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Working Toward Roaming For Wireless ISPs
hrhsoleil writes "In the category of: This seems like a no-brainer and why-didn't-someone-do-it-before,
according to SearchMobileComputing, the Internet Protocol Detail Record Organization (IPDR) is pushing a set of specifications that would allow users to roam among different providers' hot spots. IPDR is an industry group that addresses billing issues for wireless carriers -- they've got the Wi-Fi Alliance, Gric Communications, and the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association backing them up on this one so it might actually get off the ground. It's about time that wireless ISPs get their act together and make roaming possible. If I can go to almost any bank machine in the world and be able to use it without needing to sign up for a new account, why can't I do the same with hot spots?"
i probably fail it
The real problem with roaming and Wi-Fi lies with customers who try to cheat the system.
I could quite easily open an account with the cheapest wISP I could find (say the caniadian one so I can save because of the exchange rate) then use a local wISP for access.
This is quite bad for wISP as they would introduce free market competition where they once held a monopoly.
The only was I can see this working is that if you are roming you have a limited service, say access to only port 80. Which would stop people from trying to abuse the roming system.
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Nice sig. I hope you get sodomized on your way home from work some day.
Working Toward Roaming For Wireless ISPs
As long as you wear pants while roaming.
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Public key cryptography is too cumbersome to use even if you are tech-literate. Most people I know could never handle the key management as it stands today. Even I've got several keys floating around in the keyservers as I can't revoke them - I can't remember the rarely required passphrase any more.
As soon as encryption is made as easy as slipping a letter into an envelope or pushing send button in Outlook, people will start encrypting their male.
oh man. ah've gotta yeast infection.
ah hear that they's ack-chully quite common. one tahm mah brother smashed 'is toy truck on mah head.
ah loved dat truck. my mamma gave it tuh me. she sez, "here yuh go betty, here yuh go. ya'all go on en have some fun now. dis is your truck betty, dis is your truck."
den after he smashed it, ah pulled my pants down and ran towards the doughboy. dare it was! it was mah dolly steven! i swam over to the other end and sqeezed my dolly. i said, "i love you, steven." and the dolly said, "thank you very much ma'am, i love you very much too!"
he's mah boyfriend now. now dat duh real steven ain't around no mo'. he ran off tuh some other state. he told me everything would be ah-ight. den ah went over tuduh liquor stowe down duh street en bought me a small plastic rose innuh glass tube.
steven always takes duh rose out en uses duh case ez a crack pipe. he burns muh titz up wit' dat pipe sometimes, he does-he does!
but et's a differnt burn den duh yeast infection. uh thinks uh gotta yeast infection. muh daddy says det et's from not warshin' mah ginnertuls wit dah erttention dat et dizerves. he says yuh havetuh maintain yer vurgina like a lawn mowah.
but when i pour gasoline intah mah hole it burns even more! especialy when uh lite it up!
oh man. ah've gotta yeast infection
why mod this guy up? check out his profile, he's a troll lover.
Why did you click a link which says "how to get a date".
Go explain that to your wife.
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