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2011-01-28 Africa North

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Posted by Steve White 2011-01-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 The EXACT same thing Obama wants to be able to do.

Posted by Thrager Barnsmell4754 2011-01-28 00:04|| 2011-01-28 00:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Kinda makes you think again about all that 'Internet kill switch' talk, eh? Back in the olden days before the interwebs caught on, we used to create ad-hoc networks with Point to Point Protocol and shuffle mail from one machine to another with uucp. Everything old is new again!

Posted by SteveS 2011-01-28 00:09|| 2011-01-28 00:09|| Front Page Top

#3 In soviet times, they would circulate stuff via the fax machine. Not really efficient, but better than nothing.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-01-28 00:16|| 2011-01-28 00:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Samizdata

Posted by Frank G 2011-01-28 00:21|| 2011-01-28 00:21|| Front Page Top

#5 That kill switch operator is Comcast, NBC as owner, and GE as owner of NBC. Did you think GE was interested in NBC for Keith Olberman?

Such a shame.This conversation this very day.

Posted by newc 2011-01-28 00:43|| 2011-01-28 00:43|| Front Page Top

#6 Citizens band radio man, keep on truckin.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-01-28 00:45|| 2011-01-28 00:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Or Fab-Fi

Posted by newc 2011-01-28 01:26|| 2011-01-28 01:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Well it's floodin' down in Texas
All the telephone lines
are down

Posted by gromky 2011-01-28 02:51|| 2011-01-28 02:51|| Front Page Top

#9 A lot of work is being done towards self-organizing mesh networks, i.e. local wifi nodes finding and linking to one another automatically, to replace or augment fixed routers. The military has an obvious interest in such capability but it would be useful in emergencies and other situations.

Posted by lotp 2011-01-28 05:51|| 2011-01-28 05:51|| Front Page Top

#10 nice SRV ref, Gromky

Posted by Frank G 2011-01-28 08:34|| 2011-01-28 08:34|| Front Page Top

#11 Wikipedia: Community Networks by Region

Wikipedia: Community Networks - tech

Posted by Water Modem 2011-01-28 09:10|| 2011-01-28 09:10|| Front Page Top

#12 I am sure the servers are all up inside the above locations. What Egyptian authorities have done is turned off the service provider's gateway servers for Internet Service Provider and Phone Company txt messaging server. Or they actually disconnected the service or physically disconnected the line at demark.

A Presidential "kill switch" is strictly an "Executive" order to service providers to carry out the above actions.

This would be in direct violation of the Constitution's First Amendment guaranteeing Free Speech, Right to Assembly, etc..

Not that many of this generation of Americans seem to be concerned about the particulars of the Constitution, expecially when it comes to the America's first seriously narcistic President, President Hussein.

Posted by Shaimp Lumumba4652 2011-01-28 09:46|| 2011-01-28 09:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Don't talk that way about the man who brought us the five pillars.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-01-28 10:06|| 2011-01-28 10:06|| Front Page Top

#14 I remember years ago when US hackers were working on their covert RF based internet. I wonder where that idea went.

Posted by Butch Elmaviting1567 2011-01-28 10:42|| 2011-01-28 10:42|| Front Page Top

#15 DoS is a 2 way street to the technically astute.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-01-28 10:54|| 2011-01-28 10:54|| Front Page Top

#16 In 1989 the East Germans didn't have Internet, Twitter or mobile phones.

All you need is lack of fear and the knowledge that others have it, too.

Posted by European Conservative 2011-01-28 15:22|| 2011-01-28 15:22|| Front Page Top

#17 Fab Fi pic... that's some damn good shooting.

I guess the old traditions at MIT are still alive.

Posted by KBK 2011-01-28 17:26|| 2011-01-28 17:26|| Front Page Top

#18 OKAY - I guessed wrong.
It sure looks like Murbark on TV

Posted by Water Modem 2011-01-28 17:33|| 2011-01-28 17:33|| Front Page Top

#19 here's the good news
/Some of the 30-plus deepwater rigs that were in the Gulf of Mexico have moved to other markets, first because of a U.S. halt called last May after BP Plcs (BP.L: Quote) well blowout, and then because of the lack of permits once the moratorium was lifted.Below are rigs contracted to work in the Gulf of Mexico that have been or will be moved to other regions.

sarc

Posted by Beavis 2011-01-28 17:40|| 2011-01-28 17:40|| Front Page Top

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