"Mr. President, we must not allow a minesW*W*W*W*killer-robot gap!"
Its to prevent MAD from actually taking place. That's why permanent members all have fancy nukes. You don't want these guys starting another world war.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
That's exactly the primary purpose it was created. To prevent another world war now that WMDs existed. The pictures of the unprecedented devastation were still fresh and new from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, horribly burnt and radiation-sick survivors of the initial blast still dying in numbers, and it shocked the world to the core.
Certainly, the UN does more than this and it's only common sense to get nations communicating and peacefully cooperating as much as possible given such an opportunity.
What many are not aware of is the existence of a global economic "MAD". The idea roughly being to tie international finances, banking, and currencies together with each trading nation's so that even if one power destroys another while suffering little loss, like an overwhelming and rapid pinpoint nuclear first-strike, the 'winning' nation's economy, currency, etc will collapse, likely along with many other nation's.
This incentivizes all nations, even ones not directly involved, to do what they can to maintain global peace.
The problem with *that* being it assumes all nations will run their economies, currencies, financial markets, etc etc in a sane and logical manner and politics & ideology will never cause a nation to tank themselves like Greece. If things go sideways in the EU and the Euro/markets crash there, Hong Kong will likely quickly follow and then the US.
But, you just proved his point by linking to yet another group's definition.
No, Strat. It's not "yet another group". It's the group that's been spearheading the fight to educate and advocate for Net Neutrality.
Sorry, but it is still only one of the groups and one of the definitions of NN. They are but one lobbying group. And, I'll guarantee you whatever FTC/FCC/Congressional Act/law/etc they call 'NN' that is finally enacted will not be the same thing the EFF is advocating for. There's entirely too much wealth & power at stake, and our government and leadership are entirely too corrupt, for it to be any other way.
Do it the right way and have Congress pass legislation.
The fight is young. Legislation is the way to go, but first we're going to have to get those Republican jackoffs out of there.
Fine, if you convince enough people to vote for politicians who are in favor, that's how it's supposed to work. Not by having a Federal Agency just expand it's own powers and scope by fiat and then attempt to use the power of the mob to make it stick. That's not democracy, that's banana-republic 'might makes right' populism. That very quickly leads to creating very dark history. We don't need more of that, thanks.
The main problem with net neutrality is everyone has their own definition. Wu's is just one.
This is what the alt-right and "fake news" would want you to believe. "Nothing has meaning, so any bad thing we do can be framed as good. The truth cannot be known, so just believe Trump."
In fact, there are clear and concise definitions of Net Neutrality to be had. Found this easily.
But, you just proved his point by linking to yet another group's definition. Nothing to do with 'alt-right' or 'fake news' (whatever those terms are supposed to mean today as opposed to last week's definitions).
Look, I agree there needs to be protections put in place to prevent market abuses, but that's a trade issue that should be handled by the FTC, not the FCC. Congress passed a law that forbid the FCC from regulating the internet as it was 'information technology'. The FCC under Tom Wheeler(D)isney up and decided they'd just 'reclassify' the internet all on their own, side-stepping Congress and the law, and declare it under FCC jurisdiction.
Besides such reclassification being outside the powers of the FCC, ISPs being classified as common-carriers like telcos means they fall under CALEA requirements mandating law enforcement (and Homeland Security/TLAs) access and ability to intercept/decrypt all traffic (it's illegal for example to use a voice-scrambler on the US phone network as it prevents LEAs from being able to listen in).
Don't destroy the internet in order to save the internet. Do it the right way and have Congress pass legislation.
Political pressure needs to be applied to government to split up ISPs into horizontal layers: provide cables or provide services that run over cables. Let Comcast own the cables but prohibit Comcast from delivery video or Internet - force them to
Vertical integration is killing competition. Nah, it has killed competition.
Largely agreed. The FTC would be well within their power and actually doing the kind of thing they were intended to do when the FTC was created by blocking ownership of both the content providing side and the delivery side to keep both markets open, competitive, and more responsive to their customer's desires and needs.
To those who have accused me in the past of wanting to make the US into some sort of lawless Somalia because I believe in a limited central government, please note. This is one of the areas where I believe government has a role. "Free markets" aren't free because there are no laws, regulations, or rules. They are "free markets" because trade is conducted under one set of laws, regulations, and rules created strictly for establishing a fair and equitable trading system that apply to all equally while trade is otherwise unrestricted.
No, the catch is they aren't muscles. They're just structures held in place by air pressure. This is what happens when you're too specialized (or just running after DARPA money). It's only pneumatics/hydraulics. Anyone who has ever vacuum packed their food or clothing has created one of their 'robot muscles'. Granted their's have more complicated shapes, but that doesn't make them novel.
Many absolutely ingenious pneumatically-driven actuators were designed and used over the decades quite widely in many, many areas of industry, manufacturing, and defense for myriads of applications and uses all the way up through the 1950s-60s. Pneumatic technology of all sorts was one of the "cool" and "in" things in the early 1900s, many novel examples winding up being featured in "futuristic" displays in World Fairs during the period.
I say this to point out that these boys (bless their hearts) might be trying to reinvent the wheel, here.
Sometimes, reading these types of articles that are all breathless over something like pneumatics, or hydraulics in the case of a fluid-based system, I wonder if maybe modern-day scientific researchers and scientists miss prior work in some field they're in simply because they only research prior work that's been digitized and made available online while missing the huge amount of research and documentation that still exists only on paper and/or possibly microfiche that require relatively large amounts of man-hours to search and read.
The parable of the boy that cried wolf seems very apt for this story.
That TFA of this submission we're discussing goes straight to AGW as the only possible cause to explain the evidence cited is disturbing. Perhaps they should have gotten together with the scientists from the Slashhdot story I linked below and compared notes first before publishing.
"NASA Discovers Mantle Plume That's Melting Antarctica From Below"
And as far as the people in low-lying coastal cities, they'll have to move. It's not like they're dry one day and suddenly swept away by a wall of water without warning the next.
"Gosh, the water's at my feet, and it'll be up to my ankles in only a few short decades! How will I ever escape!? I shall surely drown!! glurglurglurg"
I don't think so. Not even government bureaucrats are that dumb, at least in that one instance. Other instances, however...
I looked at the code and behavior, and Google Maps deliberately uses massive amounts of requests in Firefox but much fewer requests in Chrome. Even though the exact same thing would have worked in Firefix too. Which leaves only deliberate behavior as an option. Not surprising, coming from Data Kraken "do more evil" Google.
"Google Maps aren't done until FireFox won't run", then?:D
Hope you don't pull into a supercharger station just after a truck pulled in - and plugged in all the chargers.
No. Because Ohm's Law.
No matter how much current capacity that's sitting there on the lines waiting to flow, the batteries will only take so much and cease drawing current as the resistance rises with the increase in total charge percentage, causing less current to flow. It's the same reason your phone charger (and phone) that only requires a fraction of an amp doesn't go up in flames when plugged into a 15-20-amp AC power outlet.
Not to mention, there's also a crap-ton of high-current regulation circuitry inside both the vehicle and the charging station designed to avoid/mitigate/protect against overcharging, short circuits, bad cells, etc.
Another factor I've not seen mentioned so far in the posts is the possibility that Tesla is introducing or planning to introduce new more-advanced battery tech, like like safer and higher capacity dry Li-On batteries:
That would make the Semi's specs much more easily achievable, although I don't doubt Musk and his engineers could and likely have done it with existing battery tech. The man has a track record of successfully landing used rocket boosters (plural) on a tiny floating pad in the ocean and keeping some pretty impressive promises. If he says he's done it with existing battery tech, I'll take him at his word until solid evidence to the contrary appears.
Your words are saying that you care more about the people pushing the idea than the idea itself.
No, his words are saying that their 'ideas' are a pack of lies and totally disingenuous just like they've repeatedly demonstrated themselves and the 'ideas' they've pushed before to be.
If the rules were never put into action how can Ajit Pai then claim that NN was hurting network investment? Oh right, thatâ(TM)s because it was a lie.
Yeah, he couldn't possibly have meant investment...like going forward...to that 'future' thing you may have heard of?...might suffer because of the usual investor caution around any big market changes. It *has* to be the worst possible interpretation because anyone who disagrees with your position *must* be evil and therefor everything they do and say is equally evil. No gray, only black & white. Right? That kind of thinking you demonstrate in your post is responsible for many of the worst atrocities, brutal regimes, and wars Mankind has ever known.
You mistake my question.... I'm asking how would they even be aware, for example, in what was apparently a plain voice conversation, that a supposedly unbreakable encryption was being used and it was not just two people communicating in a language that is not known to eavesdroppers?
The thing about unbreakable encryption is that it can always be masqueraded as something entirely innocuous that you just don't happen understand, or sometimes even something that you believe that you *DO* understand, while not actually having any real clue about what was actually being communicated.
No, I understood your question. The answer is they won't be able to catch a lot of it. That's why they'll place something like a 25-year minimum prison sentence and hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in fines on violators they *do* catch, along with a rewards program for anonymous snitches.
There are many crimes which are extremely difficult for the government to detect/prosecute. That's why many such offenses carry very heavy criminal penalties. Nobody wants to risk spending most of the rest of their life in PMITA prison if they *are* caught, over such an issue.
The other part will most likely involve hardware/chip/software companies forced to produce compliant hardware/chips/software that makes using unauthorized encryption methods more difficult. That's one of the areas where CALEA requirements can come into play to force compliance.
No more 'unbreakable' encryption allowed on the intertubes...
I wonder how they would enforce that, exactly. How can they even generally tell the difference between something that is not encrypted, and something that is encrypted but disguised as something that is not?
Pretty much the same way they prohibit voice encryption for phones and bans on encryption in the Amateur Radio service. Mostly through dis-incentivizing it through extremely long prison sentences and huge fines coupled with generous rewards for tips leading to convictions.
The rules were never put in action. NN was never implemented except on paper, so all this time you've been without NN.
Oh, the humanity!
This is a ploy to put ISPs in with telecoms as common-carriers so that US LEAs/TLAs can enforce CALEA requirements. No more 'unbreakable' encryption allowed on the intertubes, Comrade!
I think you'll find the requirements of CALEA compliance do far more damage to freedom and privacy than the status quo.
It would have had to existed as more than some words on paper first (it was never enacted/enforced) in order to 'disappear'.
Want to see what the 'net would look like without NN? Look around. That's how it's always been and is now.
NN as written reclassifies ISPs as common-carriers. This means that ISPs and device-makers would have to comply with CALEA which means mandated backdoors and LEA/TLA ability to intercept/decrypt everything codified into law.
No, they always could in the past. NN rules were never officially enacted. The few times in the past when they attempted shenanigans (blocking bittorrent, the netflix thing) they got slapped down. Seems to me the system is already working just fine.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
Re-classifying ISPs as telecoms also means mandatory CALEA compliance, and that opens up a whole other can of worms for individual privacy and security.
If they can make important decisions about technology policy then sorting out mass responses should be a fairly trivial task comparatively.
That's just it. The FCC doesn't decide anything. Those with wealth & power tell the FCC what they will do. All the rest is simply Kabuki theater to distract and mollify the masses into continuing to think they have some say in what government does or does not do.
...Isn't some asshole 'practicing medicine without a license' or some high school kid raising up a batch of anthrax. It's individuals producing deadly medicine-resistant viruses genetically engineered to attack a specific individual. A DNA sample of the target is all that's necessary. Make it airborne and delivery can use multiple indirect routes extremely difficult to prevent for even the most large, sophisticated, and well-funded state security apparatus. No person of power would be safe from retribution.
...any time you have humans involved trouble and hilarity are sure to ensue.
You forgot needless, senseless, totally-avoidable, self-inflected tragedy and suffering. Lots and lots of tragedy and suffering. The ratio of tragedy and suffering to trouble and hilarity roughly resembles that of the ratio of spam to anything else on the diner menu in the Monty Python "Spam" sketch.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
There's a the flaw in this plan. If there's a publicly available fiber backbone, I'm not aware of it.
The other side of the coin is that if you want to connect your network to the internet, you'll have to follow FCC laws, rules, and regulations. They'll likely pass rules to prevent any such 'people's internet revolution(TM)'.
No, the only way I see for taking back control is to either remove government regulation of the internet or to reduce the size, power, and scope of the government overall.
As long as Big Government and it's inherent corruption and cronyism controls it, it will not be operated in the best interests of the people, it will be operated in the best interests of those in power.
That's just the nature of an overly-large authoritarian bureaucracy.
You have given no numbers, therefore you must have no argument at all. See how that works, and see why your comment isn't great?
No, I see how you do not know the difference between measurements, statistics, and methods. Or you're simply being intellectually dishonest and deliberately obtuse.
Either way, you fail to show how I am wrong, despite all your hand-waving and histrionics.
This region is only Secret - Top Secret workloads have been running in C2S for years.
Read the CIA Press Release here
Yeah, Putin can read presidential intelligence briefing docs before the POTUS does since at least Obama.
The US government isn't so much worried about other nations learning US secrets, it's the US' citizens they are most worried about learning how they and their nation have been sold down the river by those in power on both sides of the political aisle.
Slashdot Mirror
"Mr. President, we must not allow a minesW*W*W*W*killer-robot gap!"
Its to prevent MAD from actually taking place. That's why permanent members all have fancy nukes. You don't want these guys starting another world war.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
That's exactly the primary purpose it was created. To prevent another world war now that WMDs existed. The pictures of the unprecedented devastation were still fresh and new from Nagasaki and Hiroshima, horribly burnt and radiation-sick survivors of the initial blast still dying in numbers, and it shocked the world to the core.
Certainly, the UN does more than this and it's only common sense to get nations communicating and peacefully cooperating as much as possible given such an opportunity.
What many are not aware of is the existence of a global economic "MAD". The idea roughly being to tie international finances, banking, and currencies together with each trading nation's so that even if one power destroys another while suffering little loss, like an overwhelming and rapid pinpoint nuclear first-strike, the 'winning' nation's economy, currency, etc will collapse, likely along with many other nation's.
This incentivizes all nations, even ones not directly involved, to do what they can to maintain global peace.
The problem with *that* being it assumes all nations will run their economies, currencies, financial markets, etc etc in a sane and logical manner and politics & ideology will never cause a nation to tank themselves like Greece. If things go sideways in the EU and the Euro/markets crash there, Hong Kong will likely quickly follow and then the US.
Then, it gets ugly.
Strat
Sorry, but it is still only one of the groups and one of the definitions of NN. They are but one lobbying group. And, I'll guarantee you whatever FTC/FCC/Congressional Act/law/etc they call 'NN' that is finally enacted will not be the same thing the EFF is advocating for. There's entirely too much wealth & power at stake, and our government and leadership are entirely too corrupt, for it to be any other way.
Fine, if you convince enough people to vote for politicians who are in favor, that's how it's supposed to work. Not by having a Federal Agency just expand it's own powers and scope by fiat and then attempt to use the power of the mob to make it stick. That's not democracy, that's banana-republic 'might makes right' populism. That very quickly leads to creating very dark history. We don't need more of that, thanks.
Strat
But, you just proved his point by linking to yet another group's definition. Nothing to do with 'alt-right' or 'fake news' (whatever those terms are supposed to mean today as opposed to last week's definitions).
Look, I agree there needs to be protections put in place to prevent market abuses, but that's a trade issue that should be handled by the FTC, not the FCC. Congress passed a law that forbid the FCC from regulating the internet as it was 'information technology'. The FCC under Tom Wheeler(D)isney up and decided they'd just 'reclassify' the internet all on their own, side-stepping Congress and the law, and declare it under FCC jurisdiction.
Besides such reclassification being outside the powers of the FCC, ISPs being classified as common-carriers like telcos means they fall under CALEA requirements mandating law enforcement (and Homeland Security/TLAs) access and ability to intercept/decrypt all traffic (it's illegal for example to use a voice-scrambler on the US phone network as it prevents LEAs from being able to listen in).
Don't destroy the internet in order to save the internet. Do it the right way and have Congress pass legislation.
Strat
Political pressure needs to be applied to government to split up ISPs into horizontal layers: provide cables or provide services that run over cables. Let Comcast own the cables but prohibit Comcast from delivery video or Internet - force them to
Vertical integration is killing competition. Nah, it has killed competition.
Largely agreed. The FTC would be well within their power and actually doing the kind of thing they were intended to do when the FTC was created by blocking ownership of both the content providing side and the delivery side to keep both markets open, competitive, and more responsive to their customer's desires and needs.
To those who have accused me in the past of wanting to make the US into some sort of lawless Somalia because I believe in a limited central government, please note. This is one of the areas where I believe government has a role. "Free markets" aren't free because there are no laws, regulations, or rules. They are "free markets" because trade is conducted under one set of laws, regulations, and rules created strictly for establishing a fair and equitable trading system that apply to all equally while trade is otherwise unrestricted.
Strat
No, the catch is they aren't muscles. They're just structures held in place by air pressure. This is what happens when you're too specialized (or just running after DARPA money). It's only pneumatics/hydraulics. Anyone who has ever vacuum packed their food or clothing has created one of their 'robot muscles'. Granted their's have more complicated shapes, but that doesn't make them novel.
Many absolutely ingenious pneumatically-driven actuators were designed and used over the decades quite widely in many, many areas of industry, manufacturing, and defense for myriads of applications and uses all the way up through the 1950s-60s. Pneumatic technology of all sorts was one of the "cool" and "in" things in the early 1900s, many novel examples winding up being featured in "futuristic" displays in World Fairs during the period.
I say this to point out that these boys (bless their hearts) might be trying to reinvent the wheel, here.
Sometimes, reading these types of articles that are all breathless over something like pneumatics, or hydraulics in the case of a fluid-based system, I wonder if maybe modern-day scientific researchers and scientists miss prior work in some field they're in simply because they only research prior work that's been digitized and made available online while missing the huge amount of research and documentation that still exists only on paper and/or possibly microfiche that require relatively large amounts of man-hours to search and read.
Strat
This is Comcast stirring up pro-NN political pressure.
These companies that are in favor of the rules & regulations they call NN do so because they benefit and protect their monopolies and bottom-line.
Don't forget that classifying ISPs as common-carriers places them under the requirements CALEA laws & regulations.
Strat
The parable of the boy that cried wolf seems very apt for this story.
That TFA of this submission we're discussing goes straight to AGW as the only possible cause to explain the evidence cited is disturbing. Perhaps they should have gotten together with the scientists from the Slashhdot story I linked below and compared notes first before publishing.
"NASA Discovers Mantle Plume That's Melting Antarctica From Below"
https://science.slashdot.org/s...
And link to the original study from the above article published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com...
Oops!
And as far as the people in low-lying coastal cities, they'll have to move. It's not like they're dry one day and suddenly swept away by a wall of water without warning the next.
"Gosh, the water's at my feet, and it'll be up to my ankles in only a few short decades! How will I ever escape!? I shall surely drown!! glurglurglurg"
I don't think so. Not even government bureaucrats are that dumb, at least in that one instance. Other instances, however...
Strat
I looked at the code and behavior, and Google Maps deliberately uses massive amounts of requests in Firefox but much fewer requests in Chrome. Even though the exact same thing would have worked in Firefix too. Which leaves only deliberate behavior as an option.
Not surprising, coming from Data Kraken "do more evil" Google.
"Google Maps aren't done until FireFox won't run", then? :D
Strat
Hope you don't pull into a supercharger station just after a truck pulled in - and plugged in all the chargers.
No. Because Ohm's Law.
No matter how much current capacity that's sitting there on the lines waiting to flow, the batteries will only take so much and cease drawing current as the resistance rises with the increase in total charge percentage, causing less current to flow. It's the same reason your phone charger (and phone) that only requires a fraction of an amp doesn't go up in flames when plugged into a 15-20-amp AC power outlet.
Not to mention, there's also a crap-ton of high-current regulation circuitry inside both the vehicle and the charging station designed to avoid/mitigate/protect against overcharging, short circuits, bad cells, etc.
Another factor I've not seen mentioned so far in the posts is the possibility that Tesla is introducing or planning to introduce new more-advanced battery tech, like like safer and higher capacity dry Li-On batteries:
https://news.utexas.edu/2017/0...
That would make the Semi's specs much more easily achievable, although I don't doubt Musk and his engineers could and likely have done it with existing battery tech. The man has a track record of successfully landing used rocket boosters (plural) on a tiny floating pad in the ocean and keeping some pretty impressive promises. If he says he's done it with existing battery tech, I'll take him at his word until solid evidence to the contrary appears.
Strat
Your words are saying that you care more about the people pushing the idea than the idea itself.
No, his words are saying that their 'ideas' are a pack of lies and totally disingenuous just like they've repeatedly demonstrated themselves and the 'ideas' they've pushed before to be.
Strat
...they are saying, "We don't want these devices to be used to oppress other nation's citizens just our own so we won't let them be exported."
FTFY
After all, if they have strict restrictions on exporting them who do you think will be buying and using most of them?
Strat
If the rules were never put into action how can Ajit Pai then claim that NN was hurting network investment? Oh right, thatâ(TM)s because it was a lie.
Yeah, he couldn't possibly have meant investment...like going forward...to that 'future' thing you may have heard of?...might suffer because of the usual investor caution around any big market changes. It *has* to be the worst possible interpretation because anyone who disagrees with your position *must* be evil and therefor everything they do and say is equally evil. No gray, only black & white. Right? That kind of thinking you demonstrate in your post is responsible for many of the worst atrocities, brutal regimes, and wars Mankind has ever known.
Congratulations on joining the 'club'.
Strat
Slashdot "Fortune" below the above post:
This is an unauthorized cybernetic announcement.
Oh, Slashdot! By George, you've done it again! LOL!
Strat
You mistake my question.... I'm asking how would they even be aware, for example, in what was apparently a plain voice conversation, that a supposedly unbreakable encryption was being used and it was not just two people communicating in a language that is not known to eavesdroppers?
The thing about unbreakable encryption is that it can always be masqueraded as something entirely innocuous that you just don't happen understand, or sometimes even something that you believe that you *DO* understand, while not actually having any real clue about what was actually being communicated.
No, I understood your question. The answer is they won't be able to catch a lot of it. That's why they'll place something like a 25-year minimum prison sentence and hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in fines on violators they *do* catch, along with a rewards program for anonymous snitches.
There are many crimes which are extremely difficult for the government to detect/prosecute. That's why many such offenses carry very heavy criminal penalties. Nobody wants to risk spending most of the rest of their life in PMITA prison if they *are* caught, over such an issue.
The other part will most likely involve hardware/chip/software companies forced to produce compliant hardware/chips/software that makes using unauthorized encryption methods more difficult. That's one of the areas where CALEA requirements can come into play to force compliance.
Strat
Pretty much the same way they prohibit voice encryption for phones and bans on encryption in the Amateur Radio service. Mostly through dis-incentivizing it through extremely long prison sentences and huge fines coupled with generous rewards for tips leading to convictions.
Strat
If they repeal net neutrality...
The rules were never put in action. NN was never implemented except on paper, so all this time you've been without NN.
Oh, the humanity!
This is a ploy to put ISPs in with telecoms as common-carriers so that US LEAs/TLAs can enforce CALEA requirements. No more 'unbreakable' encryption allowed on the intertubes, Comrade!
I think you'll find the requirements of CALEA compliance do far more damage to freedom and privacy than the status quo.
Strat
Well, if Net Neutrality disappears
It would have had to existed as more than some words on paper first (it was never enacted/enforced) in order to 'disappear'.
Want to see what the 'net would look like without NN? Look around. That's how it's always been and is now.
NN as written reclassifies ISPs as common-carriers. This means that ISPs and device-makers would have to comply with CALEA which means mandated backdoors and LEA/TLA ability to intercept/decrypt everything codified into law.
Be very, very careful what you wish for.
You just may get it.
Strat
So ISPs can now...
No, they always could in the past. NN rules were never officially enacted. The few times in the past when they attempted shenanigans (blocking bittorrent, the netflix thing) they got slapped down. Seems to me the system is already working just fine.
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"
Re-classifying ISPs as telecoms also means mandatory CALEA compliance, and that opens up a whole other can of worms for individual privacy and security.
Better the devil you know...
Strat
If they can make important decisions about technology policy then sorting out mass responses should be a fairly trivial task comparatively.
That's just it. The FCC doesn't decide anything. Those with wealth & power tell the FCC what they will do. All the rest is simply Kabuki theater to distract and mollify the masses into continuing to think they have some say in what government does or does not do.
Welcome to bipartisan Big Government Cronyism.
Strat
...Isn't some asshole 'practicing medicine without a license' or some high school kid raising up a batch of anthrax. It's individuals producing deadly medicine-resistant viruses genetically engineered to attack a specific individual. A DNA sample of the target is all that's necessary. Make it airborne and delivery can use multiple indirect routes extremely difficult to prevent for even the most large, sophisticated, and well-funded state security apparatus. No person of power would be safe from retribution.
Strat
...any time you have humans involved trouble and hilarity are sure to ensue.
You forgot needless, senseless, totally-avoidable, self-inflected tragedy and suffering. Lots and lots of tragedy and suffering. The ratio of tragedy and suffering to trouble and hilarity roughly resembles that of the ratio of spam to anything else on the diner menu in the Monty Python "Spam" sketch.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Strat
There's a the flaw in this plan. If there's a publicly available fiber backbone, I'm not aware of it.
The other side of the coin is that if you want to connect your network to the internet, you'll have to follow FCC laws, rules, and regulations. They'll likely pass rules to prevent any such 'people's internet revolution(TM)'.
No, the only way I see for taking back control is to either remove government regulation of the internet or to reduce the size, power, and scope of the government overall.
As long as Big Government and it's inherent corruption and cronyism controls it, it will not be operated in the best interests of the people, it will be operated in the best interests of those in power.
That's just the nature of an overly-large authoritarian bureaucracy.
Strat
You have given no numbers, therefore you must have no argument at all. See how that works, and see why your comment isn't great?
No, I see how you do not know the difference between measurements, statistics, and methods. Or you're simply being intellectually dishonest and deliberately obtuse.
Either way, you fail to show how I am wrong, despite all your hand-waving and histrionics.
Strat
They think it's from where Vega used to be a long time ago.
Damned annoying Vegans! Can't they let us eat in peace? They have to send us a giant interstellar carrot?
Strat
This region is only Secret - Top Secret workloads have been running in C2S for years.
Read the CIA Press Release here
Yeah, Putin can read presidential intelligence briefing docs before the POTUS does since at least Obama.
The US government isn't so much worried about other nations learning US secrets, it's the US' citizens they are most worried about learning how they and their nation have been sold down the river by those in power on both sides of the political aisle.
Strat