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The Cuban Memory Stick Underground
circletimessquare writes "The NyTimes has an aticle describing how students and others in Cuba have taken to passing around media on memory sticks, as this is the only way they can get around state-controlled media. Also driving this phenomenon is the fact that there are so few places to get on the Internet. In Old Havana there is only one Internet cafe; getting online there for an hour costs 1/3 of the average Cuban's monthly wages. Local entrepreneurs get the memory sticks from European friends, since they are scarce to find in Cuba through normal channels, and expensive."
Not bad bandwidth, but the lag time can be a bitch.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
I see that your memory stick is as big as mine.
-Aegis Runestone-
Who cares, I'm going to go home and look inside all of my old guitars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers I think this is better and more subtle if they really want the Internet.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pre-revolutionary automobile loaded with thumb drives!
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
or did you just get a new batch of porn?
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
American media? With the garbage we produce here, this would likely end up backfiring.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
are you kidding, with 55% packet loss, and 6165731.1 ms lag over 3 miles... i think the little thumb drive method is way easier. not to mention getting carrier pigeons to cross a couple hundred miles of ocean doesn't work very well either. plus carrier pigeons are really bandwidth restricted, they can at most carry .5 ounces of microfilm which then requires a microfilm reader... thumb drives just work in any usb enabled pc, even ones running linux, and you can get a whole month of blog sites, interesting news etc all in one package with a thumb drive. if they're relatives have the cash they can even send feature length films on thumb drives (i've seen 8 GB modules, in divx/xvid format that's a lot of movie)
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Jeez, I finally get it! And here I thought the whole strategy of destroying a country through decades of economic sanctions based on political ideology two generations out of date was one of the great disasters of US foreign policy. But it's actually a clever strategy to turn a whole nation into a think tank and foster innovation the old fashioned way: by creating necessity! It's so simple!
A-Bomb
Insert Monty Python and the Holy Grail coconut-laden swallow jokes HERE.
Don't copy that floppy.
SRSLY.
in soviet cuba they slashdot YOU!
no?
..so would a hawk or eagle in the mix qualify as a BITM (Bird In The Middle) attack, or DoP (Denial of Pigeon) attack?
I'm impressed. I would expect them to be handing off 8" floppies.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Dude, those bits are medicinal.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
Actually, I believe that there was an attempt to port Quake so that it's playable via Sneakernet.
Lame. It doesn't even support rocket jumping!
The enemies of Democracy are
Think of it as an avian spoofed RESET packet.
I'm sure Comcast is evaluating it even as we speak...
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Sounds a lot like my idea. But with my idea, we also air-drop a few entire Wal-Mart stores, about a hundred thousand gallons of Pabst Blue Ribbon, 10 tons of pre-soiled wife beaters, and a few thousand mobile homes out of a some C-5 Galaxy transports. (each trailer complete with 100 square feet of artificial turf, one plastic flamingo, one garden gnome, and one non-functional Pontiac Trans-Am, and four concrete blocks). Once they were all setup, Wal-Mart would implement a "guns-for-stuff" policy, where they would trade in AK-47s and RPGs for cheap Chinese made crap. I'd give them two, maybe three weeks before the insurgents realize the superior cost savings afforded to them by Wal-Mart, and the American way. The mobile homes, shirts and cheap beer is ancillary to the effort.
Constitutional rights may be respected, repealed, or modified; but they must never be ignored.
basicly what you are saying is build a token ring network where some poor guy walks around carring the token.. might want to watch out.. i wouldn't be supprised if IBM has a patent for that
'...if only "Jumping to a Conclusion" was an event in the Olympics.'