Wouldn't that suffer with the same problems as previous satellite based
Internet solutions? In particular, high latency. I know this has
been a problem for gamers in the past.
Rob
On Wed, 10 Feb 2021, Stephen Loosley wrote:
[Preorder] Low-Earth Orbit Satellite Internet (up to 150Mb/s)
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021, jw...@internode.on.net wrote:
Seems like no one knows if it would just be search or all the other
Google Workplace functions - translate, groups, gmail, etc.
AFAIk Google have only said they will pull search. If they blocked GMail
in particular they would never be
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, JLWhitaker wrote:
On 24/07/2019 9:19 PM, Stephen Loosley wrote:
Several Linkers have asked for a source .. all I have is this .. it appears
genuine ..
https://imgur.com/gallery/PVJlboN
Cheers
Plus this re Taiwan.
The PLA has a permanent presence in HK already so we could be seeing
regular troop movements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army_Hong_Kong_Garrison
Having said that, if the PLA did move against the people of HK the British
would respond diplomatically but that'd be about
On Fri, 15 Mar 2019, David wrote:
Spyware in exported network equipment isn't anything new, it's been
happening for 20 years. But I think the potential increase in
vulnerability with increasing organisational complexity is a worry.
Sweden identied foreign developed software as a potential
On Sat, 10 Nov 2018, David wrote:
I wonder what is Microsoft's long-term plan?
Further integration in to the open source world I believe.
Being able to run Linux apps on Windows doesn't mean there will be
widespread abandonment of Linux. The trend has been in the other
direction for a
On Thu, 28 Jun 2018, Tom Worthington wrote:
And now Geoff Huston, described by Wired magazine as "the gadfly who got
Australia online". Geoff is owed an Order of Australia, at the very least,
for telling the Australian government to stop messing around with GOSIP and
adopt the Internet.
Canada has been doing something like that with a 6 digit code for a long
time. UK too I think. The US now has a 9 digit zip code (Zip+4) which
allows for very fine grained delivery.
A Canadian Postcode will get you down to a few houses or a group of
townhouses/units. It wouldn't have to go
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/
5-30% slow down on Intel CPUs post fix. Ouch.
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First off check what technology is being used in your area. This will be
useful for context:
https://www.nbnco.com.au/connect-home-or-business/check-your-address.html
A lot of buildings end up with FTTB but your description suggests to me
that you may end up with FTTN or FTTC.
Regardless,
On Mon, 13 Nov 2017, Jim Birch wrote:
Auto-industry elder statesman declares game over. ?It saddens me to say it,
but we are approaching the end of the automotive era. Travel will be in
Personally I'd love to have a self-driving car. Instead of driving I can
use my time in the car more
On Tue, 5 Sep 2017, David Lochrin wrote:
On Tuesday 05 September 2017 at 11:49 Paul Brooks wrote:
The F/A-18 fleet will have to fly from Darwin, or Learmonth base near
Exmouth - greatly increasing the latency of the relay, as well as the
fuel consumption cost per GB.
But even at some
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
How do you let a car know who all your (and the occupants in the car's)
friends are?
The same way I may infer it if I don't know. Human body language has a
lot of subtle queues. Advances in computer inference in the last few
years have
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
I wonder if autonomous cars will be able to distinguish between
* Someone on the pavement waving to a friend on the opposite side of the
road;
* Someone waving at an occupant of the car, who they know;
* Someone waving to alert the
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Kim Holburn wrote:
I have lived in cities where pedestrians can just walk over a road and
cars will avoid them (mostly). Every country and city is different of
course.
You say "If my driverless car is stopping every few metres while on city
streets to allow a jaywalker
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Jim Birch wrote:
This could result in cities that are more pedestrian-oriented, which is
arguably a good thing. It could also make vehicle travel slower and perhaps
even unworkable with some imperious pedestrian populations. It might
eventually result in jaywalking laws
A few years ago the ability to register a TLD was liberalised.
https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs/faqs-en
The organisation applying to register a new TLD has to demonstrate the
infrastructure and process to properly run a TLD and they have to lay a
large amount of
To the extent that it is permitted. Connectivity on the Internet today is
governed by a series of private contracts between large telcos. Routers
will be configured in a manner consistent with these contracts. If an
alternative path is available the routers will indeed use it.
To read more
On Fri, 6 Dec 2013, Roger Clarke wrote:
Personally, I'd say 'insource your book-keeping', but 'outsource the
accounting and tax' except to the extent that you feel comfortable
avoiding the extra cost.
I'm in two minds about in-sourcing book-keeping. I'm on the board of
directors of a US
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Jan Whitaker wrote:
[We didn't hear a thing about it this time, even for disabled access.
What happened to the 'next big thing'? I'd be interested in Linkers'
view of the security of evoting now - have things changed or is
Diebold still sus?]
My view is that the code
On Mon, 12 Aug 2013, Johann Kruse wrote:
In fact this is already the case *now* in many large environments, and
probably most cloud providers (I define cloud in this case as the large
public SaaS/IaaS/PaaS providers like Google, Microsoft and Amazon).
Services run in layers - facilities,
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Jan Whitaker wrote:
[Is this even reasonable or possible? Or does this general just not
know what a sysadmin does? Discuss.]
People occassionally forcast the end of system administration. I think
this comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of what a sysadmin does.
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
Sysadmins can only get at data that is viewable with common programs
e.g. data in files with .txt .docx .wri type extensions.
If the data are held in an application and can only be accessed via that
application, then sysdamins can't get at
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
As a sysadmin who is watching their job disintegrate, pushing the devops
line for many years, but continually forced to specialise, I just know
my future has been commoditised. Sysadmins are a fast disappearing
species, especially in environments
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