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It won't compete with land based internet in terms of raw speed and latency, but it will be fast enough for many uses, and way faster than current satellite options. Depending on pricing, this could disrupt some of the monopolies in the cable industry. I bet a lot of people would be willing to...

Both light and radio are forms of electromagnetic radiation. Light is also slowed down in air, but not by much.

The answer to how they are going to solve the latency issue is right in your post. Normal satellites used for internet are about 22,000 miles from earth, and these will be around 800, so about 27 times closer. The latency is caused by how long it takes radio waves to travel to and from the...

I won't be cutting the cord anytime soon because I can't get the shows I want anywhere else, or I would have to subscribe to way too many services to do it. I had Netflix for a long time, but they kept removing my favorite shows and movies (and the selection was terrible anyway) so I dropped...

While it's nowhere near the bottom, it's not at the top either. The effective rate is higher in Argentina and Japan, and we are tied with the UK. The statutory rate is NOT the rate that most corporations pay. The average effective rate is only 18.6%. And if you compare corporate tax revenues...

Security costs money. When a company only cares about shareholders and profit, everything else be damned, this sort of thing will continue to happen. A lot of CEO's are short sighted and can't see beyond the current quarter. Until people start facing jail time for these kind of breaches...

In this thread, we see a bunch of people who have no idea what net neutrality actually is. And that's shocking considering this is a site full of tech enthusiasts. Net neutrality is the default state of the internet, that has always existed. There just wasn't a name for it, or a regulation to...

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Yeah, I realized my mistake as I was typing it out, lol. The reason I said 200 words is because most people would likely pick from a very small list of common words that they use daily, rather than randomly generating a passphrase from a large pool of words. So you'll end up seeing passphrases...

For years now I've been recommending pass phrases, based on that XKCD comic. I'm starting to wonder if that is a mistake. For instance, a 4 word phrase isn't much different from a 4 letter password if you think about it. A brute force attempt could just use a dictionary of very common words...

Ironically, the biggest threat of all to TV and movie studios is themselves. You will always have pirates, but what drives the casual person to pirate is the difficulty in obtaining content. There are TV shows that recently dropped off of Netflix, that do not exist on any other streaming...

What others have said. In addition, completely remove (don't just disable) services that are not required for an IoT device. That means NO telnet or SSH or FTP of any kind, no UPnP, no cloud integration. The damn thing should not be able to connect out to the internet on it's own, ever...

This. My company was quoted $24k by AT&T to run fiber into one of our locations from across the street. They waived the fee if we signed a 2 year contract. I'm sure they ate the cost for a large part of those 2 years.

The new location is nowhere near the old one. I think what's going on is the cable is buried in empty space along side the road of the new location, right underneath where the new building is supposed to go. So the cable is in the way and has to be relocated on the other side of the street...

Do you or anyone else know of a camera that does not "phone home", or have SSH/telnet enabled, default passwords you can't change, wifi, etc? In other words, is there a camera that is secure by default? I'm looking to replace an old Foscam. I know it can be blocked at the firewall, but I...

Can you explain why a ladder would ever be placed on a strand? That seems extremely dangerous to me. Is it a cost issue? As in, a ladder is cheaper than a basket lift? Or an access issue where a truck can't reach the cable? Obviously it works as it's done all the time, but I just don't...

Anyone know what kind of video card you need to get decent quality and frame rates? I don't need the absolute best and I'm on a budget. Right now I have an i7 4790k and just using onboard video. I tend to play older games, primarily TF2, which is why I never bought a dedicated GPU. The most...

Damn, what a cool job to be able to build and test these things.

I always wondered what happened to him. He's pretty much wrong on all points though. The especially disturbing part to me is thinking that development isn't really work because the end product is for entertainment, and that development is no more difficult than pushing a mouse around all day...

Not everyone can do manual labor. Tons of people on welfare are disabled or elderly. Most of them still work a job. This myth that people on welfare are just leeches who are perfectly capable of working but choose not to needs to stop. That's a tiny fraction of them and it doesn't freaking...

The deductions are there for a reason. They encourage certain behaviors. I'm sure we could simplify them, but eliminating them would be stupid. And that still has nothing to do with a flat tax. You could get rid of all the deductions and still have progressive tax rates. If a flat tax...

So you want to kill the economy. Brilliant.

No they are not "broke". As long as we can service our debt (which we can, easily), then it's a non issue. The debt is just a meaningless number. You can't equate government budgets to household budgets, it does not work that way. We are a monetary sovereign nation. We can wipe out the debt...

False on so many counts. "wealth redistribution" is always looked at negatively when it's taken from the rich and given to the poor. But it's NEVER seen as a negative when it goes the other direction, which is what we have now. If you are against wealth redistribution, then you should be for...

No it is NOT simpler, unless you are a retard at math and can't use a calculator. I can calculate my tax burden in about 10-15 seconds. 99.9999999999% of the time in doing a tax return is on the DEDUCTION side of things, which flat taxes have nothing to do with.

See my reply above this one. It would result in a massive tax cut to the rich, and little or no tax cut (and probably an increase) to the poor and middle class. There is a reason why these wealthy politicians are pushing for it. They would get a huge tax cut for themselves and for their...

Every flat tax I've seen has been in the 10-15% range. The lowest income bracket is already 10%. The highest is 39.6% at around $415k. A flat tax would be a gigantic blowjob to the wealthy, and have little or no effect on the poor and lower middle class. Now, where are you going to make up...

Yes, it actually is. Progressive taxation is a proven method to strengthen the middle class. Flat taxes only benefit one specific group, the very very wealthy. The people who DO NOT pay their fair share. The people who take in orders of magnitude more "welfare" than the poor. The people who...

A flat tax would not change the time it takes to do a tax return, not even a little bit. The progressive tax structure is the easiest part of the tax code to figure out. It's all of the deductions that complicate things. And you will never get rid of deductions, nor should you. They are used...

I could wait to put the card in until they are done, I just choose not to. I don't sign or enter my pin until I see the total, because mistakes do happen from time to time. It doesn't take any additional time. They are busy bagging the items while I finish up. It's seriously like 5 seconds...

Well some people seem to be upset about having to wait an extra 5 seconds, so yes, this is a great idea. It doesn't actually approve the transaction until you either sign or enter your pin.

I'm sure everyone will just use the same pin for all cards, probably the same one they use for their debit card. Not ideal, but certainly better than signature, which is worthless since no one checks it.

What waiting around? Cashier scans first item, insert card, cashier finishes scanning, sign or enter pin, remove card. Zero time difference between swiping. It's done before they even have your items bagged. I have 3 different chip cards and I've used them in dozens of different stores, and...

If it's taking too long, it's because people aren't doing it right. Every time I've used a chip card, there was no difference in checkout speed. I put my card in as soon as it prompts me, which is usually right when the cashier scans the first item. As soon as they are done on their end, it...

This. As a developer who is forced to test his own code, I frequently miss things that a dedicated QA person or an end user would find. Even writing unit/integration/functional tests and doing TDD isn't enough. You need a completely different set of eyeballs to spot everything, or ideally a...

I've highlighted the problem I have, lol. But I will admit, it's just my opinion. :D

Can someone explain to me why anyone would want a beach cooler with a built in blender? It's hard enough dealing with pre made food and drinks at the beach without getting sand in everything. I imagine using a blender at the beach is just going to be messy and annoying. I could maybe see...

1Password looks nice. I think I'll go ahead and switch.

Also, this is total BS. From the article: No, the price increase is 100% pure profit. It's going to cause unlimited users to move over to more expensive tiered plans. They will be paying more money for the same data. I don't even use that much data on my unlimited plan since I'm on wifi all...

Not true. I'm on unlimited and my contract doesn't end until June of next year. As someone else said, there were loopholes to extend your contract and keep unlimited data.