The $53,000 Connection: The High Cost of High-Speed Internet for Everyone
In-flight and hotel WiFi can be quite expensive and often insist on charging users extra to connect multiple devices. In order to avoid that, it’s possible to easily create a WiFi hotspot using NetworkManager and a external USB WiFi adapter. Depending on the hardware you have, you may need to install the firmware-ath9k-htc package. The
[Editors’ Note: The author of this story, a former undercover officer for the CIA, has asked to remain anonymous.] It’s pouring and I’m standing in a dark alley in a North African capital at the height of an ongoing military coup, waiting for my source. I nervously glance down at my titanium Panerai Luminor Marina…
A Connection Machine (CM) is a member of a series of massively parallel supercomputers that grew out of doctoral research on alternatives to the traditional von Neumann architecture of computers by Danny Hillis at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the early 1980s. Starting with CM-1, the machines were intended originally for applications in artificial…
If you wanted an offer just to negotiate a raise or confirm your value, have any of you used a personal connection to get an interview that leads to the offer?Is it something you can explain to your friend ahead of time? Have you helped someone do this before?