The problem is that the AT&T and T-Mobile HSPDA+ frequencies don't overlap. So you would be limited to just 2G data.

-molo

I know that for instance mortgage is a different thing in the US, in Holland the debt stays with you and if selling the house doesn't cover the debt you get to keep paying, whereas Americans can apparently just abandon the house and walk away, the debt is with the house.

This is not true. When people say they walk away from a mortgage, it essentially means they are declaring bankruptcy and their credit is destroyed. If you sell a house below the price you paid for it, you will take a loss and still have to pay off the loan.

-molo

Westfield also operates dozens of malls in the US and a number in New Zealand as well. See this list on wikipedia.

-molo

Where is the RTG? I'm sure the future lunar colonists will want to be able to locate the RTG. If just to secure it. (FYI, this was part of the ALSEP experiment package)

-molo

Look at the records for 144MHz and 430MHz long distance ham radio contacts (two-way contacts; ignore the EME section, those are being bounced off the moon). Note that distances are in kilometers. Tropospheric ducting is occasionally strong enough to even propagate 430MHz FM signals long distances, like the 2672km contact between northwestern Spain and a ship off the coast of Mauritania.

Most countries limit their ham radio licensees to less than 2kW. In the US it is 1.5kW. In the UK it depends on the license level, I think. This is more than enough power to reach long distances, even on VHF and UHF. The reason your FM broadcast radio doesn't reach long distances is basically that broadcast radio receivers are generally very poor in terms of sensitivity. And the antennas used are similarly poor. Another factor is that the US radio market (maybe the UK also?) is fairly saturated in metropolitan areas. When you drive close to the edge range of a transmitter, often another station begins interfering. There is a zone where you can receive neither very well without directional antennas.

Some more reading on VHF propagation is on Wikipedia.

-molo

GnuCash.

-molo

Hi, the name is molo.

As for "cheating", I gave them a HTTP request. They decided to answer it with an article. No cheating involved.

Cheers.
-molo

You know you can just clear your nytimes.com cookies to have them forget about the 20 articles you already read, right?

-molo

Amy Winehouse, is that you?

-molo

The problem is you can hide different payloads in each, including malware. If a program (or antivirus) treats it as one file type and not the other, then the remaining data will be ignored.

-molo

If you're wondering what they're talking about you should watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54XYqsf4JEY

For a demo, see the 38:00 mark. The windows "calc.exe" is modified to simultaneously a valid windows exe, a valid zip archive, and a valid PDF. The same file can appear benign to anti-virus tools even though there is malware contained in the file when interpreted in certain ways.

-molo

Lets not do that either.

-molo

Yes, do it, but don't do it with taxpayer money and federal subsidies.

-molo

Okay, I found this on wikipedia about land use:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_updraft_tower#Conversion_rate_of_solar_energy_to_electrical_energy

Since this is "only" 800m, it will need a larger collector area (how much larger is unclear).

-molo

I didn't say anything about cost. Regarding nuclear, you should look at the power output for one of those plants. They are 2000MW or greater. Although I have to agree on disaster risk.

-molo