US Dispatches USS Kid to Indian Ocean. Yes the Russians scared Turkey with jets near them, but US has unconfirmed info that the jet went way into Indian Ocean. I think the US was monitoring Facebook traffic from the pilots. Facebook released info under subpoena because pilots bought hard drive space from Google. Conspiracy??????

They are using 5 GHz Alvarion BreezeAccess VL's at 54mbs for their short backhauls. (The diamond looking things on the telephone poles) Alvarion is dead and the BreezeAccess is dead. My experience using that hardware is that is can be a little flaky and it takes someone in the know to get them running adequately. I always got a lot of dropouts and could never stream YouTube reliably through an Alvarion pipe. There are a couple hundred of them in Mountain View. Also, the original agreement was back when Google needed Mountain View for all that space on Shoreline and Charleston, the new park, fire station, and ways to deal with traffic, Google needed to keep Mountain View happy. Mountain View needed a big company to replace all those dead ones in 2008 So the free Internet looked good for all to get what they wanted. It was the first Google municipal installment and there was much to learn. The hardware they are using is from a dead company and Google is going fiber to the home now, but everything is paid for. Why not renew for another 5 years, it doesn't have to work it just needs to garner press so that Kansas City (and others) does not get the drift that Google will pull out after five years. The same is true of Milpitas. Google bankrolled that in 2008 through a non-profit when Earthlink bailed on that project.. How is Milpitas doing, they are still upgrading. Everyone knows if you want free Internet in Mountain View you go to a cafe on Castro that doesn't change their passwords.