In theory a cable could be used as an antenna, they probably have some working group at the NSA that does just that, hell they probably think Snowden stole the document about it.
>The NSA is only targeting the communications, as opposed to metadata, of less than 60 Americans. Targeting the actual communications of Americans, rather than metadata, requires a probable cause finding and a specific court order.
We don't believe you, and quit targeting my metadata without a warrant.
Unless you have the source code to the software, it's never yours. When you buy a piece of software that communicates with other people you're very likely on an upgrade mill one way or the other. They upgrade to version x.1, if you want to keep talking with them, you do too.
>You're just a renter of the service, and the law isn't even very clear as to what the "landlord" is obligated to do with your data if you're evicted from the system.
>There are advantages in having both, In your example of email while it is true you can't get new email while the internet is down you can still read old emails
That has more to do with your email client. Not where your service is located.
>Also there is a difference your connection to the internet going down and your email cloud provider going down. It is one more point of failure.
Or one more point of redundancy depending on the design of the mail architecture. Your local email can go down too.
>Also don't underestimate the value of having control over your data,
No, it costs fuckloads of money to maintain. Which is why they want to get rid of it. It is why they HAVE been getting rid of it for over a decade now by attrition. Huge portions of POTS was supported by taxes and other 'universal fees'.
If we are going to support some system with tax dollars, POTS is no longer the right one to do it with. Finding a system that meets the needs of its users when there is an emergency is important, the issue is we need a system that meets the needs of its users under daily usage for people to adopt it in the first place. POTS is no longer used by huge portions of society.
For the most part the latency of voice over a POTS line is constant. Over IP it can change dramatically, and that messes with the minds interpretation of the words.
1. The government gave BILLIONS of dollars from taxes to the telephone companies to put in the POTS network.
2. Only recently is POTS service 'cheap'. Go back to the '80's and do some long distance dialing, or try to get multiple lines in many places. Many places still pay long distance over POTS.
3. Spectrum. Cell phone companies paid billions for 'ownership' of ranges of it.
4. Technology stability. Where POTS has been stable for decades, wireless technology has not been. 2G, 3G, 4G+. Every few years a new technology comes out either serving more phones in the same amount of spectrum, or providing more bandwidth to each phone. It's rather expensive to role out.
In another decade the POTS system will be so under profitable that on one will touch it. It's been rotting for at least 15 years now in most places. Over a decade ago the SWB (now ATT) either retired or fired their long term staff that could maintain the POTS network well. A smaller number of new staff were brought in, but they were under trained and over worked. POTS from that point has gone to shit, no money has been put in place to replace aging infrastructure and now the costs of fixing it are staggering.
Simply put, there is far more profitability in other communications avenues, POTS will suffer attrition till people move to other means of communicating, and it will die from under funding.
If your damned cell phone can't last the night, then you shouldn't carry around a huge ass tablet/computer/game machine/financial planner/web cam/video camera/motion sensor/wireless access point/cell phone. Even power hungry iphones should have a 200+ hour standby time. Just shut all the other shit off and worry about the goddamned emergency instead of posting of facebook. Tell one other person outside of the emergency area to tell other that you're still alive. Only use it for contacting 911.
With solar charging your phone should be able to stay on standby forever.
>They have been dismantling it by attrition and entropy for decades now.
This right here. Most people have no idea how bad of shape the the copper systems are in. Working with the telco on DSL and T1 installs there were times it took days longer to get a install setup simply because they could not find enough working pairs, things were either mislabeled or in such bad shape we couldn't get signal.
>The network infrastructure is setup as a Class C 172.x.x.x
You mean Class B, or specifically the 172.16/12 private network. It may be further subnetted via CIDR, but only having 256 IPs (Class C) doesn't work well in most enterprise settings.
A whole shitload of the XBOX is based on on line servers or gold membership for usability If MS decided to shut it all down, your single player disc based games will still work, but all the rest is gone.
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I know you're being funny, but the NSA does have a reason to get rid of all hardware too.
http://www.spybusters.com/Great_Seal_Bug.html
In theory a cable could be used as an antenna, they probably have some working group at the NSA that does just that, hell they probably think Snowden stole the document about it.
>Snowden never approached any of multiple Inspectors General, supervisors, or Congressional oversight committee members about his concerns.
Good idea too. Everyone else who did (that we know of) was fired and investigated. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Andrews_Drake
>The NSA is only targeting the communications, as opposed to metadata, of less than 60 Americans. Targeting the actual communications of Americans, rather than metadata, requires a probable cause finding and a specific court order.
We don't believe you, and quit targeting my metadata without a warrant.
Anyone who says "I need the government to turn down the volume" to this issue needs to be publicly slapped up and down the main street in their town.
You'd be the first asshole to call the cops if I played a loud radio in front of your house.
If the individual never breeds, or by existing causes others to breed successfully, then the genetic the mutation is not successful.
In humans it is harder to measure the success of the genetic mutations alone, because of the large effect society determines human success.
>cloud prices - fixed, fixed fixed lol
Do you even know what you're talking about? Cloud prices, such as AWS have been dropping year by year.
> Why pay someone huge fees per month when your staff can easily do whatever it is.
Depends how much staff you have. Paying your staff isn't free.
>gmail simply does not do all that Exchange does.
There is cloud hosted Exchange these days.
Unless you have the source code to the software, it's never yours. When you buy a piece of software that communicates with other people you're very likely on an upgrade mill one way or the other. They upgrade to version x.1, if you want to keep talking with them, you do too.
>You're just a renter of the service, and the law isn't even very clear as to what the "landlord" is obligated to do with your data if you're evicted from the system.
Then you should read and amend your contracts.
>There are advantages in having both, In your example of email while it is true you can't get new email while the internet is down you can still read old emails
That has more to do with your email client. Not where your service is located.
>Also there is a difference your connection to the internet going down and your email cloud provider going down. It is one more point of failure.
Or one more point of redundancy depending on the design of the mail architecture. Your local email can go down too.
>Also don't underestimate the value of having control over your data,
You can have both, if you use the right software.
I would think the suns magnetosphere would redirect any plasma, and possibly water steam would be effected by it too.
http://www.csicop.org/sb/show/shooting_for_the_sun/
This is why Sol is the worst target possible.
>Mice build houses and Alpha males can cooperate, also live as families in big groups with NO wars.
You are really clueless and completely wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Calhoun#Mouse_experiments
The size of human social structures are an order of magnitude larger than mouse structures.
Ants on the other hand, which form colonies that rival humans, war between colonies is very common.
>it costs money to maintain
No, it costs fuckloads of money to maintain. Which is why they want to get rid of it. It is why they HAVE been getting rid of it for over a decade now by attrition. Huge portions of POTS was supported by taxes and other 'universal fees'.
If we are going to support some system with tax dollars, POTS is no longer the right one to do it with. Finding a system that meets the needs of its users when there is an emergency is important, the issue is we need a system that meets the needs of its users under daily usage for people to adopt it in the first place. POTS is no longer used by huge portions of society.
Echo and latency.
For the most part the latency of voice over a POTS line is constant. Over IP it can change dramatically, and that messes with the minds interpretation of the words.
A few reasons.
1. The government gave BILLIONS of dollars from taxes to the telephone companies to put in the POTS network.
2. Only recently is POTS service 'cheap'. Go back to the '80's and do some long distance dialing, or try to get multiple lines in many places. Many places still pay long distance over POTS.
3. Spectrum. Cell phone companies paid billions for 'ownership' of ranges of it.
4. Technology stability. Where POTS has been stable for decades, wireless technology has not been. 2G, 3G, 4G+. Every few years a new technology comes out either serving more phones in the same amount of spectrum, or providing more bandwidth to each phone. It's rather expensive to role out.
>They will always be on POTS.
Where art thou thy immortals.
>Why not serve them?
Because they are a dying breed.
In another decade the POTS system will be so under profitable that on one will touch it. It's been rotting for at least 15 years now in most places. Over a decade ago the SWB (now ATT) either retired or fired their long term staff that could maintain the POTS network well. A smaller number of new staff were brought in, but they were under trained and over worked. POTS from that point has gone to shit, no money has been put in place to replace aging infrastructure and now the costs of fixing it are staggering.
Simply put, there is far more profitability in other communications avenues, POTS will suffer attrition till people move to other means of communicating, and it will die from under funding.
If your damned cell phone can't last the night, then you shouldn't carry around a huge ass tablet/computer/game machine/financial planner/web cam/video camera/motion sensor/wireless access point/cell phone. Even power hungry iphones should have a 200+ hour standby time. Just shut all the other shit off and worry about the goddamned emergency instead of posting of facebook. Tell one other person outside of the emergency area to tell other that you're still alive. Only use it for contacting 911.
With solar charging your phone should be able to stay on standby forever.
ProTip: Don't base your cell phone number of a CO that is located below sea level.
>They have been dismantling it by attrition and entropy for decades now.
This right here. Most people have no idea how bad of shape the the copper systems are in. Working with the telco on DSL and T1 installs there were times it took days longer to get a install setup simply because they could not find enough working pairs, things were either mislabeled or in such bad shape we couldn't get signal.
What is most interesting about your rant, is that you sound like a psycopath in saying it.
>Reminds me of Douglas Adams' telephone sanitizers.
You seem to forget the part where the parent populations planet died because of a disease spread by unsanitary telephone handsets.
>The network infrastructure is setup as a Class C 172.x.x.x
You mean Class B, or specifically the 172.16/12 private network. It may be further subnetted via CIDR, but only having 256 IPs (Class C) doesn't work well in most enterprise settings.
The effective compliance date of the Privacy Rule was April 14, 2003 with a one-year extension for certain "small plans"
Or pretty much 10 years ago.
Services.
A whole shitload of the XBOX is based on on line servers or gold membership for usability If MS decided to shut it all down, your single player disc based games will still work, but all the rest is gone.
Other then it pushed Alpha in to AMD's hands giving birth to the Opteron, Intel snatched defeat from the jaws of victory there.
I'm not really sure where you're going with that one, with dual-stack any system that can run IPv6 can also run IPv4.