National intelligence agencies have full access to the hardware and software, it should be possible to certify this stuff free of back doors. Unless there is some inherent design flaw in 5G that would let the maker remotely take control that can't be blocked. The sort of structural backdoor the NSA would design into it so they can continue collecting everyone's secrets forever.
Your justification on why Saudi Arabia can have nuclear power (with safeguards) also apply to Iran (with safeguards = Iran Nuclear Deal). The people of Saudi Arabia created the Taliban and ISIS, paid for the 9/11 attack on America, and continue to actively support muslim extremism world wide. They are clearly a bigger threat to America than Iran.
The guy in power just abducted all the rich men in the country and litterally held them for ransom. What reason do you have for thinking he'll keep this deal one day past completion of the reactor?
The Iran Nuclear Deal made it harder and more time consuming for Iran to build nuclear bombs. Even just slowing them down is worth the effort as it gives time for political change in Iran (stage a revolution?). Short of invasion we don't have any other workable options, sanctions aren't working.
Electricity from Oil costs approx 4 cents per KWH, from Nuclear approx 30 cents per KWH. There are 3 rational reasons for building a nuclear reactor: 1-medical radioisotope production, 2-mobile power (ships), 3-building bombs. Neither Iran nor Saudi Arabia have any practical justification for building a nuclear reactor. Doesn't the Iran Nuclear Deal impose those same safeguards to prevent weapons production?
Religious nutjobs plan for forever. Faith = believing in stuff without needing proof. Also believing the written statements of old men who lived alone in the desert over scientifically verifiable evidence.
Self driving cars means the end of this revenue stream. It should be interesting to see what they do, when all the cars are either driven legally and can prove it, or know where all the police are.
This is a major issue for government document rentention. Not being able to open 40 year old files and have them print properly could get people sued (land deeds and legal contracts) or killed (maps of old hazerdous waste dumps).
If the progressives (left wing Democrats) keep pushing they could force an independent goverment department to handle districting and voter lists and handling elections. This would prevent Republicans and centralist Democrats from rigging the elections to favour the Rich White Men that currently run America.
Torture can be used to get information where you can prove if it's true or not, like water boarding someone until they give the safe combination. Any other use of torture is stupid.
Giving the FCC the leeway to choose how to regulate the internet is a bad idea, it means every administration can change the rules. Just pass a law mandating how to regulate the internet.
We can make a good business case for a colony on the moon. To build orbital solar power stations and railgun them into Earth orbit. On a planetary power grid scale the astronomical cost of a colony is smaller than launching the stations from Earth. There is no plausible business case for a colony on Mars. None. Nothing with any hope of a return on investment within a human lifespan.
We've had the ability to colonize the Moon since the first moon landings. We didn't because of Cost. We've had the ability to get to Mars since the moon landings. We didn't because of Cost. The supply of easy money doesn't appear to have improved.
Nobody SHOULD go to Mars this century, but probably will. We need to search for life before we contaminate the planet with earth life because: 1-It gets much harder to detect once you have contamination. 2-We might kill off native life, possibly including intelligent life. 3-We might bring something nasty back.
Breaking up Standard Oil gave America a few years of less price gouging. That's not zero. We just need a government department that keeps doing that, to prevent monopolies.
The police/FBI/NSA/CIA would love that solution. It would make warrantless spying so much easier. And letting the companies continue to spy on the public is a small price to pay for that.
The problem with switching to an alternative to Facebook is the network effect. All your friends and family use Facebook. To remain useful you would have to convince all your friends and family to also switch, to the same new service, at the same time. And most of them don't see a problem worth switching for. Having the government legislate mandatory interconnects so other services can send/receive data with Facebook is the only practical way to fix this.
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National intelligence agencies have full access to the hardware and software, it should be possible to certify this stuff free of back doors. Unless there is some inherent design flaw in 5G that would let the maker remotely take control that can't be blocked. The sort of structural backdoor the NSA would design into it so they can continue collecting everyone's secrets forever.
Your justification on why Saudi Arabia can have nuclear power (with safeguards) also apply to Iran (with safeguards = Iran Nuclear Deal). The people of Saudi Arabia created the Taliban and ISIS, paid for the 9/11 attack on America, and continue to actively support muslim extremism world wide. They are clearly a bigger threat to America than Iran.
The guy in power just abducted all the rich men in the country and litterally held them for ransom. What reason do you have for thinking he'll keep this deal one day past completion of the reactor?
Solar power + batteris has been cheaper than Nuclear Power for over 30 years. They are not doing this for economic reasons.
The Iran Nuclear Deal made it harder and more time consuming for Iran to build nuclear bombs. Even just slowing them down is worth the effort as it gives time for political change in Iran (stage a revolution?). Short of invasion we don't have any other workable options, sanctions aren't working.
Electricity from Oil costs approx 4 cents per KWH, from Nuclear approx 30 cents per KWH. There are 3 rational reasons for building a nuclear reactor: 1-medical radioisotope production, 2-mobile power (ships), 3-building bombs. Neither Iran nor Saudi Arabia have any practical justification for building a nuclear reactor. Doesn't the Iran Nuclear Deal impose those same safeguards to prevent weapons production?
Religious nutjobs plan for forever. Faith = believing in stuff without needing proof. Also believing the written statements of old men who lived alone in the desert over scientifically verifiable evidence.
Self driving cars means the end of this revenue stream. It should be interesting to see what they do, when all the cars are either driven legally and can prove it, or know where all the police are.
Police have claimed that putting a GPS tracker on a car is ok. Something about no expectation of privacy in a public place.
This is a major issue for government document rentention. Not being able to open 40 year old files and have them print properly could get people sued (land deeds and legal contracts) or killed (maps of old hazerdous waste dumps).
Back doors only broadcast when activated, so they won't show up in wireshark testing.
If the goal of the police is to lock you up, then they win.
If the progressives (left wing Democrats) keep pushing they could force an independent goverment department to handle districting and voter lists and handling elections. This would prevent Republicans and centralist Democrats from rigging the elections to favour the Rich White Men that currently run America.
Torture can be used to get information where you can prove if it's true or not, like water boarding someone until they give the safe combination. Any other use of torture is stupid.
Right to privacy! Just get a EU court to order all the records de-indexed.
Your car should not have authority to spend your money (hire tow truck) without your consent.
Giving the FCC the leeway to choose how to regulate the internet is a bad idea, it means every administration can change the rules. Just pass a law mandating how to regulate the internet.
We can make a good business case for a colony on the moon. To build orbital solar power stations and railgun them into Earth orbit. On a planetary power grid scale the astronomical cost of a colony is smaller than launching the stations from Earth. There is no plausible business case for a colony on Mars. None. Nothing with any hope of a return on investment within a human lifespan.
We've had the ability to colonize the Moon since the first moon landings. We didn't because of Cost. We've had the ability to get to Mars since the moon landings. We didn't because of Cost. The supply of easy money doesn't appear to have improved.
Nobody SHOULD go to Mars this century, but probably will. We need to search for life before we contaminate the planet with earth life because: 1-It gets much harder to detect once you have contamination. 2-We might kill off native life, possibly including intelligent life. 3-We might bring something nasty back.
Breaking up Standard Oil gave America a few years of less price gouging. That's not zero. We just need a government department that keeps doing that, to prevent monopolies.
The police/FBI/NSA/CIA would love that solution. It would make warrantless spying so much easier. And letting the companies continue to spy on the public is a small price to pay for that.
The problem with switching to an alternative to Facebook is the network effect. All your friends and family use Facebook. To remain useful you would have to convince all your friends and family to also switch, to the same new service, at the same time. And most of them don't see a problem worth switching for. Having the government legislate mandatory interconnects so other services can send/receive data with Facebook is the only practical way to fix this.
It's not FREE, you're selling your privacy for a service. Not all business transactions involve money.
Breaking up a company should be an option for criminal behavior.