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Already experienced with the risks and benefits of 802.11 WiFi, government and corporate security managers are now grappling with early signs of convergence between 802.11 and other wireless systems, ranging from cellular networks to a short-range technology known as Bluetooth.

Geared to communications across distances of a few miles, WiFi has connected work-at-home and telecommuting environments as well as business and government organizations of all sizes over the past few years.

At the end of 2005, for instance, Proxim Wireless Corp., San Jose, Calif., announced that the City of Burbank, Calif., is using its WiFi equipment on a new municipal wireless network. Built by the city in conjunction with M-Gravity LLC, a Torrance, Calif.-based wireless technology specialist, Burbank's new network features a wireless “hotspot” about one square mile in size, offering wireless Internet access to citizens.

Other government agencies with WiFi networks already in place run the gamut from the U.S. Department of Defense to the communities of Corpus Christi, Texas and Chasta, Minn. What's the attraction? According to experts, the key advantage of WiFi networks is portability.

To hook up a laptop to either the Internet or an enterprise network, it must simply be situated near a piece of hardware known as an access point (AP). In Burbank, for example, APs have been installed on street lamps throughout the wireless hotspot, in addition to municipal buildings outside the hotspot.

Moreover, many foresee a day, not too far away, when WiFi-enabled voice communications will be as commonplace as WiFi data connections, through an emerging Internet-based technology known as voice over IP (VOIP).

On the other hand, unless properly deployed, WiFi networks are still fraught with security risks, according to other experts. Some organizations with WiFi networks have been hit hard by roving bands of hackers, sometimes known as “war drivers.”

How do wireless hackers operate? Typically, these potential intruders ride around in vans rigged up with WiFi hardware and software, trying to detect and tap into 802.11 wireless networks from the street. And all too often, they succeed.

WiFi vendors and industry groups have long worked hard on information security, but wireless experts point to a few lingering areas of vulnerability.

A couple of years ago, the WiFi industry started to replace WEP (Wireless Encryption Protocol), an encryption technique known as particularly easy to break, with the much stronger AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). But although the tide is turning, WEP still holds a lot of sway.

Moreover, many WiFi users fail to replace the easy-to-crack “default” SSID (system IDs) that come with their APs with strings of characters that would be harder for interlopers to guess. As many see it, better usability might help to produce improved security. “People will only accept easy-to-use security mechanisms. Wireless technology can be a very high hurdle for many of them to get past,” says Rich DeMilo, dean of the College of Computing at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology.

At the same time, WiFi networks are now starting to come together with other wireless technologies, raising new sorts of issues. WiFi and cellular networks carry the potential to complement one another well, according to some, because at this point, these two varieties of wireless networks are tailored to different types of devices.

For the most part, WiFi is used with PCs. Michael Finneran, president of dBRN Associates, Hewlett Neck, N.Y., says that some organizations have even set up special conference rooms for connecting PC laptops to the Internet and other data networks.

In contrast, cellular networks are still almost the exclusive province of cell phones and PDAs. “You do not see too many employees trying to balance laptops in their hands as they roam down the hallways talking on the phone,” Finneran says.

Similarly, PDAs are also better suited than laptops to a variety of data entry tasks performed by mobile workers, including work carried out by soldiers in the field.

* The larger the crowd, the larger and slower the gestures.

* If you have a small crowd, or if you are videoconferencing, or on television, use smaller gestures.

* Work to eliminate distracting or nervous gestures, but do not kill yourself to add new ones. They will take care of themselves and most of the time they look affected.

* Let your words trigger your actions. If you are counting, hold out your fingers. If you say no, shake your head no.

* Hold your hands open and wide apart to show sincerity and honesty.

* Hold your hands behind your back during question-and-answer sessions (don't overdo it).

* Avoid excessive hands in pockets, clenched fists, pointing, hands on hips, and the infamous fig leaf position where your hands are crossed in front of your groin.

Is that how it happens

Your heart misses a beat

You think you're in love

The feeling s such a treat

You're feeling all dreamy

Did someone call your name?

If it has happened

Life will never be the same

You think about them constantly

Your stomach is in a knot

Wondering if you love them

You care an awful lot

But how will you know

When the love bug hits thee

You ve been spotted by cupid

And the arrows flow free

Are you in love?

Is that what it is

Your heart is pounding

Or perhaps it is his

Yes, now you re sure

It fits like a glove

What you must be feeling

Is that you're in love

Spyware Anti Virus:

Some Personal Computer contain adware and shareware piece of program even before you purchase them. Because of this, fighting spyware and adware and removing spyware from computers is becoming even harder today. The only way to fight back is to have a Anti Virus Spyware Utility.

And what exactly does Anti Virus Spyware Utility do to protect our privacy?

Spyware programs?

Spyware programs is the most troublesome piece of program to appear on the Internet in recent times. When Spyware programs infects a computer system, it may be relatively harmless or it may be devastating. Spyware programs like Coolwebsearch and http://new.net are capable of paralyzing a computer system. Laws to regulate spyware are pending in many states and may take years to enforce. Spyware programs is any piece of program that collects information about computer usage and/or the computer user.

So is there any protection whatsoever against Spyware programs? How do we fight back against Spyware programs? The only way to protect our online privacy is to use Anti Virus Spyware Utility.

You need to get some form of protection against Spyware programs.

Spyware programs: What Does Spyware programs Do to Your Com?

Frequent popups are common features and ways to tell that you have been taken over by some sort of spyware and that you should rid your system of it immediately by getting a Anti Virus Spyware Utility. A search toolbar or other browser toolbar appears even though you didn't request it or install it. The smart thing to do is to get yourself a Anti Virus Spyware Utility. Anti Virus Spyware Utility are not hard to find, all you need is a Anti Virus Spyware Utility with a reputable reputation.

So hurry and protect your privacy!

It's a common opinion that you can't lose weight without exercising. This view is even advertised by certain "fitness gurus". But this is simply not true. Not being able to lose weight exercise is a myth.

I am not saying that you shouldn't exercise. Exercise is very important to your health and can also contribute to muscle tone and development. But to say that you must exercise in order to lose weight is simply not true.

I am sure you've seen people who work out regularly and yet seem to remain at the same weight, never losing a pound. Just as these people, who work out regularly never succeed to lose weight, some manage a good weight loss without ever going to the gym.

Wonder How? It's all a matter of good nutrition. What you don't put in your mouth does not end up on your thighs or stomach.

If you work around the clock or juggle a job and a family and simply don't have the time to exercise, don't despair. If you change your eating habits and stick to a detailed and professional menu which follows the Shifting Calories method, you'll lose weight.

If you follow the Shifting Calories method, you will, by nutrition alone, maintain a high metabolism, literally turn your body to a fat burning furnace, and lose weight fast. Most importantly, you will maintain your weight loss.

Do you plan on starting a home based business? This article gives some vital information on types of business ideas and opportunities available online and how to start immediately without spending a large amount of money.

Steps

1. Home based business is very easy to start with today’s internet technology that connects millions of people from all over the globe, but also offers you a myriad of opportunities to make money online. You can start your home business on internet, if you intend to earn a good income by just working from your home.

2. The internet really offers a multitude of home business opportunities. There are a lot of lucrative opportunities waiting for you online. You can find many good home business ideas that require the minimum investment.

3. Some highly lucrative home business ideas include outsourcing home based business, tutoring, business coaching, marketing consulting, accounting, web designing, interior designing, dance instructing, newsletter service, proofreading service, and resume writing service. These home based business ideas just require your personal skills rather than large investments.

4. If you are affluent enough and you have ample budget, you can start your online real estate business. Internet real estate business is one of the most lucrative business ideas. You can get into online auctions: sell on eBay and other online auctions. You can also launch your online store to sell your items online.

5. There are a number of advantages to starting internet home based business. Of course, one of the major advantages is that you are working on your own will, time, and terms, not for someone else, not on someone else’s will, time, and terms. Your home business makes you the boss. It allows you to schedule your time around what is important to you.

6. Secondly, it is rather easy to market your business online. You don’t need to depend on the traditional marketing techniques, the internet makes things really easy for you. Internet lets you market, promote, advertise, and publicize your home business more interactively, more expressively, and more effectively.

7. It’s very easy to start an internet business., all you need is a computer with internet connection. Of course, you need to create your website, which helps to connect your business to the whole of the internet business community. And, you need a lot of patience, determination, and hard work, if you are to start a flourishing home based business online.

8. Certainly, to have success in your home business, you need to learn a number of technicalities of the internet to set up a flourishing business. You must learn the necessary fundamentals, and let your home business take some time to grow. Remember, you can't build a business over night, so, you need to be very patient, while your business takes some time to develop. The key is to stay focused and determined.
You also need to learn about the right tools and techniques to make money online. You must learn the online marketing techniques, which will really help you to advertise and publicize your home based business, using marketing techniques, such as pay per click marketing, e-mail advertising, affiliate marketing and blog marketing.

9. These internet marketing techniques really help to promote your business online. These techniques help to increase your internet presence. Once your business has a good presence online, it starts getting more and more traffic, which means more potential customers.

10. There are a lot of skills that you will learn over time, when you start an internet business. One is that, you need not go anywhere else to find your customers, they are right there on the net with you, and having a properly run home based business is the way make money working from your home doing the right things online.

Warnings

- Be sure to set a daily budget for adwords, keep your spending within budget. If you don't, you will regret it.

There are several simple techniques to develop a search-engine that actually finds information, rather than just millions of matching pages. Searches should default to looking within paragraphs/sections, not across entire pages. Today's popular search-engines are mostly primitive word-scanners, not usually searching for sections of information, nor hunting the exact names being requested, such as with dashes & slashes in ID names.

Steps

1. PARADIGM SHIFT: Searching for actual information requires: a new way of thinking about searching text; and new ways to group text within a page: it is too primitive to attempt hunting information by looking at all text on a page; advanced techniques are needed to split a page into related sections. Just as grouping letters into words is a major step above searching for strings of characters/letters, grouping words into sections or paragraphs is the next major break-through in search-engine technology (as trivial as it might seem). This is part of the paradigm shift: instead of looking at a page as a stream of characters/letters, it is viewed as words; then, instead of looking at a page as a stream of words, it should be searched as sections/paragraphs of words.

2. FORGET SEARCH-ENGINES TODAY: Forget the way popular search-engines work today (2006): they are primitive compared to techniques developed 25 years ago at NASA: almost no search-engines today can pinpoint information the easy way, but rather obsess on matching millions of related pages: it appears to be "search-engine envy": with "my results are bigger than yours." Judging search-performance should not be based on "how many millions of pages were matched" but rather: Was the information pinpointed? How quickly were the questions answered? In any technological age, the current techniques can be viewed as "primitive" compared to better ideas in the future; however, to consider today's search-engines as "stone-age dinosaurs" is the beginning of wisdom. Many search-engines display ads on every page: it is in the interest of those ads to extend & prolong a search to display many pages of ads, rather than to pinpoint information.

3. SEARCH WITHIN SECTIONS/PARAGRAPHS: Plan the search-engine to look within paragraphs or sections of text, rather than searching entire pages for matching words. Often related words, that pinpoint a topic, usually occur within one sentence of each other. If paragraphs are too difficult to determine, allow a search-bracket of n-words (such as 30 words) to confine the search to logically related text. In practice, searching across entire pages to find so-called "related" words is one of the most ignorant techniques ever thought of on a whim: it might be trivial to search entire pages; however, more advanced techniques are needed beyond today's primitive, low-tech search-engines with the mindless search-all mentality. (The problem is rampant: even some book-searches hunt words across entire pages & cannot find words within just a paragraph/phrase.) Being trivial is no excuse for continuing to use ignorant search-techniques. The advanced techniques are not that much more difficult to implement.

4. SEARCH LITERAL WORDS: When information amasses, it is critical to differentiate between "a/an/the" to pinpoint information. Assuming to ignore some words just empowers a bias that insults the intelligence of potential users: perhaps have a rare option to ignore a list of words that includes "a/an/the/of/in" but, by default, search for every word specified. Let users learn to omit restrictive words; implicit omission of some words is as limiting as implicit declaration of misspelled variable-names in computer software: don't do it. (If someone misspells "off" as "of" then what happens? See? Understand the danger of implicitly ignoring words.)

5. SEARCH LITERAL CHARACTERS: If able technically, expect to search for literal strings such as "Project XRAY-10/NOVA" where the dash ('-') and slash ('/') are critical to the search: in practice, the searched text can have those characters converted to spaces when they are not in the search-phrase requested by a user; however, if pre-storing the searched words, then both forms can be indexed/stored (both "XRAY 10 NOVA" and literal name "XRAY-10/NOVA" can be indexed).

6. EXPECT INTELLIGENCE: Don't be cruel or critical of today's primitive search-engines & book-search programs; many people are intelligent enough to progress beyond the low-tech search-ideas of today, both as developers & users of the new-wave of advanced search-techniques. Computer technology, as a vast array of ideas, is complicated enough so that almost anyone can overlook obvious advances & get stuck in yester-year's technology, even thousands of computer professionals. The field is a mix of smart + dense: pages can be stored in complex, sophisticated databases but cannot be searched by paragraph, only by low-tech page-wide scans.

7. SIMPLE PROTOTYPE: To test the above new ideas, a simple prototype search-program could be developed to search for phrases by converting a line of text into words separated by spaces, with an added trailing-space after the last word on the line; then, each word in the search-phrase is padded with a trailing-space to scan against the blank-terminated words in the text string. Each text-string in the file or web page would be searched in similar fashion. Keep a counter until all search-words are counted as matching.

8. PIGGYBACK SEARCH: Since many of today's search-engines match too many pages, software could be written to scan those matched pages to pinpoint information. A program could retrieve each matched page, and searching within paragraphs while checking for dashes/slashes, that program could pinpoint the information within hundreds of web pages matching the low-tech search. Such a program could also hunt for a/an/the within each matching web page, and pinpoint the results without the user wading through many pages of ads.

9. PROVEN TECHNIQUES: Don't say, "That's too advanced; they'll never understand searching by paragraphs & literal names." People have an amazing capacity to move beyond limiting ideas of old search-techniques. Many of the above techniques were proven, in actual end-user applications, 25 years ago at NASA. That was an entire generation ago. It's just another case of "back to the future" in technology. The Renaissance overcame the Dark Ages, so better search-technology can, in fact, be achieved again.

Tips

- KEYWORD "NEAR": Some search-engines can already limit searches to partial paragraphs/sections by using the keyword "NEAR" in the search phrase. Experiments using the NEAR keyword can help demonstrate the advantages of limiting searches to paragraphs or sections, rather than searching across entire pages.

Warnings

- SPAM KILLING SEARCH-ENGINES: The foolish, low-tech approach of matching words across the entire page, rather than matching within paragraphs/sections has helped promote spam-pages that include 10,000 unrelated words, hoping to spam-match into the search-results. So, today's search-engines are becoming flooded with spam-pages and could become practically useless unless they deter further spam-pages. When writing a program to scan within a particular search-engine's results, be prepared to change to yet another search-engine that isn't being killed by spam as fast.