Hackers want to eliminate Web censorship with satellite grid

I can see this working. Wikipedia works. It would take about the same type of effort methinks.
 
Simple question here; If the staaelites would provide only spotty "bursts" of service, as mentioned at the end of the article, how then do Wild Blue and or Hughes Net provide sattelite internet service? Seems to me that this type of service is already in place, other than the servers being land based. Are the Hacker sattelites going to host the servers in space as well?
 
ghasmanjr said:
Chattle is a racial slur. What's up with the racism on this article about hackers?

Actually, "chattle" isn't even a word. If the poster meant "chattel," WordWeb defines it like this: "Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)"

Any cubicle slave is treated by most corporate managers as chattel but there is nothing racial about it. Slaves are chattel; so are commercially raised cattle and chickens or the kitchen wares at a Chinese factory outlet like :Wal-Mart.
 
ghasmanjr said:
Chattle is a racial slur. What's up with the racism on this article about hackers?

Actually, "chattle" isn't even a word. If the poster meant "chattel," WordWeb defines it like this: "Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)"

Any cubicle slave is treated by most corporate managers as chattel but there is nothing racial about it. Slaves are chattel; so are commercially raised cattle and chickens or the kitchen wares at a Chinese factory outlet like :Wal-Mart.
 
Even if it somehow gets passed and they get that expensive thing out there, the government (backed by big business and the media) is gonna "accidentally" destroy it somehow, maybe a low-orbiting satellite or an errant missile.
 
It is an interesting concept. It is much cheaper to use low orbit satellites than geostationary satellites. Theoretically, it should work, as long as there are always satellites in view, and they can be precisely tracked. A full data transfer (a set of IP packets) does not need to use the same satellite; only a single IP packet does. (This is how the internet works on land, anyway).
 
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