No, they will continue to be smart losers and nothing more, which is why you will rarely find Nobel Prize winners, CEOs, or generally succesful people skulking in their midst.
Rarely? Are you so sure? Pls spend a minute to get a clue about it...
What's the point of wireless mesh networking? By its very nature, it'll always be a broadcast network rather than a point-to-point network, so as the number of users goes up, the available bandwidth goes down.
Wrong. Imagine a mesh network scattered around:
A--B--C |.|.| D--E--F |.|.| G--H--I
Now, if A wants to send a packet to I it must "shout" loudly enough to be heard by I. Doing so, every node on the network will hear A. If i.e. G wants to speak with H or D he couldn't, because A is occupying the "air". [I'm assuming the hosts are using only one channel]
Let's see what happens in a routing-capable network. A will not send its packet directly to I, it will send it to B, knowing that the packet will be routed correctly to I. Then the packet will traverse i.e. B -> C -> F -> I or B -> E -> F -> I Note that every hop from one host to the next is _physically_ much shorter now! A will transmit to B with less power, and doing so he will not be heard by G,H, and all other distant nodes. So G will be able to speak to H in the meanwhile, and C to F, etc..
The advantage of a routing WiFi network is that the net scales very well when growing bigger and bigger.
Feb 14 09:48:15 gw kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: irq 10, io base 0x6400 Feb 14 09:48:15 gw kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: new USB bus registered Feb 14 09:48:15 gw kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found Feb 14 09:48:15 gw kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected Feb 14 10:03:46 gw -- MARK -- Feb 14 10:13:43 gw kernel: We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile. Feb 14 10:18:21 gw -- MARK --
GPG users faces the same problem. But there is solution actually used:
1. Alice don't send her public key K(a) to Bob. 1b. Bob retrieves Alice's public key from a some repository around the world. 1c. That key is authenticated by a network-of-trust involving Alice's friends and other users, so Bob is protected against man-in-the-middle
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How about... backups?
Yuo misspelled "untie"...
The old good server-client architecture can save a lot of CPU power and energy too. Also, thin clients are silent.
and... it's so useless!
>At my school, they'll shut you off
;)
You do live in soviet Russia, don't you?
Step 8) You will be assimilated
Step 9) All your thought are belong to us
No, they will continue to be smart losers and nothing more, which is why you will rarely find Nobel Prize winners, CEOs, or generally succesful people skulking in their midst.
Rarely? Are you so sure? Pls spend a minute to get a clue about it...
Wrong. Imagine a mesh network scattered around:Now, if A wants to send a packet to I it must "shout" loudly enough to be heard by I.
Doing so, every node on the network will hear A.
If i.e. G wants to speak with H or D he couldn't, because A is occupying the "air".
[I'm assuming the hosts are using only one channel]
Let's see what happens in a routing-capable network. A will not send its packet directly to I, it will send it to B, knowing that the packet will be routed correctly to I.
Then the packet will traverse i.e. B -> C -> F -> I or B -> E -> F -> I
Note that every hop from one host to the next is _physically_ much shorter now!
A will transmit to B with less power, and doing so he will not be heard by G,H, and all other distant nodes.
So G will be able to speak to H in the meanwhile, and C to F, etc..
The advantage of a routing WiFi network is that the net scales very well when growing bigger and bigger.
"and why was there no mention of noise??"
What you said? SHOUT, I CAN'T HEAR YOU!"
"how do you handle it when a packet has been accepted by a node, but that node cannot deliver the packet to the next hope"
;)
It's the so-called best-effort delivery: it's all about hope
"a keyboard makes a pretty good weapon"
A Model M could do the work for sure...
look here:
http://www.modelm.org/safety1.html
Feb 14 09:48:15 gw kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: irq 10, io base 0x6400
Feb 14 09:48:15 gw kernel: uhci_hcd 0000:00:09.0: new USB bus registered
Feb 14 09:48:15 gw kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
Feb 14 09:48:15 gw kernel: hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Feb 14 10:03:46 gw -- MARK --
Feb 14 10:13:43 gw kernel: We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
Feb 14 10:18:21 gw -- MARK --
Should I start worring?
GPG users faces the same problem. But there is solution actually used:
1. Alice don't send her public key K(a) to Bob.
1b. Bob retrieves Alice's public key from a some repository around the world.
1c. That key is authenticated by a network-of-trust involving Alice's friends and other users, so Bob is protected against man-in-the-middle
Agreed... otherwise we could go on until reaching Omega
It's "PI", Directed by Darren Aronofsky, 1998
"A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in nature."
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/
In few days GPS-enabled trains could create a map of the entire rail system.
Train drivers will be happy... no more asking directions!
For a moment I tought I've read...
Sirius Confirms: iPod Satellite Talks
wandering about a chatterer satellite shouting all the day...
If a yet-another-live-cd falls into oblivion and there is nobody around does it make a sound?
It simply works on badly compressed jpeg files.
When we'll see a completely open-source phone OS?