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Mobile Wi-Fi Hot Spot
bsharma writes to let us know about a little goodie that we will be able to buy starting May 17: a battery-powered, rechargeable, cellular, Wi-Fi hot spot that you can put in your pocket. "What if you had a personal Wi-Fi bubble, a private hot spot, that followed you everywhere you go? Incredibly, there is such a thing. It's the Novatel MiFi 2200, available from Verizon starting in mid-May ($100 with two-year contract, after rebate). It's a little wisp of a thing, like a triple-thick credit card. It has one power button, one status light and a swappable battery that looks like the one in a cellphone. When you turn on your MiFi and wait 30 seconds, it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot. ... If you just want to do e-mail and the Web, you pay $40 a month for the service (250 megabytes of data transfer, 10 cents a megabyte above that). If you watch videos and shuttle a lot of big files, opt for the $60 plan (5 gigabytes). And if you don't travel incessantly, the best deal may be the one-day pass: $15 for 24 hours, only when you need it. In that case, the MiFi itself costs $270." The device has its Wi-Fi password printed on the bottom, so you can invite someone to join your network simply by showing it to them.
This will be great once someone figures out your wifi password and starts torrenting. $0.10 per megabyte? Should be a pretty impressive bill when it comes.
Just what I've always wanted, a mobile wi-fi hotspot sitting in my pants pocket microwaving my genitals all day long.
Kick them in the nethers and run away?
"it provides a personal, portable, powerful, password-protected wireless hot spot."
Clearly anything that can be described with this level of alliteration is a big deal.
You smash their computer, of course. And you'll have get them in a headlock that cuts the blood flow from their head, to try to wipe their short-term memory (of the password and you smashing their computer).
And you'll have to kill the witnesses, as this is all in public.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
"Allegedly, anything able to be accounted for with this amount of alliteration is absolutely astounding"
There, fixed that for you.
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
And what do you do when you no longer want to let them have access?
Gee, I dunno Einstein, maybe stop showing them the password?
Memorizing? Writing? Hah! I find that unlikely!
You're so nerdcore.
No but wait, his Iphone lets him make phone calls (and apparently supports 802.11a), so it's as good or better than any other product on the market, no mater what that device does.
That's right! The iPhone really IS better than any other product on the market, regardless of function! No matter what task comes to hand, the iPhone will see me through.
Why, I use my iPhone to puree tomatoes all the time. And it's SOOO handy when I want to brush my teeth. And just ask my girlfriend what she thinks of its penis enlargement capabilities. Truly, the iPhone is the pinnacle of technological development!
You send them a DMCA takedown notice to stop them using your intellectual property of course!
You make sure the passphrase is lyrics to a popular song... and have the RIAA take them to court for typing out those lyrics.