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Google Launches Free Wireless Broadband

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the cheap-at-twice-the-price dept.

SlashRating© 600673 slashdottit! tm 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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  1. Sanitary... by adamziegler · · Score: 5, Funny

    For years, data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Hmm... suppose this mean I am still going to get shitty service.
  2. April 1st by bcmm · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Could you mod me up please?

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  3. Re:This could cause a great many plumbing bills... by linguizic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once you've got Linux on it it won't be to bad. I don't remember that last time I flushed iptables.

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  4. Re:This could cause a great many plumbing bills... by Cheerio+Boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Once you've got Linux on it it won't be to bad. I don't remember that last time I flushed iptables.

    This could bring a whole new meaning to "buffer overflow exploit". :-)

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  5. PipeRank - Google's New page ranking algorithm by robotsrule · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:Fooling yourself by Ticklemonster · · Score: 5, Interesting
    For just once, I'd like to see the higher brain function kick in and see people run with a gag. Surely there's enough people here at /. that can come up with enough technobabble to really play along with even the most obvious prank and run with it. What a great brain workout it would be to try to come up with enough total hogwash to support some of the gags people come up with on A1.

    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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