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WiFi & Microwave ovens Illegal?

04/18/2008 7:12 PM

Recent bills have been passed allowing the sale of the spectrum used by WiFi

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Re: WiFi & Microwave ovens Illegal?

04/19/2008 8:33 AM

Of course, you did note the date of that so called press release didn't you???

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04/19/2008 12:06 PM

Dooh!!!
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04/19/2008 1:55 PM

Hahahahahahahahahahaha, that must be the slowest "got you on my april1st joke" since a long time.

Interesting though why we did not hear about this earlier? I did not get any of this in my wired or engadget inbox, strange
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Re: WiFi & Microwave ovens Illegal?

04/19/2008 2:38 PM

I got it yesterday from my personal circle of spam, the sender is a systems guy & prankster. He's always sending me links to weird gadgets & rude jokes

Here's another recent transmission
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Re: WiFi & Microwave ovens Illegal?

04/20/2008 2:54 PM

A good Aprill Fool's story.

In reality Wi-Fi operating at 2.5 GHz can be interfered with by microwave ovens as witnessed during beta testing at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Center. They were forced to use the 5 GHz band as a result. Nothing to joke about !...
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Re: WiFi & Microwave ovens Illegal?

04/27/2008 4:59 PM

Yes, it is an absolutely first class joke. Whoever wrote it, kudos.

But, sad to say, the US congress did so many absolutely bone headed idiocy for quite some time, that I was unable to dismiss it out of hand. They have proven to be the creators of almost any mayhem, if you take the worldwide repercussion of the alcohol fuel laws in you view.
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