Feel free to contribute, we keep track of who uploads what, and we would be more than happy to generate maps and calculate statistics for those working on school or other projects.
We just wanna show how many APs there are in whatever given area. Perhaps when we released the maps, we could have inlcuded information about our intentions, and a reminder that using unauthorized networks is not recommended. We'll remember for next time!
Yes, thank you -- we did not include indentifiable information for the owners of the APs -- no MACs, no street addresses, no names. The original point of this map and WiFiMaps.com is to show just how many of these things are being deployed. There's a shitload!
How else do you think this thing innovation happens, solid business plans? Perhaps in market share, and dollars. What about having a good service that is preferable to whatever else is there? I think that taking wild stabs sometimes does pay off, though I bet they are more general pokings than flailing stabbings. Of course -- we'll see, won't we?
This is a much more attractive alternative to Verisign, even over fun names like GoDaddy, and NameBargain.
Having done ISP work back in the day, I have personally submitted registrations on thousands of domains with the venerable Network Solutions. With Verisign and the recent mix, I have lost tons of my own personal domains I have collected over the years -- and registration on these things is quite expensive! Finally there are alternatives, and I think I would trust Google over Microsoft, Verisign, or the US Government. This is my Internet, and I don't want it fucked-up!
Also, I think that Google doing root nameserver fun would be more like a DNS cache for them.
I interviewed the FBI at SeattleWireless TV, and the agent I talked to said he hadn't seen any attempted attacks. I should probably get an update and post it.
Of course, I wardrive all the time. It's amazing just how many public hotspots there are at any given time, there's at least 5 on my block, and I'm in Pittsburgh! Of course, I live on the mail drag in my town.
Go figure. The needs of people are not being met by the current telco carriers. This is good for us as geeks.
We can kinda see a similar pattern, in the way that the diversity of the technologies available are surpassing the market's ability to keep-up -- and unintended uses start to become a factor in these big market statistics. Old modems were like this at the time of 14.4Kbps and USR's 16.8Kbps HST protocols, as attempts to jam more bits through the same pipe. Then there became digital modems, which would aggregate more modems than the rack at the CompUSA into a single modular rackmount unit. There were different standards later on, and interoperability, manufacturers eventually would conform to whatever standard, and the users would follow.
There are so many different bands of wireless communications in use, the interesting thing about Wi-Fi, 802.11a-z, and bluetooth, is that they are in unlicensed frequencies, which the FCC specifies rules we can follow for operation. Wireless cellular telephone carriers, by contrast, purchase their frequencies, in order to sell us service.
All of these different services operate in different ways, and have their own operating charachteristics. Cellular telephones are generally thought to have continuous coverage, while Wi-Fi, bluetooth, and others are pretty short. The FCC limits the ammout of power that you can emit in these unlicensed bands, so they're generally used for short distances, but might be useful for the last mile.
As we see more and more communication devices using these bands in better and more efficient ways, and as the FCC (at least here in the US) opens-up the frequencies -- allowing us to perform more differnt types of communication, at more different frequencies, and in more ways -- we effectively have the science fiction world of video-phones and and flying cars and little blinkey handheld computers that we read about in science fiction novels and Sci-Fi channel shows.
Yah, of course -- I'm not educated in the ways of visible spectrum light.
However, I know that if I hold a button down on my remote-control, I can see the infrared LED light-up on the display of my camera, but I cannot see the light myself. CCDs usually have a filter, but it does little good.
YOu could also wear infrared beacons near your face -- earrings, hats, neckaces. If the beacons are bright enough, your face should be blurred by having way too much infrared light near your face.
Of course, for those of us without much pigment in our skin, couldn't that make us tan? Think about it -- tan while standing in line at a bank (for those of us who still do that).
Or perhaps they were losing upgrade sales to cheaper players in the market? I have always been very annoyed at $200 upgrades from anyone, where a generic alternative is $12.
Wish I'd known that when people told me that I couldn't or shouldn't do things, that they were FUCKING RETARDS. Seriously. High-school is adolescent storage, nothing more.
I didn't learn a goddam thing in any of the high schools I went to -- didn't even learn how to roll a joint, fix a car, write a poem, measure the volume of a cone, program, take pictures, or even spell in high school. All of these things I taught myself, because they needed to be done (especially the joint part).
If I had graduated 6th grade, and went straight to college, I would have done quite well accademically.
Friend of mine called me from his Asterisk box last nite -- I picked up the call on my cell phone. His voice was clear, crisp, unjittered, no echo -- sounded like he was on a landline handset.
Especially if open-source and free software are explicitly banned, as they are at my current contract. Yes, Perl and Apache and others are not allowed here, and so the solution is proprietary, nonfunctional, and expensive!
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I keep searching EBay for ink for my Encad Novajet II. Of course, I'll either print maps of where I am, Pittsburgh.
on second thought...
Feel free to contribute, we keep track of who uploads what, and we would be more than happy to generate maps and calculate statistics for those working on school or other projects.
I was describing the output -- drawings of lines, versus the raster aerial photographs, of course.
We just wanna show how many APs there are in whatever given area. Perhaps when we released the maps, we could have inlcuded information about our intentions, and a reminder that using unauthorized networks is not recommended. We'll remember for next time!
Yes, thank you -- we did not include indentifiable information for the owners of the APs -- no MACs, no street addresses, no names. The original point of this map and WiFiMaps.com is to show just how many of these things are being deployed. There's a shitload!
Perhaps this is Google's way of deleting Verisign from the playlist?
"I didn't know he had such reason to hate them."
How else do you think this thing innovation happens, solid business plans? Perhaps in market share, and dollars. What about having a good service that is preferable to whatever else is there? I think that taking wild stabs sometimes does pay off, though I bet they are more general pokings than flailing stabbings. Of course -- we'll see, won't we?
This is a much more attractive alternative to Verisign, even over fun names like GoDaddy, and NameBargain.
Having done ISP work back in the day, I have personally submitted registrations on thousands of domains with the venerable Network Solutions. With Verisign and the recent mix, I have lost tons of my own personal domains I have collected over the years -- and registration on these things is quite expensive! Finally there are alternatives, and I think I would trust Google over Microsoft, Verisign, or the US Government. This is my Internet, and I don't want it fucked-up!
Also, I think that Google doing root nameserver fun would be more like a DNS cache for them.
I remember it to be $2b, for 2004, but that might have been 2003. A quick Google search turns-up 10-20 billion.
I interviewed the FBI at SeattleWireless TV, and the agent I talked to said he hadn't seen any attempted attacks. I should probably get an update and post it.
Of course, I wardrive all the time. It's amazing just how many public hotspots there are at any given time, there's at least 5 on my block, and I'm in Pittsburgh! Of course, I live on the mail drag in my town.
Looks like it already worked for Verizon.
Hooray, actually!
Go figure. The needs of people are not being met by the current telco carriers. This is good for us as geeks.
We can kinda see a similar pattern, in the way that the diversity of the technologies available are surpassing the market's ability to keep-up -- and unintended uses start to become a factor in these big market statistics. Old modems were like this at the time of 14.4Kbps and USR's 16.8Kbps HST protocols, as attempts to jam more bits through the same pipe. Then there became digital modems, which would aggregate more modems than the rack at the CompUSA into a single modular rackmount unit. There were different standards later on, and interoperability, manufacturers eventually would conform to whatever standard, and the users would follow.
There are so many different bands of wireless communications in use, the interesting thing about Wi-Fi, 802.11a-z, and bluetooth, is that they are in unlicensed frequencies, which the FCC specifies rules we can follow for operation. Wireless cellular telephone carriers, by contrast, purchase their frequencies, in order to sell us service.
All of these different services operate in different ways, and have their own operating charachteristics. Cellular telephones are generally thought to have continuous coverage, while Wi-Fi, bluetooth, and others are pretty short. The FCC limits the ammout of power that you can emit in these unlicensed bands, so they're generally used for short distances, but might be useful for the last mile.
As we see more and more communication devices using these bands in better and more efficient ways, and as the FCC (at least here in the US) opens-up the frequencies -- allowing us to perform more differnt types of communication, at more different frequencies, and in more ways -- we effectively have the science fiction world of video-phones and and flying cars and little blinkey handheld computers that we read about in science fiction novels and Sci-Fi channel shows.
I think its a good time to be a geek.
Right, so LET THE GAMES BEGIN! I find this kind of competition very interesting, and fun to follow.
Very interested in location applications of all sort. How else can you get work done while cruising the road, or sitting at your favorite hotspot?
I'm looking for work on related projects.
Yah, of course -- I'm not educated in the ways of visible spectrum light.
However, I know that if I hold a button down on my remote-control, I can see the infrared LED light-up on the display of my camera, but I cannot see the light myself. CCDs usually have a filter, but it does little good.
YOu could also wear infrared beacons near your face -- earrings, hats, neckaces. If the beacons are bright enough, your face should be blurred by having way too much infrared light near your face.
Of course, for those of us without much pigment in our skin, couldn't that make us tan? Think about it -- tan while standing in line at a bank (for those of us who still do that).
Or perhaps they were losing upgrade sales to cheaper players in the market? I have always been very annoyed at $200 upgrades from anyone, where a generic alternative is $12.
Can I have a job?
Wish I'd known that when people told me that I couldn't or shouldn't do things, that they were FUCKING RETARDS. Seriously. High-school is adolescent storage, nothing more.
I didn't learn a goddam thing in any of the high schools I went to -- didn't even learn how to roll a joint, fix a car, write a poem, measure the volume of a cone, program, take pictures, or even spell in high school. All of these things I taught myself, because they needed to be done (especially the joint part).
If I had graduated 6th grade, and went straight to college, I would have done quite well accademically.
Friend of mine called me from his Asterisk box last nite -- I picked up the call on my cell phone. His voice was clear, crisp, unjittered, no echo -- sounded like he was on a landline handset.
So, I'm now experimenting with Asterisk...
Especially if open-source and free software are explicitly banned, as they are at my current contract. Yes, Perl and Apache and others are not allowed here, and so the solution is proprietary, nonfunctional, and expensive!
You could always be completely unemployed -- then you'll have plenty of time to work on as many projects as you can.
You're supposed to get *that* stuff out of your shoe-tread with a stick. Smoke some better pot, wouldja?
Oh, mah gahd!