Um, isn't this what Smart cards were supposed to do for us?

As for the 'waving it in front' part, they have that too - in the form of contactless smart cards. They use them for TransLink around here. I know this, because I took an ordinary JavaCard and waved it in front of a TransLink terminal and it actually responded (of course, it responded, "Tag Card Again," because the correct applet obviously wasn't on the card, but still).

Additionally, 100 years ago, the exact same situation we have today was being played out vis-a-vis recorded music. Only back then, it was piano rolls instead of MP3 files. Playing the part of the big music companies today, were the big sheet music publisher of years ago.

Same arguments, almost word for word.

By that, I mean amateur radio operator. Since the amateur radio service rules include RF exposure safety rules, and we all have to know how to do the math, they will likely be able to reassure you that the situation is safe. The rules for amateur stations are similar to the rules that all other RF transmitting services generally have to follow. Since the condo is not part of the fenced in enclosure where the antenna is, it's part of the 'uncontrolled' space (that is, space where the general public - particularly people not owning or working on the antenna). The exposure limits for uncontrolled space exposure are much stricter than controlled space (that is, any place where a person could be without having the transmitter shut down).

In all likelihood, the antennas in question are aimed such that the energy won't be going into the apartment. How can that be? They have to pay to generate the RF, and they want as much of it as possible to hit the opposite antenna rather than be used to irradiate a nearby condo.

They're selling this unit for a song likely because of the "what if?" thoughts you yourself are having. Educate yourself and turn this into an opportunity to acquire an undervalued property!

If you had used "find my iPhone," you likely would have been able to find it in the snow (yes, I know the GPS isn't that accurate - he'd have made the phone ping and listened for it) and not had to wait the two months.

The first two things I wrote in java were the quintessential '15 sliding tiles' puzzle game and an Othello game. I wrote them in swing. I wrote them not because the world needed yet another implementation, but because it was a fun challenge, and I got some practical experience in writing not only Java, but UI code (in this case, Swing, but the concepts had far wider applicability).

They're still on the net, for what it's worth. Don't expect a lot.

The third thing I wrote was MacXM, though that was in Java/Cocoa. Its follow-up was JXM.

I mention all of this because my advice is that once you've gotten all of that theoretical stuff in your head, the next thing you should do is write something. Even if it's just something for you, it's still something.

Now that's a downgrade and a half.

So you weren't born in a hospital, then?

I am told that another example of anachronistic measures are houses in Japan. Despite the fact that Japan is as firmly entrenched in the metric system as any country in Europe, houses in Japan are still measured using traditional units based largely on human dimensions (similar to the Imperial system's feet and yards and the like). Someone wrote a book on the subject. The entire first chapter is dedicated to examining the measuring system for Japanese domestic architecture.

But is that your birthplace? Were you actually born at home?

I wasn't. I can tell you the +/- 5 miles to my parent's house, but I would need google maps to tell me the distance to the hospital where my mother gave birth to me.

I mostly agree with the folks who suggest using the coax to pull cat 5 cable as a replacement strategy.

But I would be remiss to not mention MoCA, which aims to standardize home networking over coax in such a way that existing cable TV or terrestrial antenna signals will still work.

Can you say "ad hominem?"

I thought not.

You know, folks like you told me over and over again during 2008 that if I voted for McCain that we'd wind up having more troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan, and they were absolutely right. I did vote for McCain and sure enough.

There is a precedent for Nobel prizes to other than natural persons, and for the prize to not be awarded in a particular year. There's no reason they couldn't allocate the prize money back into the prize fund (like they did in 1972) while issuing a proclamation praising the Internet for whatever they like.

The alternative would be to award the prize to DARPA, which is probably not really in keeping with the spirit of the award.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Censorship is bad when the government does it or requires it. A merchant is within his rights to decide what he wishes or does not wish to stock in his store (modulo anti-trust concerns, which do not even come close to applying here). Calling an exercise of that right "censorship" is an insult to censors.