it costs $10M to blanket the planet in 24 cubesats, and stream content to everywhere on earth at 100MB/s. i’d expect 10s of such schemes within 10 years, as prices drop another 10x at least.
Tag: internet
Lantern
Anonymous portable library that constantly receives free data from space
Lantern continuously receives radio waves broadcast by Outernet from space. Lantern turns the signal into digital files, like webpages, news articles, ebooks, videos, and music. Lantern can receive and store any type of digital file on its internal drive. To view the content stored in Lantern, turn on the Wifi hotspot and connect to Lantern with any Wifi enabled device. All you need is a browser.
Shingy
He is passionate about spaces, and when a space is not working he reboots it, taking everything out and starting over. “This is a space I recently rebooted for Tim”—meaning Tim Armstrong, the CEO of AOL. “Do you like the scent? I still need to put some sound in here”. Armstrong looked around. “I have meetings here, and people don’t know where to sit”. “They’ll figure it out, man”.
it’s not clear who is trolling whom.
Why no broadband
US consumers pay broadband prices for sub-broadband performance; ISP business relationships at the root of the problem
Shocking, i know.
Love, Grampa and Grandmaster Flash
Grandmas accidentally tagging Grandmaster Flash plus things your grandmother would share on Facebook
Media is self-obsessed
between the endless navel-gazing with stupid “tweets” and this:
When the Tribune Company recently got rid of their newspapers, the New York Times ran the story under a headline “The Tribune Company’s publishing unit is being spun off, as the future of print remains unclear.” The future of print remains what? Try to imagine a world where the future of print is unclear: Maybe 25 year olds will start demanding news from yesterday, delivered in an unshareable format once a day. Perhaps advertisers will decide “Click to buy” is for wimps. Mobile phones: could be a fad. After all, anything could happen with print. Hard to tell, really.
i’m surprised they’ve held on so long.
Amazing new jobs
we need an EDITOR, BUZZFEED. You will not edit BuzzFeed (apparently someone does that already) but instead will edit a new vertical totally dedicated to repeatedly explaining how BuzzFeed, despite simply being a very large and well-funded blog, represents the future of the media. Articles we’d like to see include: “Is this the future of media?” “Is the future of media this?” and “Media’s future?” The ideal candidate can work the words “platform” and “ecosystem” into anything.
Internet congestion is on purpose
5 of those congested peers are in the United States and one is in Europe. There are none in any other part of the world. All 6 are large Broadband consumer networks with a dominant or exclusive market share in their local market. In countries or markets where consumers have multiple Broadband choices (like the UK) there are no congested peers.
smoking guns that the thugs at comcast et al are crippling the internet
ransomware sophistication
ransomware is getting more sophisticated by the day, including different sites for different countries. they even bothered to do a swiss one.
Latency
A+ trolling, would watch again
Gregor J. Rothfuss 