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It makes perfect sense for people in far-flung villages to buy mobile phones - they can do things like arrange business transactions or check the latest prices for their crops. But they don't need an expensive data service to do it.

This is especially true in rural or far-flung suburban areas. That said, the poor behavior of young drivers is a legitimate concern.

The readme has a lot of info about bits of the far-flung cluster failing but nothing about how it would deal with the whole cluster being chopped up into roughly equal halves. That's one of the harder problems to deal with for solutions aimed at this space.

I mean what good is that if you aren't going to: > tackle some thorny infrastructure issues that are huge barriers in the developing world, particularly the long-distance transmission of data to far-flung places. So, this is no Loon.

If this is the same tech I remember, Soviet Russia used them a lot for far-flung lighthouses that couldn't be easily refueled. Many of them are still out there, or have been stolen, vandalized, stripped of metal by unwitting thieves, spreading hazard all around.

The possibility of an extinction event on Earth isn't exactly far-flung speculation. A major point of SpaceX is distributing humankind so that such a thing wouldn't wipe us all out.

I can easily communicate with far-flung friends without the freighted expectations of long-form letters. I can maintain a professional network and stay up to date on new technologies and open source code.

"Mr. Cook closed Apples factories and outsourced all manufacturing to a far-flung network of suppliers in Asia. Inventories decreased to 60 days, then to 30 days, then to the just-in-time model.

These services built around finding a great noodle shop in some far-flung town are neat demonstration-cases, but to me they're about as useful as "Hotel Tonight". In my life, I don't ever anticipate winding up in a new city without knowing where I was going to sleep that night beforehand.

What are far-flung familial relations if not social? A definition of being "social" which only applies to societies where friendship is paramount, and friends come and go with ease is too limiting and leads you to solutions that can be awkward in other societies.

More likely than not, this is -- as the article surmises -- the result of some intern at a far-flung backwater of NBC's having been sloppy. Probably a Google image search for some query that incidentally returned Apple's artwork among the pile, followed by a "Hey, that looks cool," followed by an appropriation.

You'll find plenty of interesting, talented, and available designers, many of whom are just starting out or live in far-flung places with low overheads. It won't be quite as fast or cheap as going with the crowdsourced alternative, but it will definitely be faster and cheaper than going with a firm that touts big-name clients.

The 9/11 attacks worked because historically, a hijacked plane would invariably be diverted to some far-flung airstrip and become a hostage situation. Anyone in such a situation understood that their risk of being killed was very low, so long as they complied with the hostage-takers.

Org team does not plan to tackle some thorny infrastructure issues that are huge barriers in the developing world, particularly the long-distance transmission of data to far-flung places. The only way this initiative will therefore accomplish access to the Internet to people without it seems to be in increasing the profit margin to the local telco.

The letter to the governor isn't an extended treatise on the rights of man; it concerns the utility of a bill funding the protection of far-flung frontier settlements in the context of the French & Indian War. The words mean what they say: it's bad to trade essential freedoms for small amounts of temporary security. The PA assembly wasn't interested in helping us with situations involving ephemeral freedoms or large amounts of transient security or small amounts of important security.