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Comment Re:Conveniently forgetting the details (Score 1) 929

> Geography students in Israel better start wearing kevlar soon.
There is a difference between "in Israel" and "at Israel's border". As there is between printed and hand-drawn maps. That is a suspicious sign all right in my book.

>> "Fuck Star of David" pic on phone
> I'm not one for nasty language, but I won't go popping bullets in things I don't like, Mr Columbine.
So you would choose to ignore another suspicious sign. I guess that's why you're not serving in the Israeli border control.

> What's wrong with visiting an arab country?
That's an easy one: arabs generally hate jews, so anyone showing so many signs of attachment to that culture is suspicious.
> You should start getting trigger-happy with the U.N.
UN are bitches, but at least they are usually well-meaning bitches. The girl in this story might have well turned out to be an ill-meaning terrorist bitch.

In closing: good work, border control! We (the Israeli citizens) are proud of you!

Comment Re:Yes, but.... (Score 1) 75

I only see two version of Windows installed.

Hmm, then how come I see four Windows versions on that list?
The newest one goes first. Not that I see much difference between it and the second, to be honest. And the third. Each time I think that Microsoft is as glamorous as it gets, but NO - here goes the next shiny surprise! It even reminds me that company - err... you know, the dorks who sold mice with a single mouse button.

Comment Re:Competition is good, baby! (Score 1) 1089

Hate to point this out, but didn't somebody else already come up with an operating system that was tightly integrated with their web browser? That worked out so well for them!

Why is this insightful? The Google's OS is free, so the browser won't be used to promote it. It's also free software, so anyone, including their competitors, can change it and ship it with their products.

Comment Re:Technical discussion? (Score 5, Informative) 838

It turns out there ARE implementations of ad-hoc wireless networking for routers.
1. Wikipedia article that describes the protocol.
2. B.A.T.M.A.N. - implementation (incl. binaries for various routers)
3. Nightwing - another implementation of the same protocol.
4. ROBIN - implements both OLSR and B.A.T.M.A.N.

Looks like all of them are built on top of OpenWRT (or can be plugged into it) and run on a variety of commodity wireless routers (probably also on PC).

Comment Re:Technical discussion? (Score 1) 838

Replying to myself with a quote from an AC's comment, since the original thread is still modded 0:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimized_Link_State_Routing_Protocol
http://www.olsr.org/

From a brief look at the Wikipedia article, it appears that there is software (the second link is its homepage) that allows P2P routing with automatic discovery. I haven't found any notes on running this software on routers. It does work on Linux, though, and IIRC some of the open router firmwares are based on Linux. But documented way of setting it up on PCs is a start.

Comment Technical discussion? (Score 4, Interesting) 838

Please, can you help us to set up some sort of network using our home wireless access points?

I actually found this line very intriguing. Is it really possible to set up an autonomous network using any sort of commodity wireless routers? It might be a not bad idea at all in a densely populated metropolis. Probably none come with the firmware allowing to do that, but there might be open firmware alternatives. So, 3 questions:
1. Is it technically possible to connect two wireless routers together to form a network?
2. Is there readily-available software needed to set up a centralized/hierarchical network in this way?
3. P2P?

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