Comment Re:Looks Fake (Score 2) 23
Comment Globalstar is so different (Score 2) 16
Globalstar is so different.
L-band uplink and S-band downlink.
Doesn't seem a good fit for Amazon Leo (nee Kuiper).
I'd like to learn more.
Comment Re: 50 is fitting (Score 1) 99
I had the same experience with a coworker at AOL in the 1990s.
He blamed his left pinky arthritis on Emacs' requirement of using the CTRL key for practically everything.
Comment Too bad recent vulnerabilities made us remove it (Score 1) 99
It's too bad recent userland vulnerabilities made us remove Emacs from everywhere.
Our detection tools rate it as a 9/10 vulnerability.
Userland only. Yes, no privilege escalation. 9/10 vulnerability.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Comment Re:It's a trade-off (Score 2) 68
Comment Re:This is painfully obviously a scam (Score 1) 60
Comment Re: MOTHER FUCK UKRAINE and the GODDAMN EU. (Score 4, Insightful) 173
Comment Re:Deal with it? (Score 2) 95
Life ProTip: All services using cable modems have been "fiber backed" since the early 2000s. It's called HFC, delivered to the neighborhood by fiber, delivered to the premises by copper coaxial cable.
Comment Re:Local Co-Op (Score 1) 95
Well, that's because your local co-op FTTH deployment is funded by heavy government subsidies.
FTTH is outrageously expensive.
It's great when you can get it, but the money is real.
Comment Re:Bad Economics (Score 3, Interesting) 95
I was in this industry for a time.
FTTH is prohibitively expensive for rural telecoms, but government subsidies made it affordable. I'm still mystified by the economies of this.
For non-rural areas, Verizon almost financially died from deploying FiOS FTTH. There's a reason they tried and sued to stopped deploying in NYC and sold off other plants to Frontier years ago. (Verizon eventually bought Frontier about a decade later, btw).
The right answer is and always has been Fiber-to-the-Neighborhood nodes and then delivering broadband via copper coaxial cables.
Indeed, for more than a decade, the connection between my FiOS device and my router was a 1 GHz copper coaxial cable.
We have experienced no speed improvements (up or down) when we upgraded to total ethernet from the FiOS device.
Comment Re:Verizon isn't much better (Score 1) 95
Cable modem uploads are still way, way too slow. I thought DOCSIS 3 would have fixed that by now, but it has not.
Comment Maybe don't call it "Fiber Coaxial Cable" in ads (Score 1) 95
Maybe they shouldn't call it "Fiber Coaxial Cable" in their advertisements.
There is no such thing as "Fiber Coaxial Cable."
At least Spectrum (nee Cox in our area) calls it "Powered by Fiber, delivered by coaxial cable."
Comment There is no "War Department" (Score 1) 144
It is called the Department of Defense.
Comment Re:Exploits already out ... (Score 1) 54
That explains it. I wish it were more clear because it confused everyone I've been discussing this with, including myself.