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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.
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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And they even have the gall of calling it by TheMidget · 2003-10-01 03:59 · Score: 3, Funny

Penguin! Oh the insolence!