This won't happen, due to the fire hazard it presents. Everyone who owns property along the tracks would sue to prevent flaming leaves from starting brush fires and forest fires.
Given the massive scientific progress made in the last 300 years and the huge number of scientific theories that have been discarded and rules/laws reworked, it's reasonable to assume that the speed of light barrier will be overcome. The bigger question is given that alien civs are statistically certain to exist, how come we've not been contacted? Well maybe we have. The egyptians could have met aliens and got neat new tech from them, then the aliens went away to wait for us to evolve into something interesting. They could have done the same with the sumarians, the atlantians, the greeks- we have no way to know. They could be coming back every few thousand years to check up on us and we'd still not know, our ability to hold onto important information just wasn't there for most of our racial existance.
It stimulates the skin so you get a sense of feeling when your hand is at the right spot, but there would be no force feedback. You can't have a physically interactive holo girlfriend yet, though you could project one that does everything but touch.
Could we include tower authentication (to prevent cell tower spoofing), end to end encryption (to prevent call interception), and end the practice of pinging the tower (to stop phone tracking) for this new version? If we need to build new hardware anyway we may as well fix the major bugs.
This was the standard business practice of many record companies for many profitable years. The artist would pay everything including the cost of making the record (from their share), while the record company took 95% profits. I don't blame them for wanting to continue business as usual, I just don't see why our elected officials should assist them at our expense.
Hush! Most christians don't know the winter solstice was expropriated by the early christian church! The early christian church was having difficulty converting people because the "pagan" faiths have better hollidays, so they just borrowed them with a bit of "Christian" window dressing thrown on top. What? You thought christmas trees are christian?
The problem with encryption is the keys. The person you call/email has to have the same encryption key or they can't hear/read your communications. The current solution is to have the cell company or isp handle the encryption for you. Meaning they have the keys and can listen/read everything, and they can pass those keys to the government just as easily. So you need end to end encryption or the NSA gets everything anyway- only then you have to securely hand the keys to everyone you want to phone/email.
The power grid is only under strain during peak use. The rest of the time it's got power to burn. If everyone charges their electric car at night there won't be any trouble.
No, it's redundancy. A well designed power grid has multiple redundant feeder lines to run power to the major distribution points. But that costs extra, so a cash strapped (or cheap) utility will eliminate that to save money. And that means any time a line goes down you get a blackout until that line or transformer is replaced.
If the police have in their possession the full telephone meta-data for all phone calls, then we should be able to get that with an access to information request. Since it's not part of an ongoing police investigation and there are no privacy considerations in meta-data.
In the absence of a judicial order/warrant a police officer should have the same rights as any ordinary citizen, except when they see a crime being committed. If police can operate a stingray then anyone should be able to do so. If police can demand (and get) telephone records without cause then so should everyone else.
A hot air balloon would not last 100 days, it would run out of fuel to heat the air before that. Pumping air in/out of the balloon is a standard way that airships change buoyancy, by having a smaller balloon inside the bigger one that you fill with normal air to reduce the volume of the helium (and that increases the density, thereby reducing lift).
It's a matter of what the government can force your phone provider to hand over without a warrant. Given that the president of the USA is NOT a judge, I don't think he should be able to issue search warrants (NSA Letters).
The use of anti-biotics on farm animals causes the spread of drug resistant disease. The same is happening here with the government's abuse of spying. They are making a perfect incubator to develop countermeasures to spying.
In American politics 'everyone' says voting for a third party is throwing your vote away. And just about everyone believes this lie. When you vote third party the democrats and republicans look for ways to take those 'lost' votes. And that means they borrow policies from the third parties. So even though the little guy will never form the government he's still influencing the nation. A vote for a third party is a vote for change.
In a cyberwar those who know what they are doing and those that control the network have a huge advantage over those who don't. Trying to get the government to work by "voting with your dollars" will likely result in the corporations lying to you while they continue to submit to government demands in secret.
If Intel and Google want high bandwidth and net neutrality they should just build their own national internet with those features. And add crypto hubs at each users end so all data traffic is encrypted. Intel makes the hardware and Google siphons up the data for advertising, win-win.
I would think the NSA's response would be to MITM the internet connection and have it download NSA spyware when you think you are loading the spyware detector. Blocking the download just draws attention to them, it won't actually block those who want the software from getting it elsewhere.
Or you could put your cable under the road, like everyone else. Given that the government owns most roads that means a single point of negotiation for the whole job.
you are assuming that they pay for irrigation water. In the third world most crops are not irrigated, they depend on rain. Western crops generally require herbicides and pesticides to get those huge crops, so they have to buy that as well as the seeds. There is no shortage of food in the third world, it's a shortage of money to pay for the food that's the problem. Many of these poor people make their living by selling food. This is why selling massively subsidized western food is killing the Africans.
Follow the packets. You send a packet to a hidden service and follow it home. If you can monitor all traffic going into and out of a tor node you can figure out which one is yours and follow it to the next node. Repeat process until you have the server. The only way to stop this attack is to have data channels between nodes that are saturated with doubly encrypted data such that it's impossible to tell what data is yours.
They can link your burner phone to you by using the meta-data to map your movements and comparing to historical records of where you went (how many people spend nights at your house and days at your work?). We can assume they are recording all phone calls, not just meta-data.
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This won't happen, due to the fire hazard it presents. Everyone who owns property along the tracks would sue to prevent flaming leaves from starting brush fires and forest fires.
Given the massive scientific progress made in the last 300 years and the huge number of scientific theories that have been discarded and rules/laws reworked, it's reasonable to assume that the speed of light barrier will be overcome. The bigger question is given that alien civs are statistically certain to exist, how come we've not been contacted? Well maybe we have. The egyptians could have met aliens and got neat new tech from them, then the aliens went away to wait for us to evolve into something interesting. They could have done the same with the sumarians, the atlantians, the greeks- we have no way to know. They could be coming back every few thousand years to check up on us and we'd still not know, our ability to hold onto important information just wasn't there for most of our racial existance.
It stimulates the skin so you get a sense of feeling when your hand is at the right spot, but there would be no force feedback. You can't have a physically interactive holo girlfriend yet, though you could project one that does everything but touch.
As opposed to the USA, where the government GAVE huge bags of money on condition they roll out high speed.
Could we include tower authentication (to prevent cell tower spoofing), end to end encryption (to prevent call interception), and end the practice of pinging the tower (to stop phone tracking) for this new version? If we need to build new hardware anyway we may as well fix the major bugs.
This was the standard business practice of many record companies for many profitable years. The artist would pay everything including the cost of making the record (from their share), while the record company took 95% profits. I don't blame them for wanting to continue business as usual, I just don't see why our elected officials should assist them at our expense.
The situation is worse at the local level. It's fairly easy for the dominant religious group to control a small town and mandate prayer classes etc.
Hush! Most christians don't know the winter solstice was expropriated by the early christian church! The early christian church was having difficulty converting people because the "pagan" faiths have better hollidays, so they just borrowed them with a bit of "Christian" window dressing thrown on top. What? You thought christmas trees are christian?
The problem with encryption is the keys. The person you call/email has to have the same encryption key or they can't hear/read your communications. The current solution is to have the cell company or isp handle the encryption for you. Meaning they have the keys and can listen/read everything, and they can pass those keys to the government just as easily. So you need end to end encryption or the NSA gets everything anyway- only then you have to securely hand the keys to everyone you want to phone/email.
The power grid is only under strain during peak use. The rest of the time it's got power to burn. If everyone charges their electric car at night there won't be any trouble.
No, it's redundancy. A well designed power grid has multiple redundant feeder lines to run power to the major distribution points. But that costs extra, so a cash strapped (or cheap) utility will eliminate that to save money. And that means any time a line goes down you get a blackout until that line or transformer is replaced.
If the police have in their possession the full telephone meta-data for all phone calls, then we should be able to get that with an access to information request. Since it's not part of an ongoing police investigation and there are no privacy considerations in meta-data.
In the absence of a judicial order/warrant a police officer should have the same rights as any ordinary citizen, except when they see a crime being committed. If police can operate a stingray then anyone should be able to do so. If police can demand (and get) telephone records without cause then so should everyone else.
A hot air balloon would not last 100 days, it would run out of fuel to heat the air before that. Pumping air in/out of the balloon is a standard way that airships change buoyancy, by having a smaller balloon inside the bigger one that you fill with normal air to reduce the volume of the helium (and that increases the density, thereby reducing lift).
It's a matter of what the government can force your phone provider to hand over without a warrant. Given that the president of the USA is NOT a judge, I don't think he should be able to issue search warrants (NSA Letters).
The use of anti-biotics on farm animals causes the spread of drug resistant disease. The same is happening here with the government's abuse of spying. They are making a perfect incubator to develop countermeasures to spying.
Then start your own party. The American dream, that anyone could aspire to be president of the USA.
In American politics 'everyone' says voting for a third party is throwing your vote away. And just about everyone believes this lie. When you vote third party the democrats and republicans look for ways to take those 'lost' votes. And that means they borrow policies from the third parties. So even though the little guy will never form the government he's still influencing the nation. A vote for a third party is a vote for change.
In a cyberwar those who know what they are doing and those that control the network have a huge advantage over those who don't. Trying to get the government to work by "voting with your dollars" will likely result in the corporations lying to you while they continue to submit to government demands in secret.
If Intel and Google want high bandwidth and net neutrality they should just build their own national internet with those features. And add crypto hubs at each users end so all data traffic is encrypted. Intel makes the hardware and Google siphons up the data for advertising, win-win.
I would think the NSA's response would be to MITM the internet connection and have it download NSA spyware when you think you are loading the spyware detector. Blocking the download just draws attention to them, it won't actually block those who want the software from getting it elsewhere.
Or you could put your cable under the road, like everyone else. Given that the government owns most roads that means a single point of negotiation for the whole job.
you are assuming that they pay for irrigation water. In the third world most crops are not irrigated, they depend on rain. Western crops generally require herbicides and pesticides to get those huge crops, so they have to buy that as well as the seeds. There is no shortage of food in the third world, it's a shortage of money to pay for the food that's the problem. Many of these poor people make their living by selling food. This is why selling massively subsidized western food is killing the Africans.
Follow the packets. You send a packet to a hidden service and follow it home. If you can monitor all traffic going into and out of a tor node you can figure out which one is yours and follow it to the next node. Repeat process until you have the server. The only way to stop this attack is to have data channels between nodes that are saturated with doubly encrypted data such that it's impossible to tell what data is yours.
They can link your burner phone to you by using the meta-data to map your movements and comparing to historical records of where you went (how many people spend nights at your house and days at your work?). We can assume they are recording all phone calls, not just meta-data.