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A Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband In New York

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the someone-wire-13th-st-bkln dept.

Peter Meyers points to this article in the Village Voice, one of the best I've seen on the growing guerilla-networking scene. He excerpts a bit for your pleasure: "Along with some 30 other volunteers in a group called NYCwireless, Townsend's on a crusade to set up wireless Internet access zones: small areas, often called free networks, where people can tap into high-speed connections, without cables or phone lines, at no cost. Call it a marriage of the Web and pirate radio, forged even as big telecom interests bicker over the rights to wireless-spectrum licenses."

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  1. maybe it's me by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 3, Funny
    It could just be my viewpoint, but do articles relating to technology that the Village Voice and other similar publications publish concern themselves more with the act of writing about doing something rather than the observed act itself?

    (and do they use tortorous sentences like the one composed above?)

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  2. the real motive by dobratzp · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...scanning the adult playground the place becomes on hot summer evenings. Where else, he asks, can you walk around with a computer, surf the Web, and go utterly unnoticed?

    adult playground... hot summer evenings... go utterly unnoticed... sounds like somebody got kicked out of the house for looking at pr0n.

  3. Re:Hopefully... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This obviously isn't a problem - I don't think there are 20 songs left on napster.

  4. Re:How long.... by Zecho · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mine says the same thing... luckily neither my computer or my cable modem will physically be connected to anything outside of my premises!

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