That's kinda like saying that the internal combustion engine needs to be replaced because your model T can only do about 35mph. You have poorly desinged/operating wireless equipment, period. Your complaint has nothing at all to do with the wi-fi standard, you simply need a better base station and/or adapter for your laptop.
I gave my fiance an old linksys PC Card for her laptop when I first set her up wirelessly, she couldn't go 30 feet and 2 walls away without having problems. So, remembering why I ditched the old card in the first place, I replaced it for her. Now she can go 100+ feet away, through 4 walls, and out in to her backyard...
Don't blame the standard because some companies built crap out of it...
Bah, there are several non-blocking switches that can handle 500+ ports of 100Mb L3 traffic. Avaya, Cisco (well... on a good day), Extreme, and I could go on. And heck, most of these are enterprise class switches, get into carrier class stuff and they wouldn't even break a sweat...
You start by enforcong it at the retail level - someone in the USofA has to be taking orders for, shipping, and profiting! (step 3?) from those pills that make my unit bigger. Those are the ones you nail - if they stop hiring the spam companies to 'promote' them, then the volume might drop significantly.
Of course this would not work for spam advertising an offshore website or service, but hey - it's a start...
btw, if you pay rent, you pay school and property taxes indirectly--it usualy amounts to about 1/3rd to 1/2 of your rent, depending on the market where you are renting.
Oh please.. In Southern California - one of the most expensive places to live in the US - property tax is about 1% of assessed value ANUALLY. Given that my $240k condo rents for 1500/mo, that works out to (2300/12) $200/mo in taxes, or 13.3% of the rent. 1/2? Where on earth did you dig up that number?
I just sent mine off, but made a few changes: --- I'm fery ixceeted ebuoot zee noo Bork technulugy in Oopera, hooefer I em deeseppuinted tu feend it is nut efeeeleble-a fur Leenoox. I em a leettle-a deestressed thet Veendoos users get zee soopereeur brooser, vheele-a Leenoox users ere-a stoock veet yesterdey's noos. Dues Oopera Sufftvere-a plun oon breenging thees inhuncement tu oozeer pletffurms? I hupe-a in zee footoore-a ell pletffurms veell be-a iqooelly sooppurted veet inhuncements tu zee Oopera brooser. Muny thunks! ---
Shouldn't that be "One Number to *ring* them all?"
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This is easier to solve than most people think - simply write the law in such a way that the producer/distributor of whatever is being sold/promoted via SPAM is punished for it, regardless of wether or not they 'directly' sent it out. After all, there's always one way to get in touch with the penis enlargement people - order the stuff;-)
I swtiched to a competing company - www.vonage.com, available anywhere a broadband connection is. As an added bonus, I don't pay the $20+ in taxes and fees that I used to have on my old phone line.
Now Mr Numbatu from Nigeria will have a new list of verified 'trusted associates' to help him get his $50 Million worth of gold out of the country!
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Seriously though - doesn't the international nature of spam and the 'net preclude this sort of thing from working in real life? And don't compare it to offshore telemarketers - they generally have goods or services that they want to sell you right here in the USA, so whomever would benefit from that transaction can be pursued and found at fault for voilating a DNC list.
Spammers on the other hand could be promoting a Swedish porn site, a Jamaican on-line casino, or a UK based match.com rip-off, all without any fear of reprisal...
Actually, MS (used to?) do this with support.micrsoft.com and Mozilla - they'd send broken difficult to read pages, however if you changed your user agent string, Voila - rendered exactly the way it did in IE. Like the story said, this ain't the first time...
Basically, future wireless equipment will detect the presence of military radar and not transmit over the top of it. Additionally, as part of the compromise, defense officials will endorse the doubling of the number of allowed wireless frequencies--thus opening more spectrum to wireless users
All of the above is supposition on the submitter's part, and NONE of it is referenced in teh article. First of all, the article says
a resolution that establishes a new radio frequency threshold for products using unlicensed radio spectrum--primarily Wi-Fi products
> Nothing about 'detecting' military radar, and nothing about shutting down transmission when it does. Next up we have Pentagon endorsement of the Boxer/Allen Broaband Jumpstart Act which will open up an add'l 255MHz in the 5GHz band. Well, the article doesn't say anything about that either - all we've got is this quote:
"Now that this technical issue has been resolved, Congress should proceed to enact the Boxer-Allen bill,"
Which is from One of the bill's sponsors (Boxer) - not the DOD!
Oh, and just in case you were wondering - None of this applies to existing 2.4GHz wireless gear...
It's already quite trivial to overload a WiFi AP and make it useless. Much more money and effort would have to go into creating something to 'mimic' a military radar system than is currently needed to blast the 2.4GHz spectrum with noise.
In order for that to work, Joe sixpack is going to have to stop buying computersbased on (GB|MB|MHz)/$, and will have to stop buying hard drives at Fry's based on the biggest frive available under $129...
IBM, Seagate et. all sell to their markets - it'll be a while before priorities change.
Then it probably wouldn't be a good idea to tell everyone how their waste is usually dropped into a local stream/river where you get your water supply. Honestly, it's going to get back to you one way or another:)
What second or third world country are you living in? There's a big difference between the treated waste water that gets put back in to the ecosystem and 'night soil'...
Personally, I wish they'd spend a little bit of the money on public education. Start giving basic "Home Internet Security: 101" type courses in high schools so that the new crop of wIdiots have atleast a little backing in knowledge to take home with them. Maybe they can secure their parents machines and have an immediate effect on the state of things.
I worked for a Police Dept. in California for a few years, and one of the things we did was something like this. While it was targeted at parents and more directed towards stopping cyber-molesters, we did cover basic computer security. Looking back, perhaps it would have been a good idea to spend more time on that...
You would have a much stronger argument if the studios had EVER shown any intention of doing such a thing. The fact is clearplay, moviemask, and the other editing companies have sprung up due to a demand that Hollywood has made a conscious decision to ignore for whatever reason.
I will be happy to try clearplay and its ilk out in my next home theatre - it'll make watching movies with my fiance much more enjoyable.
Tripled their call handling capability and dramatically increased the number of endpoints they could handle
In fact, with a single pair of low cost (compared to their old proprietary processors) S8700 Linux based servers, an Avaya IP PBX can handle more endpoints and calls per hour than eight (8!!!) of their competitors' NT based telephony servers, all while providing higher reliability on an OPEN infrastructure...
Hmm, one month of hotspot service is about the same price as service for 1 flight, and that's "not bad"? Sheesh, wanna buy a volkswagen? It's about the same price as a Porsche - not bad, eh?
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Dang it, havent they learned anything yet? Superheroes should STAY AWAY from horses!
That's kinda like saying that the internal combustion engine needs to be replaced because your model T can only do about 35mph. You have poorly desinged/operating wireless equipment, period. Your complaint has nothing at all to do with the wi-fi standard, you simply need a better base station and/or adapter for your laptop.
I gave my fiance an old linksys PC Card for her laptop when I first set her up wirelessly, she couldn't go 30 feet and 2 walls away without having problems. So, remembering why I ditched the old card in the first place, I replaced it for her. Now she can go 100+ feet away, through 4 walls, and out in to her backyard...
Don't blame the standard because some companies built crap out of it...
Bah, there are several non-blocking switches that can handle 500+ ports of 100Mb L3 traffic. Avaya, Cisco (well... on a good day), Extreme, and I could go on. And heck, most of these are enterprise class switches, get into carrier class stuff and they wouldn't even break a sweat...
can be found here http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/in dex.html.
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You start by enforcong it at the retail level - someone in the USofA has to be taking orders for, shipping, and profiting! (step 3?) from those pills that make my unit bigger. Those are the ones you nail - if they stop hiring the spam companies to 'promote' them, then the volume might drop significantly.
Of course this would not work for spam advertising an offshore website or service, but hey - it's a start...
Hmm, maybe I'm just having a particularly lucid day, but... Why not just ship them EMPTY?
Oh please.. In Southern California - one of the most expensive places to live in the US - property tax is about 1% of assessed value ANUALLY. Given that my $240k condo rents for 1500/mo, that works out to (2300/12) $200/mo in taxes, or 13.3% of the rent. 1/2? Where on earth did you dig up that number?
I just sent mine off, but made a few changes:
---
I'm fery ixceeted ebuoot zee noo Bork technulugy in Oopera, hooefer I em deeseppuinted tu feend it is nut efeeeleble-a fur Leenoox. I em a leettle-a deestressed thet Veendoos users get zee soopereeur brooser, vheele-a Leenoox users ere-a stoock veet yesterdey's noos. Dues Oopera Sufftvere-a plun oon breenging thees inhuncement tu oozeer pletffurms? I hupe-a in zee footoore-a ell pletffurms veell be-a iqooelly sooppurted veet inhuncements tu zee Oopera brooser. Muny thunks!
---
-The Chef
Shouldn't that be "One Number to *ring* them all?"
This is easier to solve than most people think - simply write the law in such a way that the producer/distributor of whatever is being sold/promoted via SPAM is punished for it, regardless of wether or not they 'directly' sent it out. After all, there's always one way to get in touch with the penis enlargement people - order the stuff ;-)
That is perhaps the funniest thing I've read on /. in ages!
I swtiched to a competing company - www.vonage.com, available anywhere a broadband connection is. As an added bonus, I don't pay the $20+ in taxes and fees that I used to have on my old phone line.
Now Mr Numbatu from Nigeria will have a new list of verified 'trusted associates' to help him get his $50 Million worth of gold out of the country!
--
Seriously though - doesn't the international nature of spam and the 'net preclude this sort of thing from working in real life? And don't compare it to offshore telemarketers - they generally have goods or services that they want to sell you right here in the USA, so whomever would benefit from that transaction can be pursued and found at fault for voilating a DNC list.
Spammers on the other hand could be promoting a Swedish porn site, a Jamaican on-line casino, or a UK based match.com rip-off, all without any fear of reprisal...
Actually, MS (used to?) do this with support.micrsoft.com and Mozilla - they'd send broken difficult to read pages, however if you changed your user agent string, Voila - rendered exactly the way it did in IE. Like the story said, this ain't the first time...
All of the above is supposition on the submitter's part, and NONE of it is referenced in teh article. First of all, the article says >
Nothing about 'detecting' military radar, and nothing about shutting down transmission when it does. Next up we have Pentagon endorsement of the Boxer/Allen Broaband Jumpstart Act which will open up an add'l 255MHz in the 5GHz band. Well, the article doesn't say anything about that either - all we've got is this quote:
Which is from One of the bill's sponsors (Boxer) - not the DOD!
Oh, and just in case you were wondering - None of this applies to existing 2.4GHz wireless gear...
It's already quite trivial to overload a WiFi AP and make it useless. Much more money and effort would have to go into creating something to 'mimic' a military radar system than is currently needed to blast the 2.4GHz spectrum with noise.
In order for that to work, Joe sixpack is going to have to stop buying computersbased on (GB|MB|MHz)/$, and will have to stop buying hard drives at Fry's based on the biggest frive available under $129...
IBM, Seagate et. all sell to their markets - it'll be a while before priorities change.
Wahhh! Quit whining - the article is about an American organization - the Recording Industry Association of America.
Deal with it!
What second or third world country are you living in? There's a big difference between the treated waste water that gets put back in to the ecosystem and 'night soil'...
I worked for a Police Dept. in California for a few years, and one of the things we did was something like this. While it was targeted at parents and more directed towards stopping cyber-molesters, we did cover basic computer security. Looking back, perhaps it would have been a good idea to spend more time on that...
You would have a much stronger argument if the studios had EVER shown any intention of doing such a thing. The fact is clearplay, moviemask, and the other editing companies have sprung up due to a demand that Hollywood has made a conscious decision to ignore for whatever reason.
I will be happy to try clearplay and its ilk out in my next home theatre - it'll make watching movies with my fiance much more enjoyable.
Hmmm... Not to be mean or anything, but in this case I think you'd get what you pay for.
Shed their proprietary hardware and OS
Maintained 5 9's reliability
Tripled their call handling capability and dramatically increased the number of endpoints they could handle
In fact, with a single pair of low cost (compared to their old proprietary processors) S8700 Linux based servers, an Avaya IP PBX can handle more endpoints and calls per hour than eight (8!!!) of their competitors' NT based telephony servers, all while providing higher reliability on an OPEN infrastructure...
Hmm, one month of hotspot service is about the same price as service for 1 flight, and that's "not bad"? Sheesh, wanna buy a volkswagen? It's about the same price as a Porsche - not bad, eh?
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AT&T Wireless have free SMS reception on both their traditional and GSM networks...