Slashdot Mirror
The Wifi Slugfest Over Portland's PGE Park
tomwhore writes "Portland's community wireless networking group, Personal Telco Project (PTP), recently knocked one into the ball park with a new WiFi node. The new node covers the area around and inside of Portland's PGE Ballpark. While free internet access would be welcome by most, PGE Park managers are not happy. They recently cut a deal giving Comcast exclusive rights to do up their networking. 'This is our stadium, and we run the communications for it,' said Chris Metz, a PGE Park spokesman. To find out more about the impact of the PTPs latest home run check out this article in the Oregonian and over at the PTP's website." Let's hope the park also puts a Faraday cage around the whole park to ensure radio silence.
Let's hope I can't use sprint PCS's phone in the park!
HIV Crosses Species Barrier... into Muppets
Their service will be down most of the time, anyhow.
I know I always take my laptop with me to the ballpark!
If 60 people at a ballgame are surfing on laptops, one of them will almost certainly take a foul ball right in the face. Here's a tip - pay attention to the game.
"And this is my boy, Sherman. Speak, Sherman." "Hello." "Good boy."
Oh, wait. We don't have any professional sports in this state (Well, we have the Blazers, but they hardly count).
Culture is more than commerce
The headgear will protect him.
obligatory simpsons quote: "I'm rebroadcasting major league baseball with implied oral consent....not express written consent!"
Exactly. Reading Slashdot is work. Er, at least I charge my employer as if it's work! Why would I want to work when I go to the ballgame? Oh, right! Because baseball is even more boring than the crap I'm supposed to do at work.
How are you going to keep them down on the farm once they've seen Karl Hungus?
yeah, now I can finally sue that heavy metal station I've been receiving in my braces since 5th grade....but I don't know what I'd do without my danzig.
pale
Slashdot is getting pretty poor recently
Recently?
Coperate Amerika
Wow, you are clever, that little jab at the US, makes you feel powerful huh? That's nice.
I bet you love to bash M$ (oh, see the dollar sign, I'm cool now too!).
Well, seeing how coperate isn't a word, you might want to call it Corporate
Amerika (oh, see the 'k', now I'm cool again).
Anyways, tell your mom and dad when they call you up for dinner I said, "Hi!" and that they ought to invest in a dictionary for you on your next birthday. They might even want to get some of their money back from the college, since it didn't help.
Norris/Palin 2012
Fact: We deserve leaders who can kick your ass and field dress your carcass.
I agree - don't waste Portland taxpayer $ on a useless baseball team! Go Senators!
sulli
RTFJ.
John Kenneth Fisher
Table of malContents
Oh yeah... I'd sue Direct TV and ClearChannel for broadcasting shit all over my property. And by shit, I mean shit.
.sig wanted: Must be concise, funny, and display my cleverness.
Can you hear me now? SHIT!
Cause nobody goes to PGE park anyway....
Sitting at the ballpark, watching a baseball game, eating apple pie, and looking at another "pie" on the internet all at once.
It is the American thing to do!