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Australian Researchers Push Near-Broadband IP Over VHF

Posted by timothy on from the verified-horse-feathers dept.

Curmudgeon Rick writes "A research group at the Australian National University is getting symmetrical 250K bps at 20km, using "empty" 7MHz-wide broadcast TV allocations in the 45MHz band. Story here, project homepage here. Aim is to put some bandwidth out beyond the reach of the wires, where users are few and far between."

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  1. I HAVE A Greased Up YODA DOLL Shoved UP MY ASS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    9 steps to greasing your anus for Yoda Doll Insertion!
    v 4.02.0
    $YodaBSD: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/yodanotes/9steppro cess.sgml,v 4.02.0 2003/12/05 14:15:45 tsarkon Exp $
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    6. Put a nigger do-rag on Yoda's head so the ears don't stick out like daggers!
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    9. Gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Think about snoodling with the Sarlaac pit. Read Slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you don't check the (desired - speaks English) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Get Linux to boot on a Black and Decker Appliance. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that IDE is better than SCSI because you can't afford SCSI. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate Windows but use it for Everquest. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful star wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who aren't fatter than CowboyNeal can't submit. Fondle shrimpy penis while making a Yoda voice and saying, use the force, padawan, feeel the foooorce, hurgm. Yes. Yes. When 900 years you reach, a dick half as big you will not have.

    All in a days work with a Yoda figurine rammed up your ass.

    I HAVE A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS!

    GO LINUX!!

    Tux is the result after trimming Yoda's ears off so that Lunix people don't rip themselves a new

  2. AC Posting Aint So Anonymous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    WARNING, SLASHDOT NOW TIES AC COMMENTS WITH USER

    When you are logged in, /. ties your user account to any Anonymous Coward postings you make... Thus they know who posted it. To demonstrate this:

    1. Get mod points.
    2. Post an AC comment while logged in
    3. Change your dynamic ip, clear all cookies
    4. Log back in and try to moderate your AC comment... you can't!!!

    Please *log out* AND use another browser before making your AC comments.
    Your UID is being tracked, it's not Anonymous. Lots of people post lots of things to Slashdot as AC only because they believe it is really anonymous - it isn't. They hunt "trolls" (non-karma whores and non-group thinking bots) down.

    This is true. I used to be a bit more freestyle and witty AC and be a nice guy logged in [basically a karma whore]. After a short while, I could no longer moderate. Slashdot does brand AC posts with IP and then map them back to users. They lie about AC, AC doesn't exist if you re-use ip addresses.

    Big brother is watching. So while I might be a "troll" a lot of the AC things I said were to protect myself from Slash-bot groupthink. They punished me for voicing my opinion freestyle.

    They also revoke moderation FOREVER - $rtbl it is called, for any moderations of any post that have been secretly flagged annoying [Slashcode has hidden flags viewable by editors]. If you *EVER* mod up something an editor secretly marked annoying you NEVER moderate again, ever - ever even if your karma is capped.

    Also, Slashdot uses the friends system to track "trolls." Mark a troll you find funny as a friend *bang* $rtbl never to moderate ever again. My real account had many many good friends who had good karma, and a few funny trolls later, no more moderation for that account. Again, Slashdot is spying on its users to make the people who find certain things funny uneligible to moderate. You will never moderate again if you are a friend of a "foe or freak" of an editor.

    FACT: This is in Slashcode CVS

    Revision 1.7.2.5 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Thu Feb 8 13:12:32 2001 UTC (2 years, 9 months ago) by pudge
    Branch: bender
    CVS Tags: v1_1_3_0
    Changes since 1.7.2.4: +18 -7 lines
    Diff to previous 1.7.2.4 to branchpoint 1.7

    log more AC info

    So AC is a scam here. Hitler-Malda screws AC posts in the ass. So now all you can do is go 100% AC, or , as they expect you to, KARMA WHORE. And it is so lame and unfair and probably illegal as they lie about anonymity.

    Also, sometimes when certain information becomes an active thread, they bitchslap the thread much later so that people think its "safe" to participate and the whole thing gets slapped.

    Protect yourself. Try and use proxies or a super good second browser with proxies that you never log into such as Opera (which makes it very easy to delete all private data). Thank you.

  3. Attention: important research by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I am conducting an important survey on the sexuality of slashdot readers. Participating is very easy; I want you to look at this picture and report any feelings you may have. Afterwards, I want you to look at this picture and report the same.

    Thank you.

  4. Bad Joke by RedHatLinux · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe the dingo ate your Wi-Fi.

    1. Re:Bad Joke by ScrewMaster · · Score: 0, Troll

      Nah ... the transceiver substation was run over by a flamin' herd of wild brumbies.

      --
      The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
  5. Won't Work by raisinets · · Score: 1, Troll

    As a transmission engineer, I can tell you this scheme will not work for long. Those frequency bands will soon be reserved for the HDTV spectrum, not to mention ultra wideband interference. J

  6. Hilarious! MOD PARENT UP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is the funniest thing I've seen all day... MOD THIS UP, much better than the original story!

  7. well... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    To be honest, I thought the picture of you and your mom was a little strange. But that picture of your dad was just downright disturbing.