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Internet via the Power Grid, Again
Damon Campagna writes "This NYT article, Internet via the Power Grid: New Interest in Obvious Idea says the FCC is looking into power-line networking again. I thought this was pretty much debunked a couple years ago?"
I heard that the internet is on computers now, and computers need power dont they?
It is a logical choice/next step!
But seriously, why even consider this option. I would rather people looking into getting a minimum 1 foot RADIUS (not diameter) fiber optic cable coming into my house. So I can download porn, mp3's, movies, games, software, and mod chip bios's quicker. Because cable is not fast enough to meet my needs. At least I am honest.
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
You mean you rest of the world.
260 million people using the Imperial Measures, all in the good old U.S.A. The 5.8 billion people, everywhere else (including the rest of the British Empire) using metric.
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.
*rimshot noise*
Who writes your bad jokes for you?
I don't think you're paying them enough, because they're not that funny.
Maybe you'd do better with
Power line internet? Does that mean when my sockets break, I need to call an electrician?
Or
So, when I get DDOSed I can _really_ have a firewall to protect me?
See, now, you can do better...
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
No, we spend loonies.
Better than Minnie Mouse. She's fucking Goofy and Mickey is not pleased.
Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.