People tend to forget something: short distance (same city and nearby cities) communication is NOT a problem. People have legs, bicycles, cars, camels etc. It might be risky to travel during a situation like the one in Egypt, but it's doable. Keep in mind that history is full of riots and revolutions, and for a big chunk of the history people didn't have computers and computer networks to communicate and organize.
Their (Egyptians) biggest problem is long distance communication. They want and need to make their situation known to the world, so they can get more support from outside (ie. political pressure) on one hand, and on the other hand they might need to communicate with far away cities, which could benefit from "faster than car" (TM) technology.
Whoever keeps talking about wireless adhoc networks probably thinks a revolution can happen over IRC, with people in front of their computers. No, revolutions happen with people in the streets.
As a side note, satellite and radio (packet or not), can be useful for long distance communication.
This way, anyone in Egypt who has access to a analog phone line and can call France is able to connect to the network [...]
I'm wondering for how long will the international phone lines work. The gvt. is most likely able to cut those too. Remaining options will then be HAM radio, GSM roaming, if you are close enough to a border and you are lucky to be in the range of a GSM base station from across (but I have no idea about the situation in Egypt), and satellite phone.
Instead of searching for technical workarounds, we should try to block such laws. Workarounds are just that, and sooner or later the law will workaround workarounds.
What will happen if encryption will become illegal for the general public ? Today this might seem far-fetched, but we are slowly giving in, and it might be a tad too late when we'll realize what we lost (and I'm not talking about the regular/. guy, but about the general public).
I was wondering about that too. I thought there might be a link on that page to some sort of detailed information about how the boy cheated. I'm amazed how easily some people will take a statement from a big corp such as MS for granted. After all big corporations never lie, right ?
What benefits do I get from gamer points? Does it give me extra Live hours? More M$ dollars points to buy add-ons? Prizes? A barrel of monkeys? More lotto drawings for free tickets to visit the Naked & Petrified Natalie Portman Exhibit at the Pimple Popper Expo?
For the 11-year-old boy game points may have more value than you can imagine. Apparently you've never been a child (?). Also, being called a cheater may have a strong emotional impact, with or without autism. Microsoft's attitude towards this child is really bad and shows how much they care about customers in general.
First I read it as "Inception: The Social Network", and I was wondering if this is the next generation social network, to which you will connect in your dreams. That would've put Facebook to shame.
Although I realize it's a long way, hopefully this can and will develop into artificial retinas for people. There are many eye diseases affecting the retina and leading to blindness. Giving people vision back would be really impressive.
[...] a genetically engineered cyanobacterium that produces liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline [...] in essentially unlimited quantity
Great, so now we have no limit on how much we can pollute. This is exactly what we need.
Zip them up and call the file something like "HD Celebrity sex tapes collection" and upload it to your favorite bit torrent site.
I call it my free foolproof backup solution.
Then you can just download your pictures any time you need them.
Won't work. Most torrent search engines allow ranking and commenting on torrents and it'll soon be marked as 'fake' and people will stop accessing it.
Flickr Pro imposes no storage limit, and you can keep your photos private if you choose to. You can also organize your photos in many ways, thus you can show them to your friends if you'd like to. Granted, I don't know any way of downloading many photos at once (ie. restore the backup), but I've never been interested in doing it either.
Check this.
The problem with a market is that if you aren't willing to meet a counterparty at an agreed on price, then no transaction occurs. In the case of Michigan, they simply priced themselves out of the labor and industry markets by imposing too many conditions on businesses.
So, basically you are saying they should lower their expectations to the level found in, for instance, China, then they can get back into the labor and industry markets ?
You know, there are many countries in the world which impose many conditions on businesses, yet they have labor and industry markets.
I am utterly surprised nobody screamed "commie!" yet, considering this is mostly an American forum. I mean "sharing resources" and "planning the economy", even if on a small scale ?
I honestly hope he'll have enough support to do it, but I have my doubts, considering all the fears surrounding anything remotely related to socialism in your country. IMO it is a good idea and people might actually benefit from it.
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Wired also has a wiki titled "Communicate if Your Government Shuts Off Your Internet." It has some interesting thoughts on things like ad-hoc networking, satelite, and even packet radio.
People tend to forget something: short distance (same city and nearby cities) communication is NOT a problem. People have legs, bicycles, cars, camels etc. It might be risky to travel during a situation like the one in Egypt, but it's doable. Keep in mind that history is full of riots and revolutions, and for a big chunk of the history people didn't have computers and computer networks to communicate and organize.
Their (Egyptians) biggest problem is long distance communication. They want and need to make their situation known to the world, so they can get more support from outside (ie. political pressure) on one hand, and on the other hand they might need to communicate with far away cities, which could benefit from "faster than car" (TM) technology.
Whoever keeps talking about wireless adhoc networks probably thinks a revolution can happen over IRC, with people in front of their computers. No, revolutions happen with people in the streets.
As a side note, satellite and radio (packet or not), can be useful for long distance communication.
This way, anyone in Egypt who has access to a analog phone line and can call France is able to connect to the network [...]
I'm wondering for how long will the international phone lines work. The gvt. is most likely able to cut those too. Remaining options will then be HAM radio, GSM roaming, if you are close enough to a border and you are lucky to be in the range of a GSM base station from across (but I have no idea about the situation in Egypt), and satellite phone.
Instead of searching for technical workarounds, we should try to block such laws. Workarounds are just that, and sooner or later the law will workaround workarounds.
What will happen if encryption will become illegal for the general public ? Today this might seem far-fetched, but we are slowly giving in, and it might be a tad too late when we'll realize what we lost (and I'm not talking about the regular /. guy, but about the general public).
I was wondering about that too. I thought there might be a link on that page to some sort of detailed information about how the boy cheated. I'm amazed how easily some people will take a statement from a big corp such as MS for granted. After all big corporations never lie, right ?
What benefits do I get from gamer points? Does it give me extra Live hours? More M$ dollars points to buy add-ons? Prizes? A barrel of monkeys? More lotto drawings for free tickets to visit the Naked & Petrified Natalie Portman Exhibit at the Pimple Popper Expo?
For the 11-year-old boy game points may have more value than you can imagine. Apparently you've never been a child (?).
Also, being called a cheater may have a strong emotional impact, with or without autism. Microsoft's attitude towards this child is really bad and shows how much they care about customers in general.
First I read it as "Inception: The Social Network", and I was wondering if this is the next generation social network, to which you will connect in your dreams.
That would've put Facebook to shame.
Although I realize it's a long way, hopefully this can and will develop into artificial retinas for people. There are many eye diseases affecting the retina and leading to blindness. Giving people vision back would be really impressive.
[...] a genetically engineered cyanobacterium that produces liquid hydrocarbons: diesel fuel, jet fuel and gasoline [...] in essentially unlimited quantity
Great, so now we have no limit on how much we can pollute. This is exactly what we need.
Or not.
Zip them up and call the file something like "HD Celebrity sex tapes collection" and upload it to your favorite bit torrent site. I call it my free foolproof backup solution. Then you can just download your pictures any time you need them.
Won't work. Most torrent search engines allow ranking and commenting on torrents and it'll soon be marked as 'fake' and people will stop accessing it.
Flickr Pro imposes no storage limit, and you can keep your photos private if you choose to. You can also organize your photos in many ways, thus you can show them to your friends if you'd like to. Granted, I don't know any way of downloading many photos at once (ie. restore the backup), but I've never been interested in doing it either. Check this.
The problem with a market is that if you aren't willing to meet a counterparty at an agreed on price, then no transaction occurs. In the case of Michigan, they simply priced themselves out of the labor and industry markets by imposing too many conditions on businesses.
So, basically you are saying they should lower their expectations to the level found in, for instance, China, then they can get back into the labor and industry markets ?
You know, there are many countries in the world which impose many conditions on businesses, yet they have labor and industry markets.
I am utterly surprised nobody screamed "commie!" yet, considering this is mostly an American forum. I mean "sharing resources" and "planning the economy", even if on a small scale ? I honestly hope he'll have enough support to do it, but I have my doubts, considering all the fears surrounding anything remotely related to socialism in your country. IMO it is a good idea and people might actually benefit from it.