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December 19, 2006

FCC to auction dimensions

Washington DC — FCC Chair Kevin Martin has announced that in addition to auctioning off rights to spectrum—ranges of radio wave frequencies, also known as "colors"—the FCC will in January begin auctioning off the eleven dimensions discovered by string theorists. Winners will have exclusive rights to all property and activity in those dimensions.

The dimensions include:

1

Points

2

Lines (includes Nicole Ritchie)

3

Objects

4

Time

5

Gaant charts

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Leeway for when D5 runs over

6

ESP-based wifi

7

Rumors

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Hope

8-12

Regrets

Bidding begins January 2. [Tags: fcc spectrum telecommunications humor ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at December 19, 2006 12:33 PM

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Correction: Dimensions 5 through 11 have not been officially "discovered," but, rather, are theoretically productive only.

Update: Instead of these, then, the auction shall now include, rather, our most prized of actual, local treasures - Long Island Sound.

see: http://www.savethesound.org/default.htm

also: http://www.wfsb.com/news/9913837/detail.htm

and, http://www.courant.com/news/local/sr/hc-ctfercman1203.artdec04,0,1276428.story

Let's just lookey see what those East Coast liberals have to say about that one!

Posted by: Philo | December 19, 2006 03:00 PM

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