[GSM packets encapsulated within IP packets encapsulated within 802.11g packets] -> WiFi Hotspot -> Some other Medium -> IP CLOUD -> POTS/PSTN bridge -> POTS/PSTN
It's similar to VOIP in that you go into the IP CLOUD and then cross over a bridge into POTS/PSTN, but the UMA network keeps track of you as a cell phone, and [* if everything goes well *] allows you to transtion [* fairly seemlessly *] between an 802.11g WiFi hotspot and a cellphone tower, depending on which has the stronger signal.
You can think of UMA as being roughly the same as VOIP, but with the added on-the-fly mobility of a cellphone.
1) UMA gives you the flexiblity of using EITHER a cell phone tower OR a WiFi access point - whichever is giving you the stronger signal.
2) T-Mobile has outstanding prepaid plans for as low as $0.10 per minute.
With 1), you have VASTLY more options for connectivity to insure usability - if you are way out in the middle of nowhere, but the Forest Ranger's Station has WiFi, then you can make the call; if you are deep in the bowels of a large building, with no cell tower penetration, but plenty of WiFi hotspots, then you can make the call.
And with 2), you don't have to invest in some obscene monthly phone plan [e.g. (12 X $100/mo = $1200 per year) X 2 years = $2400 commitment]. Instead, you just get a TMobile SIM card, purchase some minutes, and start using the phone when and only when you want to use it.
And your GSM [cell phone tower] minutes are charged at exactly the same rate as your UMA [802.11g WiFi] minutes.
You can get older UMA phones on eBay for as little as $25, a TMobile SIM card activation kit costs $6.99, and you can get 400 minutes for $50 [$0.125 per minute]. So for much less than $100 [including S&H], you are up and running with the most modern & redundant phone technology in the world, and you haven't made any commitment to some ridiculously onerous monthly plan.
why use UMA over 802.11 for.10 a minute when you can use GSM for.10 a minute?
When you live out in the boonies and you have spotty cell tower coverage but excellent broadband coverage.
When you are travelling on the interstate, and there are no cell towers for miles, but the Rest Stop has WiFi.
When you are visiting a state park/national forest/national park with no cell tower coverage, but which has a WiFi hotspot in the Visitor's Center or the Ranger's Station.
When you are deep in the bowels of a large building and have zero cell tower penetration but WiFi hotspots around every corner.
Etc etc etc.
Again: Once you've experienced UMA with prepaid $0.10 plans, you will NEVER go back to $100/month [$1200/year] rip-offs.
Once you have used T-Mobile and UMA at $0.10 per minute, you will NEVER go back to standard plans.
UMA is basically "GSM over IP over 802.11g", and it allows you to make GSM cellphone calls [billed at a standard $0.10 per minute] from any publically accessible WiFi hotspot.
747s crossing the International Date Line
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· Score: 4, Interesting
None of us seriously expected 747s to invert on crossing the International Date Line, as some more fevered commentators speculated, nor did we expect nuclear power stations to destabilize.
Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight
Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 25 2007, @06:35PM it.slashdot.org
On Feb. 11, twelve Raptors flying from Hawaii to Japan were forced to turn back when a software glitch crashed all of the F-22s' on-board computers as they crossed the international date line. The delay in arrival in Japan was previously reported, with rumors of problems with the software. CNN television, however, this morning reported that every fighter completely lost all navigation and communications when they crossed the international date line. They reportedly had to turn around and follow their tankers by visual contact back to Hawaii...
This is possibly the best post that has ever been made at/.
I have been wanting the ability to mask HTTP REFERRER [sic sic] since practically Day One of getting on the WWW [and certainly since the first time I ever put a sniffer on the network stack and saw all the personal information that was being given away to God-only-knows whom].
It's hard to believe that it's taken us almost two decades to be able to surmount the single most egregious mistake that Tim Berners-Lee made in designing [or mis-designing] the web.
Your average/.-er is probably way too young to remember this now...
Although, in the interim, it appears that the government schools have done an excellent job in teaching them how to hit the "Troll" button so as to stifle dissent and quash the truth.
Your average/.-er is probably way too young to remember this now, but back in the 1980s, the leftist/Stalinist academic community just excoriated The Gipper over the very idea of Star Wars [Hans Bethe made a particular fool of himself in this regard].
Thankfully, RWR & Edward Teller get the last laugh after all.
Or at least until the Obama administration cancels the program and sells the blueprints to the Chicoms.
But if I were the governor of Minnesota, and I thought for a second that there were any truth to this story [at all!], then I'd sic Child Services on that SOB and have him thrown in jail faster than you can say "Fetch my betleH".
We sent off some DNA in our family last winter, and I was surprised at the lack of legalese in the paperwork.
In particular, nowhere in any of it did it state that we were surrendering any property rights [i.e. the documents addressed neither the physical property of the biological material, nor the intellectual property of the DNA code].
On the other hand, because of the lack of legalese in the paperwork, it also didn't say that the DNA facilities were surrendering any property rights [or the ability to assert property rights in the future], either.
But I'd be shocked if the courts ruled for the creditors rather than for the "patients", unless there was some very explicit contracts in which the "patients" surrendered their property rights [although, even there, I wouldn't be surprised if a court ruled that such a contract were invalid, on e.g. 13th Amendment grounds].
When I put it into Crossfire mode, the games work great. When I take them back out of crossfire, the system can reboot 4 or 5 times during Windows startup before the system finally starts.
Wow - I can't believe that this story has been up for half an hour with no replies.
Are Slashdotters already so cynical about our ongoing demographic catastrophe that they no longer have the energy to wring their hands and pull their hair at the thought of our nation's looming innumeracy?
Getting 150 calories from a Twinkie certainly is less beneficial than 150 calories from oatmeal, for the exact reasons you describe, but they both give your body 150 calories to use (or store...).
You're gonna get 150 calories from a half of a Twinkie.
Uhh, who's gonna pay to hire a trillion dollars' worth of architects, developers, testers, trainers, managers, distributors, support personnel, human resource departments, etc etc etc?
Or is all that functionality supposed to spring from the ether in a perfect steady-state universe of human perfection & utopia?
This type of technology actually allows you to learn a lot more from one paper by iterating several versions and getting direct and specific feedback on how to improve...
...improve TOWARDS WHAT GOAL?!?
Which is to say: Where is the algorithm leading you?
We know that algorithms are incapable of accomplishing even the most trivial of tasks [such as, for instance, determining the consistency of the Piano Axioms, or solving the Halting Problem], and the idea that there is some sort of all-purpose algorithm which can steer all students in the direction of the "best" possible expository style strikes me as ludicrous.
PS: The Tin Foil Hatter in me is deeply suspicious that the algorithm will be rigged to steer the students towards this and this and this.
You also need to DIFF the BIOS on your motherboard.
And DIFF the microcode in your CPU.
And DIFF the EEPROM on all your PCI cards.
And on and on and on...
BONUS PROBLEM: Describe an algorithm which can be run within the confines of an operation system so as to determine whether the operating system is running directly on metal or is running within an emulation environment that is running directly on metal [or is running within an emulation environment that is running within an emulation environment that is running directly on metal, or...].
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UMA is not quite the same thing as VOIP.
UMA is GSM over IP over 802.11g.
So the signal is broken down as:
[GSM packets encapsulated within IP packets encapsulated within 802.11g packets] -> WiFi Hotspot -> Some other Medium -> IP CLOUD -> POTS/PSTN bridge -> POTS/PSTN
It's similar to VOIP in that you go into the IP CLOUD and then cross over a bridge into POTS/PSTN, but the UMA network keeps track of you as a cell phone, and [* if everything goes well *] allows you to transtion [* fairly seemlessly *] between an 802.11g WiFi hotspot and a cellphone tower, depending on which has the stronger signal.
You can think of UMA as being roughly the same as VOIP, but with the added on-the-fly mobility of a cellphone.
I'm making several points.
1) UMA gives you the flexiblity of using EITHER a cell phone tower OR a WiFi access point - whichever is giving you the stronger signal.
2) T-Mobile has outstanding prepaid plans for as low as $0.10 per minute.
With 1), you have VASTLY more options for connectivity to insure usability - if you are way out in the middle of nowhere, but the Forest Ranger's Station has WiFi, then you can make the call; if you are deep in the bowels of a large building, with no cell tower penetration, but plenty of WiFi hotspots, then you can make the call.
And with 2), you don't have to invest in some obscene monthly phone plan [e.g. (12 X $100/mo = $1200 per year) X 2 years = $2400 commitment]. Instead, you just get a TMobile SIM card, purchase some minutes, and start using the phone when and only when you want to use it.
And your GSM [cell phone tower] minutes are charged at exactly the same rate as your UMA [802.11g WiFi] minutes.
You can get older UMA phones on eBay for as little as $25, a TMobile SIM card activation kit costs $6.99, and you can get 400 minutes for $50 [$0.125 per minute]. So for much less than $100 [including S&H], you are up and running with the most modern & redundant phone technology in the world, and you haven't made any commitment to some ridiculously onerous monthly plan.
why use UMA over 802.11 for .10 a minute when you can use GSM for .10 a minute?
When you live out in the boonies and you have spotty cell tower coverage but excellent broadband coverage.
When you are travelling on the interstate, and there are no cell towers for miles, but the Rest Stop has WiFi.
When you are visiting a state park/national forest/national park with no cell tower coverage, but which has a WiFi hotspot in the Visitor's Center or the Ranger's Station.
When you are deep in the bowels of a large building and have zero cell tower penetration but WiFi hotspots around every corner.
Etc etc etc.
Again: Once you've experienced UMA with prepaid $0.10 plans, you will NEVER go back to $100/month [$1200/year] rip-offs.
Once you have used T-Mobile and UMA at $0.10 per minute, you will NEVER go back to standard plans.
UMA is basically "GSM over IP over 802.11g", and it allows you to make GSM cellphone calls [billed at a standard $0.10 per minute] from any publically accessible WiFi hotspot.
I'd buy an older UMA phone off of eBay, and purchase a $50 [$0.125] or $100 [$0.10] prepaid plan from T-Mobile, and say goodbye to monthly fees forever.
You have heard of this thing called the NEA, right?
And you are familiar with our looming demographic catastrophe, right?
I mean, come on, be serious.
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None of us seriously expected 747s to invert on crossing the International Date Line, as some more fevered commentators speculated, nor did we expect nuclear power stations to destabilize.
Software Bug Halts F-22 Flight
Posted by kdawson on Sunday February 25 2007, @06:35PM
it.slashdot.org
On Feb. 11, twelve Raptors flying from Hawaii to Japan were forced to turn back when a software glitch crashed all of the F-22s' on-board computers as they crossed the international date line. The delay in arrival in Japan was previously reported, with rumors of problems with the software. CNN television, however, this morning reported that every fighter completely lost all navigation and communications when they crossed the international date line. They reportedly had to turn around and follow their tankers by visual contact back to Hawaii...
I don't really understand the difference between these
The GPL is an utterly unintelligible document.
Stallman and the English language are completely strangers to one another.
This is possibly the best post that has ever been made at
I have been wanting the ability to mask HTTP REFERRER [sic sic] since practically Day One of getting on the WWW [and certainly since the first time I ever put a sniffer on the network stack and saw all the personal information that was being given away to God-only-knows whom].
It's hard to believe that it's taken us almost two decades to be able to surmount the single most egregious mistake that Tim Berners-Lee made in designing [or mis-designing] the web.
The older I get, the more I seem to be losing my ear for sarcasm & facetiousness.
Assuming that the story is true [which I doubt], then PLEASE tell me that you were being sarcastic/facetious.
I honestly can't tell anymore.
.
Your average
Although, in the interim, it appears that the government schools have done an excellent job in teaching them how to hit the "Troll" button so as to stifle dissent and quash the truth.
Plus ça change & whatnot.
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Your average
Thankfully, RWR & Edward Teller get the last laugh after all.
Or at least until the Obama administration cancels the program and sells the blueprints to the Chicoms.
I assume this is a joke.
But if I were the governor of Minnesota, and I thought for a second that there were any truth to this story [at all!], then I'd sic Child Services on that SOB and have him thrown in jail faster than you can say "Fetch my betleH".
Seriously.
We sent off some DNA in our family last winter, and I was surprised at the lack of legalese in the paperwork.
In particular, nowhere in any of it did it state that we were surrendering any property rights [i.e. the documents addressed neither the physical property of the biological material, nor the intellectual property of the DNA code].
On the other hand, because of the lack of legalese in the paperwork, it also didn't say that the DNA facilities were surrendering any property rights [or the ability to assert property rights in the future], either.
But I'd be shocked if the courts ruled for the creditors rather than for the "patients", unless there was some very explicit contracts in which the "patients" surrendered their property rights [although, even there, I wouldn't be surprised if a court ruled that such a contract were invalid, on e.g. 13th Amendment grounds].
When I put it into Crossfire mode, the games work great. When I take them back out of crossfire, the system can reboot 4 or 5 times during Windows startup before the system finally starts.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Loops 101: prove that the loop terminates under all conditions
That one's gonna prove to be just a little difficult.
Wow - I can't believe that this story has been up for half an hour with no replies.
Are Slashdotters already so cynical about our ongoing demographic catastrophe that they no longer have the energy to wring their hands and pull their hair at the thought of our nation's looming innumeracy?
Cinderbunny: Anyway, it worked for me - I went from 135 lbs down to 112 lbs.
POIDH: Image Shack is your friend.
Getting 150 calories from a Twinkie certainly is less beneficial than 150 calories from oatmeal, for the exact reasons you describe, but they both give your body 150 calories to use (or store...).
You're gonna get 150 calories from a half of a Twinkie.
Or maybe even a third of a Twinkie.
And therein lies the problem.
And yet I got modded "Troll".
Go figure.
A ggreat deal of Microsoft security is unfortunately just like the underwear of Brittany Spears.
GOOGLE IMAGES: britney spears commando
Another great reply to this sub-thread; sorry that the kool-aid drinkers bumped you down to 0.
You had the best reply to this sub-thread; sorry that the kool-aid drinkers bumped you down to -1.
Uhh, who's gonna pay to hire a trillion dollars' worth of architects, developers, testers, trainers, managers, distributors, support personnel, human resource departments, etc etc etc?
Or is all that functionality supposed to spring from the ether in a perfect steady-state universe of human perfection & utopia?
This type of technology actually allows you to learn a lot more from one paper by iterating several versions and getting direct and specific feedback on how to improve...
Which is to say: Where is the algorithm leading you?
We know that algorithms are incapable of accomplishing even the most trivial of tasks [such as, for instance, determining the consistency of the Piano Axioms, or solving the Halting Problem], and the idea that there is some sort of all-purpose algorithm which can steer all students in the direction of the "best" possible expository style strikes me as ludicrous.
PS: The Tin Foil Hatter in me is deeply suspicious that the algorithm will be rigged to steer the students towards this and this and this.
1) diff your HDD (hard and time consuming)
You also need to DIFF the BIOS on your motherboard.
And DIFF the microcode in your CPU.
And DIFF the EEPROM on all your PCI cards.
And on and on and on...
BONUS PROBLEM: Describe an algorithm which can be run within the confines of an operation system so as to determine whether the operating system is running directly on metal or is running within an emulation environment that is running directly on metal [or is running within an emulation environment that is running within an emulation environment that is running directly on metal, or...].