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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.
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?
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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.
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And NO CARRIER would actually mean something now.
Plain old sigh.
You just know that NASA will probably cooperate with a stunt like this. Heck, they may even hold a contest for engineering students: "Who can be the first to ping our wifi network from a ground station and hold the signal from horizon to horizon?"
Winning team gets a photo-op with NASA engineers, bragging rights, and job interviews when they graduate.
Runners-up have to be content with $250 cash prize and a promise NASA will actually read their resumes.
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There is nothing inherent in the phrase Wi-Fi that mandates that a network is Internet-connected. Indeed, nothing in the "article" suggests any access to the Internet from the station. This appears to just be an extension of their existing LAN.
Evidently, the key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy.
...a slight upgrade to your plan?
Hire SUPERMODELS instead of mere "people".
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That would explain why every 90 minutes or so "ISS" pops up on my available networks and then promptly disappears.
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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?
contrary to what the summary suggests, wifi doesn't mean internet connection.
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Shouldn't they have fiber by now?
That's what they get for trusting the U.S telcos to deliver.
It looks like it might actually be possible to connect to ISS wifi from earth. The ISS is around 350km above the surface, and current records for surface to surface links are a little bit larger than that.
The surface to surface number is for two custom endpoints, not one standard, one custom, doesn't have to deal with the ionosphere, and was between two stationary locations; but it suggests that the challenge isn't insurmountable. A radio astronomer could probably eat this one for breakfast.
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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, which hosts an onboard amateur station using the callsign NA1SS:
http://www.arrl.org/ARISS/
Many of the astronauts have ham radio licenses.
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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.
Yeah but the 5 or 6 messages us earthbound folk would send would be drowned out in the noise of the millions of emails from a guy named Dick Strong telling them about ch3ap V1aGr4 and randome Nigerians.
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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.
you already can... get a ham license and a 2 meter radio and packet TNC.
I send message to the astronauts on the ISS on a regular basis. you can leave a message in their TNC if they are not live chatting.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Aliens leeching on all the torrents.
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