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Native American Wireless ISP Launched
babynerd writes "On Tuesday June 1st the Coeur dAlene tribe unveiled the Turbocharged Broadband Geek Project. The scheme, organized by project head Valerie Fast Horse and funded by a $2.8 million dollar grant from the USDA Rural Utilities Service and a 15% in kind match from the tribe itself, will help build a community technology center (CTC) with 40 computers, and a wireless broadband ISP that will provide high-speed wireless access to anyone living on and near the reservation at a price comparable to that of any other DSL or Cable Internet providers - there's currently no broadband Internet access of any kind available."
...very slow bandwidth . . . .
Valerie Slow Horse prefers a floppy disk for data transfer...
Too bad they ain't running Apache... maybe they've had bad experiences in the past?
The old smoke signals had terrible throughput!
Now homeowners associations can keep Indians from putting antenae on thier tee pees
I'm starting to think my history teacher is psychic. Today, we watched Smoke Signals in class and now there is this in the news. Last week, we finished talking about Ronald Reagan, now he died. A while back, we talked about Elia Kazan in the 50's, within a week, he died. Wierd...
I should get him to talk about Bill Gates...
actually several of us were born here.
"the best safety of the frontier...will be secured by total annihilation of the few remaining indians" L Frank Baum 1890
A previous attempt by a different group of native Americans failed to crystallize into an actual broadband offering. That group's spokesman, Eddie Slow Turtle, had no explanation.
- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
Idaho...where men are men and the women, well they kind of look like men too.
You had me at "dicks fuck assholes".
Turbo Pascal, product by Borland.
The word "Turbo" has become part of the lexicon for describing anything fast. I don't think anyone really understands that the product is not using it's own exhaust gases to boost internal horsepower. Imagine if Slashdot did that, it would FLY. God knows there is so much exhaust gas around here.
Native Americans have had wireless communication for centuries. Smoke signals, anyone? No offense to my red brothers, we smokem peace pipe.
worst sig ever. . .
Crap, now I hate myself for having both THEY and WE ancestry. I think I'll go outside and kick my own ass then give my land back to myself.
Once you give it back to yourself, don't forget to start your Casino!
You are in a maze of twisted little posts, all alike.
I vote we take everybody who wants to frame all their relations with other people based on what happened before they were born, and everyone who wants to punish someone else for something their ancestor did, and everyone who wants reparations for events which involve no one who is alive today, and we put them all in a BIIIIG room.
And we give each one of them a grenade.
And we close the door.
And pour concrete over it.
How's that for a solution to the twin problems of overpopulation and regional/racial hatred?