Comment Welcome to the late 80s (Score 4, Informative) 36
We were using it for IRC way back then, they're called channels.
What was old is new again.
We were using it for IRC way back then, they're called channels.
What was old is new again.
They don't have to search for it. Google does a lot of data storage, I'm sure they use deduplication. They have a list of known kiddie porn image hashes from the government which they check the dedup table for. Any accounts with messages matching those hashes would be reported.
Like it or not, they're still not reading your email.
I would recommend this book to anyone, it's an easy read and thought provoking.
Holy shit, CHEMICALS! RUN FOR THE HILLS! The dihydrogen monoxide is going to kill you!
Rain and snow definitely cause a fade in signal strength but if you've properly engineered the link you'll stay within acceptable signal levels. The WISP I worked for in Minnesota had to deal with plenty of rain and snow..
Anyone setting up commercial wireless links should know that they have to engineer for worst possible scenarios.
With appropriate directional antennas you can actually go quite a distance (easily 5 miles) while observing all the regulations.
They're trying to protect Terminal Doppler Weather Radar, they've added restrictions on the upper band but removed the indoor restrictions on the lower (5.2ghz) band. A fair tradeoff in the opinion of someone that used to work at a WISP.
Unless your device is beaconing for networks in your saved networks list (WHICH ONLY HAPPENS for networks that do not transmit their SSID) a client *never* sends out probes, so there is no opportunity to randomize the MAC address.
If your device is listening for WiFi beacons and finds one in your saved network list, it *must* associate with your actual MAC address.
In other words, the teeny tiny percentage of the population with hidden SSIDs in their WiFi network list will benefit from this, nobody else. It would have been a lot better if they had done this with bluetooth.
You're missing the fact that Netflix is in all of those data centers. The problem is that Comcast is intentionally degrading their peering in those data centers meet-me rooms in an attempt to get more direct customers.
Furthermore, if you're large enough Netflix will actually supply servers that you can plug into your network to provide the top x percentile of content -- for free.
This is purely a Comcast wants more money and hates video competition issue.
The not-so-nice thing about the higher frequencies is that they tend to attenuate rapidly when the signal is going through something thicker than air.
Not necessarily a bad thing, since it means that you can have your strong local signals but don't pollute the spectrum in an entire neighborhood. We would have all been a lot better off if baby monitors, cordless phones, etc had all started in the mid GHz range.
I blame "Family Matters" for telling an entire generation of black kids that they definitely don't want to grow up to be Steve Urkel (to the point that Steve transformed himself into Stefan Urquelle, the suave lady catching cool cat).
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Bull. Palm/Handspring devices had a ton of apps around then, I had a Handspring Prism w/ GSM module that I could IRC, SSH, browse the web and whatever else from in 2000.
My Symbian phone not-too-long-after (Nokia 6600) had all the same apps in a more compact package. The whole 'mobile ecosystem' did NOT begin with Apple or Android.
Maybe they're trying to reCOUP their losses? (Eh? Ehh?)
I see what you did there...
The problem isn't the people having a conversation at a sensible level. The problem is the asshole that turns on speakerphone at full blast and yells at his phone as he's waving it around in the air just because he doesn't want to hold it up to his ear.
Think of every annoying thing you've ever seen people do on a call, then imagine being stuck sitting next to those people for a 3 hour flight.
IF I HAD A MINE SHAFT, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.