Actually not so. I had to have a survey done to mark some specific spots for calibrating our gps receivers for dgps. He used a Trimble receiver to mark the spot. The spot was within +/- .1 inch and he verified the accuracy using the Russian GLONASS system. I was quite surprised that he actually did this. He said it was standard company procedure.
There was a point in time where the Russians didn't have the money to maintain the system, however that has changed, and I believe they have been adding sattelites to bring it up to full capacity.

I was moving (NEVER use UHAUL) and informed Bell of the move. They said no problem. On the day of the move my old line was cut and I plugged in the phone at the new location and it didn't work.

Big surprise there.
I called up Bell repair and told them of the problem, to which I was told "didn't you know we're on strike?" No, not really. Then I was told it would be no more than a week, as management was doing the repairs.
Meanwhile Rogers had been and gone and my cable and internet were working great.

After a couple of weeks of hassling bell for phone service and the queue going from a week to a month to at least 3-4 months, I told them to forget it at got Vonage that afternoon.

Been a very happy Vonage customer ever since.

In all honesty I only use a single stick into the router. The documentation says it will provide fail over. I believe the idea is that if you use a cable or dsl link and it goes down, only then will it switch over to the cellular service. Most cell providers also provide a coverage map, and the type of cellular service provided ie 1x, gsm, cdma, edge, 3g, hspa. I would use one of those maps during my trip planning so I would be in an area with appropriate coverage.

I have set up an internet connection using the cradlepoint mbr1000. A very cool little device.
I set this up for an OHL team we that we drive around into a 56 person coach along with a 3000W inverter. This allows up to 18 people (18 outlets) to plug in their laptops and get high speed internet access.

The setup was a snap, I just grabbed a rocket stick, plugged it into the router, gave it juice and followed the setup instructions. Setting up the security, and (yes) parental controls was a snap. So long as there is a cell tower they have access to the internet, and most importantly has yet to drop the connection at highway speeds. I'll keep an eye on this thread and answer any questions.

You definately need to use a plastic sheath through the concrete for the copper lines. Bury the copper will below the concrete in a bed of clean sand. The lime in concrete WILLl corrode the copper pipe, fortunately it will take about 40-45 years for it to happen, so you might note really carer.
My father had to bypass all the copper lines for the recirculating hot water heating system laid in the concrete floor a couple of years ago. The house is about 40-45 years old.

As a Canadian, I would rather pay the "copying" tax rather than have a DMCA style copyright act.

Someone used my Gmail address to create a Twitter account to pump a google links get rich quick scam.
I hadn't checked my Gmail for a few weeks and in that time someone used my email address to set up a twitter account. I had tons of tweets from strangers in my inbox. Some dude from wisconson was running some get rich quick scam with google links. I had never signed up for a twitter account so I decided to take it away from the scammer..

Voila, down goes one scammer/spammer and a twitter account for me to boot....not that I couldn't have got one anyways.... Now to figure out how to get rid of the fake followers......suggestions?

That is because you have harmonized tax or HST. Your province gave into the Feds a while back and harmonized the taxes into one. Other provinces where this hasn't happened only pay GST and not provincial tax if from out of province.

This isn't just a security hole its a whole can of worms for what's being suggested by RMS. Suppose I write some javascript to run on the client side and its supposed to return data in a specific way. I do the right thing and make sure the data is clean on the server side so there is no chance of an exploit.
If someone makes a change to the client side javascript that sends back something not expected, but still passes the clean test and it ends up borking my webserver, I'm going to be majorly pissed. There would be no way to test the javascript on the client for the right version because the user modified script would report the right version. As a whole I see this as breaking interactive websites by someone who thinks they know better than the website developer.

What it really boils down to is that there is a difference between controlling & running programs on your own computer and using a website which is not your computer. The web browser is a sandbox for the webserver to run its programs in a safe known environment on the client side. In essence this an extension of the foreign machine running on your machine. There is no other way to have interactive websites.

RMS needs to be reminded that a website is not your local computer.