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Pakistan To Cut Phone Services To Prevent Muharram Attacks
SternisheFan writes with this news from the Indian Express: "Pakistan's interior minister Friday said the government will suspend cell phone services in most parts of the country over the next two days to prevent attacks against Shia Muslims during a key religious commemoration. Militants often detonate bombs using cell phones and this is the first time the government has implemented such a wide-scale suspension. Saturday and Sunday are the most important days of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, especially important to Shias. Pakistani Shias Sunday observe Ashoura, commemorating the 7th century death of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. Different parts of the Muslim world mark Ashoura on different days —neighbouring Afghanistan, for example, observes it on Saturday. 'The suspension of cell phone services will begin at 6 am Saturday and run through the next day,' Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. He said 90 per cent of the bombs set off by militants in Pakistan have been detonated using cell phones. Some criticized the government for suspending services, saying it was a huge inconvenience."
boom !
the whole bloody lot.
Scruting the inscrutable for over 50 years.
than being a religious minority in Pakistan
Shia, Sikh, Hindu, or Christian
the West should just allow all religious minorities free passage out of Pakistan
they're being hunted
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
...people kill people.
why disable everything and not just jam signals around the area ? i've been to a couple of events here in Canada where they have Cellphone Jammers and they work really well !! nothing like getting zero cell-phone coverage on parliament hill !
Will they then also ban all devices capable of being involved in triggering a bomb: clocks, watches, matches, and egg timers? Are they also banning the use of vehicles to inhibit mobility in planting these bombs? Will they be requiring people to report to the local police station to have their hands tied behind their backs to prevent them from making said bombs? Just wondering....
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Religion! Let's keep it alive.
If they use a different system to detonate a bomb (and now they know the cellphones won't work, so it becomes more likely) then it will delay any call for help from the area. Can't they just set up the towers so that a new, unknown, or unregistered foreign number can only make and not receive calls? Then it's a matter of asking people crossing the border to register their number if they want to receive calls, and that makes them more traceable. In any case nothing beats good detective work, most of these "security" measures seem to be just for show, and easily defeated. Why people always seems to think that the bad guys must be stupid? Too many action movies?
some of the wacko bin Loonies would like to roll the clock back to 700 AD, so shut off the electricity and phones and let them see what it would be like. oh, and there were no rifles and RPGs and stuff, let them go back to horses and bayonets.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
I have no knowledge but always though that cellphones were used purely because they had great countdown timers built in? Nothing to do with network. So is this just another "great firewall of wherever" excuse for authorities to mess with the phone system?
why not block the area off and force any one entering to go under a full body cavity search
what about banding per paid phones and force you to get up your name / info to get a working sim / be able to take a call.
But even with out going only there still a way to use it in a bomb just dial out and then send a tone that sets it off.
In addition to turning off towers, they will need to set up phone jammers everywhere. If not, all the bad guys need to do is set up one of those portable mobile phone hacking things to enable calling the remote device from a reasonable distance. I know it seems like a lot of work, but you know? If someone is going to go through the trouble of making a bomb detinator using a phone, then it's not a stretch to imagine taking that extra step to ensure that it works.
Other thoughts? If your religion preaches intolerance, it is already a failure. (Yeah, I get it, the number of devout followers of these intolerant and violent religions would offer evidence to the contrary, but I mean failure in another sense.)
Also, Islam would do well to learn lessons from Christianity. Look at how adaptable Christianity has been! It adopts all sorts of holidays and celebrations so that people think it's religious (like Christmas and Easter) and allows participation with pagan holidays like Halloween without fear of corrupting people because it's all in fun, not to be taken seriously. Also, in the 60s, they avoided a serious departure from Christianity in the US by changing God's personality from fire, brimstone and harsh punishment to a gentle god of love, forgiveness and tolerance. And it worked! The face of Christianity in the US today is completely different from the pre-60's version. Islam is like it is stuck 1000 years in the past.
do this? - They won't be able to track anyone.
some Sauronesque minds out there....
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
plenty of people they can coerce into wearing clothing that ticks.
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Only OUTLAWS will have CELLPHONES.
Visit CryptoGnome in his home.
Same thing happened here, with child pornography:
Catching the people doing it? Noooo, we would never do that.* We just redirect some domains, which is circumvented by everyone with a real interest in 30 seconds, but hides them away from the eyes of the average retard^WNPC^Wuser, so that in fact it worsens things.
We're not that much different. Both our governments are evil shits, and both our loud retard parts of the population are really loud and really retarded.
By the way: Why don't we regroup? Instead of Pakistan, the USA, Germany, we should have "Evil Fuck Country" "Loud Retard Country" and "Sane Normal Country" (with each one declaring itself the "Sane Normal" one, of course :).
Then we can use embargoes properly, and see how long they survive with their attitudes.
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* Unless it's a politician/activist we want to get rid of, and there suddenly "appears" child porn on his computer.
These are lies spread by evil nitwits India, whose country, as everybody know, is run by little girls. Also everybody know that Indian are a very nosy people.
See, the problem here is that people who are against religious freedom or a particular religion are carrying out these violent attacks, where the victims of these attacks are peaceful and religious individuals. In reality, the killing is born out of a sentiment against religion, so really you are not at all different from the people you're attempting to criticize. In fact, you're even more extreme than them. These killers say that a particular religion is evil; you say all religions are evil.
I tweeted this yesterday. If they really want to cut off wireless communication by all means, the government of Pakistan should seriously be thinking of jamming WiMax signals as well in its biggest city - Karachi. There are 4 Wimax telcos providing coverage in Karachi. Using Mi-Fi (Pocket rechargable wimax modem + Wi-Fi) coupled with Viber/Tango/WhatsApp could be easily used for the same purpose which they are trying to avoid. /dm
The war criminals need to get busy with starting world war three fast, God Forbid, before the Mexican Cartel off grid style phone networks pop up in the middle east. Only nukes will take out the antennas then.
This be the Aztec/Mayan/Drug Cartel off grid Antenna Apocalypse for these filthy un-declared wars? Maybe the whole Earth should be nuked to bring down these terrorist antennas? Oh wait...
http://www.heyahey.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/drug-cartels.jpg
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Maybe the antennas aren't the problem.
Maybe it's the corrupt fuckwads in charge, who blame antennas?
This path forward doesn't bode well for hams, or experimenters, next thing you know drug cartels will be at the swap meet, and TSA, DOJ, ATF, will be there to snoop everything, making creativity grey like a Russian prison. Radios and electronics treated as Guns and ammunition, Children's Chemistry sets will be considered terrorist parts, Such is the fun fascist future us retarded fuckers put up with as this whole show marches forward and we don't say a fucking thing about it, indeed jack booted Thugs, enabled by a few official brainwashed sheep buy into it. I've spoke out for years now. Where are you? Oh that's right you've be spending your time arguing how electronic voting machines would be somehow magically better if only they were using open source, while you conveniently ignore chain of custody and transparency.
This is this way because we do not have control of government.
In turn government now breaks it's oath
Stupid post of the year! They are killers. He is not a killer. So who is more extreme? Duh.
Social Credit would solve everything...