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Tempe City-Wide Wireless Snags

Posted by Zonk on from the contractors-should-be-vetted dept.

Triumph The Insult C writes "About a month ago, the dot carried a story about the city of Tempe, AZ, laying claim to be the first major metropolitan area to provide city-wide broadband internet access. Well, things haven't gone exactly as planned, as one of the companies involved, MobilePro Corp, is now being investigated by the state for not holding the appropriate permits. As a resident of downtown Tempe, I hope the rollout isn't successful, as I would much prefer to see a more community-based effort, such as in Seattle, Austin, and New York City."

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  1. Socialism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Socialism, pure and simple.

    How can they hate freedom so much?

  2. Miracle Worker Crosses Over at 85 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    CNN is reporting:

    LOS ANGELES, California (AP) James Doohan, the actor best known as the talented Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott of the Enterprise has died. He was 85.

    Wow, he will be missed!

    1. Re:Miracle Worker Crosses Over at 85 by zerbot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Your link is 404, and searching CNN for Doohan gets only very old links.

      It's not nice to troll Mother Slashdot.

  3. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN -- PARENT IS A GOATSE LINK! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You asshole, that's not goatse. It's an obituary for a fine actor, a hero of Normandy and an accomplished linguist.

    I'm sure that you're never going to amount to one quarter of what Mister Doohan accomplished in his rich life.

  4. 'DICK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the most. LLok at dying. All major

  5. When did it become... by PunkXRock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "the dot"? That's not even a good nickname, it's a full 5 characters (counting the space) longer than "/.".