Category Archives: Business

Congressional Space Policy

The ongoing disaster continues.

This attempt to give the failing Boeing a monopoly on human spaceflight will have to be reconciled with the Senate bill.

[Update a few minutes later]

An article from a month ago explaining why this bill is so terrible.

By the way, I quit the National Space Society almost three decades ago because they were doing nothing to promote actual space settlement, instead taking industry funding to promote whatever NASA and Big Aerospace wanted to do, even though there was no plausible path from those things to the organization’s stated goals. But I agree (and am working with) the new leadership of the organization as represented by the authors of that Spacenews op-ed.

VPN Routers

OK, now that I’m back on the air, I’m thinking that with ExpressVPN’s limit of five simultaneous devices (at least for the low-cost plan), I should use it for mobile devices, and do something else at home. I’d like to install it on the Netgear Orbi mesh, but ExpressVPN doesn’t support it, and it might not have enough processing power to do all that encryption anyway. But I can pick this up for $140 bucks. Could I just put that downstream from my cable modem, and feed the Orbi with it for the home wifi, freeing up my ExpressVPN account for phones, laptops and tablets? It might also allow me to access my home machines remotely, except I don’t think I have static IP.

[Update a few minutes later]

Or this one looks like an even better deal, though it might not be as easy to set up.