Connecting these homes properly is worth it, yes.

The question was always is it worth giving it to SpaceX specifically given Elons ties, or a US based company due to Trump. Xplore is US owned as well now, and was the other option.

In June 2020, Xplore announced its sale to New York private equity firm Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners

During the pandemic

According to Lis McWalter, a Carling, Ontario resident and chair of the West Parry Sound SMART Community Network, speeds are so slow that audio calls are impeded, and said “Even at the best of times we don’t get the speed that’s promised.”.

I think we should try and avoid supporting the US for the moment, but if there isn’t a good alternative and the other options might seriously impact the quality of life for our citizens, then I think it’s worth considering still doing it until we can work something else out.

Edit: I thought this addition would be worth while… Xplore struggled during the pandemic when usage was higher, and starlink has much higher bandwidth capabilities. If we not only want to connect but encourage people to consider living in these communities, that also means more population growth, which means more demanding usage which means Xplore struggles further.

DOGE to the rescue, of course they’d save it right? …right?

Traditional geostationary satellite latency really causes problems with real time communication which this is trying to help with. You end up in a situation where you talk over each other frequently unless you go into radio style communication of always waiting for the other person to clearly be done talking with a long pause which hampers fluid conversations. Reactions to things you hear or say become delayed making for a jarring experience.

You can do it yes, but it’s subpar.

Edit: Imagine a lawyer not being able to interject properly during a court case or read non verbal queues of whats going on in court in real time.

Where are you going on about emergency use? The article is talking about how this is going to impact northern first nations communities who were going to use the service for virtual court appearances which require good bandwidth and low latency.

The only people he’s going to have to upgrade are those who purchased it. In the past there’s been some small claims court cases where someone won about being upgraded for a subscription, but if that is truly a concern, Tesla could stop the subscriptions for a few years and let the cars age out. They have no obligations to offer a subscription, it wasn’t a thing when the original promise was made.

Also, they only need to upgrade cars when it’d actually be capable. The promise is to upgrade cars to capable hardware, not upgrade cars with every hardware iteration, so as long as hw4 can’t actually do it, they’re likely in the clear as well.

Given most people don’t think they can actually make fsd work, then they’re in the clear.

If they somehow make it work, the upgrade cost is going to be peanuts compared to the insane amount of money they’d start printing.

So it’s not much if a story.

Edit: also worth mentioning, he’s been pretty clear over the years that FSD is going to cost a lot more money once it’s available for real. So if he does have to upgrade everyone who pays for it (lets assume they stop subscriptions to avoid that issue), even if that means upgrading all HW4 cars as well because it needs HW5, he can jack the price up more to help cover the upgrade cost. No one should be under the illusion that purchasing FSD will be cheaper than it is today if they succeed.

Starlink offers the low latency that others can’t provide which is needed for more real time applications and at a much more affordable rate. Maybe in the future there will be another (edit: low latency) network that rural people can rely on, but that isn’t today, or tomorrow, or next year, or the year after.

Satellites that have to communicate with a ground station, unless they want to do all the traffic in a region over the laser links, but those links will have their own limitations.

I’m not sure what the ground infrastructure is specifically, is it spacex hardware that connects to local ISP stuff or is it their own ground based infrastructure. That ground infrastructure is usually what part of getting approved in a country involves. Doing only laser links for a whole country would be too much. (Edit: I mean it’d technically be doable, but it’d greatly reduce their network bandwidth vs having a closer ground station, so fewer users and lower speeds)

The other option would be a hybrid situation where starlink backhauls one of our telecos internet but the local infrastructure is built and owned by them. In the future you could then backhaul with another satellite network in theory. Basically drop a 4g/5g tower in the middle of nowhere and connect it to Starlink.

I was lucky and had 2 of my 3 schools growing up be right beside a swimming pool. They sometime took us there for our gym classes.

The same authority as a marshall as far as I know.

They can do it if needed.

I’m pretty much on board with getting rid of software patents as they are absolutely ridiculous, but I don’t think we should necessarily get rid of the rest, but they do require reform.

Ah that makes sense. So if this was a hypothetical one engine out situation, maybe they thought they could get somewhere specific safely instead of doing an emergency landing right then and there and then overestimated their ability to manage a 1 engine out.

Expected this to be the typical small private single engine plane. Interesting it was a double engine, I’d expect that to be safer on the options of private plane and not see this.

Yikes that’s a bad rate.

It would be nice to get rid of it, but it will cost a lot more money that no one wants to pay even if it’s actually a good use of it.

That seems like something the Trump government wouldn’t know and then somehow time stamp something devastating to the administration.

The Cybertruck doesn’t violate any US laws, there’s nothing to disallow it, and independent testing gave it 5 star saftey rating.

And while OEMs do self certify, they get spot checked to ensure compliance. There’s too many new vehicles and variants for the NHSTA/EPA etc. to ever check every single one in detail.

Edit: and if you really wanna get into it, most of the other OEMs everyone wants to love actually put defeat devices for said spot checking to lie and kill us sooner with bad air for $$$

It’d be a device by device thing. Looks like Pixels do it be default, but I wouldn’t assume all do. It’d be a setting if it’s not default.

They can track the date he was admitted and know he’s one of 15 people admitted in a range if they have an ID but no name.

Just assign them a number when they enter without their identity assigned to it. Use a random ID with no date associated to it.

It’s important it’s encrypted as well. Disk Encryption isn’t a default on option typically.

If it’s disk encrypted and the device is powered off, only a valid password (not biometric) will unencrypt it from off.

Edit: and a good device would encrypted it using a hardware module that will only work in that device for that hard drive, so they can’t clone the drive out and try a bunch of easier pins as it’d be missing the hardware piece. Easier pins would only work if done on your phones hardware.

If the court deputizes someone since a DOJ Marshall won’t follow orders, is that new deputy under the DOJ or under the court?