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War Driving With The Kids
burntfungus writes "War Driving on Vacation with your kids. A drive from Los Angeles to San Luis Obispo's Gum Alley (yes, it's bubble gum on the wall), then on to San Francisco. Hundreds of 802.11b Access points available for mapping with Netstumbler. Some in the middle of nowhere."
yet again, slashdot defines "geek".
like me a few minutes ago, here's a link to a Register article about it.
We also get.
"Mommy, Timmy is hogging all the bandwith".
"Don't make me come back there and pull out your Airport card, Timmy."
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
It's a corruption of "War Dialling", which is the brute force approach of finding modems to compromise by sequentially dialling all the telephone numbers in a range. Used most effectively in the film Wargames since I guess you haven't seen it.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
Crap - Here at cal poly in San luis obispo, my little airport network is going to get some freak slashdot effect and instead of everybody not seeing a site, I won't see any sites.
On top of that there will be 50 geek cars parked infront of my house mooching bandwidth.
to email me: take my
You can imagine the looks that I received when passersby saw me scanning back and forth with a pringles antenna, wires coming out of it, and a laptop on my lap.
This is the point at which you look the passersby in the eye and say, "ghostbusting."