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  1. Re: then can create a single wifi network? on Google To Introduce Google Wifi, Google Home and 4K Chromecast Ultra Devices On October 4th (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't "WDS" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_distribution_system) quite common in most routers today?

    I've used it with a bunch of old tp-link adsl-modems/Wi-Fi routers to extend a Wi-Fi network. It worked fine.

    WDS and ESSID are two different things.
    ESSID is multiple APs on the same LAN allowing STAs to roam freely between them.
    WDS is 4-address frames (normal frames have 3) to allow AP-AP communication.

  2. Re:then can create a single wifi network? on Google To Introduce Google Wifi, Google Home and 4K Chromecast Ultra Devices On October 4th (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is right.

    One reason for people buying Unifi APs rather than router/wifi combo boxes from any other vendor is that there don't seem to be many other vendors who sell straight up APs other that overpriced vendors like Cisco.

    It was not like this in the past. The first APs were all APs.

    >The downside is that you'll need a router to plug all these devices into.
    Well a PoE ethernet switch. The router can be elsewhere.

  3. Re:then can create a single wifi network? on Google To Introduce Google Wifi, Google Home and 4K Chromecast Ultra Devices On October 4th (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    with two or more wifi AP? I haven't seen consumer level do that. Enterprise does this but not a router that you picked up at your local Best Buy.

    Yes, Every AP does that. It's integral to the protocol. Two APs with the same SSID on the same ethernet form an ESSID.

  4. Re:Expry date on Hacker Leaks Michelle Obama's Passport (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't have a middle name. What's suspicious about that?

    Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama does have a middle name. That's why it's suspicious.

    Fair enough.

  5. Re:Expry date on Hacker Leaks Michelle Obama's Passport (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    Only 5 years? No middle name? Seems suspicious.

    I don't have a middle name. What's suspicious about that?

  6. Re:I Think this article might be a bit misleading. on Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 7km of Cable (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, fine, if you want to think of it that way, go ahead, Pretty much every single physicist would say you're wrong, but what do they know, with their "degrees"...

    If you want to count the length of the procedure from the time the entities at both end perform and evaluation, then fine. But that's skipping over the time for the entangled photons to get from hither to thon.

    All this yields is a shared private key. Of course some one has already unrolled a reel of fiber optic from hither to thon. You could have just let them transport the key in their pocket.

  7. Presumably... on Apple Approaches McLaren About A Potential Acquisition: FT (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    You won't be able to refuel and listen to the radio at the same time.

  8. Re:I Think this article might be a bit misleading. on Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 7km of Cable (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    In a sense you could interpret it that way. But that's quibbling about terminology; it doesn't mean you can send messages that way, which is the important point.

    Well you can, you just can't choose which message is sent, from the space of all possible messages sendable.

  9. Re:I Think this article might be a bit misleading. on Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 7km of Cable (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 1

    information since information is simply data that has a meaning or use.

    Data that to an observer is 100% random is not "transmitted information" in a physics context. Or in an information theory context either

    Bullshit. It is transmitted along the fiber optic cable, at a fraction of the speed of light in a vacuum, to yield the same random value at both ends. By being unpredictable, it meets the definition of information.

  10. Re:I Think this article might be a bit misleading. on Quantum Teleportation Achieved Over 7km of Cable (sciencealert.com) · · Score: 2

    Someone explained this news to me recently, they said the scientists didn't send ~information~ over quantum entanglement, they sent the data across normal networking means and sent and a key to unlock the data via quantum entanglement. The method used has deep implications for security and encryption methods, but not faster than light data transfer. Just wanted to clear that up.

    Quantum Key Distribution: More expensive and less practical that putting the key on a USB stick and driving it to the other end.

  11. Re:Oh dear, poor SpaceX. on Wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base Threatens ULA, SpaceX Launches (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, salmon wouldn't be a bad choice for a fish-based rocket. It's a fatty fish, and fats burn well in hybrid rockets.

    You of course couldn't have a kerosene and salmon rocket, since you need to burn the fish with an oxidizer. But you could have a lox-LOX rocket ;)

    With a Toro-LOX boost stage for heavy loads.

  12. Re:Oh dear, poor SpaceX. on Wildfire at Vandenberg Air Force Base Threatens ULA, SpaceX Launches (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    >It uses Kerosene & LOX

    Salmon propels rockets? I never knew.

  13. Does it.. on Firefox 49 Arrives With Improvements (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it come with a real menu bar with file, edit and other proper menus? Or do I have to play "hunt the secret glyph" to unlock a menu?

  14. Re:No no no. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? · · Score: 1

    I was only referring to humans who are guitarists who make use of the distortion characteristics of the circuitry between their guitar and the their speaker.

  15. Re:No no no. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? · · Score: 1

    Having said that: i haven't tried the latest state-of-the-art offerings from Kemper et al, but i hear this has improved a lot since then.

    It is to this that I was referring. It has indeed improved a lot recently.

  16. Re:No no no. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? · · Score: 1

    I guess my 32 years don't count then.

    AB it blindfold and see.
    I use a tube amp because it's half the price of a modelling amp ($2k vs. $4K), but it's a compromise on weight and heat.

  17. Re:No no no. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The reason real guitarists prefer tubes is because of the distortion. Solid state just doesn't compare.

    Well these days they do compare. Humans can't distinguish between an amp modeled on (for example) a Kemper modeling amp and the tube amp it modeled.
    A few years ago it was not the case, but DSP always wins in the end.

  18. It is the fastest in benchmarks. That's about it.

    There aren't that many people in Oregon. My Apple ][ could churn through that many transactions in a year.
    The database is the easy bit for anyone with a grasp of normal forms and the correct mild case of aspergers. Web site logistics is a bit trickier, but get someone who deals with online sales to do that, like Amazon or Alibaba.

  19. Re:Let me see if I understand on 21st Century Fox Sues Netflix Over Executive Poaching (latimes.com) · · Score: 1

    How can you sue someone for breaking a contract they aren't party too?

    Tortious interference

    Interfering with tortoises? Off with their heads!

  20. I'm a bit surprised my one sentence rant against fancy browser features garnered a score of 5.
    Maybe if I had interactive cognitive training then I could judge these things better.

  21. I only care about battery life when travelling on a plane, which is exactly when I'm not using a web browser.

  22. Re:Who cares? on Microsoft Reproduces Google's Battery Life Test To Show Edge Beats Chrome (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    >They involve lots of resource loading, WebGL rendering, HTML5 canvas rendering, etc

    I already hate your website and I haven't even used it yet.

  23. >"pro" product

    >removing a port that's been on nearly every single product the company's sold starting with the Apple II

    I'll consider it a pro product when they add an XLR input with phantom power.

  24. Re:Perhaps it's because. . . on Android Wear Hopefuls Call Timeout On Smartwatches (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    where you can't hear your phone ring are prime uses for the smartwatch vibrate.

    My wife's fitbit does that. She doesn't use it for fitbitting, but it buzzes and tells her to fish her phone out of her bag.

  25. First Post Haiku on Android Wear Hopefuls Call Timeout On Smartwatches (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    First post!

    Time twixt see and post
    Is longer than others clicks
    You came in third place