But it need not be this way, as time goes by and internet technology becomes more and more standard less and less 'geeks' and more and more 'drones' work the guts of the internet and the ability to keep it free diminishes. Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
However, Nokia also want to leverage the existing networks as far as possible. Keeping existing networks allows them to be controlled: whole regions, if not nations, of mobile phones can be disconnected in minutes. It is a capability 'intended' for use in catastrophes to give priority to emergency services. A very tempting capability for others.
The point of WiMax is that it connects - without an interruptible physical connection -over a citywide area. It could exist and flourish even without the Internet. You can't be me, I'm taken
The point of WiMax is that it connects - without an interruptible physical connection -over a citywide area
So it's local radio, and will be regulated as such. The interruptible connection is the transmitter. Sure, you can run pirate broadcasts, but it's pretty desperate if "the authorities" decide to clamp down. And the more desperate it is, the easier it is for them to claim it's subversive.
I'm not saying this because I'm against WiMax, I'm for. But it doesn't seem to me to evacuate the problem.
The point of WiMax is relocalize information sharing, with the city as an almost optimal discrete size of ecosystem, since that is the territory size that has conformed the traditional administrative organizations.
Something I am working on is a proposal for how even smaller units of the city -ie neighbourhoods - can be nodes in a metropolitan system that connect all the people who might physically meet, whether sellers, buyers, servers, suppliers or whatever, and lift the information exchange level at these nodes to make them better places to live in. These hood nodes are then connected together to form the virtual/real city.
The ultimate political aim of the proposal is to bypass representative government, and corporations, in true bottom up style ;-). You can't be me, I'm taken
Governments fundamentally don't like any sort of communication system that they don't control.
Brian Greene » Blog Archive » radio is my bomb
This is a second edition of a pamphlet which we brought out first in 1992. The first edition was concise and contained all the relevant information needed to get you interested in starting your own free radio station. The first edition was not an original idea. A magazine distributed through the anarchist press with the same name "Radio is my bomb" has been very popular with those interested in setting up radio stations. Our first edition did fairly well . Many thanks goes to those at "Catharsis" zine for standing in the photo-copying shop for hours on end to bring out the first edition. Some critics of the last edition said it was too technical and didn't explain itself very well. ??
The original printed magazine runs to 64 A4 pages packed with circuit diagrams. I think i got mine from AK Press (Always an interesting source of unusual, non-mainstream political books for those who don't know of it. Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
I wonder why. keep to the Fen Causeway
But it need not be this way, as time goes by and internet technology becomes more and more standard less and less 'geeks' and more and more 'drones' work the guts of the internet and the ability to keep it free diminishes.
And the laws are changed to make keeping the information flowing freely more dangerous!
The UK's Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act means that if I tell anyone* about, or don't respond within 48 hours to, a RIPA request from an 'authorised person' I could be locked up for 7 years for supporting terrorism (or whatever the investigation is about) even if nothing comes of the investigation.
For this aging geek, it adds a certain frisson to answering number-withheld calls at work :-/
* If I understand the Act correctly the only exceptions are the investigating officers and the issuing judge: not my colleagues, nor line-manager or lawyer, ...
