Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Wireless Catch-and-Release

First time accepted submitter SSG Booraem writes "I'm on the IT committee at my church. We've recently added wireless access points to our Family Life Center, but the committee chair isn't comfortable with allowing unrestricted access to our network. We host a lot of guests during the week for Upwards basketball practices and on Saturdays for games, so we want to restrict internet access to the Sunday school classes held in that building. Unfortunately, neither he, nor I, know anything about setting up a wireless catch-and-release like in hotels. If anyone could point me at good documentation, I would be very grateful."

Comments

Catch-and-release?

[aglider]

What's that?>/a>

The only wireless communication you need in Church

[PolygamousRanchKid]

. . . is between Him and yourself; during silent prayer. He doesn't charge outrageous rates for crappy service, and He doesn't throttle traffic either. There is no need for gadgets that do the Devil's work in a Sunday school class: God, the Book and the Rod is all you need.

Seriously, is maybe one hour a week a little to long to go without our life's electric information and communication traveling symbiotic companions?

What's God's twitter channel anyway, maybe I should listen in? Isn't Facebook problematic for Allah, because he doesn't like seeing pictures of himself and Mohammed?

Re:Really?

[Tsingi]

If you're going to try to make a joke, at least make it have sense. You should feel bad about posting that. It was stupid, and so are you.

Some people think believing in a god is stupid. Is it bad to say what you think? Or is it only bad when you are talking about religion. How about vegetables, is it OK to say bad things about vegetables?

Just checking, because I like spinach, and some people don't. I think they should keep their opinions to themselves lest they appear to be antispinites. In fact, I think they should be sent to jail until they realize that saying bad things about spinach hurts other peoples feelings.

Re:Really?

[LWATCDR]

Come on everybody knows that Religion is nothing but a scam and all religious people are stupid and evil.
Look that those scumbags like the Reverend Martian Luther King and Bishop Desmond Tutu!

Re:Really?

[Sarten-X]

Until someone comes up with a religion that says it is OK to believe in "all the gods", your statement is nonsensical.

Unitarian Universalism, to which I'm a recent (agnostic) convert. One of the main tenets of the religion is that everybody can hold whatever beliefs they want. In my particular church, one of the ministers is Buddhist, one is Catholic, and one is agnostic. They have some very interesting sermons, usually focusing on some aspect of being a better person when interacting with society, rather than promoting devotion to any chosen deity. After the service, there's a coffee hour with socialization and open discussion, so the most sacred item in the church is the probably the coffeepot. Banjo help you if you take our coffee!

Re:Really?

[Tsingi]

Come on everybody knows that Religion is nothing but a scam and all religious people are stupid and evil. Look that those scumbags like the Reverend Martian Luther King and Bishop Desmond Tutu!

Ahh, a religious person did something good. So are you saying that that validates religion? If not, what is your point? Are you saying that all religious persons are not evil, therefore religion is good? Is that like saying not all Nazi's were evil, so therefore Hitler was good?

Am I expected to post a list of outstanding atheists to counter your irrelevant sarcasm?

Then we could argue who was an atheist, who was really agnostic, who was a libertarian, who was a humanist, etc... It would be fun, but a waste of time.

Re:Really?

[HornWumpus]

My religion (The Church of our Lady of Copious Lubricants, I am pope) has defined rituals (You can guess, you'd be right. We great each other by wiping our faces all the way to our ears.) but the IRS refuses to grant me tax exempt status.

Bastards!