You'd think they could just pass a law that would allow 90% of all available frequencies to be free, provided you played nice. We already have to play nice to some degree.

I feel that when a company like Verizon pays billions of dollars for a certain frequency, its an additional tax on us ALL.

I think we'll eventually move in that direction, but I'm not sure if we are ready just yet. I think we should take a slice of the spectrum now, and allow it to be free, provided you follow the agreed upon protocols. Something like high powered OpenWRT/DDWRT mesh networks.

Just my 2 cents...

lol

I agree. They are missing:

if( scan_for("Cancer") )
{
printf("You have cancer!");
}
else
{
printf("We just gave you cancer! Your odds were 1/50 per x-ray when functioning normally, and we didn't calibrate the machine properly. Your the NON-winner!");
}

Flashlights sure. Fluoroscopes not so much.

I was hoping for some thermal scanner to detect cancer...oh wait, they already have that.

I love the idea of a tricorder, but please, invent something that is PASSIVE.

I think everyone should know at least a little about other professions they need to deal with. Unfortunately, the more you know about a subject, the more you see your doctor, your mechanic, your building contractors fucking things up...etc.

You can watch ads on TV EVERY DAY of the week on how company X is devoted to quality and service, but in the end, you'll get a prescription for Voxx, car parts that cost 4 times what they are worth, and a new house with a 50% markup from industry standards.

Sadly the difference between a 'professional' and amateur, usually isn't much. There's too many trained monkeys, who can't actually think, are are just spewing the same words they were taught to memorize.

Now we just need an order form for this, and a good how to, on filling up a used printer cartridge with this ink.

I've always wanted to build a small CNC machine to make custom PCB circuit boards, but with this, I might not have to.

I live near Ceglia, and his lawyer asked me to be an expert witness in this case. It was a short high paying job, but the lawyer was being secretive about what the project was. I was told it was to check some emails to see if they were authentic.

I didn't sign the NDA right away because the lawyer was acting strangely about my requests to have everything in writing. After doing some googling, I found the lawyers name associated with Ceglia. I told the lawyer about the on-line news articles that saw about Ceglia, that he looked like the scourge of the earth (ripping people off before in some heating scam), and I wanted no part of it. I'm glad I didn't blacken my companies reputation with that crap- if I were to be in the news.

From what I was told, the emails they wanted me to 'verify' were several years old, had no encryption, and no digital signatures of any kind. They wanted to validate the authenticity of plain-text emails, that everyone knows are easy to spoof, and even easier to edit your own copies.

I happen to live near Paul Ceglia. A few months ago, I was asked to be an expert witness by his attorney. Apparently, they wanted me to verify that some unencrypted, and not digitally signed emails were authentic. I couldn't get the lawyer to agree to pay me for all the time that I may be stuck in court. I thought it was strange.

I did some Googling before I signed the NDA. I saw the lawyers name associated with Ceglia along with news articles about other scams they tried to pull. I told the lawyer that they looked like the scourge of the earth online, and NO.

It paid extremely well, but I'm glad my company dodged that bullet.

It's all fun and games until, someone builds a $25 radio jammer in their basements and bring some of these down.

Unless....they are using quantum entanglement for the bandwidth. In which case, I want a quantum entanglement cell phone. I'd ditch the crappy Verizon network, and carrier/government spying. As far as I know, you can't easily spy on something that doesn't use radio waves.

Beat that corrupt government officials!

""President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today, allowing indefinite detention to be codified into law." -ACLU's website

Jon Steward talks about how horrible this is. It didn't pass...at first." http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-december-7-2011/arrested-development"

http://slashdot.org/submission/1898482/infinite-us-citizen-detention--now-law

Unfortunately, it didn't get enough votes to make the front page. I wish more people were focused on freedom, as well as technology here, but more and more people are waking up quickly now. It's hard not to be aware of it, when our government throws something in our face almost every week.

I think its important to remember that there are 500-1000 congressmen and senators, while the US population is 307,006,550. The people really do have the power take control of their government-if they wake up.

Be passive aggressive.

I bet if we all just started saluting to TSA like Hitlers subjects did we'd create such a PR problem for them we might actually get rid of them.

I'm not sure how sensitive to the Jew's that is, but it's got to be better than letting a rampant abuse of power grow and grow.