Anyone with a 4-6" telescope should be able to see this if they're in a good viewing location. Tracking it might be a bit more difficult without computer assistance, but it shouldn't be prohibitive. Even at the speeds it's traveling, the distance alone makes the movement seem a bit slow.

We're already up and running. See my sig for details.

Correct. You should try soylentnews.org for your news instead!

Indonesia's phone system is fairly meh in the first place. This isn't something terribly difficult to achieve.

They've done such an incredible job that I'm seriously considering a full move.

Also, they're already getting better sneak peeks at my developing tech.

This is a rectifier using LEDs instead of regular diodes, for one. Most available voltage is eaten up by the LEDs and the design intent if for exactly that. If one goes out, half of the array will still work, unlike regular Christmas tree strings that are wired in series.

"Slashdot is being ruined far more by the complaints than the Beta"

It's going to get ruined even more next. Wait until they see their legitimate bandwith bill we've got planned for their moron engineers. Any possible profit they'll have made in a year will be GONE. Slashdot Beta is going to get a Slashdot effect of its own, and we're going to show DICE exactly what they're fucking with.

We plan a roughly half billion dollar bandwidth bill to hit their ass the end of this month.

Slashdot will either get dropped or totally canned by DICE.

And we're done here. Slashdot deleting this from the firehose just guaranteed their absolute ruin and destruction.

Get ready to reap what you sow, DICE.

The stations are within the mountains, moron.

Try using something like TVFool.com, which will let you know which channels you should be able t receive.

My area only has two listed. And that is exactly what I'm receiving OTA with a digital antenna facing towards those transmitters.

"China is a common destination."

The sheer irony of that...

I've found four rather critical vulnerabilities in your new beta site.

I'm trying to decide whether to use them myself, or sell them and watch someone else wipe out the entirety of Slashdot.

You'd think a site for geeks would know better than to use insecure javascript.

It's like people don't know what the fuck geography and physics do to signal propagation.

OTA isn't an option and I'm right outside of Los Angeles. There are these things called MOUNTAINS that like to block signal. I can receive only two TV station channels, both Korean.

Umm, because geography and physics, you fucking idiot.

Signals don't propagate through mountains very well.

"Plug in your antenna and watch it for free."

I'm surrounded by mountains, and inputting my address into tvfool.com's signal strength tester shows that I can only receive two Korean stations.

And that's exactly all I can receive. If I wanted NBC, I'd have to move to the top of the nearby mountain to even get the header signal, and move another 10 miles further if I wanted any actual usable video and audio.