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  1. WiFi.Bedouin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting · on Advice On A New-School Old-School BBS

    What you're wanting to do sounds some what like the WiFi.Bedouin project.

  2. Re:What the fuck? by darthjulian · · Score: 1 · on Mobile Wifi Backpack

    Anyway, the PDA app is actually real - it's a .NETcf app I wrote for a related project. The photograph of the whole kit wouldn't capture the PDA display so I comp'd it in by hand.

  3. It's more art than technology by Mike+Lococo · · Score: 1 · on Mobile Wifi Backpack

    I'm a little surprised that all the well moderated comments are talking about this project like its goal is to expand internet access. It's not and Bleeker says that over and over again. It's a tool that enables the creation of new media art installations in public spaces. It lets you hijack users who expect to find a hotspot and then subject them to your own "internet", with your own services, and your own message. His message seems to focus on imposing physical locality on the network, but your message could be different.

    It's subversive because it denies the expectation that the internet is the only network worth connecting to, which apparently is a notion that's too subversive for slashdot culture.

    For those of you who think I'm making this up, read the "people" page. Bleeker a faculty member at the Parsons School of Design and he's shown work/writing at the Whitney and in Wired magazine. In addition to being an engineer, he's an artist... and evaluating this project as a technology product alone is kind of a waste of time.

    Mike

  4. Re:What the fuck? by RevDobbs · · Score: 3, Insightful · on Mobile Wifi Backpack

    Yes, the first paragraph on the first page seems like randomly connected buzz words. Yes, it stumped the hell out of me.

    So I went to the next page and came across graphic:

    ...Translate Dot Com URLs to arbitrary local pages...

    So... walk into a local Starbucks, wait for people to log onto your SSID, and start serving up bogus Hotmail and bank login screens, collecting passwords and merely printing out stupid error messages ("service down for maintenance", "wrong password, try again").

    Now, that is a little bit subversive...

  5. Re:A little full of itself? by EndlessNameless · · Score: 1 · on Mobile Wifi Backpack

    it is its own web

    Yeah, no kidding? I could "be my own web" 15 years ago with 2 ethernet cards and a short cat5 cable.

    Oh, wait. I get it. It's wireless. Let's just forget that this is a laptop sewn into a backpack along with a really big battery.