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by Modesty Ramsey
When I first heard about wireless Internet service, I was a little bit skeptical. My son was begging me to get it. He thought the idea of wireless broadband Internet was so cool. You see, he is somewhat of a techno-Utopian. Having grown up with the Web, he has seen firsthand how much information is available and how easy communication is between different people. He writes two blogs and reads several more, talks to his friends online, And basically spend every spare moment surfing the web.
His argument for wireless Internet service is pretty ideological. You see, a few months ago we were going through hard times. One of the first things that we had to cut was Internet broadband service. We tried to use Internet dial up for awhile, but it was so unreliable that it didn't seem worth the 10 dollars a month. What I didn't know at the time was that my neighbor had wireless Internet services. She had made them free for anyone to use, not bothering to set up wireless Internet security. Whether or not she did this intentionally, I will never know, but my son set it up so that we could use her Internet.
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In every philosophical school, three thinkers succeed one another in the following way: the first produces out of himself the sap and seed, the second draws it out into threads and spins a synthetic web, and the third waits in this web for the sacrificial victims that are caught in it—and tries to live off philosophy.
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Basically, she didn't really lose anything in the deal. Unless you are downloading or uploading massive amounts of data, you are rarely ever using your maximum bandwidth. Providing free wireless Internet service to anyone who might be passing by, looking for a link, does nothing bad to you. What it does do is help to provide more coverage in your area. If enough people are willing to plug in wireless Internet service without protecting it with a password, everywhere will be wired. Soon, anyone with a laptop will be able to access the Web from anywhere in the world. I can't figure out why this is such an important goal, but to my son it is of paramount importance.
Nonetheless, I can't agree to get wireless Internet service. You see, I simply don't trust it. I don't want strangers able to log into my Internet service provider anytime they want. I don't know enough about computers to know if my Internet connection is secure, and I'm not quite willing to take my son's word for it. For the time being, our cable modem works just fine, thank you very much. We will let someone else provide Internet service for the masses.
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