...for those few who didn't RTFA (I heard that happens on/.)
I am one of the people building SFLAN. Our map is a little outdated (and the San Bruno Mountain node is in the wrong spot). SFLAN and BAWRN have some 30 nodes in as many locations in San Francisco and a few outliers in surrounding counties.
If you are in San Francisco and want to try it out, Cole Street is well covered. The SSIDs are sflanNN or BARWN-xxxxx; DHCP, no WEP.
The nodes are owned and paid for by individuals, many of whom are members of the Bay Area Wireless User Group.
The Internet bandwidth for SFLAN is sponsored by the Internet Archive.
If you live in SF and want to buy a node to connect your house and your neighbors,
contact us.
We like to keep these networks as free (as in speech and beer) as possible. And it's working out so far. I hear Tim Pozar's neighbors keep him happy with occasional pies...
Back when society was composed of only Hunters and Gatherers we were entirely mobile and fragmented. Yet during the same time periods, archeologists have found no evidence of war, overpopulation, starvation (limited bandwidth, electronic censorship). It wasn't until after we settled down and developed cities that archeologists found evidence of the above mentioned.
Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs, and Steel cites many examples of Hunters/Gatherers societies raging war onto each other (e.g. New Guinea, New Zealand), overpopulation (e.g. Easter Island), and starvation (e.g. a small island between Australia and Tasmania whose name escapes me).
Diamond puts to rest the 18th and 19th century romantic notion of the "Noble Savage". Take for instance the austronesian expansion: on island after island that the people we now call Polynesians settled, they killed off all large mammals and flighless birds. The same seem to have happened in Australia. Within centuries of the arrival of the "Aboriginis" all large mammals beside the kangoroo vanished.
The Hunters/Gatherers of New Guinea seem to live a "stable and congenial" life till they raid the neighboring tribe or they get raided by them.
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I am one of the people building SFLAN. Our map is a little outdated (and the San Bruno Mountain node is in the wrong spot). SFLAN and BAWRN have some 30 nodes in as many locations in San Francisco and a few outliers in surrounding counties. If you are in San Francisco and want to try it out, Cole Street is well covered. The SSIDs are sflanNN or BARWN-xxxxx; DHCP, no WEP.
The nodes are owned and paid for by individuals, many of whom are members of the Bay Area Wireless User Group. The Internet bandwidth for SFLAN is sponsored by the Internet Archive. If you live in SF and want to buy a node to connect your house and your neighbors, contact us.
We like to keep these networks as free (as in speech and beer) as possible. And it's working out so far. I hear Tim Pozar's neighbors keep him happy with occasional pies...
http://www.ubs.com/e/index/about/research/pcc/publ ications.html
(See PDFs on bottom of the page.)
It's quite extensive, and answers essential questions like "How long do you have to work to earn a Big Mac?" in different cities around the world.
Sean Doran, SprintLink: "Vint Cerf is on drugs."
From the Netheads vs Bellheads story in Wired 4.10.
Having friends coming over for Futurama? Just dangle your last bottle in front of the sensor!
Diamond puts to rest the 18th and 19th century romantic notion of the "Noble Savage". Take for instance the austronesian expansion: on island after island that the people we now call Polynesians settled, they killed off all large mammals and flighless birds. The same seem to have happened in Australia. Within centuries of the arrival of the "Aboriginis" all large mammals beside the kangoroo vanished.
The Hunters/Gatherers of New Guinea seem to live a "stable and congenial" life till they raid the neighboring tribe or they get raided by them.
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