"Besides not understanding how Internet access works, the FCC also has a troublingly limited knowledge of how the Domain Name System (DNS) works -- even though hundreds of engineers tried to explain it to them this past summer... "
If we accept that the FCC is ignorant and incompetent regarding the internet, then why the hell do we want them regulating it?!?!
First, you have energy conversion losses inherent in whatever/whichever device you're generating/amplifying the microwaves with. That microwave energy must then be directed/radiated which means more losses even in a system with no size/mass/shape restraints. Then Mr. Inverse Square Law comes out to play saying the signal intensity will drop by the inverse square of distance. Now, how will you put that much energy into a package light and small enough for a Tomahawk to carry in addition to the weapon system itself?
Think of it as trying to accurately and extremely rapidly microwave a hotpocket to a smoking crisp while it is sitting on a table in the basement of a building, doing it from a cruise missile traveling ~500-600kph at a few hundred meters altitude or more.
The power required alone is just nuts, never mind any of the other basic physics obstacles.
This system would require a lot of lead time to load the B-52, takeoff, fly to NK airspace, launch the cruise missile, and wait for its subsonic engines to propel it to the target.
The NK missile launch last week occurred with NO warning. They were able to fuel and prepare the missile for launch without detection.
The US could keep a flight/flights of CHAMP-equipped-cruise missile-carrying B52s on station 24/7/365 as the old Soviet Union and NATO used to so during the Cold War.
Really though, as someone with extensive high-powered RF engineering experience including radar and microwave, I have serious doubts about how effective such a weapon could be IRL. The inverse-square law of transmitted power, distance to receiver/tarfet, and signal strength/current/voltage/thermal heating induced means it would also require enormous amounts of power, especially with a size-limited transmission antenna array due to it all being crammed into a cruise missile.
It's extremely inefficient energy-transfer wise. Only a tiny fraction of the power transmitted actually reaches the intended target (or receiver in the case of radio). Unless they can pack 1.21 gigawatts (or some similar ridiculously-huge number) into a cruise missile, I can't see how this could possibly be effective and practical as a weapon.
Sounds more like propaganda for both domestic (look! we're doing...something!) and NK consumption (we'll blind you with Science! [insert cheesy Thomas Doolby '80s pop tune]) while doubling as a handy excuse to hand out US defense money for the usual reasons.
Housing and transportation are difficult problems to solve. Maybe they've assigned some experts to work on the difficult problems, who will take a couple years to come up with some potential plans. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if they just decided that the problems were too difficult to solve, so they won't bother trying.
Welcome, Time Traveler!
I see you are from a time long passed, when Califonia politicians, bureaucrats, and officials were, for the most part, simply petty, egotistical thieves, and not too bright.
Today's leaders are simply using their positions any way they can to grow their fiefdom and thus the amount and value if the influence they can sell while on ideological crusades to further their party's agendas using any means they can get away with.
Hopefully your time machine will allow you to escape back to your time. I just hope it doesn't need high-octane leaded gasoline or lack California state emissions standards certification.
If you make it back, try to make them believe the chaos and corruption awaiting them that you've seen here.
...and you don't have reasons to take from the rich nations to give to the poor.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
This, folks, is what's at the root of all the climate hysteria.
"Those nasty capitalist Western nations are too successful! We must equalize outcomes rather than opportunities!" Same old Leftist tripe that's killed many tens of millions in the 20th century alone. If they actually believed their own data they'd be working on adaptation rather than ridiculous plans to somehow control and majorly modify an entire planet's climate trends.
It's an international wealth-transfer and power-shift scheme meant to weaken Western nations, particularly the US.
Even if the US suddenly disappeared today with all it's pollution/CO2, the difference would only amount to a couple tenths of a degree in average global temperatures 200 years from now.
I think you need to study game theory quite a bit more. The solution to others "gaming the system" is more governmental authority, not less.
Yes, the USSR collapsed economically and China had to start dipping into capitalism to save their economy because they were just not authoritarian enough.
That is easily solved if you have a government with a spine. (And that isn't corrupt as hell.)
So where are my unicorns and flying pigs?
Haha, no shit!
"In a perfect world..."
Except we're stuck living in a world filled with assholes even worse than us! XD
That's the problem with socialism and communism, they depend on people acting contrary to their own immediate best interests and they only work if nobody games the system to contribute less and/or take more. Human nature says that's a fantasy. Anyone who has played MMO games knows exactly the kind of people we'd be trusting to rise above their human foibles and do the "right" thing instead of what best gets them what they want.
This poem describes the current state of the world exceedingly well and what happens when society attempts to ignore human nature and reality:
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place. Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn: But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind, So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace, Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place, But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch, They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch; They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings; So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace. They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease. But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life (Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife) Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all, By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul; But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy, And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins, As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! -- Rudyard Kipling
Send Google and Facebook the bill, NOT the taxpayers.
Allow me to remind you of a quote that applies here:
Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money." -- Margaret Thatcher
Rich corporations and people will simply move their wealth out of reach. We've already seen this phenomenon with Apple and MS and how they structure their international holdings and with individuals with what was revealed in the Panama Papers.
A US UBI would eventually result in the US following Greece down the toilet.
And if *that* happens, the entire world will dissolve into chaos and violence.
That is a pretty big conspiracy . Title 2 has both good and bad aspects, letting the ISPs fark us over is just 100% bad. Claiming the purpose behind it is differnt then all the stated purposes is just for that one is pretty silly..
In fact the FCC did not even need title 2 to do so, they did it in 2005 and the courts agreed that even though they were not title 2 carriers they could still fall under CALEA, so moving them to title 2 is not an issue with that.
But another court can overturn the previous decision/precedent. Placing them under Title II assures they are required to comply.
From the CALEA Wiki:
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a United States wiretapping law passed in 1994, during the presidency of Bill Clinton (Pub. L. No. 103-414, 108 Stat. 4279, codified at 47 USC 1001-1010).
CALEA's purpose is to enhance the ability of law enforcement agencies to conduct lawful interception of communication by requiring that telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment to modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure that they have built-in capabilities for targeted surveillance, allowing federal agencies to selectively wiretap any telephone traffic; it has since been extended to cover broadband Internet and VoIP traffic. Some government agencies argue that it covers mass surveillance of communications rather than just tapping specific lines and that not all CALEA-based access requires a warrant.
German authorities are preparing a law that will force device manufacturers to include backdoors within their products that law enforcement agencies could use at their discretion for legal investigations.
This is the ultimate purpose behind placing ISPs under Title II in order to place them under CALEA requirements which could easily be interpreted to require exactly the same kind of 'back doors' on devices.
The propaganda has worked so well we have people violently protesting to have their own privacy taken away.
At that point there was no other way to regain regulatory authority
We don't WANT the internet "regulated" by the FCC under Title II as Title II comes with a boatload of additional regulations, like CALEA compliance.
Let them fight it out in the courts one case at a time under FTC general trade rules and regulations. Allow the markets to decide.
This is simply a government attempt to control what you can see and read and who can say what on the internet along with gaining the ability to legally mandate the ability for LEAs/TLAs to spy on whoever they wish without an individual warrant.
It's government tyranny writ large.
You are either ignorant or in favor of authoritarianism when it supports "your side".
There's a difference between what was once just a bunch of universities communicating with each other on equal grounds, and a huge corporation basically having a monopoly on internet over a whole region and deciding what every one will be able to see or not.
Except the timeline says otherwise, as Tom Wheeler and the Obama administration didn't place the internet under Title II until 2015.
I don't think those companies suddenly became giants in the last two years.
NN regulations were never put into effect. If it's so terrible, why hasn't all those bad things already happened?
If you want a free and open internet, the very, very LAST thing anyone should desire is government regulation. The internet has been as free and open as it's been so far precisely *because* there has been no government regulation.
Are you trying to say something? Because your post seems to be lacking content.
To be fair to the OP, you'd first have to possess the ability to think outside the fantasy ideological/political cognitive frameworks that you've been fed and by all appearances swallowed hook, line, and sinker without verifying their viability or accuracy.
An ability you sadly appear to lack based on your reply to the OP.
Trust me, your little darlings aren't going to be scarred for life.
A metric fuck-load of people need to learn this.
They won't.
Too many parents are either trying to be their kids' "buddy" instead of their parent, or they are spending all their time on their careers or are simply emotionally 'empty suits' to their kids and so buy the kids whatever in place of being a loving, involved parent.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein told Bloomberg that the currency serves as "a vehicle for perpetrating fraud."
Whereas Goldman Sachs is a vehicle for what exactly?
It's the same reason the US government gets upset when foreign governments spy on and try to manipulate and abuse the US population.
They resent competition.
The US government has over time become little different in basic behavior than street gangs that sell illegal drugs. Both will happily ignore legalities when convenient and quickly employ violence to defend their 'turf' to protect their illicit business preying on the general population.
At this point it's like the US is being run by the (D)rips and c(R)uds.
I take it you don't work in a worthwhile industry. Chinese spying is pretty prevalent in Canadian technology industries. We've lost billions in R&D to Chinese espionage. Denying it shows your ignorance to history and facts.
You don't increase industrial/military security by reducing the freedom of the entire population. That path leads to effectively becoming the same as the enemy you were defending against from the population's perspective. It's the same wrongthink US TLAs use to justify mass domestic surveillance and the Chinese use to justify the Great Firewall.
Sorry, but *I* am not the one lacking in knowledge and understanding of history and facts, here.
We need to replace the commercial infrastructure... We need people to set up hotspots that are limited to this application only somehow, and for those to prevent abuse. For example voice data should be small so we can limit bandwidth, and limit amount of users per hotspot. Just needs people to volunteer their support.
The bigger problem with the entire concept being that even if it works as advertised, the government will enact laws, rules, regulations to criminalize it. The US government will never tolerate any system of mass domestic voice/data communications that they cannot monitor/track/decrypt/control. Even Cardinal Richelieu needed those 6 lines from the most honest of men and the ability to read them in order to have him hanged.
It would help citizens to effectively oppose what the government does that they are unhappy about, assist in holding people in the government accountable, and facilitate removing corrupt leaders from office, and thus any domestic mass communications system they cannot eavesdrop upon, decrypt, track, and control is anathema to such an oligarchic kleptocracy posing as a democratic republic as the US has become. A massive reduction in government size, power, and scope would be necessary to allow such a system to be built & operated without government forbidding it.
Everything has powerful CPUs in them now and megabytes of firmware. It wouldn't be hard to do for almost anything.
Add to the fact that most of everything comes from china, manufactured by the lowest bider, it wouldn't be hard.
This accusation is pure hogwash.
This is simply a propaganda push to move the Overton Window closer towards eventually disallowing the civilian purchase of non-US-approved drones without the (soon) US-required remote kill switches and similar spying ability to benefit US TLAs/LEAs. Can't have civilians with drones exposing corruption, incompetence, and things the government and those within it are not supposed to do.
The US intelligence services dislike foreign states spying on US citizens and manipulating US citizens with propaganda, as they resent the competition.
Slashdot Mirror
I've got another honest question.
"Besides not understanding how Internet access works, the FCC also has a troublingly limited knowledge of how the Domain Name System (DNS) works -- even though hundreds of engineers tried to explain it to them this past summer... "
If we accept that the FCC is ignorant and incompetent regarding the internet, then why the hell do we want them regulating it?!?!
Strat
MASERs bro. Thy arenâ(TM)t just going to shoot RF Willy-nilly. Or if they are, sweet jebus thatâ(TM)s dumb.
Yes, I'm aware/familiar of/with MASERs, Traveling-Wave-Tube (TWT), magnetron, yada yada.
Physics, bro.
First, you have energy conversion losses inherent in whatever/whichever device you're generating/amplifying the microwaves with. That microwave energy must then be directed/radiated which means more losses even in a system with no size/mass/shape restraints. Then Mr. Inverse Square Law comes out to play saying the signal intensity will drop by the inverse square of distance. Now, how will you put that much energy into a package light and small enough for a Tomahawk to carry in addition to the weapon system itself?
Think of it as trying to accurately and extremely rapidly microwave a hotpocket to a smoking crisp while it is sitting on a table in the basement of a building, doing it from a cruise missile traveling ~500-600kph at a few hundred meters altitude or more.
The power required alone is just nuts, never mind any of the other basic physics obstacles.
Strat
This system would require a lot of lead time to load the B-52, takeoff, fly to NK airspace, launch the cruise missile, and wait for its subsonic engines to propel it to the target.
The NK missile launch last week occurred with NO warning. They were able to fuel and prepare the missile for launch without detection.
The US could keep a flight/flights of CHAMP-equipped-cruise missile-carrying B52s on station 24/7/365 as the old Soviet Union and NATO used to so during the Cold War.
Really though, as someone with extensive high-powered RF engineering experience including radar and microwave, I have serious doubts about how effective such a weapon could be IRL. The inverse-square law of transmitted power, distance to receiver/tarfet, and signal strength/current/voltage/thermal heating induced means it would also require enormous amounts of power, especially with a size-limited transmission antenna array due to it all being crammed into a cruise missile.
It's extremely inefficient energy-transfer wise. Only a tiny fraction of the power transmitted actually reaches the intended target (or receiver in the case of radio). Unless they can pack 1.21 gigawatts (or some similar ridiculously-huge number) into a cruise missile, I can't see how this could possibly be effective and practical as a weapon.
Sounds more like propaganda for both domestic (look! we're doing...something!) and NK consumption (we'll blind you with Science! [insert cheesy Thomas Doolby '80s pop tune]) while doubling as a handy excuse to hand out US defense money for the usual reasons.
Strat
Housing and transportation are difficult problems to solve. Maybe they've assigned some experts to work on the difficult problems, who will take a couple years to come up with some potential plans. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if they just decided that the problems were too difficult to solve, so they won't bother trying.
Welcome, Time Traveler!
I see you are from a time long passed, when Califonia politicians, bureaucrats, and officials were, for the most part, simply petty, egotistical thieves, and not too bright.
Today's leaders are simply using their positions any way they can to grow their fiefdom and thus the amount and value if the influence they can sell while on ideological crusades to further their party's agendas using any means they can get away with.
Hopefully your time machine will allow you to escape back to your time. I just hope it doesn't need high-octane leaded gasoline or lack California state emissions standards certification.
If you make it back, try to make them believe the chaos and corruption awaiting them that you've seen here.
Vaya con Dios
Strat
...and you don't have reasons to take from the rich nations to give to the poor.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
This, folks, is what's at the root of all the climate hysteria.
"Those nasty capitalist Western nations are too successful! We must equalize outcomes rather than opportunities!" Same old Leftist tripe that's killed many tens of millions in the 20th century alone. If they actually believed their own data they'd be working on adaptation rather than ridiculous plans to somehow control and majorly modify an entire planet's climate trends.
It's an international wealth-transfer and power-shift scheme meant to weaken Western nations, particularly the US.
Even if the US suddenly disappeared today with all it's pollution/CO2, the difference would only amount to a couple tenths of a degree in average global temperatures 200 years from now.
Strat
An ever shifting target is nigh impossible to hit.
But in this context, the political/ideological "collateral damage" is actually the primary goal.
Strat
I think you need to study game theory quite a bit more. The solution to others "gaming the system" is more governmental authority, not less.
Yes, the USSR collapsed economically and China had to start dipping into capitalism to save their economy because they were just not authoritarian enough.
0_o
Strat
Haha, no shit!
"In a perfect world..."
Except we're stuck living in a world filled with assholes even worse than us! XD
That's the problem with socialism and communism, they depend on people acting contrary to their own immediate best interests and they only work if nobody games the system to contribute less and/or take more. Human nature says that's a fantasy. Anyone who has played MMO games knows exactly the kind of people we'd be trusting to rise above their human foibles and do the "right" thing instead of what best gets them what they want.
This poem describes the current state of the world exceedingly well and what happens when society attempts to ignore human nature and reality:
AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.
We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.
We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.
With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.
When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."
On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."
In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."
Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.
As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! -- Rudyard Kipling
Strat
Send Google and Facebook the bill, NOT the taxpayers.
Allow me to remind you of a quote that applies here:
Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money." -- Margaret Thatcher
Rich corporations and people will simply move their wealth out of reach. We've already seen this phenomenon with Apple and MS and how they structure their international holdings and with individuals with what was revealed in the Panama Papers.
A US UBI would eventually result in the US following Greece down the toilet.
And if *that* happens, the entire world will dissolve into chaos and violence.
Strat
Oops, forgot the Wiki linky.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Strat
That is a pretty big conspiracy . Title 2 has both good and bad aspects, letting the ISPs fark us over is just 100% bad. Claiming the purpose behind it is differnt then all the stated purposes is just for that one is pretty silly..
In fact the FCC did not even need title 2 to do so, they did it in 2005 and the courts agreed that even though they were not title 2 carriers they could still fall under CALEA, so moving them to title 2 is not an issue with that.
But another court can overturn the previous decision/precedent. Placing them under Title II assures they are required to comply.
From the CALEA Wiki:
The Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) is a United States wiretapping law passed in 1994, during the presidency of Bill Clinton (Pub. L. No. 103-414, 108 Stat. 4279, codified at 47 USC 1001-1010).
CALEA's purpose is to enhance the ability of law enforcement agencies to conduct lawful interception of communication by requiring that telecommunications carriers and manufacturers of telecommunications equipment to modify and design their equipment, facilities, and services to ensure that they have built-in capabilities for targeted surveillance, allowing federal agencies to selectively wiretap any telephone traffic; it has since been extended to cover broadband Internet and VoIP traffic. Some government agencies argue that it covers mass surveillance of communications rather than just tapping specific lines and that not all CALEA-based access requires a warrant.
Strat
From TFS/TFA
German authorities are preparing a law that will force device manufacturers to include backdoors within their products that law enforcement agencies could use at their discretion for legal investigations.
This is the ultimate purpose behind placing ISPs under Title II in order to place them under CALEA requirements which could easily be interpreted to require exactly the same kind of 'back doors' on devices.
The propaganda has worked so well we have people violently protesting to have their own privacy taken away.
Strat
You're being silly now, rage boy. Calm down. Go eat a snickers or something.
I'll just leave this here.
https://youtu.be/gtjr8LrTAJE
Strat
At that point there was no other way to regain regulatory authority
We don't WANT the internet "regulated" by the FCC under Title II as Title II comes with a boatload of additional regulations, like CALEA compliance.
Let them fight it out in the courts one case at a time under FTC general trade rules and regulations. Allow the markets to decide.
This is simply a government attempt to control what you can see and read and who can say what on the internet along with gaining the ability to legally mandate the ability for LEAs/TLAs to spy on whoever they wish without an individual warrant.
It's government tyranny writ large.
You are either ignorant or in favor of authoritarianism when it supports "your side".
Strat
There's a difference between what was once just a bunch of universities communicating with each other on equal grounds, and a huge corporation basically having a monopoly on internet over a whole region and deciding what every one will be able to see or not.
Except the timeline says otherwise, as Tom Wheeler and the Obama administration didn't place the internet under Title II until 2015.
I don't think those companies suddenly became giants in the last two years.
Your logic fails.
My position stands.
Strat
Why is it that such "right" ideas are shouted down with accusations of "Russian medaling" now days? LOL...
Oh, that's easy!
Because their ideas can't win in the marketplace of ideas unless they censor/shout-down/silence opposing ideas.
AntiFA is the US Left distilled down to it's essence.
Strat
AT&T blocked access to Apple's FaceTime for customers on their unlimited cellular data plan in 2012.
Is AT&T STILL blocking FaceTime?
No?
They stopped the blocking without the FCC regulating them?
Huh. How about that.
Are you being willfully ignorant, or are you the regular kind of stupid?
Right back at you.
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan
Strat
NN regulations were never put into effect. If it's so terrible, why hasn't all those bad things already happened?
If you want a free and open internet, the very, very LAST thing anyone should desire is government regulation. The internet has been as free and open as it's been so far precisely *because* there has been no government regulation.
Strat
Are you trying to say something? Because your post seems to be lacking content.
To be fair to the OP, you'd first have to possess the ability to think outside the fantasy ideological/political cognitive frameworks that you've been fed and by all appearances swallowed hook, line, and sinker without verifying their viability or accuracy.
An ability you sadly appear to lack based on your reply to the OP.
Strat
They won't.
Too many parents are either trying to be their kids' "buddy" instead of their parent, or they are spending all their time on their careers or are simply emotionally 'empty suits' to their kids and so buy the kids whatever in place of being a loving, involved parent.
Strat
Didn't want to offend those (comparatively) honest, hardworking gangbangers with the scum in D.C. :)
Strat
It's the same reason the US government gets upset when foreign governments spy on and try to manipulate and abuse the US population.
They resent competition.
The US government has over time become little different in basic behavior than street gangs that sell illegal drugs. Both will happily ignore legalities when convenient and quickly employ violence to defend their 'turf' to protect their illicit business preying on the general population.
At this point it's like the US is being run by the (D)rips and c(R)uds.
Strat
I take it you don't work in a worthwhile industry. Chinese spying is pretty prevalent in Canadian technology industries. We've lost billions in R&D to Chinese espionage. Denying it shows your ignorance to history and facts.
You don't increase industrial/military security by reducing the freedom of the entire population. That path leads to effectively becoming the same as the enemy you were defending against from the population's perspective. It's the same wrongthink US TLAs use to justify mass domestic surveillance and the Chinese use to justify the Great Firewall.
Sorry, but *I* am not the one lacking in knowledge and understanding of history and facts, here.
Strat
We need to replace the commercial infrastructure... We need people to set up hotspots that are limited to this application only somehow, and for those to prevent abuse. For example voice data should be small so we can limit bandwidth, and limit amount of users per hotspot. Just needs people to volunteer their support.
The bigger problem with the entire concept being that even if it works as advertised, the government will enact laws, rules, regulations to criminalize it. The US government will never tolerate any system of mass domestic voice/data communications that they cannot monitor/track/decrypt/control. Even Cardinal Richelieu needed those 6 lines from the most honest of men and the ability to read them in order to have him hanged.
It would help citizens to effectively oppose what the government does that they are unhappy about, assist in holding people in the government accountable, and facilitate removing corrupt leaders from office, and thus any domestic mass communications system they cannot eavesdrop upon, decrypt, track, and control is anathema to such an oligarchic kleptocracy posing as a democratic republic as the US has become. A massive reduction in government size, power, and scope would be necessary to allow such a system to be built & operated without government forbidding it.
Strat
Huh, I've always wondered about this.
Everything has powerful CPUs in them now and megabytes of firmware. It wouldn't be hard to do for almost anything.
Add to the fact that most of everything comes from china, manufactured by the lowest bider, it wouldn't be hard.
This accusation is pure hogwash.
This is simply a propaganda push to move the Overton Window closer towards eventually disallowing the civilian purchase of non-US-approved drones without the (soon) US-required remote kill switches and similar spying ability to benefit US TLAs/LEAs. Can't have civilians with drones exposing corruption, incompetence, and things the government and those within it are not supposed to do.
The US intelligence services dislike foreign states spying on US citizens and manipulating US citizens with propaganda, as they resent the competition.
Strat