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Truck Stops Get Wireless Internet
Makarand writes "According to SFGate.com, a company called
IdleAire Technologies are building high-tech truck
stops to provide drivers with air-conditioning, television, Internet access
and phone service in truck cabs, so that they can turn off their engines.
Trucks will pull into bays, where flexible tubes ending in vents for hot or cold air, and
touch sensitive screens for Internet access can be pulled inside the truck's cab. There's also a separate wireless Internet option, where drivers don't have to pull into the bays. The basic services provided cost less than the fuel spent in idling a truck."
Look on the bright side. It's bound to raise the intelligence level of much of the posting...
Trouble making decisions? Just flip for it.
It was on slow AOL that worked like hell
With a sysadmin pullin' logs
Cab-over Pete with a reefer on
And Jimmy, both bandwidth hogs
We's headin' for bear on Tee-One-Oh
'bout a mile outta Cupertino
I says "Pigpensource, this here's Cyber Duck"
"And I'm about to plug the USB, you know?"
('cause we got a little ole convoy networkin' thru the night)
(Yeah, we got a little ole convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?)
(Come on and join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna get in our way)
(We gonna roll this truckin' convoy 'cross the USA)
(Convoy)
By the time we got into Tulsa-town we had 85 trucks they say
But they's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
With Hillary from the RIAA
Cuz Pete used his hard disk as an MP3 dumper
They even had a bear in the air
I says "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck"
"We about to go a-huntin' bear"
ye, 'bye
"
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Seems like truck driving would be a great geek job... I mean it's probably one of the few jobs other than programming that involves long stretches of time sitting on your ass, alone, in the middle of the night.