Wireless Mania

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 5, 2002 @01:59AM from the tulips-for-sale dept.

burnsy and others sent in links to stories about 802.11b that are cropping up everywhere. The New York Times has one. (Well, two, actually.) Salon has one. InternetNews has a piece about Boingo, a new wireless start-up, that's also covered in this Forbes article. (The NYT article above also mentions Sputnik.) Both Boingo and Sputnik are trying to leverage the existing community wireless networks to speed their network build-outs. MIT's Tech Review has an interesting piece about a wireless start-up that has already tried and failed. Fixed wireless is also booming, according to an industry study.

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Wireless Mania? I don't think so! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-05 02:03 · Score: -1, Offtopic
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A better idea would be to... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-05 02:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic
Masturbate dead animals with your toes! Oh yes. Can you tell what it is yet...?
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  was shot in the face
  with a gun.
  was a little baby
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Wireless AI Minds by Mentifex · 2002-03-05 02:25 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) craze has extended even into the Sensorium module of the Robot AI Mind, where it is envisioned that a Robot AI will be equipped with Wi-Fi sensors that detect the presence of nearby wireless 'Net access, across which the AI may not only send messages but send itself in a beam-me-up,-Scottie modality.

Technological Singularity is coming at you on the wings of wireless.
One final one for the road! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-05 02:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic
You know, I would find it extremely satisfying if someone else continued this exact same troll for a while; there's a meaning and purpose to it, and hey, it's better than reading the shoddily-copied stories on Slashdot that are full of typos and factual innacuracies. Oh, and the editor mega-moderation thing is laughable too.
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- Because asasd
  you may not think
  that it is obvious
  was shot in the face
  with a gun.
  was a little baby
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  kjashlskfh lasdfjhasldfh ladsjhlashf fhldshf lsadjhsaldf sdfhs aldkhfsdlf aslkjf pewnr 3224 asdj82 wdrf 324 asf wq4 234 sed safdsd f3w523 5 dwf df 23 4 234 234sdf. saflku 2wer sadf er3 df we5 132tdwa fet 425 6 wqef qw5e dg fdee wr6y 3rt wet e 6243 6 dsf fg dj e 341 563wqlkejq lqwk ejqlwkje qlw ejlqwe jqlw euqop4u 231b4qs dfasxw 5 3245. 342 345qwdaf asrt34q5 3q. 7 r, sdoifu owei ur ow qeur98 y3294y d sdg av fighef hishfiewrh ti3yrq q5ru w0tu 9wer9uq32y42 0 oy ifehisdfhisudyf iqw iu hweto yw9!
  Once upon a time there
  er after, until he
  was shot in the face
  with a gun.
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  asd qwrw, weriwfd hiuwr!
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  .
Re:Recipe for a Slashbot! AGAIN! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-03-05 02:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Schweet!
history of va 'linux' by posmon · 2002-03-05 02:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Our company tried to build a high-speed *nix operating system that could be used in cities throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. We were going to do it using unlicensed portions of code and with pc network equipment that employed a hot new standard called x86. And we were going to charge nothing. Of course, we failed.

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