According to Russian sources, now the stores of 2012-2013 years winter snow are being unpacked and laid down for Olympics.

It's funny since there are lots of Russian proverbs about last year's snow.

Yes, you are right, it's just a politics. And gays are not SUBJECT, but INSTRUMENT of such politics. The question "Who's the SUBJECT?" remains open.

Forget it. It's already named "Raspiliada", of "Raspil i otkat" meaning "Cut and kickback". It's an economical catastrophe for every Russian except receivers of cuts and kickbacks. Nomina sunt odiosa.

You are right, it will be controlled by Russian government. But the gay propaganda is pretext only. The Government is to figure out who is either Wahhabi or Neo-Nazi. The modern trend is that Wahhabis will sit until end of Olympics, and Neo-Nazi (i.e. everybody who remembers that Russians are the people too) will be incarcerated up to 10 years. http://politzeki.tumblr.com/post/25945827552/i-will-destroy-you-or-what-happens-if-one-does-not

As Russian I must say: Yes. here is lot of antiquated attitude towards gay people. But you should understand:

Here are no laws against gay relations of adult people with consent. And it's good since their relations are their and only their affairs.

There are laws against popularization of gay relations with minors ONLY. And I believe it's good because Russian Gay-Pride parades participants are not gay at all, and their task is to undermine the traditional morale, and they are on payroll of somebody who pays for other means of undermining it, be it stupid TV programming, stupid schoolbooks, stupid university courses, stupid programming languages, and the top declaration of stupidity by Education Minister Fursenko: "Communists were not right when they tried to produce a Creative Man. We should grow up a qualified CONSUMER of others' creativity". Once more, I stress that it's my personal belief, and I must add that it's a popular belief here.

Also, I believe that anti-Gay laws are BAD because they are nothing more than a cheap PR of Duma members that are members of puppet parties and fraudulently elected nonrepresentatives of Russian people in puppet Parliament controlled by You Know Whom.

Once upon a time, working for some Russian defense project I used there a Cellular Modem. The Modem has lots of AT commands that precisely informed about almost everything. As I know, CDMA modems have a similar set of functions.

Then, the second fact. The stingray does NOT use the same frequency as a real tower. It uses any free frequency and real credentials (If it uses the real frequency it will immediately cause lots of interference). And it should overpower the real tower since the phones connect to the most powerful tower. The Chinese cellular suppressors use the same tactic.

What does it mean: Any sufficiently opensource phone ( http://neo900.org/#main for instance) can have a software that monitors the cellular connections for anything strange and immediately report it.

Also, the encoded GSM communications become trivial if you control your phone. It does NOT protect your metainfo but there are other means for it.

I just cannot understand you. If you cannot operate your v.34 because of fax crosstalk from other line, then your wiring is seriously flawed, and your network guy should be disciplined, be it standard phone line or VoIP line. In special cases, I routed the telco line via modem to local PBX so nothing could interfere v.34.

The second cause for terrible torture and slow execution of network guys is a VoIP itself. My work requires use of v.34 modem in some extraordinary circumstances once an year or so. And it appeared that VoIP does not pass v.34, and the only normal phone is General Director's. But still, crosstalk was not the problem.

In ADSL crosstalk is really the problem.

Now, my Internet link is a Cat-5 FTP hanging on a steel cable. If some day the thieves will cut it off (which is quite strange since the territory is guarded), I'll install a P-274 Soviet Military Field Phone Cable. It's dirt cheap, strong as hell and has inseparable copper and steel braids. No scrap traders buy it.

I don't believe! It will mean that either there are 250 lasers of different color and some "prism" with 250 outputs to separate and combine them all, or 250 precisely tunable lasers and the same "prism". The TDMA scheme where lasers are ON in their dedicated time slots looks much more affordable.

I understand that such methods are applied in some deep sea cables but...

Really, in Soviet Russia there are enough poles that don't belong to phone company, be it the trolleybus or tram poles, lighting poles, roofs of buildings a.s.o. (The phone network is almost totally monopolized by Rostelecom state monopoly and is underground buried in asbestos-cement tubes almost everywhere). The alternative providers use these poles.

Neurohelmets? About 7 years ago I got a specimen of 4-channel 24-bit ADC suitable for making a neurohelmet. And now there is a technology to process brainwaves. But brain input is still too slow to be useful except for some niche applications.

There are NO optical switches but there were lots of HALL switches in 1980-s years mainframe computers. I don't throw them away. Unfortunately, they need about 3-4 millimeters displacement to work and they don't click. The mechanical switches are easily replaceable; I keep boxes of dead mice for repairs.

There is a simple way around it. Sell some model of phones without firmware at all or with some primitive firmware with limited functionality but not covered with patents. And supply it with an URL of source code that you can compile yourself. If at least some of routers take this model (they use OpenWRT) and (in Russia - with FreeDOS) with computers - why it cannot be done with phones?

See also: http://neo900.org/#main

In Soviet Russia Reading doesn't punish YOU! Punishable are only posting, hosting and refusing to filter. Posters should care of their security theirselves, be it disabling of JavaScript or booting a specially crafted anonymous Linux. Webhosting does not need Javascript or browsers. Refusing to filter is ISP crime, not bloggers, and I have a sincere hope that earlier or later the loss of reputation will be less than fines for non-filtering.

And BTW. The earlier the FSB catches all the young Nazi fools for posting a hate speech and they are sentenced to broom the streets - the earlier the Internet security practices will become mainstream. Darwin rulez.

Just for this problem, long-range cordless phones exist. My personal record was a 30+ kilometer modem link installed with a Senao 868R and pair of Zyxel modems. I knew some criminals who walked with Pauperous (highly illegal high power cordless phones).

When I say "reasonably secure" it means that I personally read it's whitepaper and tried to value it's security personally. And I see some methods that can be employed to breach the anonymity of system implemented according to this whitepaper. They exist but they require a disproportional amount of sniffers. The giant NSA/KGB datacenter that diverts and sniffs all the backbone traffic is just not enough. And since the system is totally encrypted and inherently immune to MITM then many popular deanonimization methods will fail, too.

And I look at such systems from deanonymization point of view only since the end to end encryption is trivial now.