{"id":199301,"date":"2007-08-14T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/14\/oh-this-time-and-only-this-time-ill-believe-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2007-08-14T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T02:49:00","slug":"oh-this-time-and-only-this-time-ill-believe-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/14\/oh-this-time-and-only-this-time-ill-believe-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"OH, This Time, and ONLY This Time, I&#8217;ll Believe Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, a protype &#8220;smart radio&#8221; was sent to the FCC for testing.  The idea behind such a system is that it can communicate adaptively in the &#8220;white space&#8221; between TV stations, opening up spectrum.  It failed abysmally.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Microsoft is now saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/08\/13\/microsoft_says_white_space_prototype_was_broken\/\">they sent sent FCC a defective prototype<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So they are now saying that they are complete pratts who could not be bothered to send a working unit.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I don&#8217;t trust Microflaccid enough to throw them, but this time, it rings true to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, a protype &#8220;smart radio&#8221; was sent to the FCC for testing. The idea behind such a system is that it can communicate adaptively in the &#8220;white space&#8221; between TV stations, opening up spectrum. It failed abysmally. Well, Microsoft is now saying that they sent sent FCC a defective prototype. So they &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1067,1060,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communications","category-computer","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}