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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (44658)	5/13/2005 12:19:26 AM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Respond to of 213177

I'm a big proponent of urban areas turning WiFi (or better, its successor) into a public utility and work with a local group to move things in that direction. Done on a large scale, it can be cheap enough to be almost-free, at least in fairly dense areas. I have a feeling that, organized or not, it won't be long before most of us are blanketed in more-or-less free wireless broadband. In my urban location it's difficult for me to walk anywhere in a 1-mile radius of home and not find a signal to piggyback. The question is if the succeeding step has us turning into the Heinlein character who wandered around in a lead underwear to protect from all the radiation! :)