I am one of the early beta testers for this project. The satellite went live a few hours ago. And as far as I can tell, it's far, far inferior to the US GPS system. With GPS, I get very accurate longitude and latitude, and coarse altitude location information. All the INRSS system keeps telling me is :

Although they've promised a firmware upgrade that will show you as being somewhere on the circle that represents the intersection of that sphere and the Earth's surface.

Don't be so pessimistic. That's what people said about Sears/K-Mart. I'm not saying it's not a really, really bad idea. I'm just saying don't be pessimistic in general. You know, generally.

People who really think their time is valuable don't overclock. It's a hobby that tries to squeeze the most out of a given $ of hardware. But after you factor in the amount of time you spend messing around with the thing to try to eek out that additional performance, and add in the lost work time caused by unexpected crashes and instability, you're better off just buying the most expensive hardware you can, and replacing it when something better comes along.

That said, the people who do that need to be grateful to the overclocking crowd. There needs to be bleeding edge people finding out what works and what doesn't, such as the great work they've done with cooling technology. The best of what the overclockers are doing today turns into tomorrow's high end mainstream.

Local guys are not going to find someone who transmits from a moving car a couple of times a week for a few minutes each time. If you're doing more than that, then yes, you're putting yourself at risk. But that pretty much goes true for any communications medium. The longer you talk, the more often you talk, the less you move around, the more likely you are to get caught. And, again, the big problem really isn't placing the call. It's where to place the call TO, which is why the feds really want to get all these numbers in the first place.

I know that. But it's become a common term for a government issued phone. If I say a Lifeline phone, people tend to think "I've fallen... AND I CAN'T GET UP!" or something like that. The world is full of commonly accepted terms that don't mean what they sound like they mean. You can fight it, or you can just go with it, and move on with your life.

That's what code is for. Not encryption, code. Talk in codewords. Get a ham license (or better yet, don't get one) then get a 2 meter radio, and move somewhere with an autopatch. That goes a long way towards giving you an anonymous outgoing phone number. And I'm guessing the spooks aren't just standing by to triangulate positions. That shit takes actual work by people, as opposed to harvesting tons of digital communication, which is easily done by computers.

Again, this is assuming that you're up to something nefarious. If you're not, just give up. it's hopeless to try to avoid this sort of surveillance if you want to live like an everyday person. The only way to stop them is to vote in people who say they'll change things (Like Obama?) or overthrow the government. The first option isn't likely to succeed, and the second isn't worth the cost.

And even if you succeed, you're still being watched by corporations all the time.

No. Not in real time. The point is that they can go back in time and see what you did after they've identified you as a person of interest. The government has pretty much said as much. A lot of this apparatus is designed around the idea that the more information they collect, the more they can use one incident (whether it is successful or not) to prevent future incidents by tracking the person back in time and see who else might be connected. Then prevent them from doing anything.

I buy a $10 Obamaphone from a drug dealer that got one in trade for crack. He uses it a few times, then doesn't want it any more. The nice thing is that the crackhead can remember, maybe on a good day, who he gave the phone to. But the drug dealer deals through enough of the Obamaphones that he won't have any idea who he sold that particular Obamaphone to. So the government ends up with two criminals with clear possession of the thing. Assuming I don't do anything stupid like turn the thing on in my own neighborhood, they'll have a hard time making the third jump to me, but are gonna spend a shitload of time checking out dealer and his friends.

Disclaimer: I haven't actually done this, but it seems a lot better than buying phones from staples if you're truly up to something nefarious.

Or get a fucking job?

Yeah. Funny thing is that after they ran it past the focus groups, it actually came in as being less desirable than the penultimate prize, which was being personally kicked in the nuts by Ballmer.

Fucking around on Facebook.

1. Create Genetic Engineered Crops
2. Crops perform better than natural crops, crowding them out both in the marketplace, and in the wild.
3. Profit!
4. Engineered crops later found not suitable for human consumption
5. Famine.

Yes.
http://features.slashdot.org/story/13/05/29/1449208/neil-gaiman-amber-benson-and-the-blood-kiss-crew-answer-your-questions

When they agree with the point we want to make. Otherwise, we belittle either the guy who cites them, or his source.

Bring it on. If I have to shove the fucking network admin over one more fucking wall...