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Free WiFi Trend Continues
Palal writes "San Francisco is about to embark on a Free (or low cost) WiFi campaign with the mayor holding the reins, of course, in hopes of offering more low-income residents easier access to the Internet. Since San Francisco, unlike Philadelphia (previously covered on Slashdot for a similar project), is only 49 square miles, will this work here and can this be accomplished in a year as promised or is this just another political plot to get the Mayor re-elected?"
Isn't everything a mayor does a plot to get re-elected? I'll believe in altruism when he's paying for it out of his own pocket, rather than out of the taxpayer's.
OTOH, this would sure reduce the incentive for War Driving. And I would like to know what this will do to existing networks.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
still not as bad as the mandatory recylcing program our county has. I have to pay for a service I have no intention of using 32.00 a year.
I just really hate to see the government get involved in more than they should.
Oh, i see. slavery, yes, quite. excellent quip.
Well, if slavery to you is being coerced into taking responsability for ensuring the common good, then surely the right to vote is tantamount to some form of rape?
though I suppose in a way we are indeed slaves to our own laws...
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