Directional antennas are not new. But configuring an array of directional antennas to precisely cover the seats in the lecture hall to minimize the number of users on any single access point is a new and novel way to deploy wireless access.

Deploying the same number of omnidirectional antennas in the same space would lead to massive overlap, interference, and clients unnecessarily switching between APs when they perceived a stronger signal from a different AP.

I haven't heard of a high density environment purposely set up this way therefor I think it is indeed newsworthy.

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Citation? Where do Japanese schoolchildren have to cover their ears several times each hour? Where is this schoolhouse that can't be relocated from the end of some flightpath? This schoolhouse has been subject to some loud jet noise for over 50 years and they haven't moved it? Or is this an attempt to drum up some anti-military sentiment? (Wikipedia only lists 39 overseas Air Force locations not counting the ones closing in Afghanistan.)

Nothing was lost? All the work that the government workers could have been doing during the shutdown was lost. All the revenue from the National Parks were lost. Two weeks food inspections, drug inspections, VA claims processing were lost . Worldwide confidence in the US and the US dollar was lost. US credit rating was compromised with the possibility of higher interest rates on new deficit. Scientific tests will have to be thrown out and restarted.

You might not be personally affected, but plenty of money and confidence has been lost during the past three weeks.

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Adding a copy of the referenced material would be allowed by the Fair Use provision of the Copyright law.

The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: [...] reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; [...] http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

And posting something on the internet does NOT automatically make it public domain. Just because you see it on a web page does not mean you are free to copy it.

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Adding a copy of the referenced material would be allowed by the Fair Use provision of the Copyright law.

The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: [...] reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; [...] http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

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That is a terrible version of the program!!! Almost unwatchable. Try this one instead: Richard Feynman - The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out

Wrong. They were labelled 13+ when that was the standard. When the standard changed to over 14, he changed the packaging to meet the new requirement.

He even offered a recall for any of the old 13+ packages. Of over 175,000 units sold, fewer than 50 were returned by consumers.

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Last night I sent my Gmail account an email from my ISP email system, then waited for it to show up. Nothing. So I resent it. Second time nothing.

The email contained two screen captures I needed at the office. The subject line was "Steve on telework". Nothing obvious that would trip Postini's spam filter. It is now 24 hours later and neither has shown up. I wonder how many other emails I don't get.

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Why worry about this now? The festival most likely won't be held at Myrtle Edwards park next year anyway. It has grown too big for that location. Hempfest 2013

I also tried converting from PDF to EPUB. Sometimes the PDF isn't in a good condition and I get a very poor EPUB. If that happens, I convert PDF -> RTF, clean up and spell check in MS Word, then RTF -> EPUB.

This has let me fix over-large graphics, incorrect page breaks, constant spelling problems from the OCR, and font problems.

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Why worry about printing carbon-copy type forms when you can just print the same page twice? I guess it depends if the multipart forms are cheaper than the plain paper and ink for the additional pages, but I wouldn't think so.

You still don't understand RP propagation. Having an antenna receive a signal does not diminish the strength of the signal behind it any more than a metal light pole diminishes it. Both will cause a slight disturbance in the transmitted signal, but the rest of the signal will still continue past it. You can't calculate how many devices are receiving an RF signal by measuring field strength at a fixed distance.

Think of throwing a pebble into a pond and watching the waves travel outward. If you put a stick in the water, it will disrupt the wave slightly, but the rest of the wave continues radiating outward. The small amount of energy that the stick receives is so miniscule compared to the total circular wave, it can be thought of as zero. (Well, if the stick is 10 feet away from the source it intersects a circle more than 60 feet in circumference. A one-inch stick would disrupt 1/750th of the circle. 20 feet away? 1/1500th of the total circumference.) Plus, RF propagates in three dimensions, not just two.

And your proof? You suggest putting enough barriers around the transmitting antenna to capture all the radiated energy to gain back more than you started with. First, you would never effectively capture it all, unless you built a Fariday Cage around the transmitter. Plus you ignore the power loss in converting the RF power back to electricity. You can't prove your point by suggesting if you are wrong we would have perpetual energy.

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Yeah, we know how well that worked...

http://threatpost.com/department-energy-compromised-sophisticated-attack-020413/77485
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/04/net-us-usa-cybersecurity-doe-idUSBRE9130ZL20130204
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57567581-83/hackers-hit-u.s-department-of-energy/