I wonder how soon we'll just be rendering real-time AI avatars of ourselves that are traced by our facial movements. Don't have to worry about fixing your hair or lighting or wearing nice clothes; just render whatever looks most appealing with a model.
The meaning of any messages sent over amateur radio needs to be clear to an outside observer. The specific rule is 47 CFR 97.113(a)(4): "No amateur station shall transmit: [...] messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning, except as otherwise provided herein."
So no, high-entropy random noise of substantial length wouldn't be allowed because the meaning of the message would be unclear and unknowable.
You also can't broadcast one-way messages per 97.113(b), and you're probably not having a two-way conversation with somebody via high-entrypy random noise. So there's also that.
What if you say it is to transmit high entropy random data generated at geographically remote locations, for peer to peer verification, for a well-announced long-running experiment to see if geolocation leads to biases in random number generation.
Let's have Princeton PEAR sponsor it. Call it NCC20 for NotChaCha20.
You could say that. If you're in a position to use it as a defense to being investigated, then you're already being investigated. Hope it's true, because making false statements to federal investigators can be a crime.
It is largely unenforced by the FCC directly, but ham operators can (and do) use directional antennas to find you in many cases. Once reported the FCC does take violations seriously.
No because that’s also not really something that’s permitted.
It’s true that there’s no [practical] enforcement of it, in much the same way there’s no enforcement of the OTH Radars from various militaries that take out large chunks of the HF amateur bands every now and then.
Ham radio people are Lawful Good types. Your Chaotic Good idea isn't well recieved by them. No way there is any ability to enforce that law in a disaster zone, they have enough trouble with looting and the like.
There is also a surprising number of stereotypical american self-identified “constitutionalist” types on there, which results in funny conversations when I speak to them (without a license, natch) about the 10th amendment and the FCC/access to spectrum.
Electromagnetic waves transit state lines pretty much constantly. Hardware which creates/receives radio waves pretty much constantly transits state lines as well, I don't know too many radio manufacturers which restrict sale to only the state they operate in. You should probably read the constitution first about things which are interstate and who has permissions to regulate it.
It’s still against the law in the US to transmit on many bands without a license even if you build your own radio from scratch at home. Talking at a distance has nothing inherently to do with commerce.
We basically punted on the 10th amendment with things like the FCC and DOE (education, not energy).
> It’s still against the law in the US to transmit on many bands without a license even if you build your own radio from scratch at home
Electromagnetic waves transit state lines pretty much constantly. Even though I'm in Texas I'll get radio waves from Oklahoma, Louisiana, and even Illinois from time to time.
> Talking at a distance has nothing inherently to do with commerce.
Talking at a distance does affect commerce when that talking at a distance interferes with other people trying to talk and conduct interstate commerce. Guess I'll have to state it again, electromagnetic waves transit state lines pretty much constantly.
And it would absolutely affect interstate commerce if every state decided on different frequencies for commercial FM radio, different frequencies for cell phones, different frequencies for TV signals, different encodings for those things, etc. imagine needing to buy a different radio for NY as TX or IL or CA. Or if you needed different cell phones as you traveled state lines.
> We basically punted on the 10th amendment with things like the FCC and DOE
People being illiterate definitely affects interstate commerce. People not being able to count definitely affects interstate commerce.
> People being illiterate definitely affects interstate commerce. People not being able to count definitely affects interstate commerce.
Fetuses that get aborted might have grown up to be residents of another state who would've bought products there.
Marijuana sold to medical patients in one state may end up in another, reducing alcohol sales.
Socialized medicine programs offered by state governments might lessen the profits of insurance and pharmaceutical firms that are headquartered out of state.
California's labeling laws result in labels that end up on products sold in other states increasing the costs of those products.
State level environmental regulations may impact publicly traded companies and thus the stock market generally, and thereby people in other states. (This one could be used to justify basically anything)
A higher minimum wage in one state may attract workers from out of state.
Educating children about sex might reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies and thus accelerate demographic collapse, harming the economy more generally.
A gay pride parade might result in social media posts shown in other states with ads next to it.
The passage or enforcement of any law might result in news stories in other states on for profit media outlets. Similarly the lack of such a law may result less work for journalists as they can't write about a law that doesn't exist.
What was even the point of the 10th amendment if it was intended to be interpreted as it is today? It seems to do nothing.
You're correct that most people who get ham licenses are good people, but, the venn diagram of licensed ham operators and people who bought a baofeng off amazon does not have a lot of intersection.
> the venn diagram of licensed ham operators and people who bought a baofeng off amazon does not have a lot of intersection.
There's quite the few young hams going for cheap-ass equipment from Amazon. Not everyone can afford an ICOM station from the get-go, you start with small cheap stuff and work your way up.
I've always wondered what the economic implications of longer lifespans are. It seems like this is one of them-- imagine we have 80+ year mortgages once human life expectancy reaches 150 years.
Renting with more risks? Depending on system, if the mortgages are recourse or no-recourse... Just imagine getting one such loan in city that dies off, and being stuck with it until bankruptcy. Or large natural catastrophe or sea level rise or long term drought. Basically something outside insurance. If you even can keep insurance...
I was just thinking about how a mobile client for an RDB would be cool to try for tracking workouts. There are plenty of CRUD apps for this but there is always some feature missing, whereas here you could customize to your delight.
I wonder what other apps are just RDB wrappers that could almost be substituted with something like this.
We could have smartphones that are essentially streaming their UIs from a cloud instance that's running the actual OS/rendering for the device.
That approach would allow for thinner, cheaper devices with longer battery lives since their hardware is only responsible for processing the video stream from the cloud and rendering it on a screen.
Perhaps it's not a direct result of 1TB/s but such internet speeds would likely have the second order effects of providing extremely robust streaming infrastructure that enables such a use case.
I understood the hypothetical as “same internet connectivity as today but every connection is 1 TB/s”. No way anyone would want streaming UIs with that, your device would become unusable every time you don’t have network and latency would almost always be annoying.
I don’t think the weight of cell phones has been an issue since the 80s or 90s. At some point a phones size and weight is about what’s comfortable to hold. Being too thin or too light can start to create new problems.
If the UI was streaming, I think the up front hardware cost would be replaced by a monthly fee required to run the servers required to send the feed, which would probably be more expensive over the life of the phone.
The hardware could also not be a completely dumb thin client. With the cameras, there needs to be enough inside to handle focus, capture, and a buffer to store the photos/videos to upload. Would there also be lag in the viewfinder, with the camera having to send the live image up to the server and back down to the UI, or would this part switch over of a bare bones local UI? Maps would need GPS in the phone to tell the server where it is. Various accelerometers would still be needed, then I guess the local accelerometer would need to make a call to the server to tell it to rotate the screen… even with a fast connection, I’d have to imagine some lag there. Biometric unlock would also need some local hardware. I’m sure there is much more.
Doing all this from a remote system doesn’t seem practical. Too much still needs to be in the phone itself, that it would seem impossible for the benefits to outweigh the costs.
The utility of a phone like that is basically zero if I can’t use it anytime I want. I wouldn’t even take that for free if I had to give up my current phone in exchange. Maybe it’s just me though.
Also, 1/10th size is totally unrealistic just by streaming. Just the screen is probably already 20% or so of power consumption even at very low brightness, and that’s not going to change due to streaming. And the rest of the system doesn’t disappear but just gets more lightweight, so if you reduce that to 1/3, you still have 50% of the current total power consumption, which means still need at least half of the current battery size for same battery life. You would probably end up with a phone that’s half the thickness as a current smartphone.
Please, don't assume your situation is universal. I'd take this smartphone immediately. I'm never far from a 5G tower. I used to have a speedtest script on my Android before I bought an iPhone, and the average speed I had at any time was over 100 Mb/s. Only 5 days of a year I was below 50 Mb/s - but still connected, every day.
> Just the screen is probably already 20% or so of power consumption even at very low brightness
There are other kinds of displays, some of them don't need any brightness at all, but even those that do are getting much more efficient. An old/cheap IPS is incomparable to what a Samsung AMOLED can do, and they're not stopping there.
I use my phone very often - much more than 5-6 hours of screentime - and display is only around 10% of the power budget. The 5G connection usually takes more as I'm always on some call.
I'd gladly take a phone that's just the same size and weight as Samsung S9, but has a giant battery and mainframe-level performance. I'd gladly pay the price of having to be connected, because I have to be and am connected anyways.
People buy $30 prepaid Android devices that are hot garbage. There is absolutely a market for phone VDI.
Plus, we’re in a thought experiment with pervasive terabit cellular. I’m typing this on vacation in major European city on 3G. Indulge the imagination with the idea that we’ve liberated some building penetrating bands and have improved coverage as well! ;)
Reminds me of how the mathematician behind DP, Richard Bellman, purposely chose the name "Dynamic Programming" because it sounded impressive and non-mathematical so that he'd be more likely to get government funding.
