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SeattleWireless TV: Flickenger, Warcopter, And More

Posted by timothy on from the made-local-think-global dept.

Michael Pierce writes "SeattleWireless TV has done it again! This months SeattleWireless TV show features an Interview with Rob Flickenger the inventor of the pringles cantenna and co-author of Nocat, an open source wireless captive portal. Then we have a chance to hear from Risto Koiva about his remote controlled helicopter with a 2.4ghz installed camera and gps unit, learn about the Personal Telco Project out of Portland, Oregon and finally a product review on the new WatchGuard SoHo 6 wireless firewall. Download the Mpeg version here or Watch the Windows Media Stream here, or the RealPlayer stream here."

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  1. since this seems like a representative post ... by timothy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To respond to several at once, I'm just picking this one randomly :)

    Re:Is the the slasdot version of text ads?

    "It seems more like a product advertisement than anything else. May be this is an ad disguised as a story?"

    Err ... an ad for what, exactly? What product do you mean?

    Seattle Wireless is an amateur group who are putting a lot of their own money and time into creating a complex network in the Seattle / Tacoma area, and (in this case) producing / distributing a show about wireless technologies *because they think they're cool.*

    Personal Telco is trying to blanket Portland with free 802.11 access. Sounds like a fun, laudable idea to me.

    I posted this because I admire what these groups are doing, and want to see similar things happen around the world. (And they are happening -- BAWAG, consume.net, etc etc.)

    (If I could only persuade these groups to contribute a portion of their gigantic profits to slashdot... hmmm, idea quickly retracted as complete nonsense ;))

    timothy

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  2. Re:I wish there were more shows like this ... by notque · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Where *are* all the wonderful 'independent' movies and documentaries and such on the Internet these days?

    All your base are belong to us. Stick Fighting Ninjas doing battle. That chick who dances to really bad music like, "Touch Myself"

    There's a plethora of wonderful Internet Content.

    I think there's even a site about girls who make out in a bathtub. Viva la Internet.

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  3. Re:I wish there were more shows like this ... by RealityProphet · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I want to know where the actual artists and authors and writers who stand to *benefit* from open, broad dissemination of their works are putting it for download by people

    Well, it would seem that it is a load of crap. Perhaps it is the case that authors and writers, creative minds and forward-thinking individuals do not benefit from giving away their trade for free. It seems when people put their stuff out for free, cheap bastards expect them to continue putting their stuff out for free.

    An example are the fine folks making Divx. What a backlash they got from the slashdot community just at the mere mention that they would no longer be giving their codec away for free! My goodness! Bait and switch! Bait and switch! Get 'em hooked, them suck 'em dry! Let's change right now to Ogg Whatever!

    Perhaps the authors and artists know better, even the starving ones!, not to let their perspective audience assume they are giving anything away for free.