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Wires fo all over the place

Posted Jul 22, 2005 2:03 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322)
In reply to: OLS: A challenge for developers by njhurst
Parent article: OLS: A challenge for developers

In my experience there are few places wires *don't* go.

I'm not convinced all these radio transmitters are a good idea.

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Wires fo *all over* the place

Posted Jul 22, 2005 2:19 UTC (Fri) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link]

In my limited travel experience, I can tell you that there are vast expanses of area in North America where few, if any, wires go. The few wires that are in those places are heavily subsidized government projects that serve very few people.

The world is not all city (yet).

Wires go *all over* the place

Posted Jul 22, 2005 7:08 UTC (Fri) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

Using radio for long-distance communications is one thing.

Cities, which do tend to be full of wires, are full of offices and homes saturated with 802.11g, and people who hold 3W transmitters next to their heads for tens of hours each week.

I don't suppose it's very much worse than all the CRTs we've just retired used to be, but did we ever confirm all the possible ill effects from those?