Wouldn't that be the same amount of power though? They were going to do those things anyway.

"More" implies "additional" to me.

Do you not do the classic date night: dinner and a movie? I guess this just shows my age more than anything else.

I guess these days all activities must be contained within the walls of suburban McMansions, according to some people.

Could their be any value in using the Global Star satellites as back-end infrastructure instead of using the meshing structure that Star Link utilizes?

Yep to continue the headline: "[...], and nobody noticed."

No kids. I am now about to turn 50.

I have always enjoyed the freedom that I have to be selfish and lazy :)

You know where all that wealth is concentrated, right?

Yeah, but that's basically every news story.

There is an entire ice berg worth of decision making and financial incentives behind every story.

Can you use Wireshark to block the specific traffic?

The US managed to hack Iran's nuclear program and that system was not connected to the Internet.

Internet connectivity does help, but is not required for state-level hacking.

What vibrates the phone? Is that not a moving part? I thought it was a tiny motor with an off-balance weight attached to the central shaft.

Also, speakers are a moving back and forth to generate sound.

Yeah, I saw that statistic and wondered what the problem was. That still sounds like a really good business to be in.

Well, I don't like them, they wet their sentences...

To err is human

Bah! If you aren't telneting to port 80 and issuing your own, hand-crafted, headers and HTML tags, you are nothing more than a script kiddie who is coddled by GUI conveniences!

Sorry, I forgot to add the "in the US" qualifier...