I'm simultaneously for and against this.
Schrödinger? Is that you?
And to be fair, Zappa was exposed to a lot of dubious chemicals as a child. Maybe the exposure to one or more of those can cause people to become iconic band-leaders.
Who died of prostate cancer and considered coffee and cigarettes to be "food."
And if all the routers were open, who would that hurt? Not the children. It would be AT&T and Comcast, Sony and the rest. That's why the intimidation is so important to them. They know we don't actually need their overpriced, crappy services.
Somebody send the pope a copy of William Gibson's book, Idoru, where the main character wants to marry a computer character. That'll really get him going.
Seconded! Alpha baby is very neat if you own a Mac.
http://alphababy.sourceforge.net/
You're on your own with protecting the computer from the toddler, however. Little fingers can pry up keys easily. You will definitely need to supervise.
True enough. But as far as thoughtful contributions to slashdot discussions go, CodeBuster could have done much worse.
CodeBuster is referring to this: http://www.sonomamarintrain.org/ It may not be "high speed" but everything else he said is accurate. The measure was passed with 3/4 of the vote, but it will be a miracle if we see any progress made before the ice-caps melt.
If all cars could do this, would we still need cell towers? If every single car on the road was an open mobile hot spot, wouldn't a lot of the services the telecoms currently charge a great deal for suddenly become nearly valueless? (Assuming range and bandwidth was decent, of course.)
Let's just stop using it.
"With bandwidth and storage increasing exponentially..." In the last ten years I've barely seen my bandwidth improve at all. Oh wait, he says he's in London. Maybe someday faster internets will come to America.
Also, great article.
Should an autonomous car be called an auto-automobile?
If all else fails, lower your standards.