LORA based mesh could help here https://nootropicdesign.com/projectlab/2018/10/20/lora-mesh-...
Lora is not for general usage / internet. Basic messaging - maybe. But it achieves a few kbps in good conditions.
Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
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#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
That not one of you is sincere. When a protestor in hong kong gets shot "the whole world" is on its feet, when SA and USA starve to death 80 000 children in Yemen no one bats an eye.
I'm not going to deny the hypocrisy, but I think it's a very human thing really. Do you respond equally to every unjust death in the world?
Not sure what you're asking me.
No, I'm not brainwashed enough to think that shooting a violent protestor is the same as intentionally starving to death a whole goddamned country.
We don't even have to talk about how american police act... that's a whole other dimension of hypocrisy, unfathomable to me personally.
Re: Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not going to deny the hypocrisy, but I think it's a very human thing really. Do you respond equally to every unjust death in the world?
Not sure what you're asking me. No, I'm not brainwashed enough to think that shooting a violent protestor is the same as intentionally starving to death a whole goddamned country. We don't even have to talk about how american police act... that's a whole other dimension of hypocrisy, unfathomable to me personally.
That's not what I was asking, but I'm fine with leaving it at that.
Re: Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
#304LORA based mesh could help here https://nootropicdesign.com/projectlab/2018/10/20/lora-mesh-...
Lora is not for general usage / internet. Basic messaging - maybe. But it achieves a few kbps in good conditions.
Recall we had a whole interactive/social world in the 80s with BBSs with 300 baud acoustically coupled modems.
Re: Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
#305Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not going to deny the hypocrisy, but I think it's a very human thing really. Do you respond equally to every unjust death in the world?
Not sure what you're asking me. No, I'm not brainwashed enough to think that shooting a violent protestor is the same as intentionally starving to death a whole goddamned country. We don't even have to talk about how american police act... that's a whole other dimension of hypocrisy, unfathomable to me personally.
Ah, he was a violent protestor. Perfectly justified to kill him on the spot, then.
The protestors in Hong Kong were not violent at all, of course. Not a single on harmed a hair on a peace officer's head, or even so much as scratched a pane of glass...
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depends on the frequencies and types of antennas used. Doesn't take much to disrupt a radio-based service (people do this by accident, that's why RF regulations exist everywhere). It's not that much of an expense for a government to set up a few antennas and make them put out half a megawatt of noise each.
You can also use directional antennas to find and destroy RF jammers
Can you destroy them with the antenna? Or is that just for locating it?
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
What nonsense. Iraq has been a shitshow for a very, very long time. And I'm not endorsing the war in any way.
The relevant question for the people living there is allways: but is it better tody? And it seems, no.
You never know who gets the power after a tyranny is removed. However, if you want tyranny to go, you have to gamble.
Re: Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
#308Ahh, the smell of freedom!
don't think that it is freedom
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Why would an airborne camera be able to pick ground-based lasers up easily? Wouldn't you need to fly directly between the satellite and the ground terminal? Same goes for laser-guided bombs - those home in on where the laser pointer is pointing, not the pointer itself.
Deflection. It's pretty easy to spot a laser pointed straight up, because it's deflections create a visible trail of the beam. Have you ever shined a laser pointer in a foggy room, or seen the lightshows that do so? That.
Right, but presumably you'd be using a wavelength that's scattered a bit less than that.
Re: Iraq blocks Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram, shuts down internet
#310Well mission accomplished .. I guess. A great documentary if you haven't seen it is "Iraq: No End in Sight." It's pretty clear that the completely failed (non-existent) reconstruction efforts of the Bush administration would lead eventually to a failed state. The same thing is happening in Libya after the Obama era bombings. These places weren't democratic paradises before or anything; I'm not saying that. They had c…
All warfare actions conducted by the United States are excuses for agencies to spend money, and the money goes to corporations that are contolled by politically connected individuals. The dividends from the government consumption of these items enrich the people who are giving the orders to launch the missiles. It is beyond disheartening that innocent people die because of this. I would rather just pay the money, if…
It's also shocking to see the EU tout mass migration from Syria as a solution to the demographic problem of dropping birth rates. There's a perverse incentive here that's scary.
The same is true with the US, ignoring the political angle, it's not motivated to help stabilize countries that are sources of mass migration.