10 Marines were involved in the Battle of Derna... Don't buy the hype!
In the end, The US Government still paid a $60,000 ransom for the release of the crew of the Philadelphia. The total ransom paid through the conflict was over $2,000,000.
Owning a smart phone with a data plan isn't a human right. Don't want to pay that much for the data plan? Don't. Live without it. Billions do it every day.
BULLSHIT!!!! Try slapping an AT&T SIM into an unlocked smartphone and see what happens. I guarantee that within 10 minutes of connecting to a BTS, you WILL get a text saying that an unwanted data plan has been added to your account. It doesn't matter if the phone is configured for data or not, as soon as an IMEI shows up that matches a qualifying smartphone, they are going to slam you into a data plan.
You then have to wait until the end of the billing cycle and contest this with customer service to have the unwarranted charges removed from your bill. Even if you request that data NEVER get added to your bill, eventually it will happen again!
You can't have sex on a laptop... my $500 table wins!!!
You can't play beer pong on a laptop.... again, table wins!!!
You can't put 10 laptops on your laptop... Another win for the table!!!
You can't have sex, while playing beer pong and using your laptop on a laptop... Tables rule!!!
The Cingular/AT&T Integration project was a fucking disaster on many levels. I can only speak about what happened in the Northeast Market from the perspective of a subcontractor. It was like watching a blind monkey trying to hump a greased up basketball!
The integration project consisted of taking the Blue sites (AT&T) and the Orange sites (Cingular) and merging them into what they dubbed Gold sites. It's doubtful that they'll go through the added trouble of trying to migrate the Pink sites (T-Mobile) into the Gold. The only places they could do that would be BTS sites that actually have shelters or are indoors. The standalone Tyco cabinets do not have enough room for the T-mobile radio equipment. Plus it would necessitate recabling all the T1's feeding the radios to the new combined sites. All the Gold sites should have been cabled with 25 pair, enough capacity for 12 T1's.
What's truly sad was the fact that a majority of the necessary Outside Plant work needed for network expansion was done in 2006, enough to allow for 400% network growth to both the GSM and UMTS side. All that needed to be done was run the patch cabling to any added Nokia or Ericsson equipment at the BTS'es and make the necessary additions in the switches. 5 years later and most of that hasn't been done yet.
AT&T sure isn't buying T-Mo for towers.... T-mo is mostly setup on co-located sites and doesn't have many of their own.
Stop with the FUD... Coop to Coop Protocol has always had less than 5% losses! Pigeon packets never needed the GPS bloat and that was all a marketing ploy by Garmin.
Which version of the book you want if you go to a book store?
"I'd like a copy of Huckleberry Finn."
"Do you want Huckleberry Finn Classic or the New Nigger Free Huckleberry Finn?"
And that will naturally lead to a trademark infringement lawsuit by Coca-Cola...
This might come as a surprise but to get married, you have to meet a girl. To meet a girl, you have to leave your mom's basement. So most Slashdotters will never understand the joys and pains of marriage.
Their main corporate offices actually occupy suites in the same building... GoDaddy is disguising the fact that they are profiting from acting in cooperation with DHS by shifting the seized domain registrations to their "sister company" located a couple doors down the way from their own offices.
75 years ago, this was a decisive element of the Allied campaign from D-day through the crossing of the Rhine. Signal Corp units carried cages of pigeons homed to coops in London for message transmission back to Allied High Commond to avoid signal interception.
Once a pigeon is born, it's homed to a coop... Route persistence with absolutely no way to corrupt the routing table. Pigeon retain their ability to find their home coop even if they've been away from it for years.
The signal transmission is virtually unsniffable, the only way to intercept the message is to destroy the transport. Homing pigeons in flight to their home coop are NOT like the feral pigeons you see in a city park... They are 50mph missles that are very hard to track and eliminate. Using high quality bred transports, like Janssens or Husken Van Riels would increase speed, distance and reliability.
Each hub could support a inward star topology of 1 to 3000 miles in diameter. Smaller diameter stars would reduce data loss and increase speed marginally. With their many to one topology, they can be used in multicast mode if several birds from different home coops are released from the same location.
Overall data losses would be low, approximately 2% to 5% of all data packages sent would be lost. Raptors and inclement weather would be the leading causes for data loss.
Pigeons have a very low operating cost, feed and water and a place to roost... Significantly lower than any petro based transport like station wagon or plane. They also have a service lifespan on 5 to 10 years.
Now add to that the Green element, pigeons have a minuscule carbon footprint, they eat grain that can be cultivated locally and their waste makes excellent fertilizer to sustain grain production. You can't forget the fact that they are a source of meat once their usefulness as a carrier expires.
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I'm going to step away from the keyboard and lcd, get out of my mom's basement and breathe the fresh, clean air!
FTFY!
In the end, The US Government still paid a $60,000 ransom for the release of the crew of the Philadelphia. The total ransom paid through the conflict was over $2,000,000.
Owning a smart phone with a data plan isn't a human right. Don't want to pay that much for the data plan? Don't. Live without it. Billions do it every day.
BULLSHIT!!!! Try slapping an AT&T SIM into an unlocked smartphone and see what happens. I guarantee that within 10 minutes of connecting to a BTS, you WILL get a text saying that an unwanted data plan has been added to your account. It doesn't matter if the phone is configured for data or not, as soon as an IMEI shows up that matches a qualifying smartphone, they are going to slam you into a data plan.
You then have to wait until the end of the billing cycle and contest this with customer service to have the unwarranted charges removed from your bill. Even if you request that data NEVER get added to your bill, eventually it will happen again!
Only 1 address will used by MS, the other 666,623 are for Northwind Traders.
You can't have sex on a laptop... my $500 table wins!!! You can't play beer pong on a laptop.... again, table wins!!! You can't put 10 laptops on your laptop... Another win for the table!!! You can't have sex, while playing beer pong and using your laptop on a laptop... Tables rule!!!
The Cingular/AT&T Integration project was a fucking disaster on many levels. I can only speak about what happened in the Northeast Market from the perspective of a subcontractor. It was like watching a blind monkey trying to hump a greased up basketball! The integration project consisted of taking the Blue sites (AT&T) and the Orange sites (Cingular) and merging them into what they dubbed Gold sites. It's doubtful that they'll go through the added trouble of trying to migrate the Pink sites (T-Mobile) into the Gold. The only places they could do that would be BTS sites that actually have shelters or are indoors. The standalone Tyco cabinets do not have enough room for the T-mobile radio equipment. Plus it would necessitate recabling all the T1's feeding the radios to the new combined sites. All the Gold sites should have been cabled with 25 pair, enough capacity for 12 T1's. What's truly sad was the fact that a majority of the necessary Outside Plant work needed for network expansion was done in 2006, enough to allow for 400% network growth to both the GSM and UMTS side. All that needed to be done was run the patch cabling to any added Nokia or Ericsson equipment at the BTS'es and make the necessary additions in the switches. 5 years later and most of that hasn't been done yet. AT&T sure isn't buying T-Mo for towers.... T-mo is mostly setup on co-located sites and doesn't have many of their own.
Stop with the FUD... Coop to Coop Protocol has always had less than 5% losses! Pigeon packets never needed the GPS bloat and that was all a marketing ploy by Garmin.
Which version of the book you want if you go to a book store? "I'd like a copy of Huckleberry Finn." "Do you want Huckleberry Finn Classic or the New Nigger Free Huckleberry Finn?" And that will naturally lead to a trademark infringement lawsuit by Coca-Cola...
When I first got email in the late 1800s there were no junk filters.
Junkmail filters in the late 1800's were called Winchester repeating rifles.
Adultery is also a felony! So the wife should have been charged and tried for allowing someone illegal access to her vagina.
This might come as a surprise but to get married, you have to meet a girl. To meet a girl, you have to leave your mom's basement. So most Slashdotters will never understand the joys and pains of marriage.
To get groped... Most Slashdotters would have to leave their basement!!!
How many lawyers would this hold? Filled with attorneys and scuttled into the Marianas Trench... WIN!
Their main corporate offices actually occupy suites in the same building... GoDaddy is disguising the fact that they are profiting from acting in cooperation with DHS by shifting the seized domain registrations to their "sister company" located a couple doors down the way from their own offices.
75 years ago, this was a decisive element of the Allied campaign from D-day through the crossing of the Rhine. Signal Corp units carried cages of pigeons homed to coops in London for message transmission back to Allied High Commond to avoid signal interception. Once a pigeon is born, it's homed to a coop... Route persistence with absolutely no way to corrupt the routing table. Pigeon retain their ability to find their home coop even if they've been away from it for years. The signal transmission is virtually unsniffable, the only way to intercept the message is to destroy the transport. Homing pigeons in flight to their home coop are NOT like the feral pigeons you see in a city park... They are 50mph missles that are very hard to track and eliminate. Using high quality bred transports, like Janssens or Husken Van Riels would increase speed, distance and reliability. Each hub could support a inward star topology of 1 to 3000 miles in diameter. Smaller diameter stars would reduce data loss and increase speed marginally. With their many to one topology, they can be used in multicast mode if several birds from different home coops are released from the same location. Overall data losses would be low, approximately 2% to 5% of all data packages sent would be lost. Raptors and inclement weather would be the leading causes for data loss. Pigeons have a very low operating cost, feed and water and a place to roost... Significantly lower than any petro based transport like station wagon or plane. They also have a service lifespan on 5 to 10 years. Now add to that the Green element, pigeons have a minuscule carbon footprint, they eat grain that can be cultivated locally and their waste makes excellent fertilizer to sustain grain production. You can't forget the fact that they are a source of meat once their usefulness as a carrier expires.