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Satellite Access in Time of War
miladus writes "Interesting report in the Washington
Post this morning about how the Pentagon is buying access to commercial satellites to meet its bandwidth needs. Most of the commercial access will be used for backup to the military satellites and for non-military tasks. And the Pentagon has to compete on the market with all the news organizations trying to cover the conflict in Iraq."
So fast and easy to use, no wonder its number 1!!! Even make use of parental filters!
(ducks)
Someone tell these guys there's a War going on.
At a time like this, they shouldn't be downloading more pr0n!
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GWB: "My troops went Iraq, and all they brought home for me was a lousy body bag"
The Pentagon competing with the likes of CNN and the BBC over sattelite time?
:|
"We now cross live to our correspondant, Richard Jones, in the north of Iraq..."
"Affirmative.. unit 4, prepare to advance on the enemy position to your south."
"Ermmmm...."
I know it wouldn't happen, but hey.. at least try and have a little humour at such a bad time
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
With the military using satelite bandwidth, will this have any effect on SPAM? It would be a shame if the whole SPAMMER infrastructure came to a halt during the war. Most likely I just miss out on re-runs of Gilligan's Island. And as far as politics are concerned, I stopped being ashamed to be an American the day Hill Billy Boy left office.
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
the goddamn size 85 arial fonts should
help the bandwidth problem. Half the
page is only three words.
That's got to help.
Of course I almost had a
seizure when I first loaded it.
-J
Anyone knows about a working webcam in iraq?
I heard that civilian use of GPS may become less acurate, during war. This morning I fired mine up and it says: "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
GWB just wants to make sure his access to nickjr.com remains unimpeded.
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No.. the news agencies will win for sure...
since Washington is probably the main target for retaliation.
Yea? Maybe they should hold the Acadmy Awards there in stead of Hollywood...
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
And the Pentagon has to compete on the market with all the news organizations trying to cover the conflict in Iraq
... We can? Well, thanks!"
"Hello, CBS? We'd like some of that bandwidth you've reserved. No? Well, OK. Say, out of pure curiosity, what are Dan Rather's coordinates?
It is time for our great country of America to end our dependence on publicly held bandwidth!
We will no longer allow our children to be held hostage by the threat of foriegn satellites. We will be resolute and just in our cause, as we cannot risk anymore lives.
Without going to war with any country that threatens to charge us for data access, we would allow the proliferation of ways to take our money and force us to act like a responsible part of the world. We will not allow this to happen.
Why should I argue rationally with someone being irrational? I'll just mock them instead.
Hey! Where's _All My Children_? There's some guy in a green outfit and hat, talking funny while eating dinner instead! Damn networks! You just *can't* get good TV anymore! :-)
Heh.. I know I'm on Slashdot when its called 'Gulf War 1.0' :-)
Does that come after the beta version?