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Mega Public WAN In Sydney
Chris Meder writes: "As posted on CFGN - The Nation , gibed by the recent unreasonable price hikes in Broadband connectivity in Australia, which come already after a strained relationship between Broadband users and the major telco/ISP Telstra BigPond Internet, a group of people in the largest Australian metropolitan city of Sydney have decided to form a city wide amateur wireless network. The team behind this clever idea have also put up a detailed graphical database of people interested and are still looking for more numbers to get this off the ground." This last part reminds me of the Global Access Wireless Database, as featured here. Update: 01/23 18:53 GMT by T : Reader Peter Mann wrote to point out that "there's a mailing list for a similar
wireless project in Sydney at http://sydney.air.net.au."
America's beginning was full rebellion and revolution. It seems to me that Australia is doing better in that category than America is now-a-days. America is no longer about revolution. Now it's all politics, profit, and popularity. America is only going downhill. Australia, although no better than America, still has some spirit left in it's people. The Austrilian people are disappointed with the broadband pricing and so they got together and are working to solve it. They didn't leave it up to the government or the corporations to do it for them, they are taking the charge.
I think this is time for people to really start thinking. It is time for a revolution. Not like those you read about in your history books. No one needs to die. People need to work on fixing the system. There should be no reliance on a central authority. There is too much centralization these days. We are humans, not machines. Why not start acting like humans and throw out the old rules. Australia is not perfect, but the people have a better sense of what freedom really means. Check out http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/ this is Brian Martin's page. He teachs over at the University of Wollongong in Australia, after reading some of his material you'll realize what I mean by a better sense of freedom.
I find no reason why one man/woman can be a hundred or a thousand times richer than another. All men are created equal. In our constitution it says. Yet our practice is otherwise. No I am not communist, and no I do not believe that every man should make exactly the same as any other, but our current state of "equalness" is ridiculous. When the system is flawed, do not say "Atleast it's better than other systems", FIX IT.
I'm done with my rant, go ahead, mod me down. Supression only seems to help the problem doesn't it?
Question everything.
I would have submitted this first, but i was hit by a flying pig on the way to my computer..
Mess Stuff Up
I've seen lots and lots of stories about some backwater called Australia here, recently. I wonder why? I'm actually looking for slashdot.org. They have relevant stories there, stories that people actually give a fuck about.
Legal advice may not be necessary if they never share a broadband pipe, or even a modem, that connects to another ISP, telecom, or whatever.
The idea I've always promulgated is this: build a new internet using the wireless tech. Eventually lasers or tightly focused beams can provide backbones through which local WANs can communcate.
The Internet has been taken over by corporations and the guv'mint. The flimsy yet powerful excuses of hackers, child porn and terrorists were enough to get our doors kicked down.
Damn the Internet, damn the law, and gawd damn the lawyers. Let's bring the joy back to our world again. Get a kilt and some blue paint. Time to moon the emmeny.
(Yes, I'm Australian.)
proof, n. A demonstration that a conclusion is implied by certain premises and axioms.
Who ever modded this up is clueless.
-This is a point that is brought up every time a wireless topic is started. -> a troll if you ask me. (lookup the definition of a troll).
-The poster says is does not know anything about aussie law.
-I think no lawsuit here, you are just disconnected. Unless a highprofile hack was done from this network.
-Damn, i just reacted to something i declared a troll.! 8-)
just my 0.02