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"Contains 99% water, 1% secret ingredient. Bottle and label design subject to change due to availability. Batteries not in cluded, (none required)."

I love the animated gifs and the calculus.
     
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Aug 5, 2005, 05:49 PM
 
Complete, unmittigated, and total hogswallow! That guy has great BIG cahones to market something like that!

{For the scientifically impaired, it's rubbish! Total nonsense. There is NOTHING that can allow radio waves to penetrate solid lead walls, and certainly nothing in the air that can noticably slow down radio waves.}

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Aug 5, 2005, 06:09 PM
 
Originally Posted by ghporter
There is NOTHING that can allow radio waves to penetrate solid lead walls}
?!
explosives and ordnance? though i guess that does tend to make them less solid. ;-)

be well.

laeth
     
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Aug 5, 2005, 06:10 PM
 
Notice the last names of the people under "Our Customers Love it".

The translation of the spanish one is: "This is very bad. It does not work. They deceive to me". Heh.

aka BlueSky
     
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Wait... so you're saying... this stuff actually hasn't been increasing my signal strength!? It was just changed in an OS update!?... well that's the worst 200 bucks I've ever spent...
     
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Aug 5, 2005, 10:03 PM
 
I love all the "Smith" names with the comments. That's great.
"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
     
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It does work!!!











Using the placebo effect.
     
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Ahhhhhh!!!

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Aug 6, 2005, 07:48 AM
 
Originally Posted by isao bered
?!
explosives and ordnance? though i guess that does tend to make them less solid. ;-)

be well.

laeth
Ok, those will work. But nothing that does not degrade the structure of that lead wall will...

Glenn -----OTR/L, MOT, Tx
     
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Aug 6, 2005, 08:16 AM
 
spray away!!

stuffing feathers up your b*tt doesn't make you a chicken.
     
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Aug 6, 2005, 09:48 AM
 
Can I timeline this yet?

It came from here: http://j-walk.com/other/wifispray/
And was written up on Gizmodo over a year ago: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/wifi...ray-009667.php

All the guy on eBay did was basically a cut-and-paste job.
     
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Aug 6, 2005, 11:46 AM
 
Originally Posted by Scifience
Can I timeline this yet?
only because you asked nicely, NO.
     
Kevin  (op)
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Aug 6, 2005, 11:49 AM
 
Unless it was posted here and you can provide a link of it posted here, no timeline. Per Demonhood rules.
     
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Aug 7, 2005, 12:23 AM
 
I have used his stuff, it does provide a moderate increase in speed, but its temporary.

Its certainly not as good as they claim.
     
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Aug 7, 2005, 01:00 AM
 
it would have been really funny if they put some really cool foreign name with the last name smith.

"works great even across the pacific ocean"
takuma smith- tokyo, japan
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Aug 7, 2005, 01:03 AM
 
Originally Posted by Scifience
Can I timeline this yet?

It came from here: http://j-walk.com/other/wifispray/
And was written up on Gizmodo over a year ago: http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/wifi...ray-009667.php

All the guy on eBay did was basically a cut-and-paste job.
Originally Posted by Kevin
Unless it was posted here and you can provide a link of it posted here, no timeline. Per Demonhood rules.
In other words, "No."
     
   
 
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