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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...
Honey, I shrunk the Cygwin
I bet the wardrivers with GPS are going nuts trying to pin him down while he's riding.
Props to GNAA!
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.
Introducing the new Occam Fusion! Now with sqrt(-1) fewer blades!
... 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.
Portable versions of Firefox, GIMP, LibreOffice, etc
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?
"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"
And let us not forget the classic:
lf(1): it's like ls(1) but sorts filenames by extension, tersely
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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