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Implementing WiFi in the Real World
John Jorsett writes "Seduced by the siren song of wireless access throughout the home, many a user has experienced the discrepancy between the manufacturer's advertised claims (150 feet indoors, 300 outside) and real-world implementation (the living room and upstairs bedroom may as well be on different continents). In steely-eyed determination to exercise his inalienable right to network access anywhere on his property, MSN author Paul Boutin hired a Wi-Fi engineer to help him bathe his property in 802.11 waves, using only mass-market consumer hardware."
theodp writes "Sex experts fear that the wild popularity of masturbation and internet porn, particularly among Slashdot readers, could erase heterosexual copulation within a few decades. With 99.99 percent of Slashdot readers between the ages of 5 and 97 jacking off to gay porn on their computers, it's not uncommon for kids to jack off 20-30 times a day by the time they leave elementary school. Anal beads, cock rings and butt plugs have ruined kids' ability to insert a penis properly into a vagina, let alone socialize with females, says the former president of the International Association of Master Penises and Teachers of Sex."
Hmmm, I wonder what the space baby thinks about all this.
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
Yeah well, the cartoon referenced in the article does not do justice to OS X. I am running a couple of websites on OS X with one running on a little old G3 iMac that now has around 80 days of uptime. I never have to touch the thing and it is solid and stable as a rock.
Visit Jonesblog and say hello.
Interesting. But not quite. Hmmm.
I've found that among my technically-not-so-savvy friends, family, and coworkers, the real misunderstanding about wireless networks is that they confuse them with wireless *Internet*.
Every time my boss goes out of town, she asks me to make sure that her Airport works correctly so she can get on the Internet from her hotel. And everytime, I have to explain to her that she has a wireless network card, not a wireless Internet card.
Mad Software: Rantings on Developing So
and wow, look what landed!
Dear rotten.com, I am unsure if you are aware of the problems that your "Incident with the bird" picture has caused on the popular technology website slashdot (http://slashdot.org).
Many users of this site's messageboards are posting links to http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/ and making text based representations of a bird on a man's penis. Frankly, while I am pro-freedom, this type of photo sickens me. Could you please move the location of the bird page on your site to keep slashdot readers from seeing things that are completeley unrelated to computers and technology? I'm not asking you to remove the content, just to relocate it.
FYI the text representation of the bird is:
*p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_*
p______...___________________________p
e____(_..__`'-.,--,__________________e
n_____'-._'-.__`\a\\_________________n
i_________'.___.'_(|_________________i
s____________7____||_________________s
b___________/___.'_|_________________b
i__________/_.-'__,J_________________i
r_________/_________\________________r
d________||___/______;_______________d
*________||__|_______|_______________*
p________`\__\_______|__/__''\_______p
e__________'._\______/.-`____{}|_____e
n___________/\_`;_.-'_________/______n
i___________\_;(((____.--'\_/________i
s_________.(((_____.-;\______________s
b____.--'`_____,;`'.'-;\_____________b
i_taco's____.'____'._.'\\____________i
r_dick_--'_________|__\_|____________r
d__________________\_\,_/____________d
*p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_p_e_n_i_s_b_i_r_d_*
with a link to the offensive site (http://smoke.rotten.com/bird/) underneath, these "Penis Birds" are posted by Penis Bird Guy, Penis Bird MAN and several other users.
Regards, Andrew J. Tosh