Verizon is affraid, and anything they can do to force their ancient unshielded untwisted pair everywhere. People here in Pittsburgh would totally use Wi-Fi for Internet access, especially if it were priced competitively. Most of the people here are happy with dialup, and that's just how it is -- they just don't understand. If anything, that bill should push Comcast further into the broadband market.
People are affraid of new things, and especially Verizon.
Perhaps this is a way for Verizon to force themselves into the wireless throughput game? Perhaps it prevents WISPs from forming.
Here in Pittsburgh, there ain't much going on, 'cept at CMU, and one of the local mom and pop shops. There are a few players, but none who talkabout it -- it's taboo here, most people are happy with their dialup (Ugh!).
Actually, I think RFID technologies are neat -- clothing, products, vehicles, I actually can't wait to start experimenting with some of this stuff at home. As someone mentioned above, all kinds of new technology has potential applications, as well as potential abuses.
There is lots of potential here, but there's a way to fight for our privacy and rights -- we can fight back by tracking the RFID tags, coming-up with ranges of unique numbers for products, ways to modify tags, or insulate their signal.
What I really worry about, is where people are forced to have them (shopper cards, bus passes, etc), where people themselves can be tracked. Keep an eye out.
Rock-on. Sometimes I use a sharpie, and come up with an idea, and later take a picture with it, and modify the image to what I want. Understanding how the tools work does not take the place of artistic talent, or the knowledge of "how art works". However, there is a union between design, function, and form, and some of us programmers can see this -- sometimes. Having a tutorial on how to define color schemes, or a tutorial on similar styles might be in order for us non-art-students.
That is also true. However, I've seen a perfectly good company, with interesting products, and amazing people throughout, all mismanaged by a new CEO, and his drinking buddies too many times. Still, I'm ready to continue to work with startups -- they're the most fun.
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The reason we created WiFiMaps.com -- to show exactly where these things are.
There are lots of privacy concerns, and this is why we've recently deprecated the display of "unclassified" APs -- those that are not explicitly free, or explicitly pay. This way, you can examine your neighborhood without being directed only to your neighbors houses! Another way we try to stay on the good side of things is to not display the MAC address in our queries.
Thanks for the comment, and I look forward to reading the book when I get a copy.
Ah, thanks for the link. I've always loved Fractint, and the creative ways the developers put together lots of math to draw pretty pictures. Also note, that their development version supports individual images above 2048x2048 pixels -- great for printing large-format.
As someone mentioned above, and I second: Thanks for the brainfood, Mandelbrot!
For years, I have been using Fractint, and generating fractals on my PC, usually for print. I prefer it's zebra pattern, and it's appeal when printed very large -- especially when you can take a magnifying glass to the resulting printed image for more fractal fun!
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No mention of WiFiMaps.com for drawing Wardriving data onto a map? I would figure that even mentioning Netstumbler, Kismet, and talking about maps and stuff would give at least a mention -- sheesh! Guess I'll have to wait for O'Reilly's Mapping Hacks book to come out.
I use MythTV, of course! Actually, I use KnoppMyth, but -- same thing.
FABULOUS TiVo replacement, but sometimes a bit hard to get working, especially if you only have seemingly random hardware, or just whatever is laying arround. The machine I dedicate for this is piped into my TV, stereo, local network, and it is convenient to drag-and-drop whatever media files I want (including MAME ROMs!) onto the MythTV box, and play away! Check it out, it really is worth it. Use an MPEG tuner card if you can.
Every single hundredth of a stock option that I was ever offered, has proven to be $20 out of my own pocket. Most companies who offered me these weren't even around long enough for me to vest, or the company would "outsource" the department -- conveniently, just before the vesting period.
But what to do when a company is offering stock options? Since I'm looking for work, I just not and smile, rather than give them a piece of my mind.
Then again, it has been a while since I went on an interview. BRB, gotta send out another couple thousand job applications...
I track and rate the recruiters I contact, shouldn't you?
Bluetooth is great for location based applications, too. I expect the older style USB bluetooth dongles would become far cheaper in the future, and almost disposable -- like the smaller USB flash drives -- enough to just give them away. A side effect, is that now you have unique MACs which you can use for discovering your location. Of course, this all depends on wardrivers.
There are actually lots of interesting stuff going on here in Pittsburgh, especially CNUP, CMU, CERT, and others. It's nice to see people noticing the value of some of the people here.
Of course, it's mostly full of moronic "Yinzers", but there's not much we can do about them.
I haven't worked since a few months after Dubya took office -- I'm a unix sysadmin. If I could afford to pay for a plane ticket, and some time to go and move to any other country, I would. As it stands now, I can't cover my costs to live.
Looking very much forward to more of the same -- four more years of no employment.
I photo blog with my Nokia 3650. Unfortunately, the time the image was taken is not stored in the (non existant) exif headers, so sometimes the story is out of order. Check out my mobog posts and my personal posts for examples. Not quite a literary thing, but hey -- a picture tells a thousand words.
The US Patriot Act has caused me to fear my government even more than normal. Now, when I work on my projects, even if I am not actually a terrorist, I worry that I may be labled as such. Is this the way a law abiding citizen should feel at home?
Having personally gone wardriving through Cambridge, I would also expect MIT at number one, and at least see CMU up there too. Nice to see Pittsburgh having not one but TWO entries -- Duquesne and Pitt. A little disappointing, tho, isn't this 2004?
Insert obligatory RIAA joke here. Go figure, with piracy lawsuits on the rise, and people deleting their MP3s, do you think the RIAA will lay off, ans stop complaining about their "losses"?
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Verizon is affraid, and anything they can do to force their ancient unshielded untwisted pair everywhere. People here in Pittsburgh would totally use Wi-Fi for Internet access, especially if it were priced competitively. Most of the people here are happy with dialup, and that's just how it is -- they just don't understand. If anything, that bill should push Comcast further into the broadband market.
People are affraid of new things, and especially Verizon.
DSL is NOT broadband
Perhaps this is a way for Verizon to force themselves into the wireless throughput game? Perhaps it prevents WISPs from forming.
Here in Pittsburgh, there ain't much going on, 'cept at CMU, and one of the local mom and pop shops. There are a few players, but none who talkabout it -- it's taboo here, most people are happy with their dialup (Ugh!).
Actually, I think RFID technologies are neat -- clothing, products, vehicles, I actually can't wait to start experimenting with some of this stuff at home. As someone mentioned above, all kinds of new technology has potential applications, as well as potential abuses.
We intend to explore RFID's location-based potential, but with an emphasis on privacy, which we've held to.
There is lots of potential here, but there's a way to fight for our privacy and rights -- we can fight back by tracking the RFID tags, coming-up with ranges of unique numbers for products, ways to modify tags, or insulate their signal.
What I really worry about, is where people are forced to have them (shopper cards, bus passes, etc), where people themselves can be tracked. Keep an eye out.
Wow, thats a neat idea. I think I'll write stuff and put it up. Can't be all bad, Right? How many of us have google ads on our websites?
Rock-on. Sometimes I use a sharpie, and come up with an idea, and later take a picture with it, and modify the image to what I want. Understanding how the tools work does not take the place of artistic talent, or the knowledge of "how art works". However, there is a union between design, function, and form, and some of us programmers can see this -- sometimes. Having a tutorial on how to define color schemes, or a tutorial on similar styles might be in order for us non-art-students.
That is also true. However, I've seen a perfectly good company, with interesting products, and amazing people throughout, all mismanaged by a new CEO, and his drinking buddies too many times. Still, I'm ready to continue to work with startups -- they're the most fun.
The reason we created WiFiMaps.com -- to show exactly where these things are.
There are lots of privacy concerns, and this is why we've recently deprecated the display of "unclassified" APs -- those that are not explicitly free, or explicitly pay. This way, you can examine your neighborhood without being directed only to your neighbors houses! Another way we try to stay on the good side of things is to not display the MAC address in our queries.
Thanks for the comment, and I look forward to reading the book when I get a copy.
Ah, thanks for the link. I've always loved Fractint, and the creative ways the developers put together lots of math to draw pretty pictures. Also note, that their development version supports individual images above 2048x2048 pixels -- great for printing large-format.
As someone mentioned above, and I second: Thanks for the brainfood, Mandelbrot!
For years, I have been using Fractint, and generating fractals on my PC, usually for print. I prefer it's zebra pattern, and it's appeal when printed very large -- especially when you can take a magnifying glass to the resulting printed image for more fractal fun!
No mention of WiFiMaps.com for drawing Wardriving data onto a map? I would figure that even mentioning Netstumbler, Kismet, and talking about maps and stuff would give at least a mention -- sheesh! Guess I'll have to wait for O'Reilly's Mapping Hacks book to come out.
I use MythTV, of course! Actually, I use KnoppMyth, but -- same thing.
FABULOUS TiVo replacement, but sometimes a bit hard to get working, especially if you only have seemingly random hardware, or just whatever is laying arround. The machine I dedicate for this is piped into my TV, stereo, local network, and it is convenient to drag-and-drop whatever media files I want (including MAME ROMs!) onto the MythTV box, and play away! Check it out, it really is worth it. Use an MPEG tuner card if you can.
Every single hundredth of a stock option that I was ever offered, has proven to be $20 out of my own pocket. Most companies who offered me these weren't even around long enough for me to vest, or the company would "outsource" the department -- conveniently, just before the vesting period.
But what to do when a company is offering stock options? Since I'm looking for work, I just not and smile, rather than give them a piece of my mind.
Then again, it has been a while since I went on an interview. BRB, gotta send out another couple thousand job applications... I track and rate the recruiters I contact, shouldn't you?
Working for a small VOIP company (unpaid), I look forward to the lack of opportunity the government has in preventing us from doing business.
Bluetooth is great for location based applications, too. I expect the older style USB bluetooth dongles would become far cheaper in the future, and almost disposable -- like the smaller USB flash drives -- enough to just give them away. A side effect, is that now you have unique MACs which you can use for discovering your location. Of course, this all depends on wardrivers.
Hooray! More fodder for us wardrivers! More units made = more units sold = more units wardriven! Game ON!
There are actually lots of interesting stuff going on here in Pittsburgh, especially CNUP, CMU, CERT, and others. It's nice to see people noticing the value of some of the people here.
Of course, it's mostly full of moronic "Yinzers", but there's not much we can do about them.
I haven't worked since a few months after Dubya took office -- I'm a unix sysadmin. If I could afford to pay for a plane ticket, and some time to go and move to any other country, I would. As it stands now, I can't cover my costs to live.
Looking very much forward to more of the same -- four more years of no employment.
I photo blog with my Nokia 3650. Unfortunately, the time the image was taken is not stored in the (non existant) exif headers, so sometimes the story is out of order. Check out my mobog posts and my personal posts for examples. Not quite a literary thing, but hey -- a picture tells a thousand words.
The US Patriot Act has caused me to fear my government even more than normal. Now, when I work on my projects, even if I am not actually a terrorist, I worry that I may be labled as such. Is this the way a law abiding citizen should feel at home?
Sounds like an exercise in obfuscation. How will SCO handle this?
You can investigate actual Wi-Fi surveys from wardrivers at wifimaps.com. You can view your location, and see the other access-points in the area -- complete with channel data.
Another site listing Wi-Fi is WiFiMaps.com. This covers mainly the US, and data is updated by our users who upload their wardriving scans.
Having personally gone wardriving through Cambridge, I would also expect MIT at number one, and at least see CMU up there too. Nice to see Pittsburgh having not one but TWO entries -- Duquesne and Pitt. A little disappointing, tho, isn't this 2004?
More fodder for us wardrivers, it will be nice to see some dense saturation -- ubiquitous computing.
Insert obligatory RIAA joke here. Go figure, with piracy lawsuits on the rise, and people deleting their MP3s, do you think the RIAA will lay off, ans stop complaining about their "losses"?