thanks for trying to waste my hard-earned tax money on this
There are plenty of reasons to object to this, but money probably isn't one of them. This should be a revenue generator that pays for itself in a few short years. Clearly money is the reason for the irrational zeal with which government prosecutes vehicle infractions.
Go out and catch some criminals, you lazy bastards! Don't act like you doing us a favor by stepping up prosecution of ordinary citizens.
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Basically it will infect everyone and kill a proportion and then the rest of us will be immune.
Just to head off some misconceptions here. Flu does not infect everyone. The common flu infect 25% or less in the U.S. each year. With the panic that waves of deaths would cause, that number would go down from there. It's the 50% fatality rate that is frightening.
So, the majority of the population would not be immune afterwards. Only a small fraction of offspring of those who did get it would be more resistant than the general population. Evolution works slowly (usually). What leads people to believe that we would be more resistant to the 1918 virus if it hit today is better education and the existance of weaker cousins of the original strain that have already infected many people, especially the most likely to be exposed. We'd be much better off if we had more immunity, but the reality is that we're still very vulnerable to yet another virulent strain of influenza.
Finally, vaccines are made in months, not years. So it's good to see that people are on top of the situation, because although a vaccine would arrive too late to help many, it could still be soon enough to make a real difference.
Not into your brain. It says here that it stimulates "a tiny organ in the inner ear" that is sensitive to ultra sonic sound. I think it would be interesting to try to stimulate nerve ending directly, whether it be sight or sound, but that was not this experiment.
I also find it interesting that they call it an ultrasonic neural stimulation instrument for brain entrainment(?) Was there some reason that they can't call it a hearing aid or artificial hearing? That would be the best way to sell it, so I can only assume that it has some serious limitations.
I don't want to see the results when they start trying to recreate those nueral patterns in the monkeys brains. Honesty, to say that observing these kinds of patterns brings us any closer to injecting images directly into the brain, when we have so little technology to do that (knives and chemicals basically) is ludicrous. I suppose the writer, rather than the scientists, can probably take all the credit for that exaggeration.
I am not an american, is this an amercan law or something?
Yes, it is American law. People have been sued by state bar associations for giving legal advice on the internet. You can be sued, BTW, even after typing "I am not a lawyer" and "this is not legal advice" if they decide that it really *was* legal advice. It does raise the burden of proof I suppose.
So you can view these laws as protecting the consumer (yeah right) or forcing people to use lawyers even in cases where it isn't required. Almost no procedure of U.S. Immigration requires a lawyer, but I recall some websites sharing immigration advice - based on years of experiences - that showed which methods worked best in almost every real-world circumstance. I'd bet they spoke with more authority than most lawyers who specialize in immigration law, but after threats from the Kentucky Bar Association that's one less source of free information and advice.
I don't need to tell you if I am a lawyer when I say that the lawyers who did that were scum.
Am I the only one who rent is[read this?] as "Cyber Rootkit"?
And just like the root kit, this would not be entirely undetectable. No amount of cyber-fu is going to get around that. For that matter, they're not going to break down my firewall either. They're limited by the laws of computing, just like everyone else.
What could be different is that they might have on-demand access to my ISP or some central internet routers. Just always assume your traffic is being monitored. (probably not a bad idea anyway)
They got over that hurdle when they released this phone. After they agreed to do the MP3 phone, then it's in the carriers best interest that it be the best MP3 player that Apple can manage - i.e. a full blown iPod without any artificial limitations.
Apple took the wrong track to making it limited, they should have differentiated on price. Make it $400 bucks. Then poor kids can buy the iPod, while the rich kids carry the ROKR. Getting it for free really cuts into the coolness factor.
Why is Venezuela next to China and Cuba in your statement?
Are you feigning surprise? The comparison to Cuba is especially obvious. The way things are going, you can expect to be mentioned in the same breath with Zimbabwe, Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Syria.
rsh has lots of known security vulernabilities and shouldd not be used at all.
Not true. RSH is fine for an isolated automation environment where you want complete unfettered access to a slave machine. If I had a nickle for every installer that warned me against installing RSH without even knowing what I intended to use it for...
It's nice to be able to talk back to those who want to decide what I should be able to use.
They're giving the blogs too much credit. Take this line, for example:
"Circle Group stock fell below a dollar in a year of combat with Miles and the anonymous bashers on Yahoo (and after Nestlé dropped Z-Trim)."
Oh by the way, Nestle pulled out and the stock tanked. Sounds like the year long battle should go in the parenthesis instead. This piece has the objectiveness and balance of... a blog!
If you live in Windows land, XP is the major release and SP1, 2, 3,... are the point fixes. Introducing regressions AND backward incompatible features. The all-bug-fix release is indeed a refreshing contrast.
Wasn't the joke that Liberal Arts is the most unemployed major. The Liberal Arts majors that I knew had no idea what they wanted to do for a living. No reason to take it so seriously though.
If Snapfish's privacy policy is representative, I don't think I want them to own any copies of my prints.
You can also cancel your Snapfish membership by writing cancel@snapfish.com. . If you request cancellation of your account, Snapfish may (but is not required to) remove any and all content (photos) or other personal information from the Snapfish site
I recall Shutterfly was also unable to promise photo removal. If you've ever destroyed an inconvenient photo, then you can imagine why you might want to keep something out of the hands of lawyers, government, or hackers.
I'm not saying I'm that important, but the delete button should always work - all the time.
What is the read range for a typical RFID tag? The read range of passive tags (tags without batteries) depends on many factors: the frequency of operation, the power of the reader, interference from metal objects or other RF devices. In general, low-frequency tags are read from a foot or less. High frequency tags are read from about three feet and UHF tags are read from 10 to 20 feet. Where longer ranges are needed, such as for tracking railway cars, active tags use batteries to boost read ranges to 300 feet or more.
That could work just fine in a warehouse with multiple receivers.
According to Dr Tumpey, "We felt we had to recreate the virus and run these experiments to understand the biological properties that made the 1918 virus so exceptionally deadly. We wanted to identify the specific genes responsible for its virulence, with the hope of designing antivirals or other interventions that would work against virulent pandemic or epidemic influenza viruses."
Since we get hit with flu pandemics every 30 years or so, and this is viewed as inevitable, it makes sense to me that we want to understand what are their more dangerous aspects, especially in their earliest incarnation.
CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding said, "Today's human flu viruses are all descendants of the 1918 flu, which means people have some immunity to them. What is frightening about H5N1 is that people do not have any immunity to it."
Is fear mongering such as the grandparent post really appropriate here? Don't we expect scientists to try to do something about the avian flu after so many warnings? Tumpey says that after 3 years of scientific reviews and approvals, the public health risk is believed to be minimal. Of course, if someone here can authoritatively speak to why it will break out of level 3 containment at a single CDC center and be more harmful than expected, then by all means reply to this post....and contact the CDC directly too. Maybe they don't read/.
"The revolutionary product could be on the market as early as next year, with the new DVD players needed to view them."
Sounds like your PC won't be able to play-it-once(TM). The protection is a DRM that requires a special player and probably an internet connection to their servers to get it started. So, as if this wasn't a bad enough idea, now there's the cost of a new player to offset the cheaper DVD advantage. I think MS knows that people won't be thrilled to have a DVD that isn't broken or worn out, but just crippled by our entertainment overlords. However, that shouldn't stop them from selling it to Hollywood. (Sammy baby, it'll be huge. It's the next big thing!)
I also think they want to get there DRM solution out there as quick as possible.
They've said, "...only Microsoft could solve [Hollywood's] piracy problem by making its DRM software a standard across every home entertainment playback and recording device."
Sound familiar? Control the standard and you lock in the revenue. Here we go again, indeed.
P.S. If you want a cheaper, limited-use DVD now, just buy one, watch it, and sell it on Ebay! Who needs Microsoft for that?
Of course you mean, put an RFID on each cart. Choose the right technology for the right task. The Wi-Fi locatator is intended for you to passively read radio beacons and compute your location at the receiver. You're requiring the receiver to have the computing power to collect the info and report it back to a central location. It's a makes for an expensive receiver and it wastes your Wi-Fi bandwidth. Better to have RFID sensors, then use that to track your widgets, all your other inventory, your workers...
I have to agree with the first part (I won't say about the about the second part - although I do wish Zonk would submit less)
Not wanting to release a sequel just for the money is a noble stance. It suggests he values the game more than the money, right? We could use more designers - and movie producers - like that.
I've often wondered why Gmail admonishes me from deleting my mails - even spam. That penis enlargement e-mail may be interesting to them for statistical reasons, but I never want that coming up again under any circumstances.
Furthermore, although the paranoia has subsided, I am still not content not to know if e-mail that I delete is actually removed from their servers. If I don't ever want it to be retrieved by anybody in government years later, I need to know that it's really gone - permanently. We all know the Gmail Privacy Policy allows any form of that scenario.
Or, maybe they're just encouraging us to be packrats so that then we'll need their incredible search features to find what we really want, and they'll seem even better than the competition by handling this illogical behavior so well.
Enough people have pointed out that monitoring an illegal activity, while maintaining that it is illegal is not immoral nor hypocritical.
I'd like to further remind you that some people have made the argument that one reason people download music is because much of it is no longer available in stores. They can now show that they are attempting to analyze which songs those are in order to make them available in the future.
I don't know where you got the idea that they are pretending to be pure. They are just a bunch of rich corporations covering all the bases. I wouldn't expect anything else.
You may as well advise people to flee the country. If you don't pay you'll receive additional penalties, and they'll wind up taking it directly out of your check anyway.
If you're a parent, you may not even be able to afford the first act of defiance, as tempting as it may be. I know I have to do what's best for my children first. Perhaps you haven't experienced this yet.
If you're going to mod it up, you'll have to label it "Funny".
It is definitely *not* 27Mbit/sec each way, but thanks for sharing your knowledge of 802.11 with us.
What are the chances that you would recognize the person most optimal for you, given the impossibility of actually finding out, i.e. living the rest of your life with each of them and then comparing? This is further complicated by the fact that while she might be the most optimal for you, you might not be *her* best choice. What you want is the person you would be happiest with who won't dump you. Where are the unknown possibilities represented here?
Also, does anyone else think this number 100 is extraordinarily unrealistic? Especially for math enthusiasts! Assuming that you'd be willing for this number of relationships to occur between the age range of 20 to 40 - where the quality of women you could attract will rise and fall, by the way - that's 5 socially intimate relationships a year (a completely unrealistic number for moi - a math enthusiast) Such a lucky bastard should have no trouble finding a worthy mate, and if he's dumb enough to jetison 37 women in a row, regardless of their worth, then I sincerely hope that the 37% chance of the best girl being in the first group comes true and he gets to spend the rest of his life comparing girl number 100 to the 50 or so who were better than her.
It seems mathematics isn't best way to find a mate! Who knew?
With a wealth of seemingly redundant stories on Linux's total cost of ownership (such as Linux on the Desktop: The Whole Story) you can learn to separate the cost of all other Microsoft software from the cost of the Microsoft operating system alone and other tricks that make Windows XP appear cheaper. This and other gems of wisdom await you. Although their motivations are different than mine, I agree with their point that you can save money by buying Star Office without change OSes. (I would have said Open Office and used the word free many times)
Don't be confused if you see they recommend Linux sometimes. They recommend Linux if you have little or no applications or for low-function workstations, such as data entry, call center or bank teller/platform automation. In other words, if you need a dumb terminal, then you might save money by using Linux - but watch out for those hidden costs! (FUD, FUD)
This is not a case of stupidity, they know damn well what type of analysis will keep them funded. My favorite article is a story called "There Is No ROI in Spite" [$95 per copy]. That they even consider this story necessary warms my heart. Other the other hand it may indicate that people need to get really pissed off before they'll switch.
I hope the seemly illegal barriers that protect MS from competition will continue to erode. Once companies are not artificially locked-in to Windows then I would expect every company will have to include in their business plan how they will use open source software to reduce operating costs. (kind of like how they have to say today that they are planning to outsource labor)
A worthless article to be sure, with no discussion of the web's architectural problems. (bad Slashdot)
There is obviously more to the architectural problem than will be solved by IPv6, but allowing for IPv6 and higher capacity routers alone, I'm sure the web could go a long time with no other upgrade.
I can only wonder how much money Intel will spend on convincing people that the web will die "sooner than you think." If it's anything like the $300 million they spent on telling people they have the best/only Wi-Fi solution, we'll be hearing this for a long time.
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thanks for trying to waste my hard-earned tax money on this
There are plenty of reasons to object to this, but money probably isn't one of them. This should be a revenue generator that pays for itself in a few short years. Clearly money is the reason for the irrational zeal with which government prosecutes vehicle infractions.
Go out and catch some criminals, you lazy bastards! Don't act like you doing us a favor by stepping up prosecution of ordinary citizens.
Basically it will infect everyone and kill a proportion and then the rest of us will be immune.
Just to head off some misconceptions here. Flu does not infect everyone. The common flu infect 25% or less in the U.S. each year. With the panic that waves of deaths would cause, that number would go down from there. It's the 50% fatality rate that is frightening.
So, the majority of the population would not be immune afterwards. Only a small fraction of offspring of those who did get it would be more resistant than the general population. Evolution works slowly (usually). What leads people to believe that we would be more resistant to the 1918 virus if it hit today is better education and the existance of weaker cousins of the original strain that have already infected many people, especially the most likely to be exposed. We'd be much better off if we had more immunity, but the reality is that we're still very vulnerable to yet another virulent strain of influenza.
Finally, vaccines are made in months, not years. So it's good to see that people are on top of the situation, because although a vaccine would arrive too late to help many, it could still be soon enough to make a real difference.
Not into your brain. It says here that it stimulates "a tiny organ in the inner ear" that is sensitive to ultra sonic sound. I think it would be interesting to try to stimulate nerve ending directly, whether it be sight or sound, but that was not this experiment.
I also find it interesting that they call it an ultrasonic neural stimulation instrument for brain entrainment(?) Was there some reason that they can't call it a hearing aid or artificial hearing? That would be the best way to sell it, so I can only assume that it has some serious limitations.
I don't want to see the results when they start trying to recreate those nueral patterns in the monkeys brains. Honesty, to say that observing these kinds of patterns brings us any closer to injecting images directly into the brain, when we have so little technology to do that (knives and chemicals basically) is ludicrous. I suppose the writer, rather than the scientists, can probably take all the credit for that exaggeration.
I am not an american, is this an amercan law or something?
Yes, it is American law. People have been sued by state bar associations for giving legal advice on the internet. You can be sued, BTW, even after typing "I am not a lawyer" and "this is not legal advice" if they decide that it really *was* legal advice. It does raise the burden of proof I suppose.
So you can view these laws as protecting the consumer (yeah right) or forcing people to use lawyers even in cases where it isn't required. Almost no procedure of U.S. Immigration requires a lawyer, but I recall some websites sharing immigration advice - based on years of experiences - that showed which methods worked best in almost every real-world circumstance. I'd bet they spoke with more authority than most lawyers who specialize in immigration law, but after threats from the Kentucky Bar Association that's one less source of free information and advice.
I don't need to tell you if I am a lawyer when I say that the lawyers who did that were scum.
-EA
Am I the only one who rent is[read this?] as "Cyber Rootkit"?
And just like the root kit, this would not be entirely undetectable. No amount of cyber-fu is going to get around that. For that matter, they're not going to break down my firewall either. They're limited by the laws of computing, just like everyone else.
What could be different is that they might have on-demand access to my ISP or some central internet routers. Just always assume your traffic is being monitored. (probably not a bad idea anyway)
-EA
They got over that hurdle when they released this phone. After they agreed to do the MP3 phone, then it's in the carriers best interest that it be the best MP3 player that Apple can manage - i.e. a full blown iPod without any artificial limitations.
Apple took the wrong track to making it limited, they should have differentiated on price. Make it $400 bucks. Then poor kids can buy the iPod, while the rich kids carry the ROKR. Getting it for free really cuts into the coolness factor.
I'm saving up for a W800.
Why is Venezuela next to China and Cuba in your statement?
Are you feigning surprise? The comparison to Cuba is especially obvious. The way things are going, you can expect to be mentioned in the same breath with Zimbabwe, Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Syria.
Try not to be surprised.
rsh has lots of known security vulernabilities and shouldd not be used at all.
Not true. RSH is fine for an isolated automation environment where you want complete unfettered access to a slave machine. If I had a nickle for every installer that warned me against installing RSH without even knowing what I intended to use it for...
It's nice to be able to talk back to those who want to decide what I should be able to use.
They're giving the blogs too much credit. Take this line, for example:
"Circle Group stock fell below a dollar in a year of combat with Miles and the anonymous bashers on Yahoo (and after Nestlé dropped Z-Trim)."
Oh by the way, Nestle pulled out and the stock tanked. Sounds like the year long battle should go in the parenthesis instead. This piece has the objectiveness and balance of... a blog!
If you live in Windows land, XP is the major release and SP1, 2, 3, ... are the point fixes. Introducing regressions AND backward incompatible features. The all-bug-fix release is indeed a refreshing contrast.
Wasn't the joke that Liberal Arts is the most unemployed major. The Liberal Arts majors that I knew had no idea what they wanted to do for a living. No reason to take it so seriously though.
If Snapfish's privacy policy is representative, I don't think I want them to own any copies of my prints.
You can also cancel your Snapfish membership by writing cancel@snapfish.com. . If you request cancellation of your account, Snapfish may (but is not required to) remove any and all content (photos) or other personal information from the Snapfish site
I recall Shutterfly was also unable to promise photo removal. If you've ever destroyed an inconvenient photo, then you can imagine why you might want to keep something out of the hands of lawyers, government, or hackers.
I'm not saying I'm that important, but the delete button should always work - all the time.
From rfidjournal.com:
What is the read range for a typical RFID tag?
The read range of passive tags (tags without batteries) depends on many factors: the frequency of operation, the power of the reader, interference from metal objects or other RF devices. In general, low-frequency tags are read from a foot or less. High frequency tags are read from about three feet and UHF tags are read from 10 to 20 feet. Where longer ranges are needed, such as for tracking railway cars, active tags use batteries to boost read ranges to 300 feet or more.
That could work just fine in a warehouse with multiple receivers.
The why?
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According to Dr Tumpey, "We felt we had to recreate the virus and run these experiments to understand the biological properties that made the 1918 virus so exceptionally deadly. We wanted to identify the specific genes responsible for its virulence, with the hope of designing antivirals or other interventions that would work against virulent pandemic or epidemic influenza viruses."
Since we get hit with flu pandemics every 30 years or so, and this is viewed as inevitable, it makes sense to me that we want to understand what are their more dangerous aspects, especially in their earliest incarnation.
CDC director Dr. Julie Gerberding said, "Today's human flu viruses are all descendants of the 1918 flu, which means people have some immunity to them. What is frightening about H5N1 is that people do not have any immunity to it."
Is fear mongering such as the grandparent post really appropriate here? Don't we expect scientists to try to do something about the avian flu after so many warnings? Tumpey says that after 3 years of scientific reviews and approvals, the public health risk is believed to be minimal. Of course, if someone here can authoritatively speak to why it will break out of level 3 containment at a single CDC center and be more harmful than expected, then by all means reply to this post....and contact the CDC directly too. Maybe they don't read
That was my first thought before RTFA too.
"The revolutionary product could be on the market as early as next year, with the new DVD players needed to view them."
Sounds like your PC won't be able to play-it-once(TM). The protection is a DRM that requires a special player and probably an internet connection to their servers to get it started. So, as if this wasn't a bad enough idea, now there's the cost of a new player to offset the cheaper DVD advantage. I think MS knows that people won't be thrilled to have a DVD that isn't broken or worn out, but just crippled by our entertainment overlords. However, that shouldn't stop them from selling it to Hollywood. (Sammy baby, it'll be huge. It's the next big thing!)
I also think they want to get there DRM solution out there as quick as possible.
They've said, "...only Microsoft could solve [Hollywood's] piracy problem by making its DRM software a standard across every home entertainment playback and recording device."
Sound familiar? Control the standard and you lock in the revenue. Here we go again, indeed.
P.S. If you want a cheaper, limited-use DVD now, just buy one, watch it, and sell it on Ebay! Who needs Microsoft for that?
So instead you put a wifi device on each cart.
Of course you mean, put an RFID on each cart. Choose the right technology for the right task. The Wi-Fi locatator is intended for you to passively read radio beacons and compute your location at the receiver. You're requiring the receiver to have the computing power to collect the info and report it back to a central location. It's a makes for an expensive receiver and it wastes your Wi-Fi bandwidth. Better to have RFID sensors, then use that to track your widgets, all your other inventory, your workers...
I have to agree with the first part (I won't say about the about the second part - although I do wish Zonk would submit less)
Not wanting to release a sequel just for the money is a noble stance. It suggests he values the game more than the money, right? We could use more designers - and movie producers - like that.
I've often wondered why Gmail admonishes me from deleting my mails - even spam. That penis enlargement e-mail may be interesting to them for statistical reasons, but I never want that coming up again under any circumstances.
Furthermore, although the paranoia has subsided, I am still not content not to know if e-mail that I delete is actually removed from their servers. If I don't ever want it to be retrieved by anybody in government years later, I need to know that it's really gone - permanently. We all know the Gmail Privacy Policy allows any form of that scenario.
Or, maybe they're just encouraging us to be packrats so that then we'll need their incredible search features to find what we really want, and they'll seem even better than the competition by handling this illogical behavior so well.
Enough people have pointed out that monitoring an illegal activity, while maintaining that it is illegal is not immoral nor hypocritical.
I'd like to further remind you that some people have made the argument that one reason people download music is because much of it is no longer available in stores. They can now show that they are attempting to analyze which songs those are in order to make them available in the future.
I don't know where you got the idea that they are pretending to be pure. They are just a bunch of rich corporations covering all the bases. I wouldn't expect anything else.
You may as well advise people to flee the country. If you don't pay you'll receive additional penalties, and they'll wind up taking it directly out of your check anyway. If you're a parent, you may not even be able to afford the first act of defiance, as tempting as it may be. I know I have to do what's best for my children first. Perhaps you haven't experienced this yet.
If you're going to mod it up, you'll have to label it "Funny". It is definitely *not* 27Mbit/sec each way, but thanks for sharing your knowledge of 802.11 with us.
What are the chances that you would recognize the person most optimal for you, given the impossibility of actually finding out, i.e. living the rest of your life with each of them and then comparing? This is further complicated by the fact that while she might be the most optimal for you, you might not be *her* best choice. What you want is the person you would be happiest with who won't dump you. Where are the unknown possibilities represented here?
Also, does anyone else think this number 100 is extraordinarily unrealistic? Especially for math enthusiasts! Assuming that you'd be willing for this number of relationships to occur between the age range of 20 to 40 - where the quality of women you could attract will rise and fall, by the way - that's 5 socially intimate relationships a year (a completely unrealistic number for moi - a math enthusiast) Such a lucky bastard should have no trouble finding a worthy mate, and if he's dumb enough to jetison 37 women in a row, regardless of their worth, then I sincerely hope that the 37% chance of the best girl being in the first group comes true and he gets to spend the rest of his life comparing girl number 100 to the 50 or so who were better than her.
It seems mathematics isn't best way to find a mate! Who knew?
With a wealth of seemingly redundant stories on Linux's total cost of ownership (such as Linux on the Desktop: The Whole Story) you can learn to separate the cost of all other Microsoft software from the cost of the Microsoft operating system alone and other tricks that make Windows XP appear cheaper. This and other gems of wisdom await you. Although their motivations are different than mine, I agree with their point that you can save money by buying Star Office without change OSes. (I would have said Open Office and used the word free many times)
Don't be confused if you see they recommend Linux sometimes. They recommend Linux if you have little or no applications or for low-function workstations, such as data entry, call center or bank teller/platform automation. In other words, if you need a dumb terminal, then you might save money by using Linux - but watch out for those hidden costs! (FUD, FUD)
This is not a case of stupidity, they know damn well what type of analysis will keep them funded. My favorite article is a story called "There Is No ROI in Spite" [$95 per copy]. That they even consider this story necessary warms my heart. Other the other hand it may indicate that people need to get really pissed off before they'll switch.
I hope the seemly illegal barriers that protect MS from competition will continue to erode. Once companies are not artificially locked-in to Windows then I would expect every company will have to include in their business plan how they will use open source software to reduce operating costs. (kind of like how they have to say today that they are planning to outsource labor)
A worthless article to be sure, with no discussion of the web's architectural problems. (bad Slashdot) There is obviously more to the architectural problem than will be solved by IPv6, but allowing for IPv6 and higher capacity routers alone, I'm sure the web could go a long time with no other upgrade. I can only wonder how much money Intel will spend on convincing people that the web will die "sooner than you think." If it's anything like the $300 million they spent on telling people they have the best/only Wi-Fi solution, we'll be hearing this for a long time.