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Submission + - Femtohell (zanfr.fr)

An anonymous reader writes: The new buzz in the world of mobile communications seems to be the Femtocell.

These are small 3G (and possibly 4G) antennas aimed at increasing mobile coverage for a particular operator by using an individual’s ADSL, fiber or cable connection to carry calls.

The idea is far from new, and mobile operators have been pushing to make it happen for obvious reasons: it is cheap and easily deployed, that is, compared to the classic antennas.

The city of London is also considering Femtocell technology to increase coverage during and after the Olympics, seeing it as a godsend to fix their overloaded mobile networks.

It seems nice to have better 3G/4G signal in rural areas and “dark” corners, such has thick-walled buildings and possibly tunnels; however alot of issues are still left unresolved and could possibly lead to issues.

Comment Re:The big difference (Score 1) 821

I agree. Elsewhere in this discussion someone says 'because the truth is inconvienient' that sparks the reaction that we have to revert to the stone-aged lifestyle. I once simply invoked the notion of sustainability and got my ass chewed about how I could [live in a grass hut but everyone else...] - I just said to be more sustainable, how do people go from that to living in a cave?

Having a universal power supply for mobile devices (UPAMD) would be sweet.. Try to suggest to an otherwise intelligent person that we need a sustainable solution to the mountains of power adapters going into the landfill and they'll angrily accuse you of expecting us to compute with abacuses and slide-rules.

Comment Re:Unrealistic but... (Score 1) 296

An engineer that understands business or economics whould be someone like we already have that makes every part as unique as a snowflake so no two universally functioning devices (like start motors, braking devices, fluid pumps, chargers) are alike or interchangeable. This way the old machines expire and cannot compete in any way with the newer models. The engineer doesn't get paid perpetually for their designs anyways like their employer does, so they still have to work their shift even if there is nothing to do but re-invent wheels all day. At least that is how it looks from all the stuff I've taken apart.

Comment Re:The cops who wrote those emails should be fired (Score 1) 340

Then limit society to 150 or so. A small portion of these have dual citizenship with a neighboring society forming metasocieties at the interces. Every able bodied person takes their turn putting out fires or disputes or dealing with casualties. When one breaks down the surrounding interces mobilize, but with limits, and you need a meta-layer for evey order of societal unit magnitude to prevent polarization events. People start acting right because they or someone they know alternates as nanny and citizen so they develop mindfulness, they also know exactly what part of the world they belong and how their environment relfects on the groups around them - so instead of inefficiently keeping up with the Jonses one on one we can find that perfect balance of competing as a team with the neighboring team. Imagine taking a mower around the block three times and everyones grass is cut. Efficiencyville does just that. Oooh Engineerville27s lawns seem impossibly disconnected! Ah, they are patrolled by automomous lawnbots disguised as bushes. And in Hippyville it is said they somehow share their grass. You have alternating bands of industryville, cultureville, artville, researchville, defenseville, utilityville, retirementville, educationville connected by high speed trains. Badvilles are surrounded by goodvilles. Immigration and new society formations follow strict patterning to ensure caste mobility. Hmm, if you murder someone or have a disastorous mishap then your citizenship options simply become limited to special societies where everyone else has done something similar. Speeding over 100mph? 3rd offense? Needforspeedland for you, watch out for other speeders. They might even drive carefully there because they don't want to have to move to the next level where it is just crazy dangerous or do time in defenseville for points back if applicable. And the best part is that the whole thing is orchestrated by a really smart computer space satellite that keeps up with everyone through their implant.

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