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haakon666··on Super Bowl to handle 30,000 Wi-Fi users, sniff out “rogue devices”
It's a Cisco setup so they will be using their CleanAir feature to identify and triangulate sources of interference.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/netsol/ns1070/index.html

haakon666··on The Australian Computer Society should be disbanded
If you are a Sysadmin or in a related field, you may want to consider joining SAGE-AU

I'm a Network Engineer and find membership worth while, if only for the mailing list.

http://www.sage-au.org.au/

haakon666··on Google's Answer to Siri Thinks Ahead
Yes, it mines google latitude data for that. Since I left my office job and started running my own business from home. Latitude has been getting very confused about where I work. Last time I checked it thought I worked at the local shopping centre.

Edit: Just checked, it now thinks I work at my kid's school.

haakon666··on Steve Wozniak wants to become Australian
As a bearded Australian, I'm sure you will enjoy this song by The Beards.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmFnarFSj_U
haakon666··on Pacific Fibre cable project sunk by US fears about Chinese espionage
Yes those options still exist, no they do not even come close to the bandwith or the pricing available on submarine cable systems.

Pricing on Southern Cross cable dropped massively a few years back when PIPE's PPC-1 went from Sydney to Guam. Ending the cosy duopoly between AJC1 and SSC. It was also one of the first cables out of Australia that wasn't owned partly by an incumbent telco (Telstra, Optus etc).

haakon666··on Bitcoin price soars 40% in the last month
You pay fees for currency conversion at your local bank to. It is just hidden in the spread between their rates and the market rates.
haakon666··on Google's Self-Driving Car Gets Mixed Reviews
Google AI: Elsurudo, we are about to go past Joe's coffee and they are offering a free cookie with any large drink. Traffic is good today so we have time if you would like me to stop there?

Taking click through adverting to the next level, delivery of the actual customer.

haakon666··on Google's Self-Driving Car Gets Mixed Reviews
If the turn signals are not on the CAN bus it could be annoying to implement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus

haakon666··on Google's Self-Driving Car Gets Mixed Reviews
Or you could view it that they are trying to extract an extra hour or two of eyeball time per person per day. Since you no longer have to drive the car, you could be using your android tablet on the commute to work....
haakon666··on Got a deck? Solar panels now a plug-in appliance
For those that own their own home I think the loss of efficiency versus a professional install of your roof would negate any savings.

For those that rent and want to be able to take their panels with them, it's a winner of a product idea.

haakon666··on My 2 hour morning project, route.im
It also says trace complete with no output if you put an ipv6 address in.
haakon666··on "Australian Exceptionalism": best performing and fairest developed nation
If ever need a network engineer on a part time or on a on-call basis. Let me know. I'm based out of Brisbane.

caskings@ionetworks.com.au