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antiphishing
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| Wilkes-Barre Wants Wi-Fi At No Cost Hey wait a minute , I live in Wilkes Barre and I just recently read this article in the local newspaper.
I can tell you from living here, that Wilkes Barre can not support this kind of service because most of the people around here live just above the poverty level. In my opinion, the city should not be getting involved in wireless internet access.
Nobody is going to invest in this city when more and more people are moving out of Luzerne County or leaving the state for good.
The majority of the people in this area are elderly who don't want change and have no interest in WIFI internet.
This is just another pipe dream that the mayor has thought up to only benefit Wilkes University and Kings College. It won't benefit the Wilkes Barre taxpayer because like I already stated, most can't afford to pay for such a service.
It's like Tom Greco running fiber optic cables in steam pipes under the streets of Wilkes Barre. It's just not going to happen because they will spend months talking about it but nothing will ever come of it.
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dodgetech2
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Gouldsboro, PA | Re: Wilkes-Barre Wants Wi-Fi At No Cost Good for them..I'm glad to see the city officials not signing what could be a potentially costly deal for the tax payers.... | |
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| said by antiphishing  :In my opinion, the city should not be getting involved in wireless internet access. The majority of the people in this area are elderly who don't want change and have no interest in WIFI internet. agreed,one of the last things WB needs is WIFI. I got a nice chuckle when I read that headline. Its not just the elderly population that has no interest in WIFI, I know more than a few 20-30 yr olds who don't have a computer...nor want one. IMO this topic shouldn't be thought about by WB for another generation, at least. Maybe then more than a handful or 2 of ppl will actually want/use it. I'd really like to see a street poll of how many ppl actually know what WIFI is.
said by antiphishing :Nobody is going to invest in this city when more and more people are moving out of Luzerne County or leaving the state for good. After my schooling is done, count me into the second group. PA isn't even on my radar for a job. Especially not when my counselor tells me that job placement in my field (double major in Comp Sci and Network Admin) is 9-12 months. I'm not sure how that stacks up to the rest of the nation, but to me that seems pretty damn long. Although even if it weren't that long, I highly doubt I'd stay anyway. | |
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| Re: Wilkes-Barre Wants Wi-Fi At No Cost said by mxracer747 :said by antiphishing :In my opinion, the city should not be getting involved in wireless internet access. The majority of the people in this area are elderly who don't want change and have no interest in WIFI internet. agreed,one of the last things WB needs is WIFI. I got a nice chuckle when I read that headline. Its not just the elderly population that has no interest in WIFI, I know more than a few 20-30 yr olds who don't have a computer...nor want one. IMO this topic shouldn't be thought about by WB for another generation, at least. Maybe then more than a handful or 2 of ppl will actually want/use it. I'd really like to see a street poll of how many ppl actually know what WIFI is. said by antiphishing :Nobody is going to invest in this city when more and more people are moving out of Luzerne County or leaving the state for good. After my schooling is done, count me into the second group. PA isn't even on my radar for a job. Especially not when my counselor tells me that job placement in my field (double major in Comp Sci and Network Admin) is 9-12 months. I'm not sure how that stacks up to the rest of the nation, but to me that seems pretty damn long. Although even if it weren't that long, I highly doubt I'd stay anyway. The city of Wilkes Barre needs WIFI like Hazleton needs a illegal alien ordinance. Spanish anyone ! 
A lot of people in the Wilkes Barre still have the coal mining mentality where getting drunk is more important then
taking care of their kids.
Spend a full day, down at the Career Link in Wilkes Barre, and you will find people with no skills, no high school diploma, no work experience and some don't even speak english. A lot of them never sat in front of a computer before and have no experience typing on a keyboard. It's 2007 and they are not even part of the new global job market.
I moved into the Wilkes Barre area in 1998 from Connecticut and by the end of this year, I am history, never to come back to this s### hole state. I highly recommend that you
do the same unless you want to work with the illegal aliens.
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Lebanon, PA
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| RFP Their RFP is nutz. They want a 10 day Proposal, have the downtown up by August 18th this year, and the whole city by May 2008. They are insane.
Apparently they do not realize how much time goes into engineering a mesh system, getting licenses, obtaining building owner permissions for backhauls and backhauls POP's, or even testing.
I have a feeling this will never get off of the ground
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00000 | PA is a good state. Im for it. A lot of hacking will take place and traffic lights will blink when kids go on myspace, but GO FOR IT!  | |
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| Re: PA is a good state. said by NJxxxJon :Im for it. A lot of hacking will take place and traffic lights will blink when kids go on myspace, but GO FOR IT! The city wants to supply all the local drug dealers on the square,wireless internet access so that they can have better communication to sell their heroin and crack cocaine.
Downtown Wilkes Barre is a ghost town , by 8pm at night. It's a total joke that the mayor wants to offer such a service in
a low income area.
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| Re: PA is a good state. said by antiphishing :said by NJxxxJon :Im for it. A lot of hacking will take place and traffic lights will blink when kids go on myspace, but GO FOR IT! The city wants to supply all the local drug dealers on the square,wireless internet access so that they can have better communication to sell their heroin and crack cocaine. Downtown Wilkes Barre is a ghost town , by 8pm at night. It's a total joke that the mayor wants to offer such a service iny a low income area. Really???? A ghost town. Since when do druglords go chat on AIM or MSN to make a quick buck?? .....So the FBI couldnt track down emails on a wi-fi connection???
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| Re: PA is a good state. said by NJxxxJon :said by antiphishing :said by NJxxxJon :Im for it. A lot of hacking will take place and traffic lights will blink when kids go on myspace, but GO FOR IT! The city wants to supply all the local drug dealers on the square,wireless internet access so that they can have better communication to sell their heroin and crack cocaine. Downtown Wilkes Barre is a ghost town , by 8pm at night. It's a total joke that the mayor wants to offer such a service iny a low income area. Really???? A ghost town. Since when do druglords go chat on AIM or MSN to make a quick buck?? .....So the FBI couldnt track down emails on a wi-fi connection??? I would imagine a low life drug dealer can get their hands on a stolen laptop, sit in the middle of the square and email their suppliers in Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey.
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Dover, DE | Re: PA is a good state. im from WB...and it just blows....wast of time and money in that pit..... | |
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join:2005-12-15
Santa Clara, CA
| Big Brother I think the irony in the article is the part where the city is eager to place wireless cameras everywhere to help "public safety". That's just what we need. More government snooping its subjects. Sometimes I wonder why we citizens put up with this cr@p. | |
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Wilkes-Barre Wants Wi-Fi At No Cost
They made a good move voting against this deal