What is so hard to understand? Consumption *creates* demand. Demand is fulfilled BY CREATING MORE CHILD PORN. How in the world do you reach the conclusion that possession does not make the owner of said "product" culpable?

This isn't stuff you can find on USENET anymore. These... creatures... have to seek out distributors of this vile muck. They either supply their own in exchange in a tit-for-tat system, or they pay for it.

In our legal system, possession of child porn is considered to make the possessor culpable for the abuse of the child.

...and I have zero problem with that. By consuming the media (downloading to view), this "person" is creating demand. The demand is filled by more children being preyed upon.

This is one of the very few crimes where I do not support rehabilitation or believe in redemption. I don't believe in the death penalty except in the most extreme of circumstances (this is not one). However in the case of child abuse (physical and/or sexual) I am wholeheartedly behind punitive incarceration and the removal of said "person" from society for the remainder of their sad, little life.

I am perhaps, biased, but I have seen first hand the results of the horror inflicted by these self-absorbed, impotent psychopaths.

The person holding them up was the judge.

He's not your pal, friend!

Yes, and as we have seen over the last couple of years, *everyone* buys based on "specs" and not on overall user experience.

RIP, Steve. Love or hate you, you definitely made a huge impact on the tech industry.

Dude, light is the "visible" spectrum of electromagnetic radiation.

As for 2.4 and 5GHz frequencies, I've yet to see a study that doesn't dismiss "electromagnetic sensitivity" as nocebo. I can't for the life of me begin to guess what physical mechanism present in the body would explain an allergic response to a spread (albeit relatively tiny compared to the entire spectrum) of electromagnetic frequencies as opposed a specific frequency. Why is it WiFi in general and doesn't seem to differentiate between 2.4 and 5 GHz? What about the spectrum between that or above or below?

I say it's hypochondria, exacerbated by a need for attention and/or martyr complex.

The iPhone uses hardware decoding for h.264. So no, it will not be as CPU or power intensive.

That pretty much never happens. Historically, Apple has a price point and it stays there across multiple hardware refreshes. This is true for the mobile devices as well as computers and laptops. If a price drops, it's typically when a new hardware version is released (like the shift down across the iMac and MacBook Pro models) and the drop is permanent. The only time I remember it happening during a product's life cycle was for the 1st gen iPhone. I seem to recall the subsidizedprice dropping $100 or so a couple months after launch.

What I've seen with the iPhone is Prev Gen phone = $99 subsidized and the new gen is $199/$299 subsidized. That's the only time a currently selling product gets a price reduction during it's life cycle at Apple.

Yeah, but with only 4 cores Flash will still drop frames.

Right, because that *totally* happened. It wasn't a file that was just sitting on the phone accumulating more and more data as everyone else has reported*. You have the truth because you have an axe to grind.

* Yes, that's bad enough, but let's not just make shit up, m'kay?

Too f-ing true.

I've heard some good things about CWNP. I don't know about getting their certs but their study guide seems to do a good job of covering the fundamentals.

Motorola Solutions (the enterprise network and public safety side of the split) also makes a really good enterprise wireless solution. I like the LiveRF function you can get on some products. If you have a floor plan with AP placements, you can generate a live heat map of your coverage. If you also use their integrated WIPS/WIDS system, you can also do live spectrum analysis, wireless forensics (you can actually pick out a wireless client and watch the history as it moved throughout a location moving from AP to AP), and a bunch of other useful diagnostic tasks.

disclosure: I work for motorola solutions.

It sounds like you have zero experience deploying enterprise class wireless for high traffic scenarios. It's a lot more than just plopping a couple commodity access points and hoping for the best.

You have to do a site survey to determine the best layout for the APs including equipment placement, channel patterns and power levels to maximize the best SNR against the overall cost. 2.4GHz or 5GHz or both? What are the structural barriers in place? Do you want to have blanket coverage or only cover certain areas? What level of WLAN redundancy do you want? How much should your coverage overlap? Are you bridging wirelessly? Using extended VLANs, centralizing the traffic and management? How are you handling zone handoff?

There's a lot of initial prep work that goes on before you even begin to place equipment.