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

    For a mid sized hotel you should be able to mount N class repeaters on each floor. If course that will depend on how big the floors are so you may need more than one. Ideally you would need to place the unit in the middle of the floor for maximum coverage. The network should be secured and the password should be changed regularly. This will keep the wardrivers out of your parking lot and it shouldn't be too dificult for the average end user with a laptop to find the ssid and enter the pin. You probably don't want to get some off the shelf equipment from Best Buy as you will need more power than those units are designed for. I imagine someone here could recomend a brand that would work.

  2. read the sig on Teacher Cannot Be Sued For Denying Creationism · · Score: 1

    When god versus god the undoing of man. I think this is the sort of thing Dave was thinking about when he wrote those lyrics. Not just creationism vs reality (science) but all religeons in general. A friend of mine is commonly quoted as saying" if we could just get all the leaders of countries that hate the USA together and have a big old pork roast, drink some good beer and fine bourbon we could get to work on fixing our problems." It's true. You can't be mad at anyone after you stuffed your face with a bunch of pig and ya got a beer buzz goin on. Of course that'll never happen but it's nice to dream.

  3. Re:Take Control on A TV That Knows and Shares What You're Watching · · Score: 1

    You'll need to find out what ports they are sending the data back home on and block them in your router. While you are in the router make sure it has stateful packet inspection enabled as well. Most have it enabled by default but just check in case it is not.

  4. Re:I actually WANT my TV reporting on me on A TV That Knows and Shares What You're Watching · · Score: 1

    Now, having said that, there *are* limits.DON'T YOU BE REPORTING ON MY PORN! THAT'S WILLIE'S TIME!!!

    If anybody needed a good example what a difference an apostrophe can make, this seems like a good one.

    LMAO but what if they reported on your porn? Don't you think Willie would like more black trann hooker porn? Better listen to your Willie, he's feeling left out.

  5. Re:How about on What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? · · Score: 1

    While we're at it can we exterminate my in laws??? The very mention of the word recycling throws my father in law into a tirade. Personally we recycle about 70% of our trash. Most weeks the recycling bin is overflowing and the trash bin has hardly anything in it.

  6. Re:Is this relevant on all computers? on Google Highlights Trouble In Detecting Malware · · Score: 1

    If your Samsung chromebook is anything like my Samsung tv....RUN. Such an epic POS.

  7. Re:It's stupidly easy to compromise a windows mach on Google Highlights Trouble In Detecting Malware · · Score: 1

    The surprising part is that you posted your real IP address. The one I posted is what resolved for fbi.gov (I know, I'm not terribly creative).

    LMAO creative indeed.

  8. Re:Makes sense... on 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    From TFS

    His work earned him a Young Naturalist Award from the American Museum of Natural History and a provisional patent on the design.

    Patenting natures design, anyone else thinks that something is wrong here?

    He observed the design and tested it so why not patent it. You can't expect everything to be free.

  9. Re:150 million per ticket? on RKK Energia Confirms Private Trip To the Moon · · Score: 1

    That's a big trip and I don't think I'd be the first one in quite a while to make it. There's too many opportunities for a calculation to be slightly off then BOOM we're going down. Yeah I'll wait till they have sent a bunch of people around before my trip.

  10. How about on What If Aliens Came To Save the Galaxy From Mankind? · · Score: 1

    The aliens come down and exterminate all of the a$$holes that are intentionally abusing the planet for profit or other motives and leave the rest of us with a stern warning "Don't fuck it up or we'll be back".

  11. Re:Patents on HP Spinning Off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    I wonder if patents had anything to do with it?

    It sounds like its time to fire the CEO. They paid billions just a few months ago for WebOS from Palm and now have nothing to show for it. Either way that was a very expensive bad investment if you blow billions just to dump it a very short time later. If patents were that bad the CEO should have made sure their employees did a risk analysis and investigate this. I mean this is why you pay the employees right? Idiots

    I was wondering if they bought Palm to sweaten the deal when they divest themselves of the computer business. After all HP computers were never all that great IMHO. It would be interesting to see a company like Tiger Direct pick up the business and start selling their own computers. God knows they certainly have the distribution channel to move them.

  12. Re:They've been practicing on HP Spinning Off WebOS and Exiting Hardware Business · · Score: 1

    Judging by the amount of bloat-ware that's been coming with HP computers for the past several years, it would seem they've been practicing for this very moment.

    OMFG BLOATWARE My wife bought an HP laptop a while back and I couldn't believe the amount of bloat on that thing. I wanted to remove it for her but she just doesn't understand. HP selling their computer business = no great loss. Her newest laptop is an Asus and it's almost bloat free.

  13. Re:Something seems really off here... on Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games · · Score: 1

    OH MAN!!! Jumping on top of the train in San Andreas. Damn,I missed that one. I like games that require you to think creatively and the GTA examples you provided perfectly illustrate that. If I'm playing single player I also like a good story too. Almost everything today is geared toward multiplayer and the story is not important. Does anyone remember the books that allowed you to change the story at a certain point? Video games should be more adaptive like that.

  14. Re:Something seems really off here... on Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games · · Score: 1

    OMG San Andreas the plane mission killed me. I could not fly through the rings in the sky without eventually crashing and burning. The main distraction in GTA games is coming home from a hard days work and going homicidal on the general public, gunsgunsguns cheat code shoot the cops and blow their helicopter out of the sky. Yeah...that's not very condusive to completing missions and actually following the story. Oh yeah and doing base jumps. I love jumping right up to the point where you brush up against a building and lose control of your chute. Falling 100 feet to the highway and getting hit by a car when you land is a real b!tch. Grand Theft Auto games are great because there are plenty of other fun things to do when you are not following the story. I have no problem shelling out 60.00 for a game like that. The replay value is fantastic. I just started playing GTA4 again (no cheats this time) and I'm amazed how much fun I'm having. This game really was made for the cheats though. You can't effectively terrorize someone unless you have a flame thrower at your disposal.

  15. Re:WHAT!?!?!?! on Coming Soon, Shorter Video Games · · Score: 1

    let's face it, most gamers don't play Call of Duty more than a month because by the time you play that long, you're SO done with the immature fucking hyperleveled kids who play all day long and shout "fag" into their headsets whenever they score a kill), it's that people want to have FUN when they play.

    The maturity level on that game is that of a 2 year old. I sincerely hope EA doesn't fuck up Battlefield 3 because I long for that kind of gameplay. When I played BF2 we had squads that actually worked together to take and hold an objective. Bring back the huge 64 player maps where you had active fronts in 3-4 places and you could spawn in with your squad. Bring back the tanks, APC's the fighter jets and attack helicopters. These guys really know how to create full scale war so lets hope they don't f$ck it up.

  16. Re:Elevator to nowhere on Space Elevator Conference Prompts Lofty Questions · · Score: 1

    The funding for the first space elevator will be so massive that it should be paid for by a consrtium of companies and government agencies. This is no different than funding other large scale projects in space (ISS for example) and if we are going to get to Mars it will be together.

  17. Re:Hmmm on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    The original post had no delivery. Was he trying to make a joke? He got a +5 funny so obviously someone liked it. The second guy was funny because it was obvious what he was trying to say. Humor is subjective. Go figure.

  18. Re:Hmmm on 8 Grams of Thorium Could Replace Gasoline In Cars · · Score: 1

    Depends on the neighborhood.

    You sir are truly deserving of mod points that I don't have. LMAO funny.

  19. What they didn't tell you on Obama Administration Closing Recently Opened Datacenters · · Score: 0

    is that they are closing the data centers because the chinese government stole all the data. Now that the chinese government is the defacto owner of our data Obama can say that he saved the american taxpayer millions of dollars.

  20. Re:Just stupid on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    OMG double post duh. Throwing away intel (listed above) has the right idea.

  21. Just stupid on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    These same social networks that are "supposedly" being used to coordinate these attacks/demonstrations can be used by the police to keep tabs on what people are planning. If their facial recognition technology is good enough the police should already know whose twittface accounts to be looking at.

  22. Re:Plan? It's already started on ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    I've gotten two or three of these types of notices so obviously there's something really wrong with how they're determining who the "bad guys" are.

    They have no problem determining who the bad guys are. The problem is that they don't give a $hit if you are bad or good. It's that "kill em all and let god sort em out" mentality.

  23. Re:But why do ISPs care? on ISPs Will Now Be Copyright Cops · · Score: 1

    When you have a big ISP becoming a quasi content provider. That's a very bit reason to care. As for the smaller ISP's I suppose they are getting some kind of payoff from the content providers (MAFIAA).

  24. Re:Why is this being made public? on Breaking the Codes In Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto · · Score: 1

    Obviously they thnk he was the lone gunman so therefore there is no reason not to seek outside help.

  25. Re:Philly Flash Mob != Flash Mob on Philly Answers Youth Flash Mobs With Curfew Enforcement · · Score: 1

    I haven't really spent a whole lot of time in NY but you hit the nail on the head when you mentioned abrupt transitions.