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IPhones Flooding Wireless LAN At Duke
coondoggie sends us to a Network World story, as is his wont, about network problems at Duke University in Durham, N.C. that seem to be related to the iPhone. "The Wi-Fi connection on Apple's recently released iPhone seems to be the source of a big headache for network administrators at Duke. The built-in 802.11b/g adapters on several iPhones periodically flood sections of the school's wireless LAN with MAC address requests, temporarily knocking out anywhere from a dozen to 30 wireless access points at a time. Campus network staff are talking with Cisco, the main WLAN provider, and have opened a help-desk ticket with Apple. But so far, the precise cause of the problem remains unknown. 'Because of the time of year for us, it's not a severe problem,' says Kevin Miller, assistant director, communications infrastructure, with Duke's Office of Information Technology. 'But from late August through May, our wireless net is critical. My concern is how many students will be coming back in August with iPhones? It's a pretty big annoyance, right now, with 20-30 access points signaling they're down, and then coming back up a few minutes later. But in late August, this would be devastating.'" So far, the communication with Apple has been "one-way."
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Tuition isn't a barrier for anyone who really wants to attend the school; it's an excuse people who aren't dedicated use to rationalize their choice not to attend.
First, it's entirely possible to go to a perfectly respectable in-state school for just a few grand a year. If you're actually poor you can get that much money in grants and interest-free loans from the federal government. I agree that UW-La Crosse doesn't have the same weight as Yale, but if you get your cheap undergrad, then go to work for a few years and save, you could afford to attend whatever graduate program you like, and no one will care where your undergrad degree came from.
Or you can, with very few exceptions, finance your undergraduate education entirely on credit, even with no credit history, no income, and poor parents. When you're done you'll have $125k in debt, but you'll have the degree you sought.
Certainly it's easier for people with access to money to do go to expensive schools -- the risk they take on is lower, the commitment they need is lesser, and the time it takes them to reach their goals is likely reduced. And reasonable people may decided that the addition value of Yale over UW-La Crosse isn't worth the price in money, time, risk or dedication, but it's disingenuous to say that someone couldn't go to a school because it was too expensive.
Yea... When I first read that I completely missed that it was making MAC address requests not DHCP requests. Maybe this is part of the reason why the iPhone hasn't been unlocked yet? Dynamic MAC's! Sweet. I'm calling DVD John.
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