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Email Over High-Frequency Radio in West Africa
Guillaume Filion writes "LinuxJournal has a fascinating article about Radio Email in West Africa over HF links. 'Deep inside the warm green interior of Guinea, centered in the frontal lobe of West Africa, field personnel in the widely scattered village-towns of Dabola, Kissidougou and Nzerekore now enjoy access to regular internet e-mail, directly from their desktops. Here we have bridged the digital divide, and there isn't a telephone line or satellite dish in sight.' Talk about Wireless Fidelity!"
More African Spam!
Did you know you can fertilize your lawn with used motor oil?
West Africans now can order Domino's over the internet.
Drivers carry less than 20 shiny rocks and buttons on them.
to use this service, you need to send them 2500 which will be reimbursed when they transfer the rest of the money out of their respective repressed country!
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
Nuts. As an American, I now have to put Guinea on my "can not visit" list. Thanks, /.
-DDT
So long, michael. Don't let the door hit you...
Before this, they were using carrier pigeon to transmit email. Just establishing a connnection to the mail server was a bitch.
It's pretty damn obvious you missed the critical point: "centered in the frontal lobe of West Africa". This technology is plugged into the executive control centre of the psyche of the African continent and promises to generate a go-go hi-tech culture. Pay attention!
Tiny bandwidth, monstrous lag, and packet loss caused by German machine guns.
Slashdotter are stupid and biased.
I would assume that nigeria could easily fund getting the whole country high speed bandwidth. I cannot begin to tell you how many emails I get a day from nigerians that wish to send me millions of dollars just for doing a simple bank transfer.
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maybe they should change the dept to the were-running-out-of-ideas dept
/., you can do better than that!!
i mean "connections dept" ? come on
Fortunately, I've invented a new invention which I intend to patent. I call it multiple current storage devices. Or "batteries" for short. You plug your device into a wall socket and there are no wires to trip over. I think it's going to be very popular for use with wireless devices.
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"Yes... But can they use the radios to crush nuts like the IBM Global Uplink Modems?
Does a two year stint at the ISC maintaining the BIND 8 resolver and tree propagation code count? Moreover, I'd like to think that there are those who are perhaps younger and smarter than me who might be able to "fuck with" and actually do something new with the given software. That's what open source is all about.
Oh, I get it now. You are spreading FUD about Dan's software because he can write secure DNS software and you can't?