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DEFCON WiFi Shootout Winners Set A Land Record
bscience writes "While attending the DEFCON 12 convention this past weekend I had the chance to see the standing ovation a group of 19 year olds received for establishing a 55.1 mile unamplified WiFi connection!" A snippet from the Wired story linked there: "Mobile warriors having trouble making a wireless connection across the hall might want to give some Ohio teens a call. This weekend they were able to make a 55-mile Wi-Fi connection. ... They might have achieved an even greater distance, Justin Rigling said, "but there was no road left."" (Here's the post from a few weeks back about the competition.)
Very observant, but your word choices are a bit off.
By "off" I mean the opposite of appropriate, suitable, befitting or apt.
You must be quite the rocket scientist, doing subdivision's of the 12 inches into a foot into fractions. Wow, no one would ever think that it would be easier then dividing something like that.. oh wait, you know it's even easier when it's power of 10's, unless you have a problem breaking a hundred dollar bill. While we are at it we should change the $10 bill to be $12 denominations, cause you can figure out the fractions of that really easily. Bring on the $6, $3 and the $1.50 bils too...
It just seems easier when you are doing carpentry work because everything is measured to imperial, since bright guys like you can't figure out metric and the 'power of 10', it seems that this will be the last place that any sort of change can take place.
Glad we have smart guys like you to sort us out.