Heh! You should email Friedman this little piece of info:-) Although he was obviously making a larger point, it's rather amusing his supposed "straw that broke the camel's back" is bogus!
-Dean
>> By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
> I began thinking about this after watching the Japanese use cellphones
>> and laptops to get on the Internet from speeding bullet trains and
>> subways deep underground. But the last straw was when I couldn't get
>> cellphone service while visiting I.B.M.'s headquarters in Armonk, N.Y.
> No matter what you do, you aren't going to get cell service in CHQ
> Armonk. The lobby (if you noticed it) has a copper foil ceiling; the
> walls are metal and the windows are metalized (and grounded). You're
> not going to get a radio signal out of that building (or into it). > I've tried.
> I had to set up a demo for the corporate staff that involved satellite
> data transmission. We ended up moving the meeting to a different
> building on the site that wasn't quite so RF secure.