Itâ(TM)s clear she did not expect to be challenged. How dare Amazon respond to her attacks!

Seriously, in most cases, politicians tweeting and âoequestioningâ during hearings are simply grandstanding opportunities. How many times have we seen politicians speak abusively to witness for five minutes without asking questions then getting mouthy when their assertions are challenged?

One hundred feet for PoE is fine.

As others have said, hardwired is the right answer here. I understand why you are reluctant but it really is the right answer. You can cable it up once and it will work as long as the switch is powered, no battery hassles, no signal hassles, etc. and it wonâ(TM)t matter what services or processes you want to run on the camera.

Even if it were a longer distance, there are solutions available to deal with it.

China has been a declared nuclear weapons state since 1964.

They are doing what we are doing now - modeling how the weapons work because many of us agreed not to physically test them any more over twenty years ago.

You do understand that telephone carriers pay to interconnect with each other with the carrier terminating a call ultimately being paid for that termination? This is the exact situation we don't want to see with ISPs. (As a side-bar this is why there are/were so many "free" conference calling solutions in rural Iowa - a few of the carriers there were paid upwards of $0.02/min for termination, regardless of origin, and were willing to *pay* customer to receive calls!)

I support net neutrality 100% but what happened between Netflix, Cogent, and Comcast has nothing to do with it.

Ah, but you didn't mention cancellation of passports. That's a much larger problem but you could still easily enter Mexico or Canada. There's a few (most?) Mexican border stations that simply don't check documents for people walking across the border to their side.

As for Canada, there's a lot of back roads protected by nothing but an orange cone most of the night.

That is one reason why we've been up in arms about who the Canadians let into their country as it is so easy to get from there to here without being detected.

Huh?

Unless you're on a no-fly list you're going to able to fly out of the country. There's no outbound passport control in the US.

And if you're on the no-fly list you're not going anywhere unless you're driving. (Then you could drive to Canada or Mexico)

Perhaps I'm out of the loop but I don't see anything here that's outrageous.

It looks like CBP received a dump of your PNR from the airline, period. Any data that's stored in that PNR will be transmitted when it's dumped. Whoopty-fookin-do. It's the AIRLINE that has all this information to begin with.

As for the CBP internal records it makes sense they would track when/where your passport shows up. I know my passport details have either been manually entered or scanned in and out of most countries I've been in. (Or a backend transmittal occurred from the airline to passport control in that country to indicate I was departing)

Whilst the "big brother" connotation of this is troubling it is not as if CBP went out and GATHERED all this information on its own from various sources. They ask the airline for a dump of the PNR, the airline gives it to them. Since you booked everything into one PNR they got it all.

If anything here the airline is not taking appropriate steps to safeguard your data. I'd bitch at them before I'd get worked up with DHS. (Not saying I wouldn't get worked up with DHS too but I'd start at the source of the data)

This is not as simple as it sounds.

IIRC the Blackberry service depends on a particular APN being available to it. When you pop a prepaid SIM in from your destination country it typically won't come with that APN provisioned. This means phones calls, hassles, problems, and likely inability to work.

There's two "easy" solutions to this:

1 - Get unlimited "worldwide" Blackberry service from ATT/Verizon for $65/mo and have a separate phone with a local prepaid SIM in it for voice calls that is shared amongst the crew.

2 - Use an ActiveSync capable device as it merely depends on making an https connection.

My BlackBerry using friend and I were in Ireland and Northern Ireland last week. My iPhone worked quite happily with Vodefone IE and Orange UK SIMs. He couldn't get his Vodafone data working and had to call Orange and pay £5 extra to get his BlackBerry working.

If your people are travelling a lot and are not tech savvy I would go with option 1. There's only one device to swap SIMs on and the most savvy person can be responsible for it.