So you want to get a bunch of mobile hotspots in a room and then dynamically choose one based on some rules? You could used pfSense off the shelf for time-of-day and bonding purposes but I don't think it will handle packet accounting. For automatic routing look into the meshing algorithms (e.g. BATMAN) but that doesn't do everything you want either.
Could we convince you to save a ton of money and have a cable modem put in instead?
You can't bond two different ISP's, unless you own the end of a tunnel somewhere else (maybe a VPS), but you can pretty easily load balance and do failover with pfSense v2. The quick version: you set up both interfaces, both gateways, then you set up a gateway group with your fast ISP as Tier 1 and your slower ISP as Tier 2, and then in your LAN firewall rules, you put in an 'allow to all' rule at the end, with the gateway set to the gateway group. There's also a tick box to make the use of a gateway sticky for session affinity purposes and other variables that can be tuned (e.g. drop a member of the group on packet loss or latency thresholds).
But remember, guns are evil right now in group think.
Only if you get your information from the media/government complex. If you go talk to real people in person, you'll see that it's only the radical fringe that thinks that way. Trouble is, some of them were savvy enough to take control of the media in the 50's.
... because we all know that the best way of protecting children is to keep them in a bubble until they turn 18 and then can do whatever they want, right?
Yes, they'll turn out very well if we don't expose them to any "dangerous information" before then. Don't teach them about guns, or tools, or drugs or sex, or anything that might rock the boat (especially to question authority). They'll be fine to figure out all these things on their own with low information. That's how to be a good parent these days.
Like candy cigarettes, any advertising of an inherently dangerous/deadly product towards an adolescent target audience probably should be carefully scrutinized, regulated, or eliminated.
Dang, there goes my idea to do a YouTube series on woodworking for kids. Because lord knows I've got a basement full of Delta and Porter Cable gear after watching The New Yankee Workshop religiously for years, and I think every single one of them can cause an horrible accident (so far only one nail through the hand and all my fingers are properly attached). The kids were only going to learn about hand tools, and maybe battery operated screw guns, but if the government is going to come after me, then why even bother?
It's been a long time, but I'm fairly sure the only way I came to lust after the Marlin.22 I got for my eleventh birthday was by hanging out in the gun shop that was on my walk home from school. It was PURDY on the wall. OK, maybe watching some Westerns on TV influenced me to get a lever action. Or was it playing Rambo on the C=64? No accidents with that one in 28 years. My cars, on the other hand, haven't been so safe (I'll absolve myself of any responsibility for backing into a telephone pole as the so-called "vehicle operator").
there's no reason why this patent should just be coming to light now.
I don't mean to pick on you here, but people, please think before you say things like this.
There is, in fact, a very good reason. Submarine patents are profitable for the filer, and so it gives patent filers just another reason to perpetuate the system.
This benefits them, the patent system employees, the lawyers, the politicians who get campaign donations to influence their thinking, and to some extent benefits all of government by furthering its power.
Now, you could say "there's no good reason" but that's entirely subjective. I think it's better to say, "this system is detrimental to the betterment of society".
If we don't ask cui bono? on these things, we're going to get the root cause analysis wrong, and nothing can be fixed until we identify the correct problems.
I know, I'm ranting on a principle that's at least 2100 years old...
My droid has a fixed slide direction for unlock. My ICS Nook Color has a fixed slide direction. The JB unlock on my AndroVM is one direction to unlock, the other direction for camera.
Of course, the lock on my garden shed has a fixed slide direction for unlock as well.
You probably think this is such an awesome analogy but what you're really proving is that without a government monopoly on mouse traps, nobody would ever have bothered to build machines to catch mice before. You've heard of the plagues right?
Meanwhile, if between the time it is filed and granted, anyone else either files for or implements the patent, it is presumed insufficiently non-obvious.
Flag down. Bringing logic and reason into an argument about imaginary property. 20 year penalty.
*unless you're saying that all hardware can be abstracted as mathematical relationships, and are therefore arguing that all machines are unpatentable too?
But I've seen a kind of "artificial" middle initial, where the first John Smith gets the email address john.smith@organisation.tld, the second becomes john.a.smith@organisation.tld, the third one john.b.smith@organisation.tld etc.pp.
My early big-systems computing life was with the e-mail system at Dartmouth that went to real names in the 80's. There were twenty thousand-ish users and there definitely were a few name collisions with the First.M.Last standard.
There were two solutions. First was a user-editable nickname field. Just a space separated list that could be used to add to matching rules.
So, I had a proper e-mail left part of 'William.P.McGonigle' but my nickname field consisted of 'bill wpm skynet photographer sigep' to help other people find me. Only the real address was guaranteed unique but for phone conversations I could tell people wpm@ (it was unique at the time). People could get me at my machine name that way, look me up in the directory, address me as bill.mcgonigle, etc. (it would combine all dot separated parts with nicknames and department names to find matches).
So, if there were 20,000 people happily using this system, there were four people who it didn't work for, and those were people with the exact same name as somebody who was already on campus. The usual choice was to adopt a different middle initial, use a full middle name, or to accept the nickname as the real first name.
Now, there was always a contingent of people (I won't say aspy nerds because that would be rude) who insisted that those were WRONG and that the addressing scheme had to work exactly the same way for everybody. They probably advocated bmcgo654@ for my e-mail address. But what they missed was that the utility of the system that was in use was so high that it greatly outvalued having a 'perfect' system that had very low utility.
If we lived in a world where every e-mail user could easily query the other institution's LDAP and not run the risk of spam, then that might be fine. But we don't, so easy to use addresses makes the computers easier to use.
Unfortunately, the only way to reduce abuse like that is for enough people either courageous or stupid enough to do exactly what you are afraid to do.
A social entrepreneur could set up a website where people could sign a pledge, "I promise to set up open wireless sharing with three months of 250,000 other people promising to do the same thing."
Yeap. I had an open WiFi for years, and my neighbors used it until I started playing some online games. Then the bandwidth was bad enough I added a password. Oh well.
I use a single AP model running OpenWRT on the devices using dual SSID's (Foo Private, Foo Public) on different VLAN's. I trunk those back to pfSense where the Captive Portal is trivial to set up to limit bandwidth. I block access from the guest VLAN to the LAN(s), give them their own DHCP range with the ISP's DNS servers and block port 25 outbound.
No problems at all being the only open AP on the block in a downtown area. I had a guy who stopped in to the office asking if he could use it to game all night and offered me compensation (he was living with a friend temporarily), and I told him he was very well-mannered but to go home and have fun.
The packets come in, the packets go out - never a miscommunication. You can't explain that.
Anyways, the alarms have been going up for about 12 years now. I wasn't aware that routers were implementing it until recently so I'm sure I'm in the problem pile on this.
Not sure if it was exposed in lowend firmwares, but we were turning it off in ddwrt back in '04 (maybe it was still ewrt at that point).
Probably the massive anti-war protests that have been going on in Washington for the past four years, especially after the escalation in Afghanistan. Oh, wait...
Oh, yeah. Nothing could possibly go wrong there, right?
They're either tremendously foolish, or they're conditioning the population to get used to the military operating in domestic cities.
In completely unrelated news, the Federal Reserve had to buy 90% of the last Treasury auction (with freshly minted virtual money) because nobody is buying US Government debt anymore.
They'll still need further investment before they have an income stream.
Without a doubt. Not unlike how SpaceX evolved (if they're successful) or any other engineering business that didn't start with a fat contract in their hands.
But mining gold and dropping it back to Earth is only a good idea if it can be done for higher reward than in-orbit refueling. With the cost of space stations these days, it's going to take a very efficient gold mining operation to beat Earth-based mining operations (about $15K/kg).
Nope - 'everyone' buys solutions, but only after they're told they exist and their choices are often sub-optimal and driven by poor information. Geeks figure out needs and acquire (buy/beg/build) the best solutions for the given requirements (not uncommonly combining multiple unrelated COTS solutions to form another). At least those who are allowed to keep their cards, anyway.
You're going to deploy a technology that will threaten the profits of the corporations that can can get statutes enacted definining "securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors" as "the entire life of the author plus 75 frikkin' years to an estate" - and you expect the government they own won't come down on you like a ton of bricks? You expect technical merit and plausible deniability to even be a factor here?
And the military can compensate for greater risk of partial or full failure, both by the operators' prior training and greater built in redundancy as a result of a higher price tag that only the military would pay.
And by a tolerance for (or apathy towards, po-tah-to) loss of life in regards to compensatory damages.
In recent years, though, families have begun to sue manufacturers of military craft (e.g. Sikorsky) for wrongful death, so maybe this dynamic will change.
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So you want to get a bunch of mobile hotspots in a room and then dynamically choose one based on some rules? You could used pfSense off the shelf for time-of-day and bonding purposes but I don't think it will handle packet accounting. For automatic routing look into the meshing algorithms (e.g. BATMAN) but that doesn't do everything you want either.
Could we convince you to save a ton of money and have a cable modem put in instead?
Any suggestions?
You can't bond two different ISP's, unless you own the end of a tunnel somewhere else (maybe a VPS), but you can pretty easily load balance and do failover with pfSense v2. The quick version: you set up both interfaces, both gateways, then you set up a gateway group with your fast ISP as Tier 1 and your slower ISP as Tier 2, and then in your LAN firewall rules, you put in an 'allow to all' rule at the end, with the gateway set to the gateway group. There's also a tick box to make the use of a gateway sticky for session affinity purposes and other variables that can be tuned (e.g. drop a member of the group on packet loss or latency thresholds).
Call me cynical, but I think that probably has more to do with the nature of the crime
oh, you think you're cynical - I assumed it was an unwillingness on the part of the department to prosecute simple crimes like public urination.
Yes, we know what GA does. Which of those metrics gives you insight into how many customers go elsewhere during downtime?
we don't have to chew the air because of the EPA
If you dare, look at the air quality trendlines both before and after the EPA's creation. Societies go through stages of economic development.
I am so tired of conservatives dodging question by labeling them as liberal.
I'm not a conservative and the media isn't liberal. Try stepping outside the box sometime.
But remember, guns are evil right now in group think.
Only if you get your information from the media/government complex. If you go talk to real people in person, you'll see that it's only the radical fringe that thinks that way. Trouble is, some of them were savvy enough to take control of the media in the 50's.
Yes, they'll turn out very well if we don't expose them to any "dangerous information" before then. Don't teach them about guns, or tools, or drugs or sex, or anything that might rock the boat (especially to question authority). They'll be fine to figure out all these things on their own with low information. That's how to be a good parent these days.
Like candy cigarettes, any advertising of an inherently dangerous/deadly product towards an adolescent target audience probably should be carefully scrutinized, regulated, or eliminated.
Dang, there goes my idea to do a YouTube series on woodworking for kids. Because lord knows I've got a basement full of Delta and Porter Cable gear after watching The New Yankee Workshop religiously for years, and I think every single one of them can cause an horrible accident (so far only one nail through the hand and all my fingers are properly attached). The kids were only going to learn about hand tools, and maybe battery operated screw guns, but if the government is going to come after me, then why even bother?
It's been a long time, but I'm fairly sure the only way I came to lust after the Marlin .22 I got for my eleventh birthday was by hanging out in the gun shop that was on my walk home from school. It was PURDY on the wall. OK, maybe watching some Westerns on TV influenced me to get a lever action. Or was it playing Rambo on the C=64? No accidents with that one in 28 years. My cars, on the other hand, haven't been so safe (I'll absolve myself of any responsibility for backing into a telephone pole as the so-called "vehicle operator").
there's no reason why this patent should just be coming to light now.
I don't mean to pick on you here, but people, please think before you say things like this.
There is, in fact, a very good reason. Submarine patents are profitable for the filer, and so it gives patent filers just another reason to perpetuate the system.
This benefits them, the patent system employees, the lawyers, the politicians who get campaign donations to influence their thinking, and to some extent benefits all of government by furthering its power.
Now, you could say "there's no good reason" but that's entirely subjective. I think it's better to say, "this system is detrimental to the betterment of society".
If we don't ask cui bono? on these things, we're going to get the root cause analysis wrong, and nothing can be fixed until we identify the correct problems.
I know, I'm ranting on a principle that's at least 2100 years old...
My droid has a fixed slide direction for unlock. My ICS Nook Color has a fixed slide direction. The JB unlock on my AndroVM is one direction to unlock, the other direction for camera.
Of course, the lock on my garden shed has a fixed slide direction for unlock as well.
You probably think this is such an awesome analogy but what you're really proving is that without a government monopoly on mouse traps, nobody would ever have bothered to build machines to catch mice before. You've heard of the plagues right?
Meanwhile, if between the time it is filed and granted, anyone else either files for or implements the patent, it is presumed insufficiently non-obvious.
Flag down. Bringing logic and reason into an argument about imaginary property. 20 year penalty.
*unless you're saying that all hardware can be abstracted as mathematical relationships, and are therefore arguing that all machines are unpatentable too?
QED
(and reason #794 that patents are bullshit)
But I've seen a kind of "artificial" middle initial, where the first John Smith gets the email address john.smith@organisation.tld, the second becomes john.a.smith@organisation.tld, the third one john.b.smith@organisation.tld etc.pp.
My early big-systems computing life was with the e-mail system at Dartmouth that went to real names in the 80's. There were twenty thousand-ish users and there definitely were a few name collisions with the First.M.Last standard.
There were two solutions. First was a user-editable nickname field. Just a space separated list that could be used to add to matching rules.
So, I had a proper e-mail left part of 'William.P.McGonigle' but my nickname field consisted of 'bill wpm skynet photographer sigep' to help other people find me. Only the real address was guaranteed unique but for phone conversations I could tell people wpm@ (it was unique at the time). People could get me at my machine name that way, look me up in the directory, address me as bill.mcgonigle, etc. (it would combine all dot separated parts with nicknames and department names to find matches).
So, if there were 20,000 people happily using this system, there were four people who it didn't work for, and those were people with the exact same name as somebody who was already on campus. The usual choice was to adopt a different middle initial, use a full middle name, or to accept the nickname as the real first name.
Now, there was always a contingent of people (I won't say aspy nerds because that would be rude) who insisted that those were WRONG and that the addressing scheme had to work exactly the same way for everybody. They probably advocated bmcgo654@ for my e-mail address. But what they missed was that the utility of the system that was in use was so high that it greatly outvalued having a 'perfect' system that had very low utility.
If we lived in a world where every e-mail user could easily query the other institution's LDAP and not run the risk of spam, then that might be fine. But we don't, so easy to use addresses makes the computers easier to use.
I just reacted to the idea that a little bit of effort and freezing should result in staying in front of your TV instead.
Buy your pre-manufactured food, watch the TV, pay your taxes. Anything else is DSM-IV coded behavior.
Unfortunately, the only way to reduce abuse like that is for enough people either courageous or stupid enough to do exactly what you are afraid to do.
A social entrepreneur could set up a website where people could sign a pledge, "I promise to set up open wireless sharing with three months of 250,000 other people promising to do the same thing."
Yeap. I had an open WiFi for years, and my neighbors used it until I started playing some online games. Then the bandwidth was bad enough I added a password. Oh well.
I use a single AP model running OpenWRT on the devices using dual SSID's (Foo Private, Foo Public) on different VLAN's. I trunk those back to pfSense where the Captive Portal is trivial to set up to limit bandwidth. I block access from the guest VLAN to the LAN(s), give them their own DHCP range with the ISP's DNS servers and block port 25 outbound.
No problems at all being the only open AP on the block in a downtown area. I had a guy who stopped in to the office asking if he could use it to game all night and offered me compensation (he was living with a friend temporarily), and I told him he was very well-mannered but to go home and have fun.
The packets come in, the packets go out - never a miscommunication. You can't explain that.
Anyways, the alarms have been going up for about 12 years now. I wasn't aware that routers were implementing it until recently so I'm sure I'm in the problem pile on this.
Not sure if it was exposed in lowend firmwares, but we were turning it off in ddwrt back in '04 (maybe it was still ewrt at that point).
And this has what to do with "liberals?"
Probably the massive anti-war protests that have been going on in Washington for the past four years, especially after the escalation in Afghanistan. Oh, wait...
Oh, yeah. Nothing could possibly go wrong there, right?
They're either tremendously foolish, or they're conditioning the population to get used to the military operating in domestic cities.
In completely unrelated news, the Federal Reserve had to buy 90% of the last Treasury auction (with freshly minted virtual money) because nobody is buying US Government debt anymore.
Hey, does this pot feel warmer to anybody else?
They'll still need further investment before they have an income stream.
Without a doubt. Not unlike how SpaceX evolved (if they're successful) or any other engineering business that didn't start with a fat contract in their hands.
But mining gold and dropping it back to Earth is only a good idea if it can be done for higher reward than in-orbit refueling. With the cost of space stations these days, it's going to take a very efficient gold mining operation to beat Earth-based mining operations (about $15K/kg).
By your definition everyone would be a geek.
Nope - 'everyone' buys solutions, but only after they're told they exist and their choices are often sub-optimal and driven by poor information. Geeks figure out needs and acquire (buy/beg/build) the best solutions for the given requirements (not uncommonly combining multiple unrelated COTS solutions to form another). At least those who are allowed to keep their cards, anyway.
You're going to deploy a technology that will threaten the profits of the corporations that can can get statutes enacted definining "securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors" as "the entire life of the author plus 75 frikkin' years to an estate" - and you expect the government they own won't come down on you like a ton of bricks? You expect technical merit and plausible deniability to even be a factor here?
Please donate to the guy who's being prosecuted for kiddie porn for running a Tor exit node while you think about it.
And the military can compensate for greater risk of partial or full failure, both by the operators' prior training and greater built in redundancy as a result of a higher price tag that only the military would pay.
And by a tolerance for (or apathy towards, po-tah-to) loss of life in regards to compensatory damages.
In recent years, though, families have begun to sue manufacturers of military craft (e.g. Sikorsky) for wrongful death, so maybe this dynamic will change.