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WeHeartWifi: Getting the Most out of Spectrum
Albert Wenger – Mar 8, 2013
From a purely engineering perspective we can calculate the optimal amount of interference for a particular band of spectrum. We want just enough to achieve coverage. Any more is simply a waste of power. It is that knowledge of a [...] Read more
Standing Against Excessive Executive Power
Albert Wenger – Mar 7, 2013
Because I consider myself a peer progressive who believes in some role for government and the existence of market failures, I usually don’t agree with Senator Rand Paul. But I strongly support the basis of his filibuster of John Brennan’s [...] Read more
The Sequester: Fixing the Federal Budget
Albert Wenger – Mar 6, 2013
I have been wanting to write about the sequester for a couple of days and have been stymied by not knowing where to start because I deeply disagree with both sides. It’s a bit like observing two of our kids [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Choosing Your Technologies When You Start
Albert Wenger – Mar 5, 2013
This is the first of a new series of Tech Tuesday posts on Technology in Startups. Today’s topic: choosing your technologies. As a startup when you are just getting going, you have the luxury of picking any technology you want [...] Read more
RGB Colors, Math And Generative Art (An Educational Romp)
Albert Wenger – Mar 4, 2013
My older son asked me yesterday about how colors on the screen work. We started talking about the history of the RGB color model including early color screen technology. That eventually led to a discussion of how the RGB color [...] Read more
Leistungsschutzrecht (Germany’s Google Tax)
Albert Wenger – Mar 1, 2013
Germany’s parliament today passed the highly controversial “Leistungsschutzrecht” which is an ancillary copyright that requires payment for excerpting from and linking to content in some instances. When I walked around in a slight daze at Chicago O'Hare this morning after [...] Read more
A Further Step on the Road towards a Spy-vs-Spy Society
Albert Wenger – Feb 28, 2013
On Tuesday, the US Supreme Court rejected the ACLU’s challenge to warrantless wiretapping. That leaves the EFF’s lawsuit as the last one still standing. The argument made by the majority of justices for dismissing the ACLU challenge was that the [...] Read more
IPv6 Is Really Coming
Albert Wenger – Feb 27, 2013
The IPv6 standard was first published in 1998 which is now 15 years ago. For a while it looked like adoption would drag on forever resulting in some anguished discussions. But by about 2011 IPv6 started to develop real momentum [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Third Survey Says!
Albert Wenger – Feb 26, 2013
Last week on Tech Tuesday I ran the third reader survey to determine what to write about next. I offered up three possible topic areas that I had mentioned previously: lower level programming, theory of computer science and neural networks/machine [...] Read more