Starlink is the satellite Internet service from SpaceX. You get high speed (200 Mbps) pretty much anywhere on Mother Earth.
Starlink costs $100/month. They claim that they have 2.4 million subscribers. The process of Higher Math tells us that they are taking in a quarter Billion dollars a month.
And they're only getting started.
Still a lot of work to do and restrictions on size and weather conditions, but good news from Baltimore.
Well knock me over with a feather:
The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.
The windfall stems from allegations made by the US watchdog that folks could have been, and were, spied upon by cybercriminals and rogue Ring workers via their Ring home security cameras.
The regulator last year accused Ring of sloppy privacy protections that allowed the aforementioned spying to occur or potentially occur....
In the most egregious case, one employee went out of his way to view "thousands of video recordings belonging to at least 81 unique female users," according to the FTC. A coworker reported this behavior to her supervisor, who it's alleged initially said this snooping wasn't that strange until he realized the rogue employee was only reviewing videos of "pretty girls."
The fines work out to $50 per effected Ring customer. Don't spend it all in one place.
A Maryland High School principal was suspended several months ago when an audio recording of him making disparaging remarks about black students academic performance was released to the public.
Except, as he consistently claimed, he never made the remarks.
The school's athletic director had made the recording, using samples of the principal's voice and A.I. software. He then emailed the audio to people at the school from a throwaway account and let events take their course. His purpose was to get the principal removed the school because the principal was investigating the A.D. for misusing school funds.
The A.D. was arrested at the airport while trying to flee the state. The principal has been vindicated. This makes him a very lucky man, it could have easily gone undiscovered.
Tuna sends in another:
Why did the Mexican guy take anxiety meds? For Hispanic attacks.
Lots and lots of restrictions, but ships 60,000 tons or less and 30' draft will be able to pass through a new restricted channel into and out of the harbor.
I just burned 2000 calories!
Next time I won't take a nap while the brownies are in the oven.
