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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: paicrai on Sun, 01 June 2014, 15:35:00

Title: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: paicrai on Sun, 01 June 2014, 15:35:00

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/us-company-to-beam-free-wi-fi-to-entire-world-from-space-488183
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2552177/Forget-Internet-soon-OUTERNET-Company-plans-beam-free-wi-fi-person-Earth-space.html

For some reason mass-hacking/cybercrime comes to mind.

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: baldgye on Sun, 01 June 2014, 15:35:58

Bring back Wi-Max!!

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: paicrai on Sun, 01 June 2014, 15:39:53

and also betamax!

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: Lain1911 on Sun, 01 June 2014, 16:17:52

1. someone comes up with great idea
2. US government buys it for X amount of money they get from China
3. Snowden
4. profit

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Sun, 01 June 2014, 16:36:41

Finally... the birth of SkyNet!

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: Frenir on Sun, 01 June 2014, 16:41:11

Quote from: IvanIvanovich on Sun, 01 June 2014, 16:36:41

Finally... the birth of SkyNet!

(https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Frokiskis.popo.lt%2Ffiles%2F2011%2F06%2Fskynet-google.jpg&f=1)

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: rowdy on Sun, 01 June 2014, 22:54:24

SkyNet, yes :eek:

A shame trees don't emit WiFi signals, we might be planting more of them.  They only produce the oxygen we breathe.

If someone can genetically engineer a tree to emit WiFi ... :D

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: tp4tissue on Sun, 01 June 2014, 22:58:08

Finally.... ascension of man is at hand..   Fingers crossed for Borg... but, skynet's still pretty good.. (http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/onion-head/cheer1-onion-head-emoticon.gif?1292862494)

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: keymaster on Sun, 01 June 2014, 23:01:19

Thank you based capitalists  :rolleyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_Tower

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: paicrai on Mon, 02 June 2014, 02:16:32

I wonder how secure this will be...

ALSO ISN'T THIS JUST LIKE THAT EPISODE OF DOCTOR WHO WITH THE WEIRD WIFI ALL OVER THE WORLD AND STUFF

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: James35 on Mon, 02 June 2014, 02:42:18

It's only half of a solution.  It's receive only.  Users can't transmit with their idea.

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: IvanIvanovich on Mon, 02 June 2014, 14:24:10

Oh... don't get me started about the travesty that happened to Tesla and his technology. If things would have went that way we would probably all have free electricity with way less polution, and telecommunications would have been likely at least 50 years more advanced right now.

From other articles I have read about this... it sounds like it might be highly dangerous to a lot of ISP to loose huge amounts of customers... free service with superior bandwidth. I hope more ISP see it as a big threat and actually take some steps to improve infrastructure and bandwidth. It's so sad that too many of ISP/telco can't be bothered to upgrade 50+ year old copper to fibre everywhere. I often wish the government would just nationalize them all. NSA is listening anyway... at least they could do is make it so they listen faster, which is also to our benefit LOL.

Title: Re: Worldwide Wi-Fi?
Post by: C5Allroad on Mon, 02 June 2014, 20:16:32

The Tek covered this lol.
Interesting idea.