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  1. Re:Cry. on Ask Slashdot: Best Wi-Fi Solution For a Hotel? · · Score: 1

    And you clearly cannot distinguish between concept and implementation. A WMN uses chains of repeaters (the mesh routers) to rely a packet from end to another. At each hop a packet is received demodulated processed in order to discover its next hop and then encoded and transmitted again which is at its heart the definition of "a repeater", the you can do it at level 1 (regeneration or cooperative forwarding) , at layer 2 (switching), at L3 (routing) or at the application layer (which is what peer-to-peer networks do). The fact that it is done using WDS, or master/slave chains or using a routing daemon does not change the essence of things.

  2. Re:Dude, I don't wanna shit all over your question on Ask Slashdot: Best Wi-Fi Solution For a Hotel? · · Score: 1

    I do this for a living and my typical hotel manager (or campus, camping, etc) would not know where to start. Maybe for many of us is easy to look for documentation troubleshoot all the quirks you can find on commodity hardware and deploy a wireless network across several floors or several building. But for many people this is not trivial even when you have the usual computer wiz as cousin. Of course you can always for a nice cisco solution with controller, the problem is these solutions are very costly and they still need trained people for setup and deployment.

  3. Re:Done. on Ask Slashdot: Best Wi-Fi Solution For a Hotel? · · Score: 1

    And if that should not prove up to the task you can always flash those routers with OpenWRT or DD-WRT and try this: wing

  4. Re:Cry. on Ask Slashdot: Best Wi-Fi Solution For a Hotel? · · Score: 0

    Your chain of wireless repeaters is called wireless mesh networks. People have been playing with the for the last 20 years. Now there are several solid companies with thousand of customer around the globe that provide exactly this service. So why this has to be such a complex task? And yes I did use this products both indoor and outdoor and they work fine.

  5. WMN on Ask Slashdot: Best Wi-Fi Solution For a Hotel? · · Score: 1

    Look for a cheap and reliable wireless mesh networks. Forget cisco and the other big names. Companies like meraki and aerohive will sell you the hardware as well as the management service (for a monthly fee). As an alternative you could look for somebody to deploy custom openwrt based access point with a routing daemon, e.g.: olsr, batman, wing, and many other alternatives.

  6. Re:Excuse me but the Blues Brothers were not cr... on Police To Begin iPhone Iris Scans · · Score: 1

    Not really. Jesus was put up before the Romans by the Pharisees, a Jewish sect. The Romans were the power at that time and place. They ruled the secular society. If someone were to be punished for religious crimes then that religious group would mete out the punishment. But the Pharisees wanted Jesus' followers to know that they were in charge of Judaism. They basically presented Jesus to the Romans with charges of being an anarchist/anti-Roman, rabble rouser type. Governor Pontius Pilate examined Jesus and found him not guilty of organizing against the Romans and "washed his hand of this matter". The Pharisees then wanted him put to death and the Romans executed him.

  7. Re:Why not? on Pastafarian Wins Right To Wear Colander In License Photo · · Score: 1

    The term "bolognesa" is not a word in italian. Instead, "bolognese" (noun) is singular, the plural is "bolognesi". The kind of noodle in questione are called "pasta alla bolognese" or "bolognese style pasta" where "bolognese" is used as adjective.

  8. Re:Too cynical? on Porn Reportedly Found At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    E Pluribus Unum

  9. Re:Too cynical? on Porn Reportedly Found At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    So what would the US have to do to be thought of as NOT sexphobic by you? Have a picture-in-picture on every channel of hardcore intercourse? People having sex openly in the streets? There is a difference between sexphobic and civilized.

    No, it would be enough NOT to consider pornography as something you can use to reduce the credibility of someone. The (in your opinion) extremes that your are citing just show how uncomfortable you are with the idea of making love to someone in a public place you even go so far as making this discomfort a driving force behind your definition of "civilized".

  10. Re:Too cynical? on Porn Reportedly Found At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I do not get it. How owning some video with pornographic content qualifies as "denigrating"? Are you US people so sexophobic that watching pornos is equavalent to be some kind of sex offender or pedophile? I you discovered that Obame and michelle actually watched porn together would that make him less qualified to run your country?

  11. Re:You can never rule out risks completely on Alabama Nuclear Reactor Gets 'F' Grade · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot, magnetic containment - based fusion technology basically automatically shuts down if the containment vessel is broken. The plasma itself cools as soon as it touches the outer vessel shutting down the fusion process.

  12. Re:Democrats loved the Pentagon Papers on Compiling the WikiLeaks Fallout · · Score: 0

    Fine, if these are the rules of your game then learn to keep your dirty secrets still secrets. What US gov and some citizen are doing right know is crying around because somebody beat them at their own game. Go teach older democracies than your when you truly become a democratic civil nation, start by banning death penalty and helding and torturing people.

  13. Re:But the users can still be sued? on French ISP Refuses To Send Out Infringement Notices · · Score: 1, Funny

    French people are not easily "scared into submission" like average us citizens. Remember that here heads were chopped "BY" the people and not-viceversa.

  14. Re:but best buy is pre doing and forcing you to bu on Best Buy Unapologetic About Charging For PS3 Firmware Updates · · Score: 0

    In the US you tip someone to bring a cart to your car? Wow, to me this completely redefines the word laziness :D

  15. Re:Forum shopping? on Nokia Siemens Sued For Providing Monitoring Equipment To Iran · · Score: 0

    like USofA never used torture

  16. No news on Germany To Grant Privacy At the Workplace · · Score: 0

    It is like this in Italy since the beginning of 90.

  17. Re:Don't f* with the IT guy like at restaurant you on Child Porn As a Weapon · · Score: 0

    below a certain age children are sexually developed so they would not involve themselves in any sexual act. The opposite would happens only as a result of an external coercion and as such would make the child non consenting.

  18. Re:Bad guys on How Will Contemporary War Games Affect Veterans? · · Score: 0

    People that intentionally target civilians are morally and, if it was up to me, penally equal to soldiers, officials, presidents the do all they can to "minimize" civilian deaths. Of course if thinking the contrary helps you sleep bed at night, then do so.

  19. Re:Why do I not trust their numbers? on O2 Scraps Unlimited Data Usage For Smartphones · · Score: 0

    Actually with wireless networks, and especially with cellular network,when it comes to power consumption it does not really matter if your are transmitting at full rate or if your are idle. This is because power management is really not that sophisticated, and the reason it is not that sophisticated is that you do not want to lose traffic by powering (and powering down a radio is the only way to save energy there is nothing else you can do from a protocol stack standpoint) down BTS.

  20. Re:What is moral relativism? on Pope Rails Against the Internet and Transparency · · Score: 0

    still, I do not see how this supports the idea that THERE IS right or wrong no matter if this can be universally correct or not. When our sun goes will go nove it will not be neither good nor bad it will just be part of nature, and we as humans do not transcend nature. OTOH there could be actions that are unpractical for a stable society.

  21. Re:Dear FSF on iPad Is a "Huge Step Backward" · · Score: 0

    People have a choice: do not buy apple products. It is that easy.

  22. Re:The 72 virgin angle on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 0

    1) i will not get laid in this life
    2) i have no proof that there could or there could not be an afterlife
    3) ???
    4) have sex

  23. Re:Lets see on Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees · · Score: 0

    your are wrong sir... I'm an engineer and nothing in my work is a dogma or just black and white. Each time I work for a customer (i design and deploy custom wireless networks) I have to face new trade-off between time/cost etc. and i constantly challenge my skill set otherwise I would still my customers to stick with wired systems with good old diesel generators instead of designing wireless network with solar/hydro and water power. Of course as a wise man said: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." So yes things like shannon capacity for a wireless channel are a dogma for me.

  24. Re:That's already in place. on After Berlusconi Attack, Italy Considers Web Censorship · · Score: 0

    I could access both the websites from Italy. I tried both from work and from home (using my VPN). So sir your are wrong.

  25. Re:passionless technician on Wall Street's Collapse Is Computer Science's Gain · · Score: 0

    This sounds like BS. Money IS an objective evaluation of people's success. People don't want just to be rich they want to be successful and large incomes are the best proof.