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Police Investigate Offensive Wi-Fi Network Name
An anonymous reader writes "Police in Teaneck, New Jersey, with apparently too much time on their hands, are investigating an offensive wireless network name. Although the police didn't reveal the name, the New York Daily News reports that it was anti-Semitic and racist in nature. The incident is being investigated as a possible 'bias crime.' It's definitely not what proper people do, but a 'bias crime?'"
Why do you think Facebook only has a Like button? It's government mandated.
No one is safe from the constant bombardment of visciously named SSID's
I saw one this morning, "festivus". A term from a sitcom that belittles the celebration of the birth of our baby lord Jesus Christ.
But I didn't call the police.
I'm so glad my router's SSID is 'serious business'. Because apparently that's what the internet is.
To understand recursion, you must first understand recursion.
Although I am not an iPhone user, the article makes it sound like the SSID just "popped up on the person's iPhone" as if to imply that they weren't scanning for a WiFi connection at the time. If this is truly the case, then Apple should be the one charged with exposing this poor victim to this hateful speech. They should either not display SSIDs as they do or they should pass the names through a "politically correct" filter before it reaches the user's eyes.
As it stands, this type of thing is clearly indicates immature people who crave attention,
Hah.
My SSID is: "I fucked your wife!", but that's because I actually fucked my neighbor's wife.
I like to name my mobile hotspot "FBI Surveillance Van" and drive around. Clears out the local coffee house in a jiffy!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Yeah, there's nothing worse than a rich whitey
which is totally what she said
I changed the bluetooth ID of my car's hands-free unit to "POLICE" and whenever I'm stopped in rush-hour traffic I try connecting my "car" to people I see nearby who are (illegally here) holding their cell phones to their ears. Fun times. The reactions I get are priceless.
Probably I should stop doing that...
I am not interested in articles about life extension advancements.
Someone in an apartment above my local Starbucks named their network "This coffee sucks". It certainly gave me a smile.
Nobody would believe that The Police are anybody's favorite band.
My cousin's neighbor's SSID is 8===D
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
I've never had any interest in in-car bluetooth.
Until now.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
and fought a hundred-year war to burn everyone else as heretics.
Yeah, no one expected THAT!
I read that as "comb over" (which still works for CS)
sag
I don't think it takes a doctorate in etiquette to realize that this is a pretty inappropriate joke.
Possibly. Probably even. But if people were jailed for inappropriate jokes, there would be no one left to post on slashdot.
What if it was owned by a porn company and that was simply their mission statement?
Learning HOW to think is more important than learning WHAT to think.
She'll likely fall apart completely right there on the sidewalk somewhere and require years of therapy.
All your other friends couldn't come either, because you don't have any other friends. Because of how unlikeable you are. It says so here in your personnel file: Unlikeable. Liked by no one. A bitter, unlikeable loner whose passing shall not be mourned. 'Shall not be mourned.' That's exactly what it says. Very formal, very official.
Fear is the mind killer.
Mine is "Homeopathic Wi-Fi".
The stronger the signal you have, the slower the connection goes.
"Freedom in the USA is not the ability to do what you want. It is the ability to stop others from doing what THEY want"
Suburban NYC-area where people are getting firebombed these days by people who say what that WiFi SSID said are not in a carefully crafted bubble. They're in the real world, where those kinds of statements are part of the violence.
It's you in your Slashdot posting pod who is in a carefully crafted bubble.
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make install -not war
The POLICE is my favorite band, you insensitive clod!
The best I've seen, in my apartment building, is "CrappyApartment".