Careful there.. Your ignorance is showing. Someone place the above to -1 trollbait, please.

Instead of changing the frequency, why not change the physical layer to something more appropriate like, say, CAT5

EMP pulse? Open the closet and get out the old tube gear. Your new DSP gear might be toast, but the old technology still works ;)

Wake up. BPL is a crappy technology. It guarantees improper radiation because the power lines aren't shielded at the physical layer. Kill BPL now and demand what we all want: Fiber Optic.

Sure, use either Coax or Fiber Optic lines for the data.. Wasn't that an easy fix?

Power lines were never meant to carry RF energy. When they are, they radiate. Cable TV doesn't radiate. It doesn't radiate because it uses a proper transmission medium (Coax). If the power line folks want to distribute DATA, they should string the poles with fiber optic. Better yet, we the people should string it, and sell access to the content providers.. ala municipal fiber networks. They can work folks!

Easy, Fry's Electronics. They are the better Radio Shack. They are what Radio Shack should have grown to. You're lucky if your local RadShack even has solder these days. A 220uf/25V cap or a 2N2222?... NEVER! They lost my electronic hobbyist business years ago. I will never step into their stores ever again... unless I want skins for my Nokia. lame lame lame.. I hope they do rebrand! That's the sign of a sinking ship. Let it sink.

LTSpice does work well under WINE. But does that make it OK under mac?

According to local folklore at the time when I attended to RIT in Rochester, NY., the builders of the library didn't take into account the weight of the books when designing the foundation which is why the building is sinking into the swamp it was built on.

We could expound on your idea and look at the weight of an electron as it clocks through a CPU and find out what a bit really weighs(?)

Electrical current is the amount of electrons passed over time (coulombs per second). If we assume a pull-up resistor is 10KOhms and the data is clocking at 500 megahertz running on a 3.3v supply, we'd get:
3.3 V / 10,000 ohms = 330 micro coulombs per second (ampere)
330 uA / 500,000,000 = 660e-15 coulombs per bit
1 coulomb = 6.241506e18 electrons

Therefore, in this example, electrons per bit is:
660e-15 C/b * 6.022e23 electrons per Coulomb = 397.452e9 electrons per bit
one electron weighs 9.11e-31 kg, therefore:
397.452e9 electrons per bit * 9.11e-31 kg * 8 bits per byte = 2.896630176e-18 kg per byte
1.0E+15 (peta) * 2.896630176e-18 kg per byte = 2.89 grams

One petabyte weighs 2.89 grams worth of electrons assuming all values are ones. The weight of the library is the important part in this case.

If I want better grip, I where those sticky rubber work gloves. Has our brain power negated all bodily evolution?

I had a similar 'me too' experience when I moved to Maui. I was just amazed at the detail I had never seen before coming from a NYC suburb.

and nmake. Who needs fancy syntax coloring. Step debuggers are for weenies who can't manage to use printf()

It'll crash every other browser at random times with strange exception errors, will take 10 minutes to load a page, I'm just so for it..

Yeah, that's a good angle. We could even go further and mention the amount of money the telcos could recoup from recycling the copper lines they remove from the poles. Most predictions say around 33 years until there is no minable copper left! Silica is the raw material for fiber cables, and we got plenty of sand in the world.

So therefore, replacing those big fat overhead multi pair copper lines with a small optical fiber is good for the environment.

We all want FTTH (fiber to the home). Just do it already.