Computer Geeks - Is this true or a prank? "Dark porcelain" project

[dex]

http://www.google.com/tisp/press.html

http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html

Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service

"Dark porcelain" project offers self-installed plumbing-based Internet access

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1, 2007 - Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.

"We've got that whole organizing-the-world's-information thing more or less under control," said Google Co-founder and President Larry Page, a longtime supporter of so-called "dark porcelain" research and development. "What's interesting, though, is how many different modalities there are for actually getting that information to you - not to mention from you."

For years, data carriers have confronted the "last hundred yards" problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now Google has successfully devised a "last hundred smelly yards" solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities. "There's actually a thriving little underground community that's been studying this exact solution for a long time," says Page. "And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC."

Users who sign up online for the TiSP system will receive a full home self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable, a TiSP wireless router, installation CD and setup guide. Home installation is a simple matter of GFlushing™ the fiber-optic cable down to the nearest TiSP Access Node, then plugging the other end into the network port of your Google-provided TiSP wireless router. Within sixty minutes, the Access Node's crack team of Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) should have your internet connection up and running.

"I couldn't be more excited about, and am only slightly grossed out by, this remarkable new product," said Marissa Mayer, Google's Vice President of Search Products and User Experience. "I firmly believe TiSP will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those users who, like Larry himself, do much of their best thinking in the bathroom."

Interested consumers, contractually obligated partners and deeply skeptical and quietly competitive backbiters can learn more about TiSP at http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html.

 

[dex]

OK - I think this service answers my question -

In-Commode Package Delivery
With professional installation service, you can also have your Google Checkout purchases delivered directly through the sewage network into your bathroom. Each package comes pre-sealed in a watertight and nanobot-resistant bag made of biodegradable corn-based plastic. For a limited time, TiSP subscribers who sign up for a Checkout account will receive free bathroom delivery on their first ten Checkout purchases.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=525

 

[REWahoo]

dex - check your calendar.

 

[Goonie]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 1,

 

[samclem]

Maybe they can bundle this with that wire-free recharging system we talked about earlier.. Your cell phone would recharge anywhere in the bathroom, and it would also warm your butt whle you sit on the toilet. And, it might even handle the birth control thang for you.
"Mmmm---toasty!"

 

[chinaco]

I saw it on google this morning..

I clicked the link ( bit the hook). Once I saw what it was... it was obviously a joke.

 

[OKLibrarian]

Better than TMF this year, i think.

 

[John Tuttle]

Darn, just read the FAQ and it won't work for me because I'm on a septic system.

 

[bssc]

This is going to make me rethink my retirement plans since we will be on a septic system.

 

[Gotadimple]

April Fool!