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WiFi On Two Wheels
MeGaBiTe1 writes "Yury Gitman is not the average cyclist from Brooklyn. His goal is to bring more easily accessible free wireless hotspots to the masses. To do this, he has created what he calls the Magicbike, a bicycle equipped with a laptop, power supply and antenna. Gitman's bike has allowed people in NYC to browse the internet freely in local parks and gardens. 'I am like the ice cream man, but with no music and I deliver free wireless access and not ice cream'."
I wonder how long it will be before a cop pulls over his bike and tickets him for inappropriate and bizarre analogies...
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I bet the wardrivers with GPS are going nuts trying to pin him down while he's riding.
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Can we just buy one of those magic bicycle and keep it in our room?
Someone miniaturize a wifi hotspot enough so that you can strap it to a pidgeon, then put some around New York. Then I'll really be impressed! Access for peanuts... or breadcrumbs... hey let's try squirrels maybe then it can be for peanuts.
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... but with no music
... and with wireless internet service instead of ice cream
... and with a bike instead of a truck
... and it's free instead of costing money
... and I'm really more of a boy, not a man
... come to think of it, I'm nothing like the ice cream man at all... I was just talking outta my ass.
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What? no music? On ya bike son...
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Hopefully the site isn't hosted on this bike...if it got slashdotted and crashed, we could all get sued for his injuries!
I know this is a new concept on Slashdot, but just maybe people can't steal the equipment because he's actually riding the bike. Like excercise, who does that?
Would it be qualified as a "drive by?"
Depends if you're on the bus.
For some reason I still have the image of a guy with a giant satellite dish on his head in my mind. It would be interesting to see him take a trip into the south bronx.
or is the wifi coming out his ass!?!?
Icecream indeed.
"He's coming around the park again~ Quick! hit
the reload button while you have the chance!"
-- Connected to Wi-fi bike boy --
-- 11.00 mbits per second --
-- signal stregnth low --
*swoosh*
--wireless internet conneciton unavailable--
"damnit. . . "
Saying "Militia really just means National Gaurd" is like saying "Press really just means PBS"
"Why do computers need inundate every single aspect of our lives?" ... said the Anonymous Coward who used a computer to read the article and post his/her response.
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Not only that, but exposing your "equipment" in a park could result in a large fine!
next thing you know, river rafting with a cluster of notebooks running folding@home with a propulsion system of 120mm pana-flo fans will be extreme sports...
- I'd prefer not to.
are now planning on robbing him.
And let us not forget the classic:
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... all the people on laptops following him via bike around the park. I'd pay to see the carnage that'd ensue.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall
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Every morning when I go out for a jog in the park, I take my laptop computer with me just in case a cyclist, with an attached mobile Wi-Fi hotspot, happens to be getting a bit of exercise at the same time.
It's great! Lugging the laptop around adds to the exercise potential of my jog and being able to read my spam, while in the middle of my jog, really goes a long way to breaking the boredom of exercise regime.
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So basically, this strange guy provides slow unreliable internet access to people enjoying a bit of air and sunshine in the park. I don't know about the rest of you, but if I want unreliable internet access, I'll do that at home with with Comcast. At least with them, I don't need some weirdo to point a funny antenna at me when I'm trying to surf the web.
'I am like the ice cream man, but with no music and I deliver free wireless access and not ice cream'." Or you're like a big dork with too much time on your hands.
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'I am like the ice cream man, but with no music and I deliver free wireless access and not ice cream'.
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Mixing public art with techno-activism
arg, I hate pop culture. I bet this guy is a 'metrosexual' too. Let it die! techno-activism is a made up word. You're a fruit on a bike! There are tons of wireless hotspots out there anyways, the chances that you're doing the world even a minute's worth of good are slim to none. If you really want ubiquitous wireless net access, try, oh , say, setting up a hotspot in your house. Or donating to a cause or group or company who would set up these spots. The idea that your bike provides wifi is hardly useful. get a life, and this is coming from a computer geek.
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