TPM is one of the most useless tools towards that end. Get a DMA card and find out why. For security -- especially for somebody in my position -- it's incredibly useful. There's no conspiracy to deprive you of your copy of "love, actually" or "mean girls", so you can relax, your bootlegged chick flick collection is safe from TPM. Believe me, I have several terabytes of bootlegged sci-fi movies on my Plex server, and I'm not in the slightest concerned about TCG coming after that

Actually the concern was SGX, which is now gone, and that would have impacted a lot more than just your copy of 50 shades of grey -- it was actually a security nightmare pretending to be your friend. TPM is completely open. SGX was exactly the opposite.

Before you assign the F.C.C. as further example of the Trump administration, that the F.C.C. is behind the design and operation of this Satellite, go back and read the F.C.C. document. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/at...

They are granting a station license.

Any time a satellite is launched, if it has communication abilities - all do - the regulatory agencies of the world must be in approval. A station license is granted. This satellite needs coordination, and that the F.C.C. coordinating the frequencies in use, and granting them station licenses does not makes them part of the design and operation. I have F.C.C. granted station licenses, as long as I work in the frequencies the license grants, and comply with the modes of operation allowed, they don't have anything to do with my stations.

This coordination happens on everything launched, not just communications satellites. And seriously, unless the satellite never transmits, it needs coordination. RF does not know political parties.

Almost as funny as people who think that the RF spectrum is political.

Make no mistake. The only thing the F.C.C has to do with this satellite is assigninging the Frequencies it communicates on. they have nothing to do with anything else. It has nothing to do with Trump, Obama, Bush II Clinton, or any political party. It has nothing to do with the design or use of the satellite. It has everything to do with RF, keeping radio signals away from each other.

Anyone using it as a further example and source of outrage for their hatred of a country, that this is politics - is only showing that they know nothing about what they are talking about.

Read the official F.C.C. pdf document in TFS. Rather than gaslighting anyone, the F.C.C. is simply doing what they do, asked for frequencies to communicate on, they provided them in conjunction with the NTIA. This action is performed in conjunction with the similar organizations in other countries.

Has nothing to do with politics. Has everything to do with keeping RF emitters from interfering with each other. RF is not concerned with political parties. It is one area where there must be coordination between countries.

Now onto gaslighting - TFA is a fine example of exactly that. An article which paints the F.C.C as somehow being an integral part of this solar reflector is top tier gaslighting. The people in here, in their zeal, yet know almost nothing about the F.C.C or RF, yet demand that it is somehow evil.

RF is how I make my money, and people who know almost nothing about it yet make sweeping pronouncements about it are big gaslighters.

You mean, the people who are willing to ride a piece of driftwood across the freakin' ocean because they'd rather live here than in their communist hellhole? Okay.

But when the Russians did the same thing, they were just being smart?

Many people in here apparently missed the part that the F.C.C. has absolutely nothing to do with the mirror itself. The F.C.C. has made a conditional grant for the frequencies used in communication, in concordance with the NTIA. And the payload is irrelevant. Other countries have similar groups to coordinate RF emitters.

One does not launch satellites without that coordination, you have to let them know where you plan on emitting RF. Or just as likely, ask where you can.

Why is this? https://www.ntia.gov/sites/def...

I have that chart printed on my wall in a large frame. Occasionally people come in wanting a chunk of RF to operate on. Many have trouble understanding just how crowded the RF spectrum is, and I refer them to the chart. "Pick a frequency". And that turns out to be way beyond their ability.

I don't do it to be contrary, but to educate them that this is seriously non-trivial. Especially when people don't know how RF acts. It is an unruly beast that has wildly different characteristics depending on frequency, and it beats with other frequencies to produce new frequencies outside its allocation.

The mirror sat itself is just a mirror sat, there is perhaps some data to be gathered from its deployment, but this company will find out just as the Russians did, that it is of limited utility. It is on a fast moving satellite, it doesn't provide all that much light, and then there is the clouds and stuff that block the sky.

But the F.C.C. and NTIA are just doing their jobs, which has nothing to do with the purpose of the sat, only keeping the spectrum operating. Just like with every other satellite for every different purpose.

Time for some C.S. Lewis.

The big problem of our civilization and age right now isn't that we are going to get too harsh or guard too much against people who rip off stores.

I think the minimum number os sails that would work is the number that would block the sky completely. 8^)

Oh, you have given me my comeuppance, you have.

You are so enraged that you follow me around, posting complete non-sequiturs that fail to make much sense. Even my sig gives you a shitfit.

Thank you - as a troll who enjoys sending the thin skinned into spittle flecked keyboard warrior rage, You've given me the ultimate compliment - well almost. Please post in all caps, and I'll win the internet.

Focus, observe, remember.

I didn't say that.

More than once, too.

Telecom experts were saying there's no way you'd be able to bring down the cost of phased array antennas to a reasonable level. Nobody at SpaceX was certain of that either. Then it happened anyway.

https://www.businessinsider.co...

Enjoy some nice fodder from gizmodo about heavy lift rockets being scalable:

https://gizmodo.com/bad-news-f...

Many others as well, like stainless steel instead of carbon fiber, the booster catch, the sheer scale of starlink, supercooled fueling, space lasers, hot staging (without sacrificing the booster), and full-flow staged combustion (which many had tried and failed.) And those are just the ones I can tell you about. There have been failures too, for example the attempt at landing dragon with thrust instead of parachutes.

Then you're just trying to be contrarian.

Nobody said otherwise, however, I don't believe you understand the significance of starlink's orbital parameters with regard to safety. You think you do, but you don't.

Did you even pay attention to what I said? I asked how the GP believes there's fraud going on. Who is defrauding whom? Either you've come here just to be contrarian, or you've come to ask about your genital warts. I don't know which, but if there's a point to any of this, I've yet to hear it.

Who was on his "back" exactly?

And they start with an argument, predicated on a legal theory. I don't see anything resembling either of those. That's exactly what I was asking GP for.

And what's your point? There's uncertainty in business? You're just now figuring this out?

It'll have pretty much the same outcome. 8^)

When is the EU going to heave a censor to save people from such terrible treatment, European citizens need to be protected from anything anyone doesn't like.

Perhaps a fundamental difference between Europe and the heathens in 'Murrica. I was annoyed by some of meta's practices. Set my browser to not autoplay. But apparently EU needs to do the pecuniary extraction route.

Seriously, is there nothing that the EU doesn't try to extract money from? I'll bet they will fine anyone using comic sans font next, or Borders larger than 5 pixels. I mean really, we must protect our citizens!

Russians tried this in the 1990s. Seriously underwhelming, and not likely to be much better this time around.