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It's no wonder why the only state in the Union (Delaware) is in such poor shape - there's no sales tax on any items in the state.
I think you were trying to say that Delaware was the only state in the Union that does not have sales tax and that it is in poor shape.
If that's the case, may I present to you the state of New Hampshire. NH has no sales tax. NH has no income tax. NH does have property tax (not sure what percent - I rent) and meals tax (8%) to make up for it.
I guess not all governments get most of their money through sales taxes.
I would tend to agree with the consensus that although it's a cool story, it is probably not true. I would just think that if that many AOL usernames were snagged, we would have heard about somewhere else. Anyone have any more info?
I spend my spring semester working as tech support/computer person for the law branch of one of the state departments in PA. The ILOVEYOU epidemic was pretty bad there, and from what I understand it was pretty bad all throughout the state government offices.
This might have helped to push the legislation through.
What makes it really funny is that AFTER it was announced over the building-wide intercom that email with the subject ILOVEYOU is infected with a virus and that the attachment to that email should not be clicked on, a disturbing number of people walked back into their offices, opened outlook, and clicked on the attachment. Simply "to see what it would do"
This law seems to make their actions illegal. I think that's good.
To go into a bit more detail... When a PC with a wireless card gets powered on, the card starts probing the channels it's allowed to communicate on. For each channel it sends a request for an Access Point operating on the channel with a specific network name. The Access Point will only respond if it's network name is the same. If you don't know the network name of the Access Point, any attempts "connect" to it will be futile. As far as WEP is concerned... WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. The idea it to try to make the wireless LAN just as secure as a wired LAN. WEP is a standard aspect of the 802.11 spec. If you want to find out more about it, visit the web site of your favorite wireless ethernet provider and search the technical documents for it. Yes there is plenty of time that people are willing to put into cracking networks, but don't you think you'd get suspicious if a "meter reader" spent numerous hours every day "testing" his new laptop in front of your meter?
You raise some good points. The Access Point/Base Station can be configured with a network name. You tell your Access Point what it's network name is and it will only communicate with stations that have the same network name. So although it would technically be possible for someone to hack your home network while standing in your back yard, they would have to know the network name. If you configured it correctly and were using the WEP encryption it would be considerably challanging.
From what I understand, 11 mbs is the maximum rate the cards can transmit at, not the throughput. If there is interference, the cards will select a lower rate automatically (like 5.5, 2 or even 1) to (try to) ensure that the data remains valid. Even so, the management overhead (like acknowledgement packets) are transmitted at only 2 mbs.
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It's no wonder why the only state in the Union (Delaware) is in such poor shape - there's no sales tax on any items in the state.
I think you were trying to say that Delaware was the only state in the Union that does not have sales tax and that it is in poor shape.
If that's the case, may I present to you the state of New Hampshire. NH has no sales tax. NH has no income tax. NH does have property tax (not sure what percent - I rent) and meals tax (8%) to make up for it.
I guess not all governments get most of their money through sales taxes.
What the hell was ICANN thinking?
I'll bet they were thinking how nice it would be to have a million bucks. Now what they were smoking to think they would get it is another question.
I would tend to agree with the consensus that although it's a cool story, it is probably not true. I would just think that if that many AOL usernames were snagged, we would have heard about somewhere else. Anyone have any more info?
I spend my spring semester working as tech support/computer person for the law branch of one of the state departments in PA. The ILOVEYOU epidemic was pretty bad there, and from what I understand it was pretty bad all throughout the state government offices.
This might have helped to push the legislation through.
What makes it really funny is that AFTER it was announced over the building-wide intercom that email with the subject ILOVEYOU is infected with a virus and that the attachment to that email should not be clicked on, a disturbing number of people walked back into their offices, opened outlook, and clicked on the attachment. Simply "to see what it would do"
This law seems to make their actions illegal. I think that's good.
Look here http://www.cabletron.com/wireless/#outdoor
To go into a bit more detail... When a PC with a wireless card gets powered on, the card starts probing the channels it's allowed to communicate on. For each channel it sends a request for an Access Point operating on the channel with a specific network name. The Access Point will only respond if it's network name is the same. If you don't know the network name of the Access Point, any attempts "connect" to it will be futile. As far as WEP is concerned... WEP stands for Wired Equivalent Privacy. The idea it to try to make the wireless LAN just as secure as a wired LAN. WEP is a standard aspect of the 802.11 spec. If you want to find out more about it, visit the web site of your favorite wireless ethernet provider and search the technical documents for it. Yes there is plenty of time that people are willing to put into cracking networks, but don't you think you'd get suspicious if a "meter reader" spent numerous hours every day "testing" his new laptop in front of your meter?
You raise some good points. The Access Point/Base Station can be configured with a network name. You tell your Access Point what it's network name is and it will only communicate with stations that have the same network name. So although it would technically be possible for someone to hack your home network while standing in your back yard, they would have to know the network name. If you configured it correctly and were using the WEP encryption it would be considerably challanging.
From what I understand, 11 mbs is the maximum rate the cards can transmit at, not the throughput. If there is interference, the cards will select a lower rate automatically (like 5.5, 2 or even 1) to (try to) ensure that the data remains valid. Even so, the management overhead (like acknowledgement packets) are transmitted at only 2 mbs.