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Comment Line-of-sight + Wi-Fi + 2 cantennas (Score 0) 558

by thesaintar on Thursday May 22, 2008 @02:15PM (#23508732) Attached to: Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters?

Just use a half decent router (a hacked linksys would be nice, so you can play with the xmit power settings), two can-tennas (buy for 20 bucks or make them yourself, no great skills necessary) and line-of-sight (could put the antennas on the rooftop, or up on a mast)

Submission + - Top words and phrases to avoid at all costs (reuters.com)

Submitted by

thesaintar

on Wednesday January 02, 2008 @02:39AM

thesaintar writes: "Reuters reports of a "surge" of cliche words and phrases overused in this "post 9/11" world, which bloggers, media and celebrities alike are abusing and should be "decimated" from our vocabulary, or at the very least used properly"

Submission + - MIT Drops DRM Laden Journal Subscription

Submitted by Gibbs-Duhem on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @01:26PM

Gibbs-Duhem writes: Nice to see that some market forces are working against DRM. Of course, the big difference between this situation and music is that the professors aren't being paid to submit to the journal, so the journal turning around and restricting access to that work is even more ridiculous. Here is a case where the threat of those professors no longer publishing in that journal may well be enough of a danger that the SAE removes the DRM from their software.

From the Article:

The MIT Libraries have canceled access to the Society of Automotive Engineers' web-based database of technical papers, rejecting the SAE's requirement that MIT accept the imposition of Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology.

SAE's DRM technology severely limits use of SAE papers and imposes unnecessary burdens on readers. With this technology, users must download a DRM plugin, Adobe's "FileOpen," in order to read SAE papers. This plugin limits use to on-screen viewing and making a single printed copy, and does not work on Linux or Unix platforms.

MIT faculty respond

"It's a step backwards," says Professor Wai Cheng, SAE fellow and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, who feels strongly enough about the implications of DRM that he has asked to be added to the agenda of the upcoming SAE Publication Board meeting in April, when he will address this topic.

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Submission + - Palm Takeover Expected this Week

Submitted by

stoolpigeon

on Tuesday March 20, 2007 @01:14PM

stoolpigeon writes: "Reuters is reporting that: "Nokia and up to three other potential bidders are interested in buying Palm Inc., which could be sold for some $2 billion as early as this week, a technology news Web site said.""

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