Houses With Tails 307
nnfiber writes "What if home owners could also own their Internet connection? Tim Wu, of New America Foundation and Derek Slater, Google's Policy Analyst, say this can be a new effective way to encourage broadband deployment — an important issue in 'America's economic growth.' In his post, Timothy B. Lee says: 'That might sound like a crazy idea at first blush, but Wu and Slater do a great job of explaining how it might work. The key idea is "condominium fiber," an arrangement in which a number of neighboring households pool their resources to install fiber to all the homes in their neighborhoods. Once constructed, each home would own its own fiber strand, while the shared costs of maintaining the "trunk" cable from the individual homes to a central switching location would be managed in the same way that condominium and homeowners' associations currently manage the shared areas of condos and gated communities.'"
Houses with tails? (Score:4, Funny)
Sounds like a red-light district to me.
Re:Yeah, and get flooded with "tech support" calls (Score:4, Funny)
Neighboar 2: "My emails won't send!"
Quit being selfish. It's not really fair to expect a wild pig to understand the ins and outs of networking.
Quiet, you fools! (Score:3, Funny)
Holy Crap! This is like, a FREE GOLD MINE!
Unlimited tech support opportunities! Exclusive contracts! Clueless users ensuring a steady supply of work! Bottomless pits of fodder for "Customers Suck" and "Stupid, Stupid Enduser" blogs! Angry phone calls at 3AM! People knocking on your door asking you to fix their plumbing and interwebs!
This is a BOFH's Wet Dream!
Re:Won't work (Score:3, Funny)
Thank you for the early Christmas present, that thought makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!
Re:Yeah, and get flooded with "tech support" calls (Score:4, Funny)
Trust me.
Re:Yeah, and get flooded with "tech support" calls (Score:5, Funny)
Of course you can't live on goodwill and scotch alone.
You also need blackjack and hookers.
Re:Won't work (Score:5, Funny)
*sigh* damned lawyers....
Yes, they do suck, but lawyers by themselves don't do much damage. It also takes stupid kids who injure/kill themselves at a community pool. It then takes greedy/stupid/bad parents to take advantage of the situation with the lawyer.
Lets not forget that: lawyers are always going to be evil, but it's greedy individuals who use them as weapons against the community.
Not really relevant, but for those of you who are now pissed off at those assholes, here's some youtube clips of people getting injured in funny ways at pools.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSYWqkhScU8&feature=related [youtube.com]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj9lkqRDUNE&feature=related [youtube.com]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrzHY345aKk&feature=related [youtube.com]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3A69-NaAXw&NR=1 [youtube.com]
Re:Won't work (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Won't work (Score:3, Funny)
We're working on it.
Re:Yeah, and get flooded with "tech support" calls (Score:2, Funny)
My mom lives in a gated retirement community, where the overwhelming majority of the population is seniors.
Of course you can't live on goodwill and scotch alone.
You also need blackjack and hookers.
Will bridge and octogenarian widows do?