Ignoring the fact you cannot get the names of the companies straight...
Giving free access to a competitor will advertise that service to others. Some of those may pay at a later date. Some of those may suggest the service to a friend, or they may just see it and order it anyway.
NewsCorp is actively sabotaging their own business by giving potential customers more exposure to their competitors.
Also, assuming that willingness of a consumer to access the signal without paying is company agnostic, why wouldn't newscorp subscribers jump ship just as fast?
Use pidgin and off the record messaging via the links below and you can have encrypted private communication... until the NSA intercepts it and scans it anyway.
He must be feeling the heat from the US, and the other people he pissed off. It's much harder to exact revenge upon someone if they have state resources (ie intelligence services, armed forces ect) protecting them.
It's a good sentiment, but since we already live in a state of constant regulatory capture it is highly doubtful that the right laws would be repealed.
More likely, this would give entrenched players the ability to get rid of laws that enforce competition and further depress the market.
The problem is that even with digital filtering, it takes infinite time to perfectly filter anything, and the collective facepalm comes from the fact that this failure could have been demonstrated with a digital simulation in matlab without the need to build anything.
All you really needed was a programmer, the frequency response of the filters LightSquared knew it had to accommodate, and the magnitude of the signal planned to use.
The animosity toward LightSquared comes from the fact that they should have known this and tried to use political connections to force a bad/not ready technology down our throats.
I've been waiting for this to happen. It was inevitable. China and Russia can have their own internet if they want total control over what their population do, hear, and say online. Nothing is stopping them.
A competition can ensue and whoever has the better network will win. The US and European economies might just improve a lot faster if doing business in China and Russia starts becoming too expensive due to regulation.
I say go do your own thing if you want to, but don't expect the US, and most of Europe, to commit economic suicide with you.
LightSquared only has themselves to blame for this set back. Anyone familiar with the frequency domain knows there is no such thing as a perfect filter and a signal 800 billion times more powerful cannot be effectively filtered from adjacent spectrum, absent an automobile sized filter.
I do hope someone with appropriate spectrum can launch a similar service. It could be good for the market place.
I like South Parks analogy that every election comes down to a douche bag and a turd sandwich, but I think we need more choices to take the GOP primary into account.
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Re: Duh?!
Giving free access to a competitor will advertise that service to others. Some of those may pay at a later date. Some of those may suggest the service to a friend, or they may just see it and order it anyway.
NewsCorp is actively sabotaging their own business by giving potential customers more exposure to their competitors.
Also, assuming that willingness of a consumer to access the signal without paying is company agnostic, why wouldn't newscorp subscribers jump ship just as fast?
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For a fast food delivery service, it may be worth the cost.
I want a tacopter.
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Otherwise, I bet your communications are safe, for a while anyway.
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www.pidgin.im
http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
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Re: First hunch
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Called It
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Maybe Romney isn't so bad
I think I'm voting republican in the next cycle.
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Regulatory Capture
More likely, this would give entrenched players the ability to get rid of laws that enforce competition and further depress the market.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Whose problem was it?
All you really needed was a programmer, the frequency response of the filters LightSquared knew it had to accommodate, and the magnitude of the signal planned to use.
The animosity toward LightSquared comes from the fact that they should have known this and tried to use political connections to force a bad/not ready technology down our throats.
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A competition can ensue and whoever has the better network will win. The US and European economies might just improve a lot faster if doing business in China and Russia starts becoming too expensive due to regulation.
I say go do your own thing if you want to, but don't expect the US, and most of Europe, to commit economic suicide with you.
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Re: Re: sigh, please learn some basics
I'm an expert at something
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I do hope someone with appropriate spectrum can launch a similar service. It could be good for the market place.
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Re: Not the Pressing Issue
I nominate a cracked pot and an ass wipe.
You can choose who is who at home.
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