Posted on 05/01/2019 7:20:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
My grandmother cooked in her kitchen on a wood-burning stove until, at 92 years of age, she passed away. Wood stove technology is not as simple as some people think. We may have to learn it all over again. Here is why:
I recently read an online article about something called 5G and became aware that this innovation will potentially enable any large government, our own or our adversaries, to spy, hack, sabotage or otherwise wreak havoc on the entire world infrastructure of communication and security. This is not hyperbole. It is as real as nuclear bombs, and if not as destructive, it poses almost as deadly a threat. Indeed, the 5G cyber-war might well spark a nuclear conflagration.
The network on which cell phones operate is being upgraded. That innovation will, as they say, usher in a new age of vast potential. It can also be weaponized against us. An enemy could plunge us back into the dark ages.
Is this for real? Apparently, very serious authorities are concerned. The biggest internet tech companies are already accruing surveillance powers that rival those of our own government, and in all likelihood, exceed them. Worse yet, many of those companies are hostile to our nation, refusing to assist our military, while eagerly aiding the foreign dictatorships that threaten our freedoms.
It is difficult to state the problem without sounding like chicken-little, or like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D), who claims that the world will end in twelve years.
It may, but not because of climate-change, which we cannot remedy, but because China's dictator-for-life is methodically developing the technological power to dictate to the world. If he succeeds, the world may not end, but it may as well.
At or near the center of this geopolitical storm is the Chinese company called Huawei.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I have a serious question.
What advantage would 5 G offer my wife and I, our sons and their wives, and nieces and nephews.
Most of us cut our tv cables a few years ago. We are using very fast business internets and have excellent mobile phone service through TracFone.
Our wifi’s give us rapid speed with our Android phones and chromebooks, my windows 10 laptop is a paper weight on my desks and serves no other purpose.
Our tv sets with the fast business internets, stream the tv we watch with zero problems.
Our Chromebooks enable us to do our banking and bill paying quickly and with minimal help. We use our Chromebooks to set up appts with health care providers and other vendors.
My wife is a typical texting Grandmother, and texts her family from Africa to the East Coast, Mid west, SW and on the West Coast. I pay like 5$ for a ton of texts a couple of times per month for her on Tracfone.
We use both use email and text to organize and set up lunches and meeting dates for the groups we belong to.
We use text and email to communicate with relatives and friends across the globe.
So what advantage will 5g offer us versus what we have now?
Or will it be like the Teslas, a tax break for those who don’t need it and extra costs for the rest of us?
Hauwei is NOT building the 5G backbone, thanks to Donald Trump.
That’s only one key question. (And the answer to it is yes, they do—all the Chinese tech companies are that way.)
But why are we putting this outside and above every home in America, when it is a much more risky technology from health, surveillance and control levels by far than even what we have out there to date?
Terrible idea. Trump’s pushing it and looking to even fund parts of it is very unfortunate. Unfortunately the info that reaches him while in office is too easily and carefully controlled as a means of controlling him.
Panasonic makes the little screens for watching movies on the seat back of the seat in front of you on a plane.
Without any announcement, a camera - facing you - was added to the screens.
Upon hearing an uproar from consumers, an airline has been putting little slips of tape over the cameras, saying the cameras had never been used and they had no plans to use them.
And I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
True words were never spoken.
This article is total horse hockey, except for the parts about Huawei.
Reminds me of the plot of an indie film from a few years ago, “Dragon Day”.
Sooo...if I’m building a new house, I’m wondering how I might block any “intruders” (probably will build in next 5 years in a smallish town)
Split ‘intelligence’ funding in half - one half to allow the boys to play cowboys and Indians with Russians and other ‘spy vs spy’ cartoon crap - - and the other half to DO STUFF - ACT - SOLVE PROBLEMS NOT JUST IDENTIFY THEM.
This is insane. Take action: Harden the grid, stop our enemies from getting jobs in top research facilities, close down ‘replacement parts’ for tech stuff used to spy on us... Build our own stuff... stop teaching the children of foreign intelligence in our University systems.
Or we can learn to build and use Grandma's old wood stove...
The asteroid is a red herring. You really need to worry about the fleet of UFOs that is hiding behind it, filled with space vikings.
“Part of the way 5G works is with microcells”
Interesting information about 5G. I’m a techie.
My post, however, as you probably realized, is about the big picture in which electronic snoopers and saboteurs are everywhere.
...but so what. Do I have some expectation of privacy on an airplane? No. Might I want to do a video call sometime in the future. Yes.
The same could be said from the early web days of the mid 90s to now. What you said you do with your trac phones wasn't possible back then. Heck, you couldn't stream TV until about 10 years ago.
What happens next? Everything becomes wireless. Everything is interconnected. Gigabit speeds to every device.
Imagine paying almost nothing for car insurance? Totally possible with fleets of 5g cars on a highway controlled by a supercomputer. Scary to us, will be totally normal to a child born 10 years from now as they will have grown up with it.
Everything interconnects, everything is smart and with the ability to talk to a supercomputer at gigabyte speeds, anything a local device can't figure out, gets answered instantly. Not only that, there are things that we don't even know are possible once everything gets smart.
Is it all good? No. Will you need it to participate in the economy of the future? Probably. There will be ways to carve out a niche and live it it, but it will be the exception, not the rule. It won't matter as much to those of us born before cellphones and the internet, but to everyone that comes after, it will be as natural as breathing. Everything seamless.
So, they'll take over helping the helpless and trying to spread freedom and prosperity throughout the world? Cool! < /sarc >
You probably already know this trick, but you can post the headline and URL without an excerpt (to remain in compliance with the rules).
Just add your own commentary in the first post.
I did. I was intending to extend the comments, by noting that even without the bugs and cameras, that just by the way it works each node tracks each cellular-aware device in 3-dimensions on a constant basis.
“I did ... 3-dimensions”
Three dimensions? I understand two dimensions but how’s three dimensions done?
It’s a beam. Angle and elevation, and distance.
Think of an antenna on top of a tower pointing at individual cars. To minimize interference between channels and allow more connections, the antenna beam-shapes, and adjusts power to the minimum necessary to maintain the channel at the optimized speed, and links channels together to create an aggregate.
“Think of an antenna on top of a tower pointing at individual cars”
But the antenna points to lots of cars.
I’m thinking that radar can’t tell the elevation of a plane and its signal is bounced off of distant objects.
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