Newly Discovered Galaxy Is a Record-Breaker
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Newly Discovered X-Ray Loop May Be
Cosmic Accelerator
Newly Discovered X-Ray Loop May Be
Cosmic Accelerator
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discovered species
Internet casino wins right to name newly
discovered species
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Internet casino wins right to name newly
discovered species of monkey
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Network Engines' NS Series Protects
Microsoft Users from Newly Discovered
Vulnerability
Network Engines' NS Series Protects
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Vulnerability
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Breaker, Breaker, Bad Neighbor, We've
Got a 10-34
Breaker, Breaker, Bad Neighbor, We've
Got a 10-34
04/05/2005 02:27 PM
Andy Seybold and Ron Sege (Tropos) hammer away on
metropolitan-scale Wi-Fi: I've had long internal debates with
myself about how to write about this issue played out in competing
guest commentaries on Muniwireless.com. Andy Seybold is a respected
figure in the industry, and someone I admire. But his approach to
external Wi-Fi, however reasonable some of his concerns are, has been
ham-handed, often inaccurate, and biased towards licensed frequencies.
Because he's a consultant and does not have a list of his and his firms'
clients, it's impossible to know what angle he comes at this. I'm not
suggesting his opinion is paid for. He's too honest, too independent,
and too smart for that. But if you just had your head inside the cell
data helmet for two years, metro-scale Wi-Fi looks absurd. Take off
that helmet, and evaluate it fairly, and you could have an entirely
different take. I'd urge Seybold to disclose any past and present
consulting arrangement with companies that compete in the space that
he is offering public opinion about. He's not a journalist, but he
still writes like one.
His opponent in this debate, Ron Sege, makes his money as the CEO of
Tropos Networks, a company that is the leader in selling metro-scale
Wi-Fi mesh equipment. So we know where his bias is: he'd like his
company to sell more and more gear. He has every interest in making
his approach seem workable. But he's also responsible to his private
shareholders and board of directors as well as his customers. As
recent years have shown, pretending something works doesn't work as a
long-term business strategy.
(Me, I accept advertising through third parties and am not involved in
negotiating or signing advertisers to my sites. I work as a
journalist, primarily, and do not consult in this or any industry.)
The difference between Seybold and Sege is that Sege can give you the
names and addresses of networks and city IT managers: you can go and
try his networks and talk to the people running it who aren't
responsible to Sege, but to taxpayers and city officials. Seybold is
poking holes through what I have to say is often specious or
inaccurate reasoning; Sege is offering a rational approach that's not
overhyping the abilities of the system he sells. I think both parties
would agree that the future for metro-scale wireless (not Wi-Fi) is
extremely bright.
If you view metro-scale Wi-Fi as a poor cousin to cell data, then I
have to say that's where the drugs have kicked in and you're
channeling Hunter S. Thompson. Verizon Wireless keeps making bizarre
statements about how their EVDO service works everywhere unlike Wi-Fi
which works mainly when your laptop is physically touching an access
point. Okay, I'm exaggerating. But their statements have been
strangely broad especially when their technology provider, Qualcomm,
has a campus-wide Wi-Fi network that they're very happy with. Seybold
agrees: indoor deployments of Wi-Fi are great uses of the technology
and they work.
EVDO is fantastic technology that I'm in love with, but let's remember
three salient points: limited spectrum available for 3G in this
country; high cost for unlimited usage to deter too many subscribers;
limited bandwidth compared to the backhaul capable with modern Wi-Fi
(mesh or fixed hotspot or hotzone).
So where's the dispute? Let me start drilling into Seybold's
Muniwireless.c
om commentary. He hates 2.4 GHz: it's a messy band. It
may experience a tragedy of the commons. It's like Citizens Band
radio: too many users turned CB into something no one can use. (Except
that it's still in use by a group that carved their own purpose out of
it when the FCC walked away.)
But that's not what's happening in 2.4 GHz. The band has become more
and more useful because it employs technology to allow many
simultaneous networks to work without rendering each other useless.
Yes, the more networks, the worse performance. But I've been at trade
shows--Wi-Fi Planet, notably--with hundreds of 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi networks
over a few thousand square feet, and you can still associate and send
data. The FCC hasn't walked away: they're actively involved in
tweaking and enforcing rules. Seybold claims companies are selling
gear that flaunts Part 15. Hey, who are they? Let's report them.
They're violating the law and threatening public safety and corporate
data networks through their gear.
Seybold moves on to airports, indoor spaces that you think he would
admire. But a lack of coordinated policy have doomed some of his
connections, he says. I and others asked where in the comments, and he
cited Dallas/Ft. Worth and San Jose as having several networks that
apparently prevented him from getting a good connection. But those two
airports have coverage from Wayport, which he doesn't mention as one
of the signals he saw. I was recently in Seattle and Austin's
airports, which are two of Wayport's oldest installations, and had
great service throughout. As you imagine, I have professional interest
in wandering around to look at signal strength and throughput. I saw
other networks, sure, but the ones that Seybold cites are ones that
are designed to cover small areas, like an airport lounge. If you're
not in the lounge, you might see the signal, but the coverage
shouldn't be good. This is frustrating for T-Mobile HotSpot
subscribers who aren't lounge members, but that doesn't mean that
Wi-Fi failed them.
Seybold's airport reasoning is conclusion by anecdote. Airports are
generating hundreds of thousands of Wi-Fi connections each month. Ask
Concourse, T-Mobile, and Wayport, to name the biggest players. If
service were as poor as Seybold maintains, this wouldn't be happening.
I had terrific results in Seattle, Denver, and Austin a few weeks ago,
three of the oldest Wi-Fi'd airports in the country. (Seybold is also
incorrect about a remark in the comments to his commentary: "access
points are being deployed without knowledge or consent of the airport
commission--and sometimes with their consent." The FCC ruling last
June precludes airport authorities from restricting unlicensed
wireless.)
The commentary devolves into speculation about how metro-scale Wi-Fi
networks can't work well because of interference and many competing
networks (home and otherwise), and how if they even manage to work now
they will fail in the future because of a tragedy of the commons.
Unfortunately, all developments point otherwise. Seybold mentions the
5 GHz band in passing, but it's clear that as 2.4 GHz becomes more
crowded--I completely agree it will--that the 23 channels in 5 GHz for
relatively unused 54 Mbps communications today and 100 to 600 Mbps
communications with 802.11n in 2006-2007 will take up the slack.
Manufacturers are clearly moving towards integrated dual-band chips in
all non-consumer devices. It doesn't cost much more at this point, and
it's the way the enterprise is moving.
Combine that technology direction with the spatial multiplexing and
multipath discrimination that will appear in 802.11n (and is already
in early form in MIMO gear hitting the market), and you solve another
problem. If you can more clearly differentiate signals as they reflect
in complex, radio-crowded environments, then you effectively increase
the amount of bandwidth available across a given geographic area in a
given slice of spectrum.
Thus even if 2.4 GHz becomes unusable due to crowding with today's
technology, tomorrow's technology won't be subject to the same
limitations. Even better, you can continue having bad results with
today's technology while tomorrow's is installed all around you.
Tropos could move from 802.11a/g to 802.11n for backhaul and use
multiple radios for service to support legacy users.
Seybold also writes, "The problem with 2.4-GHz Wi-Fi is that if it
works in a given wide area today, there is no guarantee that it will
continue to work tomorrow. Building a system that requires, for
example, 500 access points today might require the addition of another
few hundred access points in the future. This would throw a wrench
into the business model."
That's a lot of different ideas, but I don't buy any of them. The
technology will improve, so upgrades to the technology will be
necessary. But all of the plans I've seen and read about involve the
idea that technology will improve. A 500-node network that needs 200
to 300 more because of usage or other factors is already in the plan.
Nobody is deploying a network of fixed size, crossing their fingers,
and trusting that it will work indefinitely--or even 1 to 2 years in
the future without adding nodes.
Seybold transition into questions of mobility, or accessing metro
Wi-Fi while in motion. "If public safety officers have to pull over to
the curb to run a license plate while they are in pursuit of a
vehicle, what good is the network?" I don't think Seybold has talked
to police officers about how they work to make that statement. Most of
the selling point of public-safety networks is about keeping staff in
the field instead of returning to base to fill out paperwork. Another
part is about getting robust information in the field--but not,
typically, at 100 mph pursuit. You're probably on the radio at that
point and focusing on driving and not getting shot rather than typing
on a keyboard (or having your partner do such).
In any case, focusing on mobility sells the idea that a technology
that doesn't yet exist in most cities--broadband speed cell data,
which is coming--and that requires payments to external providers
trumps a flexible, multi-purpose network that a city itself could own
or have built for it. Cities should probably think about conserving
costs in areas in which outside providers have no similar interest.
This is one of the primary problems in my view with state laws that
would prevent municipalities from being able to build multi-purpose
networks that public safety personnel would benefit from.
Like so many of the arguments in this commentary and more
cellular-focused articles and chats elsewhere, Seybold wants to make
the indirect case that an unlicensed band will devolve into chaos
without rules that provide for strict separation of providers,
cell-like seamless handoff, and other features common to cellular data
networks.
But he's taking a very small slice and a set of strawman that I don't
think hold up to scrutiny to posit that today's networks don't work
(when they do) and that the same technology will get worse and worse
instead of the inevitable path that's already underway to improved use
of spectrum, better signal discrimination, and more channels for use
overall.
Now you think I have forgotten about Tropos CEO Ron Sege's
commentary on Seybold's piece? I have not. Here's my
dilemma. I'm not a toady, but I agree with practically everything Sege
writes. Why? Because he's not trying to create an reductio ad
absurdum argument. Sege is willing to consider and even introduce
points of view contrary to his own interest in the purpose of arriving
at a logical conclusion.
Sege doesn't look as Seybold does at spectrum in the classical, early
20th century view that is being widely discredited by people as varied
as open-source radio enthusiast and the FCC. Spectrum is only scarce
when you spew radio waves over it. It's abundant when devices are
smart enough to use the least signal, to avoid stepping on others, and
to hop away from frequencies in use. Some of this is already in place
in 2.4 GHz; some in European rules for 5 GHz.
In the non-scarce spectrum worldview, the more transmitters, the more
difficult but not unsolvable the problem becomes. Coordination happens
among devices using protocols that allow this to be sorted out.
If you apply Sege's arguments to the tragedy of the commons you get a
very different outcome from Seybold's. Seybold would argue that in a
space intended for 1,000 cows consuming regularly that he found 5,000
cows and the field was trampled. Sege, in contrast, would point out
that there were 5,000 cows, but they were led in and out on a rata
system that assured that no more than 1,000 cows--and often only a few
hundred cows--were munching at every given time.
In fact, rather than 1,000 cows mostly owned by Verimoo or SBCow, the
5,000 cows were owned by hundreds of different dairy farmers. By
keeping the commons open and using a protocol that determined the
number of cows that could contend for grass, the commons continued to
flourish. To follow Sege's commentary, he would say that Seybold
didn't stoop to look at the grass at all, but reasoned that 5,000 cows
were an untenable number for the commons, and vowed to return in a
year to see if any grass was left at all.
Sege's summary is rather stirring and in accord with my opinion:
"Cautionary projections of potential failures of technology solutions
based on previous failures have a place in the debate, as long as they
are fully verified as still valid and acknowledge real changes in the
environment."
Comments welcome below that advance a civil discussion of these
issues.
Breaker, Breaker: 10-100 Filtering
Breaker, Breaker: 10-100 Filtering
04/19/2005 11:06 AM
Truck stops in Texas with free Wi-Fi
may have to filter content: A Slashdot poster connects
the dots in a Texas house bill that would require filtering on any
state-provided wireless network on public property. This means the
truck stops that have been equipped would need filtering. I don't need
to make snickering references here, as you can read plenty on
Slashdot.
US extraditing DRM-breaker
US extraditing DRM-breaker
07/07/2004 12:48 PMThe US is trying to extradite an Australian who broke DRM systems to
stand trial in America.
US justice agencies allege that Griffiths, whose online name was
BanDido, was the ringleader of an internet group called DrinkOrDie
(DOD). Its members played a global game of one-upmanship with
manufacturers, cracking security codes and reproducing software, games
and music worth $US50 million ($A70.2 million).
It is not claimed that 41-year-old Griffiths, who is unemployed, made
any money from the alleged piracy.
Link
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Thanks, Gwen!)
The New Republic Online: Law Breaker
The New Republic Online: Law Breaker
02/19/2004 08:05 AMimpact of the FMA .. devastation .. today joins .. Jacob
Levy
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A SOAP syntax breaker
A SOAP syntax breaker
08/09/2002 11:09 PMCNET Aug 9 2002 10:08PM ET
Snake Skin Bean Breaker
Snake Skin Bean Breaker
09/02/2004 01:28 PMNamespace Collision
FC Now: Decision Maker, Deal Breaker
FC Now: Decision Maker, Deal Breaker
09/16/2004 05:34 AMIn the current issue of Darwin, contributor Chuck Martin considers the
ways in which leaders make tough decisions. In a nationwide survey
over a base...
Advanced Office Password Breaker v1.20
Advanced Office Password Breaker v1.20
03/19/2003 10:45 PMAdvanced Office Password Breaker (formerly Advanced Office Key
Recovery), or AOPB for short, is a program to decrypt Word and Excel
97/2000 files that have file open protection set, as well as Word and
Excel XP files with default (Office 97/2000 compatible) encryption -
guaranteed, regardless the password length and complexity. This is
being done by trying all possible encryption keys (instead of
brute-force and dictionary attacks) and takes only about two weeks on
single Pentium III/1000 PC (or just four-five days on faster dual-CPU
systems).
"newly released version 1.2"
"newly released version 1.2"
05/22/2004 08:15 PMNewly-wed strangled after party row
Newly-wed strangled after party row
06/28/2004 01:29 PMA man killed his wife just a month into their marriage after she
became upset at him looking at other women, a court hears.
Newly-wed strangled, court told
Newly-wed strangled, court told
09/01/2004 10:08 AMA man denies murdering his wife 28 days after their wedding after a
row over him looking at women in short skirts.
Dressing The Galaxy
Dressing The Galaxy
03/19/2005 03:20 AMInterested in more information about the costumes and designs of the
Star Wars saga? Coming in September, expect a large hardcover
tome from Episode III costumer Trish Biggar, complete with over 300
pictures. Collectors take not that a deluxe version is planned as well
with 32 extra pages, extra gatefolds and information plus a replica of
a Wookiee belt buckle. No price point has been set yet. Check out the
full story at
The Official Site.
Journey Through the Galaxy
Journey Through the Galaxy
08/11/2004 05:03 AMJourney Through the Galaxyhttp://home.cwr
u.edu/~sjr16/advanced/index.htmlThis website,
supported by Case Western University, "explores our solar system,
stars, extra-solar planets, the theories about the past and future of
the universe, and human exploration of space." The valuable materials
are provided in two varieties: a regular version designed for grade
school students and an advanced version intended for college students.
The easily navigable website is first divided into five main topics
and subsequently separated into a series of subtopics. For instance,
under the Solar System link users can find five tabs containing data
and tutorials on the sun, planets, asteroids, comets, and the edge of
the solar system. With numerous helpful diagrams and images throughout
the website, astronomy students are sure to benefit from this website.
This has been added to
Astronomy Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report
for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003.
http://scout.wisc.edu/]
Together We Can Rule the Galaxy
Together We Can Rule the Galaxy
06/17/2005 04:22 PM
On Robert X. Cringely’s idea that Intel will buy Apple.
Galaxy Raiders
Galaxy Raiders
07/14/2004 12:05 AMStarting in earnest...The Initial Re-Code
Galaxy/Vortex 1.0
Galaxy/Vortex 1.0
06/14/2004 10:37 PMA series of background images of a galaxy or vortex.
Newly public Tessera a mix of technology
and strategy
Newly public Tessera a mix of technology
and strategy
12/13/2003 09:24 AMSan Jose Mercury News Dec 13 2003 8:13AM ET
MOM Tip: Newly added agents did not
appear in the All Computers view
MOM Tip: Newly added agents did not
appear in the All Computers view
05/05/2004 12:44 PMNewly-wed murder police hold father
Newly-wed murder police hold father
08/16/2004 02:32 PMPolice investigating the murder of Chanel Taylor confirm they have
arrested her father, Terry Rodgers.
Starless Galaxy Said Found
Starless Galaxy Said Found
03/14/2005 05:40 PMThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
06/17/2005 05:03 PMThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don’t Panic!! After the release of the incredible new film
version of Douglas Adams’ book, Yellowicon Studio brings to you a
marvelous theme of icons on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
developed by Everaldo Coelho and Rhandros Dembicki, tow of the
greatest of all icons artists.
Eating The Galaxy Next Door
Eating The Galaxy Next Door
11/04/2003 01:21 PM Nearer, My
Galaxy, to Thee. The only thing I find more surprising than the
discovery of a
galacti
c collision-in-progress is the fact that a
similar nearby
galaxy had already been found last decade. I need to get up to
date and throw out all my astronomy books which still cite the
Magellanic Clouds as being our
closest neighbors.
newly released poll by the American
Research Group
newly released poll by the American
Research Group
12/05/2003 08:57 AMthe Democrats in New Hampshire .. Kerry 2nd at 13%, Clark at 11% ..
Dean has huge lead in NH .. latest ARG poll .. Bolstered .. MORE ..
ARG
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Brooklyn Museum, Newly Refurbished,
Seeks an Audience
Brooklyn Museum, Newly Refurbished,
Seeks an Audience
04/12/2004 11:19 AMThe museum, led by its director, is changing course, concentrating
almost exclusively on its own backyard the 2.5 million residents of
Brooklyn.
Newly Rebuilt Seattle Branch's First
Phone Call: Do You Have Wi-Fi?
Newly Rebuilt Seattle Branch's First
Phone Call: Do You Have Wi-Fi?
02/05/2005 09:27 PM The Greenwood Branch of the Seattle Public Library system opened Jan.
29: My officemate and I stopped in to take a look at this fantastic
building a few blocks from our office and chatted with the branch
manager. We asked, "Is there Wi-Fi?" She said, no, but there's a plan
afoot to roll it out to branches soon. But she noted that the first
phone call they received after re-opening was from someone asking the
same question! It's a trend. The library was funded by Libraries for
All, a truly remarkable levy that helped fund our tremendous new
downtown branch (Wi-Fi throughout, Vocera badges in use by
librarians), and revamp or rebuild a number of aged neighborhood
libraries that were incredibly overused. Some libraries are four times
as large, and the community is overjoyed. We're apparently the
readingest, bookbuyingest city in the U.S. I'm hoping that the
libraries will come before citizens again soon and ask for a levy to
fund operator expenses: we need more library hours, more staff, more
books. The libraries are well used here, and people seem to like to
pay for them (indirectly). I know I do. Ironically, a coffeeshop half
a block from the library has been hoping they'll add Wi-Fi: the shop
is too small to handle more than its usual packed array of regulars
and passers-by, so they hope to shunt the Wi-Fi needy over to what
will be a free service at the library....
Interview: Nirav Mehta of newly launched
Utkarsh.org
Interview: Nirav Mehta of newly launched
Utkarsh.org
05/27/2004 04:30 AMToday marks the official launch of a new open source project. Utkarsh
is an operating system based on Linux and localized in the Gujarati
language, spoken by more than 5.5 million in India's Gujarat state and
worldwide. Utkarsh (which means progress or rising high) version 0.1
is now in beta testing, and the team is bubbling with ideas for future
growth. Recently Mayank Sharma spoke with the young Gujarati
entrepreneur behind the project, Nirav Mehta.
Oldest galaxy found behind big cluster
Oldest galaxy found behind big cluster
02/16/2004 01:14 PMAlways in the last place you look
Dim stars shed light on age of galaxy
Dim stars shed light on age of galaxy
08/18/2004 04:54 AMBeryllium count gives the game away
Sun outlines Galaxy server family
Sun outlines Galaxy server family
04/09/2005 11:21 PMnapps.nwfusion.com/news/2005/0408sunoutli.html
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Dim Galaxy Clue to Dark Matter
Dim Galaxy Clue to Dark Matter
06/01/2004 05:41 AMRight in our cosmic backyard -- about 2 million light years from Earth
-- a dim little galaxy called Andromeda IX hangs out. It could help
scientists understand the mysterious dark matter that appears to push
regular matter around.
Our Milky Way galaxy may actually be
several galaxies colliding with each
other
Our Milky Way galaxy may actually be
several galaxies colliding with each
other
12/05/2003 08:57 AMwe're colliding with a whole nother galaxy .. Hide and seek, galaxy
style .. this is just too
cool
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BBC - Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy
BBC - Radio 4 - The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy
06/22/2004 04:37 AMThe trailer for The broadcast of The Tertiary Phase of The
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy (by Douglas Adams) .. The third
Hitch-hiker's radio series ..
tady
bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/index.shtml
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SAGA.M31 -Galaxy- 0.6 (Default branch)
SAGA.M31 -Galaxy- 0.6 (Default branch)
04/09/2005 03:12 AM
SAGA.M31 -Galaxy- is a data integration server
that runs inside J2EE-compliant application
servers and provides an independent data access
layer that lets you create a Web service in 15
minutes. It provides access to JDBC, LDAP, and
3270 Mainframe transactions. Information from
these sources can be embedded in an information
container that provides the interface to
applications. An Eclipse plugin that makes it easy
for developers to integrate the information
containers into their applications is provided.
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie
Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie
12/24/2004 12:16 PM There's a teaser trailer out for the Hitchhikers Guide movie. It's
unclear if the drooling should begin or if it's mere blasphemy. The
teaser isn't enough to make me drool. If you have an iPod, then The
Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy from BBC can't be recommended
enough. (The MP3 version is getting bad reviews for sound quality, but
I can't find the "regular audio CD" set...) There's also a new trailer
for Dark Water. It's a remake...
Sun outlines new Galaxy server family
Sun outlines new Galaxy server family
04/08/2005 06:21 PMAn internal document briefly available on Sun Microsystems's Web site
has provided the first outline of its next-generation of servers based
on Advanced Micro Devices's (AMD's) Opteron microprocessor. According
to the document, a Portable Document Format (PDF) presentation created
by Ambreesh Khanna, a chief technologist with Sun's US Client
Solutions group, Sun plans to release four models of Galaxy servers by
year's end.
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