--- Ed Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This would put a monkey wrench into the wireless project > > http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276720,00.html "Michigan Man > Fined for Using Coffee Shop's Wi-Fi Network" > >From the article: "Under the statute, individuals who log on to a Wi-Fi network with the owner's permission, or who see a pop-up screen that says it's a public network, can assume they're authorized to use the network, Hopkins said." Note the requirement for a popup on a public access point. The reasons for this is so that, given a town like Grand Rapids MI, where most of e.g. 28th Street [a main cross-town thoroughfare] has overlapping WiFi coverage, or like Holland, where there is a WiFi network cover all of downtown, users won't be able to e.g. take a WiFi Skype handset and get free local and long distance telephone service anywhere inside the umbrella - the pop-up is a [trivial] protection for the telcos against having a WiFi handset that will seamlessly move from AP to AP [network to network] without dropping a call. The cell phone companies that offer that tech [untethered wireless] are are jealously [legalistically] guarding the technology, since they know that VoIP+WiFi spells the death of their hyper-inflated cell phone rates if it fulfills its potential. I personally have not looked at Georgia's Laws, but someone should - Newt Gingrich's fingers have got to have been in this... The state code is almost certainly online - I know AL put theirs up years ago, so Georgia can't have been too far behind. ;) 0x0000 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CHAOS706.ORG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chaos706?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
