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No, it's the government's excuse to crack down on foreign journalists poking their noses into places where they don't want them to go (Maoist insurgencies, for example). Getting a "…

Considering that the billionaire investor behind it has zero track record of implementing massive construction projects (on the scale of Samsung working as a prime contractor for the Burj Khalifa, for…

I wouldn't say that ALL open source people don't know how to do UI/UX, but in my experience it's a stereotype that's rooted in a truth which is most BSD/GPL/Apache l…

The ham radio version of the mall ninja! http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mall_ninja

I give the average ham emergency-response person 10 out of 10 points for motivation and enthusiasm, unfortunately, in the modern era IP and packet based emergency communications systems are increasing…

some fun SSL history: SSL Acceleration hardware cards! http://www.kegel.com/ssl/hw.html from the days when a webserver might be a 200 MHz Pentium Pro...…

> The federated systems, email, IRC, and Usenet, have been replaced by Gmail, WhatsApp, and Facebook Ease of use by the vast hordes of hundreds of millions of completely non technical endusers and …

In the real world, dealing with handheld and vehicle mounted VHF/UHF transmitters in the 2.5, 5 and 10W transmit power range, having local repeaters in high places like mountaintops or on top of …

If there is a megascale disaster here (Seattle/Vancouver area), I know who I'm going to for my emergency electricity needs to power communciations gear, and it's certainly not the loc…

I know more than ten people who've been to India with Iridium phones and no problems. They're "technically" against the law in the same way that 80% of the adult content on the Int…

I think if you find your local 911 call centre/sheriffs office or other major facility that will meet the category of "continuity of essential services", you'll find that it alread…

Low-bandwidth, text based communications? There have been purely text based IRC servers (and XMPP/Jabber) on SIPRnet since 2003 or around then. All IP data and frequently implemented over geostat…

Put IP cameras in their own VLAN on a network that also contains network DVR software. Access it via VPN tunnel and/or https. For unauthorized access to an individual camera somebody would need t…

The ubiquiti unifi video server (formerly aircam?) is ridiculously easy to set up on a local x86-64 linux system. They give away the software free for use with their IP cameras. Or it need not be phys…

I am 99% certain you are just trolling, but you advocate replacing written technical documents and written science with oral tradition? Riiiiighhttt......

Might want to look into how many local amateur radio clubs' mountaintop VHF / UHF radio repeaters are dependent on the electrical grid continuing to function... They're not as autonomo…

Drawing from direct personal experience in the defense contracting industry, I can guarantee you that if a major Class-A clusterfuck disaster hits somewhere in the US, you'll see the military and…

When everything else fails because a massive catastrophe has hit your local area, even something as big as a 9.2 earthquake destroying most of California... Everything satellite based (that is not dep…

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I suppose you could, on the SDR, but then no standard feature phone or smartphone would talk to it.

which leaves your computer open to the internet by a simple login and password on the default rdp port 3389. Not nearly as good as SSH public/private key auth where the SSH private key also has i…

In the example of wanting to access a computer in your home, you can implement this fairly easily using entirely free software with VNC-over-SSH, but it's depending on having a public IP address …

Just a warning: If you mess around with ANY of this and: a) don't have specific written permission from the FCC or Industry Canada (or your local spectrum regulator) and/or b) Don't do …

> Marin > $22 egg sandwich I can hear the world's smallest violin playing for the wealthy snobs of Marin County.

2500-3000 hours billable typical result: burn-out, alcoholism, drug abuse, self destructive behaviors, infidelity.

ISP network engineering/operational support software team here: People need to be able to find two hours of time (over a 5-6 day period) to complete a small take home project. When they do it and…

This seems about as well thought out as: "Nip Alert is a GPS-driven app designed to give users "the location of a woman with erect nipples." It was created by Big Head, and is Erlich&#x…

Or just manually specify which keyset to use with the SSH "-i" identity option for the specific thing you're connecting to. I could have a hundred different public/private key sets…

eth is traded to and from bitcoin on various exchanges, so it's a parallel.