Its not interesting at all. The sat providers have been around for a while.
The data rates for 60$/mo are 700kbps/128kbps. Yuck.
As quoted from said website:
"A: With the HughesNet® Home service plan, you may enjoy download speeds up to 700 Kbps, with typical speeds of about 500 Kbps to 600 Kbps during peak times. Upload speeds, which are capable of reaching 128 Kbps, are typically 70 Kbps to 80 Kbps during peak hours."
And check out this gem: a href=http://go.gethughesnet.com/HUGHES/Rooms/Displ ayPages/LayoutInitial?pageid=fairaccess&Container= com.webridge.entity.Entity[OID[BD8BE0839F414B4FB7C DDCA10EFA5369]]>Here
Bypass some unknown number, and you get reduced to slower than 1/2 modem. And you paid for how much again? Better not download above 8.333 MB per hour... but 56k modem can download @ 14.4MB an hour..
So, you pay 300$ + 60$ a month for "access". Harumph. Give me a modem and download resumers any day.
After watching some of their documentaries and interesting content, I (as a US citizen) would be willing to pay the British TV-Tax if I could access an unencumbered SD/HD version of the shows they make.
If they don't do that, Ill just bittorrent them anyways. I'm not going to buy crippled software/media when the thieves can provide better for free.
To me, freedom matters more than cost. Capitalism at its finest.
To hell with blocking/filtering ports. Just go after their class b/c block.
The whole blocking ports garbage just doesnt work in the real world. I'd just write a program to change local and remote ports and use standard servers to query "locked-in" hosts. Yeah, just like what Kazaa and Skype does.
Then I guess you've never used tools like "Ethereal" or whatever it's called now.
Run iPlayer. Watch what it talks to in Ethereal.
Download restricted media a bunch of times. Note what servers you download from.
Now on router, throttle all machines that iPlayer talks to down to 3 KB/s.
I dont care about encrypted crap and all. If you use regular IP with TCP (yah, no tunnel blocking and all), I can see your to/from information. I dont care about payload.
There are problems with the legal system (criminal and civil), but what jgrra23 said is just plain wrong.
Many lawyers do a lot of good works (ACLU, and many pro-bono). It just happens that a few nasty types ruin the names for a good ones. And yes, I do personally know quite a few good ones.
Tell me lawyers are bad when somebody comes a-suing you...
And trust me, Mr. Beckerman, we all appreciate the wonderful job you're doing.
As an aside, 3 coordinates are enough for a triangulation for a point on earth (technically, a line perpendicular to the ground). 4 points gives altitude too.
Course, multipath does tend to screw up measurements. That could be fixed if there were dual antennas at 37.5 cm distant (running parallel). With complex math, multipath can be eliminated that way. Thats why truckers use 2 CB antennas.
Journalists are only journalists if they are approved and licensed according to state and national registry laws that make them immune from prosecution from certain crimes that would be illegal in us "citizens".
Hmm... State "ok"ed journalism. Where does that sound like?
Even if the crazy "corporofascist neocon bastards bla bla" poster has no idea about Chinese government, China is one of the most polluted countries in the world.
The pollution has to do with how China implemented globalization. They forsake the environment in order to catch up with the rest of the major powers. I guess they're leveraging the land in that tech will fix it later.
I really think you have to live in the USA to understand where we come from.
Our country was founded that government is evil. The tradeoff here is that no government is worse, so it's a lesser of 2 evils choice.
Because of the belief that government (and direct influence, like govt provided health) is evil, we should keep as much as we can away from it. Also, most have a deep distrust against government.
Nations like Denmark are not evil, or disgusting because they have socialized medicine, or they provide subsidized university degrees, but we distrust it. Quite a few people don't understand why they do "hate" it, but many do understand that government will screw it up. That's just our culture.
I'd say it probably also has to do with Randian-like beliefs within one of our ruling parties (Republicans). However, due to Bush, 2006 congressional elections swayed to strong Democrat, and we will most likely have a Democrat ruler at 2008.
USA is a 2-party election with very small 3rd parties that have little/no sway. We have an election every 2 years, changing all of the House and 1/3 of senate. The House and Senate are a bicameral Legislative body. House terms are 2 years, while Senate terms are 6. Every 4 years is a presidential election.
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More likely is that he thought of it first and beat you to it.
Shucks. Guess you don't get tenure.
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Stupid link problem
Its not interesting at all. The sat providers have been around for a while.
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The data rates for 60$/mo are 700kbps/128kbps. Yuck.
As quoted from said website:
"A: With the HughesNet® Home service plan, you may enjoy download speeds up to 700 Kbps, with typical speeds of about 500 Kbps to 600 Kbps during peak times. Upload speeds, which are capable of reaching 128 Kbps, are typically 70 Kbps to 80 Kbps during peak hours."
And check out this gem: a href=http://go.gethughesnet.com/HUGHES/Rooms/Disp
Bypass some unknown number, and you get reduced to slower than 1/2 modem. And you paid for how much again? Better not download above 8.333 MB per hour... but 56k modem can download @ 14.4MB an hour..
So, you pay 300$ + 60$ a month for "access". Harumph. Give me a modem and download resumers any day.
The contradiction is that the very fabric that controls C and other "hard variables" changes itself.
What is the drift of C over 4B years? How could we even calculate an unknown drift value?
Go read up on google about that.
C has changed, along with other "constants".
Good thing I'm using the shadow weave, by Shar.
:D
She has no such restrictions for her devout
The DM suddenly dies of a heart attack!
Hugggnh!
Non-quantum ellipsis math is not prime factorization, and theoretically "really tough" to do on a Qomputer.
Can a regular computer be fast enough so that it can beat a q-computer at its own game?
Now that I think of it, ions carry electrical charge, and can be used as a "wire".
If you could ionize a short beag, and then hook a stun gun on it, you'd ionize and electrify the beam in that it would probably knock them out.
It would probably take a few thermocouples with a radioactive battery.
After watching some of their documentaries and interesting content, I (as a US citizen) would be willing to pay the British TV-Tax if I could access an unencumbered SD/HD version of the shows they make.
If they don't do that, Ill just bittorrent them anyways. I'm not going to buy crippled software/media when the thieves can provide better for free.
To me, freedom matters more than cost. Capitalism at its finest.
To hell with blocking/filtering ports. Just go after their class b/c block.
The whole blocking ports garbage just doesnt work in the real world. I'd just write a program to change local and remote ports and use standard servers to query "locked-in" hosts. Yeah, just like what Kazaa and Skype does.
Then I guess you've never used tools like "Ethereal" or whatever it's called now.
Run iPlayer. Watch what it talks to in Ethereal.
Download restricted media a bunch of times. Note what servers you download from.
Now on router, throttle all machines that iPlayer talks to down to 3 KB/s.
I dont care about encrypted crap and all. If you use regular IP with TCP (yah, no tunnel blocking and all), I can see your to/from information. I dont care about payload.
Filter it all and let the sysadmin sort it out.
Heh. You ought to look at my freaks list.
;D ... or me
Somehow, people dont like my sig
Doesn't bother me any. I think annoying "annoying people" is fun.
Sheesh.
There are problems with the legal system (criminal and civil), but what jgrra23 said is just plain wrong.
Many lawyers do a lot of good works (ACLU, and many pro-bono). It just happens that a few nasty types ruin the names for a good ones. And yes, I do personally know quite a few good ones.
Tell me lawyers are bad when somebody comes a-suing you...
And trust me, Mr. Beckerman, we all appreciate the wonderful job you're doing.
When you mention Lawrence and computers, I think of this Story.
And they're not good thoughts.
---If you activate too many times, all you need to do is call a 1-800 number for a new activation key.
Too true.
By the way, hows that MS "Plays For Sure" thing doing? All those songs bought play on the Zune and such, right?
Raunchy! Nasty! A Linux Babe for each one of you!!
No Ports Barred!
And this is "Free Speech Zone" USA and "Here's a quilt, Indian" USA.
Whoops, you're on a no-fly list. Get the hell outta here.
As an aside, 3 coordinates are enough for a triangulation for a point on earth (technically, a line perpendicular to the ground). 4 points gives altitude too.
Course, multipath does tend to screw up measurements. That could be fixed if there were dual antennas at 37.5 cm distant (running parallel). With complex math, multipath can be eliminated that way. Thats why truckers use 2 CB antennas.
You're perfectly right.
Journalists are only journalists if they are approved and licensed according to state and national registry laws that make them immune from prosecution from certain crimes that would be illegal in us "citizens".
Hmm... State "ok"ed journalism. Where does that sound like?
Even if the crazy "corporofascist neocon bastards bla bla" poster has no idea about Chinese government, China is one of the most polluted countries in the world.
The pollution has to do with how China implemented globalization. They forsake the environment in order to catch up with the rest of the major powers. I guess they're leveraging the land in that tech will fix it later.
Marx himself said that Capitalism and Communism fail for the same reason: human nature.
Capitalism works for those fortunate that have potable water, disease free food, stable electricity grid, and a place to live.
It doesn't work for the other 5 billion people though.
What?! You mean that DailyKos news article isnt true?!?
I really think you have to live in the USA to understand where we come from.
Our country was founded that government is evil. The tradeoff here is that no government is worse, so it's a lesser of 2 evils choice.
Because of the belief that government (and direct influence, like govt provided health) is evil, we should keep as much as we can away from it. Also, most have a deep distrust against government.
Nations like Denmark are not evil, or disgusting because they have socialized medicine, or they provide subsidized university degrees, but we distrust it. Quite a few people don't understand why they do "hate" it, but many do understand that government will screw it up. That's just our culture.
I'd say it probably also has to do with Randian-like beliefs within one of our ruling parties (Republicans). However, due to Bush, 2006 congressional elections swayed to strong Democrat, and we will most likely have a Democrat ruler at 2008.
USA is a 2-party election with very small 3rd parties that have little/no sway. We have an election every 2 years, changing all of the House and 1/3 of senate. The House and Senate are a bicameral Legislative body. House terms are 2 years, while Senate terms are 6. Every 4 years is a presidential election.
You all posted to tell me how wrong I was, didnt you?
Ill let you decide if I'm a troll.