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A Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband In New York

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. Re:Consume the net by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    do it anyway!

    Consume the net!

  2. Re:Sounds tasty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wanker.

  3. Hello by PRESIDENT+BUSHCLIT · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *yawn*

  4. Motley Crew ? by retinaburn · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    It is nice Tommy Lee is no technologicaly inclined. Should have realized though, he is ALL over the internet.

  5. Re:local networks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But the again /. bigots only take+steal and never contribute. just look at napster,deCSS et al.

  6. VINCE NEIL ROCKS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He's gonna be your Frankenstein!

  7. Re:Jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moderation total = -1 (Fuckwit)

  8. Re:public water fountains by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Moot point considering this.

  9. Re:local networks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, it you go to college in AZ, you sure as hell better go to UofA rather than ASU.

  10. Re:Sounds tasty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    kike coffee

  11. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp bleh

  12. Sounds tasty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What kind of coffee does motley crew beans produce?