Speaking of a slow introduction of it...here's how I see it happening.
By Implanting it in children, for tracking/location due to abduction. Where I grew up there was a system called LOJACK which was a radio transmitter placed in your car and activated by the police when your car was stolen. It's hard to think of a parent who wouldn't want this sort of thing for their childern.
Problem is when the kids turn 18 and are adults, the tyranny of convience kicks in and not many will pay to have it removed, don't see a problem with it, or don't know they have it.
Not to mention the teen years. "Sorry Little Jimmy, we KNOW you weren't in class on Monday, and a counselor will see you now about your little adventure out with Little James".
Boom...realtime monitoring of your population since either the government or a corporation has the implants ID code (and I'm not sure which makes me more nervous).
>I am one of Thatchers children, and in my day we were keen, fit and angry. >We were out to change the world
Yeah and as a Regan punk I can tell you you're being a frickin' ass. If you ever were anti-establisment you've now definately swallowed its line about 'slacker youth'. Some of the edge and hungriness of the younger generation radicals makes me envious. Though it too does have its share of snot-nosed trust fund punks who couldn't change their diaper let alone the world. And since we're on the subject, why the hell are you perpetuating the system you sought to change?
>>5.1 Although Sprint will make commercially reasonable efforts to >>maintain the Services, you may experience service interruptions
> I have a real problem with this idea. If Sprint >is unable to deliver the product (the service
Okay, while the rest of the TOS has its problems. This one disturbs me the least.
On the tech side Sprint and other wireless broadband companies use MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Services) and it is a notoriously flaky medium. It depends on clear line of sight transmission, so buildings, hills, and even trees will break up the signal and add noise. For example, back in the days before cable, did you ever see 'ghosts' on your tv as the signal came in a fraction of second late or a little bit of snow because of an atmospheric disturbance? Imagine what that does to data...
Some of the new modems (and ones in development) are addressing the line-of-sight transmission, signal to noise, and error correction issues. More on the LOS and Non-LOS problem
On the legalese side it strikes me more as a force majeur clause. ig "If our transmitters get knocked over by a earthquake/tornado/comet, you may experience an outage of service while we put up another one"
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Yes I work in this field, these are my opinions not my employer's. etc...etc..
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So Microsoft cuts a deal with the DOJ...
In return for the DOJ backing off, Microsoft
allows the creation of an 'Incident' that points
the cybercrime finger towards Russia in an attempt
to help recreate the old 'Evil Empire' to provide the United States with an enemy again.
But that's just the paranoia talking now isn't it...
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Speaking of a slow introduction of it...here's how I see it happening.
By Implanting it in children, for tracking/location due to abduction. Where I grew up there was a system called LOJACK which was a radio transmitter placed in your car and activated by the police when your car was stolen. It's hard to think of a parent who wouldn't want this sort of thing for their childern.
Problem is when the kids turn 18 and are adults, the tyranny of convience kicks in and not many will pay to have it removed, don't see a problem with it, or don't know they have it.
Not to mention the teen years. "Sorry Little Jimmy, we KNOW you weren't in class on Monday, and a counselor will see you now about your little adventure out with Little James".
Boom...realtime monitoring of your population since either the government or a corporation has the implants ID code (and I'm not sure which makes me more nervous).
>I am one of Thatchers children, and in my day we were keen, fit and angry.
>We were out to change the world
Yeah and as a Regan punk I can tell you you're being a frickin' ass. If you ever were anti-establisment you've now definately swallowed its line about 'slacker youth'. Some of the edge and hungriness of the younger generation radicals makes me envious. Though it too does have its share of snot-nosed trust fund punks who couldn't change their diaper let alone the world. And since we're on the subject, why the hell are you perpetuating the system you sought to change?
>>5.1 Although Sprint will make commercially reasonable efforts to
>>maintain the Services, you may experience service interruptions
> I have a real problem with this idea. If Sprint
>is unable to deliver the product (the service
Okay, while the rest of the TOS has its problems. This one disturbs me the least.
On the tech side Sprint and other wireless broadband companies use MMDS (Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Services) and it is a notoriously flaky medium. It depends on clear line of sight transmission, so buildings, hills, and even trees will break up the signal and add noise. For example, back in the days before cable, did you ever see 'ghosts' on your tv as the signal came in a fraction of second late or a little bit of snow because of an atmospheric disturbance? Imagine what that does to data...
Some of the new modems (and ones in development) are addressing the line-of-sight transmission, signal to noise, and error correction issues. More on the LOS and Non-LOS problem
On the legalese side it strikes me more as a force majeur clause. ig "If our transmitters get knocked over by a earthquake/tornado/comet, you may experience an outage of service while we put up another one"
<DISCLAIMER>
Yes I work in this field, these are my opinions not my employer's. etc...etc..
</DISCLAIMER>
So Microsoft cuts a deal with the DOJ... In return for the DOJ backing off, Microsoft allows the creation of an 'Incident' that points the cybercrime finger towards Russia in an attempt to help recreate the old 'Evil Empire' to provide the United States with an enemy again. But that's just the paranoia talking now isn't it...