White Spaces Test "Rigged," Says Google Co-Founder Page

Davide Marney writes "As reported by the Washington Post, Google co-founder Larry Page claims that an FCC field test of white space wireless devices was 'rigged' to make the test device fail to detect wireless microphone broadcasts. A Google spokesman explained later that testers had hidden the wireless microphones within the same frequency as local television stations, preventing the test device from detecting them."

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Re:fantastic

[orasio]

Only within the Continental U.S., Hawaii and some U.S. territories. Let Google go offshore somewhere and set up a test facility. I doubt Mexico would care very much (probably just grease a few palms.)

You disgust me.
The third world is not your backyard. Or should not be. Mexico would be better without Google's bribe money.

Re:fantastic

[h4rm0ny]

There's no common usage of "2nd World." You have the Old World (Europe and a few bits and pieces they thought of as Europe), the New World (that thing discovered by Vikings and later by Columbus) and then, as you were up to two by this point, the 3rd World, typically Africa. Called the 3rd World because "Even Newer World" sounds really stupid. The meaning has begun to shift however, in that 3rd World because of long term association with the poverty of many African nations, has come to mean a very poor country with little infrastructure.

Mexicans would be entitled to be a bit offended by their country being called "3rd World" as it certainly isn't in the historical sense and despite horrible wealth disparities, isn't in the modern sense, either.