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From the “Are you fucking KIDDING me‽” files: After paying $350 for an XBox 360, you have to fork out another $100 to connect it to wi-fi?

Interesting use of Facebook’s APIs: Allow internet access via your wireless router to anyone who is your friend on Facebook.

Picked this up for my Mac Mini, and now it’s chugging away speedily on my 802.11n network. Which is good, since it’s going to be the recipients of my Time Machine backups.

Splendid break-down of the bad science in last Monday’s Panorama “Science says Wi-Fi is dangerous” scarefest.

Spotted this SSID appear as an ad-hoc wifi network here at [RhymesWithNose]. Guessed it was some nasty malware — turns out to be “viral”, but not in that way!

The TJX credit-card hack originated from a poorly set-up wireless network at a Marshall’s store in Minnesota.

I’ve decided that the thing missing most from my life is a wi-fi enabled smart rabbit. Gonna get a Nabaztag/tag when it gets released later this month.

Good bloody grief. Damn that 2.4Ghz band, and all its illness-causing ways. Hope the schools also removed all cordless telephones and, erm, microwave ovens. Won’t somebody think of the children?!

Attention DS-owning chums-of-mine: My Clubhouse Games friend code is 3866-2922-6013. Let me know yours’, and let’s get some virtual Texas Hold’em action going!

Apple’s forthcoming hardware to stream music/video/photos over WiFi from your PC to your TV and Stereo. My uneducated bet: It’ll also stream music wirelessly (over Bluetooth, probably) from an iPod that’ll be launched in January.

Linksys are now explicitly catering to the hardware hacker market by keeping their excellent Linux-based WRT54G routers available at a premium after downgrading the “consumer” model.