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Comment Apple Airport Extreme with Guest Network (Score 1) 332

Just pick up an Apple Airport Extreme WiFi base station. They're "mesh"-able so you can stack additional units into a network to expand it out -- but for your use case, you can set up a guest access network that you can change the password to. This way, your base network does not have to change their settings at all, and you can simply set up the guest network on a per event basis with new credentials.

Unit: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD031/AirPort-Extreme?afid=p219|GOUS&cid=AOS-US-KWG
Cost: $179
Support article on guest network: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3477

Upside, you also get some wicked strong WiFi, dual band 802.11n/a/b/g.
Downside, max out @ 50 clients (according to product page)

Comment Re:disappointing survey (Score 1) 1141

Maybe because, according to the poll results so far, there are more people in the 21-25 (18%) and 26-30 (19%) ranges than in the 35+ range (14%)? That sure looks like a long tail to me.

Yes, our mileage sucks, but what exactly is the problem here?

Comment Re:Forensics (Score 1) 202

So basically, you're saying that people should get their comprehension of the legal system not from this fictional show that alters reality for dramatic effect, but instead from this other fictional show that alters reality for dramatic effect. That sounds like a great idea.~

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The Hurt Locker Producers Sue First 5,000 File-Sharers 861

Voltage Pictures, the production company behind 2008's Oscar-winning Iraq war film The Hurt Locker, today sued 5,000 people who illegally downloaded the movie over BitTorrent. Quoting CNET: "Attorneys for Voltage wrote in the complaint that unless the court stops the people who pirate The Hurt Locker then Voltage will suffer 'great and irreparable injury that cannot fully be compensated or measured in money.' Voltage has asked the court to prevent those who downloaded the movie without paying for it from downloading its movies ever again, and order them to destroy all copies of The Hurt Locker from their computers and any other electronic devices they may have transferred the film to. As for monetary damages, the movie's producers want those found to have pilfered the movie to pay actual or statutory damages and cover the costs that went into filing the suits." According to the complaint (PDF), the 5,000 infringers are known only by their IP addresses at this time.

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