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Somewhere, someone is buying stock in Kenwood and Icom on the theory that amateur packet radio is about to make a giant comeback. :) I wonder how feasible it w
by feralchimp 15y ago
Somewhere, someone is buying stock in Kenwood and Icom on the theory that amateur packet radio is about to make a giant comeback. :)
I wonder how feasible it would be for private citizens to wire up an alternative U.S.-wide internet out of above-ground fibre and ethernet.
I bet we could get Cambridge/Somerville MA pretty well hooked together, at least. Comms to the Bay Area may involve flying backpacks of DVDs back and forth, though. Get ready for some latency.
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- kd0amg 15y agoComms to the Bay Area may involve flying backpacks of DVDs back and forth, though. Supplemented, perhaps, with low-baud HF links.
- urza 15y agoI predict the rise of Tor in the next decade. After that.. maybe a new free (as in speech) physical layer.. Something in the line of recently mentioned darknet maybe http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/the-darknet-plan-netroots-activists-dream-of-global-mesh-network.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/the-darknet-...