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Smartphone Kill Switch Could Become Federal Law
Information Week ^ | February 15, 2014 | Thomas Claburn

Posted on 04/22/2014 5:17:01 PM PDT by ponygirl

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To: ponygirl

apparently only democrats have their cellphones lost or stolen.


41 posted on 04/22/2014 5:57:04 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: ponygirl
Ok my new idea

1. Repeal all laws, regulations, amendments and government to 1900

2. This is supposed to be government “by WE the People” right? ok then any law these governmnent cretins try to pass MUST be approved also by a vote of at least 66% of the registered voters in a county, State or , Country or 66% of the voting population. if a law is SO needed then surely 66% of the people will also go to vote and approve it .

3. any new law must only fit on a page and be easily understood.

Any one with a brain think that the Constitution intended for all the members of ONE party the democrat party to pass a 3000 page bill called Obamacare on Christmas eve without even them reading it? And they did it behind the people's back. no I don't think so

42 posted on 04/22/2014 5:57:12 PM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama ordered IRS to rig 2012 election and must resign)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I love building QRP rigs :-)

And more interesting stuff as well.


43 posted on 04/22/2014 5:57:32 PM PDT by Bobalu (What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I was taught to code by three old guys. The slowest could only key about 30 wpm. The other two could do over 40 and they were about 90. The one worked on the railroad when young.

They thought my 5 to 10 wpm was pathetic.


44 posted on 04/22/2014 5:58:20 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: xrmusn

I surely do love CW :-)


45 posted on 04/22/2014 5:59:59 PM PDT by Bobalu (What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
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To: backwoods-engineer
Getting so sick of this government.

Ah yes, I can identify with that. I have about had the course.

46 posted on 04/22/2014 6:01:16 PM PDT by Mark17 (Chicago Blackhawks: Stanley Cup champions 2010, 2013. Vietnam Vet 70-71 Msgt US Air Force, retired)
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To: Bobalu
Now is a great time to be home-building. Modern RF electronics that you can get off the shelf are like complete science fiction, compared to when I got my first ticket. Yes, I know what B+ voltage is.

Problem is that you almost have to have a special soldering station and a stereo microscope to build anything. ;)

/johnny

47 posted on 04/22/2014 6:01:30 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: gorush
Just curious, which article and section of the Constitution do they feel gives them the power to do this?

Since it would be a state law, the Tenth Amendment. The Several States have always had powers not enumerated in the U.S. Constitution.
48 posted on 04/22/2014 6:02:02 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I was in a line of cars going to a HamFest once.

I started sending CW with the horn and soon everyone was doing it..lol HI HI


49 posted on 04/22/2014 6:02:27 PM PDT by Bobalu (What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
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To: JRandomFreeper

That is neat....

I used to ‘practice’ code while sitting at stop lights and doing the license plates.....

Wouldn’t take all that long till I was back up to 50+ WPM

I do a little ‘copying’ now and then...kind of rusty but the base is still there.....

I was ‘different’ as I could copy faster than I could send...Well, guess most of us could BUT I admitted it. Had a terrible ‘fist’, the Vibroflex was a life saver for me even today I ‘have to’ use a Ball Mouse as with the slider I start running out of (table) top space.


50 posted on 04/22/2014 6:02:29 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 --"I would agree with you BUT that would make both of us wrong".))
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’ll be working on it for sure.

we also need a way to communicate with other people without the government being able to spy on us, some other Internet using cell phone towers or other devices

https://ssd.eff.org/tech/mobile


51 posted on 04/22/2014 6:04:04 PM PDT by Democrat_media (Obama ordered IRS to rig 2012 election and must resign)
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To: JohnnyP
What do you do when they shove your face into the dirt, take the SD card and break the camera?

Some of them can steam to a website or to YouTube in real time!
52 posted on 04/22/2014 6:04:46 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I have the Hot Air Workstation and the 30x stereo microscope lol


53 posted on 04/22/2014 6:07:32 PM PDT by Bobalu (What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
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To: ponygirl

Remember when ‘they’ told us that “LowJack” would help prevent car theft etc. When pointed out that it would allow the same people that tracked your stolen car to track every time you went to the beer joint, ‘they’ said “OH no! we wouldn’t do something like that! Honest” Yeah, right, bet your bippie someone had their fingers crossed.

Even “The Wire” and Tony Soprano figured out early that EZ Pass was just a good way to be tracked AND both ‘crews’ believed in the ‘burner phones’.


54 posted on 04/22/2014 6:07:56 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 --"I would agree with you BUT that would make both of us wrong".))
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To: ponygirl

Smart GUN kill switch could become federal law.

Opps sorry - wrong thread/s


55 posted on 04/22/2014 6:13:46 PM PDT by crusher2013
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To: ponygirl

You mean a government who turned it’s massive spy machine on law abiding Americans, would do this?


56 posted on 04/22/2014 6:15:11 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: xrmusn

I have a Morse program that I wrote for the cheap 8-pin DIP Atmel Tiny 85 processor. It has a capacitive touch straight key pin and two pins for paddles for a programmable keyer.

Has a few unusual features like storable messages, random code practice..etc

It can listen on your favorite frequency and watch for your call and beep you to let you know...or you can set 50 other strings to watch for. Uses a 25 cent LM567 chip as the tone detector...the Tiny85 is an 80cent chip. so it’s a cheap device.

Can send a 256 char string that is encrypted...this goes out as a side channel that uses very slight variable spacing and element lengths to carry the message. Sounds like ordinary Morse on the air. I have not used this...just tested it between two units connected by wire...encryption is verboten on Ham freqs as you know... but I had left over flash memory and filled it up with this. A received encrypted 256 char message is placed in the flash memory using the boot-loader self programming feature as there is very limited eeprom in the tiny85.

Would have put in more features but the Tiny85 only has room for four thousand 16bit assembly instructions.

I may write a version for the Atmega1284p which has a lot more I/O pins and room for 64,000 instructions...and a nice 4k of eeprom.


57 posted on 04/22/2014 6:30:52 PM PDT by Bobalu (What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
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To: George from New England
My ham radio already has a remote kill switch installed.

What? Did someone cut off your fingers?

58 posted on 04/22/2014 6:38:49 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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To: ponygirl

I’m for it if they place an adequate amount of a powerful explosive inside the phone and when it is stolen it can be remotely activated to negate the value of the phone and the thief .... no repeat offenders. The real value is that you wouldn’t have to do it for all, just a random number of the phones.


59 posted on 04/22/2014 6:46:46 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Watching MSM news readers pimping His Arrogance is like watching a dog eat its own vomit!)
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To: ponygirl

Android has this built in and I assume Apple does too. Are people really this stupid and uninformed?


60 posted on 04/22/2014 7:48:53 PM PDT by montag813
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