one point for my paper, i love wires. as much as wireless is cool, its only because we can t afford or agree with the wire owners. wire is a zillion times more reliable and many times faster than wireless. fiber to the home! ive got to look up that failed fiber to the home project in NW portland. It was a vulcan ventures project if i recall correctly or at least involves The Woz.

also in the /. comments for Fiber to the People "Lately they've been acting like racists and moral cowards. They proactively withdrew [shameonieee.org] membership privileges and publishing rights for Iranian students and researchers. See also this article [cryptome.org] for an explanation."

"I already have fiber optics at my home! Go check out gcpud.org and look at the Zipp program. I live in Grant County, Washington, which is in the middle of buttfucking nowhere. However, the PUD made a killing selling cheap hydroelectric power to California during the power crunch (thank you Gray Davis!). Now they're laying fiber optic cable to everybody's houses! It connects to a gateway on the side of the house, and from there it's 100Base-T Ethernet. It's damn cheap, too. $30 a month for a static IP, just under $20 a month for a dynamic one. I'm running a webserver out of my house. It's got about a gig of digital video on it, and it serves it up plenty fast. You have any idea how much that would cost me to host online? I'm considering upgrading my webserver and charging for webspace. I could price it well below the standard and still make a killing!"