Day: January 20, 2006

I know we have to track the bad guys and look for porn pushers… BUT, this one does bug me. And, I am a tried and true conservative, make no mistake. I admire President Bush and support the war on terror, as well as a tracking down and prosecuting porn pushers… but, I am a privacy advocate as well. Being conservative, Christian and a supporter of on-line privacy and personal privacy is NOT a contradiction. There has to be a way to get the intel and track the bad guys and preserve our individual privacy as well. I don’t have the answer to this one, though.

Bush vs. Google on Privacy Issues

Stay tuned. This one is going to be VERY interesting!

This is a cool photo of the beginning of a cool mission! (No pun intended… I know Pluto is cold!)

Hi Res Photo of Pluto Mission Liftoff

I remember in 1969 watching the Apollo mission when the largest rocket ever built blasted off to carry three men to the moon. It would takes DAYS to reach the moon… the Pluto probe rocket made it to the moon, and passed it, in only nine hours! Wow!

The IEEE is, of course, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Meeting in Hawaii (well, SOMEBODY’S gotta do it) they passed the first draft of the new 802.11n standard for wireless, which will eventually provide up to 600 MBps in throughput over wireless networking! Dewd!

IEEE Committee Passes 1st Draft of 802.11n

“Broadcom and Marvell have already announced chips based on the draft, with Broadcom saying its products would be upgradeable in case of any changes in the final revision. The first 802.11n chips could be released by the end of this quarter, Marvell said.

Passage of a proposal requires a 75 percent vote in the affirmative, which it easily surpassed on a vote of 184 to 0 with four abstentions. However, final ratification is not expected until 2007.

802.11n uses a technology called MIMO, which stands for multiple-in, multiple out. In layman’s terms, it means a device could have multiple antennas that handle more than one data stream at a time, thus speeding the transfer of data tremendously.

According to test, data rates of up to 600 MBps could be expected. 802.11n devices would also be backwards compatible with the earlier 802.11a, b and g specifications.”

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