Google WiFi+VPN Confirmed

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 20, 2005 @01:52AM from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is actually (confirmed!) rolling out their wifi network, first in the San Francisco bay area (see the FAQ for details.) They are also including a Secure Access program for use in conjunction with this. So far, as per usual, it's in beta, and only for the San Fran bay area. Soon the entire US, perhaps??"

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And then the world! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-20 01:55 · Score: 3, Funny

First the city, then the USA, and then: THE WORLD!

Muwahahahahahahahaha!
I'm in China by Anonymous Coward · 2005-09-20 01:58 · Score: 4, Funny

you insensitive clod!
1. Re:I'm in China by SuperBanana · 2005-09-20 02:05 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I'm in China
  Attention citizen, you have been doing evil, posting to a capitalist website! Please report to the "Do No Evil" Friendship Happy Center.
  
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2. Re:I'm in China by Viper+Daimao · 2005-09-20 02:17 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  hey, you're not in china, theres no way you could have posted china and evil together and got around the filters.
  
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3. Re:I'm in China by s.d. · 2005-09-20 02:24 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Attention citizen, you have been doing evil, posting to a capitalist website! Please report to the "Do No Evil" Friendship Happy Center.
  
  I see by the Big Board we got a Negative Nellie in Sector Two. I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to kind of freeze and prepare for Re-Neducation.
Boston? by kevin.fowler · 2005-09-20 02:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Google, please roll this out in my area. My neighbors finally got smart and put passwords on their wireless routers.

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1. Re:Boston? by el_womble · 2005-09-20 02:21 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I'm sorry sir, we're going to have to ask for your geek card. WiFi Passwords are for people that don't have time to crack the network. As a /. member you are expected, ney, demanded to crack that password.
  
  Now, don't come back until you've cracked that password and distributed to everyone you know. At the very least man, don't admit that you don't know how to break the security!!!
  
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"Beta" means . . . by EraserMouseMan · 2005-09-20 02:16 · Score: 4, Funny

Just be happy that you got something for free. You have no right to complain about anything because we put "beta" on it even though it is far beyond beta-grade.

So 5 years from now if your Google WiFi beta connection drops out you must react in the following manner, "Hmmm. . . that's interesting. I can't communicate with my clients anymore. But I guess I can only blame myself for depending on a Google, ahem, uh, a beta product."
Re:Just makes sense by Keck · 2005-09-20 02:18 · Score: 3, Funny

If podcasts are going to replace radio, google wifi will replace ? (a question for all those who recently took the sat)

I thought they removed analogies from the SAT like 10 years ago?

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FAQ on FAQs by layyze · 2005-09-20 03:30 · Score: 2, Funny

Does anyone else find it odd that Google has released a FAQ (frequenty asked questions) on something that they are just now announcing and that doesn't even actually exist yet?

How were people asking such specific questions on something non-existant? How were people asking these questions frequently?

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1. Re:FAQ on FAQs by funkyfreshcoderdude · 2005-09-20 07:19 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  They gathered the questions using the new Google Future FAQ Gatherer Beta. Since California breaks away from the US and sinks into the Pacific in the future, they currently can only gather questions from people in western Nevada.
Re:This isn't an ISP it's a VPN client. by cpeterso · 2005-09-20 07:52 · Score: 2, Funny

And if you don't trust the All-Seeing Google, you can tunnel your own VPN through Google's VPN! Borrow their dumb pipe, but keeping their prying eyes out. :D

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