With simple algorithms (implemented in some OS drivers), you can attach multiple antennas to one card and do direction finding.
With more than 1 person, you can triangulate.
You can do simple tests with both directional antennas and omni antennas, and get someone down to their house in about 15 minutes.
A PDA with NetStumbler and a laptop with external wireless antenna adapter is all that is needed.
I know for a fact. I JUST did this to AT&T to prove to them my next door neighbor had DSL when they said I couldn't get it. Imagine their surprise when I gave them his address, login and WiFi AP name?:)
And you still had to dig a trench to the most outlying area. On your dime, whereas with the current methods, you could have had your cRustomers paying the entire project (and possibly other utilities helping and the local governments as well).
Well, that's how it sounds to you. Fair, and simple. To me, I'm using it as one of the only ways to access the net where I live. Big difference, when you actually have a choice between broadband providers. I do, but chose this because it is the best of all worlds that I have access to.
I have an SLA, as well. My provider doesn't promise anything they can't deliver. I can't purchase anything faster than what will work in horrible weather (which we get here, let me tell you), etc., etc., etc.
Bottom line, it works. No, it isn't 30 megabit to the house, but nobody really needs that. I'd love it, loved having 6 megabit, 10 megabit, DS3s, etc. Been there, done that. For basic browsing, half to 1 megabit is fine. Email is fine. Sending / Receiving pictures is fine. I can' run a juarez server, but who gives a shit... I have SSL FTP for that.
YMMV, of course. I really don't know what I'm talking about either... I started in WiFi technology when Western MIUX was about the ONLY solution out there, and Cisco damn near broke my doors down to give me a MAN based on their product before Aeronet WAS a product. Before that, it was all P2P wired and a fattious pipe to MCI.
Weather, it was downtown and outlying Houston, Tx.. Conroe, Woodlands, etc. Covered a couple hundred square miles. To say the weather can be downright shitty in Houston is an understatement.
No, WiFi isn't the best, but it's fast, easy to deploy, and CHEAP! Show me copper, fiber or any other technology that can hit those three requirements.
OK, as a wireless backhaul customer (I'm 2.5 to 3 miles away from my AP, and the AP has a 5.8g backhaul another few miles, sometimes through blizzards, rain, heavy wind (we have LOTS of sand here, I'm in a desert region, at 6K feet ASL), etc.), I call BS.
I have.5 megabit / 128kbit service, works fine. I can watch TV, pretty much do anything I want to with it, although I can't do anything on more than one computer without QoS. Even Vonage works OK here.
I'd love to be back on my 6 megabit cable connection, but we aren't going to get it here. WHAT incentive does ANYONE have to lay cable lines out to the 55 thousand acres where I live, for a FEW people to pick it up? We have WiFi access, DSL to the people close enough to a NOC or box, satellite, etc. I mean, honestly, unless your a gamer, the latency here is just fine. What do I canre that it takes an extra tenth of a second for my SSL ftp sessions to start?
Yes, it's not as fast. Yes, I'd love faster. But, its faster than my alternative (3G), cheap (relatively) and I've had 1 day of outage (a few hours) in a year of service. My other house has worse, and has AT&T DSL service!
To you, the rate isn't worth it. To someone else (a spy maybe?), it would be much more worth it.
To AT&T, it's worth it, or they wouldn't charge it.
Bottom line is, if you don't understand the contract, don't sign it. However, I haven't honestly found a contract that didn't state the rates. It's the law, in the US, they have to.
Your nationwide plan doesn't state the international rate for two reasons. 1, simply, they don't have to, it takes more paper, and your plan isn't MADE for international service. 2. Your plan ISN'T an international service plan. If you planned to go IH, I would hope you would have the brains to inquire of the rate first.
Serious. Braindead people deserve no sympathy. If you don't understand or can't figure out your contract, don't use it, make a call, get it explained (rates aren't that hard to understand. I mean, if you can program your VCR, you should be able to figure out what times you can call for X amount of dollars).
And your mothers an idiot if she signed it after the lender either put the wrong things down, or changed things for her.
Actually, I wouldn't call her an idiot, I would call her a liar as well. She signed, giving her word that the statements on the app where true. Period.
Fill out your own applications. If you don't understand wtf your signing, DON'T. Get someone in that DOES.
It's simple really. A fool and his money (or house, in this case) are soon parted.
And telling us you have been burned by a kid using an unlimited plan wasn't enough, either. Using your verbage, your crazy.
But seriously. PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS, AND UNDERSTAND WHAT / WHEN / WHERE THEY ARE DOING. Simple, really. Read, find out what the charges are, and use it, if you can afford it.
Of course, that would actually preclude most people BEING ABLE TO READ.
Yeah, except your entire premise is built upon the cell companies changing the terms... Which they didn't.
The idiots that signed the contract in this case, ARE, responsible. They signed, they just didn't read.
Ignorance is no excuse for stupidity.
Their son should be tar'ed and feathered for doing such, and mom and dad should be held accountable. I'm held accountable when I do something against the rules, why shouldn't they, just because "we didn't realize we where doing this".... Yeah, right.
I'm sorry, any idiot that signed a loan agreement that they couldn't pay back should be held full accountable for what they did.
After all, it was THEIR action that caused THEIR plight.
Not to say that other circumstances didn't help the problem come about the way it did (the lendors where BEGGING for these loans to be picked up and sold and resold), but the bottom line is this, you probably shouldn't sign something you don't understand.
San Diego is having a REALLY hard time in that all the contracts where in English. Now the "homeowners" are coming forth stating they didn't know what they where signing, since they don't speakah-duh-English. Of course, when the case was ready to go to court, they found out it was bi-lingual Hispanics selling these loans to friends.
Yup, they deserve as much of a bailout as the Nazi's.
I think, when the 'new phrase' has no relation as to the OP's intent and meaning, it isn't pedantry.
I mean, at some point, SOMEONE is going to have to point out the uneducated dolt really doesn't know what he is talking about..... I mean, study the original verbage, and extrapolate what he actually meant. Two seperate things.
Anyone who thinks that correcting another is wrong, when the original person was not even close to getting it rigyt is doing them a service. It's the generation of 'You knew what I meant' that is full of shit. If your a native Engrish speaker, shame on him for not knowing how to accurately convey his thoughts in the written form. Not a native tongue, well, now ya know.
Lack of pride in yourself is amazing when your ego runs over your basic want to be able to be thought of as intelligent... I canNOT figure out why people get pissed when another points out they don't know how to communicate../end Grammah_Nazi
She should have brought a lawsuit against the prick for both not teaching her how to do her job (which, c'mon, she SHOULD have known what the problem was) and for the public humiliation the original article writer performed.
The worst part about it is, the manager or person in authority wasted company time (for all involved, how much salary / hourly was lost), company profits (all the wasted product), and the customer NEVER got what they ordered.
Yup, the stupidest person here was the idiot that ALLOWED it to take place.
Umm, I might be the exception, but I never understood people that actually DO what he is talking about.
My pictures (subject-wise, I do sometimes red-eye or something similiar, but WHY take an X out or something along those lines) are the same as when I took them. Taking your 'X' out of a picture was something others did in high school, and that was majorly mostly self important 'bitches' that did that......
I call bullshit.... And if the majority of the population is doing this (judging the population by myspace isn't actually 'reality') then no wonder we are in such a state today....
Slashdot Mirror
Gee, your only right behind Google Maps.
--Toll_Free
I'm sorry, but you are wrong.
With simple algorithms (implemented in some OS drivers), you can attach multiple antennas to one card and do direction finding.
With more than 1 person, you can triangulate.
You can do simple tests with both directional antennas and omni antennas, and get someone down to their house in about 15 minutes.
A PDA with NetStumbler and a laptop with external wireless antenna adapter is all that is needed.
I know for a fact. I JUST did this to AT&T to prove to them my next door neighbor had DSL when they said I couldn't get it. Imagine their surprise when I gave them his address, login and WiFi AP name? :)
--Toll_Free
And you still had to dig a trench to the most outlying area. On your dime, whereas with the current methods, you could have had your cRustomers paying the entire project (and possibly other utilities helping and the local governments as well).
It's simple economics and geography.
--Toll_Free
Well, that's how it sounds to you. Fair, and simple. To me, I'm using it as one of the only ways to access the net where I live. Big difference, when you actually have a choice between broadband providers. I do, but chose this because it is the best of all worlds that I have access to.
I have an SLA, as well. My provider doesn't promise anything they can't deliver. I can't purchase anything faster than what will work in horrible weather (which we get here, let me tell you), etc., etc., etc.
Bottom line, it works. No, it isn't 30 megabit to the house, but nobody really needs that. I'd love it, loved having 6 megabit, 10 megabit, DS3s, etc. Been there, done that. For basic browsing, half to 1 megabit is fine. Email is fine. Sending / Receiving pictures is fine. I can' run a juarez server, but who gives a shit... I have SSL FTP for that.
YMMV, of course. I really don't know what I'm talking about either... I started in WiFi technology when Western MIUX was about the ONLY solution out there, and Cisco damn near broke my doors down to give me a MAN based on their product before Aeronet WAS a product. Before that, it was all P2P wired and a fattious pipe to MCI.
Weather, it was downtown and outlying Houston, Tx.. Conroe, Woodlands, etc. Covered a couple hundred square miles. To say the weather can be downright shitty in Houston is an understatement.
No, WiFi isn't the best, but it's fast, easy to deploy, and CHEAP! Show me copper, fiber or any other technology that can hit those three requirements.
--Toll_Free
Because they count on the revenue generated by each phase of the rollout to start / guarantee the funding for the next phase.
It wouldn't be economically feasible to do the most expensive part first, when you could actually do it cheaper by doing it in phases from your NOC.
--Toll_Free
OK, as a wireless backhaul customer (I'm 2.5 to 3 miles away from my AP, and the AP has a 5.8g backhaul another few miles, sometimes through blizzards, rain, heavy wind (we have LOTS of sand here, I'm in a desert region, at 6K feet ASL), etc.), I call BS.
I have .5 megabit / 128kbit service, works fine. I can watch TV, pretty much do anything I want to with it, although I can't do anything on more than one computer without QoS. Even Vonage works OK here.
I'd love to be back on my 6 megabit cable connection, but we aren't going to get it here. WHAT incentive does ANYONE have to lay cable lines out to the 55 thousand acres where I live, for a FEW people to pick it up? We have WiFi access, DSL to the people close enough to a NOC or box, satellite, etc. I mean, honestly, unless your a gamer, the latency here is just fine. What do I canre that it takes an extra tenth of a second for my SSL ftp sessions to start?
Yes, it's not as fast. Yes, I'd love faster. But, its faster than my alternative (3G), cheap (relatively) and I've had 1 day of outage (a few hours) in a year of service. My other house has worse, and has AT&T DSL service!
--Toll_Free
I guess this pretty much states the obvious.
To you, the rate isn't worth it. To someone else (a spy maybe?), it would be much more worth it.
To AT&T, it's worth it, or they wouldn't charge it.
Bottom line is, if you don't understand the contract, don't sign it. However, I haven't honestly found a contract that didn't state the rates. It's the law, in the US, they have to.
Your nationwide plan doesn't state the international rate for two reasons. 1, simply, they don't have to, it takes more paper, and your plan isn't MADE for international service. 2. Your plan ISN'T an international service plan. If you planned to go IH, I would hope you would have the brains to inquire of the rate first.
Serious. Braindead people deserve no sympathy. If you don't understand or can't figure out your contract, don't use it, make a call, get it explained (rates aren't that hard to understand. I mean, if you can program your VCR, you should be able to figure out what times you can call for X amount of dollars).
--Toll_Free
Gee, is your contract one for international rates, or just for 'within your own country'?
Let's compare apples to oranges, not just try to prove our point.
--Toll_Free
And your mothers an idiot if she signed it after the lender either put the wrong things down, or changed things for her.
Actually, I wouldn't call her an idiot, I would call her a liar as well. She signed, giving her word that the statements on the app where true. Period.
Fill out your own applications. If you don't understand wtf your signing, DON'T. Get someone in that DOES.
It's simple really. A fool and his money (or house, in this case) are soon parted.
--Toll_Free
And since when is the self proclaimed comedian "Stephen Colbert" a journalist?
I mean, he himself refers to himself as a comedian.
Need a dictionary?
--Toll_Free
Disclosure isn't enough?
And telling us you have been burned by a kid using an unlimited plan wasn't enough, either. Using your verbage, your crazy.
But seriously. PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ACTIONS, AND UNDERSTAND WHAT / WHEN / WHERE THEY ARE DOING. Simple, really. Read, find out what the charges are, and use it, if you can afford it.
Of course, that would actually preclude most people BEING ABLE TO READ.
--Toll_Free
When and where are you guaranteed that the airwaves are public?
I mean, really?
I am a licensed radio amateur, and although I tend to lean towards your argument... Where or who told you the airwaves are public?
--Toll_Free
You're a fucking idiot.
--Toll_Free
What about pre-paid, Skype, etc?
OP has a cell, I'm fairly willing to bet, anyway.
--Toll_Free
Yeah, except your entire premise is built upon the cell companies changing the terms... Which they didn't.
The idiots that signed the contract in this case, ARE, responsible. They signed, they just didn't read.
Ignorance is no excuse for stupidity.
Their son should be tar'ed and feathered for doing such, and mom and dad should be held accountable. I'm held accountable when I do something against the rules, why shouldn't they, just because "we didn't realize we where doing this".... Yeah, right.
--Toll_Free
I'm sorry, any idiot that signed a loan agreement that they couldn't pay back should be held full accountable for what they did.
After all, it was THEIR action that caused THEIR plight.
Not to say that other circumstances didn't help the problem come about the way it did (the lendors where BEGGING for these loans to be picked up and sold and resold), but the bottom line is this, you probably shouldn't sign something you don't understand.
San Diego is having a REALLY hard time in that all the contracts where in English. Now the "homeowners" are coming forth stating they didn't know what they where signing, since they don't speakah-duh-English. Of course, when the case was ready to go to court, they found out it was bi-lingual Hispanics selling these loans to friends.
Yup, they deserve as much of a bailout as the Nazi's.
--Toll_Free
I bet they have a "creative" home loan, as well.
--Toll_Free
lol.
And to think, I thought Pedro and Juan had Chrome locked down with the "mexican chrome" spraypaint.
Guess maybe they will be the next litigation in our court systems, eh?
--Toll_Free
A home ftp server...
Can I get a L/P?
lol..
site adduser Foo bar pirate@123.456.789.111
site flags Foo +1
That will work. kthnx
--Toll_Free
I have MiniMo, the pocketpc version of Mozilla on both my pocketpc phone and Dell Axim.
The Minimo I have is called Chrome.
I would think Google could do better than steal someone elses codename.
--Toll_Free
I think, when the 'new phrase' has no relation as to the OP's intent and meaning, it isn't pedantry.
I mean, at some point, SOMEONE is going to have to point out the uneducated dolt really doesn't know what he is talking about..... I mean, study the original verbage, and extrapolate what he actually meant. Two seperate things.
Anyone who thinks that correcting another is wrong, when the original person was not even close to getting it rigyt is doing them a service. It's the generation of 'You knew what I meant' that is full of shit. If your a native Engrish speaker, shame on him for not knowing how to accurately convey his thoughts in the written form. Not a native tongue, well, now ya know.
Lack of pride in yourself is amazing when your ego runs over your basic want to be able to be thought of as intelligent... I canNOT figure out why people get pissed when another points out they don't know how to communicate. ./end Grammah_Nazi
--Toll_Free
With these games, and I say this carefully, who cares?
People with no social life that have to create a life 'virtually'.
See, the only people that stand to lose if they are not archived, is the people who don't actually have much of a life outside the 'games'.
What a bunch of crap, archiving games. People REALLY are taking games TOO far. Fuck, go outside and get some of this beautiful sunshine!!!!!
--Toll_Free
She shouldn't have been fired.
She should have brought a lawsuit against the prick for both not teaching her how to do her job (which, c'mon, she SHOULD have known what the problem was) and for the public humiliation the original article writer performed.
The worst part about it is, the manager or person in authority wasted company time (for all involved, how much salary / hourly was lost), company profits (all the wasted product), and the customer NEVER got what they ordered.
Yup, the stupidest person here was the idiot that ALLOWED it to take place.
--Toll_Free
I really haven't read anything that had the word, dealt with, or was associated with 'blog' that made much sense anyway.
Face it, just because you can hunt and peck doesn't mean your a journalist, writer or thinker, for that matter.
Nothing to read here, move along.
Toll_Free
Umm, I might be the exception, but I never understood people that actually DO what he is talking about.
My pictures (subject-wise, I do sometimes red-eye or something similiar, but WHY take an X out or something along those lines) are the same as when I took them. Taking your 'X' out of a picture was something others did in high school, and that was majorly mostly self important 'bitches' that did that......
I call bullshit.... And if the majority of the population is doing this (judging the population by myspace isn't actually 'reality') then no wonder we are in such a state today....
--Toll_Free