I've been (un)fortunate this summer to do a lot of travelling this summer. Most places that I've stayed has some kind of hotspot login where any attempt to visit a website goes to a special login screen and then redirects you do the website once you've logged in.
The hate these things inspire are so numerous. Among them: * Never remembering your MAC address, so every friggin time you turn your laptop on, you have to login again, or go to a different room in the building; * Passwords that contain "O" or "0", or "l" or "1", etc, so you have to try every combination from your [expletive] printout; * Systems that have a short and stupid expiration time (like having to get a new username/password every 24 hours from the registration desk) when they *know* how long you're to be staying; * Requirement of JavaScript for the login page to work (a minor nuisance if you use NoScript on Firefox); * Systems that require Internet Explorer (ok, this was a hotel in London about three years ago, but I'd bet the same system is still in use...) The hate is as thick as the humidity here. Rob
