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by tivert 617 days ago
It sounds like a fake story. Doesn't pass the smell test for me:

> I just got a call from the owner of a hotel for which we provide hotspot service.... The owner could make no headway by explaining that the besneakered mascot was a cartoon character and was a daemon, not the Devil. And she feared upsetting the guest even more if she said that large portions of the same software are inside every Mac and iPad.

What "owner of a hotel," 1) knows this much about BSD to explain to a random guest and 2) outsources their wifi hotpot service? Then everyone, owner and guest starts calling the service provider about controversy, instead of the guest relocating to other hotel in the area.
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_3u10 617 days ago
Yeah obviously fake, who ever calls people. It's not the owner of the hotel, it's the person / company who setup their WiFi. Presumably on the wifi connection page there's a number to call for tech support.

http://lariat.net/

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lIl-IIIl 617 days ago
The first sentence says:

"I just got a call from the owner of a hotel..."

The story is probably all true, even though it does have a bit of that "Elderly man set cruise control on at their RV then got up to make a sandwich" urban myth/chain letter vibe to it.

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_3u10 616 days ago
Yeah, they even went to the length of setting up a fake ISP with a FreeBSD nerdesque 1995 web design vibe too.

If you've ever done tech support you know this call is all too real.

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