WiFi Phone Announced

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Posted by michael on Friday March 12, 2004 @02:44AM from the just-can't-wait-to-get-back-on-the-road-again dept.

igrp writes "Zyxel just announced its Prestige 2000W VoIP Wi-Fi Cordless Phone. It's designed to work with 802.11b networks, implements QoS and IP-to-IP call functionality and uses 128-bit WEP encryption. It also scans for 'available APs in [the] hand set's environment'. War driving just became a whole lot more interesting."

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Wow! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 02:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Wow! Portable phones. I thought I'd never live to see the day.
Woohooey! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 02:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

FIRST POST!!
1. Re:Woohooey! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 02:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  today on Sesame Street, we learn the numbers 13 and 1 and how they are different from each other !
2. Re:Woohooey! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 03:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Then, we learn how to read dates, and realise the number 6 is not 13!
Mod down parent - nothing wrong with site by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 02:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

There is nothing wrong with the site. This guy is just karma-whoring.
1. Re:Mod down parent - nothing wrong with site by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 03:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  There is nothing wrong with the site. This guy is just karma-whoring
  
  Fuck you!
steps to victory by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 02:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic
1. Wait until election week.
2. Provoke ???
3. Win election as country rallies in mourning.
I can fill in the ??? since I live close enough to have heard it. Can you?

In other news, American government shows courtesy and respect for detainees.
Re:But.. by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 03:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

You forgot to uncheck the post anonymously box, Amsterdam Vallon.
Vote for him anyway by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 03:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Vote for Bush anyway. He has much better ideas than Kerry does, both foreign and domestic.
1. Re:Vote for him anyway by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 03:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  How about the defecit? Bush has made it very high. Kerry promises to increase it much more, as he wants to spend more money on just about everything.
  
  That is just for starters.
2. Re:Vote for him anyway by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 03:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Bush has made it very high. [...] That is just for starters.
  
  True, true.
Well, buttmunch by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 03:12 · Score: -1, Offtopic

"If you get caught fighting in a terrorist army, don't be surprised if you get inconvenienced."

Doesn't matter. The US Government has accused american citizens on american soil of being "terrorists" and they are being held without trial.

Do you feel safer? Maybe you're a terrorist too?
1. Re:Well, buttmunch by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-12 03:14 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  " The US Government has accused american citizens on american soil of being "terrorists" and they are being held without trial."
  
  Since they are only holding ones that were caught in the act of fighting in terrorist armies, no problem. If you get caught fighting in a terrorist army, don't be surprised if you get inconvenienced.
  
  "Do you feel safer?"
  
  Absolutely. We've got someone dealing with the root causes of the problem.
Re:end of wiring by Dare+nMc · 2004-03-12 03:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

might be a bit off topic,
but wiring for power should probably go away.
granted power over lines is currently cheaper than the .5 acre of solar panel / house. but I suspect the total cost is greater over the power grid is now much greater than solor. If it weren't for the REA the ongoing install/upgrade/maintain/protect from terorism of the grid, is greater than the solor panels...