As much as this played out in various types of fiction and so forth, the reality is that the tanks wouldn't have been all that useful in orbit. The foam insulation would have off-gassed significantly and dumped all sorts of crap into your orbital environment, and the tanks themselves had nowhere near the shielding required to be used for human habitation (both radiation, and micrometeorite).

According to Michael Geist, this law limits liability to $5000 for *ALL* infringements. In your example, the copyright owner would have to bring forward separate court proceedings for each of those 10,000 infringements. I doubt any court would accept that.

Why does everyone want to not drive? I find driving to be a particularly enjoyable task, hell I don't even mind being stuck in traffic as long as I have NPR/CBC or decent podcasts to listen to.

I would prefer to pay them in Ningi.

One of the running half-jokes amongst the US troops and marines in South Korea is their primary purpose is to keep the South Korean army in the south, not the other way around. The US influence keeps the south somewhat calm, and acts as a deterrent to the north.

Hah, no. There's a heck of a lot more that goes on there beyond the detention facilities. The real reason though was pretty boring, I was doing some work for the on-base cable company.

This is why there are now standards for what wood can be shipped internationally. All wood packaging entering the United States (Pallets, Cable spools, crates, etc...) is supposed to be fumigated and treated to avoid this. This is one of the things that import inspections actually do catch.

It already is. I was at GTMO on business, and as I was walking into one of the dining facilities, my cell phone rang. Everyone looked at me like I was from Mars, until I explained that as a Canadian phone, it happily roamed onto the Cuban cell network.

Exactly. I work in an environment with very limited bandwidth (1.8Mbps private satellite link servicing ~80 people). SSL by default is the bane of my existence. Right now, I've got Cisco WAAS deployed, and it adds about another 30% of effective capacity to my link, and often more. If everything goes encrypted by default, then I lose all of that. I get no caching gain, no compression gain, nothing, unless I MITM the link, which is evil and causes no end of support headaches.

Encrypt what needs to be encrypted (Authentication mechanisms, financial transactions, etc...) and leave the rest. There's no reason to encrypt cute cat pictures or grandma's chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Sure, but you can verify that the ANI (originating number) belongs to a block that the customer is allowed to use. I have a PRI with two 100 blocks associated with it. I would expect that the telco would verify that the originating number I send to the switch is taken from those 200 valid numbers, if only in case someone calls 911 etc...

Years ago, I was working in a research camp in the high arctic, and the Arctic Ranger in our camp let me shoot his Lee Enfield. Amazing weapon, and the perfect thing for knocking down a polar bear. The amazing thing with the weapon I used, is that it had graphiti on the stock... Scratched into it, and nearly worn away was written "June 6, 1944." which to me indicates that the weapon had been used at Normandy. The serial number on the barrel also indicated that the weapon pre-dated the Normandy landings as well.

Eh? I always thought of my three sports (Skiing, Sailing, and SCUBA diving) as all being pretty nerdy sports... you need plenty of equipment, often with funny names, and know how to use that equipment properly (some more than others of course... when skiing, if your equipment doesn't work right, you faceplant... in Sailing, you don't go anywhere, and in SCUBA if your equipment isn't working, you might die).

Welcome to the new world...

You are wrong. At least one model of Meraki access point has a dedicated radio for this purpose. It attacks other wifi networks through a number of mechanisms, including pretending to be the AP under attack, to attract clients to it, sending spoofed de-auth packets to the clients of other APs, and other techniques to effectively conduct a denial of service attack on whatever other wireless network that may exist within its range. This is precisely what I was encountering on my network.

The main issue I have with this technology is that it can be set to attack all other wifi networks. If it was limited to protecting the SSIDs under its control, I would have less of an issue with it. IE if the wireless system is advertising the SSID "Marriott Convention Center" and someone else sets up a rogue AP using the same SSID, then that's fair game, as the person running the rogue AP is either clueless, or has nefarious intent. If it's attacking "Bob's iPhone Network" then that's another matter.

Because most of the more expensive hotels are catering to business travellers, who will moan, then just expense the cost of getting online.