One of the points of the 2nd amendment was in case we ever needed to overthrow a government, we would have the power to do so. With what happened in Egypt, it's almost like guns didn't matter as much as twitter did.<br>
<br>So with that in mind, having a decentralized source of communication, sort of gives us some sense of a 'right' to having data, if only in islands.<br><br>I think with an addition of a backup for some sort of satellite transmission, even if it were slow, would be good for a city-to-city basis. Granted, keeping a bird up in the air isn't cheap, but if it only takes 3 weeks to incite a revolution...<br>
<br>--David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:37 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">An interesting idea, but I don't see how to make it work. A wired
network still leaves us connected to ISPs like Comcast. A wireless mesh
network? That would produce mesh islands, not an Internet. You need a
backbone to connect them, which brings us back to companies like
Comcast. And what would the performance be like? What about security?
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