So they hired this guy?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspritesmods.com%2F%3Fart%3Dh...

Did you even read the NPRM?

1. Drones would be required to transmit their flights over the internet.
2. Drone owners would be required to pay a flightradar24.com type site to receive their flight data (no one will do that for free).
3. Any random fuckwit that thinks "omg drones steeling my soulz or my seekrit gardening tricks" could see the flight data on said sites and possibly go hurt drone owners if they felt slighted by a nearby drone flight.
4. The sites would have to retain the data for 6 months minimum.
5. No current drone would be legal. No transponder add-on kits would be allowed.
6. No other class of aircraft in the US is currently subjected to such rules or anything close to it.

It would be one thing for the FAA to say "by day X, the drone manufacturers need to come up with an RF protocol that scales better than ADS-B for drones (and eventually all aircraft). by day X+Y all drones need to have a transponder transmitting this protocol and a N-number." and leave it at that...that would bring the drone world up to parity with the manned aviation world.

This is basically all the "security-minded" / "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" types got to do whatever they wanted without regard for anything remotely resembling freedom or privacy.

CERN already found a fifth Force on April 1 2015.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhome.cern%2Fnews%2Fnews%2Fce...

Episode 1.
The way Jar-Jar tricked everyone for over a decade into thinking he was just a buffoon put there to sell toys and not the real Dark Lord of the Sith is impressive. Itâ(TM)ll be appreciated someday.

And since it's completely immobile you have to buy one for each location you want to use it in!
More money for Apple!

A voice operated phone.....operators will make a comeback.
Then hipsters will demand actual human operators connect their calls.

WTF?
If you can climb all the way to registry-editing admin, why would you waste that trying to disable an update that prevents you from merely reading memory?
You *ALREADY* owned the box to the point where you could load a custom kernel driver and simply sniff everyone's memory through that at full speed.

Hallowed are the Ori.

The FCC *forced* TP-Link to support open firmware as part of a settlement agreement made AFTER these new rules.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fcc.gov%2Fdocument%2Ff...

Okay, first of all, this is clearly not news... it's from the freaking Daily Mail, as much a newspaper as the National Enquirer. Yeah, of course people *without* self driving cars who've never seen one before would be nervous. Also, people who've never seen a movie say they would have trouble sitting in a dark room for 2 hours. What is going on with Slashdot the last couple weeks? I used to come here for no-bullshit-tech-news, and now we have weird Hillary health posts, the pervious article about "Touch Disease" is total rubbish too. They seem to be going 50% total bullshit posts. I try and avoid HN, because of the comments section, but the editors here should just read over the entries there and copy the good ones. Here, let me do a quick look. 13 hours ago news that Tesla signed a massive contract with the California power grid. TECHNOLOGY NEWS! 3 hours ago Bash 4.4 released. TECHNOLOGY NEWS! 2 hours ago EU Court: Open WiFi Operator Not Liable for Pirate Users. TECHNOLOGY NEWS! Look, I like this place because there used to be good editorial insight into tech news and all the highlights were covered with little BS or outright bias or weirdness. It was never perfect, but damn it was better than other choices. But who the hell is the new editor? Did all the good ones leave? Is no one submitting decent news?

Like, delete this! This isn't news, it isn't true, it's clearly totally balls-out insane made up. What.

Historically, governments have a piss poor track record of actually limiting the scope of such measures.

For example, the income tax in the US was originally advertised as to only apply to something like the top 1% of 1% - and look where it is now (tens of thousands of pages that impact everyone, billion dollar industries around complying with it).

Once you let the government control X or do Y in certain cases, they'll try to expand the allowable cases as far as possible as quickly as possible.
 

The PDF from the FCC explicitly mentions blocking DD-WRT from being loaded.

DEFINITELY. It's an L1. Disney's plans (while possibly evil) are to move the jobs overseas. They aren't "replacing them" in the US... they are having Infosys workers in India do the job. The workers are here very temporarily to learn the job, then go do it over in India. This article is insanely misleading. You absolutely, positively can't get an H1B for "cheap", let alone displace an American worker for it. I've hired two H1B workers in the past, and it was difficult as hell and they were my highest paid employees, by a big margin. Another misleading thing is that they say Infosys has "some of the most H1B's of any company"... and it mentions that it's about 1,000. That's because they have 176,000 employees! Some of the employees are so awesome that they can get transferred to the US under H1B... but those 176,000 workers in India are absolutely not all getting H1B's to do business consulting in the US. This is about offshoring.... which we can dislike! I mean, Disney was being real jerks here. I don't think anyone can directly say Disney is a lovable company, but to weirdly conflate H1B's with what happened with these layoffs is SUPER weird to me, and clearly pretty misleading.