Re: progress
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:32:33PM -0800, James A. Donald wrote: The existence of pecunix may well be what is deterring the treasury from a more vigorous crackdown on e-gold. You may be right, and it's an interesting point, though partially inconsistent with the way the Feds have worked to date. Restraint has never been their strong suit. -Declan
Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India
At 01:05 PM 1/6/2004, BillyGOTO wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:39:41AM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: As has been discussed on this list many who graduated college before the late '70s were able to pursue independent science experimentation (esp. chemistry and rocketry, etc.). Now almost all science can only be learned in the classroom. What's your motivation for saying that?! Are you saying that new science has gone too far ahead of the layman's understanding, that tools are expensive/inaccessible, or that knowledge is being hoarded by a conspiracy of Illuminati scientists? I don't buy it. Nature is still out there to be studied by those willing to look. Just try setting up a well-equipped personal chem. lab w/o inviting a visit from the BATF or FBI. Its next to impossible for minors to purchase chemical reagents, I had no trouble in the 60s. Try building and finding a place to launch an amateur rocket (it can be done, but now only with the greatest of regulatory red tape). I did. Some of my group's rockets achieved heights over 100,000 ft (confirmed by Edward's AFB radar.) Try doing independent research in bacterial or viral genetics and see who shows up on your doorstep. Many of the greatest scientific break throughs were made by amateurs. who are alive and well, AFAICT... http://www.sas.org What about: ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/astro/SL9/animations/keck-R.mpg Notice that none of the science avenues presented are the one's I've discussed. steve
Re: DoS-ing fatherland goons
At 11:01 AM 1/3/04 +0100, privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote: If we put aside the probable and obvious cause for disrupting the air traffic - namely, introduction of the permanent emergency state (in the future 2-3% of all flights may be affected - small price for maintaining the power), I wonder what are the logistics of injecting false information into the snooping systems. It sure looks Al Qaida et al have already figured this out. There just so happens to be chatter indicative of a major attack before every major holiday. This seems to lead to three possibilities: a. AQ has worked out that it's cheaper and safer to disrupt life in the US by chatter than by actually trying any attacks here, and disrupting holidays is more fun. b. There really have been attacks planned, but they've either been foiled actively (e.g., the terrorists got arrested or shot or something before the attack took place) or passively (e.g., the higher alert status, changes to security procedures, etc., have made the terrorists postpone their attacks. c. There really isn't much useful information about AQ plans in the available intelligence, and what we're seeing is the intelligence community's priors (in the Bayesian sense; their prior assumptions are swamping the effects of their meager data). .. --John Kelsey, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP: FA48 3237 9AD5 30AC EEDD BBC8 2A80 6948 4CAA F259
Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:39:41AM -0800, Steve Schear wrote: At 11:17 AM 1/6/2004, Declan McCullagh wrote: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-407043,curpg-3.cms Moreover, it is found out that the Americans are shying away from the challenges of math and science. A recent National Science Foundation Study reveals a 5 per cent decline in the overall doctoral candidates in the US over the last five years. Not surprising considering the lack of preparation most get today in school. As has been discussed on this list many who graduated college before the late '70s were able to pursue independent science experimentation (esp. chemistry and rocketry, etc.). Now almost all science can only be learned in the classroom. What's your motivation for saying that?! Are you saying that new science has gone too far ahead of the layman's understanding, that tools are expensive/inaccessible, or that knowledge is being hoarded by a conspiracy of Illuminati scientists? I don't buy it. Nature is still out there to be studied by those willing to look. Many of the greatest scientific break throughs were made by amateurs. who are alive and well, AFAICT... http://www.sas.org What about: ftp://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/pub/astro/SL9/animations/keck-R.mpg We'll probably never know what new ideas were never thought, or were greatly delayed, because young minds in science were only channeled through the rote of the classroom. STOP! We'll DEFINATELY never know. Don't Rummsfeldize.
WiFi Repeater?
I'm thinking about a WiFi repeater... Imagine I work on a high floor in an office tower, but I know that very nearby, on the ground floor, there's a public WiFi hotspot. Now let's say I want to be able to access that hotspot, but I'm currently out of range due to the height. DOES THERE EXIST something like a WiFi repeater, which will allow me to reach that public WiFi spot without my being within 200 feet or so? (I deploying one or more repeaters throughout our offices so that I can reach the public hotspot.) Of course, it's also better if that repeater masks who I am to the real hotspot, and terminates encryption on both sides. But of course, I don't want it to cost a ton, and I probably don't want anyone else to be able to use it either. One nice application of this is to be able to regularly send messages from this public spot, but without anyone every actually seeing me. And if the last repeater is in these (private) offices somewhere, it's doubtful anyone would ever be able to tell that this is occurring. Or so I believe... -TD _ Expand your wine savvy and get some great new recipes at MSN Wine. http://wine.msn.com
Re: WiFi Repeater?
Well, I don't think the truly passive route is the most appropriate. At least, I can imagine the DHCP of Starbucks, for instance, will be aware of my computer's Ethernet address, or at least it can be 'modified' to look for me and report (to a TLA) when I'm online. (I'm no datacom guy so I may have fumbled the correct usage of the terminology.) With an active device I could be made to look different every time. (I suppose some of this could be done in my laptop, but let's just assume I don't own this computer and can't modify it.) And I'd prefer if it didn't cost me an arm and a leg (come to think of it, I could probably just buy a few cheap Linksys WiFi routers and scatter them around, but I was hoping for something even cheaper, smaller, and less obtrusive.) -TD From: R/db [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tyler Durden [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WiFi Repeater? Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 12:11:00 -0800 On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:20:15PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: DOES THERE EXIST something like a WiFi repeater, which will allow me to reach that public WiFi spot without my being within 200 feet or so? How about an antenna, instead? It would work if you have line-of-sight. If you're really looking for a repeater, check the comments from the community 802.11 groups, like Seattle Wireless: http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/PassiveRepeater _ Enjoy a special introductory offer for dial-up Internet access limited time only! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup
Re: WiFi Repeater?
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:20:15PM -0500, Tyler Durden wrote: DOES THERE EXIST something like a WiFi repeater, which will allow me to reach that public WiFi spot without my being within 200 feet or so? How about an antenna, instead? It would work if you have line-of-sight. If you're really looking for a repeater, check the comments from the community 802.11 groups, like Seattle Wireless: http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/PassiveRepeater
Re: WiFi Repeater?
I can't be considered an expert on this technology, so probably there is another, much simpler solution. The first idea (and so far the only one) I got is to use a pair of wireless access points, eg, DWL-900AP+ ones (the only ones I have experience with so far); if I'd have a pair of these, I'd configure one to access the hotspot, and connect it by a crossover Ethernet cable with the other one, configured to be on another channel and use WEP and to be accessible only by you. On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Tyler Durden wrote: I'm thinking about a WiFi repeater... Imagine I work on a high floor in an office tower, but I know that very nearby, on the ground floor, there's a public WiFi hotspot. Now let's say I want to be able to access that hotspot, but I'm currently out of range due to the height. DOES THERE EXIST something like a WiFi repeater, which will allow me to reach that public WiFi spot without my being within 200 feet or so? (I deploying one or more repeaters throughout our offices so that I can reach the public hotspot.) Of course, it's also better if that repeater masks who I am to the real hotspot, and terminates encryption on both sides. But of course, I don't want it to cost a ton, and I probably don't want anyone else to be able to use it either. One nice application of this is to be able to regularly send messages from this public spot, but without anyone every actually seeing me. And if the last repeater is in these (private) offices somewhere, it's doubtful anyone would ever be able to tell that this is occurring. Or so I believe... -TD _ Expand your wine savvy ? and get some great new recipes ? at MSN Wine. http://wine.msn.com
