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juxter writes "The BBC is reporting on a London bar which has installed a Bluetooth and WiFi access point. Owners of camera phones can wirelessly send their pictures to an overhead screen and web based gallery - The system runs the LocustWorld Linux based MeshAP which has been extended to drive bluetooth devices as well. Hopefully this will encourage more UK premises to deploy free hot spots."
The more thongs pics there are out there, the better off we'll all be.
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At least now I can get my friend to see me looking thirsty while he stands at the bar chatting and not getting the beers in :-)
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bras hanging from the ceiling.
The first thing someone will do with their camera phone: take a picture of a mouthful of chewing-in-progress food. Then laugh endlessly when the picture comes up on the overhead.
After that gets old...no, I don't want to think about it. They'd better enclose the bathroom with a grounded wire mesh shell.
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Must ask them to serve Blue Beer next time.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Everybody that ever saw pictures of themselves taken after spending an evening drinking in a pub knows this forms a great danger. The last thing you want to see is proof afterwards
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This really does give a whole new meaning to CAMRA
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To stick my picture phone down my pants and send it to the big screen there!!!
His pics will be all over town if he drinks anymore.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
The gallery software it uses is pretty lame.
For a good web gallery app try coppermine.
Stay at home and get a friend to spill some beer on your laptop. Then have a fistfight. Just like a real British pub!
So some Brits put some .gifs and some screenshots in the server's pub dir? I don't see why this is news, most of the stuff in that folder is junk anyways.
"I only speak the truth"
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I just posted this yesterday in response to Sprint feeling that "Business Travelers" would be more interested in WiFi than the rest of us.
Yay, now just bring it to the States in OUR bars and I will be thrilled.
How many upskirt pictures will be displayed on this thing before the owner turns it off?
Holy s-, it's Jesus!
Now, the rest of the pub can intervene to help prevent egregious cases of "beer goggling".
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My company currently runs their WiFi with no WEP encryption at all and I figured it would be a dramatic way to show the higher ups how easy it is to steal info from a wireless network.
Let's go ahead and bluetooth/wireless/etc everything in site, so this all can end.
When I can see if my dog is out eating poop in the back yard across her webcam toting, pringles can antenna/802.11b utility collar, all from the comforts of my fridge mounted display, I'll be in good shape.
Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus.
You've got to wonder how long it will before someone gets caught our when they say they weren't down the pub :)
Rus
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Webcams in London can be 'arranged' to switch off, apparently.
http://theregister.co.uk/content/6/29343.html
Just be nice to the geek boss though.
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
The locustworld is a neat bit of kit offering WiFI/Internet access at a resonable price. However does anyone know what sort of range it can achieve without having to resort to pringle cans as directional arials?
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You could be next...
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
Everybody that ever saw pictures of themselves taken after spending an evening drinking in a pub knows this forms a great danger. The last thing you want to see is proof afterwards.
Chances are it will be a huge hit here...
Seriously, in Seattle I used to hang out in a CyberCafe run by Speakeasy Networks Watched them come up from a Cafe with internet to a full blown Broadband ISP. Really neat place before they had a fire and it's got closed. The bits about the Cafe wasn't Company Propaganda
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The pictures can be taken anywhere and then sent to the overhead / website afterwards... with that in mind think of the stuff that could be posted! *yikes*
Nick Powers
Encryption: I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to encrypt it...
So after 8 hours staring at a screen and tapping at a keyboard, I can head down the pub to... stare at a screen and tap at a keyboard?
Thanks, but no thanks. Pubs, IMHO, are for beer and conversation. I find them pleasant precisely because I'm not plugged in, wired up and in constant electronic communication with the world and its dog.
That said, the Progress bar is already pretty loud and flashy, and has little in the way of decent beer, so there's little to lose.
There's a "free as in beer" joke in here somewhere; I'm just not sure what it is. :)
--K.
Sig: Bad people happen. Try to avoid being one of them.
Who will be the first to take a picture of their "naughty bits" and zap them up to the big screen?
I don't keep a lid on my coffee so when I walk around I look busy -me
1 picture plus 1 lawsuit
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Don't ever let mr goatse into a pub with a bluetooth enabled phone
(Geek is drinking a beer, and a girl comes up to him for some reason)
Girl: Hello...
Geek (who has been drinking, so is tipsy.. plus he's been looking at a lot of porno before coming to the pub): Hey baby.. how about I plug my input device into your USB port and upload my data to your harddrive?
Girl: O_O Bastard! (girl slaps geek, throws his beer on him. this causes display screen to go crazy) *ERROR ERROR MS WINBEER XP SHUTTING DOWN*
Geek: *sigh*
Note: I'm in class and I'm bored. Sue me. :)
Ah am not a crook! (\(-__-)/)
Think of the possibilities when beer, cameras, and a big screen at the head of the bar are combined:
... post it. First one to guess who it is, and what part, gets to buy me a round. (wait, did I say _me_? i meant the photographer)
"Am I Drunk or Not?" - you take a picture of yourself/friend/stranger and post it. In true reality TV style, the whole bar votes on whether the pictur-ee is a) as drunk as they think they are, b) drunker, or c) not drunk enough. Much hilarity and yelling ensues!
"Shot Shots" - take a picture of a shot of something, put into the picture rotation. Whenever it comes up, everybody drinks one
"Hot Shots" - variation, but with a picture of a particularly attractive patron. Assuming there are some. The chance of "hot" being "hot" decreases as the night goes on
"Who's ____ is that?" - take a picture of a random body part of someone
any more ideas?
Now if they could just rig the whole thing up to a voting script so everyone could vote for their favorite picture. The top score each hour could win a free drink....the only thing better than beer is FREE beer.
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As if it wasn't easy enough to get busted by the wife checking out the bar chicks! Now I've gotta try and sneak in those peeks to the up-skirt shots on the tube??
It's a conspiracy.
My God! What is that? An anaconda pressed up against a plate glass window? -- Robin Williams
Wouldn't it be a major factor in choosing ...if there were lots more
which place you'd like to hang out and toss
back a few beers??
pubs with free access points. It'd just be
a bonus if the place you like to hang out at
would do this.
I mean, the internet and beer just BELONG together! haha
They have nothing there. There are 3 pictures of people (2 of which are then again repeated), and 2 dozen pictures of crap. And thats it. So either the method of upload sucks, or no one actually visits that bar.
There's a bar in Portland (Oregon), Claudia's I believe (on Hawthorne) that will be installing WiFi gear soon.
Yes, that's bodypaint. She spent about 4 hours being painted as the American Flag for the photo shoot. They have been handing out the posters to our troops. The poster is nearly lifesized and very vivid colors, you can definately tell she's not wearing anything.
:~)
Oh, those sweater puppies are most definately real! Makes you proud to be American...
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Many bars are experimenting with it.
:)
The Foundry Ale Works, a local brewpub, partnered with Telerama to provide wireless access. The access has been free for the last few months as a trial period, but next month they'll start charging. Telerama has wired up a lot of hotspots around Pittsburgh, including several cafes and restaurants.
The first time I used the Foundry's wireless access, I helped the cute bartender study for an exam. The next time I came by with co-workers, she bought us a round of beers. This wireless thing just might take off after all.
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Just send a picture of yourself pointing at your empty bottle to the screen, get your next one quick!
Blue teeth are one thing in a bar... just don't want to see the other blue parts that might be hiding out in a bar late at night.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Karaoke used to be the thing, but that is no so "lame". Watching other drunk people might be more interesting.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
It doesn't mention free internet access. I believe it's simply a wireless intranet they use for their own application: putting images up on the ceiling. Cool, of course, but not a free hotspot.
Why doesn't someone stick a small bluetooth device in the beer mugs themselves, so you can tell when they are empty? Then they could be refilled, or someone who has had too much too quickly can be engaged in conversation, instead of giving them more beer. I heard some company did this, probably I saw it on TechTV, but I don't know if they used bluetooth. Probably they just used their own thing, and the mugs talked to the table (well, not the table itself, and not the mugs, really... but y'know, the electronics stuff does the talking.)
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Clearly, this article write-up needs more buzzwords.
Does anyone know if this customer-based web-enabled bluetooth solution set new paradigms for the 21st century?
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
but i don't see how simply putting up a enabling connection to their server via wifi / bluetooth devices will mean free internet access, as the poster seems to be implying ("Hopefully this will encourage more UK premises to deploy free hot spots."). If anything, as a (probably) large well invested business interest they will most likely have have pretty tight security on it, with little or no net access.
;)
besides does anyone really want to risk lookin up from your pint to see teh goatse.cx ? yes i'm talking to *you*, 2600 london
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a similar (same?) concept is already up n running in NY @ the Remote Lounge
from the article: Controlled Entropy Ventures is seeking investors to expand the lounge into different markets. The company says it expects to expand overseas in London.
i dunno about the wi-fi stuff tho. if this is the same company it may be jumping the gun a bit. afterall, the press love buzzwords like that.
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score 0, while a similar 'upskirt' posting got a 5. You guys really suck.
Say, this makes me wonder. Have people used cheap Bluetooth developer kits that they like? I'm just looking for something simple like this USB kit. After all the talk about the Ambient Orb, I'd like to build some wireless toys.
Picture a world where the global internet is the bottleneck.
Where file trading and network game playing at 50 Megabits both ways within your city is typical.
Picture a time when everyone with a computer has a small low power box on their roof to connect to this totally free network.
It's here, it's only 2 to 4 Mbps right now, but what the heck, you like new toys don't you?
It's called the Wireless Mesh. You can connect today!
MeshNet Project
Think locally and global data will find it's way to you.
I like the fact it is called the Progess Bar.
Right up there with the excellent band My Computer.
Its down in my old haunt of Tufnell Park, will suggest it for the next Lonix meeting (a change from hacking the wifi at Wagamama anyway).
"Owners of camera phones can wirelessly send their pictures to an overhead screen and web based gallery"
Man, some intersting stuff is bound to appear on the screen.
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