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BPL: The Internet's Fool's Gold

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hand-meet-other-hand dept.

Joe Barr writes "One of the more fascinating tidbits of information I came across while researching this story on NewsForge about BPL, the fatally flawed wannabe-broadband-provider technology, was that at the very same time the FCC was downplaying the threat of the interference BPL creates, the FCC's very own test results were showing just the opposite."

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  1. Re:Realistically by Detritus · · Score: 0, Troll

    Then you wont mind if I dump a ton of toxic waste in your yard. Clean air and water is so 20th century.

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  2. Public Interest? by NEOtaku17 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Maybe the public is more interested in having broadband then using HAM radios. Did you ever think of that? Oh that's right you are just looking for more reasons to bash Bush...

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  3. BPL over my dead body. by Ice+Station+Zebra · · Score: 0, Troll

    I will never let BPL work anywhere I live. Every see those sneakers thrown across the wires. Imagine them filled with small HF transmitters. Fuck BPL.