'Economist' Calls For Open WiFi Specs

DavidNWelton writes "An interesting and well thought-out call for Wifi manufacturers to open up their specs, at least partially, written by The Economist. 'So it is hard to see what the problem is beyond a dog-in-the-mangerish desire not to give anything away. Time to open it up, boys.'"

Comments

Well the article might have been interesting

[ikkonoishi]

The ads on the page make my IE take 99% of the cpu.

Re:Well the article might have been interesting

[DFJA]

Ads on the page? So that would be those things that MS Internet Explorer users get, I presume.

Re:Well the article might have been interesting

[Phil246]

hehe indeed. Good ol firefox with adblock extention :D

hmm tho, is it just me or does the source of the article have this in it ( strange script with a stupid amount of white space which ive ever so nicely removed for you. i mean wtf is the purpose of it )

<script>
function getTitle()
{
return 'Shant!';
}
</script>

and another gem :

<!-- where is the javascript -->

these web developers are having fun now arent they lol

Brouhaha, 802.11a and 802.11e

[Anonymous Cowherd X]

Christian Sandvig of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who has been studying the brouhaha, believes regulators ought to enforce more openness.

That's the problem right there. He should have been studying the brouhehe as in 802.11e. For those of you not in the know BROUHAHA stands for Bandwidth Radio Optimized Universal High Availability Hotspot Access or IEEE 802.11a.

BROUHEHE, naturally, stands for Bandwidth Radio Optimized Universal Hybrid Enhanced Hotspot EQuality or IEEE 802.11e.