So, the standard model defines 16 particles. But if there are only those 16, then none of them have mass, so there must be another one, that magically provides mass for the others. Weird. You can't make this stuff up, folks... err... oh, wait.
Reminds me of the "dark energy" idea: "Well, we can only find 1/3 of the matter that we know should exist, so the rest is.. well, it's just the dark energy that we can't detect!"
ANAHEIM, Calif.--Now that the Defense Department is embracing network-driven warfare, it is taking a hard look at radically improving, or discarding altogether, some fundamental computer and network architectures.
Flaws in the basic building blocks of networking and computer science are hampering reliability, limiting flexibility and creating security vulnerabilities, program managers said this week at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's DARPATech conference.
Among the IT holy grails that DARPA wants to see revamped are the Internet Protocol, the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnection model--which defines how devices communicate on today's networks--and the von Neumann architecture, the basic design style underpinning almost all computers built today.
Many military commanders have been slow to adapt IT for critical tasks because they sense the equipment is unreliable, said Col. Tim Gibson. He is a program manager for DARPA's Advanced Technology Office, which is leading efforts to radically redefine computer architecture.
"You go to Wal-Mart and buy a telephone for less than $10 and you expect it to work," Gibson said. Yet people usually do not expect the same of their computers. "We don't expect computers to work, we expect them to have a problem."
"If a commander expects a system to have a problem, then how could they rely upon it?" Gibson said.
Gibson cast some of the blame on the packet-based nature of Internet Protocol, which was not designed for foolproof delivery of messages. The protocol cannot guarantee delivery of e-mail, for instance.
"The packet network paradigm probably needs to change," Gibson said. "I'm not advocating throwing out the Internet Protocol completely, but we must absolutely have some mechanism for assigning network capabilities to different users and that capability has to scale to large numbers of devices automatically. The commander wants to be able to send a message and have it delivered, completely, accurately and on time."
Another limitation with the IP approach is the inability to dynamically build networks. The military wants to quickly set up ad hoc networks.
"Static networks are no good for tomorrow's battlefield, because everything will move around all the time," Gibson said. "What we need is dynamic scalability. Today's networks are stationary and have a static infrastructure that provides service to static end-nodes. Moving the node outside its standard service area requires reconfiguring something. Moving infrastructure always means reconfiguring something."
As a result, DARPA wants to fund development of new protocols or enhancements to the existing IP that will allow nodes, such as computers, to automatically sign on to networks in their vicinity.
Another aspects of the networking that DARPA wants to revise is the seven-layer OSI stack, long held as the basic foundation for building network protocols.
The OSI model was not designed for wireless communications devices, said Reggie Brothers, a DARPA program manager.
"The OSI model served us pretty well for the stable, predictable world of wireline communications," Brothers said. "Mobile networks are nothing like that. They are unpredictable and highly variable. We need to think of different layers of the stack to relate to one another directly, like a mesh, instead of one level up to the next."
The increased complexity of the network stack would let nodes enter a network quickly and without human intervention, Brothers said.
The von Neumann architecture will also come under scrutiny from DARPA.
"It is time to ask the harder questions about the ways of computer architecture we've been using for the past 30 years. Is it time to scrap the von Neumann architecture?" asked Anup Gosh, program officer for the Advanced Technology Office.
This architecture, which defines the basic essential parts of a computer as the processor, control uni
Guess again. Not long ago AutoZone got into a major lobbying campaign AGAINST the automative industry, which was trying to get laws passed to basically outlaw 3rd party automobile parts. For safety reasons, of course.
I don't remember any specifics, but I remember seeing the signs in their stores. AutoZone is not necessary part of the "automotive" industry.
OMG! How ignorant can you be? I can't believe all you obviously computer illiterate crack-heads complaining about setting up CUPS. Look, it's EASY:
Ok, here's what I did to get my ML-4500 working right. I couldn't use Samsung's installer thingy, because the printer is attached to a server box, without X or other gui stuff needed by the configuration tool. Things didn't print right for me from clients using that tool, anyway, so I did the following on the (Linux) clients and it worked much better.
To print from Windows clients, all you need is cups on the server. The Samsung drivers work fine on Windows, you just have to add a port to print to the server (if you are doing this). I use Samba to share the printer. To set up Samba to do this, a simple entry in/etc/samba/smb.conf:
My cups configuration in/etc/cups/printers.conf looks like this:
Info Samsung ML-4500
Location The Office
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/printers/0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
To print from the server box (using lpr), or from a Linux client, I took these steps (both on the server and clients):
install ghostscript
foomatic - be sure to configure it right!
go to the linuxprinting.org site (LinuxPrinting.org)
and use the PPD Generated to create the PPD file for the printer. Select the "cups" type for the PPD generator. Copy the generated PPD file to/usr/share/cups/model.
Edit the PPD file, if necessary, and change the "PCFileName" entry from "gdi.ppd" to the correct ppd file name.
Next, enter the following commands (my printer is named "samsung" in the/etc/cups/printers.conf file:
RTFA - Microsoft proposes a standard which any vendor can implement and provides a license for its use on the website describing the process. There sis nothing client specific about the implementation.
The license (for the PATENT(S)) also has an "advertising clause". So not "anyone" can write an implementation of it. If you want to add this to, say, Thunderbird or Evolution, you can't, because the MS license is incompatible (I think) with the licenses for those applications. It's certainly incompatible with GPL, probably intentionally.
Detective chief superintendent Len Hynds, who is the head of Britain's National Hi-Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU), said on Tuesday that the most vulnerable people in society need to be protected from corrupting influences.
Actually, it looks like everyone doing this, including the upcoming Earthlink trial (did you RTFA? - oh, wait - it's slashdot), don't send the signal into your house. Instead, they set up a WAP somewhere in the area, and you connect with your wi-fi card.
This gives you kind of a bonus (if it works), because you can access the 'net not only at home, but anywhere you are close enough to one of the access points they've set up.
It sounds more like India's "democratic communism" can also be as accurately described as "Capitalistic Communism". Certainly there are capitalist markets at work there, or Prudential would not be allowed to own their own call center, and there would be no such thing as a "tech startup", since by the strictest definition, only the government can start a company.
Just as communists can be placed in charge of government by a democratic process, a communist-controlled government can promote clearly defined property rights, well-developed commercial law -- and an entrepreneurial and professional class. In fact, these things already exist in India, as does an active stock market. So, for now, at least, this Capitalistic Communism (Communistic Capitalism??) exists, whether it makes sense or not.
Cattle and poultry are given vital human antibiotics by agribusiness, just in order to allow animals to grow slightly faster. This means that bacteria have a far greater chance to grow resistant to the antibiotics.
The answer to this, of course, is to create genetically modified cattle and poultry that are naturally resistant to common bacterial infections, and drop the use of the antibiotics.
Yes, yeast is used with traditional corn-based ethanol production, but the future lies in producing ethanol cheaply from waste products, often by-product from food crops that would otherwise be burned off.
It's still more expensive than sucking oil from the ground and processing it, but it has potential for greater efficiencis that could reduce the costs significantly.
The ultimate is the Planck unit, which is roughly 10^-33 of a meter, or one thousandths of a billionth of a nano (or something like that). The size is usually stated as 1.6 x 10^-35.
This is the size at which quantum effects dominate, and according to string theorists, is the size you start to see many more dimensions that the usual 4 (I've heard from 6 to 10 dimensions exist at this scale).
OMG! *8* hours before you get a beer! What are you, a masochist or something??!
I require at least 1 beer an hour, which has advantages and disadvantages for the poor client. If it's still not fixed after 8 hours, I'm not pulling out parts and stomping on them, but I may be passed out under the desk until morning.
Well, String Theory ought to be able to handle this. If it can't, then String Theory is out.
String theory *could* explain this, but it describes exactly the same behavior as quantum theory, only with math that is orders of magnitude more complex.
The "quark-gluon plasma" is a description from the point of view of the Standard Model of quantum mechanics.
Yes, and this would be the first time that this aspect of quantum mechanics had some actual proof that it can make predictions about the real world. Very important.
As I understand it, being able to prove that string theory works may never even be possible, because it would require a super collider bigger than the earth, using more energy in 1 second that the sun has produced in its entire life so far.
Looks like MS is using Linus' code too! Check this out from the headers distributed with Visual Studio.NET:
/***
*errno.h - system wide error numbers (set by system calls) *
* Copyright (c) 1985-2001, Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
* *Purpose: * This file defines the system-wide error numbers (set by * system calls). Conforms to the XENIX standard. Extended
* for compatibility with Uniforum standard.
* [System V]
*
* [Public]
*
****/
With some of the same IDENTICAL functional content!!!
Even adding their own copyright notice at the top of the file! How bold! Linus should definately sue Microsoft over this obvious copyright infringement!!
Sorry, but in this case, Constitutional protections were not even part of the argument. The judge ruled that the DMCA simply does not cover this type of activity. From the article:
The appeals court said the 1998 copyright law doesn't cover the popular file-sharing networks currently used by tens of millions of Americans to download songs. The law "betrays no awareness whatsoever that Internet users might be able directly to exchange files containing copyrighted works," the court wrote.
So he was just saying that the DMCA was not broad enough. If you had RTFA (oh, wait... this is Slashdot!), you may be convinced (as I am), that this ruling spells BAD news for the future. The judge is essentially saying "Hey, Congress! You need to write some broader, more restrictive laws. There's too many loopholes in this one! Let's get a tighter reign on this Internet thing".
Note for example, that even though he ruled in favor of Verizon, he thinks their argument makes for bad policy:
Verizon had argued at its trial that Internet providers should only be compelled to respond to such subpoenas when pirated music is stored on computers that providers directly control, such as a Web site, rather than on a subscriber's personal computer.
In his ruling, the trial judge wrote that Verizon's interpretation "makes little sense from a policy standpoint," and warned that it "would create a huge loophole in Congress' effort to prevent copyright infringement on the Internet."
(emphasis mine)
So, he's telling congress to close that loophole. This opens the door for all kinds of new laws, like using ISPs for monitoring, enforcement, even usage taxes (email taxes, anyone?).
"Even if you find a way to realistically create an Internet usage fee or tax, spammers will just find a way around it," said Anne Mitchell, president of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, adding that spammers could just use phony credit cards. "There is really no mechanism set up that would actually cause them to have to pay the money," she said.
As far as copyright infringement goes, SCO has now been spouting about this for a year and thus far SCO has revealed *one* legitimate infringement -- and it was an ancient and trivial bit of code that was removed from Linux without even replacing it, because better code already existed in the kernel.
This just proves that if you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it, and that Darl's campaign is starting to have its desired effect.
The code you are referring to was *NOT* infringed, even though Darl continues to state that Perens "admitted" it was SCO code. In fact, it was code that had been put into *public domain* through some mechanism years ago, and so was not infringing at all. Darl keeps quoting Perens as saying the code "... should not have been there...", but fails to metion that he meant for *technical* reasons, not copyright!!
This started to sound like McBride was really on to something, and may actually have some long-term plan for his company. But then he starts talking out of both sides of his mouth:
So the concept of companies getting together and sharing source code and working together is not an issue for us and we've participated in that and benefited from a number of projects including Samba and continue to do so. We haven't identified any specific IP issues with Samba and that's why we continue to work with it.... That's not the issue, the issue is the GPL and its pushing IP liability issues...
So he derides the GPL, says it violates copyright law, and then talks about participating in Samba WHICH IS GPL licensed! What the fsck! He's against anybody getting an OS for free, but he wants it free himself. How the hell does he think that's going to work.
He also makes it sound like SCO is a contributor to Samba. Does anybody know if SCO has any contributions to the Samba code? And if so, is it going to be left in?
It's kind of hollow words that we are not showing code, because we have shown examples and if we keep showing it, they'll just take that out and say 'no harm no foul.' That doesn't solve the problem.
He means here that it doesn't solve the problem for SCO and his personal golden parachute. IANAL, but I beleive that according to copyright case law, it DOES solve the problem. If they can show monetary harm from the infringement, it goes back to the contract with IBM and Sequent (Sequent being "some IBM folks and some of our folks", so maybe they did it to themselves).
Maybe his argument is going to be that since they suffered some monetary damages, but the Linux kernel is free, that they should automatically OWN the code!! (like that would fly).
Now, if there is an appropriate legal settlement that we think is reasonable and advantageous to our shareholders certainly we'll consider that, but we have to assume we take this to full conclusion and it may very well happen.
I guess he's still got some hope that IBM will offer a buy-out. Good luck, Darl.
So in spite of all the posturing and this "grand vision" that he is trying to portray, this still looks more like an ambitious pump-and-dump scheme, and Darl is obviously very good at it.
But I don't think he really believes what he is saying.
However, if they're willing to sell these things at a reasonable price as the primary medium for music, and end the gouging that exists with CDs, I'd consider it a step forward. If it's just a new medium the industry can overcharge for, then screw it.
Of course they will! Now, naturally they will have to start out a little more than CD's, but just to recoup the equipment investment. But soon the prices will drop dramatically!
Really!
No, no. This time they will!
Promise!
OMG!! Since when did ANYBODY claim Bush said Saddam was behind 9/11. Just because 69% of idiots think it's true, doesn't mean the white house ever claimed it.
And this gets a +5 Informative!?!?.
Ok, I'll bite:
Hey, they recalled Davis... Let's start a recall for Bush! Yea!
But, practical applications for this type of tech could be not-far-off. From the article: "The aircraft could be used for everything from relaying cell phone calls to cable television or Internet connections."
There have already been companies looking at using always-in-flight planes to provide cost-effective broadband service to areas not currently served. This technique is already being explored Raytheon Angel.
Using lasers to power the aircraft could make this alot more practical!
Slashdot Mirror
Reminds me of the "dark energy" idea: "Well, we can only find 1/3 of the matter that we know should exist, so the rest is.. well, it's just the dark energy that we can't detect!"
And only 18 comments posted. Here's the text:
ANAHEIM, Calif.--Now that the Defense Department is embracing network-driven warfare, it is taking a hard look at radically improving, or discarding altogether, some fundamental computer and network architectures.
Flaws in the basic building blocks of networking and computer science are hampering reliability, limiting flexibility and creating security vulnerabilities, program managers said this week at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's DARPATech conference.
Among the IT holy grails that DARPA wants to see revamped are the Internet Protocol, the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnection model--which defines how devices communicate on today's networks--and the von Neumann architecture, the basic design style underpinning almost all computers built today.
Many military commanders have been slow to adapt IT for critical tasks because they sense the equipment is unreliable, said Col. Tim Gibson. He is a program manager for DARPA's Advanced Technology Office, which is leading efforts to radically redefine computer architecture.
"You go to Wal-Mart and buy a telephone for less than $10 and you expect it to work," Gibson said. Yet people usually do not expect the same of their computers. "We don't expect computers to work, we expect them to have a problem."
"If a commander expects a system to have a problem, then how could they rely upon it?" Gibson said.
Gibson cast some of the blame on the packet-based nature of Internet Protocol, which was not designed for foolproof delivery of messages. The protocol cannot guarantee delivery of e-mail, for instance.
"The packet network paradigm probably needs to change," Gibson said. "I'm not advocating throwing out the Internet Protocol completely, but we must absolutely have some mechanism for assigning network capabilities to different users and that capability has to scale to large numbers of devices automatically. The commander wants to be able to send a message and have it delivered, completely, accurately and on time."
Another limitation with the IP approach is the inability to dynamically build networks. The military wants to quickly set up ad hoc networks.
"Static networks are no good for tomorrow's battlefield, because everything will move around all the time," Gibson said. "What we need is dynamic scalability. Today's networks are stationary and have a static infrastructure that provides service to static end-nodes. Moving the node outside its standard service area requires reconfiguring something. Moving infrastructure always means reconfiguring something."
As a result, DARPA wants to fund development of new protocols or enhancements to the existing IP that will allow nodes, such as computers, to automatically sign on to networks in their vicinity.
Another aspects of the networking that DARPA wants to revise is the seven-layer OSI stack, long held as the basic foundation for building network protocols.
The OSI model was not designed for wireless communications devices, said Reggie Brothers, a DARPA program manager.
"The OSI model served us pretty well for the stable, predictable world of wireline communications," Brothers said. "Mobile networks are nothing like that. They are unpredictable and highly variable. We need to think of different layers of the stack to relate to one another directly, like a mesh, instead of one level up to the next."
The increased complexity of the network stack would let nodes enter a network quickly and without human intervention, Brothers said.
The von Neumann architecture will also come under scrutiny from DARPA.
"It is time to ask the harder questions about the ways of computer architecture we've been using for the past 30 years. Is it time to scrap the von Neumann architecture?" asked Anup Gosh, program officer for the Advanced Technology Office.
This architecture, which defines the basic essential parts of a computer as the processor, control uni
I don't remember any specifics, but I remember seeing the signs in their stores. AutoZone is not necessary part of the "automotive" industry.
Ok, here's what I did to get my ML-4500 working right. I couldn't use Samsung's installer thingy, because the printer is attached to a server box, without X or other gui stuff needed by the configuration tool. Things didn't print right for me from clients using that tool, anyway, so I did the following on the (Linux) clients and it worked much better.
To print from Windows clients, all you need is cups on the server. The Samsung drivers work fine on Windows, you just have to add a port to print to the server (if you are doing this). I use Samba to share the printer. To set up Samba to do this, a simple entry in /etc/samba/smb.conf:
printcap name = lpstat
load printers = yes
printing = cups
My cups configuration in /etc/cups/printers.conf looks like this:
Info Samsung ML-4500
Location The Office
DeviceURI parallel:/dev/printers/0
State Idle
Accepting Yes
JobSheets none none
QuotaPeriod 0
PageLimit 0
KLimit 0
To print from the server box (using lpr), or from a Linux client, I took these steps (both on the server and clients):
Next, enter the following commands (my printer is named "samsung" in the /etc/cups/printers.conf file:
lpadmin -d samsung /usr/share/cups/model/samsung-ml-4500-gdi.ppd
lpadmin -p samsung -m
Restart cupsd and print away.
What's so hard about that? You guys must be kidding about it being difficult.
IBM: "We can help you open source it! We've got lots of experience open sourcing -ing stuff, and we know how to do it RIGHT!" ...
...
"5 Billion dollar lawsuit? What 5 billion dollar lawsuit?"
The license (for the PATENT(S)) also has an "advertising clause". So not "anyone" can write an implementation of it. If you want to add this to, say, Thunderbird or Evolution, you can't, because the MS license is incompatible (I think) with the licenses for those applications. It's certainly incompatible with GPL, probably intentionally.
Is he talking about sites like this one?
Actually, it looks like everyone doing this, including the upcoming Earthlink trial (did you RTFA? - oh, wait - it's slashdot), don't send the signal into your house. Instead, they set up a WAP somewhere in the area, and you connect with your wi-fi card.
This gives you kind of a bonus (if it works), because you can access the 'net not only at home, but anywhere you are close enough to one of the access points they've set up.
It sounds more like India's "democratic communism" can also be as accurately described as "Capitalistic Communism". Certainly there are capitalist markets at work there, or Prudential would not be allowed to own their own call center, and there would be no such thing as a "tech startup", since by the strictest definition, only the government can start a company.
Just as communists can be placed in charge of government by a democratic process, a communist-controlled government can promote clearly defined property rights, well-developed commercial law -- and an entrepreneurial and professional class. In fact, these things already exist in India, as does an active stock market. So, for now, at least, this Capitalistic Communism (Communistic Capitalism??) exists, whether it makes sense or not.
The answer to this, of course, is to create genetically modified cattle and poultry that are naturally resistant to common bacterial infections, and drop the use of the antibiotics.
It's still more expensive than sucking oil from the ground and processing it, but it has potential for greater efficiencis that could reduce the costs significantly.
Check out this a quick tutorial for more info.
You're right about that, Plank is not a prefix at all, so it's not the same thing.
But Planck's Constant has to do with energy, not size. Planck's length is a specific linear unit, said to be 1.6 x 10^-33 cm.
This is the size at which quantum effects dominate, and according to string theorists, is the size you start to see many more dimensions that the usual 4 (I've heard from 6 to 10 dimensions exist at this scale).
OMG! *8* hours before you get a beer! What are you, a masochist or something??!
I require at least 1 beer an hour, which has advantages and disadvantages for the poor client. If it's still not fixed after 8 hours, I'm not pulling out parts and stomping on them, but I may be passed out under the desk until morning.
String theory *could* explain this, but it describes exactly the same behavior as quantum theory, only with math that is orders of magnitude more complex.
The "quark-gluon plasma" is a description from the point of view of the Standard Model of quantum mechanics.
Yes, and this would be the first time that this aspect of quantum mechanics had some actual proof that it can make predictions about the real world. Very important.
As I understand it, being able to prove that string theory works may never even be possible, because it would require a super collider bigger than the earth, using more energy in 1 second that the sun has produced in its entire life so far.
With some of the same IDENTICAL functional content!!!
Even adding their own copyright notice at the top of the file! How bold! Linus should definately sue Microsoft over this obvious copyright infringement!!
- Look at and modify every file on the servers (changing ownership first, if necessary)
- Change anybody's password
- Shut down services at will
- Open up services and ports to the Internet, or elsewhere
- Modify firewall rules
The list could have been very long. Can you imagine the reaction of the executives when they saw that list?"Oh my god!!! That's a gaping vulnerability! Get rid of him, right now!"
Idiots
The appeals court said the 1998 copyright law doesn't cover the popular file-sharing networks currently used by tens of millions of Americans to download songs. The law "betrays no awareness whatsoever that Internet users might be able directly to exchange files containing copyrighted works," the court wrote.
So he was just saying that the DMCA was not broad enough. If you had RTFA (oh, wait... this is Slashdot!), you may be convinced (as I am), that this ruling spells BAD news for the future. The judge is essentially saying "Hey, Congress! You need to write some broader, more restrictive laws. There's too many loopholes in this one! Let's get a tighter reign on this Internet thing".
Note for example, that even though he ruled in favor of Verizon, he thinks their argument makes for bad policy:
Verizon had argued at its trial that Internet providers should only be compelled to respond to such subpoenas when pirated music is stored on computers that providers directly control, such as a Web site, rather than on a subscriber's personal computer.
In his ruling, the trial judge wrote that Verizon's interpretation "makes little sense from a policy standpoint," and warned that it "would create a huge loophole in Congress' effort to prevent copyright infringement on the Internet." (emphasis mine)
So, he's telling congress to close that loophole. This opens the door for all kinds of new laws, like using ISPs for monitoring, enforcement, even usage taxes (email taxes, anyone?).
This just proves that if you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it, and that Darl's campaign is starting to have its desired effect.
The code you are referring to was *NOT* infringed, even though Darl continues to state that Perens "admitted" it was SCO code. In fact, it was code that had been put into *public domain* through some mechanism years ago, and so was not infringing at all. Darl keeps quoting Perens as saying the code "... should not have been there...", but fails to metion that he meant for *technical* reasons, not copyright!!
He also makes it sound like SCO is a contributor to Samba. Does anybody know if SCO has any contributions to the Samba code? And if so, is it going to be left in?
He means here that it doesn't solve the problem for SCO and his personal golden parachute. IANAL, but I beleive that according to copyright case law, it DOES solve the problem. If they can show monetary harm from the infringement, it goes back to the contract with IBM and Sequent (Sequent being "some IBM folks and some of our folks", so maybe they did it to themselves).Maybe his argument is going to be that since they suffered some monetary damages, but the Linux kernel is free, that they should automatically OWN the code!! (like that would fly).
I guess he's still got some hope that IBM will offer a buy-out. Good luck, Darl.So in spite of all the posturing and this "grand vision" that he is trying to portray, this still looks more like an ambitious pump-and-dump scheme, and Darl is obviously very good at it.
But I don't think he really believes what he is saying.
Of course they will! Now, naturally they will have to start out a little more than CD's, but just to recoup the equipment investment. But soon the prices will drop dramatically!
Really!
No, no. This time they will!
Promise!
OMG!! Since when did ANYBODY claim Bush said Saddam was behind 9/11. Just because 69% of idiots think it's true, doesn't mean the white house ever claimed it.
And this gets a +5 Informative!?!?.
Ok, I'll bite:
Hey, they recalled Davis... Let's start a recall for Bush! Yea!
Now, howabout a +5, Insiteful.
Sheesh!
I bet you say that to all your users.
(I know I always have...)
But, practical applications for this type of tech could be not-far-off. From the article: "The aircraft could be used for everything from relaying cell phone calls to cable television or Internet connections."
There have already been companies looking at using always-in-flight planes to provide cost-effective broadband service to areas not currently served. This technique is already being explored Raytheon Angel.
Using lasers to power the aircraft could make this alot more practical!