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Submission + - SPAM: Inmarsat Plan– Things You Must Know Before You Buy

allovercomm writes: Those days are long gone back when you have to wait for the weather condition to get normal to get the signal on your mobile phones. But, today with satellite networks, the demand for Inmarsat satellite phones has been leapfrogged in the consumer market.
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Submission + - QUIC, the replacement for TCP, is now RFC 9000 (fastly.com)

AmiMoJo writes: QUIC is a new latency-reducing, reliable, and secure internet transport protocol that is slated to replace TCP, the most commonly used transport today. The IETF just published QUIC as RFC 9000, supported by RFC 9001, RFC 9002, and RFC 8999. That means QUIC version 1 is officially formalized, and QUIC deployments will now move away from using temporary draft versions to the newly minted version 1. (HTTP/3, the version of HTTP that runs on QUIC, is following closely behind, and should be published soon.)

Comment Re:They had space weapons in the 80's (Score 1) 83

And a few years ago we did a quick launch from off the Lake Erie (or her sister ship) using an SM-3 rocket to take a out one of our malfunctioning sats as a show of force after the PRC got some attention by doing something similar. We did it quicker, with better precision, and in a lower orbit so there wasn't much debris. Space weapons are not needed at this time.

Comment Re:China's not poor? (Score 1) 97

And they pollute just the same. Been to Nepal - wonderful people, clean streets, clean buildings, clean people, generally a very tidy place. Rivers were a mass of waste and mountain streams were just as bad. Most tourists / hikers would kill themselves before littering but, I saw more natives just tossing stuff willy nilly for others to pick up and transport to the burn pits.
This was the same in most third-world countries I've visited and would expect it to be the same for all. Not saying the USA is any better about littering, we just seem to have more cleanup teams for the visible stuff.

Comment Re: Blade Runner - bad example? (Score 1) 197

Except that air-gapped is only secure as the area its in and the person who has physical access to it. I doubt there was any true security being as there were so many "flesh-bots" walking around on all the ships. With as many "X malware/worm/virus/windows update enables transfer of data through lights/sound/fan speed/power bus/CPU temp/media seek" stories we get on Slashdot monthly, would you really trust any systems on the BSG to un-compromised? It was a TV show but, whomever wrote it certainly didn't think about cyber security when coming up with plot devices or continuity.

Comment Re: Please don't move to public cloud. (Score 1) 192

Between NIST & NSA published standards (available on both web sites, more with gov/mil access) every MS product and many of the *NIX flavors have been secured (for the most part). The problem is the bureaucracy -- the documentation, paperwork, politics, more paperwork, studies, dick sucking, etc... required to get an agency (hell, a sub-department) to change anything is so mind numbing it is just not worth the effort for the most part. If you climb the ladder high enough to actually be able to change something, your efforts are usually stalled by infighting because you stepped into someone else's office empire and there will be blood.

Submission + - SPAM: New House coalition fights rise in government surveillance

schwit1 writes: An unusual coalition of 13 Republicans and 12 Democrats on Wednesday announced the creation of the House Fourth Amendment Caucus to protect Americans' privacy rights against calls for increased government surveillance in the wake of terrorist attacks.

The group named itself after the Fourth Amendment because the lawmakers fear that the government is increasingly seeking the power to search Americans' electronic data without a warrant. They see that as a threat to the Constitutional amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

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