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Google Launches Free Wireless Broadband
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Ashish Kulkarni writes "Google has just announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)(TM), a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. All the dark fibre that google has supposedly laid out is now fully operational! Check out the description of how it works."
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Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
As hackers attempt to hack Google TiSP into their toilets and install Linux on the public "water treatment servers". ;-)
"Bah!" - Dogbert
See, the internet really *is* a series of tubes, after all! I know this is an April Fools joke, but that just had to be said. Coincidentally enough, the word I have to type to log in to reply to this message was "blockage".
It'll save time.
One of these days I will realize that going to _any_ website on April 1st is a complete waste of time.
I hope it happens soon.
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Google is trying too hard today.
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I've been a beta tester for Google TISP for the last 3 months. Without any reservations, it simply beats the shit out the competition. And it's free! Only caveat- you might have difficulty taking a dump and surfing the net at the same time, unless you have more than one bathroom (I've got 1.5, so no problems).
stop all this nonsense, or I will be forced to turn the tap off
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Ponies!!! There's just gotta bed pink ponies underneath all that dark fiber.
You can't be ahead of the curve, if you're stuck in a loop.
I could sit on the Internet all day now!
And even better, my rural home has a toilet, so it ought to get broadband now! I just hope it's septic tank compatible.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
We need to have the pink slashdot theme back, even as an option. OMG ponies!!
Why does my post history abruptly stop? I want to laugh at the stupid things I posted as a kid.
How does this count as wireless? You have to stick a wire down your toilet...
Along with the plumbing connection, Google has added a new web page ranking system called PipeRank. Where as Google's original PageRank algorithm worked to boost pages to the top of their search engine results, PipeRank penalizes pages. PipeRank is measured by counting the number of people that flush the toilet while visiting a web site equipped with Google's plumbing based wi-fi system. Using Google Toolbar enabled laptops as they sit perched on the throne, Google has announced that this is their best new weapon in preventing crap on the Internet from affecting their search results.
Robert Oschler - RobotsRule.com
Google is going down the toilet?
It takes one brain cell to post that it's a prank, but it takes a host to try and perpetuate the bullshit. And in the spirit of A1, would that not be more fun anyway?
So um yeah, I wonder how they deal with harmonics on long runs of pipe, eh?
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People will fall for this - I mean it. I got my friend to believe this, he was about to "order". He really thought it was true. You should try tricking your friends with google's april fools jokes it is great fun. - Oh no, linux wont run on my toilet!
This is one of the most gross April Fool's jokes ever; like a person is really going to take poops with this wire coming out of their toilet.
I for one am worried about geting hacked from the back door!!!!
Flush the cable... hmmm... yeah right... Has they gone and employed sewer rats now to hook up the cable? Hmmm, are they monitoring everyone that uses this service, cause I 'cat /var/log/dump > /dev/toilet/'
Gmail being announced on April 1st was a coincidence more than anything, and it was much more believeable and not written as an obvious joke like this and other Google April Fool's jokes.
What?
Thanks!
I actually RTFA and noticed that you have to install the Google Toolbar for it to work. This probably means sooner or later i will have to view Google ShitAds for the service to work. Also, it doesnt run on Linux (Linus doesn't accept binary-poop in the kernel) or on a Mac (Macs are too clean shiny and the Google ShitAds just slide off. Those that don't take shitload of work to scrub off)
I'm sorry, bit TiSP is a blatant rip-off of DSL technology that I introducted about a decade ago:4 0
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/132
So now on top of the alphabet soup of computerese technobabble, we gotta add plumbers jargon, too?
I bet there's seventeen different ways to say "shit" in plumberese...
Productive Google engineers wasting their time to prepare such cra^Wjokes? See where my AdWords money goes.
I'm on septic
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
I take it this is a bog standard installation procedure?
To do something right, you often have to roll up your sleeves and get busy.
Google TiSP sounds amazing. I am curious though as to the impact on RFC 1149 - A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers.
I realize that these pigeons could travel down the tubes, but this could create severe blockages of their own. The only benefit I can see is that the pigeon would die in a gaseous environment which could signal a pending DoS attack - or depending how far the infrastructure a Distributed DoS (DDoS) attack.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
Just woke up, a bit groggy, and I see free wireless broadband! I am stuck with crappy (no pun intended) satellite broadband and was very exited about an alternative. Oh well will keep waiting for Clearwire.
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Those bastards! No mac or linux support as usual.
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
If you eat oatmeal the day before, you'll have all the dark fiber you'll need.
I wonder if I can run VoTP applications?
That's why they bought YouTube !
I have just developed a Unix device, using Signetics' "Write Only Memory" chips, which not only collects unwanted bits, but also actually flushes them down the toilet. Simply "pipe" unwanted data to "\dev\toilet" eg: > more foo.txt | toilet. Also, for Mac & PC users, it comes with a more appropriate icon to replace the Trashcan icon - it's the new "Toilet" icon, and with it you can flush those no-longer-needed files down the drain! We are currently in alpha test, and users should beware of one small problem currently being debugged: occasionally, when un-deleting a file (OS-X cmd-Z), the file comes back with a few extra bits of dark matter stuck to it which can stink up your system.
I heard that the Blue Man Group was the first to examine the built-in network of modern plumbing. It looks like Google was intrested in building apon the idea.
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Seriously say the bubble did say burst, where would we be without google?
April 1
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Doncha just LURVE April 1st?
I'd hate to find out what happens when you try to upload too much....
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Why is TiSP in beta?
When things go wrong with TiSP, they go very, very wrong. Let's leave it at that.
Priceless.
Your sig(k) has been stolen. There is a puff of smoke!
Wireless internet is great and all, but GMail Paper promises to revolutionize the way we store email.
Also, their logo is cool: TiSP
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
It's IP over toilet paper, which is only slightly less reliable than IP over avian carrier. Sometimes the packets get constipated and you end up with a shitty link.
Ok, so since my place has two toilets (data interfaces), does this mean I can use a Cisco 72xx or higher series router to double my throughput with trunking? Hmmmm, must start looking on eBay.... Does it reboot the connection when the data interface is flushed?
Don't fear the penguins
This is the only right place to do a core dump.
There isn't much like the scent of a fresh harddisk
From the FAQ: "Google TiSP ensures reliable throughput through the power of fiber, which has been proven through extensive research to effectively facilitate consistent data flow with minimal latency."
Brilliant!
Why is Google anti-septic?
From the http://www.google.com/tisp/faq.html:
What are the system requirements?
Windows XP/Vista (Mac and Linux support coming soon)
Damn...
http://br.geocities.com/francasite/waternet_index. html (site is in portuguese)
the "water modem" is already an old joke here in the tropics (the website was created in november 2001).
some of the seling points:
- sharing internet connection was possible, as long as every PC had access to a faucet;
- optional "waterwall" to protect your computer
- WaterNet(tm) pressure gauge
and more. it came with 2.000 liters/month (256 kbps), 6.000 liter/month (768 kbps) and 12.000 liters month (1.5 Mbps).
i laughed my ass of the first time i saw it. the worst is that the 1st coworker i showed it to believed the thing was real, to the point of filling the ordering form.
What ? Me, worry ?
I've been waiting for Google to do this for forever!
Klingon Software is not released, it escapes, inflicting terrible damage onto the enemy as it does
Dang. No support for WindowsPP. Kind of a shitty deal. Guess I'm out of luck.
Google free internet already exists, granted only in Mountain View but it is free wireless that covers almost the whole place.
The newly introduced Google Tisp Beta must be one that use similar technologies like Google's patented PigeonRank(TM).http://www.google.com/technology/pi geonrank.html
Btw: Happy Fool's Day.
Do you care about the security of your wireless mouse?
Project Teaspoon
Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E9MZli4qeU
On Google's own YouTube, no less!
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Will this work if someone has constipation
Version 2.0 will further extend the wireless networking ability of TiSP Version 1.0 to rural areas. The problem with rural areas is that they are not served by sewer systems but usually by septic systems. Version 2.0 will allow the use of septic drain fields in the ground as high directional antennas for interconnecting nodes to extend the TiSP networking up to 5.34567 miles from another TiSP node and allow for coverage of vast areas currently not covered by any existing wireless or wired networks.
Lol I made a video about this... :P
Google's April Fools 2007
If you check out Gmail, they also made a prank there.
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Man so many april fools jokes online today they aren't even funny, just time consuming...bahhh!
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I didn't read the presumably fictitious Google plan, but acoustic bit-transmission through plumbing pipes is very doable.
Ditto data transmission by varying the pressure of the water, but that would be a lot more complicated. Note that fluid-pressure-based control/signaling systems have been used in certain industries for decades.
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Took me all day, but that's GOOGLE, upside down. Ahhh...I love the new Slashdottit! Ratings System.
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Please tell me I'm not like the last person on Earth to notice that.
13,000 channels of shit on the TV to choose from?
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... I'm glad they're coming up with new and innovative technologies for connecting computers, but I bet like WiFi and Powerline ethernet, the first version will be slow as shit.
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