T-Mobile is actually a subsidiary of Deustche Telekom, so not based in Belleview so much...

You prolly won't need them, COWs are self-contained, with their own generators and everything. They're really designed to get cell service restored ASAP when a tower goes down, so have no time to worry about power or other crud, just find a high point, park the truck and get it lit.

COWs are 2g/3g/4g towers, with antennas for each of the bands the cell provider supports. They're typically emergency deployments when a tower goes down or extra bandwidth is needed, say for a huge event like hempfest. OP is wrong, you shouldn't have to rent it, in fact, FWIU, you can't: Sprint/VZN/AT&T/T-Mob will do it all for you, and rather nastily tell you to quit bothering them if you persist in asking questions while they're doing it

Talk to the major cell providers, get some Celltowers On Wheels. They loves them some COW events, every COW is a dozen overage charges waiting to happen.

there's value in what you say, but Microsoft goes the extra mile and is notable in a field littered with horrid corpses of things that never should have been

It's a first-gen hardware product from Microsoft, they should have to pay you for the headaches you're inevitably going to have

You mean a strain gauge on the winch? Yeah, NFW anyone could set that up

I think we found out Steve Ballmer's /. account name

It's not like the illusion of privacy I had in pretending the NSA couldn't get to my HDD data had much basis in reality anyways. I figured it was mostly because I hadn't done anything that got anyone annoyed enough to actually care

Now can we consumers sue BOTH of them for material misrepresentation? They both forgot the C in "crap store"

I'm going with Poe here. Why wouldn't have god made the earth like a jigsaw puzzle? It's the most efficient method for making up seemingly-random shapes that cover a surface. As for the 5000 years versus 165 million years, just because you can't count doesn't mean god can't: he's omnipotent, you're not, get over it.

I'd have thought that it was pretty much axiomatic to anyone that's spent any appreciable time surfing the intarwubz that e-fame is horribly fleeting. Andy Warhol's 15 minutes in web 3.0 terms is down to about three, and you've already wasted two on the ads. During this entire evolution, many people that have been paying attention for a bit have mentioned people like Klein, Manning, Drake, Thompson, Gilmore, Rivest, Schneier, and many other Names any security researcher ought to be intimately familiar with, only to get the electronic equivalent of blank looks. It's only a matter of time before Snowden gets a similar treatment. This is why when an electronic activism opportunity presents itself, we have to act NOW, not when we get a round tuit, because it will be long over by the time your round tuit gets there.

MIT researchers can become wet using water. Seeing through things by using wavelengths that penetrate them isn't particularly new, and one of the selling points with wi-fi is that it can go through walls Non-news for nerds, stuff that natters

Given the recent revelations about the NSA dragnets of literally every single email, call, text, and pretty much any other form of electronic communication, it's pretty much a given that the best way to attract the NSA's attention is fog a mirror.

place "anyone who was serious" on a bell curve of thieves... Extra bonus, if it DID get shipped abroad, the NSA would directly have arrest power