Mobile Wireless at Tempe Presidential Debate

badcataz writes "Presidential debate goers in Tempe, Arizona might find a strange looking electric vehicle providing wireless service. WAZ Tempe has modified and Italian Electic car to extend their downtown Tempe network using a 1 Watt Tropos 5110 wireless mesh node."

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Or, otherwise known as...

[datastalker]

...the electronics van for prompting George W. Bush. ;)

Re:It'll be jammed.

[WhatAmIDoingHere]

The roads should also be removed for 50 miles all around the debate location. Roads let people bring in bombs.

So does the sky. And pipes. And birds. European Swallows with coconut shaped bombs, oh my!

Re:It'll be jammed.

[Anonymous Coward]

How does the government manage to get by without your pearls of wisdom and flashing strokes of insight? It must make you weary . . .

Italian reliability

[SuperBanana]

Heh, an electric Italian car. Where to begin...do you need to remove the passenger seat to charge it?

Well, on the bright side, at least it wasn't made by Lucas. If it had been, the wifi unit would only work if the handbrake light was blown and the left turn signal was on.

But, dear god, don't pull the handbrake!

Re:and

[div_B]

(the "d" is silent)

And I suspect the Italian car is eclectic, not electic. ;)

Re:If they had a ham license....

[Bryan_W]

What's the point of posting as AC if you put your callsign in your post?

So, Bush wasn't wired after all

[Space Coyote]

I guess the square thing under his jacket is his 802.11 antenna.

He must be wired.

[hotspotbloc]

That would explain Bush's strange comment near the end of the debate:

"Over the next four years, I hope for A BIG MAC WITH A COKE AND SUPERSIZE IT."