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more about #communications more comments → Hi, I'm God: This article was posted over 3 hours ago, and no one has made the comment; "I've got an even faster connection with my 13 inch tube" Shame, Giz. more » iceicemaybe: So it really is a series of tubes... more » random_droid: Oh, great. I've been banned, I think..... more » frigg: Isn't this the sort of thing that should be deployed on Earth, and then pimped by NASA along with tempurpedic mattresses and tang as the trickle down ... more » Chris Hansen: Just imagine how fast our torrents would be. No, seriously. Imagine it. more » KTK1990: Wow, thats alot of data being sent so quick. more » Hi, I'm God: Too bad the moon doesn't have HD porn, to really put this thing to use. more » Pope John Peeps II: Judging by the Brazilians I've met in my life, I'm amazed at this. Most of them could barely dial a phone, let alone hijack a satellite to increase th... more » EBone: Hairless Haxxors or hairless satellites? more » damnelantra™: so is this why they want all their analog channels back? so more people can hackum? more » IN THE FACE!: I'm in ur Military Communications Network, haxxoring all ur Satellites? more » GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday: I sure hope Cox isn't jerking us around. more » Chiper: Great, so that's four more months that I CANT get HDTV because the transmitters aren't allowed to run at full power. Fuck you, FCC more » kylenalepa: Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. I see commercials every day saying that the deadline is February 17. Everybody knows that the deadline is February ... more » robinandtami: I fail to see why anyone posting to this tech blog would give a rats ass about the delay. The truth is that most of us here already have digital solut... more » -
#communications
Fastest Data Connection In Space Comes Out of a 13-Inch Tube Orbiting the Moon
Right now, data is arriving across 238,800 miles at 100MBps (as in megabytes per second, not megabits), dwarfing every home internet connections out there. That's a total of 461GB of data transmitted per day, thanks to this device. More » -
#sad
New York Times Cannot Afford Text Messaging
America's Paper of Record cannot afford to have its reporters sending text messages or calling 411 on their company phones. What a pitiful state of affairs. [Gawker] -
#hackers
Hackers Going Full Brazilian on U.S. Satellites
The Brazilian Federal Police are trying to crackdown on the hijacking of U.S. military satellites—an illegal act that is so well entrenched that it has become something of a "national phenomenon." More » -
#redux
Cox's Cellular Network Plans Are Totally For Real This Time, Says Cox
Cox Communications will create their very own cellular netw—wait, hold on. This is the third time they've announced this. What's going on? More » -
#digitaltv
Senate Postpones TV Shutdown to June 12
El Señor Presidente talks, and the Senate does: They have postponed the analog switcheroo four more months. The new date for the analog TV shutdown: June 12, pending Congress approval of the move. More » -
#breaking
Obama Asks Congress for Analog TV Shutdown Delay
President-elect Barack Obama has asked Congress to stop the shut down on analog TV broadcasts, due on February 17. The main two reasons: "Inadequate funding" and problems with the converter box program. But there's more. More » -
