Nrsolis

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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Fiber is just a convenient waveguide for certain electromagnetic frequencies. Bad for others. That said, your understanding is a bit "off." Amateur Radio (HAM) has microwave frequencies available for use that would be VERY effective for po
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Honestly, the more network is out there, the better. There is probably an upper limit on the number of networks any given city can support, so it's going to be natural for some combination of content sources to be partnered with fiber distr
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Yet. As with many things, the slippery slope isn't apparent until you've started the slide.
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Let me tell you my story: I got two years of college under mt belt and had to leave school for many reasons. Went to another university a year later to try and finish and got caught up in the building Internet boom/bust. The experience I
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
This guide: http://www.amazon.com/Bears-Earning-Degrees-Distance-Learnin... goes a long way towards helping you figure out whats legit and what's not. Generally speaking though, you want a program that's "regionally" accredited. Here's a
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
I did this but with a CS degree from an Ivy-League university. I already had two years of credit under my belt when I went back to school and it took me four years of study half-time and all three semesters (Fall/Spring/Summer) during the
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Don't forget the antenna. In many cases, the antennas themselves have specific polarization and beamwidth/radiation patterns along with SWR that is directly tied to the frequency range of the antenna itself. SDR doesn't change any of this
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
You don't get a degree now . Mark my words: in a few years, you'll be able to certify that you passed each course and you'll get some form of certification for passing a sequence of courses. It might not be called "BS in CS from MIT" but
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
How much do you pay for Google searches? For Yahoo! email? The revenue model is going to be something that is roughly similar to the ones we have with any number of "freemium" type services. My bet is that there is going to be a certificat
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Personally, this is VERY exciting for me. The biggest challenge I have seen with traditional universities getting into "distance learning" is that they are very much focused on delivering a full "classroom" experience rather than tailoring
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
You're right. We probably shouldn't hold our public servants to a higher standard than the general populace. It's not like we need our leaders to establish trust with other leaders and work towards solving real issues. And as a somewhat w
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Anyone that's informed on the state of the DC public school system sends their kids to Sidwell Friends or some other private school. That or they move to Fairfax County. And I really did laugh out loud when I read that comment. http://www
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
LOL. I'll tell you what, go visit a DC public school and have a look around. If every single school in DC was razed to the ground and every teacher fired, you might get better test scores from the kids than what we have now.
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
OR...you can do what I did and leave. Score one for individual liberty. At some point, it makes sense for a person to cut their losses and move somewhere where like minded people have already learned that responsible government starts with
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
I think YOU are missing MY point; namely, that a taxi in NYC is WAY better than a taxi in DC. For one thing, a taxi in NYC is more likely to be safe, recently inspected, and driven by someone who fears retaliation from authorities if he br
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
SO... We actually did try to fix the local government. We put Adrian Fenty in office and gave him free reign to get DC government working properly . Of course, when he tried to fix public education (via Michelle Rhee) he ran smack into th
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
NO. I live in NYC now and the taxi service is WAY better than the service in DC. For one thing, if you make a complaint against a driver in NYC, there is going to be some action taken. Not so in DC. That said, I used Uber almost exclusive
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Uh, I used to live in the DC area so take this comment in that spirit: The Local DC City government is one of the most dysfunctional, corrupt, and ineffective local governments of a large metropolitan area. There is nothing pretty about ho
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
I'd offer the opinion that "people" haven't changed much over the centuries. The fact that we still have the same problems across cultures, genders, races, and geography seems to bolster this view. Things change, but not nearly as much as w
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
There was once a time when CHF (Swiss franc) was at least partly backed by gold. Since 2000, no such luck. You might be well advised to study a currency phenomenon called the "unholy trinity" in regards to your opinion of speculative attac
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
I think this viewpoint represents the best example of the triumph of hope over experience. European history has been littered with examples of bitter and costly wars between nations and states. We (the world) are still resolving the afterm
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
I've worked in INFOSEC (of a sort) before and now I generally work on routing platforms. One thing that I've been schooled in pretty carefully is the law as is pertains to import/export of cryptographic technology. Some folks here might no
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
The top end Model S has a 85kWh battery pack and can get 265 miles on that charge according to the 5-point standard for MPGe set by the EPA. That's equivalent to just under 3 gallons of gas using the GGE conversion mechanism. That's an ama
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
I'll say this as a person who used to work for an electric utility that generated MOST of its power via coal. It is MUCH, MUCH easier to control pollution at a point-source (like, say, a power plant) than it is to control pollution on a mov
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Ray Bradbury was one of my favorite authors as a child. The depth and complexity of his stories truly enlightened me about good Sci-Fi. Most students in the US probably read Fahrenheit 451 in high school, but I enrolled in a literature cou
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Vulnerabilities Pervade the Digital Universe(washingtonpost.com)
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Is there ANY chance that this is a bit of a tempest in a teapot? I can envision a scenario where this "backdoor" is actually part of the designed-in security features of the chip designed to prevent an unauthorized party from reading out th
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
I'd add that this ( http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/cpumemory.pdf ) is a good accompaniment to the slides.
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Correct. Liability is the "required" part of insurance in most states. It follows you from car to car. What has likely happened is that they person who rented the car didn't have insurance of their own. That seems likely, since it's kind
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by Nrsolis 14y ago
Correct. But the guys were probably Special Agents and were from the data forensics group that are recruited into the DoJ specifically for their IT skills. It's also possible that there was a Special Agent + Contractor team working. BTW, t

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