Awesome contribution! On October 21, 2017 2:26:51 PM PDT, Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: >I recently heard from a friend who achieved a very transient and >unexpected contact with a US Antartica Science team member via a 1W >handheld DMR RX/TX device. Anecdotally, they field about 10 such >contacts a week. This is more than a little misleading since DMR is a > >packet-relay system, albeit ad-hoc, but doesn't really say anything >about the distance of any single link... just that there were a >finite(reasonable) number of hops between my friend in Kansas and the >folks on the ground in Antartica. > > >Meanwhile, my own tiny low-power handheld device (iPhone 4) hears (and >more importantly, can be heard by) a small handful of cell towers, the >closest is known to be 9 miles away and I don't get much if any useful >reception BTW. That would suggest to me that my 2.4Ghz WiFi modem >could be "heard" from a similar distance (given the similar frequency >of >1.9Ghz) I"m sure there are some folks here with more SIGINT knowledge >than I, I'm just winging it on the back of an envelope. So that makes > >for a pretty big "moat" around my 2.9 acre property. And if I can't >stop gophers from boring under my garden fence buried 18 inches, how >can >I hope to stop Musk and El Chapo? And the drones and tethered >balloons? >No way! I can barely see them with my 100x scope on my WWI 30.06 which > >has a theoretical ceiling of 10,000 ft anyway, so I doubt I can shoot >them down even if I can find them (PS. I don't own any ammunition for >said antique handed down from my grandfather who carried it in Europe >100 years ago). > > >I remember scoffing at a colleague 25 years ago who claimed that the >holographic strips added to $50/$100 bills was a "gubmint konspiracy" >to >track our cash from satellite... and yup! He had an MS in CS but lined > >his wallet with tinfoil (but not his hat?). It seems steered phased >array antenna can interrogate UHF RFID tags from about 600ft in free >air >today... so while he was a few orders of magnitude off in his paranoia, > >it is MORE reasonable than I'd expected. > > >McNealy told us 20 years ago "there is NO privacy, get OVER it". I'm >not sure what "over it" means, but I think we need a whole >restructuring >of social norms and expectations based on this issue. > > >My latest bets are on ideas grown up out of BlockChain tech... it's not > >just for Digital Currency anymore? > > >I think we need to transcend both Capitalism (and for sure consumerism) > >and Democracy (but not egalitarianism) at this point, so folks like >Democracy Earth might either be "a good start" or "a bad seed", I'm not > >sure yet. http://democracy.earth/ . Any observations? -- ⛧glen⛧
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