I live in Bermuda and we get DirectTV there by using larger dishes to pick up the signal. When it first came out, the local satalite store employed a hacker to program smart cards so that people not have to worry about getting a subscription based out of a US address. These smart cards would unlock everything including the pay per view. Once a month DirectTV would block the hackers codes and everyone would just get a new card. Eventually DirectTV got smart and found out who the hacker was and took him into their employ. They also narrowed the signal so we only get half the channels. The satalite store now has hired another hacker and we have to change our cards every week. Not near as much fun as it once was.
Along the same lines, Titan by Stephen Baxter is about a manned mission by NASA to titan. About a third of the book actaully takes place on Titan with the astronauts having to try and amintain a level of self sufficiency. Altogether a good book.
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I live in Bermuda and we get DirectTV there by using larger dishes to pick up the signal. When it first came out, the local satalite store employed a hacker to program smart cards so that people not have to worry about getting a subscription based out of a US address. These smart cards would unlock everything including the pay per view. Once a month DirectTV would block the hackers codes and everyone would just get a new card. Eventually DirectTV got smart and found out who the hacker was and took him into their employ. They also narrowed the signal so we only get half the channels. The satalite store now has hired another hacker and we have to change our cards every week. Not near as much fun as it once was.
Along the same lines, Titan by Stephen Baxter is about a manned mission by NASA to titan. About a third of the book actaully takes place on Titan with the astronauts having to try and amintain a level of self sufficiency. Altogether a good book.