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| | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 41,392 News Aggregator | | News Aggregator Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 41,392 | PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia has finished testing its wireless Internet project, setting the stage for America's biggest citywide Wi-Fi network that will also offer access to low-income households, officials said on Thursday. Source | | | |
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| | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,204 Likes: 11 Community Owner | | Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,204 Likes: 11 | Well, "it's abut damned time" comes to mind... | | | | | Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 478 UGN Member | | UGN Member Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 478 | From the source "Access (to wi fi)is free in parks and other outdoor spaces", I found it funny how this will encourage people to go to the park, but to surf the net on lap tops.
Bring on 2050.
| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 247 UGN Member | | UGN Member Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 247 | hey, it's better to surf the net in the open air than locked in a den with a privacy window facing a brick building.
"We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."
-UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 478 UGN Member | | UGN Member Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 478 | yeah, but its still funny.
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,204 Likes: 11 Community Owner | | Community Owner Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 7,204 Likes: 11 | They're talking about putting one here in Portland, but it'd be a ways off... I think it'd be pretty cool to not have to hop on a free node or wardrive and just be able to hop on anywhere... With any luck they'll have coverage out in SE and it'll support WEP so I can hop on with my PDA... | | |
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