The train does have free WiFi, but my experience with it is pretty bad. You're also often remote enough that you can't use a cellular hotspot, so I wouldn't ever travel on Amtrak assuming you'll have a reliable Internet connection the whole time.
It doesn't.[0] Nothing about Starlink inherently requires the dish to be stationary. Starlink is being integrated into several airlines[1][2] over the next year, and I'm certain other airlines are exploring Starlink as an option... the existing in-flight internet options are terrible, so Starlink could make a real difference there, especially over the oceans.
Proper support for moving vehicles probably benefits significantly from a dish designed for that, but airlines, trains, cruise ships, yachts... there are many markets where such a dish would be valuable, so Starlink would be pretty dumb not to be designing one that works well for that.
Hawaiian Airlines certainly isn't planning to just bolt the existing dish to the outside of the plane and hope for the best.
Current subscribers are only authorized to use their dish in one specific area. However, this has more to do with capacity planning than anything else. Starlink recently announced a slightly more expensive plan that allows the user to roam from area to area without contacting customer support to reauthorize them for each new location. And as someone else pointed out already, the are definitely working on providing service to customers on boats and planes and other moving vehicles. I doubt they will ever make a dish designed to be mounted on the roof of a car, but larger multi–passenger vehicles are an obvious move.
Incidentally, Starlink dishes showed up on the landing barges used by SpaceX some time ago; they use them to stream live video of the landings now.
Mostly coding offline, but I did have a cellular hotspot that managed 4G LTE for most of the trip. I didn't investigate the train's WiFi since my needs were covered.
There was one state I didn't seem to have any cell service at all, Wyoming maybe? It seemed very similar to driving cross-country via i80 in terms of cellular coverage, with a few additional dead-zones where only the train goes. But in those spots the scenery is so beautiful you won't miss the cell network.
It’s not important whether the train has a WiFi router or not. What is important is what the WiFi router connects to. I don’t know what is common on European trains, but in the US they connect to whatever cell–phone network is closest. That is ok in urban areas, but in the US there are wide stretches of countryside where nobody lives. Somehow the phone companies never end up building cell towers in the middle of the deserts or on top of the Rockies. The train could easily be 50 or a 100 miles away from the nearest cell–phone network at any given time.
can you share some of events/incidents that showed the concerning traits you mentioned?
Also, who are the shady characters he had associated himself with?
So I mean this story itself is a good starting point. Kurtz prior to this was famously caught was caught stealing tax payers funds to bribe multiple groups including journalists, along with others. That is on top of his other best known trait I guess as one of those race baiting shitheads who is intentionally trying to win support by blaming immigrants for all of societies problems and working with other fascist / fascist adjacent groups. [1]
Just a few months ago a biography about Thiel came out that goes into a lot of detail about why specifically he is so concerning. There’s a good interview with the author here which outlines some of those concerns. [2]
Then there is the Cambridge Analytica stuff, the Trump stuff, the Facebook stuff, basically everything Palantir has done etc.
Edit: Sorry I’m doing all this on a phone and trying to put all of this together in a coherent package is a lot of work when I’m not even sure if you have any genuine interest in the question or not. I figure assuming it was a genuine question it’s probably going to be a lot quicker and easier to just check out some things yourself rather than me trying to digest it all for you but I didn’t want to just do the typical “Google it” response either.
It might be a common practice for consulate to do that:
Russian consulate in SF did it in 2017 in response for an eviction related to "Russian gate" [1]
The U.S used shredder to destroy document in Iran in 70s but
Iranians were able to piece back the document to get intel from it so I guess the intelligence community learned a lesson there.
Shredding is absolutely fine. The modulating factor is the size of the pieces and total number of pieces that are shuffled. The problem scales with N^2 (?).
If the shredder shreds with 1mm particles, it will be pretty much impossible to piece it together and it will depend on how each page mixes with other particles. Even if the particle size is 100mm, if you throw those pieces in a pile of 500 tons of paper, and shuffle it sufficiently, then it will be impossible to piece together the original source.
Also the Distributed system course at MIT is fantastic. The labs are also great way to get your hands dirty with distributed system. The link to the class schedule is here: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html
If you like the Foundation series, you would probably like the three body problem trilogy. The scale(both in space and time) of the story is as big if not bigger than Foundation and the story is equally fascinating. Really good read!
At the time of the breakup AlphabetCereal gets a copy and AlphabetSoup gets a copy. If they care, make Soup and Cereal pledge to purge the Soup specific or the Cereal specific parts. Either way, ban the soup company from selling cereal by consent decree and vice versa.
Splitting the datacenters might be trickier, but worst case, operate them jointly for 12-18 months, and at the end, each datacenter and the contents thereof are the exclusive property of one or the other. Or enact a third company to own and operate the datacenter under FRAND terms.
The big question would be how you deal with shared infrastructure -- compute, data storage, logging, etc. Google has a significant amount of highly proprietary code in those areas which they're undoubtedly using within their ads product; it'd be tricky to figure out how to deal with that in a split.
They should have spun off DoubleClick for Publishers and other server/ad mediation into separate companies and is likely what will happen if the government is successful in their case.
I remember reading my offer and there was a line that goes like this "only the CEO has the power to sign contract". and everybody else's offer are "at-will".
As long as there are knowledge and cognitive gaps between groups and demographic, there will be luddite. This brings up an interesting thought; Is it in the best interest of politicians to keep the divide and gap?
Does the train have WiFi? Or you are just coding offline?