This POS technology gets another shot in the arm by the department of
Agriculture no less.

"NEW YORK (AP) -- IBM Corp. is throwing its considerable weight behind
an idea that seemed to have faded: broadband Internet access delivered
over ordinary power lines."

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081112/tec_broadband_over_power_lines.html?.v=6

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Telamon
Ventura, California

On Nov 12, 7:23*pm, Telamon
wrote:
This POS technology gets another shot in the arm by the department of
Agriculture no less.

"NEW YORK (AP) -- IBM Corp. is throwing its considerable weight behind
an idea that seemed to have faded: broadband Internet access delivered
over ordinary power lines."

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081112/tec_broadband_over_power_lines.html?.v=6

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Rural Electrification =ed the Equality of
Access to the Power Grid and BPL =s the
Equality of Access to the WWW Info Grid.

More importantly the Power to tax, Tax. TAX !
Each-and-Every Household and Business in the
USA to Pay for a Grand Public Works Scheme.

have you paid your 'gore' tax this month ? ~ RHF

On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:23:19 -0800, Telamon wrote:

This POS technology gets another shot in the arm by the department of
Agriculture no less.

"NEW YORK (AP) -- IBM Corp. is throwing its considerable weight behind
an idea that seemed to have faded: broadband Internet access delivered
over ordinary power lines."

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081112/
tec_broadband_over_power_lines.html?.v=6

If people want big city amenities they should move to the big city,
instead of whining all the time about how isolated they are. ****em!

In article ,
(Geoffrey S. Mendelson) wrote:

Telamon wrote:
This POS technology gets another shot in the arm by the department
of Agriculture no less.

"NEW YORK (AP) -- IBM Corp. is throwing its considerable weight
behind an idea that seemed to have faded: broadband Internet access
delivered over ordinary power lines."

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081112/tec_broadband_over_power_lines.html?.v=6

I expect that it is now a forgone conclusion. From my experience and
that of others trying to get Google to pull their funding of BPL, no
ham or SWL will bother to do anything about it.

If anything, the hams I had contact with had no desire to email
Google, or give up using them. The owner of one popular ham radio
site told me that his site only existed because of the income from
Google ads, and that since Google was an Internet company and BPL was
an Internet technology not a radio technology, it was none of his
concern.

Considering the fact that in the US, there will be no elections for
two years, the only way to stop this is to stop patronizing IBM. The
only way that will happen is if all hams and SWL's get together and
stop buying things from companies that use IBM computers. IMHO the
chance of either is nonexistant.

IBM long ago sold off their PC and printer divisions, so there is no
value in boycotting them. I'm not even sure they sell retail products
anymore.

There is this little gem near the bottom of the article.

"International Broadband has had help along the way from the federal
government: Lee said the company has received $70 million in
low-interest loans from the Department of Agriculture."

The commentary by some clown at IBM is pretty funny.

"The key innovation introduced in the past few years, Blair said, is
the ability to remotely control the devices fixed to power lines. That
way it can be told to switch frequency when it meets interference."

Someone needs to tell this idiot it is broadband noise and even of you
could switch to different frequency bands how the hell would they know
who was being interfered with? Just change the frequency band and
bother someone else. What a great idea.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

"Telamon" wrote in message
...
The commentary by some clown at IBM is pretty funny.

"The key innovation introduced in the past few years, Blair said, is
the ability to remotely control the devices fixed to power lines. That
way it can be told to switch frequency when it meets interference."

Someone needs to tell this idiot it is broadband noise and even of you
could switch to different frequency bands how the hell would they know
who was being interfered with? Just change the frequency band and
bother someone else. What a great idea.

You're not reading it properly. They don't care about CAUSING interference.
They want to be able to move it a bit when it RECEIVES (meets [with])
interference.

"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...
You're not reading it properly. They don't care about CAUSING
interference. They want to be able to move it a bit when it RECEIVES
(meets [with]) interference.


I swear I don't understand why people keep reviving this corpse. BPL will
never work.

"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...
You're not reading it properly. They don't care about CAUSING
interference. They want to be able to move it a bit when it RECEIVES
(meets [with]) interference.


I swear I don't understand why people keep reviving this corpse. BPL
will never work.

It certainly is an engineering disaster... but then, the FCC seems to be
keen on engineering disasters of late..

Telamon wrote:


The commentary by some clown at IBM is pretty funny.

"The key innovation introduced in the past few years, Blair said, is
the ability to remotely control the devices fixed to power lines. That
way it can be told to switch frequency when it meets interference."

Someone needs to tell this idiot it is broadband noise and even of you
could switch to different frequency bands how the hell would they know
who was being interfered with? Just change the frequency band and
bother someone else. What a great idea.


It's absurd to think a distribution system designed for a single
frequency (0.060 kHz) can be adapted to work to a much higher band of
frequencies without using a lot of power to overcome the tuning of the
powerlines. What's wrong with WiMax?

Brenda Ann wrote:
"Bob Campbell" wrote in message
m...
"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
...
You're not reading it properly. They don't care about CAUSING
interference. They want to be able to move it a bit when it RECEIVES
(meets [with]) interference.

I swear I don't understand why people keep reviving this corpse. BPL
will never work.

It certainly is an engineering disaster... but then, the FCC seems to be
keen on engineering disasters of late..


It's almost as if they want all electronic communications to be encoded
so that it can be easily controlled by a third party.

On Nov 12, 7:23*pm, Telamon
wrote:
This POS technology gets another shot in the arm by the department of
Agriculture no less.

"NEW YORK (AP) -- IBM Corp. is throwing its considerable weight behind
an idea that seemed to have faded: broadband Internet access delivered
over ordinary power lines."

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081112/tec_broadband_over_power_lines.html?.v=6

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Hello Everyone - Not to Worry the whole FCC Board
including the FCC Chairman are about to get Obamasized©.

(OT) : The FCC Under President Obama :
"C-H-A-N-G-E" Change You Can See and Hear !

Good News # 1 - HDTV is Official in Feb 2009 under
President Obama : It is Wonderful : He is Wonderful

Good News # 2 - BPL will never get beyond the test
trails : Thanks to President Obama.

Good News # 3 - IBOC HD-Radio on AM/MW Radio is Gone :
Thanks to President Obama.

Bonus - AM/MW radio will be also gone as a
Commercial Business with the reimposition
of the so-called Fairness Doctrine. Expanded
FM HD- Radio Band with many more local FM Radio
Stations : Thanks to President Obama.

Bad News 1 - Internet Sales Taxation will become
US Law and Taxes on All Things Internet will become
a reality.
Concept : A Penney for Your Thoughts.
Reality : A Penney for Your Thoughts via eMail.
Why : The US Government is Losing Billions of
Dollars in US Postage Stamp Fees because of eMail :
eMail Must Pay It's Fair Share of Taxes :
TAXING SPAM WILL BE A BIG HIT WITH AMERICANS.
* One Dollar a Month for a Hundred (100) eMails
ain't bad.
** Also One Dollar a Month for a 100 Newsgroup
Posts ain't bad either.
NOTE - That Only "The eMail Sender" Pays.
{ You Can Read For Free }

The FCC Under President Obama : Change You Can Hear !

The WWW Internet Under President Obama :
Change You Can Click-and-Pay-Taxes-On !

Obama Already Tackling FCC Appointment
http://www.xchangemag.com/hotnews/ob...pointment.html

Obama Names FCC Transition Team
http://reclaimthemedia.org/legislati...ion_tea%3D6303

Obama Weighs Choices for FCC Chairman
http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...ge_top+stories

? The Next Chairman of the FCC ?
http://www.publicknowledge.org/node/1872

Obama Appoints DC Lobbyist Henry Rivera*
to Head FCC Transition
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10084046-46.html
* Henry Rivera - http://www.wikio.com/discussion/726823