If we imagine this is to distribute Amazon Prime content, all you need is a "decoder" box that caches the most popular content locally, downloaded in the background as it is broadcast on a regular schedule. Unique, one-off content can be streamed in real-time, but the vast majority of people want to watch the new Transformer movie, not the latest eco-warrior documentary - the former can be predictively cached, the latter can be streamed on demand.
Failure rate for that many satellites will be high, too.
No, the failure rate won't go up, the number of failures may go up, but the rate won't likely change.
They'll need constant replacement/de-orbiting.
OK, so what? Roads need constant repair, so do train tracks, as well as airplanes and almost everything else? The upside is they'll likely find cost savings in volume production.
I see it all the time - in most (if not all) states, gas stations are only allowed to change their prices once in a 24 hour period - the wise retailer waits until his neighbor gas station sets their price first, THEN sets their own price to compete. Sometimes station owners want to maximize profits, sometimes they want to move product, sometimes they want to starve their competitor of sales.
Here in Texas I see easily a dozen "competitors" that want me to "buy" my electricity from them, all with various prices and incentives to compel me to choose them over my current provider. I have plenty of competition, and I see no need to run parallel power infrastructures for each provider that wants to enter the market.
So what? Is everyone supposed to be able to afford Satellites?
2) By the time a few companies build theirs, there will be no room for others.
A few companies have built "theirs", and still we keep throwing up more each year - satellites aren't permanent, they fall out of orbit, are taken out of orbit, etc...
I'm sure Amazon will lobby against net neutrality so they can prioritize traffic from their own services and slow down Netflix etc.
As a private network, wholly-owned by Amazon, why would they need to worry about "net neutrality"? Why would they carry "Netflix" on their private network?
Right - Amazon is going to deploy 3K satellites and offer them to all competitors at cost... Are you confusing Amazon with a non-profit organization?
Amazon, if funding this project 100% privately, is within it's rights to refuse to carry any service it chooses to, because it's theirs, they own it, and that's it. I don't understand hobbling a successful company willing to undertake such a massive and risky venture, so that it's competitors can benefit from their investment and risk.
So the CEO assumes responsibility for every decision a company makes? Wow, that's a big responsibility, I mean, that means everyone that works at the company avoids responsibility for any problems, because ultimately the CEO is responsible. Heck, if I was going to take on everyone's redponsibilities I'd think I deserve 50-100x the average employee's wages.
Lying is a sign of incompetence, period. That she's a woman, a Democrat, or merely saying things you agree with doesn't change that simple fact.
We'll never know if Elizabeth Warren would have been just as successful if she hadn't lied about her heritage - all we know is that she did, and if she's as smart as people say she is, she must have seen some benefit to the lie.
Any reasonable jammer can have its signal reduced to minimize the area affected... a product that spills out a kilometer past the targeted area is pure garbage.
Yup, your case sounds like a very typical example of the average convicted felon serving time./Sarcasm
I'm sorry you were picked randomly and put behind bars without cause./sarcasm
It's prison, you're being punished, and cellphones are prohibited. That prison is interfering with your ability to manage your affairs while behind bars isn't really the primary concern of the jailers.
The way I would use 'future send' would be to mark an email to be sent to a person just before they start their work day, so that my email is one of the first emails they see when they open their mail client.
Rather than try and compose the email so that it's finished and sent when the recipient at work, I can casually write it the night before and schedule it's sending (and by extension it's arrival) to be 8:00 AM local time.
A tenant can sublet their apartment, with the landlord's permission, and for a 10% fee. The tenant can not establish primary residence elsewhere - if they do, and the landlord can prove it, the lease can be broken.
The police can request any camera information and warrant for that data to be supplied under the Homeland security act (IIRC).
The police can interrogate the doorman. The police can review security camera footage. The police can feed the CCTV footage into their own facial recognition software, if interested to. The police can stakeout the lobby.
What does the on-site facial recognition system add to the already existing way the police can monitor anyone's comings and goings from any apartment building?
So it's wrong because it's not a doorman? Door men can be bribed, convinced to lie, etc. Is that really a better system than a single facial recognition system in the lobby?
How would you like to have a record of everyone who visited your building for the last 20 years and who they were with?
How is this any different from a security camera and sign-in book in the lobby of the building?
This is at the entrance to the 700 unit apartment building, and BTW, a 700 unit apartment building is a pretty big structure, I bet their lobby/elevators aren't open to anyone that chooses to ride the elevators on a whim...
Doormen don't keep detailed ledgers of every single person living there and their visitors, when they came, who with, forever - etc.
It's called a guest book, and every time I enter a skyscraper in NYC I am photographed, ID'd and the date/time of my entry/exit is recorded - exactly how is this different? Because it allows me to potentially avoid stopping at the reception desk, getting out my ID and posing for a picture?
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The speed of light from geostationary orbit to Earth is 119 ms, so time two (up and down) that is 440ms or almost a 1/2 second.
Check your math.
If a one-way trip is 119 ms, a round-trip would be 238 ms, not 440 ms.
If we imagine this is to distribute Amazon Prime content, all you need is a "decoder" box that caches the most popular content locally, downloaded in the background as it is broadcast on a regular schedule. Unique, one-off content can be streamed in real-time, but the vast majority of people want to watch the new Transformer movie, not the latest eco-warrior documentary - the former can be predictively cached, the latter can be streamed on demand.
Failure rate for that many satellites will be high, too.
No, the failure rate won't go up, the number of failures may go up, but the rate won't likely change.
They'll need constant replacement/de-orbiting.
OK, so what? Roads need constant repair, so do train tracks, as well as airplanes and almost everything else? The upside is they'll likely find cost savings in volume production.
I see it all the time - in most (if not all) states, gas stations are only allowed to change their prices once in a 24 hour period - the wise retailer waits until his neighbor gas station sets their price first, THEN sets their own price to compete. Sometimes station owners want to maximize profits, sometimes they want to move product, sometimes they want to starve their competitor of sales.
Here in Texas I see easily a dozen "competitors" that want me to "buy" my electricity from them, all with various prices and incentives to compel me to choose them over my current provider. I have plenty of competition, and I see no need to run parallel power infrastructures for each provider that wants to enter the market.
1) Not everyone can afford satellites, and
So what? Is everyone supposed to be able to afford Satellites?
2) By the time a few companies build theirs, there will be no room for others.
A few companies have built "theirs", and still we keep throwing up more each year - satellites aren't permanent, they fall out of orbit, are taken out of orbit, etc...
I'm sure Amazon will lobby against net neutrality so they can prioritize traffic from their own services and slow down Netflix etc.
As a private network, wholly-owned by Amazon, why would they need to worry about "net neutrality"? Why would they carry "Netflix" on their private network?
Right - Amazon is going to deploy 3K satellites and offer them to all competitors at cost... Are you confusing Amazon with a non-profit organization?
Amazon, if funding this project 100% privately, is within it's rights to refuse to carry any service it chooses to, because it's theirs, they own it, and that's it. I don't understand hobbling a successful company willing to undertake such a massive and risky venture, so that it's competitors can benefit from their investment and risk.
So the CEO assumes responsibility for every decision a company makes? Wow, that's a big responsibility, I mean, that means everyone that works at the company avoids responsibility for any problems, because ultimately the CEO is responsible. Heck, if I was going to take on everyone's redponsibilities I'd think I deserve 50-100x the average employee's wages.
Define "negligent" executives - is it "negligent" to hire a competent staff, but the staff makes a mistake?
Lying is a sign of incompetence, period. That she's a woman, a Democrat, or merely saying things you agree with doesn't change that simple fact.
We'll never know if Elizabeth Warren would have been just as successful if she hadn't lied about her heritage - all we know is that she did, and if she's as smart as people say she is, she must have seen some benefit to the lie.
Hillary has a definition of 'super predator', ask her.
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Triangulation isn't necessary, cellphones have GPS.
Fix the hardline phone system, don't tolerate cellphones.
Any reasonable jammer can have its signal reduced to minimize the area affected... a product that spills out a kilometer past the targeted area is pure garbage.
You ever heard of VHF marine radio?
Guards have walkie talkies, and pretty sure prisons have hardline phones
No, install the 'fake cell tower', capture all calls, forward them to phone system (let calls go through) and record them.
The technology is available off-the-shelf, and the information gleaned could help prison better manage population.
Yup, your case sounds like a very typical example of the average convicted felon serving time. /Sarcasm
I'm sorry you were picked randomly and put behind bars without cause. /sarcasm
It's prison, you're being punished, and cellphones are prohibited. That prison is interfering with your ability to manage your affairs while behind bars isn't really the primary concern of the jailers.
The way I would use 'future send' would be to mark an email to be sent to a person just before they start their work day, so that my email is one of the first emails they see when they open their mail client.
Rather than try and compose the email so that it's finished and sent when the recipient at work, I can casually write it the night before and schedule it's sending (and by extension it's arrival) to be 8:00 AM local time.
A tenant can sublet their apartment, with the landlord's permission, and for a 10% fee. The tenant can not establish primary residence elsewhere - if they do, and the landlord can prove it, the lease can be broken.
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/rent...
The police can request any camera information and warrant for that data to be supplied under the Homeland security act (IIRC).
The police can interrogate the doorman.
The police can review security camera footage.
The police can feed the CCTV footage into their own facial recognition software, if interested to.
The police can stakeout the lobby.
What does the on-site facial recognition system add to the already existing way the police can monitor anyone's comings and goings from any apartment building?
So it's wrong because it's not a doorman? Door men can be bribed, convinced to lie, etc. Is that really a better system than a single facial recognition system in the lobby?
How would you like to have a record of everyone who visited your building for the last 20 years and who they were with?
How is this any different from a security camera and sign-in book in the lobby of the building?
This is at the entrance to the 700 unit apartment building, and BTW, a 700 unit apartment building is a pretty big structure, I bet their lobby/elevators aren't open to anyone that chooses to ride the elevators on a whim...
Doormen don't keep detailed ledgers of every single person living there and their visitors, when they came, who with, forever - etc.
It's called a guest book, and every time I enter a skyscraper in NYC I am photographed, ID'd and the date/time of my entry/exit is recorded - exactly how is this different? Because it allows me to potentially avoid stopping at the reception desk, getting out my ID and posing for a picture?