I know you say that you know of solutions which cost 2-10K, but what is your actual budget? A fixed VSAT install seems to be what you are after, it will give you 600-700ms return latency but it will give your decent speed (go for a DVB-S2 service for good value for money). However, you will be looking in that price range you mentioned... I only working with roaming VSAT services (where you have access to beams on various satellites all over the world). We pay $18K per month for a committed rate of 2048/256 which is burstable up to 10240/256. A fixed service on one beam will be significantly cheaper then that though...

Why are the majority of people in this thread assuming this is an response to the Snowden releases? To me this seems to be a law which has nothing to do with the NSA's activities but instead to prevent oppressive regimes from purchasing european made software which will allow them to suppress their citizens even further by spying on them etc. Haven't we already got similar laws to prevent sells of software used by oppressive regimes which could enable them to censor their citizens?

I see this kind of articles all the time, but the numbers just dont add up for me personally. Sure a lot of my friends and family have Android phones, but not 80% of them. Where I live (London) I would say its a 50/50 toss between iPhones and Android users. Or is it maybe the case that iPhone users keep their phones for longer? (my old iPhone has been passed down to my mum, then to my sister and now to my cousin). Are Android users just buying new phones more often than iPhones users?

Surely the criminals would pick up on this new technique very quickly? If its a stolen car (which I would assume most police chases are caused by), wouldn't the criminals just dump the car and flee on foot since there is no cops chasing right up behind them? I guess one could argue that its better that a car thief gets away and no one gets hurt rather than a car chase were innocent people might be injured or killed, but I don't see how this system would catch even close to the same amount of criminals as the police catch today...

Why cant you buy a normal smartphone and just remove the camera from the phone? Not very hard to open a phone up and remove the camera?

Last time I checked it is still possible to downgrade to iOS 6... They have not blacklisted those upgrades yet so if you download the ipsw file you should be able to downgrade it until a fix is available...

You are going at this the wrong way. First off you cant compare a full PC operating system to a mobile device, so lets throw that out of the window. The question is why is OS X so good at power management? Windows is actually not bad at power management, most people here on Slashdot (even die hard Linux users) will admit that Linux is by far the worst out of the 3 on a PC platform. As someone else above me stated earlier, Apple have put a lot of R&D into researching battery run time performance. Their inclusion of two inbuilt graphic cards (one high performance and one for general usage) being a big step they took into improving battery runtime. This is why even Windows on a Macbook will not perform as well as OS X because it just havent got support to switch between two graphic cards based on what the system actually needs at that time. There are obviously a lot more tweaks Apple have done as well, but there are too many to list here...

This is all good when it comes to semiconductors, but the important question is what kind of a difference we can now expect to see in implants compared to the ones offered today?

If you read the actual survey you'll find that it was only taken on people aged between 18-24. Not many people with alzheimers etc in that age bracket...

So what systems are 100% safe in userland? Or have you already forgotten about the recent Linux kernel fix which solved the problem where any X.org GUI application (like a Trojan) could escalate its own privilege to root? http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/08/18/1534258/Linux-Xorg-Critical-Security-Flaw-Silently-Patched?from=rss

Whilst I am all for freedom of speach, I do agree something needs to be done to help protect children or adults who choose not to view these kind of websites. I completly disagree with you that it is "your own will to go there" as we all now is not usualy the case. I haven't got any statistics to back this up with but I bet you most people see this contents by somehow being tricked into seeing it by others. How often is this material not disguised as something else, or you are in a public place (schools unfortunatly being the most common place) where someone will open it up and ask someone else to come over and have a look at something on their screen? I believe in freedom of speech, but I do feel that we need somesort of "option" when someone subscribes to a ISP to give them a option to filter out contents like this which I belive 95% of the population is not interested in.

The article states that the ISP can't restrict "legitimate service through the Internet", but doesn't that mean they can restrict "unlawful" activities? So how is this really different from what other western countries like Australia is trying to do where officially they say they are doing it to restrict illegal activities like child pornography or bit-torrent (which politicians still don't seem to understand is not illegal by itself)?

Have you used a Iridium phone? With their call dropping I wouldn't want to trust on them in a Emergency (with the exception of if I was going to the North or South Pole where Inmarsat is not available). No, get a IsatPhone if you want something reliable http://www.inmarsat.com/Services/Land/IsatPhone/default.aspx which you just have a "see the sky, point antenna at sky, make call" operation.

I have to agree with this poster. There is absolutely no excuse for using your debit card for anything other then cash withdrawals. There are other advantages as well, not only the fraud protection. Most cards will have a minimum of 30 days interest free on purchases so it wont cost you anything. And they will give you airmiles or cash back etc. I would learn from this experience and sign up for a credit card straight away.