Must be a hallucination

If the car uses 5g, ang 5g is no longer available, how do you connect to a server

Maybe make it based on sales. $X, Y sales, or Z years, whichever comes first.

Obscufating the location of the starlink unit isn’t possible. It inherently requires positioning to function at all.

Starlink uses phased array antennas for beamforming, both on the earth base station and on the satelite station. That means the antenna is very directional by using some complex math and multiple tranceivers feeding an antenna array.

That means the satelite must know where you are within like 10s of km. Otherwise it can’t tell where to beam your data.

It’s kinda exactly why cell towers can locate you. And why you can’t avoid that.

Look at this article from March 2024: https://robertgarcia.house.gov/media/in-the-news/cnbc-house-democrats-probe-spacex-over-alleged-illegal-export-and-use-starlink

In a statement on Thursday, the congressmen wrote, “Russia’s use of Starlink satellite terminals would be in contravention of U.S. export controls that prohibit Russia from acquiring and utilizing U.S.-produced technology.”

So the equipment has to fall into the wrong hands, through a somehow compromised supply chain. Maybe that could happen without starlink knowing, but they really should have figured that out in march. They should have very easily identified the units that were potentially compromised by auditing shipping logs.

Not only did the supply chain have to be compromised, but also the subscription and payments system… How did they not catch it on the subscription payment side? Now in addition to a compromised supply chain, a financial institution was compromised? At the least, they didn’t do their due dilligance in customer verification.

How could russia have set up the equipment without some level of development and testing? Geolocation should have given that development away.

Now, could spaceX do something more about this ? Most likely. But that is resources you need to put on this, which is not profitable.

Yeah good point, that’s called “negligence”. Not doing due dilligance or taking the necessary steps to avoid breaking the law, because it isn’t profitable, isn’t a valid legal defense.

It really would have been as simple as geofencing against devices that weren’t preauthorized or whitelisted.

That’s the beauty of intermittent problems!!

You can’t prove they aren’t there, only that they are, or, that you fail to reproduce.

Oh I would have been so pissed. I was programming on my calculator 24/7 instead of my classes.

I wrote a sudoku “editor”

I put that in quotes because I had a grid that could be navigated, arrows moved, storing the numbers, had number entry down. And when it was time to implement the solver, I learned the hard way what p vs np is.

There’s going to be no external interference when you’re under water. Sea water makes an excellent em shield

Capacitive sensors don’t measure the body’s signals. Capacitance is a physical property of a material. The sensor puts out a signal and measures the response.

I can use a gallon of milk to scroll my phone. Just tried.

No? You don’t think the courts would approve of a fishing expedition for forth amendment violation access to your computer?

As soon as they bake drm checks into the os

Coming from the man who knows more about manufacturing than anyone on the planet

Damn, even fighter jets have an external override. They’re even labeled for rescue workers.

Nighthawkinlight just released a video on a material that accomplishes this that you could make at home.

https://youtu.be/Nqxjfp4Gi0k?si=4rEVK5DjNZCGc1Fi

Since when did manufacturing equipment need an activation key? Are they talking about CNC mills? PLCs?

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It’s like some of the Pokemon games where it tells you what you did. Seriously amazing, but yeah needs to be FOSS and secure.

Even for Wisconsin, UW is the system. There’s UW Lacrosse, UW Milwaukee, UW Madison, UW Platteville, UW Whitewater…

My favorite is when I ask for something and it gets stuck in a loop, pasting the same comment over and over