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Google Wants To Administer the First White Spaces

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-can-you-squish-in-there dept.

aabelro writes "Google proposes to the FCC to become the administrator of a White Spaces Database containing geo-location information about devices using the free channels in the radio spectrum."

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  1. This is just like... by retech · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...letting Pfizer admin the FDA... oh wait, their lobbyists already do.

    These aren't the droids you're looking for, move along.

    1. Re:This is just like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      It is like making a fat man the pizza delivery boy... did that work for you?

  2. say it loud by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    White spaces? What about Black Spaces and Latino Spaces and Asian Spaces?

    Google is attempting to monopolize racism!

  3. Conspiracy Theory... by Thelasko · · Score: 4, Funny

    I really like the "Google is NSA" tag. I think it's my favorite conspiracy theory yet!

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  4. Google slogan mmm by Ractive · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google slogan : "Don't be evil"

    Google slogan in 5 years : "Don't be soooo evil"

    Google slogan in 10 years : "Just don't be as evil as Satan himself"

    Google slogan in 20 years : "All your arses are belong to us"

    1. Re:Google slogan mmm by ZarathustraDK · · Score: 4, Funny

      Google in 50 years : "Developers, developers, developers, developers!"

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  5. Re:Hmmmm... by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Funny

    An international boycott of Google

    Your solution advocates a
    (*) market-based
    approach to solving the Google problem.

    Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work:
    (*) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once

    Specifically, your plan fails to account for:
    (*) The enormous popularity of Google
    (*) International reluctance to engage in sweeping change
    (*) A lack of support from famous Musicians and Actors

    and the following philosophical objection also applies:
    (*) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical
    (*) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem

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  6. Bad idea by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 4, Funny

    The first thing a hacker would do is use a trim() function and destroy all the data...

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  7. Re:Really, It's Entered the Realm of Parody: by colesw · · Score: 2, Funny

    So just missing the cigarette holder than?