Municipal broadband is a good thing. It might not be a needed item in population centers. But once you get outside of those areas and into "the sticks" your options disappear just as quickly as all the other traces of modern civilization. You're left with two, one, or sometimes no option.
My company currently has the best internet connection it's ever had in almost 20 years, provided by wireless point-to-point from the nearest city. In terms of cost, uptime, bandwidth, you name it, this connection is better in every category. The ILEC in the area (Frontier, formerly Verizon, formerly GTE) can't event begin to compete. All they offer is T1. Comcast just started to pull cable, but why would I choose to switch the worst company in the western hemisphere for an inferior solution? Besides, we all know what Comcast has to offer.
I'm going to stick with the better solution provided by the local government. If something better comes along, great. If anyone in my state's capitol starts to try to make this illegal they will hear from me ad nauseam.
In the last diagram the drone (object 200) is shown directly over what appears to be a smartphone (objects 600 and 602).
Looks like in addition to tracking your location for the "Bring it to me" function, they plan to use your smartphone as the "landing beacon" for the final part of approach and landing. Didn't see that mentioned in either article. Looks very interesting.
Put your name on it, then walk around with it in your pocket. Go about the world as you normally would.
When a friendly "kills" you, they will take it from you. After your respawn and get your gear from your corpse, you have to track down that person and negotiate for your ear, err, "3D printed selfie".
It may be impossible to disassemble the ISS and replace the bad parts in orbit.
Why? You have EVA access to all external parts of ISS Alpha. You should have access to all internal parts of the station. The real issue I've seen come up is all about seals. The station is mostly modular, single piece segments attached to a node. Just seal up that node junction internally (like it was before the module arrived), disconnect external connections, use the station arm to pull the module free, replace the seals, reconnect.
I can think of at least a Lego and a car analogy, but I can't be bothered to type it all out.
"Just liking the luminescent shields seen in the film..."
Uh, when do "see" any shielding in Star Wars? Star Trek, sure, they are popping up all the time.
But I can't remember one scene in Star Wars 4, 5 or 6 where shielding is displayed. Except for the briefing scene in 6 when discussing the attack plan on Death Star 2, and that's just a holographic projection.
Too bad Pied Piper pivoted from their original business. They had an early beta where you could compress and then upload your music and let their service check for any copyright problems. Certainly not impossible as you claim.
Simply, Wow. +6 for effort, producing a working business model, and because I'm literally watching the Oscars right now.
I have been watching this Mars One drama for a little while now, and besides my main question of "Why not Moon First?", I was always trying to figure out the actual economics of it all. As others in this thread have pointed out NASA + ESA + RSA + JAXA, et all., are still firmly in LEO. Currently only one option available for human taxi service to said LEO.
However, your description sounds like the best I've heard to date. As I read it I could imagine the "Mars One Crew Transfer Vehicle" circa 2024 in LEO with 64-bit color windows from W.O.O.L. How the fuck would the crew inside even know the difference?
Landing them back on Earth (a.k.a. Mars) in a Truman Show situation with the whole reality TV bit ready to go is icing the cake thick.
The ILEC's (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) need competition. I work in an area only a few thousand feet from fiber. After Frontier bought that piece of Verizon land (many years ago) they stopped all FiOS deployments. The only landline access available to my main office is T1, currently $650/mo. That's 1.5Mbps up/down to the lowest bidder with Frontier providing the local loop. I was paying $2,600/mo for four T1's to get 6Mbps. The lines went down continuously. Customer service was a joke. I lived in this hell for almost ten years until the neighboring city started providing internet access. We were able to get a point-to-point 5.8GHz solution for less than $1,000 setup and 400/month that provides 30Mbps up/down and has near 100% uptime, better than anything provided by the the local telephone (err, data transport) companies.
I have DKIM and SPF in place for a domain that needs to send out important emails. It is not that difficult to get in place (assuming you're already comfortable with DNS, SMTP, Public/Private key encryption and debugging email problems). Setting up OpenDKIM alongside a PostFix install is straight-forward. And you don't need to buy a Certificate from a CA to get it working for the public.
Google checks both the SPF and DKIM when receiving mail, and you can see the results their servers come up with in the header of the received mail. Your message will also display "signed-by: [domain.tld]" in the header details popup.
I have never seen or gotten reports of emails that pass both DKIM and SPF checks going into Google's "spam" folder or otherwise being delayed/redirected.
In short, I find it very useful to help assure my customers that data will be kept flowing properly, to the best of my ability anyway. Haven't looked into DMARC much.
When something is shipped via UPS, only one party pays UPS. Sure, sometimes the other party pays the first party so they can pay UPS, but UPS doesn't collect money for the same package from multiple parties.
Actually, this is no longer true, at least for the example you used with UPS. I recently placed an order with a company and selected the lowest/slowest level of shipping. I got an email a day later from UPS telling me that I had a package on the way via UPS Sure Post and an expected delivery date. The email also explained that if I wanted to get my package quicker I could upgrade it, while it's already en-route, to a higher level of service. UPS just needed a little more money. None of this had anything to do with the original company I ordered from.
I am not saying that this is how the internet should work now or in the future.
I've never met a sysadmin that did have something to do most of the time. They'd probably just waste their free time doing something silly like playing tabletop games.
As for the grandparent post, it appears to be holding up well. To everybody else, what an excellent time to check on the status of your routine system backups, disaster recovery plans and other such things that might come into play if/when this baby hits. Are you ready to lose power and/or telco?
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Probably right down the street from InFocus, FLIR, and Clarity Visual Systems. All of which are based in that same area of Oregon.
Tagged Orygun to help people get the pronunciation.
each can cost more than $ 100k to obtain
Holy shit! No wonder the last time I was in Rome it was ~€80 taxi fare from the airport to my hotel.
Kicker: Got to the hotel and found out they had a free shuttle.
Municipal broadband is a good thing. It might not be a needed item in population centers. But once you get outside of those areas and into "the sticks" your options disappear just as quickly as all the other traces of modern civilization. You're left with two, one, or sometimes no option.
My company currently has the best internet connection it's ever had in almost 20 years, provided by wireless point-to-point from the nearest city. In terms of cost, uptime, bandwidth, you name it, this connection is better in every category. The ILEC in the area (Frontier, formerly Verizon, formerly GTE) can't event begin to compete. All they offer is T1. Comcast just started to pull cable, but why would I choose to switch the worst company in the western hemisphere for an inferior solution? Besides, we all know what Comcast has to offer.
I'm going to stick with the better solution provided by the local government. If something better comes along, great. If anyone in my state's capitol starts to try to make this illegal they will hear from me ad nauseam.
In the last diagram the drone (object 200) is shown directly over what appears to be a smartphone (objects 600 and 602).
Looks like in addition to tracking your location for the "Bring it to me" function, they plan to use your smartphone as the "landing beacon" for the final part of approach and landing. Didn't see that mentioned in either article. Looks very interesting.
Put your name on it, then walk around with it in your pocket. Go about the world as you normally would.
When a friendly "kills" you, they will take it from you. After your respawn and get your gear from your corpse, you have to track down that person and negotiate for your ear, err, "3D printed selfie".
Jesus, really? I set up my IPv6 in 2008 with everybody else and can still rattle off my /48 block prefix just like an IPv4 block.
If I want to start the process of shutting down my computer, why wouldn't I go to a menu of things to start?
Not a problem. You might want to look into the Apollo 12 flight. It was hit by lightning twice shortly after liftoff.
Lightning rods.
It may be impossible to disassemble the ISS and replace the bad parts in orbit.
Why? You have EVA access to all external parts of ISS Alpha. You should have access to all internal parts of the station. The real issue I've seen come up is all about seals. The station is mostly modular, single piece segments attached to a node. Just seal up that node junction internally (like it was before the module arrived), disconnect external connections, use the station arm to pull the module free, replace the seals, reconnect.
I can think of at least a Lego and a car analogy, but I can't be bothered to type it all out.
"Just liking the luminescent shields seen in the film..."
Uh, when do "see" any shielding in Star Wars? Star Trek, sure, they are popping up all the time.
But I can't remember one scene in Star Wars 4, 5 or 6 where shielding is displayed. Except for the briefing scene in 6 when discussing the attack plan on Death Star 2, and that's just a holographic projection.
Too bad Pied Piper pivoted from their original business. They had an early beta where you could compress and then upload your music and let their service check for any copyright problems. Certainly not impossible as you claim.
Simply, Wow. +6 for effort, producing a working business model, and because I'm literally watching the Oscars right now.
I have been watching this Mars One drama for a little while now, and besides my main question of "Why not Moon First?", I was always trying to figure out the actual economics of it all. As others in this thread have pointed out NASA + ESA + RSA + JAXA, et all., are still firmly in LEO. Currently only one option available for human taxi service to said LEO.
However, your description sounds like the best I've heard to date. As I read it I could imagine the "Mars One Crew Transfer Vehicle" circa 2024 in LEO with 64-bit color windows from W.O.O.L. How the fuck would the crew inside even know the difference?
Landing them back on Earth (a.k.a. Mars) in a Truman Show situation with the whole reality TV bit ready to go is icing the cake thick.
The ILEC's (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) need competition. I work in an area only a few thousand feet from fiber. After Frontier bought that piece of Verizon land (many years ago) they stopped all FiOS deployments. The only landline access available to my main office is T1, currently $650/mo. That's 1.5Mbps up/down to the lowest bidder with Frontier providing the local loop. I was paying $2,600/mo for four T1's to get 6Mbps. The lines went down continuously. Customer service was a joke. I lived in this hell for almost ten years until the neighboring city started providing internet access. We were able to get a point-to-point 5.8GHz solution for less than $1,000 setup and 400/month that provides 30Mbps up/down and has near 100% uptime, better than anything provided by the the local telephone (err, data transport) companies.
Or just install Windows 10 Tech Preview.
Once again, predicted by Sci-Fi.
I have DKIM and SPF in place for a domain that needs to send out important emails. It is not that difficult to get in place (assuming you're already comfortable with DNS, SMTP, Public/Private key encryption and debugging email problems). Setting up OpenDKIM alongside a PostFix install is straight-forward. And you don't need to buy a Certificate from a CA to get it working for the public.
Google checks both the SPF and DKIM when receiving mail, and you can see the results their servers come up with in the header of the received mail. Your message will also display "signed-by: [domain.tld]" in the header details popup.
I have never seen or gotten reports of emails that pass both DKIM and SPF checks going into Google's "spam" folder or otherwise being delayed/redirected.
In short, I find it very useful to help assure my customers that data will be kept flowing properly, to the best of my ability anyway. Haven't looked into DMARC much.
When something is shipped via UPS, only one party pays UPS. Sure, sometimes the other party pays the first party so they can pay UPS, but UPS doesn't collect money for the same package from multiple parties.
Actually, this is no longer true, at least for the example you used with UPS. I recently placed an order with a company and selected the lowest/slowest level of shipping. I got an email a day later from UPS telling me that I had a package on the way via UPS Sure Post and an expected delivery date. The email also explained that if I wanted to get my package quicker I could upgrade it, while it's already en-route, to a higher level of service. UPS just needed a little more money. None of this had anything to do with the original company I ordered from.
I am not saying that this is how the internet should work now or in the future.
I've never met a sysadmin that did have something to do most of the time. They'd probably just waste their free time doing something silly like playing tabletop games.
Or, PlanetSide 2.
As for the grandparent post, it appears to be holding up well. To everybody else, what an excellent time to check on the status of your routine system backups, disaster recovery plans and other such things that might come into play if/when this baby hits. Are you ready to lose power and/or telco?
"people die from smallpox and guns and other unknown diseases"
I'm pretty sure at least one of those was unintentional.
Agreed.
From the Earth to the Moon, Episode 8, "We Interrupt This Program"
(25:40)
"Nobody wants to see a mother in pain."
"They do if it's news."
"That's not news. It's invasion of privacy."
Holy audio warning Batman!
I turned the volume up at first to hear person, then some guy asked a question and broke my ears.
The 4 hours light bulb is somewhat cool.
Sounds like another resident of Silo 18.
You mean setting the advertisement background color to #fefefe instead of #ffffff isn't good enough for the Feds?
A large portion of the disc (exactly 8,000 contiguous bytes) has been rewritten with only four different bytes: 0x41, 0x43, 0x47, 0x54.
Aren't those hex for ASCII characters A, C, G and T? Isn't that the same four characters that are used in DNA sequences?