The manufacturer would be putting the toll in your computer or device, not DARPA. DARPA is just trying to invent the tech to do it. According to TFA, the validation would also be done by an "industry-owned server."
From TFA, emphasis mine:
After a scan, an inexpensive appliance (perhaps a smartphone) uploads a serial number to a central, industry-owned server. The server sends an unencrypted challenge to the dielet, which sends back an encrypted answer and data from passive sensors-like light exposure-that could indicate tampering, DARP said.
DARPA won't be "running the program"
That hasn't been my experience. I don't get many signature required packages, but when I do, they don't leave it at the door, they leave the sticker with options to pick it up and when they'll try again.
If the package is "Signature Required", they will not leave it at your doorstep.
Evidence?
Chromecast works with iOS too. I'm unclear how your "usage rates" of Android vs iOS really relate to Chromecast.
Chromecast works with Android 2.3 and up... so about 98% of devices in use today. I don't know where the AC got 2 years from as Chromecast was released less than a year ago.
Chromecast was released less than a year ago.
Koushik Dutta wrote an app called AllCast to cast videos stored locally on an Android device to Chromecast by reverse-engineering the (then closed) APIs. Google then changed the APIs to break his app. Koushnik then changed AllCast to cast to anything but Chromecast (Roku, AppleTV, Google TV, Samsung TVs, etc). Now that the Chromecast APIs are available to everyone, he will update AllCast to support Chromecast again.
When hasn't it worked with Android?
I have that dream as well... 18 years after graduating.
"I am a woman, therefore I deserve special treatment. All men have it easy because they are men. I have statistics to prove that I deserve special consideration because there are less women then men in certain fields."
I read and re-read TFA. I can't find where she asked for anything, "special treatment" or otherwise.
I didn't really see anything I'd call "apologetic" in this particular article.
who allow Google, Facebook, Amazon, Canonical, and others to data mine the shit out of them.
The key word there is allow. Google, et al don't collect data in secret, they have privacy policies, and using their services is completely optional. The government is doing this in secret, without your permission with no opt-in or opt-out, with nothing akin to a privacy policy, and by their own admission they cannot secure the data.
The patents on GIF compression expired in 2003 and 2004... the battle ended then.
God made the integers; all else is the work of Man. -- Kronecker
