Free Broadband

[Dermot]

Great BETA deal from Google http://www.google.com/tisp/

Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service

"Dark porcelain" project offers self-installed plumbing-based Internet access


MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.

"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called "dark porcelain" research and development. "What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you."

For years, data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now Google has successfully devised a "last hundred smelly yards" solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities. "There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time," says Page. "And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC."

Users who sign up online for the TiSP system will receive a full home self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable, a TiSP wireless router, installation CD and setup guide. Home installation is a simple matter of GFlushing™ the fiber-optic cable down to the nearest TiSP Access Node, then plugging the other end into the network port of your Google-provided TiSP wireless router. Within sixty minutes, the Access Node's crack team of Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) should have your internet connection up and running.

"I couldn't be more excited about, and am only slightly grossed out by, this remarkable new product," said Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience. "I firmly believe TiSP will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those users who, like Larry himself, do much of their best thinking in the bathroom."

Interested consumers, contractually obligated partners and deeply skeptical and quietly competitive backbiters can learn more about TiSP at http://www.google.com/tisp/

About Google Inc.
Google's innovative search technologies connect millions of people around the world with information every day. Founded in 1998 by Stanford Ph.D. wannabes Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google today is a top web property in all major global markets. Google's targeted advertising program provides businesses of all sizes with measurable results, while enhancing the overall web experience for users. Google is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.google.com.

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[Roboframer]

Where have you been Dermot?

I've had this for almost, no, EXACTLY - a year!

[John]

Is there not some rule, Dermot, about this type of system having to be set up before midday?

[Dermot]

Where have you been Dermot?

I've had this for almost, no, EXACTLY - a year!

I can’t figure out how you can have had it for a year…………….seeing as it was only released as a BETA program yesterday…..

[Keith Hewitt]

I got this on April 1st - - - - - -

From DIY Framing - - - - - -
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As you will be aware, our mitre trimmers are manufactured to our exacting standards by a company in China. We have always had a very good relationship with the designers and quality control departments and have even been able to build up a friendly relationship, via the internet, with those directly involved in casting and constructing these tools. However, we have noticed recently that there have been significant delays in receiving shipments. Claims from our Chinese colleagues that 4 palettes of trimmers and measure systems had been dispatched on time did not match up with the 3 month delays we had been experiencing.

It now seems likely that there has been an issue raised by the Chinese port authorities and HM Customs and Excise. It is possible that our latest consignment of trimmers has been caught up in a world-wide gold smuggling operation. Unlikely as it may sound, because the trimmers are intrinsically hefty machines, it makes them an ideal bit of kit for smuggling in using a gold/iron amalgam instead of the usual cast iron moulding. The intention, clearly, was for these substitutes to be on the cargo schedule for DIYframing, but would be diverted and melted down, at a later date, so that the gold could be extracted. Unfortunately the wrong batch was diverted, which could mean that, unwittingly, DIYframing has passed on to its customers, illegal mitre trimmers.

What should you do?
If you have purchased a mitre trimmer, within the last 6 months please check whether yours is one of the illegal substitutes. Checking is easy and will not damage the trimmer. Simply remove the handle and examine it thoroughly. If you look carefully along the inner rim of the elliptical hole on the handle, there is usually a 7 digit serial number. On the gold / iron substitutes this number is missing. If you think that your trimmer is one of the illicit cargo, all you need to do is copy and send the identification code exactly as it is listed to: duncan@diyframing.co.uk
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Well I melted mine down and it was 90% pure gold!

Keith Hewitt