WiFi & the NBN

Why is WiFi so open in the rest of the world but so closed in Australia?

I am not about to argue that the Government’s proposed National Broadband Network is a waste of money because everyone these days is going WiFi, that’s just crazy talk and the many punters who have been expressing that opinion clearly know nothing about the issue at all.

The NBN is about data to the home and the office, WiFi is for roaming around within the home, the office or, in this case the train.  Yes I am writing this post from a train in the UK.  The bandwidth is not what you’d call broadband but it’s good enough that I can say hi to my wife via iChat before she hits the hay back home.

The Economic Meltdown We Had To Have

Just as consumption is a disease of the lungs, so an economic reliance on consumption over durability and functionality is withering the lungs of the planet.