Could Internet users have prevented the Detroit terrorist plot?

Now more than ever more and more people are turning to High Speed Internet service to find out the latest news, and with the facts coming out about the attempted Christmas day bombing of an airline flight heading from Amsterdam to Detroit that failed due to the explosives not being set up the right way. It seems that all of it could’ve been avoided had someone answered one of his many questions he posted online.

The 23 year old Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab who went by the online name of “Farouk1986”starting posting message online in early 2005 about how he was having a hard time making friends, and fitting in at his boarding school. He also sought out guidance to help him with his Muslim beliefs but most of his messages went unanswered. Each message he posted seemed to show the decline in a person who friends in school say was one of the nicest and caring people in the world.

When the news broke that Umar was the suspect in the attempted terrorist attack many people and friends were all shocked except for his parents. Over the last couple of years Umar’s father Umaru felt his sons growing radical beliefs might lead to trouble, so he went into the U.S embassy in Nigeria to report his son. At the time a file was created but not much else was done after the terrorism center in Washington D.C decided that the information was not worth pursuing.

It makes you wonder how many times this whole thing could’ve been stopped ahead of time. Obviously Umar was looking for help, and ended up finding it in the wrong place. His father warned officials that his son was probably going to harm innocent people but nobody really listened. If someone had taken time and replied to one of his many messages I wonder if it would have changed the outcome of a young man who came from a very privileged family but was led down the wrong path that almost cost hundreds of innocent people their life’s.

The Internet – A Gamers Paradise

For most gamers, the Internet has become a virtual playground offering a wide variety of gaming options. Whether it’s online poker, a huge virtual world, or a good old shoot’em up, the Satellite Internet delivers to all. You can play almost any game no matter what your Internet connection is. Unfortunately the type of Internet can affect the quality and speed of the game play.
Online games can range from simple text based games to games incorporating complex graphics and virtual worlds populated by many players simultaneously. Many online games have associated online communities, making online games a form of social activity beyond single player games.
There is an endless amount of games that can be played with a dial up connection. The downside is that dial up speeds are only able to support low quality games. High quality games require download speeds of 256 kbps (kilobits per second) to run smoothly. Dial up Internet can only run at speeds of 56kbps. So if it’s a simple card or puzzle games that you love to play and you don’t mind the slow speeds, then dial up will fit you just fine.
For the average online gamer, card games just won’t cut it. Most people are looking for that action packed virtual world when it comes to their online gaming. If this is the case, then you will need a Cable or DSL Internet connection. This will give you much cleaner images, (no blurring) quicker loading when going from level to level, and reduces the chance that you will get a system error.
Most online games like World of Warcraft, Final Fantasy XI and Lineage II charge a monthly fee to subscribe to their services, while games such as Guild Wars offer an alternative no monthly fee scheme. Many other sites rely on advertising revenues from on-site sponsors, while others, like RuneScape, the games made by Artix Entertainment and Mabinogi, let people play for free while leaving the players the option of paying, and unlocking new content for the members.
More of the “hardcore” gamers like to use the high-tech pay sites to play games online, like Xbox Live, Playstation Network or World of Warcraft. With these sites you are able to play with other gamers across the globe. Trying to use this type of gaming on a dial up speed is pointless, and simply will not work. They require a Cable or DSL Internet connection to be run.
Online gaming has become more of a technology rather than a genre, a mechanism for connecting players together rather than a particular pattern of game play. One advantage of online games is the ability to connect to multiplayer games, although single-player online games are quite common as well.
Massively multiplayer online games (MMOG) were made possible with the growth of broadband Internet access in many developed countries, using the Internet to allow hundreds of thousands of players to play the same game together. Many different styles of massively multiplayer games are available, such as:

• Role-playing games
• Real-time strategy games
• First-person shooter games
• Social games

The advancement of technology allows online games to imitate the complex ecological, sociological, economical, and political dynamics of real life societies.
So what category you fall into when it comes to gaming, depends largely on the type of Internet connection you have. Hopefully this should help you pick the Internet provider that fits you best.

Satellite Internet – Your Health May Rely On It

Internet service has become essential to have greater access to health information, products and services. Though this may seem ordinary to us, rural communities have long faced challenges in getting adequate local health care, let alone the benefits of acquiring information we take for granted. The ability to acquire high-speed broadband Internet access would almost assuredly transform small rural communities in terms of economic benefits by reducing transportation time and expenses, reducing missed time at work, increasing the effectiveness of lab and pharmacy work and provide savings to health facilities.
The funds set aside by the Government in the Broadband Stimulus plan to provide rural Internet users with options better than dial-up services, is not the first interest the Government has taken here. The USDA has administered many programs aimed at improving medical technology through the use of Broadband Internet access and the 2008 Farm Act also helped to expand these programs to rural America.
Studies have shown that Telemdicine, which can only be practiced through a high-speed Internet connection, had an immediate and dramatic cost-benefit to facilities that practiced it. Because rural hospitals are almost always at least partially funded by local sales taxes, the community in which they serve found greater economic savings due to the advancement of broadband technology and the efficiency of Telemecidine.
Telemedicine mainly benefits hospital savings by reducing the outsourcing of specific procedures, transportation costs associated with outsourcing of patients, income savings from reducing the time missed from work, and the increased abilities and proficiencies of laboratory and pharmaceutical work. All of these factors improved patient turnaround and was the greatest benefit noted by hospital staff members.
Broadband Internet’s value in rural areas was estimated to be nearly $400,000 annually when considering the cost savings of patients and their employers. The savings due to increased efficiencies and the increase of business the hospitals realized due to Telemedicine.

Satellite Internet - A Review of Satellite Internet Service

Satellite Internet is one of the fastest growing Broadband Internet solutions in the United States.There are two main Satellite Internet Service Providers for residential customers, HughesNet and WildBlue. When compared side by side, Wild Blue, with its lower upfront and monthly costs and aggressive promotions, is hands down the elite choice for Satellite Internet Access.


Satellite Internet Connections offer the same quality of Internet as DSL and cable companies, but are available to customers in rural areas, where cable and DSL do not venture and dialup ISP's are the only option. With Satellite Internet Companies competing for customers that cable and DSL don't want, the promotions have been getting more and more aggressive, which is good news for consumers.


For rural Internet users who have been forced to endure slow dialup ISP's and as a result have been deprived of all the Internet can offer, such as, fast access to information, quick downloads and instant email deliveries, Satellite Internet could be just the thing to get you back in the game. The benefits for farmers, ranchers or any other rural resident just looking to bank, shop, keep in touch with family and friends, or even go to school online can be extremly valuable and a great time saver.


Satellite Internet companies like WildBlue and HughesNet, offer a service that is always on, fast and best of all doesn't require a phone line. The installation is minimal, just a satellite dish mounted to your physical property or placed on a pole in your yard, a coaxial cable run from the satellite dish to your satellite internet modem, which connects to your computer through a USB port and an Ethernet cable - That's it. Satellite Internet providers like Wild Blue will actually send out an installer to get you hooked up and in most cases it's free.


Chances are if you are saddled with a dialup ISP, because the cable company won't come out, you are probably a little television challenged as well. If your Broadband Internet connection is going to be provided via satellite, your television may as well be to. Like Satellite Internet, Satellite TV promotions are more aggressive than ever as companies like DIRECTV and Dish Network attempt to provide service to customers ignored by the cable companies. Dish Network is the better overall value in my opinion, providing lower monthly costs, larger programming options, award winning satellite tv receivers and the most high-definition channels of all the satellite tv providers.


Imagine Satellite Internet and TV from dialup and off air antenna. Living in rural areas provides families with enviable quality of living, not to mention peacful settings. That shouldn't mean that you are isolated from the technology that makes everyone elses lives easier and more enjoyable. Now, thanks to companies like Wild Blue and Dish Network you can have the best of both worlds.