Bathing in internet signal...

[fallenpegasus]

At the intersection of 4th and Cedar in downtown Seattle, there are thirty-four visible wireless access points, about a dozen of which are open.

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[airlinepilot.livejournal.com]

Visible? How so?

[fallenpegasus]

"Visble" as in my 801.11G CLI card gets a strong enough ident beacon from them that it can list them in a scan.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I can imagine some Seattle wackjob in tiedye screaming, "More people will get cancer from standing in this spot than will from smoking marijuana!" or something equally whacked.

[paraventur.livejournal.com]

I'm in the middle of downtown Port Townsend and there are four, two unsecured and two secured.