Is the problem. It works fine before the show starts and goes to shit after because the AP's are now keeping track of thousands of wandering WiFi enabled cell phones. Consumer grade AP's just can't handle it, some of them will even crash due to their MAC tables filling up (they still have to keep track of MAC addresses even before they authenticate)
In the future, invest $100 in a used Cisco Aironet off ebay. They cost $650 new while your Dlink costs $50 new for a reason.
It's hard to take a claim like that seriously since that famous prediction. Oh well. At least they redeemed themselves with the Core architecture. In my little book anyway.
It all depends on what tools government uses to "encourage" these windmills. If a private company can turn a profit running windmill/solar farms w/out government taking money from someone else to make it happen, then there's no debate. It's a free country, if you want to put up windmills, go go go man! But don't try to make wind/solar artificially cost effective my making coal/natural gas/nuclear more expensive by taxing it via "carbon credits" or some other half baked idea.
"Why should I quit smoking? I've already got 15 years of smoking under my belt!"
For many people, they'll have a better success at quitting in stages and/or using a patch or nicotine gum whilst they wean their addiction rather than quit cold turkey.
"Why should I stop working with asbestos? I've already done it for 15 years."
Because maybe if you hang in there for just another few years, you'll retire with full pension and health benefits.
"Why should I stop huffing paint thinner? I've already done it 15 times."
Ok, this one is just silly lol.
"Why should I put out the fire in my hair? It's already been on fire for 15 seconds."
Because your balls are on fire too, and you want to put that fire out first.
If you acknowledge that something is a problem, then you Stop Doing It. Whether you've already done it, and whether your previous actions have consequences, is absolutely no reason to keep doing it and making the consequences worse
I know it's easier to ride your "logic train" in a vacuum, but in the real world, problems aren't solved in a vacuum. I know my responses to your hypotheticals are silly, but no more silly than your oversimplification of the issue. There are absolutely good reasons to keep making the problem worse for a bit longer. If you're a good sport, I'm sure you can think of a few.
FYI: even these developing nations are taking pretty major stands against climate change. China is building the world's biggest wind farm, the world's biggest solar plant, building a huge electric train network, has started instituting bans in a number of major cities against gas guzzlers, and so on. This is everyone's problem. Even Saudi Arabia is going big on solar.
And I'm all for it! I'm for generating as much clean energy as possible as soon as possible. But for every new megawatt of wind generation China builds, they probably build 10 times that in coal generation (just pulling that stat out of my ass, I have no idea what it really is, but new coal generation vastly outweighs new wind capacity). Similarly, even as Saudi Arabia invests in solar, they do so with the money they make from extracting oil from the ground.
We're talking about things like 2 cent feed-in tarrifs and having coal plants actually pay for the health consequences of their non-carbon emissions. It's absurd that you act like such things are going to bankrupt the global economy or that they're "doubling energy costs" Nobody is talking about doubling energy costs (at least nobody seriously involved in the debate here). I refer you to the IPCC AR4 analysis of the economic costs of proposed mitigation strategies.
It's absurd that you pretend other serious players *aren't* talking about doubling energy costs as a means of curbing CO2 emissions.
The gist of my argument, is that the burning of hydrocarbons in the short term is necessary to build a clean future long term. A wise man puts out the fire on his balls before he turns his attention to the fire on his head. Ancient Chinese proverb;)
How is that reasonable? 97-98% of active publishing climate scientists say is happening now. So how exactly are those situations comparable?
I guess it seems reasonable to me because even if you made the burning of any fossil fuel in the United States illegal tomorrow, there's still 150 or so years worth of CO2 in the atmosphere, and the developing world is still going to be building coal fired plants for the next couple of decades at a pretty aggressive clip. It seems more reasonable to me to do everything you can to grow the economy, so there's more money to fund research into clean alternatives. At the same time, you'll have a society well funded enough to deal with any negative impacts a changing climate might bring. Whether that change is due to CO2, or a volcano, or sunspots.
There's a lot of momentum behind this changing climate, it is my opinion that our fate (whatever that may be) is more or less sealed. While paying more for electricity and fuel might make some of us feel better, I don't believe doubling our energy costs and decreasing CO2 emissions by 1/4 will make a damned bit of a difference to the climate.
What WILL make a difference, is funding the development of clean alternatives, and it's hard to have money left over for funding these incredibly expensive and worthwhile projects, when you drive up the costs of *everything* for *everyone*.
Rich societies develop the next leap in PV solar efficiencies. Poor societies just build more coal fired plants. Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it:)
Now if they could only figure out that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and therefore does not fall under the Clean Air Act either...
Well, anything is a pollutant in high enough quantities, but sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. The climate WILL change. If not from AWG, then from something else. Perhaps a meteor strike, or a massive volcano, or decreased/increased solar activity. Better to focus on creating an upwardly mobile society that can more easily adapt to these inevitable changes than to risk making society poorer and therefore less able to adapt. Within reason of course. Not to advocate for slash and burn in the name of economic expansion, but we're not ready to run our economies on windmills and horse manure yet.
Are these 200 Mb/s connections people are talking about in parts of Europe and Asia getting anywhere close to that once you're off the ISP's network? Perusing through speedtest.net worldwide results seems to suggest that world wide, real world speeds are pretty similar. to each other.
You really just need something that either has an extra interface for your wireless network, or can do 802.1Q vlan tagging and a vlan capable switch. I think even with a LInksys and DDWRT, you can put the built-in wireless AP on it's own VLAN. THen you just give the wireless it's own subnet, disallow traffic from the wireless subnet to your personal subnet. I think you can even do multiple SSID's and put each SSID on it's own VLAN, one for the public and one for you. Then just allow egress traffic on port 53,80, and 443 for your guest subnet, set up the traffic shaping queues with whatever amount of traffic you want to donate, and set it and forget it.
Of course, this doesn't address the issue of people using the connection to do illegal things, but I've been doing exactly what I described above in a very densly populated are of San Diego since 2002 and haven't had any problems yet *knock on wood*
Also, keep in mind, that this violates the TOS of most ISP's. I have a business class cable connection at home, which has a much less restrictive TOS, which makes it legal. I also have multiple public IP addresses, and run all my guest wireless traffic over it's own IP, so if anyone gets banned from say Ebay or something for fraud, it won't effect me.
But to answer your question, no, I don't think you can do this on many consumer grade router/AP's without flashing the firmware with DDWRT, and not all consumer routers are flashable. I think Buffalo sells a model that comes with DDWRT preloaded.
If you wanted to make a project out of it, you could buy a used Cisco Aironet for $50 and pair it up with an old PC with multiple NICs and install PFSense on it and have yourself a grand old time. The tools in PFSense can actually be quite entertaining when you collect anonymous statistics about what sort of things your neighbors do with your connection. NTOP will entertain you for hours:)
others are asking whether Sony should compensate users for the inability to play PS3 multiplayer modes
Compensate customers for what? PSN is free last time I checked. If it was Xbox and their $50/year gold membership crap, ya, ok, let's have that discussion, but you can't compensate something for which no reoccurring fee is charged.
I'd cut Sony some slack on this front. Network subscription fees are a no go for someone like me who only plays console games online occasionally. I'll take the occasional outage in return for not paying $50/mo for something I only occasionally use.
With public school issued ipads? Are these bone stock ipads? Or are they loaded with some sort of locked down ios that prevents 12 year olds from using the thing to play Angry Birds when they're in class?
If they're somehow locked down to make them only useful for the curriculum, I get it. If they're just off the shelf ipads, I don't get it. They're just giving out toys with our tax dollars.
Very true. But it's still one of the reasons the public at large has resisted every attempt to convert. Imperial measurements are just more comfortable in everyday speech. This is just my personal theory of course, but I believe it holds water. Perhaps a gallon or so;)
Americans like monosyllabic or abbreviated words wherever possible. Especially in commonly used words, like those involving measurements. We've got pound, inch, foot, yard, pint, quart, and gallon....gallon being one of the few multisyllabic words. Most metric metrics (lol...ya, I just did that) are multi syllable compound words, and most of them don't have any obvious way of being shortened. Americans just don't want to say "Kilometer" when they can say "mile. They don't want to say "centimeter" when they can say "inch".
The Metric System is elegantly simple and beautiful, in everything but the English pronunciation of said metrics. What a shame.
One of our ISP's here in San Diego, Cox, if it is detected that a large amount of spam, or other malicious connections are originating from your connection, will block everything and redirect any web requests to a captive portal page with instructions on how to clean your computer, and a number to call once you've done so to get your service re-activated.
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Is the problem. It works fine before the show starts and goes to shit after because the AP's are now keeping track of thousands of wandering WiFi enabled cell phones. Consumer grade AP's just can't handle it, some of them will even crash due to their MAC tables filling up (they still have to keep track of MAC addresses even before they authenticate)
In the future, invest $100 in a used Cisco Aironet off ebay. They cost $650 new while your Dlink costs $50 new for a reason.
Sore looser? That sounds.....kinky.
lol...sorry, Spelling Nazi at your service ;)
Scaled to 10 GHz? (the comments are fun to read)
It's hard to take a claim like that seriously since that famous prediction. Oh well. At least they redeemed themselves with the Core architecture. In my little book anyway.
It all depends on what tools government uses to "encourage" these windmills. If a private company can turn a profit running windmill/solar farms w/out government taking money from someone else to make it happen, then there's no debate. It's a free country, if you want to put up windmills, go go go man! But don't try to make wind/solar artificially cost effective my making coal/natural gas/nuclear more expensive by taxing it via "carbon credits" or some other half baked idea.
OMG....is this....consensus? On Slashdot? No way!
Thanks for the debate ;)
I just heard the logic train whiz by.
"Why should I quit smoking? I've already got 15 years of smoking under my belt!"
For many people, they'll have a better success at quitting in stages and/or using a patch or nicotine gum whilst they wean their addiction rather than quit cold turkey.
"Why should I stop working with asbestos? I've already done it for 15 years."
Because maybe if you hang in there for just another few years, you'll retire with full pension and health benefits.
"Why should I stop huffing paint thinner? I've already done it 15 times."
Ok, this one is just silly lol.
"Why should I put out the fire in my hair? It's already been on fire for 15 seconds."
Because your balls are on fire too, and you want to put that fire out first.
If you acknowledge that something is a problem, then you Stop Doing It. Whether you've already done it, and whether your previous actions have consequences, is absolutely no reason to keep doing it and making the consequences worse
I know it's easier to ride your "logic train" in a vacuum, but in the real world, problems aren't solved in a vacuum. I know my responses to your hypotheticals are silly, but no more silly than your oversimplification of the issue. There are absolutely good reasons to keep making the problem worse for a bit longer. If you're a good sport, I'm sure you can think of a few.
FYI: even these developing nations are taking pretty major stands against climate change. China is building the world's biggest wind farm, the world's biggest solar plant, building a huge electric train network, has started instituting bans in a number of major cities against gas guzzlers, and so on. This is everyone's problem. Even Saudi Arabia is going big on solar.
And I'm all for it! I'm for generating as much clean energy as possible as soon as possible. But for every new megawatt of wind generation China builds, they probably build 10 times that in coal generation (just pulling that stat out of my ass, I have no idea what it really is, but new coal generation vastly outweighs new wind capacity). Similarly, even as Saudi Arabia invests in solar, they do so with the money they make from extracting oil from the ground.
We're talking about things like 2 cent feed-in tarrifs and having coal plants actually pay for the health consequences of their non-carbon emissions. It's absurd that you act like such things are going to bankrupt the global economy or that they're "doubling energy costs" Nobody is talking about doubling energy costs (at least nobody seriously involved in the debate here). I refer you to the IPCC AR4 analysis of the economic costs of proposed mitigation strategies.
It's absurd that you pretend other serious players *aren't* talking about doubling energy costs as a means of curbing CO2 emissions.
The gist of my argument, is that the burning of hydrocarbons in the short term is necessary to build a clean future long term. A wise man puts out the fire on his balls before he turns his attention to the fire on his head. Ancient Chinese proverb ;)
How is that reasonable? 97-98% of active publishing climate scientists say is happening now. So how exactly are those situations comparable?
I guess it seems reasonable to me because even if you made the burning of any fossil fuel in the United States illegal tomorrow, there's still 150 or so years worth of CO2 in the atmosphere, and the developing world is still going to be building coal fired plants for the next couple of decades at a pretty aggressive clip. It seems more reasonable to me to do everything you can to grow the economy, so there's more money to fund research into clean alternatives. At the same time, you'll have a society well funded enough to deal with any negative impacts a changing climate might bring. Whether that change is due to CO2, or a volcano, or sunspots.
There's a lot of momentum behind this changing climate, it is my opinion that our fate (whatever that may be) is more or less sealed. While paying more for electricity and fuel might make some of us feel better, I don't believe doubling our energy costs and decreasing CO2 emissions by 1/4 will make a damned bit of a difference to the climate.
What WILL make a difference, is funding the development of clean alternatives, and it's hard to have money left over for funding these incredibly expensive and worthwhile projects, when you drive up the costs of *everything* for *everyone*.
Rich societies develop the next leap in PV solar efficiencies. Poor societies just build more coal fired plants. Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it :)
Now if they could only figure out that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and therefore does not fall under the Clean Air Act either...
Well, anything is a pollutant in high enough quantities, but sometimes the cure is worse than the disease. The climate WILL change. If not from AWG, then from something else. Perhaps a meteor strike, or a massive volcano, or decreased/increased solar activity. Better to focus on creating an upwardly mobile society that can more easily adapt to these inevitable changes than to risk making society poorer and therefore less able to adapt. Within reason of course. Not to advocate for slash and burn in the name of economic expansion, but we're not ready to run our economies on windmills and horse manure yet.
Are these 200 Mb/s connections people are talking about in parts of Europe and Asia getting anywhere close to that once you're off the ISP's network? Perusing through speedtest.net worldwide results seems to suggest that world wide, real world speeds are pretty similar. to each other.
Had Jack Hanna on the other night, Jack brought out an Armadillo and mentioned something out this. Not sure why I bothered to post this.
You really just need something that either has an extra interface for your wireless network, or can do 802.1Q vlan tagging and a vlan capable switch. I think even with a LInksys and DDWRT, you can put the built-in wireless AP on it's own VLAN. THen you just give the wireless it's own subnet, disallow traffic from the wireless subnet to your personal subnet. I think you can even do multiple SSID's and put each SSID on it's own VLAN, one for the public and one for you. Then just allow egress traffic on port 53,80, and 443 for your guest subnet, set up the traffic shaping queues with whatever amount of traffic you want to donate, and set it and forget it.
Of course, this doesn't address the issue of people using the connection to do illegal things, but I've been doing exactly what I described above in a very densly populated are of San Diego since 2002 and haven't had any problems yet *knock on wood*
Also, keep in mind, that this violates the TOS of most ISP's. I have a business class cable connection at home, which has a much less restrictive TOS, which makes it legal. I also have multiple public IP addresses, and run all my guest wireless traffic over it's own IP, so if anyone gets banned from say Ebay or something for fraud, it won't effect me.
But to answer your question, no, I don't think you can do this on many consumer grade router/AP's without flashing the firmware with DDWRT, and not all consumer routers are flashable. I think Buffalo sells a model that comes with DDWRT preloaded.
If you wanted to make a project out of it, you could buy a used Cisco Aironet for $50 and pair it up with an old PC with multiple NICs and install PFSense on it and have yourself a grand old time. The tools in PFSense can actually be quite entertaining when you collect anonymous statistics about what sort of things your neighbors do with your connection. NTOP will entertain you for hours :)
Looks like they're also installing ECC PC2100 Memory. Wow. That file footage has been collecting dust.
Hrm...*scratching head*....never heard of Plus subscribers. Perhaps I spoke too soon :(
Once again, Xbox charges $50/year for the privilege of watching Netflix movies. You wanna pay $50/year, or accept the occasional service disruption?
Meant $50/year
others are asking whether Sony should compensate users for the inability to play PS3 multiplayer modes
Compensate customers for what? PSN is free last time I checked. If it was Xbox and their $50/year gold membership crap, ya, ok, let's have that discussion, but you can't compensate something for which no reoccurring fee is charged.
I'd cut Sony some slack on this front. Network subscription fees are a no go for someone like me who only plays console games online occasionally. I'll take the occasional outage in return for not paying $50/mo for something I only occasionally use.
With public school issued ipads? Are these bone stock ipads? Or are they loaded with some sort of locked down ios that prevents 12 year olds from using the thing to play Angry Birds when they're in class?
If they're somehow locked down to make them only useful for the curriculum, I get it. If they're just off the shelf ipads, I don't get it. They're just giving out toys with our tax dollars.
Very true. But it's still one of the reasons the public at large has resisted every attempt to convert. Imperial measurements are just more comfortable in everyday speech. This is just my personal theory of course, but I believe it holds water. Perhaps a gallon or so ;)
Americans like monosyllabic or abbreviated words wherever possible. Especially in commonly used words, like those involving measurements. We've got pound, inch, foot, yard, pint, quart, and gallon....gallon being one of the few multisyllabic words. Most metric metrics (lol...ya, I just did that) are multi syllable compound words, and most of them don't have any obvious way of being shortened. Americans just don't want to say "Kilometer" when they can say "mile. They don't want to say "centimeter" when they can say "inch".
The Metric System is elegantly simple and beautiful, in everything but the English pronunciation of said metrics. What a shame.
This is news?
between diesel generators and "giant old fans now lay idle that once would have been used to circulate air along the tunnels"
Then again, I guess I'm not.
and, of course, there's no reason it wouldn't be ipv7. There was an IPv5, but they shitcanned it and moved on to v6 apparently.
of the webcast? On the west coast here, didn't get a chance to watch.
One of our ISP's here in San Diego, Cox, if it is detected that a large amount of spam, or other malicious connections are originating from your connection, will block everything and redirect any web requests to a captive portal page with instructions on how to clean your computer, and a number to call once you've done so to get your service re-activated.
It makes me feel old. But this could work. Pretty fresh.