I live in the Houston, TX metropolitan area, which encompasses a
population of about 4 million. There have been no organised protests
here yet, and I know that out of that many people there have to be
some that know about what's been going on.
Allow me to make a wild, but conservative, guess. Let's say there
are 1000 Slashdot readers in the Houston area. Let's also say that
there are 49 other cities in the country that hold 1000 Slashdot
readers. From what I've seen, counting all the protesters in all the
cities that have seen protests on Sklyarov's behalf, their numbers
total on the order of 1000. This tells me that the large majority of
Slashdotters have not actually done anything, and the chances are
that you yourself haven't done anything.
So if we're not doing anything, Mr. Katz is doing about the only
thing he can do by preaching to the choir--because we choir members
are sitting on our asses, and if we don't get up and do something,
it's a sure bet that no one else in the world is going to. We are
the main community who gives a damn about this particular subject,
and if we sit on the sidelines while our rights and liberties get
snatched from under our noses, it will probably be because we were
too busy sitting in front of a screen writing smart-assed comments on
Slashdot.
To any readers in driving distance of Houston: I think we should
have a protest. If you think so too, mail
me. Let's do it.
...of a do-it-yourself DSL hook-up can be found here.
The author apparently owns an ISP in a small town and took the
steps he describes there to get high speed service to himself and
some of his power-users.
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I live in the Houston, TX metropolitan area, which encompasses a population of about 4 million. There have been no organised protests here yet, and I know that out of that many people there have to be some that know about what's been going on.
Allow me to make a wild, but conservative, guess. Let's say there are 1000 Slashdot readers in the Houston area. Let's also say that there are 49 other cities in the country that hold 1000 Slashdot readers. From what I've seen, counting all the protesters in all the cities that have seen protests on Sklyarov's behalf, their numbers total on the order of 1000. This tells me that the large majority of Slashdotters have not actually done anything, and the chances are that you yourself haven't done anything.
So if we're not doing anything, Mr. Katz is doing about the only thing he can do by preaching to the choir--because we choir members are sitting on our asses, and if we don't get up and do something, it's a sure bet that no one else in the world is going to. We are the main community who gives a damn about this particular subject, and if we sit on the sidelines while our rights and liberties get snatched from under our noses, it will probably be because we were too busy sitting in front of a screen writing smart-assed comments on Slashdot.
To any readers in driving distance of Houston: I think we should have a protest. If you think so too, mail me. Let's do it.
...of a do-it-yourself DSL hook-up can be found here.
The author apparently owns an ISP in a small town and took the steps he describes there to get high speed service to himself and some of his power-users.