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First Ceiling Light Internet Systems Installed

Posted by timothy on from the how-the-gov't-will-control-your-mind dept.

An anonymous reader writes "We last heard about LVX's LED ceiling light optical communication system in December, and now news has broken that the company recently implemented the technology at several city offices in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The LVX/ceiling light system is capable of transmitting data at about three megabits per second, which is about as fast as a residential DSL line. It works by placing light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in a standard-sized light fixture. This then transmits coded binary messages to the special modems attached to computers, which also respond via light waves."

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  1. Health Effects by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Has anyone considered the Health erffects of BINARY lightwaves on the human Brain? Analog light has been proven by experience to be safe but do we know if the digithal lightwaves will be safe?? This is kust like the POLLUTION of our ETHER with digital (electromagnetic) radiation. When will people learn that just because science can, doesnt mean that science SHOULD???

  2. Re:Welcome to 1994... by countSudoku() · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Not in a way that makes it a security violation. You must be new here, so let me school you before this slashvertisement gets anymore stupid...

    1) My REAL enterprise uses a fake honeypot wifi with a visible SSID.

    2) The "convenience" wifi has a hidden SSID and it is NOT connected to the internal networks, you have to VPN back in for that.

    3) My wifi capable laptop has it's wifi shutoff with a nice switch in the front and I only use the wired ethernet.

    So, go back you your closet of a data center, take all your servers and place them in the parking lot like I suggested earlier, because:

    YOU FAIL!!1!

    Nice try, but you're talking to Data Center Jesus here, not some Windows Admin ding-a-ling. No charge for your schooling today, sonny. Use more Linux and less Windows, and you might start getting a contact clue.

    --
    This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?