branch and the big boss is the President of The United States. I find it hard to believe that the NSA is not feeding the Prez private emails from the Congress and the Judges. The NSA also now has all the contact information from all journalists so all sources are know also. Of course the President doesn't want the program stopped, it's his keys to the kingdom. And if a Republican get elected, he will want to continue it also. To stop the NSA turns Superman into an ordinary human male.
Your whoosh implies that Akratist was joking. I don't think that was the case. I am sure they 100% believe in the corruption of our elected officials.
Is there anyone who believes that the U.S. Government hasn't become a huge banana republic? We need to find a way to get term limits and get rid of the cancer that Congress has become. That includes the politically driven Supreme Court also. This is why big government is not good.
Surveillance Watchdog Concludes Metadata Program Is Illegal, "Should End"
Any rational person with half a brain would come to the same conclusion.
However, two of the five people on that committee had no problem with the program. What do schools teach anymore that 40% of the people on this committee and at least that percentage of the population and people in Congress believe it's not unconstitutional?
Maybe they wouldn't directly put the public good ahead of profits, but they might put limiting their liability ahead of their profits.
Having a large accident would be a large liability for an energy company, and they would naturally take steps to avoid it.
While companies exist to make money the idea that only the government really cares about the people is a little too simplistic. Especially when you start talking into account how government entities like the NSA "care" about the people.
It does work that way sometimes. Here in Arizona, APS used to provide both electric power and natural gas. They replaced a bunch of gas pipe with a material that was supposed to be superior. I guess it was never tested in the extreme heat because it started cracking and leaking. The leaks caused a couple of explosions and when a local Phoenix TV reporter was killed by an explosion things started happening. APS replaced all that new pipe with a proper heat resistant pipe and the sold the entire gas operation for ten cents on the dollar to South West Gas in Nevada. For profit corporations do do the right thing at times. They just need some prodding from some more powerful entity.
There! I feel the hot breath of reform already. Big brother is a subcontract.
Now the secret courts will have to examine secret accusations with extra secrecy. The NSA building data centers will be reversed, so that the commercial sector can occupy this function. And send the bill for "services".
Yes, and this morning I saw a beautiful flock of pigs flying in a vee formation. It was breath taking. You can always tell when a politician is lying... his lips are moving. Double down, change the subject, find another crisis and the press will cover our butts.
It's the distance.
The US parties may collude on a variety of things (like counterterrorism, or if you prefer, "counterterrorism") but they have significantly differing views on the relationship of the role of government to the citizenry and the economy. For instance, on the national level, the US Democratic party has been pushing for things like the recent health-care reform laws (for good or ill), additional environmental regulation, increases in the minimum wage, and other increases in taxes and spending which see the government taking a larger role in the economy, including transfer payments (welfare, etc). They also resent military spending as a rule. The Republican party pushes for less government involvement in the economy, lower/flatter tax regimes, market solutions to issues like healthcare and wages, and a regulatory regime which is not simply less stringent, but also more streamlined where it is in fact present (and they do not resent military spending, at least not as a rule).
Things are different outside the economic arena, true, but 2008-2016's top issues were, in order: the economy, the economy, and the economy. So.
I look at it as the Democrats are the Socialist, spread the wealth and tax the working people party and the Republicans are the American Taliban. Kill all the gays and jam some version of the Christian religion down everyone's throat. Neither of them represent the values I have.
They have the right. They have exercised that right. The government has responded through the appropriate democratic process, as expressed by the representatives who (after much political debate) voted to pass the act.
Except no one read it. Remember " you have to pass it to find out what's in it"?
Name a single innocent person who has been affected by the NSA. NSA is not the threat, it's the maniacs that for example leave bombs at public sport events or goes shooting at a school.
You have to be kidding. Have you not seen the cost so far the the American economy? Cisco, Boeing, all the cloud services have lost millions to billions because foreign customers will no longer buy American technology. You think that doesn't hurt every one of us?
There was, once upon a time, a Constitution with a 4th amendment. I don't trust my government anymore. They lie like rugs. The sample doesn't have to be anonymous. They have your vehicle license number. It's probably also a way to help fill the national Police DNA database. No, sorry.
This never would have happened when the Constitution was in effect. None of the three branches of government actually do what they were designed to do in the Constitution. We have the Executive branch making laws, such as declaring changes in the health care law without going through Congess. Clearly a violation of law. We have Congress not passing budgets which is their job and giving away powers like controlling the money supple to the Federal Reserve. The Supreme court won't touch any of this and they pretty much just decide what they personally feel rather than the law. Example; corporations can spend huge sums of money to buy corrupt Congress people and Senators because corporations are people. If corporations are people, why aren't they limited to the same spending limits people are?
It's almost as if British English and American English are separate dialects.
In which case arguing over which one is 'correct' is fairly useless, no?
That's the way it is in some parts of the world. When I was in the Peace Corps in the Ivory Coast West Africa, I taught at the University of Abidjan. My best friend also taught there. My friend was British and I'm American. The University labeled his classes as "English" and mine as "American". I sometimes still slip and spell color as colour.
....In addition, if 'the whole thing falls apart' then we as a nation are fucked.
As far as I'm concerned "we as a nation" ARE ALREADY fucked... When both parties shit on the Constitution, and any amount of truth from the government is non-existant, we are swirling down the toilet... I'm a Army vet, and love this country and the Constitution, and before anybody decides to label me, I AM NOT A REPUBLICAN, NOT A DEMOCRAT, NOT A LIBERTARIAN, I AM AN AMERICAN!!. What is happening to the country I love makes me absolutely sick... Frankly, I'm glad I'm in my 60s, and not a young'un anymore, as I don't want to see where this country will be in 10-20 years.....
I'm one of you, too. I'm in my 70s and I feel fortunate that to have lived in this country when we were indeed free and had no nanny state to look over our shoulders. Why do I have to pay more for a plastic bucket because there is someone so dumb they don't keep their babies out if it. How much money, in time and manpower did it cost to mandate that all buckets have safety labels on them. Just one instance of the Nanny State. It never stops. My mantra has been for many years; Every day the city makes new laws, the county makes new laws, the State makes new laws and the Congress makes new laws. Every one of those laws is something you could do yesterday but can not do tomorrow. Old laws are never removed. At what point are all of our freedoms gone? Throw mission creep into the mix and you end up with out of control organizations like the NSA. The poeple who claim "I have nothing to hide are precisely the people who allow this to happen. They throw away their rights to say no to searching their homes and vehicles and don't believe the 5th amendment is needed. These were and are rights that were given to all of us and I am saddened to see how they are thrown away by uneducated people and stolen by power hungry politicians of both parties.
You don't need term limits when you can vote for the challenger.
However, this takes an educated electorate, so good luck with that I guess.
No you can't. The reason we are stuck with the crappy politicians we have is because the left and the right are so far apart that no red State would ever vote for a Democrat and no blue State would ever vote for a Republican. The politician in office is usually not challenged by others in his/her party so they basically have a job for life no matter how crappy they are. That is what we have now. Senators are especially difficult to pry out of their seats.
When I was in the Peace Corps (American) in Africa, I met several Dutch Peace Corps volunteers. They were all multilingual and their English was almost perfect. They told me that when you come from a small country surrounded larger countries that speak other languages, you learn their languages. They were all great people. The world could use more people like the Dutch.
And don't forget; The NSA can't track and tap the phones of us with POTS like they can you folks with cell phones. Therefore they must force all of us to have cell phones so we can be tracked and listened to. Warrants are only needed with POTS.
Analysts are still searching for the source of the bit pattern:
01000010010000010100111001011010010000010100100100100001
in the telemetry received just before impact.
So it was Japanese.
01000010010000010100111001011010010000010100100100100001 translates to BANZAI!