I'm posting this through SF's small-but-growing grassroots WiFi project called Free The Net. It's a venture headed up by Meraki, a company that makes access points for WiFi-meshing purposes. As far as I understand, all bandwidth is provided by AT&T. Meraki sets up the main APs, and then asks users who can see the signal to set up a repeater somewhere, such as outside their house or on a street-facing window. The repeaters and APs discover the network and can automatically provide redundancy if at all possible. If you're living in the right neighborhoods, it works pretty well. Best part vs. the method mentioned in the article: everything is free. No ports are closed, no traffic denied. Downside: There's a frame at the top of your browser which links to news articles (why? are they getting revenue through it?), although I'm sure it could easily be hacked around. Other downside: the ISP is AT&T.
I know people are probably familiar with the Google/Earthlink deal falling through in SF, but this somewhat unknown project is taking off; so far, I'm pretty impressed.
if there are armed robots (being remotely controlled by a human), it seems to me that even greater atrocities could occur. if something is bad enough to draw attention and criticism, you could possibly pass it off as hardware failure, transmission error, or the worst, you could say that the robot was hacked.
so if these robots do anything horrendously wrong, it seems like there'd be a way to pass the blame off to some unknown and then continue the robot's use. i wonder if they've thought of that?
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I'm posting this through SF's small-but-growing grassroots WiFi project called Free The Net. It's a venture headed up by Meraki, a company that makes access points for WiFi-meshing purposes. As far as I understand, all bandwidth is provided by AT&T. Meraki sets up the main APs, and then asks users who can see the signal to set up a repeater somewhere, such as outside their house or on a street-facing window. The repeaters and APs discover the network and can automatically provide redundancy if at all possible. If you're living in the right neighborhoods, it works pretty well. Best part vs. the method mentioned in the article: everything is free. No ports are closed, no traffic denied. Downside: There's a frame at the top of your browser which links to news articles (why? are they getting revenue through it?), although I'm sure it could easily be hacked around. Other downside: the ISP is AT&T.
I know people are probably familiar with the Google/Earthlink deal falling through in SF, but this somewhat unknown project is taking off; so far, I'm pretty impressed.
if there are armed robots (being remotely controlled by a human), it seems to me that even greater atrocities could occur. if something is bad enough to draw attention and criticism, you could possibly pass it off as hardware failure, transmission error, or the worst, you could say that the robot was hacked. so if these robots do anything horrendously wrong, it seems like there'd be a way to pass the blame off to some unknown and then continue the robot's use. i wonder if they've thought of that?