The Lance J. Technoweb

I was on Ars Technica today reading about heavyweight mesh WIFI networking gear that promises better WIFI in your home. The article makes some excellent points against these products, but it hides the failings deep.  I guess writers don't want to knock their advertisers.  Here I point out Ars' hidden arguments against these mesh networking products. 1. The Ars Technica article says, "like I discovered when I tested Eero for the Wirecutter, multi-hop here works , but it’s best avoided if you don’t absolutely need it". Stated more simply: avoid Mesh networking unless you absolutely need it or don't care much about performance. 2. The article says "some client devices actually perform worse when overwhelmed with too much signal."  Actually, all client devices perform worse when overwhelmed with too much signal.   Unsurprisingly, noise in the radio spectrum is a serious problem when dealing with radio communications.  The more powerful transmitters ...

Democracy cannot succeed if people and politicians set up government policies along the idea of majority rule.  Instead, you have to go back to the guts of it all: happiness for the people. With a concept like Brexit, where roughly half the population of the UK want to leave the EU, and the other half do not, compromise is in order.  Brexit shouldn't mean Brexit, and to run with that conclusion is to blindly follow a nascent and unrefined buzzword.   Is Brexit going to hurt the UK?  Then just maybe you need to REFINE the theme. "Oh, but a majority voted for Brexit".  Bullshit!  They voted for all different things, and for all different reasons. Brexit SHOULD mean fucking fixing the problem so that WAY MORE than 50% of the population is better off, and the few others should at least not be harmed. That's what democracy is SUPPOSED to be about: compromise, make the imperfect world a little better, and repeat forever. The US has the same proble...