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* For example, schoolchildren having to cover their ears several times per hour due to the large number of painfully loud low-flying aircraft that pass endlessly pass overhead.

Citation? Where do Japanese schoolchildren have to cover their ears several times each hour?

http://www.japan-press.co.jp/modules/news/index.php?id=3128
http://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/okinawa/okinawa-residents-testify-in-class-action-lawsuit-over-noise-from-military-flights-1.158246

Where is this schoolhouse that can't be relocated from the end of some flightpath? This schoolhouse has been subject to some loud jet noise for over 50 years and they haven't moved it? Or is this an attempt to drum up some anti-military sentiment? (Wikipedia only lists 39 overseas Air Force locations not counting the ones closing in Afghanistan.)

"There are approximately 90 U.S. military facilities including major military bases throughout mainland Japan and Okinawa, with an area total of 3,130,000 sq.meters, 75% of which are in Okinawa. They are concentrated in a few areas (prefectures), 37 in Okinawa, 15 in Kanagawa, 11 in Nagasaki, and 7 in Tokyo. About 52,000 U.S. troops are stationed in these bases, 26,000 in mainland and 25,000 in Okinawa (2001)."

[Source] (Note: The US Air Force isn't the sole operator of US military aircraft.)

I'm not an expert on Japanese affairs or US imperialism; (I found the citations you asked for during the composition of this reply — I don't know (for example) why Japan doesn't move around their buildings to satisfy the whims of a foreign occupying force). If you're interested in these subjects, Chalmers Johnson wrote extensively about US/Asian relations and US imperialism in the Pacific, prior to his death in 2010. For current information on areas of interest, I suggest consulting news sources from those locales — US media is pretty sparse and somewhat biased in reporting foreign issues that could cast the US in a less-than-stellar light.

they can just have the FBI spy on us

Actually it's the NSA at Menwith Hill sitting on phone lines http://www.fas.org/irp/facility/menwith.htm that should have us up in arms, or maybe Pine Gap (another NSA listening post in Australia). The Brits spy on US citizens, the US on British citizens and then trade the data... It's the next best thing to legal compared to the other crap they've been pulling lately. BT lawyers gave paperwork to opposing counsel in a trespassing case in 1997 that admitted they put three high capacity cables from their network into the NSA facility! http://duncan.gn.apc.org/menwith.htm Facebook's published on the web and meant for sharing. Did you think they weren't gonna data mine it?

You're right on the money.

Under Thatcher, it was common practice to harass anyone who resembled a 'hippy'. If you had dreadlocks, attended festivals and wore scruffy clothes; you expected the police to come crashing through your window at night. I can't express strongly enough how often and intensely they were 'attacked' by the police. They'd be repeatedly harassed and then accused of being unfit parents for bringing them up in such a dangerous environment where the police keep scaring them at night.

Unfortunately, these cases weren't reported in the media. Read the included article and you'll instantly see the police's mindset and understand why it wasn't reported. Hippies were a national threat.

The Battle of Beanfield.
A video of the Battle of Beanfield. (contains disturbing scenes).

The causes of the X-33 program failure are the subject of considerable debate. Here are several good sources of information. You can see that the program received criticism from the GAO, and other sources. I've seen several references to the DoD effort to fund the flight test program, and that request being over-ruled by the Bush administration. I can't recall if these sources below include that claim or not, but you can probably find one or more if you use Google.

excellent X-33 overview
X-33 VentureStar what really happened?
New Mission for Lockheed Spaceplane?
X-33 and NASA's Proposed 2001-2005 Space Launch Initiative
GAO: SPACE TRANSPORTATION Status of the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program
GAO: SPACE TRANSPORTATION Progress of the X-33 Reusable Launch Vehicle Program
NASA Defends Itself Against X-33 Critique

Not sure if you'd heard of these guys:

http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/

They used to be the Internet Bill of Rights group but changed their name recently.

While many in this conversation have said we don't need to separate online/computer rights from general rights, this seems to only be the case in a "perfect world." Sadly, all too many countries pay lip service to the UN Declaration of Human Rights (if they bother at all) and even supposedly democratic & free countries butcher our rights in the online/communications world (Echelon, Australia's proposed Internet Filter, data retention acts in the UK & Korea, etc).

Between the efforts of the IRPDC and the Association for Progressive Communications (with their Internet Rights Charter as I mentioned previously in this discussion) there is work being done to raise awareness of our digital rights, not least of which is knowledge that we even have them let alone that they're being ripped from us.

The Association for Progressive Communications (APC) produced their Internet Rights Charter to help provide a basis for taking the UN's Declaration of Human Rights into the online world. It's amazing the number of countries that signed onto the Declaration of Human Rights but think nothing of censoring and snooping on people on-line.

Worth checking out and contacting APC in addition to EFF, etc.

And now the official move to let civilian authorities log all your telephonics just like the intelligenace srvvices do at Menwith hill http://cndyorks.gn.apc.org/mhs/ http://www.fas.org/irp/facility/menwith.htm

New labourt have introduced more than 4000 pieces of legislation since 1997 and thus in many ways have introduced the "patriot act" by increments instead of one big piece. this is an outrage and indeed people should be making a big noise about it.

If I decide to spend my vacation in the USA, I face the risk of...

...having my credit card record scrutinized
...having my luggage broken into
...being sent back with a returning flight, at my expense
...ending up in a secret database of potential terrorists
...having my fingerprints taken
...being scanned in other ways for some secret biometric database
...having my laptop copied, its contents "searched"
...having a finger thrust into where my food usually exits my body

All this, for my own "security". I have visited the USSR. Not even they could offer this much "security".
See also http://pi.gn.apc.org/article.shtml?cmd%5B347%5D=x-347-559597

I think Orson Welles once said that "The work of the police is only easy in a police state."

http://cndyorks.gn.apc.org/yspace/articles/spacesu it_satellite.htm

Scroll to the header "Safety concerns"

You may also wish to ask the Okinawans in Japan just how much they love the US and their bases there. Issues of violence, environmental destruction and the like - just for a start.

I have not read anything about the big china firewall but if US .edu's have more address space than china (as was indicated earlier here on slashdot) then they probably need that firewall to do NAT so they can have enough IP's!

Until I read that I was fairly in agreement with the American position (I'm from the UK) but if they are going to be so greedy with the IP numbers then perhaps each country should map root servers at their borders and maintain their own index, that way the internet will fall apart piece by piece until the Americans stop being so greedy or Microsoft remove IPv4 support from Windows (you do realise that is what it will take for the vast majority of people to switch right?)

And another thing, why does nobody care about things like this? Imagine how many lines they have now. It is rediculous. Pity the average short-sighted English peasant can't stop thinking about the football long enough to give a damn.

HAARP is being upgraded by the DOD as a "defense measure against nuclear warfare", but not in the sense that you or the other hundred odd Art Bell quoting posters here seem to think. Specifically, it is not being used to "jam" or "shoot down" any ICBMs or some such nonsense because that is impossible and is well...what's the phrase here that I'm looking for...oh right...fucking retardedly impossible.

So why is the Pentagon interested in upgrading HAARP to ~4 GW? Well, if you do some research on HANEs (high altitude nuclear explosions) you will find that a nuclear explosion of even modest energy (100 KTons) is sufficient, when detonated at an altitude of greater than a couple 100 Km, of flooding the Van Allen belts with high energy electrons. (the native electron population of the radiation belts is "heated" via inverse bremsstrahlung from the hard X-rays emitted by the nuclear detonation) It is even capapble of creating NEW radiation belts at lower altitudes than normally found and it is thus estimated, extrapolating from experiments such as starfish prime in the 50's, that virtually ALL sattelites in LEO would be destroyed within days by ESD and radiation damage if an event like this were to occur.
HOWEVER! HAARP is capable of irradiating the ionosphere with VLF EM radiation of quite high intensity and thus can alter the so called "auroral electrojet", creating a ginormous "virtual VLF antenna" in it by altering its temperature (and thus its conductance). The HAARP is thereby capable of depopulating the radiation belts of high energy charged particles in a fraction of the time it would ordinarilly take for them to calm down on thier own and thus potentially saving the many sattelites in LEO. Sound crazy? Well, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, and THAT is why the Pentagon is interested in this thing, not for some kooky mind control/weather control/ray gun type kookery.

Of course there's the European Digital Rights-EDRI (http://www.edri.org/) which is the joint organisation for digital rights in Europe. In the UK the
* Campaign for Digital Rights-CDR (http://ukcdr.org/)
* the Foundation for Information Policy Research-FIPR (http://www.fipr.org/) and
* Greennet (http://www.gn.apc.org/)
are members. I would suggest consulting them first.

>Of course, he used slave labor and it was built for the Nazis. Probably not what you had in mind.

Think I saw a documentary on this or something where the prisoners forced to work in the factory managed to sabotage a number of these rockets they produced

googled this: NASA and Nazis - Origins of the US Space Program

The prisoners sabotaged rockets by urinating on wiring, removing vital parts, and loosening screws. "It was common practice," says Beon, who sabotaged the rockets he worked on as a welder by making his welding appear sound when, in fact, the rocket parts were not welded at all. Beon believes their sabotage saved Americans' lives - U.S. troops landing at Normandy would have been killed if the rockets had functioned. "It would have been terrible for the Allies and for the American Army," says Beon.

Scotland is dying.. Kilroy-Silk confirms it!

Small quantities of antimatter (nanograms to micograms) have enormous potential in a variety of space, medical, and sensing applications. However, due to the high intrinsic cost of production, such applications have not yet been realized. Antiprotons are currently produced during high energy collisions in large particle accelerators. Based on current capabilities, the electricity cost alone for the process is estimated to be $160 trillion per gram collected. In comparison, high energy cosmic rays bombard the Earth's upper atmosphere and produce the antiprotons naturally through pair production. A fraction of these are subsequently concentrated within the Van Allen radiation belts of the Earth similar to their standard matter counterparts. Satellite and high altitude balloon measurements have confirmed the fractional existences of antimatter in the normal background of ionizing radiation. As particles are lost through diffusion processes, new ones are generated to maintain a quasi-static supply trapped in the near dipole field of the Earth. Based on preliminary calculations, it is estimated that 10 micrograms of antiprotons and 10 milligrams of positrons are locally contained within the Earth's magnetosphere at any given time. The Jovian planets with their strong magnetic fields are expected to contain significantly more within their radiation belts. Draper Laboratory and its collaborators propose to use a magnetic scoop to extract large quantities of these trapped antiparticles. The principles of a Bussard magnetic scoop, first proposed for relativistic propulsion, will be adapted for use on a satellite in a planetary orbit. Particles bouncing between mirror points near the planet's poles will pass through and be concentrated by the superimposed magnetic field. Separation and cooling techniques from particle accelerators will be adapted for extracting and separating the desired particles from the radiation flux near the satellite.

For anyone interested, here's a link to a hearing (not sure if it's the one referenced), that gives some insight into the broader goals of the the strategic command that this hacking force falls under.

here's a link, no pickes though. (I've got some nice ones of people being hit by the police and blood going everywhere!).

http://tash.gn.apc.org/bristol1.htm

Despite this, the police turned up in force and told us we wouldn't be having a party. When questioned on what laws or powers they were using to shut us down (much to their dismay, the criminal Justice Act and the licensing laws do not cover free warehouse party's). The policeman in charge replied: "What are you, a fucking Barrister now...? You're not having a party because I SAY SO..!"

Numerous policemen then lined up in an attempt at preventing people getting into the warehouse. But when it became apparent that we weren't going to be intimidated into not having a party, they waded in and began indiscriminately beating party people with their truncheons. As a result of this action, alot of people received injuries, some of them quite serious. One woman was on the floor being beaten by at least 3 or 4 policemen and one man was held down over a railway line by two policemen who repeatedly smashed his face into a sleeper until his nose caved in.

For those interested, there was a lovely article about HANEs (high alt. nuc. explosions) in a recent SciAm article last year. It seems its been ripped off and re-posted here by some or other anti-nuclear group (thanks!). The article had a decidedly ominous tone as it explained how detonating a HANE would flood the van allen belts (creating new ones too!!) with a vast amount of electrons which then would happily spiral around the field lines of the earth for months at a time. Kinda cool and not so dangerous in the 1950's, and a horrifying nightmare scenario of near complete destruction of all satellites in LEO and MEO if done today.

-A splendid shot of the hot plasma and charged particle debris from shot Dominic Starfish Prime (taken from a plane) at T+3 minutes after "bang time" as it follows the earth's field lines through the upper atmosphere.

In Chicago if a cop sees you with a handgun (or something that looks like a handgun, like maybe a cell phone) you are running the risk of being shot.

Think that's bad? In the UK, a man was shot dead by police because he was taking a newly-repaired
table leg home and someone mistook it for a shotgun. More details here.

However, it is still my understanding that the NSA goes to great pains to avoid intercepting any communication that comes from a U.S. citizen. They are strictly prohibited from doing so.

Which is why they get the Brits to do it for them.

Duncan Campbell has some interesting things to say about Menwith Hill

It's interesting, and not surprising, to see a Duncan Campbell byline on the research. Duncan became well-known in the mid-90s for doing the journalistic work to publicize the NSA's Echelon wiretapping-the-world system. http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/ has some older articles of his.

"Growth" will be expected year after year - the innovative ideas that have made google so successful will give way.

It actually depends on the expectations of the shareholders

The provision in the law [which inhibits executives and corporations from being socially responsible] is the one that says that the purpose of the corporation is simply to make money for shareholders. Distilled to its essence, it says that the people who run corporations have a legal duty to shareholders, and that duty is to make money. Failing this duty can leave directors and officers open to being sued by shareholders.

Y'all have electricity down there? I didn't know any third world countries had electricity, much less computers and imax. :)

Damn Americans.
Oi Bruce, cut the power to Pine Gap and teach the Yanks a lesson. ;)

"If the going gets tough I can just as easily start encrypting all sensitive email"

But thanks to the RIP act passed a couple of years ago, if you don't decrypt them when asked, you could face two years in jail (even if you've lost or forgotten the keys). And if you tell anyone you've been asked for your decryption keys, that's five years in jail.

"I'm going to be a lot more worried when they start to ``outlaw'' these workarounds, most importantly when encryption becomes a big ``no-no''."

In some ways, it already is - you should be worried.

There are many links online describing this, but you could try these two to begin with:

http://media.gn.apc.org/rip.html (NUJ is the National Union of Journalists, I believe)

http://www.ecommercetax.com/doc/072300.htm

A significant cybersecurity improvement over the next decade will be found in enhancing our ability to find and eliminate malicious code in large software applications. Beyond the matter of simply eliminating coding errors, this capability must find malicious software routines that are designed to morph and burrow into critical applications in an attempt to hide. There is little coordinated effort today to develop tools and techniques to examine effectively and efficiently either source or executable software. I believe that this problem is significant enough to warrant a considerable effort coordinated by a truly National Software Assurance Center. This center should have representatives from academia, industry, federal government, national laboratories and the national security community all working together and sharing techniques to solve this growing threat.

Personally I would stop using machines if it were possible to have some form of monitoring of my actions without my authorization. Aside from that it's not a secret that the NSA has been accused of corporate espionage, so I would hope large corporations would think twice about giving them any form of say when it comes to codes for commercial software.

So if it is a composited image, why does it have a "Photo: Getty" credit, instead of an "Image: Getty" credit? Labelling a modified image as an original photo is just plain wrong, as this article from the NUJ shows.

Read this article about the weapons industry

There's an important difference: permission. If the NSA want to map the social networks of e-mail and telephone communications in Britain (as indeed they do) then I have a problem with that: I don't want anyone collecting or using this information without my permission. If the e-mail gods at the college where I work suggested mapping social networks within the college's e-mail system, and a load of us thought it would be an interesting project, we've all agreed, so it's "neat".

Looks like the women are already withdrawing their favours!

Finnaly someone showed this to the public. It really is an old idea, but in the world we live now, it has some interesting effects. I was tracing the development of such toys based on Nikola Tesla's ideas for a while now and found a lot of impresive stuff. Just do a quick search on "telsa weapon" and read some of the articles that pop up. One of the most scary is located at http://www.peg.apc.org/~nexus/bskies1[2345].html (yeah thats five parts of it). Hints about causing earthquakes with similiar technology as described in the story above. Other interesting sites are Gravity gate http://www.starwon.com.au/~rayd/index.htm, Kelly BBS www.kellynet.com, Tesla web ring and similiar. If you like to search a lot, you may even find hints about top secret super high tech weapons developed in Russia for knocking out satelites, which are also based on one of the Tesla's ideas and are powered by also originaly Tesla's work, improved by dr. H. Moray, the so called Moray generator. Basicaly you just set up an antenna and some electronic wizardry and you have electricity. Sounds too good to be true, but there's a story on the kellynet about how Tesla made an electric car powered by such a device.

Back to the EMP stuff...does anyone have some nice information about project HAARP and similiar "experiments" all around the world? I heard somewhere that US military already developed their small EMP "bomb" for knocking out "e-criminals". I would like to take a look at one of those toys :) And the next thing would be to cover my house entirely in somekind of conductive mesh, to make more or less effective faradey cage. I feel like protecting computers and other electronic equipment will be big bussiness in the next decades.

Exactly - that's why we have Reclaim the Streets.

Bottom line - if a few of us were to get together and decide to have a nice picnic on a sunny afternoon on the 'public land' currently designated the A40, let's say at the top of the Hammersmith Flyover, we'd be moved on or arrested for causing an obstruction just as soon as the police could find a way through the traffic to get to us. So 'public' in that sense, it ain't.

Which point leads on to another, which I don't think has been mentioned yet - public services are horribly hampered by the traffic situation. Whtever your views on the appropriate role of the state, I think it's reasonable to say that if police, ambulances and fire engines can't make it to incidents quickly, everybody suffers. At present, the response times are just about OK, but as traffic volumes continue to rise, so does the time to fight through that traffic. Inconvenient for citizens. Expensive for businesses. Potentially fatal for accident or attack victims.

Congestion charging is hardly desirable, but at least it makes a change from the usual supine defeatism, and it's finally got people to actually talk about the issue. Real people inthe pub, not talking head media people on TV.

TomV

Seems like one innovative solution is to 'leapfrog' a generation of technology and just rollout wireless technology.

http://www3.wn.apc.org/africa/resources.html for some interesting links.

Another GPL content management system you should be aware of is the APC Action Apps. It was designed primarily to aid non-profit organizations in their content-management needs, thus it has excellent content sharing features - but it can be generally useful for anyone. It also has some nice user documentation.

This is a country with 8,000 Internet users, 110 hosts, 82 domain names, 4 ISPs and a 2,048bps connection to the outside world. They don't have much going on.

So, why are they meeting in Ghana?

-Waldo Jaquith

The NSA exists to protect US national secrets.
and to perform industrial espionage on behalf of US corporations.

Unfortunatley, Ukraine already has this problem.

Journalists are already being killed for voicing opinions those in government dont like. Just a year back, 31-year-old journalist Georgy Gongadze was found headless in a ditch.

I think this is your link, use the preview button, moron.

Your analogy is one of the worst I have ever seen. There are more holes in it than I wish to address, but I will point out a few:

* A single person commiting an act of unprovoked violence is not comparable to a complex political situation that sometimes involves violence.

* The US is the puncher, not the receiver of the punch. Our cold war and oil interests cause us to meddle in the affairs of almost every country in the middle east. We aided Osama Bin Laden and put the Taliban into power. They used to be called "freedom fighters" in the past. Our sanctions in Iraq have caused the deaths of over 500,000 CHILDREN. We sponsored and trained terrorists in Nicaragua that resulted in over 30,000 civilian deaths. The list goes on. Now who is the aggressor here?

* A true pacifist is willing to die before hitting back. If someone thinks violence is evil, how can you combat evil with violence?

* And why would anyone take advice and learn lessons from an asshole who punches peaceful people in the face?

Turn your radio dial away from Rush Limbaugh and start finding out the true story, instead of knee-jerking off.

Bill Gertz, a reporter for the Washington Times, uncovered a file (translated) known as Document 65, which details the Chinese militaries stance on the reconquering on Taiwan. Searching for "United States" or "U.S." in the file makes for some very disturbing reading. Of particular interest was this quote:

[The] EU has ideas different from those of the U.S. and strategically focuses on Europe, so they do not have direct interests in Taiwan issue. In recent years, the relationships between EU and our country have been developing smoothly, and therefore it is very unlikely that EU will fight a full-scale war with us simply because of the United States.

Another quote, from an article by Gertz, shows a statement from a Chinese newspaper, the Liberation Army Daily, which mirrors the views Central Military Commission Chairman Jiang Zemin and other senior military leaders:

"China is . . . a country that has certain abilities of launching strategic counterattack and the capacity of launching a long-distance strike," the newspaper said. "It is not a wise move to be at war with a country such as China, a point which the U.S. policy-makers know fairly well also."

Sydney Morning Herald reporter David Lague, confirmed Chinese threats against the U.S. his August 1999 piece on the Chinese threat to the U.S. He relayed the following threat from the Chinese military:

China warned yesterday that it was ready to fight over Taiwan and that its nuclear weapons could "deal with" aircraft carriers if the United States dared to interfere.

A hard-hitting editorial in the official Global Times newspaper, a subsidiary of the Communist Party mouthpiece, the People's Daily, said the US and other Western countries were mistaken if they believed China lacked the ability or will to use force in a dispute over Taiwan.

"If the US makes the wrong calculation on its abacus and goes on interfering in China's domestic affairs, it will eventually draw fire against itself," it said.

Actually 'The City' or the Square Mile is covered by number plate recognition systems. It logs cars going in and out of the financial district, it checks if the car is reported stolen, and properly taxed and insured. It logs cars that 'go missing', if a car was logged into the system and wasn't seen leaving the area it alerts the police to the possibility of a car bomb. You can read more about it on the Home Office site.

The rest of London and many other parts of the country do have extensive CCTV coverage, however it's just bog standard cameras and monitors.

The only face recognition system in use in London (and possibly the whole country) is the Mandrake system in Newham, which had a particularly bad crime problem. I know it's also being tested in Australia, but it's not used widely in the UK (yet).

For all those asking basic questions about copyright: the basics in 600 words. It's UK-based but so simple that the only major difference from the US is the near-total absence of "moral rights" over there. /. contributors who can't be bothered to follow the link: there is no copyright in facts, just in expressions . And today's ruling quite clearly has nothing to do with linking.

That quote about the SCOTUS decision affecting only articles before "modern" contracts were introduced is from the NY Times and begs the whole issue. The NY Times company is pressing freelances to sign away all rights in their work for the same amount they used to pay for a one-edition license. Then they plan to license the work to individual archive readers for $2 a shot. Not surprisingly, freelance writers and photgraphers are objecting - not signing. As a freelance writer, I'd be happier to negotiate that I got half a 10-cent charge. What SCOTUS has done is to say to the corporations: yes, you do have to negotiate with freelances.

You could always hire Executive Outcomes.

Yep, the first trial in the UK was in Stratford in East London (where I used to live). Sure, it was a crime-ridden area, but I still wasn't happy about it.

Its just a question of trusting the authoriteies. If they abuse this power, unlikely, you can just vote them out.

There's the problem. I don't trust the authorities, and neither should you. While I'm not as extreme as the conspiracy theorists, I certainly don't feel any authority I have yet encountered has done anything to earn my trust. Mostly that's due to incompetence rather than malice, but the fact remains that they're untrustworthy. The other point, that you don't seem to have considered, is how you expect to find out that they're abusing their power -- if you don't know, you'll never know they need voting out. I'm certain that systems like these are installed with the best of intentions, but I'd be extremely surprised if those running it didn't abuse it in one way or another.

For information on the "ring of fire" see:

http://www.africaone.com/

They plan an 80Gb cable loop around Africa by 2003.

For general information on the Internet in Africa, the best source of information is:

http://www3.sn.apc.org/africa/index.htm l

-Jeremy

The Muppets Explain IRV !

IRV is fair for ALL, - it's TRULY NON-PARTISAN!

Yay! It looks like Bush will lose! Whew, that was a close one! Or is that what they wanted us to think? Mwaa-hahahahahaha! ;P

Your vote is only wasted if it doesn't reflect your true feelings. The ones with your heart & logic, not the wallet & rich religious leaders! The environment is more important than corporations...

For example: I'm a serious lefty, so the idea of voting for Gore kind of makes me wretch. Let's say I arrange my votes like:

1. Ralph Nader
2. Al Gore
3. George Dubya Bush
4. Satan
5. Pat Buchanan

Many thoughts

Ask it for totals according to address, port or protocol. Very simple to install : one package and one kernel compile option. The Debian package installs the couple of IPchains rules needed to make it work. No noticeable overhead on a DSL connection. And the new version even seems to build graphs ! It does not do user related accounting, but if your addressing policy links IPs to persons, the problem is solved ! IPac's homepage : http://www.comlink.apc.org/~moritz/ipac.html

I hate to interupt the bigots, trolls, and everyone else convinced that every African is a starving disease ridden child, with something usefull, but here's a little info on the state of the telecomunications network in Africa.

Internet Connectivity for Africa

Connectivity Data for Africa's Information Infrastructure

Resourcery's African Telecom Links

The Acacia Initiative

Eric Henry

"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose."- Don Marquis