Borders pulls a B&N, offers free WiFi to all patrons
By Darren Murph 
posted September 30th 2009 7:07PM
posted September 30th 2009 7:07PM
posted September 30th 2009 7:07PM
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*does the shimmy slide*
Am I the only one that finds that docking station highly tappable?
I'd dock with her station.
Highly tappable indeed. I could torrent all night on that...
Oh, yeah, you'd 'tap that.' What, Seth, you think you're cool with your little Jew Fro?
Ten internet points for naming the movie.....
@ Gav - 40 year old virgin, of course :D
Meanwhile Fez there is clearly having some tense IM conversation in the background.
Hippies.
Hipsters are not to be confused with Hippies. Hipsters purposely tear holes in their clothes in shoes, in a precise manor. (While wanna be hipsters buy their clothes already looking that way.) Hippies were just dirty and had shitty clothing due to the lack of hygiene and personal care because of all the drugs they were on.
The lesson of the story is not to experience with drugs, otherwise you get the kind of administrations that we have been having non-stop since '92. Stay away from hard core drugs.
Only wannabe hipsters go to B&N and Borders, real hipsters either write their own book or buy a used one at the thrift store.
She's clearly enjoying some free porn on her free wifi
I'd put my wifi in her hotspot for FREE!
wi-fi, so tiny, you cant even see it.
I'd tap that.
I guess chauvinism is cool here on engadget. (I only mention this because engadget censored a political opinion on another thread)
@sacapuntas: Really? well maybe it was because this is NOT A POLITICS BLOG!
@K
I agree, but I find stupid remarks like the 2 guys above me made are more offensive than someone who disagrees with free health care (and I am a guy). I am not really for engadget removing any comments, let the up/down rank take care of it.
so are you saying it's a chauvinism blog?
@K
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_of_interest
@sacapuntas: Politics will just cause flamewars and trolling that will make the apple/ms fanboys posts seem civil.
Commenting on which girls in advertisements are hot--"offensive" as that may be--is funny, won't cause any Internet tough guyism, and is something we can all get behind, so to speak.
@guy943: And we'd all like to get behind the smirking hottie in the picture. I love when a conversation comes full circle.
@guy943
I appreciate your civility but I have to disagree about whether Engadget should edit out opinion-based comments. I think there is a point where engadget needs to let the non-violent/non-hateful comments play out. Trolls get down-ranked, and rightfully so. If you feel the same way about other comments (even mine) feel free to down-rank, but for engadget to censor only specific viewpoints is just lame.
Wow! I win for childish-comment-that-starts-an-argument-barely-related-to-the-article-or-comment of the day! Woohoo!
sacaputas, are you the guy in the background so obviously trying to hide a boner?
@ sacapuntas: People have spoken look at your rank, you still think you're right? go start your insurections somewhere else
I agree with Sacapuntas. It's also preposterous to section of life to such a degree that you have to go to different sites for what are otherwise common discussions.
Anyway, this likely isn't that kind of place since it's not even a forum.
By the way Sacapuntas, you seem like the kind of intellect who might like to check out this forum.
http://arstechnica.com/
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/28609695
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/34709834
If you look closely at her screen, she is checking out my mysapce.
I wonder if that woman is an Engadget reader and if so if she has seen this blog entry and the comments. If so, "Hi hot girl, call me".
If enough places offer free wifi, it will become impossible (and uneconomical) to try and justify charging for it, esp. with an increase in casual use.
Eventually all wifi will be free. Huzzah!
I only use free wifi. It saves me $480 a year ($40/month).
I just download a bunch of webpages on my laptop and then take it home to read. Or I pre-write e-mails at home and then when I am connected I send a bunch at once. iTunes will sync all of the podcasts when it is connected automatically as well.
Wifi in these places should be free. And I think there will be enough people that will buy stuff instead of just hanging around for hours sipping on a tall coffee they brought in from the AM/PM Mini Mart.
Let's just hope that Verizon is more iPhone-friendly than B&N's AT&T sign in page.
Chilly, your iPhone should auto-authenticate to attwifi hotspots after your first time connecting if you have 3.0 or 3.1 on there.
scarves: second only to vests as the most useless articles of clothing.
"no, it isn't very cold and yes, your jacket collar can cover your neck quite effectively"
7 songs for $9.99....additional songs for $.99...what?
Where are you reading this?
wrong thread dude
Who buys real books these days anyway?
I was thinking the same thing. That's ridicules pricing if true, which based off the sign attached to the computer I would say it is.
My bad. I see where you're coming from
on the boarder of the monitors
damn... yall dont wanna see me dance.................................
Yes I can't imagine myself logging into the Illuminati portal at a bookstore.
Let me just call fail on myself and Engadget's commenting system.
I am sorry, can you say that again? I didn't understand you it the last 4 threads that you posted the exact same thing. (T_T)
EPIC FAIL. That never happened in Never Back Down. What happened was he lit some aromatic candles to disguise the smell.
dont like the idea of of people stand behind and looking over your head.
Yes I can't imagine myself logging into the Illuminati portal at a bookstore
I'm sorry, but could you please tell me how the lighting of the image is relevant to the article? Why would someone even waste their time photoshopping an image like this? Besides, it's fluorescent lighting inside a large building, which does not give off strongly defined shadows.
You tool.
You sir are an Idiot!. Stop posting the same thing over and over!
Once again my inability to dance holds me back from the best things in life.
Yeah, here in Ann Arbor (where Borders is headquartered), they've had this in effect for at least a week. I was in a Borders last Tuesday and saw the new signs everywhere about the free wi-fi. They certainly started the rollout here in Ann Arbor where they start everything, and will then roll out to the rest of the country/world.