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Google Plans to Offer Free WiFi in San Francisco

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the google-google-everywhere dept.

jacksonwest writes "What's been rumored for some time has now been confirmed -- Google has made a bid in response to Mayor Gavin Newsom's request for information. The details of the bid include citywide access, for free, at 300kbps. The plans dovetail into their location-based advertising and services strategy, and come on the heels of their recent VPN service rollout."

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  1. Doesn't SF already have enough free WiFi? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Come on... share it! People in DC need free WiFi, too!

    1. Re:Doesn't SF already have enough free WiFi? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I'm in DC, and there's loads of free WiFi all over the place from a company called 'default'. Linksys seems to be offering quite a few access points as well.

    2. Re:Doesn't SF already have enough free WiFi? by speck · · Score: 2, Funny

      YES! There is one new reason to move to SF!

      As if the famously good weather and cheap housing weren't enough...

  2. Free (Legal) WiFi by Bob54321 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I get free wifi too. My neighbor doesn't secure his connection... its a bit low on signal strength though. Hopefully Google provide me with a better solution soon!

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  3. I, for one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    welcome our new google overloards....

  4. Should we call it GooFi? [NT] by Powertrip · · Score: 3, Funny

    NT

  5. Re:There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 4, Funny

    Folding tinfoil hats? Gah, I though everybody knew you just tear off a strip of tinfoil slightly longer than the circumference of your head, wrap it around, and smush it down into a sleek (though crinckly) helmet-like shape. Smush, I said. Not fold. Why in the world would you say "fold"? Ah, unless you're FROM THE GOVERNMENT, trying to subtly undermine the effectiveness of our improvised protection systems!

  6. google google everywhere by ezzzD55J · · Score: 3, Funny
    Just to show that I got the reference, and for those wondering.. "from the google-google everywhere dept." is a reference to The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by sir Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

    The Mariner tells a story of a ship adrift for so long they ran out of drinking water, after the 'hero' of the story shoots an albatross (bad luck)

    Water, water, everywhere,
    And all the boards did shrink;
    Water, water, everywhere,
    Nor any drop to drink.

    So. That's that.

  7. Re:There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch by rtaylor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Smush? Smush? Are you crazy? Do you know what kind of a radar signature a smushed tinfoil hat has? They'll see you from miles away!

    A properly made tinfoil hat will bounce the brainscanning waves (and radar waves) at odd angles which would not send the signal back to the sender. Nice clean folds. They chould be straight enough that the foil does not touch the head in all locations.

    regards,
        Agent Watson
        BSD (Brain Scan Department)

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    Rod Taylor
  8. Re:WiFi? What about newer.... by AAeyers · · Score: 2, Funny

    For once, the redundant moderation actually makes sense....

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    "For Great Justice."