As regular visitors to Las Vegas know, the gambling bonanza starts the moment you exit the airplane, with slot machines strategically placed throughout the terminals. But for the Consumer Electronics Show that will begin this Thursday, the city of lights has a new perk: free WiFi internet access on all 1.7 million square feet (158,000 square meters) of Macaran International Airport.

Your Silicon Valley Sleuth could hardly control his excitement and took the service for a test-ride the moment he landed in Las Vegas this morning. But don't get your hopes up: the services doesn't support SSL encrypted pages, so forget about using Gmail or posting to the vnunet.com CES blog.