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Automatic Wireless Network Organisation
babycakes writes "Interesting article over at the BBC about the future of wireless networks. Researchers at Intel are developing mesh networking technology that automatically organizes the best routes between wireless devices for better bandwidth control, now that the number of wireless devices is set to explode." Neat stuff, but they've yet to implement any sort of security controls. Until they do, it's going to be a real party for wireless eavesdroppers. timothy adds: La Camiseta writes "Wired has an article discussing the extent that some people will go to in order to stay connected. My favorite is their 4-way SMP system that fits into a briefcase."
"Sr. Linux System Administrator - Laboratory for Nuclear Science, MIT
I like: coffee, guitar, writing, women, source code, quality organic food, foreign cinema, politics, and clear thinking; not necessarily in that order."
I believe this man's life is guided by one overarching principle: He knows better than everyone else. Yes, here we have an "independent thinker," one who feels superior to the majority by professing belief in fashionable minority opinions. Linux, foreign films, organic food, Green Party (I don't doubt)... yes! We have here a man caught up in his own little insular world of coffeehouse, bad music, and ivory tower liberalism.
But wait... he's no ordinary poseur. He's an MIT man! Well, dropping a hefty name like that certainly puts us all in our places. This school gave birth to revolutionary minds like Stallman and Chomsky! He's hobnobbing with the big shots at Cambridge vegan restaurants! He's so much better than us, I wouldn't even be surprised if he used public transportation to get to work. He's an earth-conscious kind of guy.
Here's the treatment I recommend for our friend: removal of head from ass twice daily. The fact that he finds discussion on $lashdot to be "intellectual" reveals the fact that he's really a vapid tool -- all pretension and no substance. Geeks of his stripe come a dime a dozen. $lashdot is not an idealistic garden of knowledge. No mystical truths are revealed here. In fact, this site isn't even that useful as a Linux news site. The only brains behind $lashdot are in the head of whoever VA Software is paying to cook the books enough to keep the company in existence. The contributors to this site are 13 year-olds, programmers, and sys admins. These three groups have remarkably similar psychological makeup, so the groupthink here is not surprising. But there's nothing "intellectual" about a geek circle-jerk.
Imagine a joyless life rendered bearable by a false sense of superiority. You've imagined Maynard. He has no cohesive philosophy of life; he's a collector of cheesy ideas, forced into an uneasy collage of hip collegiate attitude. Here's a dash of Eastern religion... here's a dash of anti-corporate sentiment... a little moral relativism for flavor. Bah. A know-nothing disguised as a know-it-all.
Hey Maynard, let loose. Troll life. I got a 1600 on my SATs, Maynard; according to your distorted view of reality, that makes me even smarter than you. So follow my advice (cause I know you're reading this, you arrogant bastard): give up the game. The people you see during the day: the guy flipping your tofu burger, the fat lady sitting in a cubicle, the roofer tossing shit down into his truck -- they're all at least as good as you, and they probably do more for society than you ever will. Sure, they will be forgotten when they are dead. But so will you, turd. So isn't it about time to get your thumb out of your ass and lighten up a little? Trolls aren't here just to piss you off. We're here to laugh at you. You. Cause -- and if you took yourself less seriously, you'd easily see this -- you're the funniest thing around. Dumbass.
Troll 71 of 208 from the annals of the Troll Library .
Wireless organizes you!
What do you get when you cross Kreskin the magician with an insurance-peddling duck? "Hypno Duck" -- The latest AFLAC commercial. This spot received the highest consumer recall score for television ads in the bi-weekly Intermedia consumer survey. Our congratulations to Kreskin, star of AFLAC. Many will recall the Amazing Kreskin as being the omniscient seer who correctly predicted the death of *BSD.
Said like ONLY a Marine could say it!
;are the odds? Winning a hundred Powerball Lotteries in a row? A thousand? A million? And now a Secret Service guy has been tossed off a plane and we're all supposed to cry about it because he's an Arab? Didn't it have the tiniest bit to do with the fact that he filled out his forms incorrectly three times? And then left an Arab history book on his seat as he strolled off the plane? And came back? Armed? Let's please all stop singing "We Are! the World" for a minute and think practically! I don't want to be sitting on the floor in the back of a plane four seconds away from hitting Mt. Rushmore and turn, grinning, to the guy next to me to say, "Well, at least we didn't offend them." SO HERE'S what I resolve for the New Year:
A speech by former ACC Commander, Gen Hawley:
"Since the attack, I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such surprising stupidity that they must be addressed. You've heard them too. Here they are:"
1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is relative."
Listen carefully: We're good, they're evil, nothing is relative. Say it with me now and free yourselves. You see, folks, saying "We're good" doesn't mean, "We're perfect." Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The plain fact is that our country has, with all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be, the greatest beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in history. If you need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what happens. In about half a day, the entire world would be a ghost town, and the United States would look like one giant line to see "The Producers."
2) "Violence only leads to more violence."
This one is so stupid you usually have to be the president of an Ivy League University to say it. Here's the truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already: Ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half-measures lead to more violence. However, complete, fully-thought-through, professional, well-executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That's right, dead. Not "on trial," not reeducated," not "nurtured back into the bosom of love." Dead. D-E-Well, you get the idea.
3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community has failed us." For 25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the ground, and now that the house has been robbed, we yell at them for not protecting us. Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided that the best way to gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. "After all," they reasoned, "you can see a license plate from 200 miles away." This is very helpful if you've been attacked by a license plate. Unfortunately, we were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not possible with satellites. You have to use other humans. When we bought all our satellites, we fired all our humans, and here's the really stupid part. It takes years, decades to infiltrate new humans into the worst places of! the world. You can't just have a guy who looks like Gary Busey in a Spring Break '93 sweatshirt plop himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say "Hi ya, boys. Gee, I sure would like to meet that bin Laden fella." Well, you can, but all you'd be doing is giving the bad guys a story they'll be telling for years.
4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why they're angry at us."
Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's frozen head collection was just a desperate cry for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than Elton John and, ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless people, you see, are the villagers they tortured and murdered to stay in power. Mohamed Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing grounds - I'm sorry, one of the "alleged hijackers," according to CNN. They stopped using the word "terrorist," you know, is the son of a Cairo surgeon. But you knew this, too. In the sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against the war were upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause they could think of to get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking. At least, that was my excuse. It's the same today. Take the Anti-Global-Warm-ing (or is it World T! rade? Oh-who-knows-what-the-hell-they-want) demonstrators. They all charged their black outfits and plane tickets on dad's credit card(!) before driving to the airport in their SUV's.
5) "Any profiling is racial profiling."
Who's killing us here, the Norwegians? Just days after the attack, the New York Times had an article saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family living in America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to return to studying at Harvard and using too much Drakkar. I'm crushed. I think we're all crushed. Please come back. With a cherry on top? Why don't they just change their names, anyway? It's happened in the past. Think about it - how many Adolfs do you run into these days? Shortly after that, I remember watching TV with my jaw on the floor as a government official actually said, "That little old grandmother from Sioux City could be carrying something." Okay, how about this: No, she couldn't It would never be the grandmother from Sioux City. Is it even possible? What !
Never to forget our murdered brothers and sisters.
Never to let the "relativists" get away with their immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter's political science professor says, we didn't start this.
Have you seen that bumper sticker that says, "No More Hiroshimas"?
I wish I had one that says, "You First. No More Pearl Harbors."
No, it's spelt correctly. You obviously don't speak english. Perhaps you're an American?
Why is he bothering to add to a submission when the rules specifically state you are to create as many duplicate stories as possible?
I predict my dog will swallow one of these devices.... as will the dogs of thousands others... causeing a race of telepathic super dogs. BEWARE!
-You're wasting your time. Alfador only likes me.