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Russia To Require Registration For Wi-Fi Use
Oleg.salenko points out a ComputerWorld story with some bad news for Russia's wireless users, which starts out "Business travelers to Russia might want to keep their laptops and iPhones well-concealed — not from muggers, necessarily, but from the country's recently formed regulatory super-agency, Rossvyazokhrankultura (short for the Russian Mass Media, Communications and Cultural Protection Service)... Rossvyazokhrankultura's interpretation of current law holds that users must register any electronics that use the frequency involved in Wi-Fi communications, said Vladimir Karpov, the deputy director of the agency's communications monitoring division, according to an English commentary provided by website The Other Russia."
It gets worse: "Aside from public hotspots, the registration requirement also applies to home networks, laptops, smart phones and Wi-Fi-enabled PDAs, Karpov reportedly said. Registration only permits use by the owner. Registration for personal devices is said to take 10 days, but registering a hotspot — including a home network — is more complicated, involving a set of documents and technological certifications akin to putting in a cell tower."
Cue the Soviet Russia jokes in 3,2,1...
Business travelers to Russia might want to keep their laptops and iPhones well-concealed -- not from muggers,necessarily,
I'd recommend concealing them from the muggers too.
In Soviet Russia, WiFi registers you!
Looks like everyone who doesn't register their Nintendo DS is going to be a dangerous criminal! :O
Admit it. You post strawman arguments as AC so you get modded Insightful for refuting them, rather than Troll
There's electronic devices these days that don't have wifi built in?
Everything will be taken away from you.
Doesn't Bluetooth use the same frequency range as Wifi?
How long before some idiot tells us this is no different from what we have in the US?
I wonder how long it is before this could be used as a pretext for someone to be arrested and interrogated. Seems like a very easy way of putting a large amount of people into a position where they are "breaking" the allowing the government to "legally" do stuff that otherwise might be very nasty.
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Yes, but while I'm in Russia can I have sex with an underage prostitute?
That depends if she works for the government, if so, the Soviet Russia will have sex with you .
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ROFLMAO, you beat me to it. I was just wondering what service would be like. Just what can you steal? There are probably not too many Brits laughing. They have to register their bloody televisions.
Mind you, they get a nice return on that, or used to. Not sure how good BBC programming is these days but I'm willing to wager that it has any of the major American networks beat hands down. I know there are those that like to watch television commercials, but then again, there are people that like reality television too. Go figure.
When I was growing up (rumor has it that I have not done so yet) I read all kinds of Science Fiction books. This was before the intarwebnets and WiFi. Now, more and more, I find that I am living in one of those worlds that were known only science fiction fans.
This sounds like an attempt to sell Russian made equipment, or the beginnings of it. Ahhhh government regulation: an attempt by the ruling to create criminals of those who are not.
Fortunately, in most of the rest of the world WiFi devices have been given rather loose regulation to allow the development of Wireless services and functionality.
In countries where there is no major wired infrastructure it builds revenue streams if you have to be licensed and regulated to do the work. No PC/WiFi entrepreneurs for Russia... sigh! God forbid that Russians actually communicate easily with the rest of the world.
Personally, this makes me sad. Check http://www.englishrussia.com/ and have a peer inside what the rest of us have only just begun to appreciate and understand. The Internet is fucking awesome. I'm sad that there are restrictions on it for Russians, and Chinese for that matter.
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Almost fake story.
1. It's not required for end-user to register his wifi enabled devices.
2. Short range Wifi hotspots must be registered if you allow access to a third party (10 days and approx. 1000 rub for registration)
3. "a set of documents and technological certification" required for ISPs (if you sell wifi access for profit) and for wavelength not in a/b/g range
Afraid that someone in Russia might use the internet for legitimate reasons instead of for crime.
To ensure your wifi router provides a "fair" "net-neutral" access. Hey, it's not *your* wifi router, we live in a society don't we ? Yeah yeah, flamebait, go ahead... but it sickens me no one sees how it's the same thing.
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Actually i think they register it for you, whenever you purchase a TV the BBC get told about it.
Fortunatly for me i dont have have a tv but can watch BBC programing on iplayer for free.
I think there must be some good US channels? I think the BBC also pushes up the competition, I find C4 much better, but if it wasnt for the BBC they would slump as ITV & FIVE just cant put on anything other than reality TV.
I do worry about Russia, not allowing free access to the internet is the first step in blocking out any opposition to your government. I think Putin/sock puppet putin is looking for cold war v2, with the weakening $ and the crap loads of oil in the artic circle that they've flagged ( I mean serious whats up with that, if I develop a flag can i go into a cake shop and claim any cake I 'flag' is mine?). Either that or hes looking at china becoming a superpower and just wants to hang round Whos house When he can? either way unless the people of either of those countries see past government propaganda before they loose free speech entirely, i predict 'bad shit'!
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Russia has always been top heavy in beaurocracy, even before Soviet times.
In Soviet Russia wifi-register.su
There's a problem when a word like Rossvyazokhrankultura is considered *short* for something. What happened to NAMBLA?
It's just plain sad.
Life is not for the lazy.
I understand what you were trying to say.. but there are laws (even in Russia) against doing such things.. so your attempt fails.. and please get yourself neutered.. Thanks
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Russia has so much potential, but it always slips back into authoritarian ways. Must be the weather or something.
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This is not true. Read: Translate the following site:http://www.rsoc.ru/main/about/858/887.shtml?id_news=628
Whenever you buy a tv, (or a vcr or tv receiver doohickey for your pc etc) the person at the till asks you for name and address for their paperwork. I believe Mr Upyours of 11 Fictitious Mews, Madeupville makes all his purchases with cash, I get all my stuff via him.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
The registration is required by commercial organisations only. Please stop the FUD.
-- With best regards. Really. Shaman007
Oh Noes! The pesky Russians have outdone us again! Quick, grab some more tax money and set up yet another government department to issue licenses for WIFI! No, I haven't a clue what it is either, just do it! And make those biometric things compulsory with registration while you are at it. And DNA.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
In Soviet Russia, Socialism controls YOU! er...wait. amidoinitright?
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That site makes Time Cube look sane. Why is it all anti semitic websites are done by obvious raving lunatics?
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Do you YHWH is maybe driving you mad to discredit your message
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If you look at history you will see that Russia's potential is most effectively realized under authoritarian governments (Czars, Stalin, Brezhnev) and mostly wasted under "democratic" rulers (Gorbachev, Yeltsin.)
Russia was in one long decline under Brezhnev. And only a few of the Czars accomplished anything, the last one was a disaster.It's not the weather. It's russians. Given the choice they don't work. Unlike americans, russians are not chasing the golden calf, preferring instead to have good time. Nothing gets done this way.
Russians know that good times are only a temporary abnormality, so they might as well enjoy it as long as it lasts.Also, hard work is not the way ahead in society in Russia, all you accomplish is to make some gangster or bureaucrat (in Russia, they are mostly the same) happy. So either you become a gangster/bureaucrat, or you work as little as possible and spend what you have on vodka, so there is nothing to steal.
As for those who have somewhat exotic wireless hardware? I could only think of saying the Russian equivalent of "field day".
Something says that they won't look kindly on Lightweight AP+Controller setups.
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I double dare you to find a country on this globe where you cannot have sex with underage prostitutes.
Human nature is a disaster.
How about this one?
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
"I think the BBC also pushes up the competition, I find C4 much better, but if it wasnt for the BBC they would slump as ITV & FIVE just cant put on anything other than reality TV."
Note that C4 is also publicly owned, it is just advertisement funded instead of using license fees.
Channel 4 has a more entertainment focus than the BBC, but they both have some very good stuff.
ITV and Five are the two privately owned, advertisement funded channels on the analogue over-air network and as you say, they are both shite.
That's a hoax, and has been known to be for a few days already... http://www.iphones.ru/iNotes/2922/
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So whereas 20 years ago you'd get maybe 8-12 hours per week of good peak-time programming divided between two channels, today you get 6-8 hours divided between four channels. (I've reduced the number of hours because Eastenders is on more than it used to be).
Dear demiurgie, You are ruining 'feel good about themselves' mood for our users, which they get by reading completely misinterpreted 'news' about other countries that makes them look at their own and say 'oh, at least it is not THAT bad here!'. Nobody cares whether what it is actually true or not. Regards, happy slashdotian...
And the US version of Eastenders is the Sopranos, which is also on more than it should be :)
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Here google translation of response from Rossvyazokhrankultura website: http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rsoc.ru%2Fmain%2Fabout%2F858%2F887.shtml%3Fid_news%3D628&langpair=ru%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8 In short: 1. You have to register only if you provide internet access for money. . 2. End-user Wi-fi equipment is excluded from list of telecommunication equipment required to register.
In Soviet Russia routing is for trains, wifi is used to describe "water in fuel indicator" and PDA means "public display of affection". All combined - I figured we must have got the whole idea wrong... this law was probably intended to prevent pissing in trains fuel tanks to display the affection of the Russian people for that mean of transportation.
Damn I thought Rossvyazokhrankultura was a good random string of characters....there goes my password.
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All US channels with the exception of the SciFi channel are crap. I gave up watching TV years ago and now that the cathode-ray tan has faded I find I have more time in my day and I actually care about things going on, instead of filling my head with "their fabricated dreams".
How amazed would you be to suddenly find that you just forgot what I wrote and you needed to reread my post.... again.
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and your source for this claim is...
Deus est fatalis
And I triple dare you to find a country where you can not hack up older prostitutes and put the pieces in plastic bags into the trunk (boot if your in the UK) of your rental car.
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