Wireless Street Lamps for Traffic Monitoring 563
RMH101 writes "The Register has a story about a UK initiative to create a country-wide wireless data network using street lamps. It's come to pass through a government initiative to monitor all cars' speed and location, all the time, everywhere. The company involved, Last Mile, are proposing an intelligent mesh of smart street lamps embedded with storage and wireless networking to create 200MBit network access across the UK, including remote areas not reachable by conventional broadband. Work is due to start this year."
What if... (Score:5, Funny)
Cognative Dissonance in a nutshell (Score:5, Funny)
Gods and fishes! Somebody get me some aspirin!
Never in the US (Score:5, Funny)
One problem... (Score:5, Funny)
War driving... (Score:3, Funny)
It's official (Score:5, Funny)
You guys seem to have so many cameras and tracking systems going in that country of yours you probably enjoy the privacy offered by Las Vegas casinos.
1984... (Score:2, Funny)
Do people really put up with this? If this were implemented in the US, it would be 5 seconds flat til that network was cut into 500 million pieces.
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Re:One problem... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:monitoring (Score:5, Funny)
Think of their safety!
Hopw long before we see... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:monitoring (Score:5, Funny)
Timeline: (Score:3, Funny)
2: Project is funded.
3: Press release about how the government is promoting small business.
4: Funding is approved.
5: Press release about how great the goverment is.
6: Work starts.
7: Press release about how the government gets things done!
8: BT and NTL realise how much money this will lose them, hands cash in brown envelopes to MPs.
9: Press release about our existing world-class interenet infrastructure that was pushed through by government.
10: Project cancelled.
11: Profit! (For existing telcos, the bastards.)
For pessamists, no ??? is required. We know that step, and it's bloody awful.
1984 Anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
All brit's posting to slashdot have officially lost the right to make references to the U.S. being an orwellian, facist state in comparison to their own.
Surely, brother, we shouldn't make such references to our beloved state. The principles of INGSOC must be upheld in all aspects of life.
To do otherwise is CRIMETHINK. Please report to room 101 for re-education.
Re:What about just maintaining the roads... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:vandalism just got a lot more fun for criminals (Score:3, Funny)
> Street lights are what, 15-20 feet tall? (5-6 meters for our European friends
Ha! I see where people have left their tennis shoes up there all the time.
Re:What about just maintaining the roads... (Score:1, Funny)
I'm jealous. Here in Detroit, MI, USA, 6 of every 5 miles are unfit to drive on...
Re:Huh? Transformers make GREAT targets! (Score:1, Funny)
Because you want the government to have to get a search warrant before tracking you down?
yay brits! (Score:3, Funny)
Well, whats the point of creating a wireless network using telephone poles, when the fucking telephone poles already carry wires.
"Well Bob, you see, there are these things called 'wires' that run between the street lamps."
"Ok Bill, can we do stuff with these 'wires'?"
"I don't know Bob. We might have to go wireless."
Scratch your head and run, it's safer that way.
Re:One problem... (Score:4, Funny)
excellent!
Re:monitoring (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's official (Score:3, Funny)
And apprently the brain.
Google - spelling fascists! (Score:3, Funny)
This creeping spelling fascism really has to stop - damn it, if I want to misspell stuff, then I damned well ought to be able to.
Next thing you know, they'll ban waving your willy in public.
Bastards.
If you don't believe me, look here [google.com] for Googles jackbooted response to my exercising my freedom of speach.
Re:What if... (Score:2, Funny)