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China's War Against Wires
hodet writes "On sections of Beijing Road, you can barely see the sky. On Tibet Road, they dangle in garden-hose rolls and knots intricate enough to confound a Boy Scout. Over on Hefei Street, one enterprising apartment dweller even used them to hang-dry selected cuts of meat.
Tech-happy Shanghai, the most wired city in China, has a problem: wires. Telephone wires. Fiber-optic wires. Electrical wires. Wires no one can seem to identify. Black wires. Blue wires. Magenta wires. They're everywhere, and they're gumming up the works."
... that stealing cable TV would be such a problem in a Communist country?
Why does this article make me want to look behind my desk? I think its the picture of clothes hanging from the wires... maybe that is where my right sock went!
Radiation? What radiation? You mean electromagnetic radiation? Just put on your tinfoil hat and run a wire from it to a cold water pipe and you'll be fine.
Chlicken with special flied wires?
From the article:
:-)
> Wires are just one urban challenge. Bedeviled by ballooning rat populations,
> Shanghai has turned not to poison but to rodent contraceptives.
Who gets the job of fitting all the little guys with condoms?
They sould see my desk behind my computer. Just last month I lost 3 good men in an expedition to unplug my monitor.
"So China is doing what China usually does when confronted with such dilemmas[...]: It's mounting a campaign, asking the masses for help"
So why didn't China post this in Askslashdot?
that's one more wire radiating electromagnetic dirt! can't we make that grounding wireless?
Free as in mason.
I read the article (gasp) and then looked directly under my desk... doesnt look like I'm doing much better. So when is Power Over IP going to come out again?
Another interesting thing to ponder, last time you moved your equipment from one room to another, when you booted up did you notice that a third of the wires you once had in your old setup were unused... where do these buggers come from? its like they're breeding and no matter how hard i try to keep the female ends on the other side of the desk from the male ones it seems to happen every time.
Yet another thing to consider. I just came back from a 200 person LAN party this weekend. A buddy in my clan (read: geeks that LAN together, not CS \"noobs\"); was relieved that he brought his trusty Dell QuietKey keyboard rather than his wireless logitech. The clan sitting directly behind us all were using these devices are were having trouble with interference all the time. Probably could have fixed things with using different channels but by the looks of things (19" LCD, green Antec cases, blue LED casefans) these guys didnt know a CAT5 from a Hello Kitty Personal Vibrator
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
That sounds like far too sensible an idea to ever catch on in the UK!
If a lot of people are involved in running bandit cables, and a bunch of other people get paid to remove them, I can see why their economy is doing so well.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Telephone Fiber Electrical wires.
Crossing and shorting and starting great fires.
Sagging and snagging and causing us ires,
down to the street and around all our tires.
Intricate knots to confound a Boy Scout.
Perplexing knots that no one can get out.
So many knots that I know nothing about.
Gordian knots I say without a doubt.
On Tibet Road they dangle
each and every angle
on telephone poles
n garden-hose rolls.
Black wires Blue wires Magenta you see,
it's a rainbow put there to serve you 'n me.
On Beijing Road you can barely see the sky
Wires no one can seem to identify
growing and climbing and reaching so high
all over China's tech-happy city Shanghai.
Wires to hang-dry selected cuts of meat,
Wires as planters for growing rows of wheat.
Wires for poppy-san, wires for mommy-san.
Wires for you-san, wires for me-san.
Please do not forget some wires for Nissan!
Wires in rows for power that glows,
under my toes and under my nose.
The question I pose is where it all goes?
Where it all goes? But nobody knows!
We are betwix it how do we fix it?
How do we nix it? Let us sub-six it!
Oh what a feat I jump from my seat!
Under the street down under our feet!
That is no cheat! That would be a treat!
That would be neat that answer I greet!
Could that be beat down under concrete?
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Nice big country. Loads of land. And someone decides to build a city on a major fault-line. Why is that?
Aiming for underground isn't wasted effort. Fiber optics cables can be installed in the city's sewers.
It also brings an altogether new meaning to phrase "shitty connection".
probably antennas for clandestine radio stations.
I can't help but think if we just cut them all that spam would decrease by 70%
PLEASE OHH PLEASE
Underground lines have full time maintenance associated with them, while above ground lines don't require as much (other than the occasional tree limb or high wind).
Speaking as a canadian:
And snow, ice, mad beavers, enraged mooses, majestic maples...
The wires are in constant danger!
You can't take the sky from me...
Are the nests of wire as bad as these?
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