Posts by hobbified

Australia down for scheduled maintenance: No talking to Voyager 2 for 11 months

Re: S-band uplink

Well, it is. If it was *below* that limit, that would mean basically that they could turn the thing on without even thinking about it. Being above the limit means that they need "don't go inside while transmitting" fences, but being only 2x GRAS means that the hazard is pretty damn low and the area that needs to be controlled isn't that big.

ICANN gives domain souks permission to tell it the answer to Whois privacy law debacle

The obvious solution is: no registrar *has* to sell to EU entities. Let every European website fall off of the internet over the next few years, and see how Brussels likes the GPDR then. Any other solution is sidestepping the problem by allowing GPDR to continue to exist.