Cool.. what if I don't want the police digging through my possessions at will? I assume you'd be cool with them rummaging around in your house too, yeah?

And ANY of what you listed is grounds for civil forfeiture of cash the person might have on hand? Jesus H.

Did you even RTFA? Shall I avoid wearing designer clothes and having an air freshener? Drinking energy drinks is now a mark of being a drug dealer? Please send me a list of approved attire, standards of car cleanliness, and any other requirements for not appearing like a drug dealer.

Your naivete is mind blowing.

Yeah, small local communities.. like Philadelphia.

It's a brave new world in the USSA. NSA tracking (probably a fraction of what we know about), police kicking you out of your home without charges, and so on. The worst part is we have a whole new generation of cops and lawyers growing up where all this is the norm. It makes the next encroachment seem that much less outlandish.

Either get off the grid or get wealthy / connected. Or be content being cattle.

Is pretty hilarious. All countries pull their fair share of bullshit but come on.. territorial waters that just wander southward like that, cutting between vietnam and the philippines?

Oh well.. I expect a typhoon or two will swamp those attempts at man-man islands.

You write the truth. If you want to be rich there's one sure-fire way.. become a dentist. The problem is you'll spend your life working with people who really don't want to see you, with whom you never build a relationship. To say nothing of poking around in someone's smelly orifice all day.

There's a reason doctors and lawyers have high rates of substance abuse and suicide. It's a shitty job a lot of the time.

Pfft, ok, got it. Be unable to afford a $200 ticket or accept that you "live in luxury." In today's world where, even as a welder, you may well have to move states to find work, flying is as much a luxury as is having an auto.

Has actual real-world consequences? Tsk, tsk.. The rich can lay sprawled out in their lay-flat beds while the plebs snarl at one another while standing ankle-deep in their own feces. We're back to the good old days of the Titanic.

Right but how do you know which connection belongs to which client without setting it all up by hand? Presumably he'll have to initiated the connection via script or manually on the first go-round so I suppose that's the proper time to build out the mapping.

500 OpenVPN connections is going to be a bit of a headache to keep straight. Obviously you won't have 500 tun devices so it'll be a multi-client to server config. You'll need a means of knowing that 10.20.20.x is client x and 10.20.20.y is client y. Of course OpenVPN allows you to do this but maintaining that table by hand could be a bit of a pain.

HTTPS solutions like NewRelic aren't an option because you want to be able to ssh back into the host..

Assuming all clients will allow it I can only think to create an out-of-band registration process whereby the clients do something like HTTPS POST to a URL you manage. The POST would contain some degree of identifying information which your system would then use to configure a new OpenVPN client config.

Well I hope you're right. Whether it's Apple or Huawei or McDonalds. It'd be great to have a wrist watch that I feel I can't leave home without because it makes my life that much better. I'm just not holding my breathe for that any more than I am for finger-rings that do something useful... actually a bartender guy I knew had a bottle-opener ring..

Your fanboism aside (given your faith), there are contingent realities that often have to be dealt with regardless of how many people initially and dutifully get in line before the glass cathedrals.

Exactly what is a bracelet / watch thing going to do in any meaningful way? Battery technology hasn't changed so forget having more than a few hundred mA available. That excludes speakers. Then there's screen size as well. Even with txt sp3k lol it's still impossible to do much with, at most, a 1" square screen. Unlikely text-to-speech can be handled with a flimsy processor (see battery size comment)

Then there's the style issue. Who wants to walk around with their Logan's Run hand implant? Sure, Apple will grant you a few color choices but it's still a stretch to think everyone's going to shell out $500 for a generic "steal me" wrist-wrap.

Some technologies just don't make sense. At least with our current battery and silicon constraints.

It's not hindsight though. Japan has centuries-old stone markers all around the coast saying "Do not build below this line!"

"Gee, boss, where should we build the nuclear power plant?"

"Along the coast."

"But it's not cooled with sea water?!"

"Along the goddamned coast!"

"Ok, but what about the backup systems?"

"Put them below sea-level in the basement."

"Sounds good!"

Please. Citizen complaints against cops go nowhere. These "accusations" that you refer to which result in the heavy-handed paid leave are often of the sort where the cop is filmed strangling, beating, or shooting someone. Were it not for cops being filmed I've little doubt that the guy who strangled the Brooklyn man would be back on the beat.

Well, duh. Let's state the obvious. Police are not governed by the same laws that apply to you and me. *Technically* they are but time and again we see cops getting paid leave as their sole form of punishment for egregious crimes. Does anyone really think the cop that strangled to death the guy in Brooklyn who was pleading the whole time "I can't breath" is going to see a day in prison? Puh-lease.

The only way to reign in the renegade and abusive behaviour of American police is to apply the law to them exactly the same way it is applied to citizens. That psychopath in Ferguson who pointed an automatic at people while shouting "I'm going to fucking kill you"? He should be up on charges for that, not allowed to quietly resign with pension.

Anyways, that's enough day-dreaming.