MetaFilter posts tagged with texas and internet

Government is going after free WiFi

mountainmambo — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 11:22:31 -0800

Republican Congressman Pete Sessions from Texas introduced a bill that would make all free, public, municipal WiFi illegal. Sessions, as it turns out, is a big fat recipient of SBC funds. Why stop there? Should we privatize highways as well? How about subways? Glad the liberal media is all over this one. Here are a couple of links: Original post on DailyKos, An informative editorial from the Fort Wayne paper

Campin' with the net

Doohickie — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:30:17 -0800

FutureIsNowFilter "TengoInternet and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department announced a pilot program to offer wireless Internet service at five Texas state parks... The wireless service will allow park guests while visiting the park to access the Internet to gain park information, send e-mail or pictures, or just surf the Web, without cords having to physically plug into a network."
Shouldn't be camping be more about nature than technology?

Hunting on the internets!

KevinSkomsvold — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:06:43 -0800

Texas officials wary of plan to hunt by Internet. Hunters soon may be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet, a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms. "We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that.' A little light bulb went off in my head,"

ZachsMind — Tue, 26 Jun 2001 05:03:01 -0800

So much for grocery shopping online... The last online grocer in Texas, Grocery Works, threw in the towel.