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.

Currently, there are no regulations that address the leakage of unintended electromagnetic radiation from constellation satellites.

From the article.

Proper EMC requires good design, additional components, and good shielding.

Components and shielding add cost directly, but also increase weight, which is probably millions times more expensive in fuel.

I bet they cheaped out on their shielding. Especially given the volume of sats they’re trying to use.

When we get brain implants to supplement memory, it’s all over for us

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.

Really? Send them to me. The cables they come with are always really nice and I know they’ll support the data rates and powers the device can use.

That’s what they’ve said about every disruptive technology since the beginning of time.

I’m against it being shoved down our throats at every opportunity for a quick buck, but it’s very much an active area of research.

You’d be foolish to think there’s no innovation or imlrovements to be made.

Again, most of those are targeted attacks on individuals. E.g. student mad at X person and gets revenge.

Much different from the columbine-like terroristic ones. E.g. killing anyone and everyone they can.

Argument!

A dab of super glue in the screw hole, find a screw driver you don’t really care about, add a drop of superglue accelerator

It isn’t that AI will have replaced us in 24 months, it’s that we will be enslaved in 24 months. Or in the matrix. Etc.

My absolute favorite is when I asked copilot to code a UI button and it just pasted “// the UI element should do (…) but instead it is doing (…)” a dozen times.

Like, clearly someone on stackoverflow asked for help, got used for training data, and confused copilot

It’s the fact they vouched for the resturaunt.

I don’t mean having a sign or directory. I mean saying specifically “the BR at our rest stop is allergy friendly” vs “our rest stop has a basken robbins, check their page for details”

I don’t know any other landlords that advertise and vouch their clients on their website.

I bet cafeterias or food courts have gotten sued for the same thing.

I don’t get what it has to do with copyright?

It’s as simple as they built the equipment to require an app. And it needs the cloud, so its either accept the license or stop using the hw.

It’s happening everywhere.

The overlap between “chemtrails” and “fluoride in the water” and “epa bad” is pretty high. It’s actually kinda odd.

Fair enough, there’s potential for landfills to leak.

But if its between that, dumping it in the ocean, or exporting it, the landfill wins.