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Wi-Fi, Now Available On the ISS
Grant Henninger writes "Rejoice! The next time you have an extra $20 million and decide to visit the International Space Station you won't need to leave the window to tell all your friends how cool it is. The ISS now has a new Wi-Fi network, so all you'll need to do is fire up Twitterrific and announce how much better you are than your Earth-based friends."
It has to be AT&T.
Can't wait to see the bills on this one.
That intelligent life has been found.
Nothing would bum our new alien overlords more than finding out our space stations ain't WiFi compatible.
Now they won't have to smuggle viruses aboard on memory sticks... They can just point a dish at the ISS and jump on their network.
Alright, who is going to be the first to start the new war-orbiting trend?
I wonder if it is an unsecured wireless network. Does being far above anyone else who could access your wireless network count as security through obscurity?
... Must be one hell of a cantenna.
Fresh pron. (That one tattered penthouse they were allowed to bring up is starting to fall apart).
I record my sleeptalking
New hobby: War-rocketing.
I hope they are using WPA to secure the connection, you know, because WEP is pretty useless for security.
The next time you have an extra $20 million...all you'll need to do is fire up Twitterrific and announce how much better you are than your Earth-based friends
The next time I have an extra $20 million, I won't need Twitterific or even a visit to the ISS to let my friends know how much better I am than them. I'll hire people to follow my friends around town to let them know that fact on an hourly basis.
I'm a big tall mofo.
It's been 25 years and they are still using the same logo.
You gotta admit though, it matches their corporate personality. They should've been using it all along.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
And NO CARRIER would actually mean something now.
Plain old sigh.
I don't think a Pringles cantenna is going to be sufficient here... anyone got a spare grain silo laying around?
...a slight upgrade to your plan?
Hire SUPERMODELS instead of mere "people".
You can thank me for this small and yet brilliant upgrade by paying me a small sum of US$ 181829.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
That would explain why every 90 minutes or so "ISS" pops up on my available networks and then promptly disappears.
http://www.kubuntu.org/
I thought there are fears that once the Shuttles no longer service the ISS in 2010, then access to the ISS will be limited to nations that can say "Da, you can have Georgia" in Russian.
So your friends will have to accept you talking through a Russian interpreter. This may well improve the conversation. I mean, how often can you say 'The earth is a blue and white ball' without getting boring. Whereas, a mistranslation such as 'Why on earth are your balls blue and white?' will at least help.
My 20 mil contract does not say anything about WiFi. Should I buy a cup of coffee to use it?
in space, no one can hear you... ahh. forget it
Shouldn't they have fiber by now?
That's what they get for trusting the U.S telcos to deliver.
I had assumed the ISS was wireless already...
Netgear wireless routers-they're out of this world!
Alternatively, it also means they're not running Ubuntu... since they got wireless capabilities... /thanksi'llbehereallweektrytheveal
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To: Gfnnrzx
From: Plftspnk
Subject: New WiFi Hot Spot
Hey dude! I was cruising thru the wasteland in my saucer and I found this great open hot spot. Its right near that crazy pile of junk orbiting planet Irth. Just pull up behind them, so they won't see your ship and you can log your laptop onto the Irth Internet and download lots of cool homosapien p0rn. Also, log onto this site called Slashdot and post something about welcoming alien overlords. They'll get a kick out of it.
Later, dude.
P.S.: What's a lap, anyway?
Have gnu, will travel.
For those who are really serious about (or nuts enough) trying to pick up ISS wifi signal.
Check out when ISS will appear over your head using heaves-above.com
Enter your coordinates and it will let you know exactly when and where it will appear over your horizon.
If they saw off one end of one of the ISS modules, they could make the largest cantenna ever!
Aliens leeching on all the torrents.
MABASPLOOM!