Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-06 Thread BillyGOTO
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

Re: WiFi Repeater?

2004-01-06 Thread Thomas Shaddack
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 c

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-06 Thread Jim Dixon
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Declan McCullagh wrote: > http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-407043,curpg-3.cms "Today, Bangalore stands ahead of Bay Area, San Francisco and California, with a lead of 20,000 techies, while employing a total number of 1.5 lakh engineers." ek lakh = 100,000

Re: DoS-ing fatherland goons

2004-01-06 Thread John Kelsey
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 wond

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-06 Thread Steve Schear
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

Re: WiFi Repeater?

2004-01-06 Thread R/db
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 rea

Re: WiFi Repeater?

2004-01-06 Thread Tyler Durden
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

Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-06 Thread Declan McCullagh
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

Re: Engineers in U.S. vs. India

2004-01-06 Thread Steve Schear
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 t

WiFi Repeater?

2004-01-06 Thread Tyler Durden
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 s

Re: Snake oil?

2004-01-06 Thread Dave Howe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://www.topsecretcrypto.com/ > Snake oil? I am not entirely sure. on the plus side - it apparently uses Sha-1 for a signing algo, RSA with a max keysize of 16Kbits (overkill, but better than enforcing something stupidly small), built in NTP synch for timestamps (probab

Re: progress

2004-01-06 Thread Declan McCullagh
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

Snake oil?

2004-01-06 Thread Freematt357
http://www.topsecretcrypto.com/ Snake oil? Regards, Matt-

Re: progress

2004-01-06 Thread James A. Donald
-- Declan McCullagh: > But then you have the next wave of attacks by the U.S. > regulatory apparatus (again, assuming sufficient > determination). The U.S. could pressure the Panama government > to close Pecunix or apply direct or indirect sanctions and > incentives. The U.S. could make it more