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!)"

Comments

Jerry Maguire

[rpbailey1642]

...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.

Free porn?

[shfted!]

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!)"

Never underestimate the power of horny nerds.

But I gotta ask... would this lower my 1-900 bills?

Re:Free porn?

[AKnightCowboy]

Never underestimate the power of horny nerds.

Because one major thing the Internet lacks is unlimited access to free pornography. Just this morning I was thinking to myself: "Self... wouldn't it be cool if some entrepreneur put pictures of naked women on the Internet? Then we wouldn't have to visit those skanky adult bookstores in the seedy district anymore."

Who am I kidding though... if pornography was available on the Internet, how would we keep children from gaining access to it? Our entire society could collapse.

As if...

[alexcampbell]

"including totally non-gratuitous photos of naked people using technology"
As if photos of naked people could ever be gratuitous to Slashdot readers!

congrats

[mrpuffypants]

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.

Results of new server stress-test:

[Anonymous Coward]

Failure at three comments.

Not convenient for me

[zaxios]

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.

Do the Math

[serutan]

naked pictures + slashdot = horked server

Burning Man Website Down.

[alan_dershowitz]

Linking to public nudity pics on Slashdot is not advised. Guess I'll have to settle for "Burning Server".

Sick Bastard

[IamGarageGuy 2]

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.

Douglas Adams, where areyou now?

[davejenkins]

If we ever really needed a telephone sanitizer... this would be it.

Re:Nice but,

[Scrameustache]

It's my opinion that the equipment in places like hospitals should design themselves

Working on AI nanotech, are we?