Ethics aside, you would think they would fix actual horrible inefficiencies first. For example, the pickers for their online orders are only shown 1 item at a time, and the items are *randomly* ordered, so even though the customer orders 2 different pairs of socks that are next to each other, the employees aren't shown (and can't see even if they tried to) this info to be able to speed up their job and end up doing tons of extra walking.
Yeah somebody didn't think this article through all the way...
1. Post credit card numbers a website's forum, etc...google would then de-list them for you 2. ??? 3. Profit
Not just 4111 1111 1111 1111 which is easy to ignore, but there is an endless supply http://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com/ (or just randomly guess, a decent percent of 16 digit numbers are valid).
Once there was an actual criminal going around a large office park at a place where I previously worked that would walk in wearing a VERY fancy suit and kindof wander around stealing laptops, electronics, etc. and then walk out. Nobody could ever identify him except that he was in a fancy suit, and nobody dared question what he was doing so as not to get in trouble for offending somebody important. Not saying any of these places were supposed to be highly secure, but was quite a problem for a while and he always got out before anyone noticed or realized what was going on.
Then he walked into our office which was a startup, and he was obviously not familiar with the "atmosphere". As soon as he got in by following behind somebody, several people said "What the **** are you wearing a suit for and what the **** are you doing here?", took a picture of him, and escorted him out.
No way 20 per DVD is right... just the physical cost of disks is higher than that... even $20/disk... lets say it is rented once a week for a year before its obsolete... that's 40 cents per rental... plus shipping both ways has gotta he another 40 cents minimum
Even worse, a huge chunk of the market for "occasional" or "light" users of netflix has now been destroyed.
The people who've left for price reasons are those who (like me) were happy paying $8/month for the ability to always have a DVD to watch in case you wanted to, and always have instant movies to watch. On average I got about 3 physical DVDs per month, sometimes less, and 1-2 instant old movies or random shows. From what I've heard, netflix's cost is $1 per physical DVD, and not a lot for the instant "junk." So, they lost a highly profitable customer they're making $5/month on. But, they get to keep the customers who pay $8/month and get probably about 4-6 DVDs a month (otherwise redbox is probably better) making them barely profitable. And, they get the customers who pay $16-20 a month for mail+instant and get again at least 4, but likely more, DVDs a month plus now will demand better instant selection which must be costing them a good chunk. All these customers have lower profit margins... good job netflix.
Right now, something like 1% of all flu in the US that is attempted to be subtyped is NOT H1N1. See http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ So basically, if the person has the flu, it is almost definitely H1N1.
It does sound to me like a coded version of "We're supposed to pee in our own toilets and whatever else, but that is pointless. Everyone up on the ISS secretly agreed to ignore this nonsense and just not tell on each other, but are tired of having to pretend."
See http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/4g-war-conflict-of-interests-loom-behind-possible-dtv-delay.ars
Basically, Verizon wants to deploy their 4G cellular network using the spectrum that will be freed up, and Clearwire wants that to take as long as possible so they can get more users to sign up for WiMAX first (which is already somewhat deployed).
In reality, yeah a 4 month delay probably won't have much impact on the amount of customers either service gets since the demand isn't very high right now. I think pricing and service quality will make more of a difference. If it gets pushed back further, that could change.
Arguably, the people who sell hardware & related things to Verizon for 4G networks (some of which are in or affiliated with Obama's administration) have some to gain/lose depending on the timing. Probably not much because 4G will be deployed either way, but thats the argument.
To answer the question, there are two things going on.
One is the interference from the transmissions, which lowers the signal-to-noise ratio if you are on the same (or an overlapping) channel. The lower that gets, the more errors and the worse your performance. So to combat that, you can either use a different channel (1, 6, and 11 are probably the best to try, but you could just measure your performance on all of them and use whatever is best), or as you said force the use of a lower data rate (a lower data rate is more tolerant of low signal-to-noise ratios). Obviously there's a trade-off between having a more reliable connection with a lower data rate and having an unreliable connection with a faster data rate.
The second issue is channel reservation. Because of how 802.11 works, you can end up with a situation where one user is getting an unfair amount of bandwidth by basically telling the other users to be quiet. There are various settings which you may have access to depending on your router, such as the RTS/CTS threshold (try setting it to a very small value, may be better or worse depending on the situation), the backoff window size (which tunes aggressiveness), preamble (a long preamble helps when there is interference), etc.
So yes, just try different settings and you should be able to get an improvement.
> > As a pure unpaid contributor of source code you have no patent liability.
> Unfortunately, that's not true. Actually, as an unpaid, noncommercial USER of a software product, you CAN have patent liability.
While you're right, both user and contributor are probably liable depending on the situation, I think there is a distinction between a liability that isn't worth you even being sent a letter about and a liability that is worth someone suing you over.
yeah but only the pectoral fins really move (the others are mostly just raised/lowered). I don't suppose you count your ears, hair, and uh... other appendages as limbs.
No he means that right now for most carriers you can send an email from the internet to the user's phone number @ their carrier, and they will get an SMS on their phone.
I more imagine people in 60's style space suits that reflect the lasers running around and laser beams bouncing everywhere. Or maybe a group of soldiers high stepping around carrying a big mirror (or better yet, a piece of one-way glass so they can shoot but not be shot at!).
At least tinfoil hats will finally have an actual use.
note: I don't know how fancy of a reflective surface you'd need to reflect a laser weapon (or a reflective-surface-piercing laser weapon), but you are welcome to speculate.
You won't even have to go to a "Blockbuster store" to get it. You'll just have to go to the nearest "Blockbuster vending machine" which, with practically no maintenance due to the rewritable FLASH sticks (unlike the current DVD rental vending machines), will almost definitely be at the nearest convenience store, gas station, etc.
My mother's maiden name is Smith, of all things. That is certainly NOT what I ever put down on anything since I too realized long ago this wasn't secure. But, the design of those questions definitely does encourage you to pick the simplest question and the simplest answer, which is what the vast majority of people will (continue to) do.
We could go back to the "pre-9/11" screenings IF we made sure that every plane had a flight deck door that was secured against anyone in the passenger section getting through it for long enough for the pilot to make an emergency landing.
Instead we live in fear of 4 oz of toothpaste.
Ah, but the pilot could bring toothpaste on the plane, and he would be on the other side of the locked door. Right now, the TSA's excellent policies prevent the pilots from bringing such items on their own planes for such nefarious purposes
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Ethics aside, you would think they would fix actual horrible inefficiencies first. For example, the pickers for their online orders are only shown 1 item at a time, and the items are *randomly* ordered, so even though the customer orders 2 different pairs of socks that are next to each other, the employees aren't shown (and can't see even if they tried to) this info to be able to speed up their job and end up doing tons of extra walking.
Yeah somebody didn't think this article through all the way...
1. Post credit card numbers a website's forum, etc...google would then de-list them for you
2. ???
3. Profit
Not just 4111 1111 1111 1111 which is easy to ignore, but there is an endless supply http://www.getcreditcardnumbers.com/ (or just randomly guess, a decent percent of 16 digit numbers are valid).
Once there was an actual criminal going around a large office park at a place where I previously worked that would walk in wearing a VERY fancy suit and kindof wander around stealing laptops, electronics, etc. and then walk out. Nobody could ever identify him except that he was in a fancy suit, and nobody dared question what he was doing so as not to get in trouble for offending somebody important. Not saying any of these places were supposed to be highly secure, but was quite a problem for a while and he always got out before anyone noticed or realized what was going on.
Then he walked into our office which was a startup, and he was obviously not familiar with the "atmosphere". As soon as he got in by following behind somebody, several people said "What the **** are you wearing a suit for and what the **** are you doing here?", took a picture of him, and escorted him out.
No way 20 per DVD is right... just the physical cost of disks is higher than that... even $20/disk... lets say it is rented once a week for a year before its obsolete... that's 40 cents per rental... plus shipping both ways has gotta he another 40 cents minimum
Even worse, a huge chunk of the market for "occasional" or "light" users of netflix has now been destroyed.
The people who've left for price reasons are those who (like me) were happy paying $8/month for the ability to always have a DVD to watch in case you wanted to, and always have instant movies to watch. On average I got about 3 physical DVDs per month, sometimes less, and 1-2 instant old movies or random shows. From what I've heard, netflix's cost is $1 per physical DVD, and not a lot for the instant "junk." So, they lost a highly profitable customer they're making $5/month on. But, they get to keep the customers who pay $8/month and get probably about 4-6 DVDs a month (otherwise redbox is probably better) making them barely profitable. And, they get the customers who pay $16-20 a month for mail+instant and get again at least 4, but likely more, DVDs a month plus now will demand better instant selection which must be costing them a good chunk. All these customers have lower profit margins... good job netflix.
Right now, something like 1% of all flu in the US that is attempted to be subtyped is NOT H1N1. See http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ So basically, if the person has the flu, it is almost definitely H1N1.
It does sound to me like a coded version of "We're supposed to pee in our own toilets and whatever else, but that is pointless. Everyone up on the ISS secretly agreed to ignore this nonsense and just not tell on each other, but are tired of having to pretend."
Not because of this at least, the telcos bought almost all of this spectrum.
See http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/4g-war-conflict-of-interests-loom-behind-possible-dtv-delay.ars
Basically, Verizon wants to deploy their 4G cellular network using the spectrum that will be freed up, and Clearwire wants that to take as long as possible so they can get more users to sign up for WiMAX first (which is already somewhat deployed).
In reality, yeah a 4 month delay probably won't have much impact on the amount of customers either service gets since the demand isn't very high right now. I think pricing and service quality will make more of a difference. If it gets pushed back further, that could change.
Arguably, the people who sell hardware & related things to Verizon for 4G networks (some of which are in or affiliated with Obama's administration) have some to gain/lose depending on the timing. Probably not much because 4G will be deployed either way, but thats the argument.
To answer the question, there are two things going on.
One is the interference from the transmissions, which lowers the signal-to-noise ratio if you are on the same (or an overlapping) channel. The lower that gets, the more errors and the worse your performance. So to combat that, you can either use a different channel (1, 6, and 11 are probably the best to try, but you could just measure your performance on all of them and use whatever is best), or as you said force the use of a lower data rate (a lower data rate is more tolerant of low signal-to-noise ratios). Obviously there's a trade-off between having a more reliable connection with a lower data rate and having an unreliable connection with a faster data rate.
The second issue is channel reservation. Because of how 802.11 works, you can end up with a situation where one user is getting an unfair amount of bandwidth by basically telling the other users to be quiet. There are various settings which you may have access to depending on your router, such as the RTS/CTS threshold (try setting it to a very small value, may be better or worse depending on the situation), the backoff window size (which tunes aggressiveness), preamble (a long preamble helps when there is interference), etc.
So yes, just try different settings and you should be able to get an improvement.
for ever 1 kg of silk worm that you grow to eat, you will have to bring along at least 1 kg of silkworm food
I think the silkworms get "reprocessed" into silkworm food.
> > As a pure unpaid contributor of source code you have no patent liability.
> Unfortunately, that's not true. Actually, as an unpaid, noncommercial USER of a software product, you CAN have patent liability.
While you're right, both user and contributor are probably liable depending on the situation, I think there is a distinction between a liability that isn't worth you even being sent a letter about and a liability that is worth someone suing you over.
have you ever watched a mudskipper walk?
CTRL-r for reverse command history search, many people don't know that one.
search and replace multiple files: perl -p -i -e 's/foo/bar/g' file1 file2 file3
yeah but only the pectoral fins really move (the others are mostly just raised/lowered). I don't suppose you count your ears, hair, and uh... other appendages as limbs.
fish?
No he means that right now for most carriers you can send an email from the internet to the user's phone number @ their carrier, and they will get an SMS on their phone.
Why?
I more imagine people in 60's style space suits that reflect the lasers running around and laser beams bouncing everywhere. Or maybe a group of soldiers high stepping around carrying a big mirror (or better yet, a piece of one-way glass so they can shoot but not be shot at!).
At least tinfoil hats will finally have an actual use.
note: I don't know how fancy of a reflective surface you'd need to reflect a laser weapon (or a reflective-surface-piercing laser weapon), but you are welcome to speculate.
You won't even have to go to a "Blockbuster store" to get it. You'll just have to go to the nearest "Blockbuster vending machine" which, with practically no maintenance due to the rewritable FLASH sticks (unlike the current DVD rental vending machines), will almost definitely be at the nearest convenience store, gas station, etc.
Hillary asked not to be vetted unless she was actually going to be picked, so he didn't vet her out of respect for her.
My mother's maiden name is Smith, of all things. That is certainly NOT what I ever put down on anything since I too realized long ago this wasn't secure. But, the design of those questions definitely does encourage you to pick the simplest question and the simplest answer, which is what the vast majority of people will (continue to) do.
We could go back to the "pre-9/11" screenings IF we made sure that every plane had a flight deck door that was secured against anyone in the passenger section getting through it for long enough for the pilot to make an emergency landing.
Instead we live in fear of 4 oz of toothpaste.
Ah, but the pilot could bring toothpaste on the plane, and he would be on the other side of the locked door. Right now, the TSA's excellent policies prevent the pilots from bringing such items on their own planes for such nefarious purposes