Yep, and almost all of those are Executive Orders which means from the desk of the POTUS, and not condoned officially by Congress, even if they do uphold his right to limited use of them. But all agencies with appointees are expected to honor these EOs, so it's really about what the POTUS has asked the agencies to do.

Quite scary.

Then there's the expectation to have a second "on demand" ready reserve (I don't care if it's spun as health-care professionals, look at the groups listed, some of them could as easily be given riot shields and bean-bag guns) http://www.factcheck.org/2010/04/obamas-private-army/

Maybe I wasn't explicit enough, or maybe it's local colloquialism rearing it's ugly head again.

In the States the most popular cordless handset in a home in the 90's was the 900MHz band variety. They had a further range than most other cordless handsets at the time, allowing you to make it as far as a large backyard with no problem.

Thus the connotation is that it would have a range as far as your home.

and does it use a lot of "femto-cell" style towers? It would seemingly have to. Meaning, how well would it work in a car?

can't read the article, the site's down :p

I don't normally feed the trolls, but in this case:

Meh, I'm glad that I'm able to walk to 40% of the places I want to visit instead of needing to use my auto. I chose to live in an area that was downtown and if the price I have to pay is the lack of satellite TV, well, I guess that's the price I'll pay to try and live a little bit greener. Not that I need a satellite anyways. I'm a bit more interested in getting out and seeing my community than staying at home watching TV.

I have a feeling, however that you may enjoy coming over to my "historic apartment roof" and correcting your own miserable life with a little fast-action freefall-dive instant-stopping.

Ok, that's enough feeding the trolls for one day.

Ya know, I really wasn't going to worry over it. I was getting my mind all made up to just move over to a completely wired-delivery life, and go ad-hoc like the up and coming trend seems to be (or: like the trend seems to be if you listen to twit.tv) and have been trying to get my wife to understand just what Hulu and the like are, and to use DSL for that delivery, but then I read that there may be a way to do it from inside the apartment.

Ah well...

As for putting things on the roof, nope. But installing a phased array in the upper part of my living room is an option. Right up until I looked at those links you sent me and found that it would cost well more than it would be worth to me to try and put something in ... for $2100 I'll buy the shows I want to watch on iTunes ;)

Or deal with it? I don't have a balcony.

Ok, but I live in an apartment in an old (historic, something like 117 years old so far) building and they won't let us attach anything to the exterior walls/roof. My windows all face north. I want to use a satellite to receive more programming. I am adverse to paying Comcast one more dime.

What are my options again?

This sounds great, if it would work for me. The 16 foot ceilings mean I could talk the wife into letting me mount even a mesh in the ceiling area of the apartment, if I could conceal it afterwards.

And then there's this sort of evidence that we're more like 300 years off (or 4300)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/volatile/Niemitz-1997.pdf

I'm just gonna wait and see what Paul Thurott has to say on WW

No. Care to refresh my memory?

oh dear, I can see this turning into quite the /. thread if the genpop ever reads this ;)

I think that for the T-Series, the organic isn't necessary, but for the i-series, that it is essential. Since they get lumped together, I think it's like calling a book "stack of leaves" or some such. Sort of a colloquialism that turns into a generic name, or something.

I see words fail me this morning. Back to i++ and foreach I go...

If she's going to be that hung up, then there's not much you can do about it.

My brother and I are in roughly the same place. He's pissed that I'm still friends with his ex-wife ... ON FACEBOOK.

Because of that we haven't spoken except to be civil at my sister's wedding since they divorced. One time.

I have the same feeling as you, it takes two to fight.

Que the Emperor and his new clothes?

The Portable Document one ...