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Free Wi-Fi For the Residents of Venice, Italy
pmontra writes "The City of Venice, Italy, started to offer free Wi-Fi to residents (Google translation from the Italian source) on July 3 2009. Tourists and other visitors will pay 5 Euros a day for the service starting from September. The hot spots are connected to a ten thousand kilometer (6,250 mile) fiber optic LAN the City started deploying in the '90s. The first day of free Internet access has been celebrated with a digital treasure hunt in the channels of the lagoon city."
I'll have to remember to take my laptop the next time I'm in Venice.
I fail to see how that's a change fro mthe norm. As not only a slashdot member, but also someone who posts first. I assume you take your laptop _everywhere_ you go, not just to Italy.
I fail to see how this affects non-italians.
It is common knowledge that in italy the internet is translated to italian with a device not unlike the great firewall of china.
Well in this case it's going to be paid for by the tourists who don't know how to spoof a MAC, and the rest of us get free internet!
Though to be fair I guess you could get free health care if you know how to spoof an SSN...
It's a public safety issue! The less wires the better for the next time the city floods.
I'm just glad I don't have to do warsailing anymore. In the past I used to tell my boat rower to keep it steady long enough to break the WPA-PSK while wearing that ridiculous mask.
Venice residents will soon begin renting their accounts to tourists for 3 euros/day.