The issues with this type of law are simple but apparently difficult for politicians. I think there should be laws about obtaining access to networks that have any sort of security measure in place. If you are running some type of wep wpa or other type of security then is should be illegal. It would be just as if I had a fence around my house with a lock on the gate and you jumped the fence.
However if you do not have any security because you are to naive to configure it or you just don't care I don't see where you have the right to complain. If you leave your house do you lock your door?? If not your just asking for someone to break in.
On another note I thing that wireless vendors should default the use of some type of security. This might make it slightly more difficult for the end user however would prevent the need for such laws.
I don't think there will ever be a clear cut answer to this issue though. Radio signals are imposable to control.
I tried to watch this series once. I never really got into it (though I dont watch too much tv). I do however have friends who are big into it. I think its great that there working on a 4th series. Hopefully it will be as good as the first 3... or at least as good as I am told the first 3 are.
I am an Apple user and thus somewhat bias. I do however question the release of the iPhone without g3 support. I also believe that it needs a removable battery so that I could keep a spare.
On another note no one can say that the iPhone did not change the face of the cell phone market. I can't say if the new Air will do the same thing for the notebook market or not.
I would have joined in earlier but I was mitigating the tons of spam and other crap that filters through our company e-mail server daily.
I don't agree with bandwidth shaping by isp's. I feel that I am paying them my hard earned money for my 10/1 connection and I should be able to receive that bandwidth when I want/need it. However having worked for a web hosting company I do realize how much bandwidth cost and how difficult it can be to get the proper peering where and when you need it. I can see why ISP's are filtering at this time (but still can't agree). I think that torrents and other peer to peer software has its use. Sometimes this use is illegal however who is the ISP to judge. I personally use a server at a hosting provider with a 100mb connection and unlimited bandwidth to download my torrent files (all legal linux distros and such of course). This keeps me from saturating my home ISP's bandwidth for days while I download a few gigs of data.
I think that there is a big grey area that we are going to have to come to an agreement. I think that the end users who use more bandwidth should have to pay a premium and those who are more of a casual user who might actually utilize their connection 1 day a month for some software updates or to download some songs from iTunes should be allowed to do as they please. I personally always get the premium plan from the provider with the most available bandwidth knowing full well during peak hours I will not get anything close to what the claim I have. I think it's a loose loose situation and unfortunately we as consumers are going to loose financially.
I would have to agree. Most "normal" internet traffic is very bursty. You load the page then you sit there and look for a minute and then you load another. Sometimes you get the wild hair to download something large, at which point the provider limits your connection to prevent there network from becomming saturated. It is a resonable thing to do. I can't argue with it as long as the provider is stating that this is a few secconds at the beginning of a connection and will not sustain for the duration of your download of all 6 Star Wars DVD's.
I don't really care if the thing falls out of the sky and hits something. Just as long as its not my house. Why are we spending time and money to destroy something that will be destroyed when it hits anyway. I guess it is because we have the ability. I would however like to know when and where the satellite will be so that I can watch this explosion in space for myself.
Where was this contest when I worked in web hosting. We had one cabnet with over 1000 cables comming into it. It was a mess. I dont think there was a way to fix it...
On another note... do we think that this will make the summer olympics??
And I quote "There's the big-binder-of-crap-no-one-reads method, usually used in conjunction with nobody-updates-this-crap-so-it's-useless-anyway approach."
I find it ironic that most companies I have worked for went with this approach. In todays modern society most people will not read it if they cant search threw quickly and find the exact parts that they want to read. You can thank google for this. We have a whole bookshelf of training manuals that have probably not been touched sense they were put there. I just find it quite ironic that there is a wealth of information that nobody uses because it is too difficult to read and keep updated.
I also agree that there are better methods however you have to have company wide acceptance. If you cant get everyone in the organization to agree to use and maintain the data then the data will become outdated and worthless. When this happens it makes IT look bad because it was there idea to put all the data in an easily searchable/updatable format that people could use (but chose not to).
It becomes one of those things that you may never get implemented the way it is supposed to be.
I thought about getting a VoIP line but it has little benefit besides a local number. I have Sprint cell phones with free long distance and my nights begin at 7pm thus 90% of my calls to friends and family fall into that range. Everything else is work related and I am in the office most of the day so I use the phone there.
As for apartments, employers, ect. giving me grief about a long distance number I have not had a real problem besides they tend to write it down wrong because they are not used to the area code.
As for the ticket and the officer giving you grief over the phone number. I cant say that I have ever seen that. I wouldn't see any legal reason that your phone number being in a different area code would cause conflict. Best guess is the officer was being a prick and was trying to find something to harass you about. I was not aware that you even had to have a phone to be a licensed driver in most states.
Hopefully things will change and people will learn that our society is moving away from the old land based telephone and using cellular service for all of our calling needs.
I have not had a land line sense college. The only reason I really had one then was because the dorm had one in it and I didn't have to pay for it. I have always used my cell phone for everything. It is just too convenient. I don't know why anyone would even need a land line if they did not need to fax something to someone (which can be done via the internet for a fee). I cant believe that it has taken this long either. I would have figured that when every member of a family has a cell phone the bill for that would far outweigh the bill for the land line. Ah well, its cool to see us all going wireless.
If bees are the miracle that is going to make my internet faster I have a problem. I am allergic. Hopefully they will stay in the cable cause if bees start popping out of my computer I am going to have to change careers.
Having worked for a web hosting provider at one point, migration to anything new is scary. In our case it was more like will our clients sites still function correctly after they are migrated. Thus far they have put off migrating hoping that someone else would be the gunni pig on this one. I don't know of too many larger networks running on the IPV6 protocols yet. Hopefully in the near future someone will suck it up and convert. I think that someone will have to be the test bed and hopefully there migration will serve as a wakeup call to all providers who are still waiting to see what will happen. I honestly don't see a worldwide usage of ipv6 any time in the next few years. Maybe someone will prove me wrong. We will see.
I can state that as the administrator for my company's e-mail server our volume of spam has decreased sense last year at this time. I would venture to say that spam that is being sent is "smarter" and is formated in a way to make it past some if not all filters. Volume is going down but quality is going up. Guess we are making progress on some fronts.
G
Perhaps you mis-interpreted... I was stating exactly what you are attempting to rebuttal with. I do not depend on a software firewall. I would never take a computer be it a Mac or a PC and hook it directly to my cable modem and expect it to be secure using only the software firewall. There are layers of protection including but not limited to software. I do however argue that the software firewall is weak in its defenses and should only be used as a last line of defense. I also agree that services that are not in use should not be running on your system. This just leaves you open for attacks. Every network I work with is setup in a layered architecture to help curb outbreaks on my systems.
To this date I have had no problems with that setup. I however also use good common sense in my activities on the internet as not to become the victim of malware or other such programs.
To clarify once and for all when I stated "I however will never rely on a software firewall" I was simply referring to the fact that that is not a 100% fail safe line of defense be it hardware or software. Everything is only safe until someone figures out how to get into it.
If you would like to argue... I think the firewall in XP sucked sense day one. I again didn't use it opting for a hardware solution. I could care less if you use mac, windows, linux, or if your computer still runs off punch cards. It matters not. I am an equal opportunity hater. I however will never rely on a software firewall.
I am however a part of the Apple camp. I would expect more from them but some of there more recent endevours have not been up to there usually strict standards. However for that I can forgive them. Microsoft on the other hand has not been able to release a product with any consistency that does not cause me grief. My linux distro's tend to be stable however I sometimes find some things on the bleeding edge that should not be included in those releases either.
Else I was simply stating that yes software firewalls will always suck and yes you should get a real firewall router if you want any form of security on your local network. This is regardless of the os that you use as there are exploits targeting all of them now days.
I tend to agree with the fact that software firewalls are more or less a joke. Some I would consider OK for some things such as blocking out the "static" that tends to make its way across any network from time to time. Else the best protection for most users is a simple hardware firewall. It keeps the bad people outside and allows you to do what you need to do with few restrictions. This is however no replacement for good old common sense which seems to get lost in the translation for todays society. Normally if you are surfing slashdot, e-bay, google, yahoo, and other popular sites you wont end up with worms and malware on your computer. If your running a mac you will end up with less. However a mac is not the answer to all the problems. The answer lies with the end user.
Else I feel that the firewall could probably use some work. I am sure that Apple is already working hard to correct whatever problems they are seeing and will be patching this within the first few weeks. I hate to see a patch that early as it reminds me a lot of a Microsoft release however it has to happen in this case.
I have several comments many of which I will refrain from stating here.
1. Its a graphics card. It has a processor. So your trying to get a patent for the ability to use the processor on the graphics card. Needless to say you are using it for an operation other than what was intended but who cares.
2. I already have at least 5 and usually more like 20 brute force attacks aginst a server that host no sites or anything. I guess they just started scanning and found out it was running ssh. Good luck guessing my password. I cant even remember it sometimes. I do think it has 2 languages in it right now, guess I may need to upgrade.
I really don't see the need for a faster way to hack my computer. If you really want in that bad you probably dont need to be there in the first place. Damn script kiddies.
I have never used the ram on my graphics card for swap or as a ramdisk however that is an interesting idea. I use ram as ramdisk for some of the directories on my gentoo stations. It seems to make some processes work faster. I would have to do some down and dirty testing to see if the overall performance increase is worth the amount of ram used by the ramdisk. I currently have no less than 4 gigs in any machine that I am doing this with thus it is not a big issue however if you are running on 512 or even 1 gig and are using quite a bit of space for your ramdisk it will end up causing it to be slower than normal due to the shrinking in the amount of ram available.
I do also agree that agp is a slower technology and that most older graphics cards only contain small amounts of memory in comparison to the mass amounts of ram that can be bought today for little money.
Who knows... It might work great... I may have to test this out tonight and see what I come up with...
I would tend to agree. I have several linux boxes at different colo's around the country. Port scans, brute force attacks, mysql attacks, you name it they have increased in the past 6 months. I haven't seen any unusual activity on any of my servers to indicate a hack and I keep them under pretty close watch. Hopefully I will never be contributing to the problem.
First off. I do not have FiOS. I probably would if I lived somewhere where it was offered because of the potential bandwidth opportunities. I have discussed the network that Verizon is setting up with some of my buddies who install for them. It appears to be a type of glass threw connection over a single strand for hundreds of households. It is prone to dB loss and don't even think about pulling the specs for the splices and couplers that they are using. It is a great idea and a very telco like implementation. I fully understand running more than one user on a single strand of fiber however they are running hundreds with high db loss and compensating with repeaters. I guess if I was going to do it I would have simply ran a larger bundle of fibers to a neighborhood and broke it apart there. That would allow for vast expansion on the part of the telco. I could spend the rest of the afternoon discussing this but it appears to me that more planning and a better execution would be a smart play for everyone. As far as removing the copper... I don't really care either way. They are removing it to the pole in my yard and if I decide to change the telco will just re-run new line...
First: I agree that after some inspection there is no way that was a bomb. Mainly because as a logical rational person what sort of terrorist would walk up to the counter and flash his bomb. Thats like calling to have the airport evacuated before you blow it up. There in the business of killing innocent people, not letting them get away due to there own stupidity.
Second: How can one person be that stupid. I am hesitant to carry my car keys as they might suspect the alarm button to be a remote detonator and arrest me. Most logical people would not wear anything even remotely close to that into the airport. Most would not even pack it in there carry on luggage for fear of being harassed by security at every checkpoint.
I cant see any reason to state that the police over reacted. I would rather see them over react in these situations than change policy and when something really is happening they are too busy being careful that they are truly dealing with a real terrorist. Would it have been better if the police had spent 20 more minutes trying to determine if it were a bomb at which point if it were a terrorist they would have detonated it by then. Of course I have always advocated shoot first ask questions later.
I hope she enjoys jail. I also hope that MIT kicks her out for being an idiot.
First I will admit. I have an 802.11n setup at my house for my laptop and a desktop on the far side of the house. It works well for this.
The issues are as follows.
Security: There is little or none. All of your transactions are flying through the air and anyone with the proper equipment (which can be obtained at the local electronics store for very little money) can intercept those packets. Even if you bother to use encryption all that has to be done is some processing to "crack" the encryption. Without breaking into my house/office and tying into my physical copper network there is no way to intercept packets on a copper network.
Stability: I cant speak for 802.11n as of yet. My AP has never been rebooted and my clients stay conected. However my prior 802.11x products were somewhat less stable.
Speed: 802.11x is a bus topology much like a hub. True they are running a great deal of bandwidth now. For few users this is great however what happens when you have 20 users on the same access point sharing the same bandwidth.
I do however see uses in business for this. I don't think at this time it is the end all replacement for the simple switch and the complicated wiring closet yet.
The simple fix (though it will cost some money) is to obtain an identical hard drive for the laptop. Install it. Install Windows Vista from the restore disk. Take it to the repair shop who may or may not be able to fix the hinges. I have a quite a few laptops in my office right now that were abused by there former owners and have been returned to IT for repair or replacement. Most of which can not be repaired but must be replaced.
Good Luck
We have these great new processors out now (or soon to be) but we don't really have the hardware to support it. Where are the cool new motherboards that can actually keep up with these processors. Until then I am not in the market for the "new" processors.
However this does help to drop the prices on the older processors which I am all for.
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The issues with this type of law are simple but apparently difficult for politicians. I think there should be laws about obtaining access to networks that have any sort of security measure in place. If you are running some type of wep wpa or other type of security then is should be illegal. It would be just as if I had a fence around my house with a lock on the gate and you jumped the fence.
However if you do not have any security because you are to naive to configure it or you just don't care I don't see where you have the right to complain. If you leave your house do you lock your door?? If not your just asking for someone to break in.
On another note I thing that wireless vendors should default the use of some type of security. This might make it slightly more difficult for the end user however would prevent the need for such laws.
I don't think there will ever be a clear cut answer to this issue though. Radio signals are imposable to control.
I tried to watch this series once. I never really got into it (though I dont watch too much tv). I do however have friends who are big into it. I think its great that there working on a 4th series. Hopefully it will be as good as the first 3... or at least as good as I am told the first 3 are.
I am an Apple user and thus somewhat bias. I do however question the release of the iPhone without g3 support. I also believe that it needs a removable battery so that I could keep a spare.
On another note no one can say that the iPhone did not change the face of the cell phone market. I can't say if the new Air will do the same thing for the notebook market or not.
How ironic... someone registered www.jkshdfkljh23sadf.com as a parked domain. Wow these ppl need help.
I would have joined in earlier but I was mitigating the tons of spam and other crap that filters through our company e-mail server daily.
I don't agree with bandwidth shaping by isp's. I feel that I am paying them my hard earned money for my 10/1 connection and I should be able to receive that bandwidth when I want/need it. However having worked for a web hosting company I do realize how much bandwidth cost and how difficult it can be to get the proper peering where and when you need it. I can see why ISP's are filtering at this time (but still can't agree). I think that torrents and other peer to peer software has its use. Sometimes this use is illegal however who is the ISP to judge. I personally use a server at a hosting provider with a 100mb connection and unlimited bandwidth to download my torrent files (all legal linux distros and such of course). This keeps me from saturating my home ISP's bandwidth for days while I download a few gigs of data.
I think that there is a big grey area that we are going to have to come to an agreement. I think that the end users who use more bandwidth should have to pay a premium and those who are more of a casual user who might actually utilize their connection 1 day a month for some software updates or to download some songs from iTunes should be allowed to do as they please. I personally always get the premium plan from the provider with the most available bandwidth knowing full well during peak hours I will not get anything close to what the claim I have. I think it's a loose loose situation and unfortunately we as consumers are going to loose financially.
I would have to agree. Most "normal" internet traffic is very bursty. You load the page then you sit there and look for a minute and then you load another. Sometimes you get the wild hair to download something large, at which point the provider limits your connection to prevent there network from becomming saturated. It is a resonable thing to do. I can't argue with it as long as the provider is stating that this is a few secconds at the beginning of a connection and will not sustain for the duration of your download of all 6 Star Wars DVD's.
I don't really care if the thing falls out of the sky and hits something. Just as long as its not my house. Why are we spending time and money to destroy something that will be destroyed when it hits anyway. I guess it is because we have the ability. I would however like to know when and where the satellite will be so that I can watch this explosion in space for myself.
Maybe they can shoot at it with the Navy's new rail gun. http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_RailGuns,,00.html
Where was this contest when I worked in web hosting. We had one cabnet with over 1000 cables comming into it. It was a mess. I dont think there was a way to fix it...
On another note... do we think that this will make the summer olympics??
And I quote "There's the big-binder-of-crap-no-one-reads method, usually used in conjunction with nobody-updates-this-crap-so-it's-useless-anyway approach."
I find it ironic that most companies I have worked for went with this approach. In todays modern society most people will not read it if they cant search threw quickly and find the exact parts that they want to read. You can thank google for this. We have a whole bookshelf of training manuals that have probably not been touched sense they were put there. I just find it quite ironic that there is a wealth of information that nobody uses because it is too difficult to read and keep updated.
I also agree that there are better methods however you have to have company wide acceptance. If you cant get everyone in the organization to agree to use and maintain the data then the data will become outdated and worthless. When this happens it makes IT look bad because it was there idea to put all the data in an easily searchable/updatable format that people could use (but chose not to).
It becomes one of those things that you may never get implemented the way it is supposed to be.
I thought about getting a VoIP line but it has little benefit besides a local number. I have Sprint cell phones with free long distance and my nights begin at 7pm thus 90% of my calls to friends and family fall into that range. Everything else is work related and I am in the office most of the day so I use the phone there.
As for apartments, employers, ect. giving me grief about a long distance number I have not had a real problem besides they tend to write it down wrong because they are not used to the area code.
As for the ticket and the officer giving you grief over the phone number. I cant say that I have ever seen that. I wouldn't see any legal reason that your phone number being in a different area code would cause conflict. Best guess is the officer was being a prick and was trying to find something to harass you about. I was not aware that you even had to have a phone to be a licensed driver in most states.
Hopefully things will change and people will learn that our society is moving away from the old land based telephone and using cellular service for all of our calling needs.
I have not had a land line sense college. The only reason I really had one then was because the dorm had one in it and I didn't have to pay for it. I have always used my cell phone for everything. It is just too convenient. I don't know why anyone would even need a land line if they did not need to fax something to someone (which can be done via the internet for a fee). I cant believe that it has taken this long either. I would have figured that when every member of a family has a cell phone the bill for that would far outweigh the bill for the land line. Ah well, its cool to see us all going wireless.
If bees are the miracle that is going to make my internet faster I have a problem. I am allergic. Hopefully they will stay in the cable cause if bees start popping out of my computer I am going to have to change careers.
Having worked for a web hosting provider at one point, migration to anything new is scary. In our case it was more like will our clients sites still function correctly after they are migrated. Thus far they have put off migrating hoping that someone else would be the gunni pig on this one. I don't know of too many larger networks running on the IPV6 protocols yet. Hopefully in the near future someone will suck it up and convert. I think that someone will have to be the test bed and hopefully there migration will serve as a wakeup call to all providers who are still waiting to see what will happen. I honestly don't see a worldwide usage of ipv6 any time in the next few years. Maybe someone will prove me wrong. We will see.
I can state that as the administrator for my company's e-mail server our volume of spam has decreased sense last year at this time. I would venture to say that spam that is being sent is "smarter" and is formated in a way to make it past some if not all filters. Volume is going down but quality is going up. Guess we are making progress on some fronts. G
Perhaps you mis-interpreted... I was stating exactly what you are attempting to rebuttal with. I do not depend on a software firewall. I would never take a computer be it a Mac or a PC and hook it directly to my cable modem and expect it to be secure using only the software firewall. There are layers of protection including but not limited to software. I do however argue that the software firewall is weak in its defenses and should only be used as a last line of defense. I also agree that services that are not in use should not be running on your system. This just leaves you open for attacks. Every network I work with is setup in a layered architecture to help curb outbreaks on my systems.
To this date I have had no problems with that setup. I however also use good common sense in my activities on the internet as not to become the victim of malware or other such programs.
To clarify once and for all when I stated "I however will never rely on a software firewall" I was simply referring to the fact that that is not a 100% fail safe line of defense be it hardware or software. Everything is only safe until someone figures out how to get into it.
If you would like to argue... I think the firewall in XP sucked sense day one. I again didn't use it opting for a hardware solution. I could care less if you use mac, windows, linux, or if your computer still runs off punch cards. It matters not. I am an equal opportunity hater. I however will never rely on a software firewall.
I am however a part of the Apple camp. I would expect more from them but some of there more recent endevours have not been up to there usually strict standards. However for that I can forgive them. Microsoft on the other hand has not been able to release a product with any consistency that does not cause me grief. My linux distro's tend to be stable however I sometimes find some things on the bleeding edge that should not be included in those releases either.
Else I was simply stating that yes software firewalls will always suck and yes you should get a real firewall router if you want any form of security on your local network. This is regardless of the os that you use as there are exploits targeting all of them now days.
I tend to agree with the fact that software firewalls are more or less a joke. Some I would consider OK for some things such as blocking out the "static" that tends to make its way across any network from time to time. Else the best protection for most users is a simple hardware firewall. It keeps the bad people outside and allows you to do what you need to do with few restrictions. This is however no replacement for good old common sense which seems to get lost in the translation for todays society. Normally if you are surfing slashdot, e-bay, google, yahoo, and other popular sites you wont end up with worms and malware on your computer. If your running a mac you will end up with less. However a mac is not the answer to all the problems. The answer lies with the end user.
Else I feel that the firewall could probably use some work. I am sure that Apple is already working hard to correct whatever problems they are seeing and will be patching this within the first few weeks. I hate to see a patch that early as it reminds me a lot of a Microsoft release however it has to happen in this case.
I have several comments many of which I will refrain from stating here.
1. Its a graphics card. It has a processor. So your trying to get a patent for the ability to use the processor on the graphics card. Needless to say you are using it for an operation other than what was intended but who cares.
2. I already have at least 5 and usually more like 20 brute force attacks aginst a server that host no sites or anything. I guess they just started scanning and found out it was running ssh. Good luck guessing my password. I cant even remember it sometimes. I do think it has 2 languages in it right now, guess I may need to upgrade.
I really don't see the need for a faster way to hack my computer. If you really want in that bad you probably dont need to be there in the first place. Damn script kiddies.
G
I have never used the ram on my graphics card for swap or as a ramdisk however that is an interesting idea. I use ram as ramdisk for some of the directories on my gentoo stations. It seems to make some processes work faster. I would have to do some down and dirty testing to see if the overall performance increase is worth the amount of ram used by the ramdisk. I currently have no less than 4 gigs in any machine that I am doing this with thus it is not a big issue however if you are running on 512 or even 1 gig and are using quite a bit of space for your ramdisk it will end up causing it to be slower than normal due to the shrinking in the amount of ram available.
I do also agree that agp is a slower technology and that most older graphics cards only contain small amounts of memory in comparison to the mass amounts of ram that can be bought today for little money.
Who knows... It might work great... I may have to test this out tonight and see what I come up with...
I would tend to agree. I have several linux boxes at different colo's around the country. Port scans, brute force attacks, mysql attacks, you name it they have increased in the past 6 months. I haven't seen any unusual activity on any of my servers to indicate a hack and I keep them under pretty close watch. Hopefully I will never be contributing to the problem.
First off. I do not have FiOS. I probably would if I lived somewhere where it was offered because of the potential bandwidth opportunities. I have discussed the network that Verizon is setting up with some of my buddies who install for them. It appears to be a type of glass threw connection over a single strand for hundreds of households. It is prone to dB loss and don't even think about pulling the specs for the splices and couplers that they are using. It is a great idea and a very telco like implementation. I fully understand running more than one user on a single strand of fiber however they are running hundreds with high db loss and compensating with repeaters. I guess if I was going to do it I would have simply ran a larger bundle of fibers to a neighborhood and broke it apart there. That would allow for vast expansion on the part of the telco. I could spend the rest of the afternoon discussing this but it appears to me that more planning and a better execution would be a smart play for everyone. As far as removing the copper... I don't really care either way. They are removing it to the pole in my yard and if I decide to change the telco will just re-run new line...
First: I agree that after some inspection there is no way that was a bomb. Mainly because as a logical rational person what sort of terrorist would walk up to the counter and flash his bomb. Thats like calling to have the airport evacuated before you blow it up. There in the business of killing innocent people, not letting them get away due to there own stupidity.
Second: How can one person be that stupid. I am hesitant to carry my car keys as they might suspect the alarm button to be a remote detonator and arrest me. Most logical people would not wear anything even remotely close to that into the airport. Most would not even pack it in there carry on luggage for fear of being harassed by security at every checkpoint.
I cant see any reason to state that the police over reacted. I would rather see them over react in these situations than change policy and when something really is happening they are too busy being careful that they are truly dealing with a real terrorist. Would it have been better if the police had spent 20 more minutes trying to determine if it were a bomb at which point if it were a terrorist they would have detonated it by then. Of course I have always advocated shoot first ask questions later.
I hope she enjoys jail. I also hope that MIT kicks her out for being an idiot.
First I will admit. I have an 802.11n setup at my house for my laptop and a desktop on the far side of the house. It works well for this.
The issues are as follows.
Security: There is little or none. All of your transactions are flying through the air and anyone with the proper equipment (which can be obtained at the local electronics store for very little money) can intercept those packets. Even if you bother to use encryption all that has to be done is some processing to "crack" the encryption. Without breaking into my house/office and tying into my physical copper network there is no way to intercept packets on a copper network.
Stability: I cant speak for 802.11n as of yet. My AP has never been rebooted and my clients stay conected. However my prior 802.11x products were somewhat less stable.
Speed: 802.11x is a bus topology much like a hub. True they are running a great deal of bandwidth now. For few users this is great however what happens when you have 20 users on the same access point sharing the same bandwidth.
I do however see uses in business for this. I don't think at this time it is the end all replacement for the simple switch and the complicated wiring closet yet.
The simple fix (though it will cost some money) is to obtain an identical hard drive for the laptop. Install it. Install Windows Vista from the restore disk. Take it to the repair shop who may or may not be able to fix the hinges. I have a quite a few laptops in my office right now that were abused by there former owners and have been returned to IT for repair or replacement. Most of which can not be repaired but must be replaced. Good Luck
We have these great new processors out now (or soon to be) but we don't really have the hardware to support it. Where are the cool new motherboards that can actually keep up with these processors. Until then I am not in the market for the "new" processors.
However this does help to drop the prices on the older processors which I am all for.