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A Wi-Fi/VoIP Phone Booth In the Burning Man Desert
Brad Templeton writes "I,
(of EFF/ClariNet/rec.humor.funny) along with
Brent Chapman
(Majordomo/Building Internet Firewalls) and the satellite dish of
John Gilmore (EFF/Cygnus/Cypherpunks/etc.)
put together an engaging hack -- a battery-powered free phone booth using
802.11,
VoIP and a satellite IP uplink. This was placed in the desert at
the Burning Man arts festival deep
in the remote Nevada Black Rock playa, exactly where you wouldn't expect
a working phone booth to be. With cheap VoIP people were able to call
all over the world. The reactions of people to such incongruous
technology were great fun and emotional as well. There's a
page about the phone including
details of
building it and
live experiences including totally non-gratuitous photos of naked people using technology. (There, that ought to stress-test my new server!)"
Mmmm, you had me at naked.
Never underestimate the power of horny nerds.
But I gotta ask... would this lower my 1-900 bills?
He who laughs last is stuck in a time dilation bubble.
"including totally non-gratuitous photos of naked people using technology"
As if photos of naked people could ever be gratuitous to Slashdot readers!
the naked people picture page got slashdotted.
and it did. you're truly lucky. please, next time, don't have the connection for your server reside in a phone booth in the desert.
Failure at three comments.
If I'm out of change, it's probably easier to go home and get some than walk deep into a Nevada desert for a free call. A good idea but some more thought could have gone into it, in my opinion.
I think those pictures of naked people are going to be Slashdotted very quickly...um...not that I want to go back and look...but any chance of people mirroring them?
I swear! I don't want to just look at the pictures!
naked pictures + slashdot = horked server
Linking to public nudity pics on Slashdot is not advised. Guess I'll have to settle for "Burning Server".
A post to /. with reference to nudity. Just to stress test a server. What, are you sick? I don't care what you are running - it just can't be done. If this link lasts for more than 20 minutes, this guy should be given a medal and hired by the US government on the spot.
Stay tuned for new sig...
If we ever really needed a telephone sanitizer... this would be it.
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"(There, that ought to stress-test my new serv-"
CB
free ipod and free gmail!
1. Burning Man
2. Phone booth
3. ???
4. Prophet!
It's my opinion that the equipment in places like hospitals should design themselves
Working on AI nanotech, are we?
You can't take the sky from me...
"GERLACH, NV -- The Burning Man festival, a prominent artistic and countercultural event that draws tens of thousands of people to the Nevada desert annually, is in danger of cancellation this week because "no one had their shit together enough to even make it," organizers said Tuesday. "Jesus Christ, this is pathetic," said event coordinator Ethan Moon as he angrily gestured toward the empty Black Rock Desert basin expanse, known as the playa. "We've been promoting this thing all year. You can't start panhandling quarters for gas the week before the festival and expect to make it here in time, man."
Moon listed some of the most common no-show excuses, among them oversleeping, forgetting to request time off work, faulty van-borrowing arrangements, a shortage of ochre body-paint, and the last-minute realization that transportation to the Burning Man festival requires money.
...Hippies were not the only counterculture group to miss the Burning Man festival. Portland-area Linux user and self-described cyber-conceptualist "Free" Lance Kaegle explained his absence in an instant message from his studio.
"I was organizing this boss techno-art project called 'Off The Grid,'" Kaegle wrote. "We were going to set up computer terminals in various parts of the playa and have people use them. Then we'd feed the binary data from those terminals into this fractals program that [Silver Lake, CA software designer] Ricky [Thomas-Slater] wrote. Those fractals would be sent, on the fly, to a group of exiled Buddhist monks I befriended online. The monks would transform the fractals into a temporal sand painting, the making of which we would webcast live to everyone on the playa."
Added Kaegle: "But I had to stop working on the monk thing to finish up this Pam's Country Crafts web site I'm working on. I really need the money..."
"(There, that ought to stress-test my new server!)"
A satellite/wi-fi booth seems cool, but somehow lacks something the old wired booth had.
Yeah...duh...wires?
Mod parent (and child) as ot!
But your post doesn't have a child...