I wonder if any of the auto manufacturers have considered working with Google and using Android?

I think the point is not that these entities shouldn't have connectivity to the Internet, but the network they use to monitor and operate the critical infrastructure components should be segregated from any network accessible from the Internet. How they are segregated is up for discussion.

We are using a couple Soekris boxes for some basic monitoring. They are lightweight atom processors with no active cooling and it's designed with networking in min. 4 Gig-E ports on the 6501, and you can get up to 8 more thanks to 2 PCI-E slots available in the rackmount version. Since we are using an mSATA SSD on the board we have no moving parts, so nothing mechanic to fail.

That's already a requirement from CALEA, so they already have lawful intercept requirements on the books.

Actually any broadband provider already has to provide wiretap capabilities from the CALEA changes years ago.

I noticed China got 8 pages and then some on that report, but no other country even has a single page dedicated to it. Yet how much shit gets manufactured over there and then shipped out all over the world?

Climate change is a bitch

I'm not suggesting this was majority opinion, but my understanding was some companies in the porn industry did want .xxx so that it could be filtered. Not all of the porn companies are douches, I believe some help companies that make filtering software because they agree children shouldn't be accessing that content.

With so much manufacturing work going overseas or replaced with low maintenance machines we have a lot of people who can't do jack shit for the current job market. This is trying to take our assembly line workforce and convert them to programmers. The problem is programming isn't a learn and repeat process, it's a creative one. Just about anyone can do assembly line work, you get trained and just do the same task over and over until you rotate into a different spot. Programming requires the person at the keyboard to think about the process that function/module/task needs to perform and articulate it, something that requires a different thought process and much less common.

We either need to find some other rudimentary tasks for those incapable of creative tasks to perform or our jobless rate is probably stuck in limbo. Sadly this means we are likely screwed until the other countries we have outsourced all this manufacturing work to reach our economic level and stop being so cheap. Will we be able to adapt before the pendulum swings too far and brings down the stack of cards.

Then again I could be wrong and making a bad assumption about how much people can adapt.

I'm in the same boat. Apart from games I'm pretty OS agnostic.