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I don't know enough about these wireless networks that individuals can set up, but I imagine for some quids and with a bit of knowhow (and I always have found people who know A LOT about computers who tend to be anti-authoritarian--it's a club, and you can only join if you ask the right questions [c.f. spybot--Search & Destroy, offered to me by one of the many who know about computers here at ET--thanks TBG!])...sorta like walking out of "Windows world"--and everything is...different.

I have this sense that we're right in the middle (or at the beginning) of an evolutionary step, where the "bad people" have their hands on the old levers, cos they have the time, the inclination, and the narrow focus, they have accumulated enough money to win all their fights, sooner or later--money as a magnet--like gravity, it's cumulative--sucks people and objects in.

"fighting this war as if it were the last war"--where "this war" is a war on...greed and selfishness, I think.  So generosity--the sharing of what we have, including our abilities to protect each other...ach...I've typed lossa words but feel very...mucho difficulty in my expression of ideas.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.

by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 10:23:02 AM EST
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I've seen reports of mobile phone jammers being used in Iraq to prevent the triggering of  IED's, it may be that the police will deploy these around protests for 'Public Safety'. As a backup there are many cities now with wireless open-air networks. Setting up a wireless network is reasonably easy, however you would need a point to connect it into the rest of the worldwide network, that would be the more complex part.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 10:35:47 AM EST
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thinking further on this, there would probably be a use for a reference somewhere as to how to make a piece of video film so that it was usable as evidence in court.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 10:40:33 AM EST
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If you can find one, I think it would be a useful piece of information to have on public view.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 07:24:49 PM EST
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though I immediately think: each jurisdiction would be different.  But okay, let's emulate Spybot: have the rules for as many jurisdictions as possible available here at ET.  For any budding video types, here are the laws, here's what you can and can't do: written down.

Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
by rg (leopold dot lepster at google mail dot com) on Thu Sep 20th, 2007 at 07:26:31 PM EST
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