The better question is if they are receiving and increased sale of smartphones and data plans why is that money being spent to try to buy T-Mobile instead of improving their network.
The problem with recycling in space is that machines must be brought up into space to harvest the materials, then other machines would be needed to manufacture items using the recycled objects. Just think of a mother board yes you can get the elements back but creating a new processor takes very specialized machinery that needs upgrading every 5 years or so. For this to even be remotely possible there would all ready have to be a manufacturing facility in space, the up front cost to achieve something like this are hard to fathom and it probably would not be economically feasible to achieve due to the need to upgrade manufacturing facilities to keep pace with facilities on earth.
how exactly can a drone invade your privacy any more then a manned plane?
Lower cost. Virtually all of your privacy(especially if you are just Joe Sixpack) isn't protected by some fancy set of 'rights' or a 'judicial system', it's protected by the fact that watching you is too expensive to be worth the likely results.
The cheaper surveillance gets, the further down the food chain you can expect it to go, and the more frequent(and effective, unlike the grainy camera at EZ-mart that has been recording over the same grungy VHS tape since 1997...)
Unless surveillance has some atypically wonky demand curve, which doesn't seem to be the case, lowering the price will increase the amount done.
You failed to answer the question if a drone flies over your house and records you mowing your lawn how is that any different then a manned plane, if either is trampling your rights, then what does frequency have to do with it? My point is if it's perfectly acceptable for DEA agents to fly over corn fields to look for marijuana then how is a drone doing the exact same thing different. There is no distinction between manned and unmanned recording of private property from a plane, they are both in plain sight and as such recording of them is not protected.
Please tell me how you have been monitored, have your phone conversations been recorded? Has you computer been seized? All these things require a warrant so their must be probable cause. Your only example of you rights being trampled is you have to show identification to get cold medicine, this is your battle cry? There has been a trend with the Supreme Court to rule in favor of individual rights protected in the constitution in the past few years, GPS tracking is the most recent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor even said that the 3rd party rule should be looked at for being repealed. There is a trend in the US from both conservatives and liberals (not many of the elected officials) to start moving away from an authoritarian government hopefully this trend will replace the entrenched representatives that seek power from the government.
Stop doing businees in and with China, entirely.
Bring manufacturing and jobs back to your home country/state and improve your own damn economy./radical concept I know.
And go out of business because your competitors did not and Labor costs here 20x's higher ($0.60/hr vs $12/hr). It is quite radical and the only way it won't be is if US labor costs go down and tarrifs/Made in the US tax exemptions are used to make the US manufacturing industry globally competitive at least in the US markets.
This has been standard practice in many places for years. And not just when travelling to China.
Even if you're not working with high value information, there's usually not any justification for taking equipment full of company information abroad.
Wiping your HD after a trip to remove almost all types of malware so you don't bring anything back to the company is new, using a throw away phone so your phone can't be compromised is something new, having a thumb-drive with all your passwords on it so a key logger can't get them is something new. Not taking sensitive data overseas has been a policy for a long time but these new measures are something totally different. This is just the next evolutionary step in the battle to steal IP vs protect IP.
I'm much more worried about how the U.S is allowing drones to be used by police agencies in this country to spy on us, etc., etc., etc.
I'm sure if you were a major stakeholder in a company with valuable IP, that had business with China you would have a different attitude. The reason you don't need to worry about either is because you don't have any IP of worth that the Chinese want and you are not doing anything illegal. I'm not saying either is OK, just that jet fuel is expensive and following your every move is not worth their time, and how exactly can a drone invade your privacy any more then a manned plane?
I wasn't talking about verbal position reports, if a plane's computer is modified to stop relaying coordinates, elevation, and heading there is a gaping hole in the current system.
I wonder if they used grad students to test this out on. "If this test works not only will your time count towards your thesis but you will get better grades. It's a win win"
The US can't even monitor whole cities in Afghanistan or Iraq yet you think they will have the capability to monitor US cities. The amount of planes needed to pull this off would be huge and the cost would be ridicules. Predators have an endurance of 20-40 hours depending on type and payload the fuel cost to fly 10 of them nonstop for a week is $3,630,900 - $7,261,800. 10 drones is not enough to blanket a large city and unless the government is hiding engines that run on air there is no way it will ever be cost effective to monitor a whole city from the air.
They were planning on doing this but 9/11 happened and they realized that relying on everyone to tell you where they are is a bad idea, this is why they still use radar and will always use it.
They'd still show up on radar without a transponder and it would make no sense at all to not have a $200 transponder on $200,000 drone. Without a transponder ATC just wouldn't have any altitude data (if turning off your transponder was all it took to hide from radar, radar would be useless in a war situation where the enemy is trying to hide - obviously not the case - and there would be no need for stealth aircraft).
We aren't talking about Military radar installations, NORAD will already know where those drones are. We are talking about FAA style ATC, which DOES depend on transponders. If you have a big enough bird, you may get painted by ATC, but these drones are probably small enough and low enough that they will not give good returns. Even if there is a return, it may just look like a flock of birds, you never know. Without transponders, these drones will be dangerous. Even with transponders they may be dangerous for people flying in VFR and below ATC altitudes.
Your post if filled with so many inaccuracies it makes my head hurt. First of all no plane has ever been mistaken for a flock of birds, this is Hollywood nonsense. METAL reflects radar better then flesh, the RCS of a person is -15dB about the same as an 8 inch metal sphere, also a planes move at a much faster speed and higher elevations then a flock of birds. Drones have large returns they are not designed to deflect radar away from the source their smaller size means little even a traditional looking plane with a 5' wing span will have a return more then large enough to be detected at 100 miles. The only statement you got correct is that drones should have transponders this is simply to give a better picture of the plane's elevation it can only be approximated using location and doppler information.
To help you understand why this is idiotic let's look at the other side of the sword, should all of Cocacola's assets be seized because they offered a product which contained a now controlled substance? Should doctors be prosecuted for doing operations that were accepted at the time but now are considered wrong (this one might be happening given our current tort system)? If we are going to start fixing all the wrongs a country made in the past should the US decree that all slaves in the past are free, and there was no slavery? What a country did in its past is part of its history you can't change history, going back posthumously is nothing more then politicians patting them selves on the back while doing nothing of value.
If your house is robbed and the police show up to investigate should you get a bill? How about a fire? What is the point of taxes to pay for any government services if we have to pay to use them?
The best example of a large animal being introduced into a new area is the oryx that were introduced into white sands missile range. Having no natural predators due to the thick hide on the back of their neck that the mountain lions can't penetrate easily and their long horns they have had no problem breeding going from 93 in 1977 to over 2,000 today. They put a strain on the natural wildlife, the jackrabbits and mule deer, by eating and drinking the scarce resources limiting their numbers and also hurting the mountain lion population by limiting their food sources. The oryx have flourished and have moved well beyond the missile range so much so that the NM Game and Fish began giving out Landowner permits in an effort to keep them in the missile range which has failed and oryx have moved north to Sevilleta Wildlife Refuge and south all the way to Fort Bliss. Approximately a 100 mile radius around the range with little to stop them from moving further the southwest has a new animal that is here to stay.
The bullet has 1/3 the muzzle velocity of a regular 50cal, can't be used in current rifles as a smooth barrel is needed, and costs 200x's as much as a regular bullet. Due to these issues it will never be integrated into regular forces, the only real use is for assassination because one shot is all a sniper gets in those situations before they have to evacuate. If you have 8in accuracy from 1.5miles away no matter the wind you have an effective weapon for a very specialized use outside of that there are not many situations where the weapon can out-compete traditional bullets to justify the cost.
It's kind of like how those insane fuckers from the Tea Party tend to believe that if there aren't Jews in Israel, then the end times can't come because the endtime war has to start with Jews in Jerusalem, etc.
A nation by definition must have territory. No interpretation of International Law I've ever seen allows a steel man-made structure to be considered territory. Thus Sealand, whatever it may be, is not a nation, and thus while it may not be within Britain's sovereignty, if the Royal Navy decided tomorrow to blockade it or sink it, there is no lawful means by which the owner could hope to prevent it, save by appealing to a British court, which means the owner recognizes the sovereignty of Britain.
If SeaLand is not a territory then must be a ship (sea vessel), sinking, destroying, and or boarding said ship would be considered an act of piracy. As a ship SeaLand would have to find a nation and fly it's flag and would be protected by that nation. I'm sure certain nations would be glad to stick it to their neighbors up north and might even agree to allow a communication cable to SeaLand which would be protected by treaties. The big problem and cost would be power and supplies. I am unfamiliar with maritime law so a blockade may not violate any international treaties and there would be nothing SeaLand could do to stop it.
The problem with the laws is that they are vague when defining "a website dedicated to copyright infringement", an actual percentage of copyright material known to the owner vs legitimate material stored needs to be defined any site that has 90% infringing material would be reasonable to remove but where is the threshold. And what is to stop the threshold from being lowered in a rider attached to the kicking puppies is bad act.
Except outsiders would still be able to find the town, and with DNS removal only people that know the actual location (IP address) would be able to find it.
Your car is a TCP packets, the DNS is your gps, when one person in the town breaks a law the whole town is removed from the gps. Now anyone driving buy looking for a gas/hotel/restaurants will not find one in that town, even though the owners did not break the law their business are hurt, all because one person broke the law in the town.
You are still naive when it comes to women, right now his fiancee is in the I want input step of planning a wedding, this is the prime time to give her bad ideas and start getting removed from the decision loop. As the wedding approaches bad decisions will be punished serverely your best bet is to be out of the loop, that way all you have to do is agree with her when she asks you something.
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Congressional Investigation will do nothing but increase campaign donations from AT&T what you need is a class action lawsuit.
The better question is if they are receiving and increased sale of smartphones and data plans why is that money being spent to try to buy T-Mobile instead of improving their network.
The problem with recycling in space is that machines must be brought up into space to harvest the materials, then other machines would be needed to manufacture items using the recycled objects. Just think of a mother board yes you can get the elements back but creating a new processor takes very specialized machinery that needs upgrading every 5 years or so. For this to even be remotely possible there would all ready have to be a manufacturing facility in space, the up front cost to achieve something like this are hard to fathom and it probably would not be economically feasible to achieve due to the need to upgrade manufacturing facilities to keep pace with facilities on earth.
how exactly can a drone invade your privacy any more then a manned plane?
Lower cost. Virtually all of your privacy(especially if you are just Joe Sixpack) isn't protected by some fancy set of 'rights' or a 'judicial system', it's protected by the fact that watching you is too expensive to be worth the likely results. The cheaper surveillance gets, the further down the food chain you can expect it to go, and the more frequent(and effective, unlike the grainy camera at EZ-mart that has been recording over the same grungy VHS tape since 1997...) Unless surveillance has some atypically wonky demand curve, which doesn't seem to be the case, lowering the price will increase the amount done.
You failed to answer the question if a drone flies over your house and records you mowing your lawn how is that any different then a manned plane, if either is trampling your rights, then what does frequency have to do with it? My point is if it's perfectly acceptable for DEA agents to fly over corn fields to look for marijuana then how is a drone doing the exact same thing different. There is no distinction between manned and unmanned recording of private property from a plane, they are both in plain sight and as such recording of them is not protected.
Please tell me how you have been monitored, have your phone conversations been recorded? Has you computer been seized? All these things require a warrant so their must be probable cause. Your only example of you rights being trampled is you have to show identification to get cold medicine, this is your battle cry? There has been a trend with the Supreme Court to rule in favor of individual rights protected in the constitution in the past few years, GPS tracking is the most recent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor even said that the 3rd party rule should be looked at for being repealed. There is a trend in the US from both conservatives and liberals (not many of the elected officials) to start moving away from an authoritarian government hopefully this trend will replace the entrenched representatives that seek power from the government.
Stop doing businees in and with China, entirely. Bring manufacturing and jobs back to your home country/state and improve your own damn economy. /radical concept I know.
And go out of business because your competitors did not and Labor costs here 20x's higher ($0.60/hr vs $12/hr). It is quite radical and the only way it won't be is if US labor costs go down and tarrifs/Made in the US tax exemptions are used to make the US manufacturing industry globally competitive at least in the US markets.
This has been standard practice in many places for years. And not just when travelling to China. Even if you're not working with high value information, there's usually not any justification for taking equipment full of company information abroad.
Wiping your HD after a trip to remove almost all types of malware so you don't bring anything back to the company is new, using a throw away phone so your phone can't be compromised is something new, having a thumb-drive with all your passwords on it so a key logger can't get them is something new. Not taking sensitive data overseas has been a policy for a long time but these new measures are something totally different. This is just the next evolutionary step in the battle to steal IP vs protect IP.
Exactly.
I'm much more worried about how the U.S is allowing drones to be used by police agencies in this country to spy on us, etc., etc., etc.
I'm sure if you were a major stakeholder in a company with valuable IP, that had business with China you would have a different attitude. The reason you don't need to worry about either is because you don't have any IP of worth that the Chinese want and you are not doing anything illegal. I'm not saying either is OK, just that jet fuel is expensive and following your every move is not worth their time, and how exactly can a drone invade your privacy any more then a manned plane?
I wasn't talking about verbal position reports, if a plane's computer is modified to stop relaying coordinates, elevation, and heading there is a gaping hole in the current system.
This is how it works 90% either post or RTFA and the other 10% post about how the headline and summary contradict the article.
I wonder if they used grad students to test this out on. "If this test works not only will your time count towards your thesis but you will get better grades. It's a win win"
The US can't even monitor whole cities in Afghanistan or Iraq yet you think they will have the capability to monitor US cities. The amount of planes needed to pull this off would be huge and the cost would be ridicules. Predators have an endurance of 20-40 hours depending on type and payload the fuel cost to fly 10 of them nonstop for a week is $3,630,900 - $7,261,800. 10 drones is not enough to blanket a large city and unless the government is hiding engines that run on air there is no way it will ever be cost effective to monitor a whole city from the air.
They were planning on doing this but 9/11 happened and they realized that relying on everyone to tell you where they are is a bad idea, this is why they still use radar and will always use it.
They'd still show up on radar without a transponder and it would make no sense at all to not have a $200 transponder on $200,000 drone. Without a transponder ATC just wouldn't have any altitude data (if turning off your transponder was all it took to hide from radar, radar would be useless in a war situation where the enemy is trying to hide - obviously not the case - and there would be no need for stealth aircraft).
We aren't talking about Military radar installations, NORAD will already know where those drones are. We are talking about FAA style ATC, which DOES depend on transponders. If you have a big enough bird, you may get painted by ATC, but these drones are probably small enough and low enough that they will not give good returns. Even if there is a return, it may just look like a flock of birds, you never know. Without transponders, these drones will be dangerous. Even with transponders they may be dangerous for people flying in VFR and below ATC altitudes.
Your post if filled with so many inaccuracies it makes my head hurt. First of all no plane has ever been mistaken for a flock of birds, this is Hollywood nonsense. METAL reflects radar better then flesh, the RCS of a person is -15dB about the same as an 8 inch metal sphere, also a planes move at a much faster speed and higher elevations then a flock of birds. Drones have large returns they are not designed to deflect radar away from the source their smaller size means little even a traditional looking plane with a 5' wing span will have a return more then large enough to be detected at 100 miles. The only statement you got correct is that drones should have transponders this is simply to give a better picture of the plane's elevation it can only be approximated using location and doppler information.
To help you understand why this is idiotic let's look at the other side of the sword, should all of Cocacola's assets be seized because they offered a product which contained a now controlled substance? Should doctors be prosecuted for doing operations that were accepted at the time but now are considered wrong (this one might be happening given our current tort system)? If we are going to start fixing all the wrongs a country made in the past should the US decree that all slaves in the past are free, and there was no slavery? What a country did in its past is part of its history you can't change history, going back posthumously is nothing more then politicians patting them selves on the back while doing nothing of value.
If your house is robbed and the police show up to investigate should you get a bill? How about a fire? What is the point of taxes to pay for any government services if we have to pay to use them?
The best example of a large animal being introduced into a new area is the oryx that were introduced into white sands missile range. Having no natural predators due to the thick hide on the back of their neck that the mountain lions can't penetrate easily and their long horns they have had no problem breeding going from 93 in 1977 to over 2,000 today. They put a strain on the natural wildlife, the jackrabbits and mule deer, by eating and drinking the scarce resources limiting their numbers and also hurting the mountain lion population by limiting their food sources. The oryx have flourished and have moved well beyond the missile range so much so that the NM Game and Fish began giving out Landowner permits in an effort to keep them in the missile range which has failed and oryx have moved north to Sevilleta Wildlife Refuge and south all the way to Fort Bliss. Approximately a 100 mile radius around the range with little to stop them from moving further the southwest has a new animal that is here to stay.
The bullet has 1/3 the muzzle velocity of a regular 50cal, can't be used in current rifles as a smooth barrel is needed, and costs 200x's as much as a regular bullet. Due to these issues it will never be integrated into regular forces, the only real use is for assassination because one shot is all a sniper gets in those situations before they have to evacuate. If you have 8in accuracy from 1.5miles away no matter the wind you have an effective weapon for a very specialized use outside of that there are not many situations where the weapon can out-compete traditional bullets to justify the cost.
It's kind of like how those insane fuckers from the Tea Party tend to believe that if there aren't Jews in Israel, then the end times can't come because the endtime war has to start with Jews in Jerusalem, etc.
What orifice you pull that nonsense out of?
Once the copyright has expired on the recording couldn't anyone publish it?
A nation by definition must have territory. No interpretation of International Law I've ever seen allows a steel man-made structure to be considered territory. Thus Sealand, whatever it may be, is not a nation, and thus while it may not be within Britain's sovereignty, if the Royal Navy decided tomorrow to blockade it or sink it, there is no lawful means by which the owner could hope to prevent it, save by appealing to a British court, which means the owner recognizes the sovereignty of Britain.
If SeaLand is not a territory then must be a ship (sea vessel), sinking, destroying, and or boarding said ship would be considered an act of piracy. As a ship SeaLand would have to find a nation and fly it's flag and would be protected by that nation. I'm sure certain nations would be glad to stick it to their neighbors up north and might even agree to allow a communication cable to SeaLand which would be protected by treaties. The big problem and cost would be power and supplies. I am unfamiliar with maritime law so a blockade may not violate any international treaties and there would be nothing SeaLand could do to stop it.
The problem with the laws is that they are vague when defining "a website dedicated to copyright infringement", an actual percentage of copyright material known to the owner vs legitimate material stored needs to be defined any site that has 90% infringing material would be reasonable to remove but where is the threshold. And what is to stop the threshold from being lowered in a rider attached to the kicking puppies is bad act.
Except outsiders would still be able to find the town, and with DNS removal only people that know the actual location (IP address) would be able to find it.
Your car is a TCP packets, the DNS is your gps, when one person in the town breaks a law the whole town is removed from the gps. Now anyone driving buy looking for a gas/hotel/restaurants will not find one in that town, even though the owners did not break the law their business are hurt, all because one person broke the law in the town.
You are still naive when it comes to women, right now his fiancee is in the I want input step of planning a wedding, this is the prime time to give her bad ideas and start getting removed from the decision loop. As the wedding approaches bad decisions will be punished serverely your best bet is to be out of the loop, that way all you have to do is agree with her when she asks you something.