what the fuck am I gonna do with those "few seconds" warning
We get this question quite a bit in the Bay Area. Here are the common responses:
Public: Citizens, including schoolchildren, drop, cover, and hold on; turn off stoves, safely stop vehicles.
Businesses: Personnel move to safe locations, automated systems ensure elevators doors open, production lines are shut down, sensitive equipment is placed in a safe mode.
Medical services: Surgeons, dentists, and others stop delicate procedures.
Emergency responders: Open firehouse doors, personnel prepare and prioritize response decisions.
Power infrastructure: Protect power stations and grid facilities from strong shaking.
It is worth pointing out that ham radio operators must already contend with this issue via the FCC license search database.
FTFA:
There is one argument I've heard against this registry that I think holds water, and that is the privacy concern. The FAA plans to make the drone registration database publicly searchable, and the search results will include owner names and addresses.
It is completely reasonable to conclude that since the FCC database is capable of reverse lookup (rather than by callsign only), the FAA database will do the same. It also reasonable to conclude that as of now, there are far more ham radio operators than drone operators.
I'm not making a case for or against this. I'm just pointing out a federal system in place which already has this.
This just proves they don't care about our personal security.
I am certainly no TSA cheerleader, but lets keep things in perspective. The TSA has never claimed to care about your personal security. Their mission statement is pretty clear.
Protect the nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce.
Isn't this why they have a staff to make these decisions and procedures in place as to how the "email system" should be?
Yes, there are IT staff responsible for this. So, what role did those folks have in allowing classified e-mail to leave (and re-enter) the network? Or are we supposed to believe that she just appended her signature block to hillary@mysever.com and nobody noticed when Bashar al-Assad asked Clinton for her biscuit recipe? Did Clinton just use an auto-forwarder configured in an Outlook client?
Can someone clue me in on the technical background of this? FFS, I can't send a single e-mail from my corporate network without the legal bullshit automatically appended.
I know when I travel to Asia, South America, or Europe, I need to present my passport at all hotels I stay at. When I worked in Belgium, Chile and China, I had to register with the Government and provide the local police station with my information - and inform them if I moved to a new apartment/house. In the US, I don't think that tourists need to provide their passports at hotels, nor do visa holders need to register with the local police station. So - how is what is proposed much different than 90% of the rest of the world?
It may not be terribly different than what you describe, but you're forgetting one thing: The US Government has a bad habit of coloring outside the lines.
Well no, even when travelling on business all my docs are on a web-server, often with images. Also, VNC is an essential part of my job, in that I cannot run the sims on a puny IT issued laptop, and need my desktop or datacenter to see waves and do any form of debug. But wifi as it exists makes this painful.
Jesus. Sometimes "on the plane" means you're on a fucking plane, and can't do some things.
Since it's illegal for any drones to operate over 4.9 Ghz range, and that's what the first responders are transitioning to,
Just for the sake of accuracy, I feel it necessary to point out that most (certainly not all) public safety is transitioning to 700 and 800 MHz radio systems if they are not there already. These agencies are generally located in urban and suburban areas.
Most wildland fire radio traffic occurs on HF and VHF frequencies, in the neighborhood of 30 MHz and 150 MHz, respectively.
No public safety agency operates voice communication on 4.9 GHz, although there can be microwave back-haul links and systems associated with public safety radio systems operating there.
Much of the traffic on HF and VHF associated with wildland fire operations is simplex, and a mess at 4.9 GHz would have no appreciable affect on those communications. So yeah, jam away.
When you're describing vendor lock-in, I fail to see how the comparison is not relevant.
Does google make me use google play to load an MP3? no but apple makes you use iTunes
They do? Are you high? I just took one of the tracks from that U2 album Apple pushed. Track 6, Volcano. I took that track, an m4a, copied over to a Windows box, and played it in VLC. VLC runs on OS X along with a host of other MP3/media players. So, wtf were you saying??
can i use chrome in IOS??? No!... (not really anyway)
So no...fine, user lock in without Chrome. Give me a break.
can I keep ticking off things I can do in other OS's that I cant do in osX or iOS?? yes
You better keep trying, because your first two sucked ass.
, it seems they have decided that user lockin is more important than anything else
This is getting tiring, and along with "walled garden", it is really stale and worn out as an argument. What company (that turns a profit) isn't interested in customer retention? What other products and services are portable in the manner you imply compared to Apple? Jesus, this has been going on for ages with tech. Did your Atari 2600 carts work in that fucking ColecoVision your weirdo friend had? No... they didn't. And that same song continues today.
It's simple. As long as a significant portion of Apple's revenue comes from having a closed, "walled-garden" ecosystem, Apple will be disinclined to participate anything that might result in the demise of that ecosystem. After all, it's hard to be in the same boat as everyone else supporting WebAssembly etc., when that same technology will ultimately result in the death of on-platform app stores.
Are we really ready to celebrate concepts like WebAssembly? I may be old (get off my lawn) but, to me, binaries injected into the browser from all corners of the internet does not a utopia make.
sBesides, California burns so much because it doesn't burn enough: Forest fires are part of the ecosystem. If it doesn't burn now, it'll burn more and hotter later. No amount of fire retardant is going to stop that, short of paving the entire thing and putting up a giant parking lot.
You can't unintentionally confess to a crime. e.g. He can't be called to testify against himself,
No, but a statement to investigators that he drove the vehicle while his license was revoked establishes probable cause for arrest and/or citation. Which is what TFA says. The police arrested him. Whether or not such a statement can or will be used in court is a separate issue. PC for arrest is established.
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We get this question quite a bit in the Bay Area. Here are the common responses:
Public: Citizens, including schoolchildren, drop, cover, and hold on; turn off stoves, safely stop vehicles.
Businesses: Personnel move to safe locations, automated systems ensure elevators doors open, production lines are shut down, sensitive equipment is placed in a safe mode.
Medical services: Surgeons, dentists, and others stop delicate procedures.
Emergency responders: Open firehouse doors, personnel prepare and prioritize response decisions.
Power infrastructure: Protect power stations and grid facilities from strong shaking.
For more: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/res...
FTFA:
It is completely reasonable to conclude that since the FCC database is capable of reverse lookup (rather than by callsign only), the FAA database will do the same. It also reasonable to conclude that as of now, there are far more ham radio operators than drone operators.
I'm not making a case for or against this. I'm just pointing out a federal system in place which already has this.
Reference: https://www.google.com/search?...
Helicopters: licensed, insured, operated by trained and certified personnel
Light aircraft:licensed, insured, operated by trained and certified personnel
Private aircraft: licensed, insured, operated by trained and certified personnel
Commercial/military jets: licensed, insured, operated by trained and certified personnel
Imaging satellites: licensed, insured, operated by trained and certified personnel
Damn... too late. :(
I am certainly no TSA cheerleader, but lets keep things in perspective. The TSA has never claimed to care about your personal security. Their mission statement is pretty clear.
Protect the nation's transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce.
https://www.tsa.gov/about/tsa-...
Yes, there are IT staff responsible for this. So, what role did those folks have in allowing classified e-mail to leave (and re-enter) the network? Or are we supposed to believe that she just appended her signature block to hillary@mysever.com and nobody noticed when Bashar al-Assad asked Clinton for her biscuit recipe? Did Clinton just use an auto-forwarder configured in an Outlook client?
Can someone clue me in on the technical background of this? FFS, I can't send a single e-mail from my corporate network without the legal bullshit automatically appended.
It may not be terribly different than what you describe, but you're forgetting one thing: The US Government has a bad habit of coloring outside the lines.
Were the alien's exoplanetary atmospheric escapades discovered in the Ashley Madison database?
Oh, this article isn't the hourly Ashley Madison tripe? Pardon me... I apologize. Carry on!
The Year of Contiki on the Desktop has arrived!
Jesus. Sometimes "on the plane" means you're on a fucking plane, and can't do some things.
And here is an insightful write-up on Stingrays (IMSI catchers). A good plain-terms read on how they function with a small dose of theory.
http://communications.support/...
It's both, depending on the standard one is referencing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
along with... fuck@fuckyou.com bullshit@fuckyou.com garbage@gmail.com example@example.com abcd1234@gmail.com ...and plenty more BULLSHIT.
Just for the sake of accuracy, I feel it necessary to point out that most (certainly not all) public safety is transitioning to 700 and 800 MHz radio systems if they are not there already. These agencies are generally located in urban and suburban areas.
Most wildland fire radio traffic occurs on HF and VHF frequencies, in the neighborhood of 30 MHz and 150 MHz, respectively.
No public safety agency operates voice communication on 4.9 GHz, although there can be microwave back-haul links and systems associated with public safety radio systems operating there.
Much of the traffic on HF and VHF associated with wildland fire operations is simplex, and a mess at 4.9 GHz would have no appreciable affect on those communications. So yeah, jam away.
Only in the twisted Bizarro World existence of Microsoft could rumors actually confirm something...
If you're working for a company who can/will see resumes in the print server logs, then you are not using a fucking Audiovox flip phone. Get real.
A quip easily spoken by someone with no real compelling or valuable data...
Now you can squirt your wi-fi passwords...
When you're describing vendor lock-in, I fail to see how the comparison is not relevant.
They do? Are you high? I just took one of the tracks from that U2 album Apple pushed. Track 6, Volcano. I took that track, an m4a, copied over to a Windows box, and played it in VLC. VLC runs on OS X along with a host of other MP3/media players. So, wtf were you saying??
So no...fine, user lock in without Chrome. Give me a break.
You better keep trying, because your first two sucked ass.
This is getting tiring, and along with "walled garden", it is really stale and worn out as an argument. What company (that turns a profit) isn't interested in customer retention? What other products and services are portable in the manner you imply compared to Apple? Jesus, this has been going on for ages with tech. Did your Atari 2600 carts work in that fucking ColecoVision your weirdo friend had? No... they didn't. And that same song continues today.
Are we really ready to celebrate concepts like WebAssembly? I may be old (get off my lawn) but, to me, binaries injected into the browser from all corners of the internet does not a utopia make.
We're working on it...
Who?
You can't unintentionally confess to a crime. e.g. He can't be called to testify against himself,
No, but a statement to investigators that he drove the vehicle while his license was revoked establishes probable cause for arrest and/or citation. Which is what TFA says. The police arrested him. Whether or not such a statement can or will be used in court is a separate issue. PC for arrest is established.