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War Kayaking
ptorrone writes "As the summer approaches, we crawl out of our protective wired covered lairs to sometimes partake in outdoor activity. Last weekend, we went kayaking around Lake Union in Seattle, WA and of course, we couldn't help but bring along a lot of equipment and decided we'd hunt for open wireless spots, this friends- was "War Kayaking" we found a ton, charted it with GPS, Wifi finders and we'll show you how we did it for this week's HOW-TO Tuesday. We also shot a video in the kayak, be sure to check that out too."
This could become an Olympic Sport!
War Hiking
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War SCUBA Diving
War Mountain Biking
War Snowboarding
War Golfing
War Rock CLimbing
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Wow, you mean you can use a GPS on a Kayak? No way! I am going to start War-biking, War-wirewalking, War-firewalking, War-streetwalking, War-drinking, War-fucking (find all those important porn stores in seedy areas of downtown after War-streetwalking and War-drinking of course), War-Slashdotting (making a page load so slow because even though it shows the same thing as War-flying or War-driving people see "check out the video of us making you sea sick" and then flock to it), and of course, my personal favorite War-iPoding! Now you too can find all the iPods tucked away in BMWs and listen to the Universe from anywhere!
When you paddled past Bill's house, did you find any open relays?
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!
we couldn't help but bring along a lot of equipment and decided we'd hunt for open wireless spots, this friends- was "War Kayaking" we found a ton :-) (that and getting stuck in the damn thing, upside-down)
You absolute nerds! Also, why didn't you just use the Smart ID Wifi detector? It's only $25, and therefore it trumps any pocket PC. Plus you don't risk as much if you get wet: something that tends to happen frequently when I Kayak.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
WAREATING Take laptop into restaurant and see what WIFI you can pick. Then mayb eyou can find a place with both a good cheese steak sandwich and a decent internet connection. ahhhh paradise!
War Golfing has been around for years. Every time I go it's war with the tall grass, war with the trees, war with the sand traps and war with the whole damn course.
Evolution or ID?
Two networks with SSIDs of linksys and NETGEAR. How much do you want to bet we already know their admin passwords?
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Do they then warchalk their boats to remember where the hotspot was?
With a few plastic baggies filled up with the right stuff, you can make almost *anything* interesting.
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Hmmm... Technically they're not kayaks, but it appears native Pacific Northwesterners and New Zealanders beat you to it with their war canoes.
"Prepare for the worst - hope for the best."
Who gives a crap if there are open wi-fi spots on the water?
It's important for those who enjoy surf surfing.
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The guys forgot to put some kind of floating device inside the baggies...
Their PDA maybe protected from splashes, but if they drop it in the water, they'll need to do some war-scubadiving to get it back.
Actually, I'm still waiting for the article on War Spelunking.
Unknown host pong.
Some ideas for using the latest buzzword, war-*:
war-diving: fumbling through kismet while tumbling through the air at 15,000 ftwar-gimping: using kismet/gps combo while in a wheelchair
war-muling: strapping your kismet running lappy on a mule while trudging through columbia
war-basing: giving a basehead your zaurus with kismet/gps addon card and letting it log the hotspots as it travels through countless hands and finally sits idle at a pawn shop after 22 hours
war-gerbiling: eh, don't need details here
and so forth...
I also reply below your current threshold.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
But if you were on the water, how many of the WiFi network owner's pet names would you know? The point is that the sheer number of open networks, while fun to browse and borrow bandwidth from, is a general problem with inexperienced users getting advanced technology.
Everything should be secure.
My friends and I all went in kayaks and canoes and started to tip each other over in a full-scale war it seemed. You could see many kamikazes flying off their kayaks in order to bring down the large fleets of canoes coming our way. Those with the larger paddles often attacked from below and many people begin to recover their equipment after being detached making this last longer...
Of course, had we brought our Wi-Fi equipment we would have been screwed.
Where is this outdoors you speak of?
-- Thou hast strayed far from the path of the Avatar.
i did in fact program the robots on my site to dance around, filmed it, documented it, shared the files. i don't really have fashion advice for anyone, i just document stuff i happen to like when i used to travel, i'm broke, in fact i'd kill to get to zero as opposed to in debt, so i don't think wealthy is an accurate term. i use "we" since it's the voice of the site. as far as getting a life...i'm willing to bet that i'm having a lot of fun and spending my time doing stuff i like as opposed to going out of my way to poke at someone :-] but i suppose that could be fun to some folks too.
Seriously, folks, don't go around connecting to any old AP just because it's open unless the first thing you do is set up an SSH tunnel to somewhere and use it to redirect your traffic.
In another topic, I'm amazed that no one has set up fake T-Mobile or WayPort APs in cities just to grab CC numbers. It would be *so* easy.
John.
Who cares about wifi spots out on the river? I don't jump in my kayak to go browse the web or check my email. I specifically engage in athletic and recreational activity to get away from all that crap.
Honestly, this kind of thing is getting to be pretty sad. It reminds me of the commercial from Motomaster advertising their portable power supply (like a UPS for the outdoors.) It shows a family somewhere in the middle of a forest with appliances plugged in, and a kid on his friggin laptop playing games. I find myself asking "why did they leave home in the first place?"
"we couldn't help but bring along a lot of equipment and decided we'd hunt for open wireless spots"
Why not!? Leave your damn cell phones, PDAs, laptops and assorted other junk at home. Do you really need all that to enjoy the great outdoors? Does it enhance the experience in some way? I'd have a hard time believing anyone who told me as much. Sure, you can take video and thousands of pictures and show all your friends - maybe even do it live with all the hotspots - but you know what? People get so busy trying to "capture" the moment that they forget to enjoy it while they're there. Aside from which, telling a story and leaving it to your friends' imaginations is far more exciting.
I realize I've deviated slightly from the topic. The point I'm trying to make is that I think a lot of people really need to unplug and discover the world outside of electronics. Leaving all that stuff at home is what really enhances the experience. All you need is yourself and your kayak.
-kidlinux.
War Dialing was cool
War Driving was nostalgic
War Flying was cute
War Biking, Skateboarding, Parasailing, Hang-gliding, sky-diving, monster-truck driving, walking, chalking, talking, and even steven hawking were just kind of uninteresting.
Now if a soldier in Iraq wants to mount an iPaq, Solar panel, GPS, and WiFi card on his helmet and call it War-War'ing, that *might* be cool enough to come full circle and be sweet again.
Until then, its off to Defcon and try to get a twentyseventhousandmillion mile 802.11b signal going.
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the "we" thing, okay- i understand that feedback, but that's the voice of the site, i'll see if it makes sense to change it for the how tos. thanks for the kind words on the how-tos, folks seem to like them. right now, i have 3 ipods and 4-5 phones, as i upgrade, i keep them and use them for other things, i might be ebaying some for $. as far as time to do all this stuff, i don't really sleep that much and right now, i'm taking some time off to enjoy life. and lastly "pulling the same face" wow, well- i can't change the way i look. hope this clears stuff up.
"Anything?"
"Nope - still nothing."
"This sucks."
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Seriously, I completely agree with the parent poster. I thought the whole point of outdoor leisure activities was to get away from laptops, cell phones, pagers, television, etc.
I scuba dive, and it is a whole other world down there. A world with no cell phones, internet etc. where no one even knows exactly where you are. Well no one but your dive buddy, and even that's doubtful given his poor underwater navigation skills...
--If 50,000 people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Last week I was sure I saw U.S. President Bush war mongering...
Groan, boo, hiss, I know.