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Fonera 2 To Launch With Extended Functionality

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the real-community-sharing dept.

The next installment in the Fonera router family is set to make its debut in a couple of weeks, and the additions to the hardware are relatively impressive. Promising full support for networked storage, automatic downloads, sharing of a USB 3G connection, and a few other perks in addition to the normal range of functionality found in the Fonera routers this package packs quite a punch. "Like the original Fonera and Fonera+ routers, the principals of this hippie-love-in-styled product still apply. You buy the router and hook it up to your internet connection as normal. The trick is that the router shares a part of your bandwidth on a public-facing connection. Other Fon owners can log in and use this public network for free. In turn, you — as a Fonera owner — can travel the world and use other Fon hotspots. It's a neat idea and everybody wins, except the money-grabbing telcos."

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  1. A real hippie-love-in-styled product by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Would have a hotspot open to all.

    Not just the evil consumers that evilly used their evil money to buy the evil Fonera.

    1. Re:A real hippie-love-in-styled product by dissy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      the totally insane witch hunt we have going on when it comes to kiddie pron

      Have you ever seen kiddie porn?
      Usenet makes it all too simple, and let me tell you: it's not busty blonde 17 year olds "this close" to 18, and it's really, really disgusting.

      Dude... How does the horribleness of those pictures in any way/shape/or form justify putting tens to hundreds of thousands of innocent people through trials and basically branded as guilty pedophiles for life, only to discover they really were innocent and let go?

      Those peoples lives are ruined forever. Friends and associates lost, families torn apart, carriers ruined... All because the accusations make front page news for weeks, and the retraction and court outcome is 2 lines in small print somewhere towards the bottom of page E-10...

      That is the witch hunt of which the GP speaks.

      And No, I don't buy your excuse for why that is OK to do to people, simply because the pictures are really really disgusting.
      If ANYTHING, that reason of yours should be EXACTLY why this madness needs to stop, so the real criminals taking the pictures and doing the child abuse might get caught, instead of given a week to get away while someone else is "investigated"

      You truly are a sick person to prefer innocent peoples lives are ruined instead of the real criminals caught

  2. Why, oh why... by palegray.net · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It does this all without a computer, so once you have it set up you can take your laptop out on the road and look forward to a new episode of Criminal Minds when you get home.

    Why must people continuously tout the ability of these devices to aid in copyright infringement? Before you stop reading here, consider this: I'm posting this from an Ubuntu laptop. I publish all my software under the GPL and BSD licenses. I publish 99% of my other content under Creative Commons attribution-only licenses. So I'm doing my part to make the IP scene a nicer place.

    All that said, it's ridiculous how many people would scream bloody murder over a GPL violation, while they're downloading someone else's content without the publisher's permission. This is beyond dumb, and it's precisely the reason BitTorrent is so poorly regarded by many publishers and ISPs. Yeah, I actually use it to download ISOs and other legal stuff, but to specifically encourage people to use it in ways that defy the law is idiocy.

    People can't demand that their own rights be respected while they trample on those of others.

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    1. Re:Why, oh why... by corsec67 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It is thus perfectly consistent to be both anti-copyright and pro-GPL, to the extend that copyright does exist in the law.

      Without copyright laws, the GPL would be unenforcible. The BSD style licenses are the anti-copyright licenses. GPL uses copyright laws to have some interesting restrictions, but definitely does depend on copyright laws.

      However, the length of copyright protection is something else, and for most GPL software infinity+ years is longer than that version will be useful.

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