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World's Fastest Net Link 'Used To Dry Laundry'
praps writes "Last summer a 75-year-old woman from central Sweden became the envy of the IT world with her scorching 40Gbps internet connection. 1,500 simultaneous HDTV channels or a whole high definition DVD downloaded in two seconds were hers for the taking. Now Sigbritt Löthberg could soon be treated to an incredible 100 Gbps link — but it may not be put to great use. According to the head of the ultra-fast fiber connection project, Sigbritt mostly used the gear 'to dry her laundry.'"
If "drying her laundry" is a euphemism for the mass quantities of porn she is downloading, then I'd be doing the same thing.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
Id like to come over and dry my laundry at her house!
There Can Be Only One...
It does work - I used to use my high-end HP workstation to dry my biking clothes when it rained. I did feel a bit sorry for the people in the neigbouring cubes though.
ccalam - acoustic versions of new songs.
As if thousands of voices cried out in agony....and were suddenly silenced.
Hey I wanna dry my laundry too you know. I'll test this stuff out... I'd love to be able to download a full HD DVD of Porn in 2 seconds. Dammit.
-- Josh
"Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me!" - Pete Conrad
Same here in IE6 (shut up, I'm at work.)
... only old people have 40Gbps internet connection.
Tie two birds together: although they have four wings, they cannot fly. (The blind man)
Brain the size of a planet, access to 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously, and she wants me to dry her laundry!
.... depressing
....is my Blue Gene L washing machine and I'll be ready set the record for the largest waste of computing resources in history.
I once had the great idea to sell home exercise equipment that was very difficult to use as exercise equipment but had several long poles jutting out of it each long enough to hold a bath towel. I figured that since all my other home exercise equipment ended up being laundry racks anyway, that it would make sense to design some just for that purpose.
Never really got off the ground with it, though.
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(linked to alternate site 'cuz I can't find it on theonion.com...)
If you're drying your undies and such, do you need to download porn to make them dry quicker? If so, this would be the first time I've heard of porn making clothes dry...
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted." -Groucho Marx
A friend of mine discovered that the washing line in the garden of his rented house was actually a very long Cat-5E cable. Sadly, he didn't find this out till it snapped, which was particularly annoying for him as he had just spend £30 on a massive bit of cable to reach all the way to his computer in the attic room of the house.
What if Tetris was invented by Nazis?
Its strange that the link for what looks to be a highly informative photo documentary exploring the life and characters of Swedish nightclubs seems to be broken.
./ folk, especially since not many actually live in Sweden.
I wouldn't have thought Swedish nightclubs held all that many attractions for basement dwelling
I was introduced to the guy whose mother this lady is at IETF in Chicago.
OK, Yoda.
If we all had that speed, someone would make content to fill it.
Microsoft. The next version of Windows will be measured in TB.
"Kittens give Morbo gas!"