laptop Internet addresses.

[System Janitor]

Hmmm... what if you gave the IP addresses to the taps. You know, ``whoever
plugs in here is 123.45.678.9''. Of course, they'd have to edit their
telnet.config file (or whatever) before they hooked up everytime they sat 
down at a new place, but if they want to be able to plug in everywhere, that
shouldn't be too much to ask. 

On the other hand, (I've never thought about it before) the thought of
a dynamic physical network topology run by the whim of the users sounds
kind of scary to me.

-Mike