On 2/29/20 4:44 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
On 26/02/20 03:10, james wrote:
I'm just not convinced that our USA government continuing to "sell
bandwidth rights", is constitutional?
Problem is, if bandwidth is "opened to all" the reality in the past
would have been a free-for-all leading to a major tragedy of the
commons.
Agreed. but now, there are plenty of technologies, software systems and
RF testing gear to ensure the bandwidth channels can be "shared"
robustly and there implement a vastly better efficiencies
(bits/s/bandwith); than the current models of exclusive license for a
one time pop of money to the government. Just like Oxygen, we all have
the rights to the RF spectrum, imho.
A one time sale, particularly when analyzed, decades later, is a gross
miscarriage of justice, imho.
I hope somebody finds this (with better searching fu)
handoff-visualizer, to track Rf signals via mobile cells
and a gentoo lappy.
It's a signal/comm-channel handoff graphic tool....
https://github.com/chonyy/handoff-visualizer
and
https://github.com/chonyy/handoff-simulator
If somebody cannot find it in a overlay, I'd be willing to take it over
and update, on an overlay....
It'd really help remote campers to find signals, when backpacking in the
mountains or even hills. Adding an altimeter data input and getting the
devs to go '3D' with this rendering, would also help folks home-building
UAVs
Much like we're seeing in space and low-earth orbit now. If
we're not *very* careful, soon we will not be able to launch low-earth
and geo-synchronous satellites, because there'll be a massive debris
belt that will destroy satellites within a few years.
Some experts are say that we're all ready on that coarse. Space vessels
to capture, collect and then send into deep space, our current cadre of
commercial/military space junk. I think they'll do this, but send the
space garbage directly to our sun, just burning up and adding to the
total mass of the sun. Here is the real twist. Global corporations, are
standing up claiming rights to space rights, on behalf of nations that
are very technology poor. The next few wars will most likely sort out
rights, i.e. First to deploy-use, will get the rights, regardless if its
a gov or corp, or group, like the HAM-operators, imho.
The new high-frequency bandwidths I'm not too worried about - like
low-earth orbit stuff there will decay into the atmosphere and
self-cleanse over 30-40 years - high frequencies don't travel far - but
where there is the likelihood of interference some sort of regulation is
necessary.
YES YES, but who is the arbiter with final say? The guys with the best
missile technology, that's who, from a pragmatic point-of-view.
Do you really want your home network to collapse in a heap every time
your neighbour jacks up his power because your network is causing his
home network to collapse in a heap?
With all due respect, as an EE_rf guy, it's already solved by who has
the best technology. That is scan and avoid the bands/protocols being
used. Less and less technically (Rf) astute folks want to work for any
government.....
Random 'bit-burst' over a multitude of frequencies is not hard to do and
solves this scenario, at least for the technology superior Rf types.
Consumers and idiots are at the mercy of the Rf mercenaries (whom are
always a decade or more ahead what is legally possible). ymmv.
(That's why my home network is
mostly cat-5 or ethernet-over-power :-)
Good for now. However, there are Rf sniffers that can pick up the
signals from those aforementioned signals, quite easily. It use to be
james_bond sort of stuff, but now it is cafeteria.
Fiber should replace both of those, pretty soon.
Routers where various types of connectors for both multi-mode and
single-mode fiber, are pretty cheap, if you know where to look. If you
build new, put pvc conduits in the roof and walls, so you have ample &
hidden pipes. That way it's pretty trivial to pull the fibers later, for
pennies.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6233376B1/en
Cheers,
Wol
5G-multipath supersedes all of this, where the algorithms that implement
the multi-path, are 'walk-once' or pseudo-walk-once. Upgrading
multipath to Asycnronos-multipath, is still in the development phases,
or folks are not publishing details....No way the brightest fed/mil
hacks can stop this, as they will not even know where it is, who is
doing it and how to monitor it, in RealTime. Make it mobile, and how the
elite hackers go and do whatever they want, whenever they want,
clandestinely.
Several vehicles with links between and cellular bandwidth, can hop
around a city, clandestinely and there is nothing our most sophisticated
law enforcement can do, currently. There stuck buying commercial gear
that is decades old in capability. The average cop, or intellectual at
the FBI is able to wheel-deal with this stuff? Are you kidding me? Add
to that the fact that these 'kids' hate most governments, due to their
sell-out to mega-corps, the war is already afoot. Our last hope, imho,
is if the US government returns to the fundamental christian value
system, that made our country great. Greed, un-bridled, is changing the
quality of our lives, regardless of your personal belief systems.
Besides those few and fleeting technical folks are bailing on the US and
every major company they work for, cause there is an economic 'feeding
frenzy afoot'.
Lawyers, Legal-type and the Lazy-wealthy, are on a crash coarse to be
relegated to irrelevancy. A few more proxy-wars, and the public (now
being massively educated) are simply going to ignore, bypass and hide
from regulators.
To stay secure, that is the only, current, pathway forward. If you knew
just how corrupt, our evil, leaders and owners are, at the major
carriers, it would make your skin crawl....
Half of the tech-kids inside the US DoD are already running things and
getting ready to boot the old-corrupt general-politician types OUT, by
exposing their corruptness. Trumps takes credit, but the real story is
the young, elite hacks are going to be running the world, shortly. Just
look at the myriad of new financial, digital coins in their infancy
(bit-coin et-al).
Gentoo, as a technology, is just one enabler, of this silent revolution.
Gentoo is the only pathway forward I see, to protect my assets, beside
what is called 'hard assets'. Gentoo has a great, honest, trustworthy
history, and most software stakes cannot make that claim.
Secure your bits....... and pray that Gentoo attracts the brilliant
youth to join us, so people have hope, inspiration and return to being
kind and generous to each other.
hth,
James
