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Largest Citywide Wi-Fi Deployment
Grumpy writes "Yahoo! News is reporting that Aiirnet will begin installing, next month, the largest single Wi-Fi deployment in the nation in the city of Cerritos in Southern California. Ultimately, anyone with a laptop or wireless device will be able to surf the Web from virtually anywhere in the city's 8.6-square-mile area. Scores of wireless networking transmitters are being placed atop public buildings, traffic lights and other structures to blanket the city. The 51,000 residents of Cerritos have not had DSL broadband access to the Internet because the city is too far from the telephone company's central office and Cable Internet access has not been an option either."
FP.
I hope high gas prices are depriving your children, you fucking dumbass.
Ok its a big deal for me cause its the first time I got a first post
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It's been a long time! Pudge fixed our last substantial memory leak in Slash a few weeks ago... under some sets of circumstances, messages could swell up to unreasonable sizes, and using Apache::SizeLimit, the fork would suicide. The biggest problem with this is that the reader loading the page would experience some lag, and then immediately hit reload 2-3 times... since the load balancer liked to send all those requests to a single head, it didn't take much to barf. It shouldn't barf, but it did. Anyway, we fixed some code, and changed a few rules (essentially limiting the number of messages users could keep on Slashdot... I don't want our message system to be an archive for folks... this is more akin to IM than email) and last night we've confirmed that our memory leak appears to have gone. Apache forks now serve out their 1000 MaxRequests in peace...
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Thanksgiving went really well this year. We had the family over to our place for the big dinner. Kathleen cooked dinner for 15... her first large cooking experience. She did a really great job... especially considering she's never played host to a party of this size. I was pretty impressed. Speaking of Kathleen, yesterday was our one year anniversary. Crazy really... a whole year. Seems like we've been together forever. Couldn't be happier.
Kathleen and I are now neck deep in that most favorite of holiday festivities... shopping. She has this gigantic sticky note on her mac desktop listing the dozens of people that we need to shop for, ideas, and notes of things we've actually ordered. This is approximately as complicated as as huttle launch... tis the season... fa la la la... blah.
Having recently watched the extended version of The Two Towers, I have opinions. Once again, the box is a tremendous value, packing four hours of movie, plus like 8 or 9 hours of bonus videos and documentary material and picture galleries and such. It took Kathleen & I a full week to watch it all (and we still haven't watched the commentary track!). They didn't add as much core material to this movie... I felt liek Fellowship's extended cut was a vastly improved movie. TTT extended was just longer. Some really good stuff was added, but nothing absolutely critical. But it was still super cool, and has got me stoked for RotK which is now just over a week away. I've even started re-reading the book in preperation (as I did for each of the first films... I was just a child when I first read these stories. Coming back to them is very satisfying).
Anyway, thats enough rambling... much to do... Final Fantasy X-2 is out, and I *still* haven't got my copy... what kind of fool am I? Girl Pop, Costume Changes AND final fantasy? It's like they put all the greatest things into a single video game just to taunt me!
Some city in Cali does what I would LOVE to do here in St. Louis.
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There's simply not enough tech-savvy people around here to make it worth the money.
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
How does something like SeattleWireless stack up?
Is this news? I thought most every city has wi-fi already. I'm pretty sure Conterra communications in Columbia, SC covers about a circle over 10 miles in diameter. Not to mention th elocal Universities and war driving/open APs.
Expect Freedom.
I'm surprised people are not complaining about potential brain cancer issues. Whether proven medically or disproven, it is bound to be a concern. Would I feel comfortable having microwaves going through my brain everywhere I go?
Are there going to be any restrictions on access or anything? Or is it going to be free for all for hackers / pedos?
Not true. Actually it's already started, you can get wifi access in Cerritos (as well as a great deal on a new car at the Cerritos Auto Centre - thanks Super Dave) in some spots for free. When they've completed it it's going to cost $30 a month apparently to access, so this is not a free WiFi installation.
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Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.
This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.
Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.
They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.
Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.
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So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the caboose. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.
Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.
There is a presumption anonymous means something. They lie like rugs to the posting public by using the word anonymous. It is not. They brazenly lie though and the un-assuming poster is having everything he says correlated with him and stored in a computer just waiting to be subpoenaed by the people that Slashdot claims to hate but works for. They work for the fascist forces and components of the US government. I like the US and other Western governments but they have good and bad components - there are things you need to do to protect yourself from the bad components. Basically "covering your ass" so to speak. At Slashdot, in lying about AC, un-protects its posting public (seeding a de-anonymizing privacy stripping pandemic in their own "little" way). This makes Slashdot a very dangerous target for you the posters to have your "anonymous" information subpoenaed and you to be chased down and persecuted for speaking your mind. I think that it is a joke Slashdot editors post about SCO, MSFT, RIAA, MPAA, TIA, FBI, etc. They do the same fascist big-brotherly things that those companies do the pub
Cerritos becomes the spam capital of the world
I hear in LA, I hear open access points are as common as traffic jams
Cerritos, Calif., Goes Wireless Citywide
Thu Dec 11, 8:21 AM ET Add Technology - AP to My Yahoo!
CERRITOS, Calif. - Browsing the Web from this Southern California city may soon become an outdoor sport.
The first phase of a project to establish citywide wireless Internet access is slated to begin next month. Ultimately, anyone with a laptop or wireless (news - web sites) device will be able to surf the Web from virtually anywhere in the city's 8.6-square-mile area.
Scores of wireless networking transmitters are being placed atop public buildings, traffic lights and other structures to blanket the city.
The project is being touted by Aiirnet Wireless, its operator, as the largest wireless networking, or Wi-Fi, deployment in the nation.
The city struck a deal with the company that allows Aiirnet to place transmitters throughout the city for free, city spokeswoman Annie Hylton said.
Cerritos, meanwhile, agreed to buy 60 subscription accounts, each at $34.95 a month, for its field employees.
Brian Grimm, spokesman for the Wi-Fi Alliance, which certifies and promotes the technology, said he couldn't verify Aiirnet's claim, but noted Cerritos is the only city so far that has said it intends to establish citywide wireless access.
Wi-Fi radiates an Internet connection that multiple computers within 300 feet can share at fast speeds. Wi-Fi hot spots have cropped up over the last couple of years in coffee shops, hotels and airports in bigger U.S. cities.
Some small towns, including Half Moon Bay, Calif., and Athens, Ga., have started experimenting with Wi-Fi as a way to provide relatively cheap, easy access to high-speed Internet.
The 51,000 residents of Cerritos, located 26 miles southeast of Los Angeles, have not had DSL broadband access to the Internet because the city is too far from the telephone company's central office. Cable Internet access has not been an option, either, Hylton said.
Residents in Cerritos have asked city officials to find a way to bring broadband to the city for some time.
"We're pleased that Michael will be able to censor you while pumping his cock in and out your ass," Hylton said.
Finally, I know how that song goes!
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of Cerritos, rising up throught the air
Now I know where to go on my next road trip!
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
With all of these municipal and large open wireless networks being discussed I begin to wonder what these organizations will do about network abuse.
If I were a spammer I might consider moving to this town or better yet a town nearby. How's a beat-cop going to know that it's me spewing spam all day - or even a few hours - from various points all over town? I'm sure you can send a lot of spam in a couple hours or so.
-joe
"The 51,000 residents of Cerritos have not had DSL broadband access to the Internet because the city is too far from the telephone company's central office and Cable Internet access has not been an option either."
Translation: You either do it, or we're going to do it without you.
So... Cerritos is paying Aiirnet to set up Wi-Fi transmitters all over the city and Aiirnet will keep all the profits. What's in it for Cerritos? Sure, if Aiirnet doesn't end up making money then it makes sense, but considering they will be the only broadband provider in town, they will definitely succeed and Cerritos will get nothing.
Always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when someone has the opportunity to be exposed to online pr0n and Slashdot.
Just make sure Goatse man isn't driving the welcome wagon.
Kinda unfortunate that I didn't have a laptop before I graduated from USC...just a few months ago. They've installed an excellent WiFi network all over campus, and all my laptop-toting friends told me it was really hassle-free.
Just curious...how many other campuses have state-of-the-art networks? Stand up and be counted!
If we make our cities super unattractive for DSL/Cable companies to come in ... we can get WiFi in the city! Sweet! I think throwing garbage everywhere would help spur this new initiative... I think I'll go run for mayor under this platform.
Phase 1: Throw garbage everywhere
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: WiFi and/or Profits!
"There is no spoon." - The Matrix
it's awesome... I just resently got me a wi-fi toy and tested it while traveling in Washington, DC.
It is really fun (and convinient) when you can pull out yahoo directions standing in the middle of the street...
But it's really anoying in the airport where the only connection awailable is from a pay-for-subscribtion privider (ripper-offer?...)
the more citywide initiative, the better....
and where is Ceritos anyway? is it Orange Co.?
Just because I don't care, it doesn't mean I don't understand. Homer J. Simpson
Is anyone else wondering why people complain loudly about spam ...
...
but they pretty much feed the problem via these wifi hotspots ?
I think it would be pretty cool if wifi routers came with port 25 disabled by default
Sunny Dubey
Wouldn't it be cheaper in the long run to run their own fiber to each and every home, and some to the central office at the phone company. Then put up wireless base stations in public places like parks. Then when they broadband hunger public wants more speed they would not have to redo their entire infastructure.
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I am going to guess that the warflying numbers are not including these new ones. Perhaps a regular survey by Warflying is needed.
I am thinking quarterly would be often enough to be useful.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
City funds (your taxes) subsidising porn? Will the city be able to fend off a sizeable, vocal group that does not want their tax dollars used in delivering questionable material to other citizens?
Or will they roll over and block that "questionable" material? (Scale this up the the entire Internet and UN control)
What controls will be placed on log files? If the city 'owns' the logs on city-owned servers/routers, will the police or DA be required to get a warrant before searching the logs for whatever it is they are looking for?
What restrictions are placed on usage? Personal servers, etc.
City-wide, free, Net access is great, but there are a LOT of questions to be answered first.
Since when are Cerritos and Columbia CITIES? If you can't take a subway to work, then you don't live in a city, you live in a town.
Much of the downtown is already being covered. Next year even they're covering the major malls and other areas.
When asked, the local ISPs rightly said it probably won't cut into their revenues, because with the amount of people on the free network you'll never get high downstream / upstream speeds, but it'll be great for surfing the web or checking your email on the go from your PDA, nearly anywhere in the city.
http://www.unb.ca/bruns/0304/12/news/wireless.html
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No wait
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Perhaps the traffic Jams are caused by it?
"Damn, Slashdot posted another article." Scrreeech
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Well, have you felt at all uncomfortable at some point during the last 50 years or so? Bad news, my man: you have been irradiated with a wide variety of radio waves for your entire life. A little more or less shouldn't hurt, unless you have the transmitter strapped to your body day in and day out.
Woohoo!! Imagine the possibilities! You won't even have to drive around to wardrive! It'll have to be named something else - how about WarCerritosing? No... Warslouching? Hmm... Anyone? Anyone? Beuler? Beuler? ...Beuler?
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Government planning is just plain socialism and is really bad...
Unless it results in something really fsck'ing cool.
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Okay, lemme get this straight. We have wireless access points installed on building rooftops with wireless transmission throughout the area. Sounds like SkyNet to me!
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
Yet again, you yanks have some catching up to do.
War Spamming... lemme do some numbers.
Note to self: keep the pants ON.
-joe
The IEEE wouldn't have allowed WiFi to get off the ground if it was harmful to humans. This topic is one of my pet peeves. WIFI IS NOT HARMFUL IN ITS OUT OF THE BOX FORM!!
/. a few days ago.. Two WIFI antennas were used here to extend the range of WiFi from the original maximum of 300m to aprox 155,800m (519 times the original distance)
You can add antennas to AP's and NIC's to increase the strength of the signal and thus increase your range. I don't believe these WiFi "cannons" have ever been tested and there is the miniscule possibility that they harmful at a POINT BLANK RANGE. See this to get an idea of the possible range of a WiFi connection: this aired on
I have heard stories where high schools had removed their WiFi because parents were concerned that their teens would grow up with defects (tentacles?). In all honesty, you have tones of radio waves running through you at any given moment! AM Radio, FM Radio, Shortwave Radio, HAM Radio, IR, GPS Signals, UHF, VHF, HF, Cell Phones, THE LIST GOES ON FOREVER!
If you are one of thoughs people who want to rid yourself of the WiFi "threat", don't forget to exterminate all those other vital communication systems along with it! If you are not one of those people, then live a long happy healthy mobile life.
You are confusing me with someone who cares.
With no broadband, the thought of 51,000 people all sharing a 56k dialup connection sounds appealing.
EM radiation increases the risk of cancer for high power or high frequency, or both. It screws up the dircetion of cellular (that's biology, not telecom) components causing errors in the way it replicates the DNA. When that error is significant enegough to produce a mutation, and the mutation survives and grows, it could be a cancer.
It is unclear if the power of a cellphone (note the antenna right next to your brain) is definitely enough to cause cancer in a certain number of people.
Note that main power transmission lines are low frequency but extremely high power. This explains stories about cancer clusters near these high power lines.
WiFi is so low power that even at the relatively high frequency that I can assure all of you are QUITE SAFE from its health effects.
I am an engineer too, and no, I don't work for a WiFi company.
Can we please abandon the phrase "Surf the web" to Sunday supplement columnists and others of a related ilk? I guess it was an apt term years ago when people actually mindlessly followed links, but it just sounds so John Q Public anymore.
All those things are way too low power to cause cancer. See my reply to Smidge204.
It's not true that the city is without broadband.
My parents live in Cerritos and I set them up with DSL before I moved out.
It's very very tempting to have a bunch of friends drive around with portable microwaves and cellphones as a new means of DDoSing the city. Anyone know off-hand where the access points are? I kid, I kid!
It's interesting and convenient, but also gets me a bit paranoid. Those who read the BOFH articles would remember the bit where they used 802.11 to do thinks from changing their calendars on the fly to tracking down where in the building the boss is. Wonder if you can triangulate signal strength, etc. to pinpoint where a particular MAC is at any given time.
I no longer live in Cerritos, but my family still does, and parts of the city *do* have DSL service, though much of it is a broadband deadzone. Sad thing is that our cable company is the same as our phone company (at least in much of town), Verizon. So you can guess why cable modem service hasn't been rolled out. This is all despite what should be a great infrastructure because Verizon/Americast rolled out some experiemental high-tech-wizzy video-on-demand services a few years back (that has since been abandoned, I suppose). I wonder why these companies find Cerritos so appealing when it comes to these services? (It's not a very populous city, the per-capita income is high but not the highest, and it's kinda stuck on the edge on la county and orange counties)
I can't believe there is a suburb in California that Comcast or their ilk has not gotten into.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
As a resident of Cerritos for 24 years, let me provide some background information on the town:
Cerritos is located in the southeast corner of Los Angeles county, just north of Long Beach. The 605(N/S) and 91(E/W) intersect in the northwest corner of town providing incredible freeway access to residents and visitors. Cerritos has borders with the Orange County cities of La Palma and Buena Park, and is 15 minutes from many beaches, so living there provides one an interesting mix of influences from different urban and suburban cultures. I called it a town, there are about 50k residents so I'm not sure what that makes it technically. Cerritos has ended up becoming, IMHO, an interesting oasis in Southeast LA since the decline of the surrounding areas of Compton, Paramount, Lynwood, and the East LA area.
Greater Los Angeles area residents will surely have heard of the huge Cerritos Auto Square, an early entry into the auto mall type setup (I've heard the first of its kind?). The city also has hosted a mall since early on, the town of only 50k now supports as many as 3 malls, 1 classic mall and 2 major "Town Centre" type establishments. They city subsidized the building of a Sheraton hotel and performance arts center, with the classic motive if you build it they will come. (They have, supporting the brand new commercial complex). The city routinely takes pro-business steps such as this network and the city is remarkably prosperous because of it. The city has a HUGE library of its own, which it just recently upgraded, its own sheriff's station, water utility, 2 high schools, pretty much no service is contracted out to another jurisdiction.
Now, specifically to this story:
SOME residents of Cerritos have been able to get DSL for years. I know, I had it. The DSL service is capped at 768/128 due to the type of network in place, not distance. This was a major fight I had with Verizon, I lost but was actually satisfied with their explanation, remarkably. The cable has remained analog, however. Verizon was also the cable provider.
If I understand the local news correctly, Verizon has lost the cable contract and this new company is coming it. They will be setting up the citywide network and running the cable system. Presumably, they will be securing it themselves since they will be charging for access, so all this security talk is really nonsense at this point. Of course, and home relays could be insecure, but this is nothing new. The city is benefiting since all government agencies (see above about no outsourcing) will now have access through this system. The people benefit from this anywhere in the city access, especially those for whom broadband has been unavailable.
This probably sounded like a big commercial, but I don't care. I do recommend it as a great place to raise a family. I just moved to Long Beach to be 2 blocks from the shore, but I would go back in a second if the LBC sunk into the ocean.
they probably don't have their Wikki frontpage deleted as often.
funny
Any we all know that access to the Internet while driving is just the distraction we need!
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Trying to run more cable to "each and every home" in a city (we're not talking about rural ditches) is an enormous public works project.
If Gov. Schwarzeneggar suspects that this is the proto-SkyNet, he will move to shut it down.
After all, that's what we elected him for: to steer us towards an alternate future!
Reading Slashdot is ruining my spelling and grammar.
judging by this story, I would say the largest citywide wi-fi deployment would be Los Angeles.
If I were Emporer of Cerritos, I would RIP OUT each and every public phone. I would install VOIP public pay phones using the wireless network.
I would then load all the payphones into the back of a truck, and send them to the local phone company, with a note telling them about how they could have had their business if they would have just built out their network.
Then I'd offer discounts to all residents to sign up for the VOIP service, and ditch their phone company land lines.
Then I'd install Anti-gravity devices under the city, and float it up into the air, and just dump all of the city garbage onto Huntington Beach, or Rolling Hills.
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I'm really curious why Cable hasn't been available. I have relatives that live a few miles away, in Cypress, and they have no problem getting cable internet. Cerritos is one town over from the Orange County/LA County border, and is right at the junction of the 605 and 91 freeways. It's about twenty/thirty minutes from the beach down Katella Ave... nice place to live if it wasn't so close to Hawaiian Gardens, which is the carjacking capital of LA.
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1: All this on only 11 WiFi channels, with only 3 true separate channels? What about people who have private WiFi networks already in place? Do they shut down?
2: Also, the city has no DSL (can't the phone company just drop in a DSLAM?) or cable broadband. So what are all these WiFi access points connecting into?
3: What happens when people congregate in one spot. Do the police come along and say, "Move along now, you're clogging the local WiFi node."
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
I live in warner robins, in houston county GA. There has been a lot of talk recently Macon Telegraph about Intel comming into the county and providing an 802.16 WiMax network that would cover the entire county of 110,000 people and 376 sq miles. Thats quite a bit bigger than 6.8 sq mi. Now granted that this is in the planning stage and that Intel is planning on using a different protocal than the standard 802.11a/b/g. We will have to wait and see if it works out.
That leave only M3 (Mod Parent Up/Down) posts.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
What are the rate plans going to be? How will they prevent packet capturing?
and if so, isn't this going to interefere with local wireless networks? It would be hard to make a home LAN work if a nearby transmitter is blasting a signal into your house.
Given that it's a city of just over 1 million people, this probably gives more people access. Formal standalone pricing hasn't been announced, access is currently free for members of the sponsoring companies.
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On another note, could open, free-to-use networks such as this become targets of wardriving and such things? I know that here in Canada there are specific laws which make that illegal.
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It is not free. You are paying for this.
No he isn't. Someone else is being stuck for the bill. Do you think he'd check in whenever he had the slightest sniffle for a full look-over if it was on his dime?
And where will it end? Apparently stealing hard working people's money for his medical, liberal education, etc. isn't enough. Now he's got to rob his countrymen so he can have a broadband connection without paying (and for what? certainly there's nothing useful these types do).
Parasites. Every culture gets them, but it still doesn't mean we're better off without them.
How is the option for broadband more affordable than what is currently available if there isn't anything currently available?
Make something ID10T proof, you'll make a better ID10T.
The 34+ nodes cover a medium sized city (120.000 inhabitants). They have been build by volunteers and rely on donated hardware, locations and the odd bit of electricty donated.
You can fetch the code for a cost of a download (see WiKi: NodeFactory) - all is open source; FreeBSD, OSPF, DHCP, SNMP and SSH are the key bits of technology.
Good to see that commercial effords are trying to follow suit.
Dw
Tip: Lay in a big supply of junk food and t-shirts that say "all your base are belong to us".
Surf's up!
The Law of Falling Bodies
Free as in free roads, a free police force, free health care, and all of the other free government services you can think of.
Please do tell, what magical money machine do the Canadians possess so that they can provide all of these free services? Why are you evil Canadians keeping this machine for yourselves when it could be used to end poverty in the world?
As featured in Wired over a year and a half ago, Hanover, NH and its Dartmouth College Campus has been Wi-Fi for quite a while. Sorry to rain on Cerritos's parade, they ain't the first.
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves