Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless

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Baltimore Inner Harbor To Go Wireless

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 1, 2003 @02:59AM from the oversubscription dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The City of Baltimore has made free wireless internet available in the Inner Harbor in hopes of bringing in more tourists and business conventions. According to this article on Sunspot Internet service will be available free of charge to portable computers from the Baltimore Science Center to the World Trade Center along the touristy waterfront. Need to check your e-mail when sailing the Chesapeake Bay? Just dock at the Rusty Scupper and whip out your laptop."

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Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-01 03:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Warsailing here I come... I'll bring a new meaning to piracy on the open seas.
1. Re:Woohoo! by lommer · 2003-10-01 03:50 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Now there's an idea: Get a tricked out antenna with which you can reach the harbour wireless (you might need to set up a shore-based repeater in order to recieve signals going the other way). Then, you sit out in international waters with a multi-terabyte mp3 collection just sharing away. Let's see the RIAA try to sue you now...
2. Re:Woohoo! by Kosi · 2003-10-01 03:56 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  They'd send you this baby over.
Sweet! by whitelabrat · 2003-10-01 03:02 · Score: 0, Funny

Now the homeless in Baltimore can be geeks too!
1. Re:Sweet! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-01 03:02 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  The homeless in Baltimore already ARE geeks. They're laid off tech workers.
Dock? by nate1138 · 2003-10-01 03:03 · Score: 3, Funny

Just dock at the Rusty Scupper and whip out your laptop

Why bother? Just make sure you pick up a can of pringles before you set sail.

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Where's my lobbyist? Right here.
WiFi by rf0 · 2003-10-01 03:12 · Score: 2, Funny

So this means that I can be floating on a boat, enjoying the sun, the smell of the harbour and reading /. What more could a geek want apart from a girlfriend, faster laptop, respect from hispeers

Great :)

Rus

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Arr! A pirate's life for geeks! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-01 03:32 · Score: 2, Funny

Would ye be liking some sea fries with that crabby patty, matey? SPONGEBOB! I'm not paying you to lie around leeching the bandwidth.
Tourism? What Do You Base Your Trips On? by H8X55 · 2003-10-01 03:41 · Score: 2, Funny

come for the orioles, stay for the WiFi.

PS - Last time we checked, there were enough open business networks available, city sponsered ones aren't necessary.
I'm at UMBC and.... by FluffyG · 2003-10-01 03:45 · Score: 2, Funny

this will keep me from being at school because now i can sit in hooters all day with my laptop.... THANK YOU BALTIMORE!
And they even have the gall of calling it by TheMidget · 2003-10-01 03:59 · Score: 3, Funny

Penguin! Oh the insolence!
Yes, but the real trick.... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-01 04:23 · Score: 2, Funny

will be surviving the three blocks between the parking garage and the inner harbor with your $2000 laptop.