I would posit that Tumblr is a emblematic of IP theft. Reposting is their culture. Chain-of-authorities to establish origin, model consent, and anti-child porn are clearly lacking. Copyright? Hahahahaha.
This said, Verizon couldn't deal with pushing porn openly. Porn should be free speech to consenting adults. But there are no useful walls for establishing who's an adult viewer, and who's not. Eventually, their legal status as a purveyor of smut to youth would entangle them as a US-based company, and therefore subject to US law and stricture.
The devil of the details, what's offensive and what's not, is arbitrary and anti-free speech incarnate..... subject to the can of worms of intellectual property protections, admittance control, and I doubt it made any money. Oh right, follow the money as the Oath acquisition becomes a smoking hole on the Internet because Verizon thought they were competing with Comcast and other media organization buyers in a me-too move, but failed to nurture the investments.
Point the finger at the MBAs, who not wanting lots of legal fights and bad reps, not to mention heavy losses, are slowly but surely retiring Tumblr into a spin-off candidate.
Nice way to cast a broad net that says nothing and gets to slime people on Medicaid and public aid.
It's my wonder why they would take on such huge and hideous costs. That real estate isn't cheap, and neither are the salaries that have to be paid. Is it because they should actually be on Madison Avenue with all the rest of the advertising companies?
They didn't pick a spot with a low burn rate, at all. My guess is that the eventual strategy is to start spinning off Alphabet companies and endeavors into tracking stock companies. Can't be because of the easy parking......
I use North America as a filter; have had no problems from Canada, but plenty of problems with China. I the end, Fleabay makes it good, but only after tying up my $$ for up to six weeks.
I don't use Amazon at all, as it has the world's worst search engine. It's absolutely designed to thwart competitive shopping. How they can run this search engine and AWS is a total mystery to me. George Boole is rolling in his grave.
In the future, you'll go down to the market and have a box of one-times along with your soylent bars, pocket fusion recharges, and totally-tuned porn drivers for your artificial mate.
Until then, the quantum kids have spent billions and have bupkis+ to show for it, and acknowledge that even the algorithms are going to cost billions and billions, too. Quantum doesn't work like Von Neumann computing and so none of that tawdry PHP and node.js you learned is going to be useful. There are no libc-q's available.
I don't mind seeing the motivation to evolve better encryption. The rest of it is largely clickbait. Today, correctly implemented, we have good algorithms available. In the future, one-time pads as well as multiple-seeders are very likely to suffice, until there's a point where serious societal changes will have already occurred.
Look at the successful economies today, and look at the quality of their educational infrastructure. There are vocational schools and academic institutions, ranging from 2year programs to PhDs. Some are poorly rated, some overly expensive.
And some will get you through life with a sound beginning.
Mostly, the profiteers do what profiteers will-- cut out quality to meet the minimums. The VA fed ITT, UofPhoenix, and many others a boat load of students, all subsidized, and didn't audit the quality of the school. They just wrote the check. Today, an ITT degree is essentially worthless. It surprised the hell out of me that Purdue would by Kaplan, but its president, Mitch Daniels, is a neo- Tea Part ex-governor and wants to cut the "fat" from higher ed.
Lots of great junior colleges through great state universities graduate students who will do well. Others will not. The only nugget of truth in your assertion is that we don't review curriculum and outcomes with sufficient rigor. Lots of mundane educators out there.
Ask around. Ask people the reasons they work. Some are personally motivated and driven. Some are not, believing themselves to be working only to put food on the table. The reasons vary. They are their reasons, not mine. They're entitled to them.
We're responsible for each other. Shunning that responsibility is harrowing as it puts one into a class of humans that don't care for humans or aren't willing to help/enable/grow each other. Civilization is based on the reverse of the concept of survival of the fittest.
Society and culture dictates we help each other. That in turns means charity and benevolence, not that either are required of employers. Instead, if they provide me, as a consumer, the experience that I'm looking for, they get my money. Employing people, caring for those people, nurturing those people, retraining those people, are all acts of leadership and benevolence. Otherwise, you're in it for the money. We can tell which. Then we make our individual choices as to working there, or shopping/trading there. Such educated choices are the crux of character. .
Your posit is valid. People need to survive and learn skills that can do that. On Slashdot, I'm guessing that the IQ and self-reliance quotients are pretty high. Example: not just a Java coder, but PHP, Rust, maybe something else, and are evolving.
A significant fraction of people aren't self-guided, self-directed, but are in the circumstance for other reasons. This might be: poor IQ, poor self-reliance and/or resources. Autism. Dependent on resources now unavailable for whatever reason. Lots of variety of problems when you live paycheck to paycheck. Look at problems like drugs, alcoholism, dependents, so many variables that they can't be placed into a single bucket or set of stereotypes.
In the duration of this thread, I visited two markets. Cashier #1 is a white male, hoping to evolve into management one day. Young guy. White male. Bright. Cashier #2, >65 white female, husband left, one kid at home. I didn't inquire further, just took a sample. both are making about $11/hr. Cost of living here is high, but not coastal city high. Just two samples as the replies kept hitting my phone emailbox.
Some can do this-- grow. Some cannot and for one reason and another, are victims of their own circumstances. Removing the status of being a victim is individual. Some never will. A few might. All must eat.
It's not about lefty or righty. It's about people. I'd rather keep people in the picture. It's not charity unless you're a miserly stockholder squeezing every nickel out of an operation. If so, your operation likely is disadvantaged because of other poor choices.
The aim of humanity is not to enrich yourself monetarily. It's to enrich the spirits of people. In the post, not taking cash disenfranchises many. There are farmers in my area, this Fall, that begged for extra farmworkers. The migrants couldn't be had, and the available labor pool was pretty much sapped; those who could work and wanted to, had jobs. Not stellar jobs, but not in the fields.
I pledge lots of volunteer hours, but that's my choice. You don't have to. You don't have to give to charity, either. Jobs, the means to have a meaningful life and put food on your family's table isn't a choice. Not believing in people's need to do something meaningful and pay bills leads to the morass of problems one sees in SF where the differential is huge. Most Americans don't have even $400 in savings. They live hand-to-mouth. Ask the next cashier if they like their job and need it. Do it with a straight face so you don't bait the answer. Listen to what they say. They could be replaced by a touch screen, and they know it. What are they going to do after *that* happens?
There is a difference in perception that divides you and I.
The company on one hand says that I will be attracted and will endure their kiosks and lack of humanity. My own conscience says that I will not endure this, instead, eschewing their automation by going where I'll be served by employed (happily or not) humans because humans are more important to employ than kiosk software. Humans have personality, character, and their humanness. Kiosks are absolutely soulless automatons that order me around in artificial voices to do their business.
Fuck the profits of companies if they can't give hope that people can make a living.
Didn't say that productivity gains were a bad thing, and they're evolutionary, just like that rat bastard Henry Ford's production line.
But I can resist the willy-nilly automation process, which cares far less about people, and far more about squeezing profits to Wall Street.
Lots of economic growth hinges on sheer population growth, without the quality of life that every human needs. I care not one whit whether McDonald's services its queues better with kiosks, and I'll bet you that the net employment there is reduced, not increased. Think about that. Yeah, people screw up. So do machines. Look on any news website about how much Marriott cares about its customer's data today. The apparent answer is: not enough.
Were phone operators inefficient? The telco when I was a kid employed operators. There were no dialpads, not even rotary ones. It was a small town. Eventually, rotary dial replaced the operators, and then DTMF dial pads. Those operators left of attrition, and to do new jobs as the local telco expanded from tip-and-ring brass phone plugs into 411, and other pursuits. Now people say, "hey Siri, call a pizza place near me". This is evolution.
Don't tell me you don't dial into an Interactive Voice Response system and get frustrated by: dial 1 for sales, dial 2 for sales, dial 3 for sales, and for anything else, leave a voice mail in our general mailbox; oh, sorry, mailbox is full. Yes, it's an implementation problem, but it's because we've removed useful humanity in the belief that people would tolerate automated substitutes for human tasks.
Isn't it nice to dial a voice phone number, and have a human answer, who speaks your language, and can dispatch your needs deftly? How many times have you gone through a self-scan and it screwed up and you had to find a human to fix the mess?
There is a local chain grocery store. A friend works there. It was the stated goal of putting in self-scan to reduce the "cashier nightmare" they had. The goal was to reduce 90 cashiers to 60. This includes weighting for those absent, out on workman's comp, on various leaves (military, child-related, jury duty, etc etc). The real yield is 74 max available for shift work reduced to 40 available for shifts.
Whose charity are you talking about? There is meaning in being able to put food on your family's table. It isn't charity. Swiping the margin and paying it to a stockholder rather than an employee is a fool's sense of productivity gain. I don't have a robot as a next door neighbor. My family doesn't consist of robots and kiosks. I don't sit next to robots on a train. This competitiveness you cite is undoubtedly a problem, and whole bookshelves are filled with books on how labor and economies are intertwined and meshed. This is about living lives, and not wealth creation for societies. Happiness does not come from assets beyond one's capacity to spend. It comes from dignity and respect and joy.
I agree that correlation !=causation, and would further that Americans DO need to worry about race and entitlement.
I boycott fast food kiosks; I want humans to be employed, even if they're McJobs.
I boycott the self-scan checkout lines for the same reason. I'm not trying to hang on to concepts of the 1960s, rather, the death of service by a thousand cuts usually means that the labor costs shift into the quarterly earnings report to Wall Street as a "labor savings".
There are people that lead good honest lives in occupations like: janitor, food server, and the jobs that aren't in tech, health care, that don't lead to glorious McMansions and Estates by Lake of the Gravel Pit. But they need jobs. Not installing kiosks.
Yep, seems like a great place to sniff new ideas, patent them, and monetize the efforts. Amazon could learn much from NVIDIA, who uses a sense of actual partnership and research efforts to build new markets instead of making a playground with cameras. Nice way to pick up some talent. They NEED some talent.
But beware, they're hosting a lovefest right now, 50K of the AWS faithful, all clamoring for new and cool. Be ready for even more craziness--- like SFTP for S3 buckets. Cutting edge stuff, like that.
You needn't write off quantum computing. However, others are.
There are ways to null the noise, but such methods and algorithms need to be repetitious, while errors are minimized. At some point, a linear method of error reduction becomes possible at a plausible size/cost/effort. That revolution is not now, as described.
Many millions, perhaps billions of $currency have been spent so far, with results that are realistically described by the poster. This is not like the olden days, when people started integrating TTL logic into CPUs and with lots of transistors turned into memory chips (PROMs and RAM) into early usable computers for the masses. Indeed, we aren't even at a decent Turing point for quantum computing. Adding machines and Turing machines and logic eventually formed programmable mainframes, and minis, then microcomputers, to the level of integration we have with Von Neumann computers today. Quantum computing needs, er, a leap. A basket full of noisy qubits doesn't a revolution, make, and that's the point of the post, IMHO. I wouldn't wait around.
You can demodulate anything you want, although listening to cellular phone frequencies in the US is dubious and most receivers that can demodulate cellular have been banned. You can make your own if you're clever.
Using something as a reference signal, however, has implications. GPS provides two references, locus and apparent time. Time + several heard satellites give you location. This is a calibration. It now extends to using Galileo (as you cite, in certain bands), to be a calibrated source for the vector + time.
I listen to signals every day from across the D-F2 layers bounced from other parts of the planet, and you don't need a license to do so. Those different modulation methods, various forms of radio, pass through your body 24/7. Feel free to demodulate them.
Using a signal to guide your autonomous vehicle, drone, aircraft, etc., is another situation altogether. Certain reference signals (goodbye, WWV) are calibrated & backed up by law as referential signals from known sources. You could use "illegal" or extra-legal signals, but not in legal ways... and face liability if say, your drone crashed into a power transmission line.
You can also interact with certain satellites, more if you're a licensed radio operator... but not with GPS satellites. GPS satellites can also send even more information, but most of this info is meaningless to civilians, or their autonomous vehicles, aircraft, etc.
Hacking these satellites is possible, but not recommended. If you want to see an X-Files sort of response to a hack, just try it. Vectoring VHF/UHF+ signals from a (group of) satellites, the seeming reverse of GPS, is easily possible, meaning hacking attempts and the exact location of such hackers can be easily surmised. Having Galileo as a "backup" in this case, is a bit of godsend. And now with 11,000+ additional sats going up in the next few years, the sky will be crammed with at least 5x the number of radio-emitting signal sources over your head. Enjoy.
When the target has no rational way of infecting others as a vector, the point is moot. Every desktop, every phone, even some servers have media players. Buffer-overrun-capable? Infection vector. That's what I'm speaking to.
Lots of junior coders have no idea about parsers, checking memory bounds, and think that moving from py to C is easy and fast. Safety counts.
This is a simplistic view. Many successful breaches are accomplished through multi-part hacks. The media player might be buggy, but that only affects MP3 playing, right? Wrong. It's a vector to root to start mining Monero, or wrapping code into the registry to encrypt swaths of it for ransom.
If it's plausible to launch a bot army to start at the top and work its way although way down to a Mitre flaw, it'll be done. If it can be monetized through a progressive hack, so be it, as the reward is worth the effort. Quality counts.
The same faulty logic that creates buffer overflows also puts poisonous metals into dinner plates.
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The Puritans rise again.
I would posit that Tumblr is a emblematic of IP theft. Reposting is their culture. Chain-of-authorities to establish origin, model consent, and anti-child porn are clearly lacking. Copyright? Hahahahaha.
This said, Verizon couldn't deal with pushing porn openly. Porn should be free speech to consenting adults. But there are no useful walls for establishing who's an adult viewer, and who's not. Eventually, their legal status as a purveyor of smut to youth would entangle them as a US-based company, and therefore subject to US law and stricture.
The devil of the details, what's offensive and what's not, is arbitrary and anti-free speech incarnate..... subject to the can of worms of intellectual property protections, admittance control, and I doubt it made any money. Oh right, follow the money as the Oath acquisition becomes a smoking hole on the Internet because Verizon thought they were competing with Comcast and other media organization buyers in a me-too move, but failed to nurture the investments.
Point the finger at the MBAs, who not wanting lots of legal fights and bad reps, not to mention heavy losses, are slowly but surely retiring Tumblr into a spin-off candidate.
Nice way to cast a broad net that says nothing and gets to slime people on Medicaid and public aid.
It's my wonder why they would take on such huge and hideous costs. That real estate isn't cheap, and neither are the salaries that have to be paid. Is it because they should actually be on Madison Avenue with all the rest of the advertising companies?
They didn't pick a spot with a low burn rate, at all. My guess is that the eventual strategy is to start spinning off Alphabet companies and endeavors into tracking stock companies. Can't be because of the easy parking......
I use North America as a filter; have had no problems from Canada, but plenty of problems with China. I the end, Fleabay makes it good, but only after tying up my $$ for up to six weeks.
I don't use Amazon at all, as it has the world's worst search engine. It's absolutely designed to thwart competitive shopping. How they can run this search engine and AWS is a total mystery to me. George Boole is rolling in his grave.
In the future, you'll go down to the market and have a box of one-times along with your soylent bars, pocket fusion recharges, and totally-tuned porn drivers for your artificial mate.
Until then, the quantum kids have spent billions and have bupkis+ to show for it, and acknowledge that even the algorithms are going to cost billions and billions, too. Quantum doesn't work like Von Neumann computing and so none of that tawdry PHP and node.js you learned is going to be useful. There are no libc-q's available.
I don't mind seeing the motivation to evolve better encryption. The rest of it is largely clickbait. Today, correctly implemented, we have good algorithms available. In the future, one-time pads as well as multiple-seeders are very likely to suffice, until there's a point where serious societal changes will have already occurred.
Horse poop.
Look at the successful economies today, and look at the quality of their educational infrastructure. There are vocational schools and academic institutions, ranging from 2year programs to PhDs. Some are poorly rated, some overly expensive.
And some will get you through life with a sound beginning.
Mostly, the profiteers do what profiteers will-- cut out quality to meet the minimums. The VA fed ITT, UofPhoenix, and many others a boat load of students, all subsidized, and didn't audit the quality of the school. They just wrote the check. Today, an ITT degree is essentially worthless. It surprised the hell out of me that Purdue would by Kaplan, but its president, Mitch Daniels, is a neo- Tea Part ex-governor and wants to cut the "fat" from higher ed.
Lots of great junior colleges through great state universities graduate students who will do well. Others will not. The only nugget of truth in your assertion is that we don't review curriculum and outcomes with sufficient rigor. Lots of mundane educators out there.
Ask around. Ask people the reasons they work. Some are personally motivated and driven. Some are not, believing themselves to be working only to put food on the table. The reasons vary. They are their reasons, not mine. They're entitled to them.
We're responsible for each other. Shunning that responsibility is harrowing as it puts one into a class of humans that don't care for humans or aren't willing to help/enable/grow each other. Civilization is based on the reverse of the concept of survival of the fittest.
Society and culture dictates we help each other. That in turns means charity and benevolence, not that either are required of employers. Instead, if they provide me, as a consumer, the experience that I'm looking for, they get my money. Employing people, caring for those people, nurturing those people, retraining those people, are all acts of leadership and benevolence. Otherwise, you're in it for the money. We can tell which. Then we make our individual choices as to working there, or shopping/trading there. Such educated choices are the crux of character. .
And you're a Russian troll. Easy to spot.
Yuck. More latex gloves in my pocket.
Your posit is valid. People need to survive and learn skills that can do that. On Slashdot, I'm guessing that the IQ and self-reliance quotients are pretty high. Example: not just a Java coder, but PHP, Rust, maybe something else, and are evolving.
A significant fraction of people aren't self-guided, self-directed, but are in the circumstance for other reasons. This might be: poor IQ, poor self-reliance and/or resources. Autism. Dependent on resources now unavailable for whatever reason. Lots of variety of problems when you live paycheck to paycheck. Look at problems like drugs, alcoholism, dependents, so many variables that they can't be placed into a single bucket or set of stereotypes.
In the duration of this thread, I visited two markets. Cashier #1 is a white male, hoping to evolve into management one day. Young guy. White male. Bright. Cashier #2, >65 white female, husband left, one kid at home. I didn't inquire further, just took a sample. both are making about $11/hr. Cost of living here is high, but not coastal city high. Just two samples as the replies kept hitting my phone emailbox.
Some can do this-- grow. Some cannot and for one reason and another, are victims of their own circumstances. Removing the status of being a victim is individual. Some never will. A few might. All must eat.
It's not about lefty or righty. It's about people. I'd rather keep people in the picture. It's not charity unless you're a miserly stockholder squeezing every nickel out of an operation. If so, your operation likely is disadvantaged because of other poor choices.
The aim of humanity is not to enrich yourself monetarily. It's to enrich the spirits of people. In the post, not taking cash disenfranchises many. There are farmers in my area, this Fall, that begged for extra farmworkers. The migrants couldn't be had, and the available labor pool was pretty much sapped; those who could work and wanted to, had jobs. Not stellar jobs, but not in the fields.
I pledge lots of volunteer hours, but that's my choice. You don't have to. You don't have to give to charity, either. Jobs, the means to have a meaningful life and put food on your family's table isn't a choice. Not believing in people's need to do something meaningful and pay bills leads to the morass of problems one sees in SF where the differential is huge. Most Americans don't have even $400 in savings. They live hand-to-mouth. Ask the next cashier if they like their job and need it. Do it with a straight face so you don't bait the answer. Listen to what they say. They could be replaced by a touch screen, and they know it. What are they going to do after *that* happens?
I also don't support the robbers and thieves of humanity. There are industries that will find their Darwinian end. So it goes.
There is a difference in perception that divides you and I.
The company on one hand says that I will be attracted and will endure their kiosks and lack of humanity. My own conscience says that I will not endure this, instead, eschewing their automation by going where I'll be served by employed (happily or not) humans because humans are more important to employ than kiosk software. Humans have personality, character, and their humanness. Kiosks are absolutely soulless automatons that order me around in artificial voices to do their business.
Fuck the profits of companies if they can't give hope that people can make a living.
That was the PR. The reality is that it shrinks long term full-time-equivalent employees, and improves queue management.
Didn't say that productivity gains were a bad thing, and they're evolutionary, just like that rat bastard Henry Ford's production line.
But I can resist the willy-nilly automation process, which cares far less about people, and far more about squeezing profits to Wall Street.
Lots of economic growth hinges on sheer population growth, without the quality of life that every human needs. I care not one whit whether McDonald's services its queues better with kiosks, and I'll bet you that the net employment there is reduced, not increased. Think about that. Yeah, people screw up. So do machines. Look on any news website about how much Marriott cares about its customer's data today. The apparent answer is: not enough.
Six people who feed families lose their job for one robot repair person but really wants to be a Ruby programmer. Fie.
Oh, yes we do.
Were phone operators inefficient? The telco when I was a kid employed operators. There were no dialpads, not even rotary ones. It was a small town. Eventually, rotary dial replaced the operators, and then DTMF dial pads. Those operators left of attrition, and to do new jobs as the local telco expanded from tip-and-ring brass phone plugs into 411, and other pursuits. Now people say, "hey Siri, call a pizza place near me". This is evolution.
Don't tell me you don't dial into an Interactive Voice Response system and get frustrated by: dial 1 for sales, dial 2 for sales, dial 3 for sales, and for anything else, leave a voice mail in our general mailbox; oh, sorry, mailbox is full. Yes, it's an implementation problem, but it's because we've removed useful humanity in the belief that people would tolerate automated substitutes for human tasks.
Isn't it nice to dial a voice phone number, and have a human answer, who speaks your language, and can dispatch your needs deftly? How many times have you gone through a self-scan and it screwed up and you had to find a human to fix the mess?
Um, no.
There is a local chain grocery store. A friend works there. It was the stated goal of putting in self-scan to reduce the "cashier nightmare" they had. The goal was to reduce 90 cashiers to 60. This includes weighting for those absent, out on workman's comp, on various leaves (military, child-related, jury duty, etc etc). The real yield is 74 max available for shift work reduced to 40 available for shifts.
Whose charity are you talking about? There is meaning in being able to put food on your family's table. It isn't charity. Swiping the margin and paying it to a stockholder rather than an employee is a fool's sense of productivity gain. I don't have a robot as a next door neighbor. My family doesn't consist of robots and kiosks. I don't sit next to robots on a train. This competitiveness you cite is undoubtedly a problem, and whole bookshelves are filled with books on how labor and economies are intertwined and meshed. This is about living lives, and not wealth creation for societies. Happiness does not come from assets beyond one's capacity to spend. It comes from dignity and respect and joy.
Time is more important to you, which is fine; it's your time. My time is also important to me, but people are more important.
I agree that correlation !=causation, and would further that Americans DO need to worry about race and entitlement.
I boycott fast food kiosks; I want humans to be employed, even if they're McJobs.
I boycott the self-scan checkout lines for the same reason. I'm not trying to hang on to concepts of the 1960s, rather, the death of service by a thousand cuts usually means that the labor costs shift into the quarterly earnings report to Wall Street as a "labor savings".
There are people that lead good honest lives in occupations like: janitor, food server, and the jobs that aren't in tech, health care, that don't lead to glorious McMansions and Estates by Lake of the Gravel Pit. But they need jobs. Not installing kiosks.
Yep, seems like a great place to sniff new ideas, patent them, and monetize the efforts. Amazon could learn much from NVIDIA, who uses a sense of actual partnership and research efforts to build new markets instead of making a playground with cameras. Nice way to pick up some talent. They NEED some talent.
But beware, they're hosting a lovefest right now, 50K of the AWS faithful, all clamoring for new and cool. Be ready for even more craziness--- like SFTP for S3 buckets. Cutting edge stuff, like that.
You needn't write off quantum computing. However, others are.
There are ways to null the noise, but such methods and algorithms need to be repetitious, while errors are minimized. At some point, a linear method of error reduction becomes possible at a plausible size/cost/effort. That revolution is not now, as described.
Many millions, perhaps billions of $currency have been spent so far, with results that are realistically described by the poster. This is not like the olden days, when people started integrating TTL logic into CPUs and with lots of transistors turned into memory chips (PROMs and RAM) into early usable computers for the masses. Indeed, we aren't even at a decent Turing point for quantum computing. Adding machines and Turing machines and logic eventually formed programmable mainframes, and minis, then microcomputers, to the level of integration we have with Von Neumann computers today. Quantum computing needs, er, a leap. A basket full of noisy qubits doesn't a revolution, make, and that's the point of the post, IMHO. I wouldn't wait around.
There are rules and then there are rules.
You can demodulate anything you want, although listening to cellular phone frequencies in the US is dubious and most receivers that can demodulate cellular have been banned. You can make your own if you're clever.
Using something as a reference signal, however, has implications. GPS provides two references, locus and apparent time. Time + several heard satellites give you location. This is a calibration. It now extends to using Galileo (as you cite, in certain bands), to be a calibrated source for the vector + time.
I listen to signals every day from across the D-F2 layers bounced from other parts of the planet, and you don't need a license to do so. Those different modulation methods, various forms of radio, pass through your body 24/7. Feel free to demodulate them.
Using a signal to guide your autonomous vehicle, drone, aircraft, etc., is another situation altogether. Certain reference signals (goodbye, WWV) are calibrated & backed up by law as referential signals from known sources. You could use "illegal" or extra-legal signals, but not in legal ways... and face liability if say, your drone crashed into a power transmission line.
You can also interact with certain satellites, more if you're a licensed radio operator... but not with GPS satellites. GPS satellites can also send even more information, but most of this info is meaningless to civilians, or their autonomous vehicles, aircraft, etc.
Hacking these satellites is possible, but not recommended. If you want to see an X-Files sort of response to a hack, just try it. Vectoring VHF/UHF+ signals from a (group of) satellites, the seeming reverse of GPS, is easily possible, meaning hacking attempts and the exact location of such hackers can be easily surmised. Having Galileo as a "backup" in this case, is a bit of godsend. And now with 11,000+ additional sats going up in the next few years, the sky will be crammed with at least 5x the number of radio-emitting signal sources over your head. Enjoy.
Meanness might feel good to you, but I'm betting the mods looked at the tacit boorishness in your statement and acted accordingly.
Had I mod points, I'd've done the same thing.
When the target has no rational way of infecting others as a vector, the point is moot. Every desktop, every phone, even some servers have media players. Buffer-overrun-capable? Infection vector. That's what I'm speaking to.
Lots of junior coders have no idea about parsers, checking memory bounds, and think that moving from py to C is easy and fast. Safety counts.
This is a simplistic view. Many successful breaches are accomplished through multi-part hacks. The media player might be buggy, but that only affects MP3 playing, right? Wrong. It's a vector to root to start mining Monero, or wrapping code into the registry to encrypt swaths of it for ransom.
If it's plausible to launch a bot army to start at the top and work its way although way down to a Mitre flaw, it'll be done. If it can be monetized through a progressive hack, so be it, as the reward is worth the effort. Quality counts.
The same faulty logic that creates buffer overflows also puts poisonous metals into dinner plates.