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Internet Access While Sailing? (Revisited)
El Genio Malvado writes "10 years ago the question was asked, What is the best way to get Internet while at sea? After reading the responses — and after a decade of technological advancement — is there a better, more reliable method? For someone with the ability to telecommute 100% of the time, then the idea of sailing around the world with a paycheck direct deposited must be getting more and more tempting. What does the community at large have for modern resources for constant streaming internet at sea?"
... what about getting sex...
That's what sea cucumbers are for.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Let me guess, you're in management?
A+++ yuck. Would spew again.
It's amazing how much it relies stress too, so it's a win-win for both me and the company.
I would be afraid that whatever technology you select to stay connected with the source of all your income would suffer from outages too often. I think in this case it would increase stress if anything.
However, it would be great way to start a day by waking up in the morning and take a swim in the sea in middle of nowhere.
Middle of the ocean? Why would such a featureless landscape seem any different from another featureless landscape? I would think it would be amazing to go to the Maldives or another resort-y area and take a swim there. But the middle of nowhere ... why?
what about getting sex
Please, I'm in the middle of DC and I'm probably getting as much as I'd get in the middle of the ocean. I am posting on Slashdot after all ... I do enjoy how you commoditize it though. "Sir, may I take your order?" "One hot steamy cup of sex, please!"
My work here is dung.
yes, nothing has 100% uptime, thank you captain obvious. It would also be helpful to let him know that the sea is in fact both blue and wet. And since we're wasting time stating common knowledge, you are a douchebag.
You cant find wired services that have 100% up times.Good luck with the wireless tube dream.
INTERNET IS TUBES!
but now I kinda hate you already...
"Sir, may I take your order?" "One hot steamy cup of sex, please!"
"One fresh sea cucumber coming up!"
Get a diving suit and a pair of wire cutters...
Dive down to an underwater cable, cut it and splice yourself into the middle of it! High bandwidth internet access at sea.
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Right, because rich people are inherently more knowledgeable...
No, they just have the money to buy these kinds of toys. This is the kind of information that you would probably get through the guy who polishes your Bentley every Wednesday. Oh, wait, you don't have your Bentley polished every week? You don't have a Bentley? Yeah, then at your income bracket internet access in the middle of the ocean is likely not possible.
However I'm pretty sure there have been a couple people over the history of mankind who have sailed around the world without internet access.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Yes, for example Columbus. Since he had no internet access, he could not just look up his coordinates in Google Earth to find out where he was, and therefore he thought he were in India when he wasn't. Also a quick check in Wikipedia would have shown him that true Indians look quite different, and he would not have mistaken the native Americans for Indians.
So you see, having internet access is quite important when sailing.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
If you downloaded copyrighted works illegally while you are sailing does THAT make you a pirate? If you did do such a thing where would the RIAA send the notice?
Lol this is just a joke, that is all.
You are entitled to your own opinions, not your own facts.
Also a quick check in Wikipedia would have shown him that true Indians look quite different, and he would not have mistaken the native Americans for Indians.
Perhaps Columbus had a very-early draft copy of a textbook that would come to be approved by the Texas Board of Education?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Kinda offtopic but funny..
If any of you read throught the comments of the ask slashdot from 10 years ago you get this jewel
Satellite Links for anywhere (Score:3)
by dublin (31215)
on Wednesday May 31 2000, @08:31AM (#1036605)
A few years ago, I had the privelege to do one of the coolest consulting gigs of my career. The job was for a global oil company that ships more oil than anyone else, and was very concerned about minimizing environmental damage and having the right command and control structures in place instantly in the event of a spill.
Weather maps... You can get them easily, there are several birds that pass each day that give you nice old SSTV images of your hemisphere.
Charts, if you left port without them then you deserve to die in the belly of a shark.
Pirate, sorry but maps.google.com/pirates is not functional... for some reason there are no live traffic reports of pirate locations.
If you dont have the tools, knowledge, and skill to circumnavigate the globe without internet and radio, then you deserve to die if you embark on such a trip.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Arrrr! there be WiFi pirates!
Hoist the Wifi Jolly roger! Ready the laptop's me maytes this one has load balancing uplinks!
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I feel for you; I understand that what with all the high paid bureaucrats and politicians, hookers cost a fortune there. Here in the midwest you can get a cup of hot steamy sex for twenty bucks or even less.
To be fair, the hot steamy cup of sex in DC is more like slow roasted gourmet coffee that was hand ground and boiled in pure aquifer water then complimented with pure cream and cane sugar. The same thing in the midwest is day-old Wafflehouse sludge that really should've been reheated in the microwave before the waitress spilled half of it on the table when she served it to you.
God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Phone calls made in Rome.
You're both wrong. Sailing can be broken down into one, time tested phrase:
"Sailing is equivalent to standing in a cold shower, ripping up hundred dollar bills".
(Apologies to those who expected an automotive analogy.)
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
"Also a quick check in Wikipedia would have shown him that true Indians look quite different, and he would not have mistaken the native Americans for Indians." Little known fact: Columbus initially created the first Wikipedia entry on "North America", but then some Wikipedia editor deleted it due to "original research".
Yes, for example Columbus. Since he had no internet access, he could not just look up his coordinates in Google Earth to find out where he was, and therefore he thought he were in India when he wasn't. Also a quick check in Wikipedia would have shown him that true Indians look quite different, and he would not have mistaken the native Americans for Indians.
So you see, having internet access is quite important when sailing.
To be honest, Columbus' limitation was not so much the lack of internet access; it was the under-developed state that the Global Positioning System was in at the time (which of course rendered Google Earth nearly worthless). That said you are quite right that a cursory check of Wikipedia would have proven quite helpful in the whole Indian != Indian situation. Imagine the sheepish look on Columbus' face when he asked his hosts for Curry and he was instead offered Corn.
$diff terrorists hippies
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$rm -rf *terrorists *hippies