Mega Public WAN In Sydney

Chris Meder writes: "As posted on CFGN - The Nation , gibed by the recent unreasonable price hikes in Broadband connectivity in Australia, which come already after a strained relationship between Broadband users and the major telco/ISP Telstra BigPond Internet, a group of people in the largest Australian metropolitan city of Sydney have decided to form a city wide amateur wireless network. The team behind this clever idea have also put up a detailed graphical database of people interested and are still looking for more numbers to get this off the ground." This last part reminds me of the Global Access Wireless Database, as featured here. Update: 01/23 18:53 GMT by T : Reader Peter Mann wrote to point out that "there's a mailing list for a similar wireless project in Sydney at http://sydney.air.net.au."

Comments

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[Frothy Walrus]

i read that as "Mega Public WANG" at first.

hey, it's the Australians. you just never know.

Re:Australians seem to have what America had.

[FrostedChaos]

Let me run that through the teenage-angst resolver script. [WORKING . . . . . .]

Ah, much better. Here's the plaintext.

1) I hate the government. Everyone's older than me, and they must be really oppressive or something. And that FBI warning on videocassetes? That's fucking fascist. Duuuuude.

2) Let's soak the rich. I'm not a communist, but let's kill those capitalist dogs. I'm a comfortable middle class liberal, so I think all people should be like me. Death is too good for the rich; life is too precious to be wasted on the poor. But I will make some token gestures of pity, even while trashing the economy that they, most of all, depend on to live.

3) If you disagree with me, you're a censor.

Since I use computers, I feel that society is a giant machine that can be "FIXED" and that problems are only the result of evil and greed, not of fundamental flaws in human nature.

Hmm... well, all I can really suggest for a case this bad is that you go read a book. Any book.