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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!)"
He must be hosting it from the phone booth too!
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You put too much money into the phone booth - we broke your server already and there aren't even 20 comments yet ;)
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Hows that new server going. Poof.
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The phone call is free, but it costs $250 or so to get onto the grounds where the phone is.
heard of pr0n torrents ? they rock.
-1, redundant.
I'm so sick of ppl paraphrasing the post i've read two pages ago. Maybe it's not your case and you just happened to say the same thing without reading the other post, but... i read thousands of slashdot posts mentionning the slashdot effect taking down servers, and this is the first one where i see someone mentionning that of course it's the network capacity, not the server. And there you are, 5 posts later, saying the same thing like if you were very insightfull or something...
But in most cases it's much worse, you'll see 10 peoples paraphrasing a previous post with the logic articulations and everything. Like, 200 posts without the mention of a specific point, and suddently, 10 posters have the same idea and post it... And they'll all be modded insightful or informative. What are moderators doing ?? Ah but i forgot, most of slashdot readers are just math geeks and think litteracy skills are worthless. As a concequence, They're unable to see that two posts phrased differently can mean exactly the same thing, they're not using the same words, after all. seesh...
Besides, we all understand that of course it's the network that runs out of bandwith, and not the server itself who dies. Still, the server (like in the soft that serves content to the network) is "dead", like in it cannot be used from the network any more during the slashdot effect. It's just a language shortcut...
Please don't take all of the above for yourself, you just happened to be the first paraphrasing poster that i read today.