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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.'"
Is this really that big of a surprise? I seem to recall from the original story that prior to this she had never even owned a computer.
I've never owned a space station, but I imagine if I suddenly came into control of one, I wouldn't get it put to as much use as someone with a clue.
Becomes kind of pointless when the internet speed is a few times faster than your hard drive can handle.
I can think of at least 4 stories that made the front page in the last week or so that should have been set here instead of the category they where in.
I really didn't even know this part of the site existed, or at least I didn't know it existed in this state. It is horrible.
Who is the retarded monkey responsible for this crap? Surely this has to be a mistake. It looks like the bastard child of the anything that wants to die and anyone stupid enough to join it. It this concept of "no news" being news and page layout that can't even render the same in different browsers (FF, IE6, and old mozilla)continues, I think a lot of people will simply not come around. I would probably be one of them but I suspect that doesn't matter much.