McDonald's
3255 Main, Kansas City
802.11g
SSID: attwifi
As Santa and ath64 promised before the holidays, all you have to do at an unwired McDonald's anymore is click through two pages-the second with a checkbox indicating you agree to Ma Bell's acceptable use policy (and if you think Verizon's AUP is long-winded, ath64, you ought to get a load of this one) and you're off and running. Like just about all the free-and-open Mickey D locations that preceded the Great Emancipation, this one doesn't have any power outlets available, making it a battery-only proposition. Well, they don't call it fast food for nothing.
And after having taken a gander at McDonald's restaurant finder, it seems to me that we might have to rethink how much of an effect their joining the free world will have on narrowing the local digital divide. Even with their new locations, there's still a great dearth of known sites in the areas served by the Bluford and Southeast branch libraries. In fact, unless anyone else knows otherwise, those libraries are still the only hotspots around.
Nonetheless, the more free and open sites there are-regardless of where they are-the more pressure there is on those still clinging to play-for-pay-and that's not a bad thing.
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