Satellite is pretty much the only option for rural areas. The Canadian north is REALLY, REALLY, big. Many of the camps up there are temporary and not worth running permanent infrastructure up there. Alot of the customers of satelite services are commercial applications. Oil companies, Loggers, other natual resources. The people that live up there are mostly in small towns or cities, but that still leaves millions of square kms that are very remote. Would you really invest in running a fiber to a camp that only services 100 people for 3 years then dissapears? Setup a wireless tower that will not be needed in a few years? Satellite is the way to go. It sure does suck, and it's definately unreliable, but it's really the only option. As I write this, 7 of my sites are affected by this outage. Believe me, if we could get them on another type of serivce, we would, but for now, this is what we get.

You have a nurse at work? Do you work in the healthcare industry? Are you Dr. Bob? Maybe you just need to have your subluxations released.

It's actually exactly an inch. The Americans were tired of being hassled for not using SI units, so they just renamed them.

I think he's referring to the fact the the "best" antivirus solution isn't really the best at catching viruses. It just happens to be the best at not making your computer run like crap.

I'd bet you could blow up a HDD with a Bagel soaked in LOX

I'm not sure, but I think that "peanut butter cookies" may be the answer.

Nah... There is lots of oil locked up in oil sands and shale oil to carry on for another hundred years. If costs really start going up, we'll see more nuke plants coming online. Add this to an increase in renewable energies, and energy prices will be pretty stable for the forseeable future.

I piss in your non-chlorinated pool!

No, that was all you could do. The 'hack' worked by modifying the firmware on the DVD drive to always think it was looking at a pressed (original) dvd. The pirate could then download signed applications and burn them to a disk, which would run. With the above hack, all programs still had to be signed, so it was only good for pirating games.

I'm sorry AC, but you are wrong. Modern engines do cut fuel to the engine. It's right there in the owners manual, and I can see it on the instant fuel economy gauge. On my car, the trigger is RPM > 1600 && ThrottleFullyClosed.

Hmm... Whenever I ask for love, it always says "Ask again later", then rolls over and goes to sleep.

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak outâ"because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak outâ"because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak outâ"because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak outâ"because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for meâ"and there was no one left to speak out for me.

The glass dashboard will keep her safe!

You must be new here... I don't think that, aside from Ask /. and the book reviews, I have ever seen a non-plagiarised summary.

Not good. How did the last 50 years go? Oh I get it! By "Progress" you mean "Neglect" and by "Pointless" you mean "Imossible".