Exactly. A Faraday cage effects exactly YOUR PROPERTY. Jammers typically are turned up until the most "durable" device gets its connection broken.. So many Jammers are effecting their neighbors and people in public spaces.
It's not entirely fair to blame Obama. CONGRESS told him in no uncertain terms he could not hold civilian trials. And Congress told him he could not close a "secret base" in spite of the fact that the previous president NEVER ASKED to use Gitmo in this manner.
For all the posturing in the media, the GOP LIKE the way things are. They LIKE the Drone bombing campaigns, they have the military ranks packed well enough all the Top brass is loyal to the GOP first because they keep funding coming.
Schmidt seems to miss that YOU won't be able to buy drones. Current "drones" like AR.Drone are just RC planes... They are counted as toys. Lose them on your neighbors property is just too bad for you.
The issue is that there isn't much difference between big RC hobby rigs and "Drones" other than what you are allowed to mount on the device. For example a TV station cannot legally use footage from an AR.Drone because a) they would have no permission to operate on someone's property, and b) using RC Craft hobby craft for commercial services, or with commercial radios kicks them out of operating as "toys" and the FAA/FCC will get you.
Right now there is no "drone" classification. TOYS (RC planes, copters, kites, etc) operate below 500 foot and have size restrictions. AIRCRAFT are regulated by the FAA/FCC and must operate ABOVE 500 foot except for takeoff and landings. The FAA wants to regulate DRONES BELOW 500 foot, claiming they can regulate "anything flying".
A REGULATED aircraft you would not be allowed to interfere with, and would carry heavy fines. With technology so far, full-size planes and choppers at 500 foot weren't very useful for survailence, and make too much noise. Operating that close to ground is considered dangerous operation with humans on board as well. Now that RC craft are good enough platforms, they want to take away the 500 foot limit... In fact pilots of REAL PLANES don't want them in COMMERCIAL airspace either... Because Drone "pilots" are reckless to manned craft.
Traditionally the 500 foot limit has been "your property" (above thst counted like the road as public right of way) so we are in a holding pattern wether courts will say moving government craft into that space requires a warrant or not.
But it only requires a "government official" that is "investigating" national security. And they don't need a judge to sign... And the recipient can't announce they GOT ONE or any details... And it can't be challenged in court (cause you can't talk about it)... Although they are "reviewed" once a year per agency by some secret list of judges, somewhere... But no checks and balances are included in the law if the judges didn't like the results.
The whole NSL thing was for bullying small entities with the idea that their lawyers couldn't even talk to other lawyers about the letters. That stops working when you have an organized legal department like Google's that WANTS to picka fight. They probably have sacks of NSLs and have attached the "homework" that shows a large number X are really nothing more that police harassment or information not really allowed with normal warrants.
All it takes is Google finding a judge willing to set aside that part of the law that says JUDGES can't review NSLs either and grab him a few file boxes of interesting material.
He was going to have to plead Guilty to crimes that he clearly DID NOT COMMIT but the DA was throwing on o see if they would stick... Crimes like wire fraud and malicious intrusion that would ban him from many serious computer jobs for "all time" when all he actually did was "borrow" a password too long and pass out the results.
What he did was like plugging into your neighbors power, with an extension cord, during a party when they LET YOU plug it in... They just never bothered to check you were still running their meter and pull the plug ON THEIR OWN when you went home. They let it go for days until the power company called them out on it...
I agree. Nowdays these shell banks would be closed down in minutes and their balances shifted to other shell banks in the network. It's not like the 1950's when there was lots of hard currency and expensive properties inolved. When the super rich traveled for MONTHS long trips... With cars, furniture, maids, butlers, wardrobes, expensive art, etc.
The thing is that these dictators will pay crazy interest... Which as they ARE THE GOVERNMENT make the people hold the bag later... So there are banks with this money just stupid enough to stay there.
But HBO is just one channel of dozens owned by the same company. They make cable companies take 4-5 shopping or rerun channels before they will let them OFFER HBO. The ad revenue from crappy channels ALSO pays part of HBO's budgets. As a separate example with CBS it's "the CSI rerun" channels that make them their money... That's how they afford to "giveaway" the show on broadcast TV.
So to sell you "just HBO" they really want $50 per month they get by forcing other bundled channels on cable operators.
That's also why we can't have "a la cart". Cable companies need the "lamer" bundled channels where they get more ad revenue... The more "premium" the channels, the less ads your cable company gets to balance the bills.... I think Ars figured ads are worth about $1.50 per hour your watching TV... Which is way more than you PAY for Cable.
That's not how "cable TV" works. You have 4-5 big production houses that basically "own" all the channels and rent them to cable companies. They basically collude on which tier they want their channels... Channels like HBO are the carrot to get subscribers... And the stick they use to sell lots of channels to your CABLE COMPANY you don't want... So cable has to bundle things to pay for the few really cool channels customers will leave if they don't get.
Because like somebody pointed out the cost or "just HBO" isn't that bad. But HBO's PARENT doesn't allw your cable company to sell you JUST HBO. It has to be on top of the "premium tier" plans... Which they have very public fights over now with providers. So they really want $80 per month for their premium content... They force your cable company to take 20 channels of reruns before they will LET you buy ONE HBO.
Well.. If you want 27 million people out there making TROUBLE instead of working...
Cable TV is really cheap "bread and circuses" if it keeps he masses from rioting because there are few jobs that allow one to add VALUE... You aren't even a useful TAXPAYER until you make at least $100k or so.
You won't see that because HBO is the carrot used to get subscribers. It's cost is high to get CABLE COMPANIES to subscribe to lots of channels their customers don't want... Which they have to bundle before they make money letting you watch HBO. With each of the big 4-5 producing houses doing it, they are packing the lower tiers with Ad-filled crap channels to "out ad space" the other producing houses.
HBO needs to do something about the bundling costs. I would gladly pay for HBO's content on my cable bill. But their parent company uses its monopoly on HBO to push dozens of channels nobody wants... So they can jack up the real price of HBO from $20 per month to $50+ because you have to "tier up" to be allowed to pay for it in the first place. With HBO, my "programming" part of mt cabe bill would be well over $100.. That buys an awful lot of DVD box sets in a year.
With the skill and polish they use for processing cocaine, they could easily start knocking out AK-47's at high quality... But of course they would be instantly hit with bombs from drones for that....
Besides the USA has plenty of dumb NRA members that don't think they are responsible to follow background checks so buy guns for people who fail, or don't want to take them.
But anybody using MakerBots has a good chance of having all the tools to machine a REAL, METAL Reciever in their garage already. But the ATF knows the vast majority of people that have invested in such tools won't put their freedom... And those tools/toys in jeopardy to rob $25 from a party store.
You get a tremendous amount of control on you little Raspberry Pi. You can't get THAT on your little cell phone. Also, by the time somebody wires up a special board, for EACH specific brand phone (cause they all have "special sauce") it would cost most of the cost of the Pi and be half as useful.
Like other people have said, most phones have no HOST capability over USB. So you would need some kind of chip to do the talking to another useful chip that can DO SOMETHING. Your back to $20-$30 unless you want to solder yourself....
That is the thing here... If you're complaining about making your own case and battery holder you're clearly not in the marketbfor this stuff.
Yea! Bitcoin is growing up! That means enough people are using it that the government is noticing. And of course the first thing the government does to show its appreciation is to start regulating it. Did they at least get a "Baby's first regulation" card?
Because Agriculture gave us a steady food supply, but Beer and Bread gave them a way to KEEP IT and round out the seasonal ups and downs. That also caused the need to put down roots for the time needed to create and store the stuff, and people brought the crops to the new villages creating trade.
Because RECORDED evidence is weighted much more heavily than handshakes. Lets say you are negotiating for something and writing out a contract. If one side is recording, now they got something extra to add to the contract... And you don't. Google Glass isn't really "evidence" because it doesn't record what YOU are doing. You could run around waving a gun, but keep it off camera and accuse everybody of treating you terribly. It's stupid, everybody knows that... Then... But what about 5 years later, and the images of everybody else get used in background checks, etc....
This is like sports salary caps. A defendant shouldn't lose a case because they can't pay their lawyers after the case drags on and on like this. Either sequester the lawyers to the case till completed, or salary cap the big company to a budget BOTH companies can afford.
Violent crime... Murder, rape, robbery... Are all at relative 50 year lows. IN SPITE OF 10 years of recession and war which should be causung an increase. SWAT does absolutely nothing to STOP those crimes, they only show up after. Yet every small city police force is armed with SWAT equipment and tactics more than any other time in US history. At the height of WW2 our local police were not this armed up.
In short, We the People are getting along pretty well in spite of the crappy circumstance. Yet the government and Police are becoming more and more violent AGAINST US because they aren't getting more money. So they INVENT dozens of new crimes every year and send out the dogs to round up fresh prey so they all look busy.
Don't you get it? Somebody social engineered the system to use SWAT to attempt MURDER of a stranger. It's time to put our attack dogs down. Close SWAT teams, and revoke CCWs for everybody involved. They were used to commit a crime... THEY MUST BE PUNISHED or being so gullible and held INDIVIDUALLY RESPONSIBLE as Free Men for what they did.
And after writing all that, it's that now FREE MEN should interact?
I agree with what you said. As a society of FREE AND EQUAL CITIZENS what you are describing is ethically and morally wrong on many levels and should not be tolerated. It's a bad thing, what you described, and leads to worse things.
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Go Right-to-Work states. I mean right to summarily fire your employees for complaining about dangerous conditions.... I get those confused.
Best part is that fertilizer will be more expensive ths year! Go Business!
Exactly. A Faraday cage effects exactly YOUR PROPERTY. Jammers typically are turned up until the most "durable" device gets its connection broken.. So many Jammers are effecting their neighbors and people in public spaces.
The Black Vans with antennas all over phone them in!
It's not entirely fair to blame Obama. CONGRESS told him in no uncertain terms he could not hold civilian trials. And Congress told him he could not close a "secret base" in spite of the fact that the previous president NEVER ASKED to use Gitmo in this manner.
For all the posturing in the media, the GOP LIKE the way things are. They LIKE the Drone bombing campaigns, they have the military ranks packed well enough all the Top brass is loyal to the GOP first because they keep funding coming.
Schmidt seems to miss that YOU won't be able to buy drones. Current "drones" like AR.Drone are just RC planes... They are counted as toys. Lose them on your neighbors property is just too bad for you.
The issue is that there isn't much difference between big RC hobby rigs and "Drones" other than what you are allowed to mount on the device. For example a TV station cannot legally use footage from an AR.Drone because a) they would have no permission to operate on someone's property, and b) using RC Craft hobby craft for commercial services, or with commercial radios kicks them out of operating as "toys" and the FAA/FCC will get you.
Right now there is no "drone" classification. TOYS (RC planes, copters, kites, etc) operate below 500 foot and have size restrictions. AIRCRAFT are regulated by the FAA/FCC and must operate ABOVE 500 foot except for takeoff and landings. The FAA wants to regulate DRONES BELOW 500 foot, claiming they can regulate "anything flying".
A REGULATED aircraft you would not be allowed to interfere with, and would carry heavy fines. With technology so far, full-size planes and choppers at 500 foot weren't very useful for survailence, and make too much noise. Operating that close to ground is considered dangerous operation with humans on board as well. Now that RC craft are good enough platforms, they want to take away the 500 foot limit... In fact pilots of REAL PLANES don't want them in COMMERCIAL airspace either... Because Drone "pilots" are reckless to manned craft.
Traditionally the 500 foot limit has been "your property" (above thst counted like the road as public right of way) so we are in a holding pattern wether courts will say moving government craft into that space requires a warrant or not.
It's like a search warrant.
But it only requires a "government official" that is "investigating" national security.
And they don't need a judge to sign...
And the recipient can't announce they GOT ONE or any details...
And it can't be challenged in court (cause you can't talk about it)...
Although they are "reviewed" once a year per agency by some secret list of judges, somewhere... But no checks and balances are included in the law if the judges didn't like the results.
The whole NSL thing was for bullying small entities with the idea that their lawyers couldn't even talk to other lawyers about the letters. That stops working when you have an organized legal department like Google's that WANTS to picka fight. They probably have sacks of NSLs and have attached the "homework" that shows a large number X are really nothing more that police harassment or information not really allowed with normal warrants.
All it takes is Google finding a judge willing to set aside that part of the law that says JUDGES can't review NSLs either and grab him a few file boxes of interesting material.
He was going to have to plead Guilty to crimes that he clearly DID NOT COMMIT but the DA was throwing on o see if they would stick... Crimes like wire fraud and malicious intrusion that would ban him from many serious computer jobs for "all time" when all he actually did was "borrow" a password too long and pass out the results.
What he did was like plugging into your neighbors power, with an extension cord, during a party when they LET YOU plug it in... They just never bothered to check you were still running their meter and pull the plug ON THEIR OWN when you went home. They let it go for days until the power company called them out on it...
I agree. Nowdays these shell banks would be closed down in minutes and their balances shifted to other shell banks in the network. It's not like the 1950's when there was lots of hard currency and expensive properties inolved. When the super rich traveled for MONTHS long trips... With cars, furniture, maids, butlers, wardrobes, expensive art, etc.
The thing is that these dictators will pay crazy interest... Which as they ARE THE GOVERNMENT make the people hold the bag later... So there are banks with this money just stupid enough to stay there.
But HBO is just one channel of dozens owned by the same company. They make cable companies take 4-5 shopping or rerun channels before they will let them OFFER HBO. The ad revenue from crappy channels ALSO pays part of HBO's budgets. As a separate example with CBS it's "the CSI rerun" channels that make them their money... That's how they afford to "giveaway" the show on broadcast TV.
So to sell you "just HBO" they really want $50 per month they get by forcing other bundled channels on cable operators.
That's also why we can't have "a la cart". Cable companies need the "lamer" bundled channels where they get more ad revenue... The more "premium" the channels, the less ads your cable company gets to balance the bills.... I think Ars figured ads are worth about $1.50 per hour your watching TV... Which is way more than you PAY for Cable.
That's not how "cable TV" works. You have 4-5 big production houses that basically "own" all the channels and rent them to cable companies. They basically collude on which tier they want their channels... Channels like HBO are the carrot to get subscribers... And the stick they use to sell lots of channels to your CABLE COMPANY you don't want... So cable has to bundle things to pay for the few really cool channels customers will leave if they don't get.
Because like somebody pointed out the cost or "just HBO" isn't that bad. But HBO's PARENT doesn't allw your cable company to sell you JUST HBO. It has to be on top of the "premium tier" plans... Which they have very public fights over now with providers. So they really want $80 per month for their premium content... They force your cable company to take 20 channels of reruns before they will LET you buy ONE HBO.
Well.. If you want 27 million people out there making TROUBLE instead of working...
Cable TV is really cheap "bread and circuses" if it keeps he masses from rioting because there are few jobs that allow one to add VALUE... You aren't even a useful TAXPAYER until you make at least $100k or so.
You won't see that because HBO is the carrot used to get subscribers. It's cost is high to get CABLE COMPANIES to subscribe to lots of channels their customers don't want... Which they have to bundle before they make money letting you watch HBO. With each of the big 4-5 producing houses doing it, they are packing the lower tiers with Ad-filled crap channels to "out ad space" the other producing houses.
HBO needs to do something about the bundling costs. I would gladly pay for HBO's content on my cable bill. But their parent company uses its monopoly on HBO to push dozens of channels nobody wants... So they can jack up the real price of HBO from $20 per month to $50+ because you have to "tier up" to be allowed to pay for it in the first place. With HBO, my "programming" part of mt cabe bill would be well over $100.. That buys an awful lot of DVD box sets in a year.
With the skill and polish they use for processing cocaine, they could easily start knocking out AK-47's at high quality... But of course they would be instantly hit with bombs from drones for that....
Besides the USA has plenty of dumb NRA members that don't think they are responsible to follow background checks so buy guns for people who fail, or don't want to take them.
But anybody using MakerBots has a good chance of having all the tools to machine a REAL, METAL Reciever in their garage already. But the ATF knows the vast majority of people that have invested in such tools won't put their freedom... And those tools/toys in jeopardy to rob $25 from a party store.
You get a tremendous amount of control on you little Raspberry Pi. You can't get THAT on your little cell phone. Also, by the time somebody wires up a special board, for EACH specific brand phone (cause they all have "special sauce") it would cost most of the cost of the Pi and be half as useful.
Like other people have said, most phones have no HOST capability over USB. So you would need some kind of chip to do the talking to another useful chip that can DO SOMETHING. Your back to $20-$30 unless you want to solder yourself....
That is the thing here... If you're complaining about making your own case and battery holder you're clearly not in the marketbfor this stuff.
Drift on over to DeviantArt.... There you will find Princess Twilight Sparkle, Planeswalker. She"s an Alicorn, close enough...
Consider MPL:FIM Is owned by e same corporate masters as WotC M:tG we Ned to make this HAPPEN!
Yea! Bitcoin is growing up! That means enough people are using it that the government is noticing. And of course the first thing the government does to show its appreciation is to start regulating it. Did they at least get a "Baby's first regulation" card?
Because Agriculture gave us a steady food supply, but Beer and Bread gave them a way to KEEP IT and round out the seasonal ups and downs. That also caused the need to put down roots for the time needed to create and store the stuff, and people brought the crops to the new villages creating trade.
Because RECORDED evidence is weighted much more heavily than handshakes. Lets say you are negotiating for something and writing out a contract. If one side is recording, now they got something extra to add to the contract... And you don't. Google Glass isn't really "evidence" because it doesn't record what YOU are doing. You could run around waving a gun, but keep it off camera and accuse everybody of treating you terribly. It's stupid, everybody knows that ... Then... But what about 5 years later, and the images of everybody else get used in background checks, etc....
This is like sports salary caps. A defendant shouldn't lose a case because they can't pay their lawyers after the case drags on and on like this. Either sequester the lawyers to the case till completed, or salary cap the big company to a budget BOTH companies can afford.
Lets put this another way.
Violent crime... Murder, rape, robbery... Are all at relative 50 year lows. IN SPITE OF 10 years of recession and war which should be causung an increase. SWAT does absolutely nothing to STOP those crimes, they only show up after. Yet every small city police force is armed with SWAT equipment and tactics more than any other time in US history. At the height of WW2 our local police were not this armed up.
In short, We the People are getting along pretty well in spite of the crappy circumstance. Yet the government and Police are becoming more and more violent AGAINST US because they aren't getting more money. So they INVENT dozens of new crimes every year and send out the dogs to round up fresh prey so they all look busy.
Don't you get it? Somebody social engineered the system to use SWAT to attempt MURDER of a stranger. It's time to put our attack dogs down. Close SWAT teams, and revoke CCWs for everybody involved. They were used to commit a crime... THEY MUST BE PUNISHED or being so gullible and held INDIVIDUALLY RESPONSIBLE as Free Men for what they did.
And after writing all that, it's that now FREE MEN should interact?
I agree with what you said. As a society of FREE AND EQUAL CITIZENS what you are describing is ethically and morally wrong on many levels and should not be tolerated. It's a bad thing, what you described, and leads to worse things.