Comments on: Google Rolling Out Wi-Fi via Balloons? http://cybernetnews.com/google-rolling-out-wi-fi-via-balloons/ Technology News Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:19:52 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/google-rolling-out-wi-fi-via-balloons/comment-page-1/#comment-132020 Ryan Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:58:46 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/21/google-rolling-out-wi-fi-via-balloons/#comment-132020 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-131903" rel="nofollow">Google wrote:</a><blockquote><div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-131878" rel="nofollow">Ryan wrote:</a><blockquote>This just doesn’t seem very economical. How could they continue to send up these balloons every 24 hours? And what if people just keep them when they’re found and sell them on eBay?</blockquote></div>Well as far as the ebay thing goes these things’ are tracked by GPS. So have fun trying to get one on ebay. And prehaps they could have launching stations to put up these things.</blockquote></div> Well, I doubt it will be impossible to disable the GPS or to remove the batteries. If this happened I could almost guarantee that not everyone would return them. Google wrote:
Ryan wrote:
This just doesn’t seem very economical. How could they continue to send up these balloons every 24 hours? And what if people just keep them when they’re found and sell them on eBay?

Well as far as the ebay thing goes these things’ are tracked by GPS. So have fun trying to get one on ebay. And prehaps they could have launching stations to put up these things.

Well, I doubt it will be impossible to disable the GPS or to remove the batteries. If this happened I could almost guarantee that not everyone would return them.

]]> By: Google http://cybernetnews.com/google-rolling-out-wi-fi-via-balloons/comment-page-1/#comment-131903 Google Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:31:18 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/21/google-rolling-out-wi-fi-via-balloons/#comment-131903 <div class="commentquote"><a href="#comment-131878" rel="nofollow">Ryan wrote:</a><blockquote>This just doesn’t seem very economical. How could they continue to send up these balloons every 24 hours? And what if people just keep them when they’re found and sell them on eBay?</blockquote></div> Well as far as the ebay thing goes these things' are tracked by GPS. So have fun trying to get one on ebay. And prehaps they could have launching stations to put up these things. Ryan wrote:
This just doesn’t seem very economical. How could they continue to send up these balloons every 24 hours? And what if people just keep them when they’re found and sell them on eBay?

Well as far as the ebay thing goes these things’ are tracked by GPS. So have fun trying to get one on ebay. And prehaps they could have launching stations to put up these things.

]]> By: Ryan http://cybernetnews.com/google-rolling-out-wi-fi-via-balloons/comment-page-1/#comment-131878 Ryan Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:49:20 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/21/google-rolling-out-wi-fi-via-balloons/#comment-131878 This just doesn't seem very economical. How could they continue to send up these balloons every 24 hours? And what if people just keep them when they're found and sell them on eBay? This just doesn’t seem very economical. How could they continue to send up these balloons every 24 hours? And what if people just keep them when they’re found and sell them on eBay?

]]> By: Google http://cybernetnews.com/google-rolling-out-wi-fi-via-balloons/comment-page-1/#comment-131808 Google Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:39:49 +0000 http://cybernetnews.com/2008/02/21/google-rolling-out-wi-fi-via-balloons/#comment-131808 This would be so cool. 8) This would be so cool. 8)

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