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Winning (and Losing) the First Wired War
Noah Shachtman writes "The Iraq war was launched on a theory: That, with the right networking gear, American armed forces could control a country with a fraction of the troops ordinarily needed. But that equipment never made it down to the front lines, David Axe (just back from his 6th trip to Iraq) and I note in this month's Popular Science. That's a problem, because the insurgents are using throwaway cellphones and anonymous e-mail accounts to stitch together a network of their own."
Cellphones are wired now?
Jeez I must have an uber fancy one then...
Wait, that's how terrorism is being funded. By Nigerian bankers. Damn you, Mr Obawutube - next time you send a missive asking for help getting six million dollars out of the country and offering half of it in return for someone's help, try adding a 'Are you a member of a Al Queda' Yes [ ] No [ ]' at the bottom.
If you've been reading the recent slashdot articles, and seen the decisive actions governments are considering, it's only a matter of time before these terrorists are reined in. All they need to do is quickly enact legislation that, among other things:
Sheeesh, how simple can this be?
what about all the things that are going right in iraq?
--your pal, sean hannity
Iraq's slaves^H^H^H^H^H^H^H citizens, behold the fruit of your labours! The Mobile Oppression Palace! I don't need to tell you that occupation forces are expensive. But with the Mobile Oppression Palace our dignitaries can oppress your entire country for pennies a day.
No one cares what your captcha was
Houston TX, USA
Yeah, Ackbar never caught on
Now comes the more interesting question: What do you think the prize was? I'm thinking it was $1.
Remember, appropriate technology! For the jungle, you want a mesh network.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Here you are. Notice the sentence about "...a Linux-based operating system, as opposed to Windows. 'Evidence shows that Linux is more stable. We are moving in general to where the Army is going, to Linux-based OS,'" says the program's manager, Lt. Col. Dave Gallop".
Linux = Free
America = Free (well kinda sorta, in a round about way, well it's deminishing, but we can still breath without permission...but you probably shouldn't breath too much at once, someone might think your a terrorist.)
Generals, please... there's no fighting in the war room.
And how did they find out he was a virgin?
Because he was trying to load Slashdot on that same glowing touchscreen?