Actually, in the most likely form of a universe permitting reverse time travel, specifically an Everett multiverse, next week's lottery numbers would be completely useless. Simply put, you'd go back in time with the numbers, and then the drawing would come up and it wouldn't be the same numbers... because you'd be in another branch of probability (Hilbert) space.

Well, part of the reason it is all there (and other ISM bands like 915 MHz and 5.8 GHz) is because the stuff *can* work with interference. This property is useful both when dealing with other "intentional radiators" and with industrial emissions, so it makes sense to put them in the same area. Pretty much the FCC and other regulatory agencies put an (almost) free-for-all sign up and said "if you can make it work, go for it, just don't complain if it doesn't work at all." However, you wouldn't be able to use the ISM bands -- or, quite frankly, any frequency close to them -- for weak-signal work like satellite. It would be like trying to whisper at Woodstock.

I guess they were waiting for the recent Supreme Court decision which basically says that a company can say "you can't sue us because we told you so."

Linus doesn't scream. He obliterates with sarcasm.

But still not by default, what it sounds like, which means it is still marginal at best.

Round-trip latency can definitely be improved. It just means using LEO satellites instead of GEO.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311361/ One year, during the Ottawa Linux Symposium, I did walk into the Dominion Tavern and found Jesus.

There are a number of things attractive with LLVM/Clang: the code base is cleaner, some people feel better about the license, and so on. The quality of the generated code, however, is significantly worse, at least at this time.

Given that Skype operates in countries (like India) where VoIP is illegal unless there is a back door, and Skype is said to be "in compliance", you *know* there is a back door.

"Maybe the idea of a heart transplant from a convicted killer weirds you out. ... If so, on some level you believe in magic." Either that or I believe that the death penalty will over time be seen as a source of harvestable organs.

"Streisand effect" anyone?

"Hey, mind if I take in this superconductor cooler through the checkpoint?"

This, of course, was a very dangerous case of insubordination on the part of the military, since the exact reason it was imposed on them was that the political leadership considered the risk of an unauthorized launch to be greater than the "last man standing" scenario, and, guess what, in the United States the political leadership is supposed to be supreme to the military.

It's easy to throw together a BASIC interpreter. However, in this day and age, why would you want one?

Well, let the distros know...