Meh. One thing we can deduct for sure is that in chance of (dead certainty) there being an actual intelligence out there - they will keep good distance from us.

So, let's give up the cities then?

That fuckwit took the office, rewrote the constitution for his religious liking and got rid of any judges he didn't like. The problem wasn't the democratic elections, but what happened afterwards.

Let's not forget that after getting Democratically elected the government did a little 180, changed the constitution to Islamic spew of hate and shut down majority of judicial oversight. There wouldn't be another democratic elections, in example.

So yeah, strangely enough, a year after having lost to protests Egyptian army seem to be stepping up as the good guys. We'll see how it goes.

Define: energy.

You meant software architects, not programmers, right?

I don't even think you made that up. But which is the 'other' article?

Whoa, whoa, whoa there. In actuality they got slightly drunk, exchanged a bunch of good jokes, couple - not so good ones, arrived at the destination, posed for couple of photos and got their PA's rattle off some politically correct stuff.

The only think what is unsure is why - surely they can afford the flight? Perhaps the whole idea was a brainchild of somebody looking for a knighting and this seemed like a good and reliable way to start associating him/her-self with 'multi-faceted visionaries that are providing insights on how to expand our reach into future'?

Sure, but don't forget that for residental connections there is quite large fixed component of latency in the last mile. IIRC circa 20ms for cable, 5-6ms for DSL and 2-3ms for radio (commercial uplink models, not modded wifi routers).

Would have been a great deal at launch, with all the implications of shipping in thousands and somebody perhaps maybe bothering with more software for it. Nowadays - not quite so.

Ecosystems have value. Their fate is often determined at launch.

Hey, at least they have got Internet Explorer!

We can only hope? That is a corporate PR exercise after all, whoever actually signs up is bound to be a tool.

Technically - microwave links have some of the lowest latency available. Much better than cable or DSL, on par with optical.

Seriously. Financial traders are using them as alternative to optical when they cannot get a straight enough fiber line.

Oh FFS - this isn't reddit!

Unless this NSA thing really starts to get out of hand. There's nothing to distract the sheeple like live 24 hours coverage of USA military might on Fox.