Thursday - June 06, 2013

double wireless. Or is it triple?

Cross your fingers and hold your breath. I’m about to upgrade the digital cable TV internet/voice modem. They sent me a new one that is “DOCSIS 3.0” whatever that is ... the old one was too ... but this one is supposed to give me d/l speeds of 105Mb/s. And it appears to have a wireless router built in, along with 4 network sockets. Egad. And one will go to the WiFi router I already have, which has 4 network sockets. And is a dual-band thingie. How many darn devices do I have to own to make use of this? And now I’ll have 3 bands of two different wirelessessess? Great googly-moogly.

And in theory, if I get their WiFi telephone app for the iPlate gizmo the wife has, she can then make free phone calls or text messages from it from anywhere WiFi-ish. Hooray. I think.  Only problem is, they don’t include a backup battery, which sets me back about $40, but keeps the phone running for half a day if the power goes out. Hmmph. The last modem thinger came with a battery. Whatever. 105Mb/s ... golly. I’ll have to find some truly massive documents or graphics to d/l. Or try one of these Xfinity streaming videos I’m always hearing about? Like I need a video of streaming. We’ve got a stream right here down in the gully, I can watch that stream streaming all day in real time any time I want, for free.

Technology. Sometimes it’s over my head.

At least I don’t have Verizon for my digital services. But if Obama’s midnight minions are going to trash the 4th Amendment, I’m sure they suck up all of the other phone companies’ data next. Bastiges.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865581236/The-Guardian-Verizon-has-been-giving-all-of-the-companys-US-phone-records-to-NSA.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/06/nsa-phone-records-verizon-court-order

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/verizon-providing-all-call-records-to-us-under-court-order/2013/06/05/98656606-ce47-11e2-8845-d970ccb04497_story.html

PS - the news says all this BS was done with a court order. Can we find the judge who figured out that the government had probable cause on the entire population ... and then run him out of town? What a buffoon.

PPS - Oh, it was because of the Patriot Act? So it’s Bush’s fault, eh? Well ... maybe so. But you do realize just how easy a task it is for a building-size super computer network to play Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon with the whole country’s phone records, right? Yes, it’s a big task, and a recursive one, but this is what mongo computers are for. And in a matter of days, perhaps even hours, they can create a phase space neural net - a multi-dimensional digital edge map that looks like a fishnet - of everyone’s calls to everyone, with shade gradiation on the frequency and number of calls. And with that ... oh, say they arrest some muzzie for suspected Sudden Jihad Syndrome. Plug his phone number into the system, and instantly they know who the top 300 people he calls are. And who the top 500 people they call are. And any and every phone that has received only one call, ever (kaboom!). So sleep well, knowing you’re protected. Because the government knows every time you call Aunt Tilda. Or your bank. Or 1-900-spank-my-monkey. Until some .gov idiot “accidentally” takes home huge pieces of the network on his laptop, which “gets stolen”, as usual, and two weeks later MultiMegaBrands Inc has the most powerful direct marketing tool ever made.

Back in the day, we used to mock on MCI, a small phone company: Mafia Controlled Industries “we know where your friends and family live”. Now it’s a reality. From your government. The one with “limited powers”, like you learned in school. Yeah right. Snort!!

Hmm ... how to make money off of this? (which proves I am an American!) How about ... let’s see ... the only way to have any kind of phone privacy will be to have one-call cellphones. Instead of buying a phone, why not just have a SIM rewriting station? For $1 you get a new phone number and 20 minutes of talk time. For $50 you get 100 new phone numbers and 2000 minutes, and that SIM works in my new design $300 smart phone that automatically generates a new sending number. I have to work on this idea; you’d still need a stable receiving number to take calls. But if you crossed the concept with that clock based encryption concept, then you could have infinite numbers coming and going, and even if 500 million other people had phones just like it, half a billion phone numbers out of oodleplexes of oodleplexes of them means you’d almost never tap into another running conversation. It would also mean the end of the American 123-456-7890 phone number scheme. So what? It’s all computers now anyway. Who cares if your new number is 234509209435-9023452345-1234524580084576? All you do is talk to your phone and say “Call Spank My Monkey”. And all you’d do is stop off at any phone store and buy airtime. With cash of course.

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