The US was founded upon fear of an excessively powerful central government, as the British crown was seen massively abusing their power. So strong protections were built-in that weakened law enforcement for the benefit of civil liberties. There have always been other systems of government that are slightly more effective at catching or prosecuting criminals, but Americans knew, for hundreds of years, those trade-offs weren't worth it.
The limiting of government power was so ingrained that the US seems to be the only major nation without a state broadcaster. Outside the US, everybody in the world knows the VOA, but they are NOT allowed to operate inside the US at all. We believed the ability of the current government to directly influence the electorate, was too much power and control to give to our representatives, and settled on allowing only operation on foreign soil, with aggressive protections against even incidental domestic operation.
A warrant, today, gets the FBI exactly the same information it did 50 years ago... They can tap and record all the calls that occur after the warrant is issued, get a log of all previous calls that were made, etc.
Computers have made US law enforcement lazy. They expect they can get a warrant and will automatically be handed an archive with the contents of ALL of your communications for the past several YEARS. The information they got with a warrant decades ago is no longer good enough for them, and they're going to insist on the power they've gotten accustomed to, and refuse to allow privacy to make a comeback.
Remember, it was only a year ago that the entire contents of your phone were siphoned off by the police whenever you were pulled over just for speeding. This was done under the laws that allows them to look for weapons in the vicinity that you might be able to reach for, and which got extended to allow into evidence incriminating documents that just happened to be found in the process of searching for weapons.
And what did the police do with their gigabytes of all your personal information they siphoned off your phone? Maybe look for patterns of terrorism and drug dealing? No. Why they instead they thought it would be a good idea to look for any nude photos you might have, and share them with their friends. Hooray for law enforcement keeping us all safe!
The San Bernardino case is pretty damn obviously worthless, too. The FBI has already FAILED to protect the public. The shooters already carried out their attacks, and were shot dead. FBI and Homeland Security failed miserably to identify them as threats, despite there being ample publicly available information to identify them as ISIL sympathizers. It's the same story as the 9/11 attacks all over again. Homeland Security had MORE INFORMATION than they were able to process and deal with, yet they use attacks as a lame excuse to expand their power, their budget, and get access to much more information, which again, they don't have any hope of being able to process in a timely manner.
Homeland Security has become better and better at revealing details after the fact, but is still useless at identifying individuals who pose a threat before they can carry out their plans to murder people. Apple unlocking iPhones for the FBI is more of the same... It won't possibly help identify future threats, it'll just be a little bit more information the FBI can publish about their past.
This was settled back in the early 90s with the PGP case. Code for encryption programs falls under the constitutional protections of freedom of speech. A new federal law or court ruling cannot override constitutional rights, and there's absolutely no hope of
It's a shame Homeland Security has gone so far the wrong way. Part of the NSA's purview is to help IMPROVE our domestic security against attack and interception by foreign governments. Under a cloud of p
A possible marginal benefit is that infrastructure for natural gas distribution in heating could also start mixing in biogas, perhaps even replacing it completely with a renewable.
Pretty sure coal suppliers could also start mixing in simple solid biomass, too. Charcoal, in particular, comes to mind. So that's decidedly NOT an advantage of natural gas over coal.
you probably have not dealt with non technical people, who are just trying to get work done
It's utterly ridiculous to claim Windows is easy to use. Its popularity is self-reinforcing. People learn all the cumbersome ways it works because it is common, and it stays common because many people have learned how it works.
Windows is incredibly DIFFICULT to use. It's got a million crufty old and non-intuitive weird things people need to know. Not even a nice friendly app store (or repo) from which to point-and-click install everything you could ever want.
If you want your "grandma" to have something easy to use, or anyone wants to just "get work done", then you should give them a tablet running Android... I'd say 1000X more intuitive and easier to use than any version of Windows, ever.
You notice BYOD became a thing when iPhone and Android came around, but was unheard of and forbidden when everybody had Windows laptops/netbooks? There's damn good reason for that.
Nobody seems to be mentioning that the success rate is not good at all...
more than 86,000 people have used it to appeal against council parking fines. Nearly 40 per cent of them were successful, according to a poll of the site's users.
A success rate of just over 1/3rd is nothing to be proud of, particularly if you assume a bigger percentage of people using the site were contesting the ticket precisely because they were actually innocent. Only if you assume the majority of users of the site are actually guilty, does that look acceptable.
So lawyers can still easily sell their services... merely trumpeting that they have a far better success rate, and their services will cost less than your increased insurance rates due to the citation lingering on your record.
Scalia made no mention of academic records, he only mentions being African American as a criterion.
You're either ignorant of the topic, and falling for the inflammatory press coverage, or you're intentionally distorting the subject, yourself.
Scalia was merely making reference to a specific brief that had been submitted. The brief in question makes "mention of academic records" and discusses the favorability of various outcomes (for African American students, specifically) in-detail.
If he had said, "What's the name of that book, you were reading, about that black guy who killed somebody?" would you be calling him a racist, who apparently thinks all African Americans are murderers? It's absurd and utterly disingenuous.
He was a racist who didn't believe black people deserved to belong to elite universities
All he said was accepting people to tougher schools than their academic records justify, to fulfill an affirmative action quota, may be harder on them and less rewarding, in the end.
It's politically incorrect to say so, and he could have phrased it more carefully, but not at all racist. Everybody jumped at it to make their own political points with their base, knowing full well they were spouting crap. Of course, he still might have been a racist, but that doesn't prove it.
my phone likes to die at the most inconvenient times and leaves me out of touch with people.
I don't see how this can possibly be a problem for a functioning adult human. Your phone has a more accurate fuel gauge than your car, and is infinitely easier to refuel when low:
- There are very inexpensive and highly portable USB phone chargers powered by AA batteries, built-in high capacity rechargeable Li-Ion batteries, PV solar panels, hand-cranks, etc, etc.
- Slightly less portable are pocket-sized "travel" chargers that plug into 100v-240v, 50/60Hz utility power. These are convenient if (instead of hunting wild game through the forest) you sit down to eat in a building (that may or may not be called a restaurant) roughly 3 times per day, like most of the rest of people who live in the 1st world. IMPORTANT NOTE: These chargers will work even while you're not eating, such as while you are at home, in a hotel suite, visiting friends, or working in an office.
- And finally closing out the list are 12-24V automotive USB phone chargers, which will quickly replenish your phone's battery while it, and you, are spending time in an automobile, even if you don't happen to own the automobile in question...
Note that all of these options will replenish your phone's battery, and extend its run-time, even while you are using your phone and would otherwise be draining the battery.
With the business I'm starting requiring clients to be able to get ahold me quickly
I'm guessing they don't just enjoy your quick and witty replies... Being able to send them a short e-mail from your pager probably won't keep them happy for long. In most cases, being paged is just a precursor to an important telephone call, which is not going to be possible if your cellphone battery is dead. It may also require a follow-up where you look-up some important notes from your records, or otherwise load some data from the internet. All things your pager won't help you to do, but a fully-charged cellphone likely will.
Actually, I'm finding it hard to believe your quick response is all that important to anyone, if you lack even the rudimentary ability to keep a cellphone charged and operational through the day. This sounds more like a question about a parent keeping track of an irresponsible child.
It's much easier swap out a AA battery once a month
It's much easier to let a horse graze on the side of the road
This is a false-dichotomy, anyhow, as it's clear you want to continue to use your phone. So the pager will be extra work and cost on top of that... absolutely NOT eliminating any effort for you, at all.
do you have a pager? Do you still find it useful?
No. Nobody has a pager, and nobody finds them useful.
"the number of such devices in use has been plummeting each year"
"We are turning down the service because very few people still use it," says Telus spokesman Chris Garretson. "This is thirty-year-old technology — the infrastructure is aging and replacement parts are difficult to get."
Cellphones, like wireless Ethernet, use frequencies that are just too high to penetrate. I think our pager system is 26MHz, and works even in the bottom of our parking garage.
Wherever my cellphone doesn't get a signal, I can stick a $20 WiFi AP and still get my calls, texts and data (T-Mobile, Republic Wireless, etc.) With more primitive phones and services, a wireless repeater with a nice big antenna only costs a few hundred dollars.
Good luck plugging the holes in your pager service coverage area...
They will often play a notification ONCE when the SMS comes in, and if you miss it, don't wake up, etc., you're screwed, especially if you're the only point of contact. A real pager will usually be much more persistent,
Yes, and there's only several hundred apps for Android which will make your phone more persistent about getting your attention, than any pager...
you have free/cheap water, 350 days of sun, and an endless supply of cheap immigrant labor, however. That is a rare set of circumstances, and there isn't a farmer anywhere in the US that can compete against that.
The cheap immigrant labor is happy to travel to any of the lower 48 states, where steady work is available.
And what's the alternative? Farming is an environmental catch-22... Areas that have ample water/rain have densely packed plants an animals, which you have to destroy to clear farmland (environmentalists don't like that, at all). Burning the rain forest to make room for cropland is a serious issue.
Areas without lots of indigenous plant and animal life are that way because they are deserts lacking sufficient renewable water supplies, so you need to import all the water the crops will require. In truth, this is only a major issue in drought years, when businesses and households pay high water rates and are asked to conserve until it hurts, while farmers squander tons of their cheap supply of water. If water rights were sorted out to restore equitable distribution and pricing of water, the problem would solve itself. Then, perhaps, desert farmers would complain they can't compete with mid-western farmers, who get unfairly cheap farmland, which they rid of indigenous plants and animals in the distant past, before environmental regulations.
Cellphones must be a godsend to 911 in this regard. I wonder how many people died over the years because they couldn't tell the ambulance where to come?
Nope, quite the opposite. Imagine you're in a high-rise apartment building. First, you're indoors so the building prevents you getting an accurate GPS location fix, so emergency services will only know approximately which CITY BLOCK you are located on. Secondly, given time the location may get more accurate, but even once they've figured out which building you are in, they have no idea which apartment you are in. If you're unable to give your name, address, and/or open the door, it will take emergency services HOURS to find your cold dead corpse.
With landlines, the phone company kept detailed records of exactly where each phone line was installed, so the INSTANT you dialed 911, the dispatcher had your exact address including apartment number coming up on-screen. With VoIP E-911, you are required to type-in your exact location and the service provider, so again 911 calls have your exact address the moment you call. Cellular operators have fought tooth and nail to resist any technical improvements to cell phone E-911 which would give emergency services a quicker and more exact fix on your location, because they would cost a few dollars more per customer:
I have no idea how to get the GPS map data changed.
Put up a simple, self-closing, self-opening gate. Drivers will see it and realize that CAN'T possibly be a public road, but everyone can still drive right through it without getting out of their vehicle. e.g. https://youtu.be/-C-TJkZYEXw
That's the best solution, because you'll NEVER get ALL the navigation apps to update their maps, and even if they did, some folks will continue using an old set of offline/downloaded data indefinitely.
However, if you are willing to invest some time, you can fix MOST navigation apps, by contacting the few biggest data providers. Expect it to take a year before the changes start to slowly trickling out to navigation apps users:
Sorry, but I just don't understand what the purpose is, and it isn't stated in the thread linked -- other than a few... (maybe) benchmarks that don't cover many real-world use cases.
With CFQ, an high disk-IO task will block every other process on the system from getting any time. This can be a big file cp, but I see it most often when writing to slow USB thumb drives... Queue up a copy/rsync/etc. of a few GBytes of data to a slow thumb drive, and after your RAM/buffer cache is filled, your system will be almost completely unresponsive.
Change your scheduler from CFQ to deadline and your system will spring back to life. I don't specifically know that BFQ does any better, but it couldn't possibly be worse... CFQ is crap.
We are going to need portable fusion if we ever want to do serious interstellar travel.
Fission (which we've had for decades) is a perfectly workable and acceptable energy source for "serious interstellar travel".
From battleships to trains to large aircraft to small aircraft: they have a use at many scales where high energy density (production) is required or preferred.
Fission works nicely for aircraft carriers, already. Trains are better accommodated by electrification via overhead power lines.
It's completely crazy to claim "small aircraft" would be a suitable use-case for a fusion power plant... A bit like saying a massive turbine could "have a use" in your leaf-blower.
Brilliant, exchange a cheap hard to track device for an expensive device that transmits continuously,
Low-end smart phones are just as cheap as the least expensive unlicensed 2-way radios. You can quite easily and 100% reliably shut-off the cellular radio, while still using WiFi. They are certainly no easier to track than an unencrypted 2-way radio.
You cannot physically enforce security of code sources you are allowing people to see - unless you are going to have them work entirely naked, under constant physical observation, with full body cavity searches every time they enter or leave the workroom.
Memorize a few lines per-day, then write them down as soon as you leave the office... That's how exam/test prep software gets their questions. You need several people doing this, working together, but it will be possible to smuggle out your secrets, no matter how hard to try to avoid it.
Not to mention that a tiny wireless transmitter could even be hidden in a tooth, or implanted under the skin, somewhere, which would work even if you need to use Morse-code. More realistically, a micro SD card is TINY and unlikely even a cavity search would find it.
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The US was founded upon fear of an excessively powerful central government, as the British crown was seen massively abusing their power. So strong protections were built-in that weakened law enforcement for the benefit of civil liberties. There have always been other systems of government that are slightly more effective at catching or prosecuting criminals, but Americans knew, for hundreds of years, those trade-offs weren't worth it.
The limiting of government power was so ingrained that the US seems to be the only major nation without a state broadcaster. Outside the US, everybody in the world knows the VOA, but they are NOT allowed to operate inside the US at all. We believed the ability of the current government to directly influence the electorate, was too much power and control to give to our representatives, and settled on allowing only operation on foreign soil, with aggressive protections against even incidental domestic operation.
A warrant, today, gets the FBI exactly the same information it did 50 years ago... They can tap and record all the calls that occur after the warrant is issued, get a log of all previous calls that were made, etc.
Computers have made US law enforcement lazy. They expect they can get a warrant and will automatically be handed an archive with the contents of ALL of your communications for the past several YEARS. The information they got with a warrant decades ago is no longer good enough for them, and they're going to insist on the power they've gotten accustomed to, and refuse to allow privacy to make a comeback.
Remember, it was only a year ago that the entire contents of your phone were siphoned off by the police whenever you were pulled over just for speeding. This was done under the laws that allows them to look for weapons in the vicinity that you might be able to reach for, and which got extended to allow into evidence incriminating documents that just happened to be found in the process of searching for weapons.
And what did the police do with their gigabytes of all your personal information they siphoned off your phone? Maybe look for patterns of terrorism and drug dealing? No. Why they instead they thought it would be a good idea to look for any nude photos you might have, and share them with their friends. Hooray for law enforcement keeping us all safe!
The San Bernardino case is pretty damn obviously worthless, too. The FBI has already FAILED to protect the public. The shooters already carried out their attacks, and were shot dead. FBI and Homeland Security failed miserably to identify them as threats, despite there being ample publicly available information to identify them as ISIL sympathizers. It's the same story as the 9/11 attacks all over again. Homeland Security had MORE INFORMATION than they were able to process and deal with, yet they use attacks as a lame excuse to expand their power, their budget, and get access to much more information, which again, they don't have any hope of being able to process in a timely manner.
Homeland Security has become better and better at revealing details after the fact, but is still useless at identifying individuals who pose a threat before they can carry out their plans to murder people. Apple unlocking iPhones for the FBI is more of the same... It won't possibly help identify future threats, it'll just be a little bit more information the FBI can publish about their past.
This was settled back in the early 90s with the PGP case. Code for encryption programs falls under the constitutional protections of freedom of speech. A new federal law or court ruling cannot override constitutional rights, and there's absolutely no hope of
It's a shame Homeland Security has gone so far the wrong way. Part of the NSA's purview is to help IMPROVE our domestic security against attack and interception by foreign governments. Under a cloud of p
There's no reason to limit it to past secretaries of state. There's been a LOT of flagrant violations of the rules before Hillary.
Jeb did practically the same thing:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/je...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/05/...
And George W. Bush did even worse, breaking the law in doing so:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
He even refused to turn over e-mails under subpoena: "The White House stated it might have lost five million emails"
At least 5 different investigations were hampered by his private e-mail account:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Unlike George, Hillary appears to have broke no laws, turned over all the data to investigators, and isn't hampering any investigations.
Pretty sure coal suppliers could also start mixing in simple solid biomass, too. Charcoal, in particular, comes to mind. So that's decidedly NOT an advantage of natural gas over coal.
Hillary supports expanding H1-B visas.
Bernie opposes the H1-B visa program.
Pretty obvious difference, which should matter a lot to this audience.
Okay Google... Tell me exactly where on the planet THIS PHOTO was taken.
I'll wait...
It's utterly ridiculous to claim Windows is easy to use. Its popularity is self-reinforcing. People learn all the cumbersome ways it works because it is common, and it stays common because many people have learned how it works.
Windows is incredibly DIFFICULT to use. It's got a million crufty old and non-intuitive weird things people need to know. Not even a nice friendly app store (or repo) from which to point-and-click install everything you could ever want.
If you want your "grandma" to have something easy to use, or anyone wants to just "get work done", then you should give them a tablet running Android... I'd say 1000X more intuitive and easier to use than any version of Windows, ever.
You notice BYOD became a thing when iPhone and Android came around, but was unheard of and forbidden when everybody had Windows laptops/netbooks? There's damn good reason for that.
Nobody seems to be mentioning that the success rate is not good at all...
A success rate of just over 1/3rd is nothing to be proud of, particularly if you assume a bigger percentage of people using the site were contesting the ticket precisely because they were actually innocent. Only if you assume the majority of users of the site are actually guilty, does that look acceptable.
So lawyers can still easily sell their services... merely trumpeting that they have a far better success rate, and their services will cost less than your increased insurance rates due to the citation lingering on your record.
Clever.
I wonder how many in this audience will catch that.
You're either ignorant of the topic, and falling for the inflammatory press coverage, or you're intentionally distorting the subject, yourself.
Scalia was merely making reference to a specific brief that had been submitted. The brief in question makes "mention of academic records" and discusses the favorability of various outcomes (for African American students, specifically) in-detail.
http://www.nationalreview.com/...
If he had said, "What's the name of that book, you were reading, about that black guy who killed somebody?" would you be calling him a racist, who apparently thinks all African Americans are murderers? It's absurd and utterly disingenuous.
All he said was accepting people to tougher schools than their academic records justify, to fulfill an affirmative action quota, may be harder on them and less rewarding, in the end.
It's politically incorrect to say so, and he could have phrased it more carefully, but not at all racist. Everybody jumped at it to make their own political points with their base, knowing full well they were spouting crap. Of course, he still might have been a racist, but that doesn't prove it.
It was long in coming, but in the end, I see the quail got their revenge.
I don't see how this can possibly be a problem for a functioning adult human. Your phone has a more accurate fuel gauge than your car, and is infinitely easier to refuel when low:
- There are very inexpensive and highly portable USB phone chargers powered by AA batteries, built-in high capacity rechargeable Li-Ion batteries, PV solar panels, hand-cranks, etc, etc.
- Slightly less portable are pocket-sized "travel" chargers that plug into 100v-240v, 50/60Hz utility power. These are convenient if (instead of hunting wild game through the forest) you sit down to eat in a building (that may or may not be called a restaurant) roughly 3 times per day, like most of the rest of people who live in the 1st world. IMPORTANT NOTE: These chargers will work even while you're not eating, such as while you are at home, in a hotel suite, visiting friends, or working in an office.
- And finally closing out the list are 12-24V automotive USB phone chargers, which will quickly replenish your phone's battery while it, and you, are spending time in an automobile, even if you don't happen to own the automobile in question...
Note that all of these options will replenish your phone's battery, and extend its run-time, even while you are using your phone and would otherwise be draining the battery.
I'm guessing they don't just enjoy your quick and witty replies... Being able to send them a short e-mail from your pager probably won't keep them happy for long. In most cases, being paged is just a precursor to an important telephone call, which is not going to be possible if your cellphone battery is dead. It may also require a follow-up where you look-up some important notes from your records, or otherwise load some data from the internet. All things your pager won't help you to do, but a fully-charged cellphone likely will.
Actually, I'm finding it hard to believe your quick response is all that important to anyone, if you lack even the rudimentary ability to keep a cellphone charged and operational through the day. This sounds more like a question about a parent keeping track of an irresponsible child.
It's much easier to let a horse graze on the side of the road
This is a false-dichotomy, anyhow, as it's clear you want to continue to use your phone. So the pager will be extra work and cost on top of that... absolutely NOT eliminating any effort for you, at all.
No. Nobody has a pager, and nobody finds them useful.
"the number of such devices in use has been plummeting each year"
"We are turning down the service because very few people still use it," says Telus spokesman Chris Garretson. "This is thirty-year-old technology — the infrastructure is aging and replacement parts are difficult to get."
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...
Wherever my cellphone doesn't get a signal, I can stick a $20 WiFi AP and still get my calls, texts and data (T-Mobile, Republic Wireless, etc.) With more primitive phones and services, a wireless repeater with a nice big antenna only costs a few hundred dollars.
Good luck plugging the holes in your pager service coverage area...
Yes, and there's only several hundred apps for Android which will make your phone more persistent about getting your attention, than any pager...
The cheap immigrant labor is happy to travel to any of the lower 48 states, where steady work is available.
And what's the alternative? Farming is an environmental catch-22... Areas that have ample water/rain have densely packed plants an animals, which you have to destroy to clear farmland (environmentalists don't like that, at all). Burning the rain forest to make room for cropland is a serious issue.
Areas without lots of indigenous plant and animal life are that way because they are deserts lacking sufficient renewable water supplies, so you need to import all the water the crops will require. In truth, this is only a major issue in drought years, when businesses and households pay high water rates and are asked to conserve until it hurts, while farmers squander tons of their cheap supply of water. If water rights were sorted out to restore equitable distribution and pricing of water, the problem would solve itself. Then, perhaps, desert farmers would complain they can't compete with mid-western farmers, who get unfairly cheap farmland, which they rid of indigenous plants and animals in the distant past, before environmental regulations.
Better source, including examples of deaths due to inaccurate cell-phone 911 location:
http://www.publicintegrity.org...
Nope, quite the opposite. Imagine you're in a high-rise apartment building. First, you're indoors so the building prevents you getting an accurate GPS location fix, so emergency services will only know approximately which CITY BLOCK you are located on. Secondly, given time the location may get more accurate, but even once they've figured out which building you are in, they have no idea which apartment you are in. If you're unable to give your name, address, and/or open the door, it will take emergency services HOURS to find your cold dead corpse.
With landlines, the phone company kept detailed records of exactly where each phone line was installed, so the INSTANT you dialed 911, the dispatcher had your exact address including apartment number coming up on-screen. With VoIP E-911, you are required to type-in your exact location and the service provider, so again 911 calls have your exact address the moment you call. Cellular operators have fought tooth and nail to resist any technical improvements to cell phone E-911 which would give emergency services a quicker and more exact fix on your location, because they would cost a few dollars more per customer:
http://www.motherjones.com/pol...
Put up a simple, self-closing, self-opening gate. Drivers will see it and realize that CAN'T possibly be a public road, but everyone can still drive right through it without getting out of their vehicle.
e.g. https://youtu.be/-C-TJkZYEXw
That's the best solution, because you'll NEVER get ALL the navigation apps to update their maps, and even if they did, some folks will continue using an old set of offline/downloaded data indefinitely.
However, if you are willing to invest some time, you can fix MOST navigation apps, by contacting the few biggest data providers. Expect it to take a year before the changes start to slowly trickling out to navigation apps users:
* http://www.gps.gov/support/use...
Not really. If it was, they'd stop the farmers growing Alfalfa in the California deserts, then exporting it to China. The "BIG issue" is an utterly broken antiquated system of pre-1914 water rights.
With CFQ, an high disk-IO task will block every other process on the system from getting any time. This can be a big file cp, but I see it most often when writing to slow USB thumb drives... Queue up a copy/rsync/etc. of a few GBytes of data to a slow thumb drive, and after your RAM/buffer cache is filled, your system will be almost completely unresponsive.
Change your scheduler from CFQ to deadline and your system will spring back to life. I don't specifically know that BFQ does any better, but it couldn't possibly be worse... CFQ is crap.
The Catholic Church is opposed to both abortion and the death penalty, while pro-welfare.
Fission (which we've had for decades) is a perfectly workable and acceptable energy source for "serious interstellar travel".
Fission works nicely for aircraft carriers, already. Trains are better accommodated by electrification via overhead power lines.
It's completely crazy to claim "small aircraft" would be a suitable use-case for a fusion power plant... A bit like saying a massive turbine could "have a use" in your leaf-blower.
Low-end smart phones are just as cheap as the least expensive unlicensed 2-way radios. You can quite easily and 100% reliably shut-off the cellular radio, while still using WiFi. They are certainly no easier to track than an unencrypted 2-way radio.
WiFi can be encrypted, and just an AP and a free app on a few smart phones would give you encrypted radio comms, if you so desired.
Memorize a few lines per-day, then write them down as soon as you leave the office... That's how exam/test prep software gets their questions. You need several people doing this, working together, but it will be possible to smuggle out your secrets, no matter how hard to try to avoid it.
Not to mention that a tiny wireless transmitter could even be hidden in a tooth, or implanted under the skin, somewhere, which would work even if you need to use Morse-code. More realistically, a micro SD card is TINY and unlikely even a cavity search would find it.