Ferrets key to bridging the digital divide between cities and rural areas

joglynne · 01-04-2010, 10:11

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The development could help increase broadband in current Internet "dead zones", giving access to inaccessible places, and and helping bridge the 'digital divide'.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ral-areas.html

01-04-2010, 10:12

lol you sure you put this is the right place

Graham M · 01-04-2010, 10:13

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01-04-2010, 10:13

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Originally Posted by Graham M

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well der lol lol

joglynne · 01-04-2010, 10:21

Well the forum did seem to be quiet considering the date.

Angua · 01-04-2010, 10:33

As things happen today, this is one of the better ones

Graham M · 01-04-2010, 10:35

And using Google Animal Translate, you can tell the Ferrets what to do!

http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/land...ateforanimals/

Pauls9 · 01-04-2010, 10:41

Like all the best stories, there's a little truth there. Ferrets have been used to run cables ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret ).

Cute jacket!

Kymmy · 01-04-2010, 12:41

Not the only weird and wonderful story today, The Sun is reporting football linesmen using segways to keep up with the action and the Telegraph again has secret video of the AA testing out jetpacs so they can get the breakdowns in traffic jams a lot faster

alferret · 01-04-2010, 22:22

Hmmmmmm

joglynne · 01-04-2010, 23:36

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Originally Posted by alferret

Hmmmmmm

Hi Mr Ferret.

Escapee · 07-04-2010, 20:23

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Originally Posted by Pauls9

Like all the best stories, there's a little truth there. Ferrets have been used to run cables ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret ).

Cute jacket!

Sorry I'm a little late to this one. (It brought back some memories)

I didn't see the incident myself, but I am aware of a ferret used to pull a string through a duct. About 20 years ago when I was working for a cable company, there was much laughter when they had failed to pull a cable through a duct. One of the old technicians (He a few years away from retirement at the time) had knocked on the door of a house where he knew a young boy had a ferret. He gave the lad about 50p and they tied some string to the ferret and let him go successfully through the duct with the string.

Funny, it has made me think back and wonder if the old guy is still with us. If so he would be in his early 80's now.

swirlingleaf · 10-04-2010, 10:59

I loved this April Fool, very funny and cute. I was hoping they would bring a little ferret with a jacket to renew my cable!