* * Beatles-Beatles writes to tell us the Associated Press has an interesting article about MIT's newly upgraded wireless network. The new network not only allows internet connectivity, but allows people to view how many people are logged on at a particular location. If the user has opted to make their information public the network will even allow you to see personal information on each user that is logged in. MIT Wireless Campus Tracking Users Log in/Create an Account | Top | 55 comments | Search Discussion Display Options Threshold: -1: 55 comments 0: 51 comments 1: 36 comments 2: 20 comments 3: 9 comments 4: 5 comments 5: 4 comments Flat Nested No Comments Threaded Oldest First Newest First Highest Scores First Oldest First (Ignore Threads) Newest First (Ignore Threads) The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. Second (Score:1) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06, @05:30AM (#13961978) Second Posting. (dupe) [ Reply to Thisno big whoop by Douglas Simmons (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @07:36AMRe:no big whoop by TubeSteak (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @08:13AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.1 reply beneath your current threshold. digg.com slashdot (Score:2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06, @05:31AM (#13961981) i saw this article on digg.com at least a week ago [ Reply to ThisRe:digg.com slashdot by Anonymous Coward (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @06:11AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:digg.com slashdot by dep01 (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @09:16AMRe:digg.com slashdot by Alioth (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @09:32AMRe:digg.com slashdot by WilliamSChips (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @10:39AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.1 reply beneath your current threshold. Man (Score:5, Funny) by AEton (654737) on Sunday November 06, @05:31AM (#13961982) This is getting major press coverage [slashdot.org]. Sounds heavy! [ Reply to ThisRe:Man by LiquidCoooled (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @05:50AM Duplicate (Score:3, Informative) by scottme (584888) on Sunday November 06, @05:31AM (#13961984) of yesterday's story [slashdot.org] [ Reply to ThisRe:a cheap PC? by silverkniveshotmail. (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @06:00AM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Great idea (Score:5, Funny) by mboverload (657893) on Sunday November 06, @05:34AM (#13961993) (http://mboverload.no-ip.org/tech.html | Last Journal: Tuesday July 13, @01:54PM) Maybe they should use it to track articles they've already posted? :-) [ Reply to This OUTGOING (Score:4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 06, @05:35AM (#13961998) HELLO WORLD84635 84635HELLO WORLD55239 55239 17659 17659 42773 42773 37557 37557 35760 3576063392 63392 28670 28670 19315 19315 32133 32133 59959 5995949788 49788 78823 78823 00000 00000 18139 18139 07715 0771560141 60141 91853 91853 17108 17108 45205 45205 09378 0937868757 68757 09996 09996 62078 62078 95257 95257 69473 6947339901 39901 93427 93427 47135 47135 33306 33306 77578 7757886981 86981 65940 65940 54059 54059 05385 05385 56218 5621853795 53795 10048 10048 16950 16950 68668 68668 85556 8555679589 79589 81720 81720 81394 81394 04904 04904 54722 5472283585 83585 20590 20590 34103 34103 18710 18710 18111 1811190592 90592 61950 61950 77647 77647 27033 27033 36596 3659614300 14300 34260 34260 10965 10965 12644 12644 12457 1245709713 09713 73912 73912 48354 48354 25269 25269 32224 3222411961 11961 16120 16120 60354 60354 96249 96249 77038 7703891210 91210 01513 01513 70865 70865 96846 96846 93310 9331042662 42662 12155 12155 87912 87912 63723 63723 72208 7220850750 50750 18360 18360 73083 73083 04449 04449 68730 6873083488 83488 41188 41188 22883 22883 87192 87192 11613 1161386664 86664 73349 73349 09145 09145 29887 29887 77537 7753768013 68013 92513 92513 29149 29149 62238 62238 82161 8216163015 63015 54947 54947 81323 81323 31400 31400 67025 6702571072 71072 94891 94891 32047 32047 82667 82667 08699 0869975573 75573 24408 24408 80140 80140 87180 87180 41636 4163631495 31495 31153 31153 07866 07866 98568 98568 11359 1135943497 43497 95520 95520 41816 41816 87633 87633 99937 9993700531 00531 41136 41136 47099 47099 72592 72592 88941 8894135041 35041 82063 82063 58426 58426 95934 95934 50578 5057877239 77239 65303 65303 27909 27909 74415 74415 87391 8739143787 43787 91391 91391 02509 02509 29157 29157 63214 6321460937 60937 28220 28220 64794 64794 21356 21356 14748 1474805542 05542 27738 27738 70376 70376 39801 39801 50983 5098387009 87009 36795 36795 46952 46952 50213 50213 17461 1746173838 73838K-BYE [ Reply to ThisRe:OUTGOING by KingOfGod (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @05:39AMRe:OUTGOING by imthesponge (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @05:58AMRe:OUTGOING by aurb (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @06:27AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:OUTGOING by dotwaffle (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @07:21AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Strange Discoveries by nervous_twitch (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @10:20PM Dupes (Score:5, Insightful) by nother_nix_hacker (596961) on Sunday November 06, @05:39AM (#13962005) I think the reason I don't like dupes is that when I see one it reminds me I spend way too much time on this site. [ Reply to This Dupe (Score:3, Informative) by Jason1729 (561790) on Sunday November 06, @05:46AM (#13962025) here [slashdot.org] [ Reply to This I am now a believer. (Score:1) by AndreiK (908718) <AKrotkov@gmail.com> on Sunday November 06, @06:05AM (#13962059) (http://www.dithergames.com/) I used to think all the jokes about dupes were false. But after the third dupe in a week, I am now a believer. [ Reply to ThisNow I'm A Believer. by TubeSteak (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @06:14AM1 reply beneath your current threshold.Re:I am now a believer. by AndreiK (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @08:44AM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Opt-in (Score:3, Funny) by Crouty (912387) on Sunday November 06, @06:07AM (#13962062) If the user has opted to [..] Uh, you mean I searched my whole room for my trusty tinfoil hat for nothing? [ Reply to This That's a good one.... (Score:2) by djupedal (584558) on Sunday November 06, @06:14AM (#13962079) 'If the user has opted to make their information public'Saturday night at the improv...that ones' just about the best one liner I've heard all evening. Bob Hope's writers couldn't have come up with anything funner...If....hahahahahahah...that's a killer!!! heheheeh ....IFFFF! hahahahahahahaa - ...check is in the mail!!! hehehehehehhhhahahahahah! [ Reply to ThisRe:That's a good one.... by djupedal (Score:2) Sunday November 06, @07:06AM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Dupe! (Score:5, Insightful) by zaguar (881743) on Sunday November 06, @06:35AM (#13962126) Insert witty comment regarding /.'s propensity for duplication (linking to yesterday's story), comment of subscribers value for money, and finally finishing with another witty commentSuggested Moderation: +5, Insightful [ Reply to This A twist! (Score:2) by putko (753330) on Sunday November 06, @06:45AM (#13962154) (http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2768 | Last Journal: Wednesday October 05, @03:08AM) OK, so it is a dupe. But did anyone notice that this time it is Scuttle Monkey who dupes Zonk? Normally it is the other way around -- Zonk typically does the duping.This is an interesting and unexpected turn of events.Furthermore, does anyone think that the duped articles (like this one) are the more interesting ones? It seems that genuinely neat stuff tends to get duped a lot more than marginal stuff. [ Reply to ThisRe:A twist! by WilliamSChips (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @05:24PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. Major panic as "finger" is discovered... (Score:1) by fabs64 (657132) <imfabs@gmail.com> on Sunday November 06, @07:21AM (#13962235) Seriously, this ability has been there on most large userbase Unix systems for years. Why do we now care that it's gone wireless? [ Reply to This This is actually pretty cool. (Score:3, Insightful) by Alioth (221270) <dyls@alioth.net> on Sunday November 06, @09:39AM (#13962627) (http://www.alioth.net/ | Last Journal: Saturday November 05, @05:07AM) This is actually pretty cool.You know what I miss about computing from the early-mid90s? Back then there was a *community* that came with the Internet. Take for example, our university server, csd. Boring name, but you logged in and typed 'who' and there were usually at least 100 other users on the system right at that moment. None of them spammers, all of them showing real names (so no males masquerading as females). I made a point to always have 'mesg y' in my .profile so random people could use 'talk'. I also made sure I had a publically viewable .plan. It was cool to occasionally get an incoming message from some random person. Sure - you can do that now on IM networks, but the only people likely to message you are spammers. An IM network doesn't have a community. Our Sun server, on the other hand did. Getting a talk request meant you usually got to know someone new who was worth meeting or hanging out with.Also, not many people had laptops. Most of us instead of lurking in our dorm rooms would go to the communal terminal or Unix workstation room - so there was physical community that went along with it, which dorm room ethernet and broadband has probably ended.That's what I miss these days. You just don't get these little communities on timesharing systems. Computing is much duller for it.But perhaps systems like this one, with a wireless equivalent of Unix's 'who' command and 'mesg y' will bring some of this community back. [ Reply to ThisRe:This is actually pretty cool. by xavid (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @12:51PMRe:This is actually pretty cool. by whayworth (Score:1) Sunday November 06, @02:03PM1 reply beneath your current threshold. MIT Dating System exposed! (Score:1) by jftitan (736933) <.jftitan. .at. .satx.rr.com.> on Sunday November 06, @11:36AM (#13963130) (http://hackers.mu/snx/jftitan) OK, has anyone thought about this being the NEW dating system for geeks.Common, think about the lonely geeks at the library, looking for a good night out. So that person sets a personal profile about how sexy, smart, and funny he/she is, and who ever is looking can locate the person for a good night of stalking.I see this as a new dating system, not a ID check for all MIT wireless users. [ Reply to This WHAT A GREAT WAY TO MEET NEW FRIENDS ! (Score:2) by * * Beatles-Beatles (909211) on Sunday November 06, @05:47PM (#13965275) (http://george-harrison.info/) This technology allow breaking the ice and making new friends with similar interests - since it is opt-in, it allows the extrovets to meet other extroverts - while still respecting the privacy of the introverts.This would certainly take off in a hi-tech environment like MIT.Soon, perhaps Business Colleges will implement this technology for career networking.Wonder if this would take off in a workplace environment - like Google or Microsoft? [ Reply to This5 replies beneath your current threshold.