What a tortured way of saying that a law is Unconstitutional ONLY after the Courts say so.
Joe Citizen doesn't get to decide constitutionality to suit their personal wishes. Given the recent trend in the courts, I rather suspect this will ultimately be found unconstitutional. They seem to be ratcheting back the 9/11 wartime excesses.
They will get blown out of the first court. Thats the norm. But it hardly matters, because sooner or later it reaches the Supreme Court, and there is this little matter of the Constitution involved.
Every company with a web presences should grow a pair and join this suit. Reasonable safeguards can be put in place (delays, or reviews in an open court by a REAL judge that actually attended law school), but telling someone they can never reveal something is just plain wrong.
You could put portable ones locked up in fire stations and police precincts and simply drag them out and chain them to the nearest standing lamp pole when needed.
you should not rely on stuff you don't own that may not work and may be in use by 7,000,000 other people.
So why bother with all those batteries then? After all, those cell towers that you don't own won't necessarily be working either. And those same 7 million people will be contending for them as well.
You can not live in a large city AND adopt a dooms-day prepper mentality. It makes no sense. By all means spend the money for an external battery, but sooner or later even THAT will be exhausted. Some Sandy victims were out of power for many weeks.
You know regular old dumb cell phones can be charged at these stations as well. You don't have to go all iPhone hater on us.
And putting a few of these around doesn't cost that much, and maintenance is minimal other than dealing with vandals. You don't even have to deploy them till needed, they can be stashed in police an fire stations of at AT&T depots trotted out and chained to lamp posts when needed. The vandals would then be beaten to a pulp if they tried to mess them up.
Regular old Fixed line phone banks are actually harder to maintain than a cell network in flooding conditions.
Cell towers have backup generators and underground cables. These are a priority item, and there are teams running around refueling the generators. Not all towers have to remain standing, you can lose a few and still have service coverage.
Solar powered chargers in the aftermath of a hurricane? It'll be days after a hurricane before there's a clear day. Solar panels work poorly on cloudy days... those on my roof generate about 5 to 30 percent compared to full sunlight.
Solar panels work way better on cloudy days than you think. With a heavy over cast sky, most solar panels still yield 47% of their maximum output. With frequent heavy dark clouds, like a impending storm, the yield is 71% on average.
Its a simple engineering problem to size the solar panel and the batteries for the typical number of consecutive cloudy.
I think they referenced it in passing, but it probably didn't matter for the purposes of this article.
They may have had to use multiple accounts to avoid hitting the datacaps, but as long as those caps only resulted in a bigger bill and not throttling it wouldn't affect the results.
Also, you are in the minority, as most users never come near their cap. Those like you probably all choose Sprint for that very reason.
You can prove yourself wrong without spending a dime. There are several free software packages you can try for free which will disabuse you of your nieve notions.
Try Picasa. Its free and so easy a simpleton can use it. Right up your alley.
Virtually none of the people i communicate use the same jabber service as I do. Most are overseas, some in countries that don't allow encryption. So even though my service offers encrypted connections, I know that its not encrypted as it travels from my server to their server and then on to the other end. I use a service, I don't run my own.
Send me an encrypted email. My public key is easily found via my email address. You don't have to unconditionally trust my key, so don't give me the address and combination to your safe. But you can send me email and build a relationship
I'm a SpiderOak paying customer, and while they do have zero knowledge storage, but they don't have a way to just fetch them when they are needed, say, to drcrypt an email. You have to copy those keys to your local device. I'd prefer not to store private keys on a portable and easily lost device.
Management of your private key is the only burden. Keeping that backed up, yet available on every device upon which you need it is admittedly a minor hassle.
Once you get used to doing that, its pretty easy to deal with this for email.
The longer this NSA issue hangs in the press the more likely people will accept this task.
I can see some company coming along that offers Zero Knowledge storage, where they can't decrypt anything you send them, even at gunpoint, because they don't have your decryption key. You could theoretically keep your private keys on their server, and simply fetch them as needed, and never store them on the device. One password to rule them all.
XMPP doesn't provide for much in the way of security unless you are using strictly private single servers.
Once your contacts are scattered across multiple jabber servers all bets are off as far as security. Your server will almost surely end up forwarding your message to other servers insecurely.
XMPP also struggles with binary blobs (images) etc.
But those laws can't possibly work once the allow the end users to use standard public/private encryption schemes rather than foisting some proprietary solution that relies on the central node being able to decrypt every message.
Once more applications start using key pairs to encrypt payload the three letter agencies will have to brute force decrypt everything. Routing data is still harder to deal with.
The problem is there are simply not enough Multicast IPs allocated to cover every possible program demanded by a large number of users at any hour of the day.
Yes it works in small situations with small numbers of available programs such as you might find in hotels.
Your scheme of single casting enough to catch up only works if there is already a stream running somewhere on an already scarce channel, that could be "caught up" with. This assumes the receiver has adequate caching capability (not assured with portable devices) and that you have enough extra bandwidth to unicast fast enough to actually catch up. Neither of these is assured.
When the sources can literately be ANY movie or video or event, and the user base is high, you would have a situation of ZERO available multicast channels, everything forced to unicast, and unlimited bandwidth demand (which actually impacts the sources more than the sinks).
Will IPV6 fix this? Perhaps, as far as potential multicast channels. But the facts on the ground today is that multicase is virtually never used, and when it is it is used for things like conferences or TV programs that users are perfectly willing to join "In Progress" rather than "on demand" starting from the beginning at any time of day or night.
Because even assuming enough channels such that another multicast stream could always be started, whether it be your alleged uni-cast to catch up with a new multicast stream, you simply don't have the bandwidth to send that much video from that many sources to that many sinks simultaneously.
It would be a bad choice for TV. The only way TV survives in the bandwidth available to it is because it is broadcast. (Single stream). You might be able to move broadcast tv to unicast, but not when you try to do on-demand.
In a down-town area or any dense residential apartment situation a comcast user might find this appealing because they could roam all over the neighborhood and stay on wifi. But chances are, that is exactly the sort of situation where participation could cripple the homeowners use of their own connection.
TFA says this:
Service degradation. Those using the slower public portion of a home router typically won't degrade performance on the faster private side. Future routers would speed up public access when the private side isn't being used and give the private network priority if required.
But If I sign up for service just adequate to meet my needs any additional load (even if slower) is going to be felt.
And if you happen to have an apartment next to a bar or popular restaurant you can expect your router to be busy all day with the overload of connecting and disconnecting smartphones and people soaking up your bandwidth.
I wouldn't begrudge them the immeasurably small increase in electricity usage, but if they can't assure my bandwidth and speed I would be reluctant to join the program.
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What a tortured way of saying that a law is Unconstitutional ONLY after the Courts say so.
Joe Citizen doesn't get to decide constitutionality to suit their personal wishes.
Given the recent trend in the courts, I rather suspect this will ultimately be found unconstitutional.
They seem to be ratcheting back the 9/11 wartime excesses.
They will get blown out of the first court. Thats the norm.
But it hardly matters, because sooner or later it reaches the Supreme Court, and there is this little matter of the Constitution involved.
Every company with a web presences should grow a pair and join this suit.
Reasonable safeguards can be put in place (delays, or reviews in an open court by a REAL judge that actually attended law school),
but telling someone they can never reveal something is just plain wrong.
whoosh.
Who would want NYC moved to their neighborhood or within 200 mile thereof.
Raise your hands.
Anyone? Anyone? Bueler?
They don't have to be pre-deployed either.
You could put portable ones locked up in fire stations and police precincts and simply drag
them out and chain them to the nearest standing lamp pole when needed.
you should not rely on stuff you don't own that may not work and may be in use by 7,000,000 other people.
So why bother with all those batteries then? After all, those cell towers that you don't own won't necessarily be working either.
And those same 7 million people will be contending for them as well.
You can not live in a large city AND adopt a dooms-day prepper mentality. It makes no sense.
By all means spend the money for an external battery, but sooner or later even THAT will be exhausted.
Some Sandy victims were out of power for many weeks.
You know regular old dumb cell phones can be charged at these stations as well. You don't have to go all iPhone hater on us.
And putting a few of these around doesn't cost that much, and maintenance is minimal other than dealing with vandals.
You don't even have to deploy them till needed, they can be stashed in police an fire stations of at AT&T depots
trotted out and chained to lamp posts when needed. The vandals would then be beaten to a pulp if they tried
to mess them up.
Regular old Fixed line phone banks are actually harder to maintain than a cell network in flooding conditions.
Asked and answered above.
Cell towers have backup generators and underground cables. These are a priority item, and there are teams running around refueling the generators.
Not all towers have to remain standing, you can lose a few and still have service coverage.
Solar powered chargers in the aftermath of a hurricane? ... those on my roof generate about 5 to 30 percent compared to full sunlight.
It'll be days after a hurricane before there's a clear day.
Solar panels work poorly on cloudy days
Solar panels work way better on cloudy days than you think.
With a heavy over cast sky, most solar panels still yield 47% of their maximum output.
With frequent heavy dark clouds, like a impending storm, the yield is 71% on average.
Its a simple engineering problem to size the solar panel and the batteries for the typical number of consecutive cloudy.
But even Macs shut off, even if Mac users never shut up.
kinda blended in with the park and didn't take up much space
So a perfect place to shop for a new phone then?
Enjoy it while it lasts.
If I were homeless and had no wifi, and was addicted to porn that might matter to me.
I think they referenced it in passing, but it probably didn't matter for the purposes of this article.
They may have had to use multiple accounts to avoid hitting the datacaps, but as long as those caps only resulted in
a bigger bill and not throttling it wouldn't affect the results.
Also, you are in the minority, as most users never come near their cap. Those like you probably all
choose Sprint for that very reason.
Do you have a single clue how Public Key encryption works do you?
Start here: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/encryption3.htm
So checking a box on a web sight is harder than building a faraday cage?
What the hell are you smoking?
Wouldn't it be easier to just opt out?
Light makeup?
What an idiot!
You can prove yourself wrong without spending a dime. There are several free software packages you can try for free which will disabuse you of your nieve notions.
Try Picasa. Its free and so easy a simpleton can use it. Right up your alley.
Virtually none of the people i communicate use the same jabber service as I do. Most are overseas, some in countries that don't allow encryption. So even though my service offers encrypted connections, I know that its not encrypted as it travels from my server to their server and then on to the other end.
I use a service, I don't run my own.
Exchanging keys over the inernet?
Why would you do that?
Send me an encrypted email. My public key is easily found via my email address. You don't have to unconditionally trust my key, so don't give me the address and combination to your safe. But you can send me email and build a relationship
I'm a SpiderOak paying customer, and while they do have zero knowledge storage, but they don't have a way to just fetch them when they are needed, say, to drcrypt an email. You have to copy those keys to your local device. I'd prefer not to store private keys on a portable and easily lost device.
Management of your private key is the only burden.
Keeping that backed up, yet available on every device upon which you need it is admittedly a minor hassle.
Once you get used to doing that, its pretty easy to deal with this for email.
The longer this NSA issue hangs in the press the more likely people will accept this task.
I can see some company coming along that offers Zero Knowledge storage, where they can't decrypt anything you send them, even at gunpoint, because they don't have your decryption key.
You could theoretically keep your private keys on their server, and simply fetch them as needed, and never store them on the device. One password to rule them all.
XMPP doesn't provide for much in the way of security unless you are using strictly private single servers.
Once your contacts are scattered across multiple jabber servers all bets are off as far as security.
Your server will almost surely end up forwarding your message to other servers insecurely.
XMPP also struggles with binary blobs (images) etc.
But those laws can't possibly work once the allow the end users to use standard public/private encryption schemes rather than foisting some proprietary solution that relies on the central node being able to decrypt every message.
Once more applications start using key pairs to encrypt payload the three letter agencies will have to brute force decrypt everything.
Routing data is still harder to deal with.
The problem is there are simply not enough Multicast IPs allocated to cover every possible program demanded by a large number of users at any hour of the day.
Yes it works in small situations with small numbers of available programs such as you might find in hotels.
But it doesn't scale well to the internet, which is precisely why is it virtually never used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast#IP_multicast
There are serious limitation in layer 2, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_multicast#Layer_2_delivery , that can literally flood your local lan if more than one stream is running at once.
Your scheme of single casting enough to catch up only works if there is already a stream running somewhere on an already scarce channel, that could be "caught up" with. This assumes the receiver has adequate caching capability (not assured with portable devices) and that you have enough extra bandwidth to unicast fast enough to actually catch up. Neither of these is assured.
When the sources can literately be ANY movie or video or event, and the user base is high, you would have a situation of ZERO available multicast channels, everything forced to unicast, and unlimited bandwidth demand (which actually impacts the sources more than the sinks).
Will IPV6 fix this? Perhaps, as far as potential multicast channels.
But the facts on the ground today is that multicase is virtually never used, and when it is it is used for
things like conferences or TV programs that users are perfectly willing to join "In Progress" rather than "on demand" starting from the beginning at any time of day or night.
Because even assuming enough channels such that another multicast stream could always be started, whether it be your alleged uni-cast to catch up with a new multicast stream, you simply don't have the bandwidth to send that much video from that many sources to that many sinks simultaneously.
It would be a bad choice for TV. The only way TV survives in the bandwidth available to it is because it is broadcast. (Single stream).
You might be able to move broadcast tv to unicast, but not when you try to do on-demand.
That pretty much sums it up.
In a down-town area or any dense residential apartment situation a comcast user might find this appealing because they could roam all over the neighborhood and stay on wifi. But chances are, that is exactly the sort of situation where participation could cripple the homeowners use of their own connection.
TFA says this:
Service degradation. Those using the slower public portion of a home router typically won't degrade performance on the faster private side. Future routers would speed up public access when the private side isn't being used and give the private network priority if required.
But If I sign up for service just adequate to meet my needs any additional load (even if slower) is going to be felt.
And if you happen to have an apartment next to a bar or popular restaurant you can expect your router to be busy all day with the overload of connecting and disconnecting smartphones and people soaking up your bandwidth.
I wouldn't begrudge them the immeasurably small increase in electricity usage, but if they can't assure my bandwidth and speed I would be reluctant to join the program.