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Optical Cellphones

Posted by timothy on from the you-can't-hear-me dept.

foondog writes "Here is a story over at News.com about optical cellphones. It seems that the Department of Defense has given a grant to the University of California to develop optical cellphones that are faster and more secure. This sounds a little strange to me since you would need a line of site with no obstacles in the way to use this. The article doesn't explain how this might work."

10 of 211 comments (clear)

  1. Re:spelling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I belive he was refering to the mis-spelling of 'site'. In this context, the appropreate spelling is 'sight'.

  2. Re:spelling by Rui+del-Negro · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It probably has something to do with the "seams" mentioned in the second sentence, or with the "obsticals" mentioned at the end.

    We're always learning new things. For example, I always thought that an editor's job was to check for errors (spelling, grammar, factual, etc.) in articles before publishing them...

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  3. More great slashdot editing by NMerriam · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Commence massive spelling correction project in
    5...4...3...

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  4. Re:spelling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    belive: no, believe.
    refering: no, referring.
    mis-spelling: no, misspelling.
    appropreate: no, appropriate.

  5. first spelling post by Niksie3 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it seams like the editor made yet another spelling error...

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  6. Re:spelling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm firmly convinced that none of the editors have more than a third grade reading level, and they wait to see the spelling complaints in response to the story so that they know which words are spelled incorrectly.

  7. SIGHT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SITE != SIGHT

    Learn how to spell, fuckhead.

  8. Re:spelling by unicron · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You misspelled(2 S's):

    *BELIEVE
    *REFERRING
    *MISSPELLING
    *APPROPRIATE

    And TECHNICALLY he is guilty of bad grammer, not misspelling. Site is actually a word, but not the one he wanted.

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  9. Re:spelling by unicron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Correcting myself: grammar

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  10. I've had enough by ekrout · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm sorry for the rant, but for the last couple of years Slashdot has become a swamp. Half the articles are from someone pushing their personal agenda ("Microsoft sucks", "Apple rules", "Person X is a bastard", etc.), and the other half are simply wrong. The readers then comment on the Slashdot "news items" without even bothering to read the original articles (thus propagating the ignorance) and finally the moderators mod things as "interesting" or "insightful" without bothering to see if they're even remotely true.

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