You can do the same issue with dd-wrt, but that only if the signal also conforms to the 802.11b specification.
A burst of noise or device using the spectrum differently will not display using such techniques. The spectrum is open and there are a number of protocols today that rely on those frequencies.
I had a friend with a 2.4ghz phone which would completely and utterly destroy our wireless reception.
That device only covers 281 - 361, 378 - 481, and 749 - 962 MHz bands. It will not be useful for debugging the 2.4ghz spectrum.
There are likely some other options for a cheap analyzer around. I had some friends in a wireless shop convert an AP to a spectrum analyzer via a firmware update . However, those AP's were intended for commercial use and the price was a bit too steep.
Having just watched Toy Story 3 (3d) I have two things to say.
The first is rather relevant to your statement. I do indeed get headaches from watching the three dimensional cinema. I did not wish to wait for the later showing in the 2d version. Oddly, the difference isn't really that great because they simply hand out eye patches with the special glasses.
Secondly, I find slashdot does not work rather well with my special 3d glasses. The text doesn't pop, the logo still seems rather flat and the trolls really don't seem any closer. Thumbs down!
Until they drop the prices on eInk cartridges I'm steering clear of those devices. Who cares if they are a bit cheaper when it will cost probably half the price to get a refill.
It's not like copy and paste was working before windows mobile 7 anyway. Trying to copy an address to the browser or other application can be painful. It's very much like the old X days of copy and pray.
I made the distinct mistake of quickly saving an address to an important location in one note mobile. Eventually, I wrote the address down on a sheet of paper and re-punched it into google maps. However, this isn't the only location where copy and paste foils all attempts at reason. I've encountered similar silliness with the wireless key fields.
I suppose just giving up was the easier route to go. I'm not really sure I really like the directions of WM7. Honestly, I think they should just get some of the guys who make custom roms and have them lead a few teams. It just doesn't seem as if those who are designing these interfaces and applications really have a passion for it. It's more akin to "let's find the most mass market appear trendy movement and poorly build a phone around it."
In terms of set design and other attributes I have dabbled in those areas a bit in my lifetime. One person could potentially fill the role of many, but good luck doing any of those things on a budget.
The notion of cheap, but capable video gear is equally applicable to audio. Waving a cheap 1080p HD cam about is just going to look like waving without proper support and instrumentation.
Still, with some experience and ingenuity you can do fairly OK things with a lot of effort and a little bit of cash.
Shooting it always proportionally easier to the amount of capital investment;)
Verizon employs a volley of interesting tactics targeted at nickle and diming the consumer. Eventually, they will completely destroy their reputation and at some point the consumers shift will force them to blink.
Only when the loss is great enough will they attempt to make some turns. However, given this is a McDonalds nation driven on advertising rather than informed decisions it will take some time.
They go out of their way to help you and generally get the job done.
They will even help out with suggesting service plans and whatnot. I actually had to push to bump my minutes above the next tier. (I kept going over and I decided to just make it impossible to go over.) The csr on the line said, "you don't appear to ever use that many."
I'm currently seeking a grant to build a reactor based around Steve Jobs.
Harvesting the power of the distortion field is paramount to ending the world's oil addiction. Unfortunately, as he grows old we will find a new source to power the reactor. The boys in the lab have cooked up a cocktail of pheromones, viagra, ginseng and amphetamines to ensure we have a healthy stock of potential reactor rods.
You say there are zero approved treatments with dead baby stem cells as if there were a determination of their value. Didn't ol bushy outlaw treatments with dead babies.
For if it were not such a law we may have several treatments involving dead babies.
Why just yesterday I was washing my car and my back was acting up. I reached into the medicine cabinet and pulled a fresh dead baby. The soothing hot/cold action really did help. (Icy to dull the pain and hot to relax it away.)
At least I'm fairly certain it was a dead baby. In any event, the argument is completely invalid without side by side studies and applied treatments.
After trying the code on numerous random sites and getting nothing but failure I decided to let Fox.com be my last stop. I wasn't expecting anything with the string of failures on a slew of other high profile websites.
After entering the code the text and articles immediately changed. No longer was there a right wing conservative pro-republican bias on any article. It was all neutral tone reading with viewpoints from all sides. In fact, nearly article was damn neared educational and it left me yearning for more. There was even a detailed plan plus Fox coupled subsidiaries for containing and resolving the issues with the BP oil spill.
Unfortunately, the somewhat magical result with seemingly endless positives also had a nefarious side. I could no longer access any porn site. In fact, my friends who could no longer find reach their favorite "photography" web sites.
I immediately made a quick call to the news room and eventually reached their noc. Once they understood the nature of the problem they quickly reverted the code push and set fire to the primary data center.
In the end we agreed it was just too great a sacrifice.
My first thought was the kerosene lamp is also a bit more rugged. They can generally take a few hits, dirt and even a good bit of rust. Conversely, I get a sense the solar powered replacement may break with a few days of usage.
Good luck finding "Julian" as if such a man would have parted ways with his real name. He is a master of 27 languages and knows the local customs as if he recited them as his daily prayers. This is a man who possesses a near chameleon like instinct and can instantly blend into the background anywhere. Only further surpassing his ability to sink into the inky blackness are the hundreds of contacts he has made from here to hoover damn. Hell, even the rocks and streams seem to offer the man comfort if so much as he breathes a heavy sigh.
I can only laugh when the Pentagon says they want to find "Julian." Just considering the sheer number of hells they'll need to climb down to find the darkest demon who might be able to guess what "Julian" had for lunch just makes me chuckle.
Either that or the Pentagon can just send him an email.
It's not like they were just robo-calling, but they were doing it with zero regard for any sense of the law.
I would get a robo dial on my office line and I would have to answer it. There was no caller id service within the phone system to allow discrimination.
This particular service had an opt out option that would pretty much do nothing.
Finally, on the fifth call I decided to press the button that said I was interested. I was immediately connected to a sales agent and I asked why they were calling me repeatedly.
The agent hung up every time I completed my sentence.
This particular place was slim and they probably sold off that number to a new organization.
The world friend being used with a good deal of imagination as well.
Often he would return the merchandise to the store and explain how he wasn't really happy with the goods he acquired. He would then get store credit and usually sale the card off. This is of course all hearsay because I never witnessed the behavior.
Then one day I bumped into my "friend" at a Wal-Mart and I thought it would be a good idea to give him a good friendly greeting.
While next to an attendant I shouted, "Hey Scott! Have you gained weight buddy or is your coat filled with things you are currently taking from the shelves!"
Unfortunately, my "friend" had a very important appointment to attend to and consequently began running very quickly towards the exit. The very friendly staff caught up with him probably to inform him of some item on sale.
To identify a user would require a subpoena for the information.
This would be a significant cost and undertaking across multiple jurisdictions. ie, the crime, detected in new york, but the bots would be scattered across the united states and globe. Also take note of the volume of dealing with 1000's of subpoenas across the nation.
To me it seems like such a system with the current infrastructure would be more affordable to ignore.
The point is it has to cost more to not treat the infection as opposed to the costs of not dealing with it. Likely, the only way to really force someone to deal with the problem is to artificially inflate the cost of not dealing with the issue.
You are thinking in terms of small to no impact with such an administrative change. In any environment with a significantly large customer base this would be handled by customer service representatives. They will generally be trained and have material for troubleshooting connection issues.
Now, you have to support removing or explaining why the infection is a problem and deal with the issue.
Is it cheaper to allow the customer to consume bandwidth or deal with the problem? Since many organizations already have caps in place it may not actually be an effective deterrent. ie, does the infected host really consume 250gb'ish a month?
The dynamics change a great deal when we are speaking terms of large profit driven organizations. Costs and changes have to be justified and someone along the chain is going to question the necessity of it.
Small shops can get by with being the altruistic good guy because it really won't generate an impact and will likely only burn spare cycles.
Having actually performed both as a system and network engineer role at a fairly large ISP in my youth it isn't any concept of being lazy.
This is especially true when you get to larger corporate environments which translates a single decision effecting hundreds of thousands of customers. At a given level of customer volume even small changes have larger repercusions.
Sure, if you have a lower then 5000 sub count you can get by with helping everyone fix their computer. It's not like the office will be fielding a very large call volume.
However, the point I am stated is that if it is cheaper to ignore the problem then the problem will be ignored. Right now all it costs the current crop of companies is bandwidth. They suffer no ill will if their customers inadvertently take a bank or small country offline.
The cost to the ISPs would be fairly significant. It's not simply the potential lost revenue from disabling unwitting users, but forcing the issue will also generate a good deal of customer interaction. Talking with customers will generally result in additional costs as well as dealing with potential infections.
It's not an act of benevolence, but rather it is assuming responsibility. If you don't treat the issue for the customer then they may simply take the path of least resistance. ie, they may ultimately simply find another provider. Conversely, attempting to correct the problem will also result in issues as you now have the responsibility of restoring the customers computer to working order.
Ultimately, all of these risks and more would have to outweigh the costs of fixing the problem. I'm glad I don't have to deal with these kinds of issues anymore because trying to pitch an act of altruism to the company owner probably would not have worked.
With that said there are basically a few ways to approach the issue. Tighter regulation which states ISP's have to shepard their flock, fines on non-compliance or grants to award certain infection threshold reductions. In the end it really is about making one choice more expensive then the other.
I haven't really checked modern chipsets, but some older nvidia models definitely had a performance drop.
My preferred setup is one larger horizontal display for environments which require directx/opengl. That is paired with a second vertical display which usually has non-interactive statistic and monitoring applications running.
There was a significant drop in performance regarding the accelerated output and unless there is a specific chip driving each display I suspect this will always be true. However, given the advancement of video controllers today it will likely be less of an impact as performance increases. Specifically, I don't recall noticing an impact on my now defunct GT 290. However, being defunct and sitting on my coffee table I can no longer confirm.
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You can do the same issue with dd-wrt, but that only if the signal also conforms to the 802.11b specification.
A burst of noise or device using the spectrum differently will not display using such techniques. The spectrum is open and there are a number of protocols today that rely on those frequencies.
I had a friend with a 2.4ghz phone which would completely and utterly destroy our wireless reception.
That device only covers 281 - 361, 378 - 481, and 749 - 962 MHz bands. It will not be useful for debugging the 2.4ghz spectrum.
There are likely some other options for a cheap analyzer around. I had some friends in a wireless shop convert an AP to a spectrum analyzer via a firmware update . However, those AP's were intended for commercial use and the price was a bit too steep.
Having just watched Toy Story 3 (3d) I have two things to say.
The first is rather relevant to your statement. I do indeed get headaches from watching the three dimensional cinema. I did not wish to wait for the later showing in the 2d version. Oddly, the difference isn't really that great because they simply hand out eye patches with the special glasses.
Secondly, I find slashdot does not work rather well with my special 3d glasses. The text doesn't pop, the logo still seems rather flat and the trolls really don't seem any closer. Thumbs down!
Forget the prices on eBooks as a blocking factor.
Until they drop the prices on eInk cartridges I'm steering clear of those devices. Who cares if they are a bit cheaper when it will cost probably half the price to get a refill.
Is eInk made of gold? I think not!
It's not like copy and paste was working before windows mobile 7 anyway. Trying to copy an address to the browser or other application can be painful. It's very much like the old X days of copy and pray.
I made the distinct mistake of quickly saving an address to an important location in one note mobile. Eventually, I wrote the address down on a sheet of paper and re-punched it into google maps. However, this isn't the only location where copy and paste foils all attempts at reason. I've encountered similar silliness with the wireless key fields.
I suppose just giving up was the easier route to go. I'm not really sure I really like the directions of WM7. Honestly, I think they should just get some of the guys who make custom roms and have them lead a few teams. It just doesn't seem as if those who are designing these interfaces and applications really have a passion for it. It's more akin to "let's find the most mass market appear trendy movement and poorly build a phone around it."
In terms of set design and other attributes I have dabbled in those areas a bit in my lifetime. One person could potentially fill the role of many, but good luck doing any of those things on a budget.
The notion of cheap, but capable video gear is equally applicable to audio. Waving a cheap 1080p HD cam about is just going to look like waving without proper support and instrumentation.
Still, with some experience and ingenuity you can do fairly OK things with a lot of effort and a little bit of cash.
Shooting it always proportionally easier to the amount of capital investment ;)
Verizon employs a volley of interesting tactics targeted at nickle and diming the consumer. Eventually, they will completely destroy their reputation and at some point the consumers shift will force them to blink.
Only when the loss is great enough will they attempt to make some turns. However, given this is a McDonalds nation driven on advertising rather than informed decisions it will take some time.
I have no spoken to a bad CSR at tmobile.
They go out of their way to help you and generally get the job done.
They will even help out with suggesting service plans and whatnot. I actually had to push to bump my minutes above the next tier. (I kept going over and I decided to just make it impossible to go over.) The csr on the line said, "you don't appear to ever use that many."
I'm currently seeking a grant to build a reactor based around Steve Jobs.
Harvesting the power of the distortion field is paramount to ending the world's oil addiction. Unfortunately, as he grows old we will find a new source to power the reactor. The boys in the lab have cooked up a cocktail of pheromones, viagra, ginseng and amphetamines to ensure we have a healthy stock of potential reactor rods.
You say there are zero approved treatments with dead baby stem cells as if there were a determination of their value. Didn't ol bushy outlaw treatments with dead babies.
For if it were not such a law we may have several treatments involving dead babies.
Why just yesterday I was washing my car and my back was acting up. I reached into the medicine cabinet and pulled a fresh dead baby. The soothing hot/cold action really did help. (Icy to dull the pain and hot to relax it away.)
At least I'm fairly certain it was a dead baby. In any event, the argument is completely invalid without side by side studies and applied treatments.
After trying the code on numerous random sites and getting nothing but failure I decided to let Fox.com be my last stop. I wasn't expecting anything with the string of failures on a slew of other high profile websites.
After entering the code the text and articles immediately changed. No longer was there a right wing conservative pro-republican bias on any article. It was all neutral tone reading with viewpoints from all sides. In fact, nearly article was damn neared educational and it left me yearning for more. There was even a detailed plan plus Fox coupled subsidiaries for containing and resolving the issues with the BP oil spill.
Unfortunately, the somewhat magical result with seemingly endless positives also had a nefarious side. I could no longer access any porn site. In fact, my friends who could no longer find reach their favorite "photography" web sites.
I immediately made a quick call to the news room and eventually reached their noc. Once they understood the nature of the problem they quickly reverted the code push and set fire to the primary data center.
In the end we agreed it was just too great a sacrifice.
My first thought was the kerosene lamp is also a bit more rugged. They can generally take a few hits, dirt and even a good bit of rust. Conversely, I get a sense the solar powered replacement may break with a few days of usage.
Julian says to the Pentagon, "Stay thirsty my friends."
That was the scene I was thinking of too.
Good luck finding "Julian" as if such a man would have parted ways with his real name. He is a master of 27 languages and knows the local customs as if he recited them as his daily prayers. This is a man who possesses a near chameleon like instinct and can instantly blend into the background anywhere. Only further surpassing his ability to sink into the inky blackness are the hundreds of contacts he has made from here to hoover damn. Hell, even the rocks and streams seem to offer the man comfort if so much as he breathes a heavy sigh.
I can only laugh when the Pentagon says they want to find "Julian." Just considering the sheer number of hells they'll need to climb down to find the darkest demon who might be able to guess what "Julian" had for lunch just makes me chuckle.
Either that or the Pentagon can just send him an email.
President Obama earlier today sent out a tweet concerning corruption allegations, "Those bitches be mad."
I was hit by this group several times.
It's not like they were just robo-calling, but they were doing it with zero regard for any sense of the law.
I would get a robo dial on my office line and I would have to answer it. There was no caller id service within the phone system to allow discrimination.
This particular service had an opt out option that would pretty much do nothing.
Finally, on the fifth call I decided to press the button that said I was interested. I was immediately connected to a sales agent and I asked why they were calling me repeatedly.
The agent hung up every time I completed my sentence.
This particular place was slim and they probably sold off that number to a new organization.
There was a bug at one time that did not evaluate security descriptions when using the .. in the path.
Thus, you could use freely accessible content to access private content.
It wasn't a huge number of revisions, but it was somewhat of an annoyance if you had restricted or pay per view content.
I had a friend who did that a great deal.
The world friend being used with a good deal of imagination as well.
Often he would return the merchandise to the store and explain how he wasn't really happy with the goods he acquired. He would then get store credit and usually sale the card off. This is of course all hearsay because I never witnessed the behavior.
Then one day I bumped into my "friend" at a Wal-Mart and I thought it would be a good idea to give him a good friendly greeting.
While next to an attendant I shouted, "Hey Scott! Have you gained weight buddy or is your coat filled with things you are currently taking from the shelves!"
Unfortunately, my "friend" had a very important appointment to attend to and consequently began running very quickly towards the exit. The very friendly staff caught up with him probably to inform him of some item on sale.
Slightly more on the extreme side, but some valid points as well.
Once you create an infrastructure to easily identify everyone such an infrastructure would be abused to no end.
To identify a user would require a subpoena for the information.
This would be a significant cost and undertaking across multiple jurisdictions. ie, the crime, detected in new york, but the bots would be scattered across the united states and globe. Also take note of the volume of dealing with 1000's of subpoenas across the nation.
To me it seems like such a system with the current infrastructure would be more affordable to ignore.
The point is it has to cost more to not treat the infection as opposed to the costs of not dealing with it. Likely, the only way to really force someone to deal with the problem is to artificially inflate the cost of not dealing with the issue.
You are thinking in terms of small to no impact with such an administrative change. In any environment with a significantly large customer base this would be handled by customer service representatives. They will generally be trained and have material for troubleshooting connection issues.
Now, you have to support removing or explaining why the infection is a problem and deal with the issue.
Is it cheaper to allow the customer to consume bandwidth or deal with the problem? Since many organizations already have caps in place it may not actually be an effective deterrent. ie, does the infected host really consume 250gb'ish a month?
The dynamics change a great deal when we are speaking terms of large profit driven organizations. Costs and changes have to be justified and someone along the chain is going to question the necessity of it.
Small shops can get by with being the altruistic good guy because it really won't generate an impact and will likely only burn spare cycles.
Having actually performed both as a system and network engineer role at a fairly large ISP in my youth it isn't any concept of being lazy.
This is especially true when you get to larger corporate environments which translates a single decision effecting hundreds of thousands of customers. At a given level of customer volume even small changes have larger repercusions.
Sure, if you have a lower then 5000 sub count you can get by with helping everyone fix their computer. It's not like the office will be fielding a very large call volume.
However, the point I am stated is that if it is cheaper to ignore the problem then the problem will be ignored. Right now all it costs the current crop of companies is bandwidth. They suffer no ill will if their customers inadvertently take a bank or small country offline.
The cost to the ISPs would be fairly significant. It's not simply the potential lost revenue from disabling unwitting users, but forcing the issue will also generate a good deal of customer interaction. Talking with customers will generally result in additional costs as well as dealing with potential infections.
It's not an act of benevolence, but rather it is assuming responsibility. If you don't treat the issue for the customer then they may simply take the path of least resistance. ie, they may ultimately simply find another provider. Conversely, attempting to correct the problem will also result in issues as you now have the responsibility of restoring the customers computer to working order.
Ultimately, all of these risks and more would have to outweigh the costs of fixing the problem. I'm glad I don't have to deal with these kinds of issues anymore because trying to pitch an act of altruism to the company owner probably would not have worked.
With that said there are basically a few ways to approach the issue. Tighter regulation which states ISP's have to shepard their flock, fines on non-compliance or grants to award certain infection threshold reductions. In the end it really is about making one choice more expensive then the other.
I haven't really checked modern chipsets, but some older nvidia models definitely had a performance drop.
My preferred setup is one larger horizontal display for environments which require directx/opengl. That is paired with a second vertical display which usually has non-interactive statistic and monitoring applications running.
There was a significant drop in performance regarding the accelerated output and unless there is a specific chip driving each display I suspect this will always be true. However, given the advancement of video controllers today it will likely be less of an impact as performance increases. Specifically, I don't recall noticing an impact on my now defunct GT 290. However, being defunct and sitting on my coffee table I can no longer confirm.