NYCWireless folks point out another way that cafe owners can limit the time Wi-Fi users hang out: Alt.coffee, a cafe in New York City, apparently recently started forbidding laptop or even cell phone users to use their power outlets. Signs in the cafe blame liability and a few bad apples but a clerk told one NYCWireless member that it's folks like him, who hang out for hours, that led to the new rule. As another poster notes, it seems like a policy aimed at alienating customers, who have choices of other cafes to bring their business to.