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"802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks"
by Razer 05 Mar '17

05 Mar '17

Semi-technical history and discussion (all technical terminology linked): > > > When wireless networking based around the 802.11b standard first hit > consumer markets in the late nineties, it looked pretty good on paper. > Promising "11 Mbps" compared to original wired Ethernet's 10 Mbps, a > reasonable person might have thought 802.11b was actually faster than > 10Mbps wired Ethernet connections. It was a while before I was exposed > to wireless networking—smartphones weren't a thing yet, and laptops > were still hideously expensive, underpowered, and overweight. I was > already rocking Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps) wired networks in all my > clients' offices and my own house, so the idea of cutting my speed by > 90 percent really didn't appeal. > > In the early 2000s, things started to change. Laptops got smaller, > lighter, and cheaper—and they had Wi-Fi built in right from the > factory. Small businesses started eyeballing the "11Mbps" that 802.11b > promised and deciding that 10Mbps had been enough for them in their > last building, so why not just go wireless in the new one? My first > real exposure to Wi-Fi was in dealing with the aftermath of that > decision, and it didn't make for a good first impression. Turns out > that "11Mbps" was the maximum physical layer bit rate, not a speed at > which you could ever expect your actual data to flow from one machine > to another. In practice, it wasn't a whole lot better than dial-up > Internet—in speed or reliability. In real life, if you had your > devices close enough to each other and to the access point, about the > best you could reasonably expect was 1 Mbps—about 125 KB/sec. It only > got worse from there—if you had ten PCs all trying to access a server, > you could cut that 125 KB/sec down to 12.5 KB/sec for each one of them. > > Image: D-Link's DI-514 802.11b router. It was a perfectly > cromulent router for its time... but those were dark days, friend, > dark days indeed. > > > Just as everybody got used to the idea that 802.11b sucked, 802.11g > came along. Promising 54 screaming Mbps, 802.11g was still only half > the speed of Fast Ethernet, but five times faster than original > Ethernet! Right? Well, no. Just like 802.11b, the advertised speed was > really the maximum physical layer data rate, not anything you could > ever expect to see on a progress bar. And also like 802.11b, your best > case scenario tended to be about a tenth of that—5 Mbps or so—and > you'd be splitting that 5 Mbps or so among all the computers on the > network, not getting it for each one of them like you would with a > switched network. > > 802.11n was introduced to the consumer public around 2010, promising > six hundred Mbps. Wow! Okay, so it's not as fast as the gigabit wired > Ethernet that just started getting affordable around the same time, > but six times faster than wired Fast Ethernet, right? Once again, a > reasonable real-life expectation was around a tenth of that. Maybe. On > a good day. To a single device... > > > > In full > https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/802-eleventy-what-a-…

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sweden, leader of the Free World
by juan 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

now has free conscription! http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39140100 war is peace and slavery is freedom

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ROTF! "Imperial Leftists"! (image: 90kb)
by Razer 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

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Relatively Free: A twenty minute documentary about Barrett Brown.
by Razer 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

https://fieldofvision.org/relatively-free Player at top of main page autostarts. Totally free. > > Recently released from prison after a four year sentence, journalist > Barrett Brown reflects on his incarceration and future prospects as > his parents drive him to the halfway house. > > Ps. "When the prison gates open the dragon flies out." ~Ho Chi Minh.

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Long, but very good: About Anti-Fascists and Anarchism
by jim bell 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

https://attackthesystem.com/2017/02/22/against-the-anti-fascist-creeps/ [partial quote follows] Academic Gloss for the AntifaFor decades, a minor cottage industry of professional “anti-racists” and “anti-fascists” has existed for the purpose of perpetually sounding the alarm about the imminent threat posed by supposed “far right extremists.” The most well-known and influential of these is the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has raked in millions of dollars largely by frightening elderly liberals and Jews old enough to remember the Holocaust with hobgoblin tales about the supposedly persistent rise of neo-Nazism in America. The fundraising tactics of the SPLC are nearly identical to those of televangelists soliciting funds from elderly Christians by spinning tales about the supposed infiltration of the public schools by gay pedophiles. If one reads the literature of the SPLC and, for example, the publications of religious right organizations such as Focus on the Family and Coral Ridge Ministries, parallel themes will soon become noticeable. While the SPLC and a similar organization, the Anti-Defamation League, are the major league players in the “anti-fascism” industry, there are a number of minor league players as well ranging from the Ford Foundation-funded (how is that for irony?) Political Research Associates to AK Press, a small publisher oriented towards the “antifa” sector of the wider “anarchist” milieu.The antifa (an abbreviation for “anti-fascist”) are a loose collection of leftist youth gangs that exist primarily in Europe and the United States, and whose participants typically fancy themselves as front line warriors against the always imminent Fourth Reich. In reality, the antifa are largely a collection of overgrown juvenile delinquents specializing in petty vandalism and stalking activities. The antifa occasionally engage in physical assaults, but only when they greatly outnumber their intended victims, and with the most defenseless people often being the target. I have personally witnessed the antifa attacking both women and elderly people. When the antifa have targeted more formidable enemies, their limited capabilities as street fighters have been quickly revealed. During a confrontation with members of white nationalist organizations in Sacramento during the summer of 2016, a group of approximately 200 “anti-fascists” attempted a swarm attack on about 30 members of the “right-wing” organizations that were present. Half a dozen of the antifa consequently received stab wounds in what was a pretty puny performance on their part, to say the least.Multiple individual writers also exist who attempt to provide an academic gloss for the antifa, including Chip Berlet, Matthew Lyons, Spencer “Sunshine,” and others. One such individual is Alexander Reid-Ross whom the leftist webzine Truth-Out describes as a geography instructor at Portland State University. Reid-Ross recently released a book titled “Against the Fascist Creep,” published by the previously mentioned AK Press. This book has since been praised in some leftist circles so it is interesting to take a look at its actual claims and arguments.The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Thule“Against the Fascist Creep” presents a lengthy narrative that purports to outline the means by which “fascists” are supposedly engaged in a persistent and ongoing effort to infiltrate and co-opt the left in order to advance one or another nefarious agenda. Reid-Ross takes his seemingly intricate knowledge of “far right” movements and organizations and spins this into a conspiracy narrative about the endless effort by fascists to infiltrate the perpetually beleaguered and victimized left. How does this “fascist creep” actually work? Reid-Ross describes two methods: “Hence, fascism creeps in two ways: (1) it draws left-wing notions of solidarity and liberation into ultranationalist, right-wing ideology; and (2), at least in its early stages, fascists often utilize ‘broad front’ strategies, proposing a mass-based nationalist platform to gain access to mainstream political audiences and key administrative positions.”

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[WAR] Mr Trump, please disband the CIA, good men continue to die at their hands...
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

This must stop. Analyst: CIA killed Russian Ambassadors [Video] http://www.fort-russ.com/2017/02/analyst-cia-killed-russian-ambassadors.html

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[WAR] War, what is it good for! American style "military dominance" in Vietnam
by Zenaan Harkness 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

Cutting as it gets, from a lowly murderer of the ranks.. The Joke of America’s Military Rule http://journal-neo.org/2017/02/26/the-joke-of-america-s-military-rule/ " All of those with me soon learned to hate the Marine Corps and that we were on the wrong side in Vietnam. ... It isn’t just a few, it became a disease during the Reagan presidency and after when military service was being glorified again, pretending to be a Vietnam veteran was a popular pastime. For those of us who actually fought the war, we only remembered losing our friends or being forced to fight an enemy that was defending its country against an evil foreign invader, meaning “us.” ... What I want to know is where are the veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, wars even more stupid than Vietnam, and why aren’t they telling the truth? Why aren’t we hearing about murdered civilians, about rapes, about massive drug dealing, about theft and corruption on a massive scale? These are the most evil and corrupt wars of modern times? Why is no one talking about them? When it comes to these wars, that search for non-existent WMDs or, more recently, Trump’s insane assertions about Iran’s nuclear program or his denialism about Israel and Saudi Arabia as the root of world terrorism, why is the silence deafening? "

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[WAR] [PFFR] TERRIFYING: CNN and NYT report Russian ambassador once talked to some Americans
by lauren＠freedbms.net 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

These Russian connections undermining American democracy, have to be stopped! -- Lauren. ** TERRIFYING: CNN and NYT report Russian ambassador once talked to some Americans http://theduran.com/russian-gordon-kushner-kislyak/ ------------------------------------------------------------ russian ambassador kislyak congress J.D. Gordon and Jared Kushner join a growing list of suspects who at one time talked to Trump and another time talked to a Russian US Ambassador to Moscow John Tefft caught having contacts with Russian diplomats http://www.pravdareport.com/news/russia/kremlin/03-03-2017/136998-us_ambass… ------------------------------------------------------------ " Official spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, has warned US Ambassador to Moscow John Tefft about a "danger." "I entered the building of the Foreign Ministry and came across US Ambassador to Moscow John Tefft. You put yourself at risk communicating with Russian diplomats. What if CNN learns about it, - I wished good morning to the partner," Zakharova wrote on Facebook. " ** Attorney General Jeff Sessions targeted by neocons and liberal left. Maria Zakharova calls out US, fake news, hysteria http://theduran.com/us-attorney-general-jeff-sessions-targeted-by-neocons-a… ------------------------------------------------------------ enrique-anna-Kournikova_ COMMON SENSE: The work of diplomats is to develop contacts in the host country.

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"Documenting Hate" Project
by Cecilia Tanaka 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

"Documenting Hate" Project: https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/hatecrimes "Have you been the victim of a hate crime? Have you seen others attacked for their race, ethnicity, gender, religion, trans status, disability, or sexual orientation? Tell us about it so we can investigate." - Peter Aldhous https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/hatecrimes-form https://www.buzzfeed.com/peteraldhous/tell-us-about-hate-crimes ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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[OT] [Aww] Extreme Cuteness Overload! :D
by Cecilia Tanaka 04 Mar '17

04 Mar '17

Awww... So cute, so pure! :3 :3 :3 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4273942/Kentucky-boy-four-shaves-he… # Friday Night Bonus, yay! :D http://mentalfloss.com/article/55753/39-weird-books-really-exist Cat Lovers, item 5. Stupid Nazis that Don't Believe in Climate Changes, see item 8. Real nazis are eco-friendly! :D I am curious about the item 6. I don't need the item 2, I'm already more awesome than the guy in the cover! :P ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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