An easy way to verify this, which I have demonstrated numerous times, is to remove the horizon a different way: turn your back on the moon, bend over, and look at it through your legs.
The illusion immediately ceases, and the moon becomes its "normal" size.
In my home state (Indiana) the big ISPs funded an initiative that has resulted in a bill before the legislature right now that makes community networks illegal.
Yep!! And last session SBC paid the Republicans to pass a bill that let them block competitors from access to their DSL circuits--which are provided over the monopoly infrastructure the people of the state have granted them the right to operate.
Now they want to stop the little towns, who have waited now almost two decades for good Internet access, from taking matters into their own hands for the public good.
It's Indiana House Bill #1148, and my understanding is that it's almost certain to be passed.
Don't forget: these are the champions of the free market, passing all this stuff that interferes with free markets.
I use asterisk extensively throughout my wireless system. I am a small WISP with a coverage area of about 500 square miles.
As long as the APs aren't heavily loaded it seems to do fine. My own connection, gotten through an old Armada 4160T laptop situated in a fisherman's drybox out in my garden, goes through 4 wireless hops to the Internet, but my call quality in the 99% case is extremely good.
My favorite asterisk feature is "porting" local landlines that come in to the sites where my WPOPs are located. I put an asterisk box at each of them, and now I have 7-digit free calls to about 20 local exchanges that are within the area serviced by my network.
asterisk has been ported, in alpha right now, to the openWRT platform as well.
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An easy way to verify this, which I have demonstrated numerous times, is to remove the horizon a different way: turn your back on the moon, bend over, and look at it through your legs.
The illusion immediately ceases, and the moon becomes its "normal" size.
> We should just create community-funded networks
In my home state (Indiana) the big ISPs funded an initiative that has resulted in a bill before the legislature right now that makes community networks illegal.
Yep!! And last session SBC paid the Republicans to pass a bill that let them block competitors from access to their DSL circuits--which are provided over the monopoly infrastructure the people of the state have granted them the right to operate.
Now they want to stop the little towns, who have waited now almost two decades for good Internet access, from taking matters into their own hands for the public good.
It's Indiana House Bill #1148, and my understanding is that it's almost certain to be passed.
Don't forget: these are the champions of the free market, passing all this stuff that interferes with free markets.
Principles are fine, but money talks.
I use asterisk extensively throughout my wireless system. I am a small WISP with a coverage area of about 500 square miles.
As long as the APs aren't heavily loaded it seems to do fine. My own connection, gotten through an old Armada 4160T laptop situated in a fisherman's drybox out in my garden, goes through 4 wireless hops to the Internet, but my call quality in the 99% case is extremely good.
My favorite asterisk feature is "porting" local landlines that come in to the sites where my WPOPs are located. I put an asterisk box at each of them, and now I have 7-digit free calls to about 20 local exchanges that are within the area serviced by my network.
asterisk has been ported, in alpha right now, to the openWRT platform as well.
These is exciting days for VoIP.