Here’s a much more upbeat article about extending the Internet to Mars, to give the landers higher bandiwdth.

Well, well, well. Nothing like having a little DMCA all of our own. Link from /., to an SMH story about our new content-protection laws. Libraries “will not be able to build up searchable collections” of digital material, “or provide material in competition with commercial providers”! In other words, welcome to the brave new world where the only stuff worth knowing is owned by some company that will demand your balls on a stick to look at it, and will then stop you from ever telling anyone else about it.

Corporate abuse of the idea of intellectual property makes me sick.