Apparently the city of Tempe, AZ is the first major city to deploy free wireless internet within the bounds of its city for... well, anybody with a wireless card I guess.
Quite the daunting task, and it'll be interesting to see how this works. I imagine if this works to anybody's satisfaction we could hopefully see stuff like this show up in other major cities *coughVancouvercough* so that wardriving becomes a pseudo-thing of the past.
It's definately providing an interesting framework for the whole computer-car hybrid that I'd like to see. My friend Ryan (greenwire) has a computer already hooked up into his truck with an LCD panel, mainly seems to use it for music listening. I like the idea of a wireless interface on there (I think he has one by now.... Power wardriving!) and using a comp with a wireless connection on it as your virtual briefcase (transport from home comp to car via wireless router, drive to work, transport from car to work comp via similar wireless router). Using rsync and autosaves and whatnot you could keep a decent sync between the comps.
Ian first pitched an idea like this to me about 2 years ago.... "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Honda Civic."
It's a strange interesting world out there.... Let's keep going!
Posted by ebbomega at April 29, 2005 10:20 PM