Only with better encryption and anonymization.
- The oppressive governments aren't likely to shut down voice PTT, as they depend on it too.
- Laptops either come with a modem built-in (older ones) or a USB modem (pretty cheap)

Yes, bandwidth will suck and you're back in the store & forward days. But the mesh layout means no single point of failure.

A survey found that almost 90% of US currency had cocaine residue on it. So not only is it being used to buy drugs, it's being used to use drugs.

Being able to tell the difference between state-sponsored cyberwar and non-state actors using DDOS attacks for the lulz could be difficult.

What if the non-state actors were primarily located in one country? Is that country then responsible for their actions?

The interesting thing is that Gamestop is honoring these pre-orders without taking the effect of inflation into account. $49.99 in 1997 is the same as $70.05 in 2011.

If all the smart phones seem to be snooping on their owners, then perhaps it's time to go luddite.

Note to Apple & AT&T: my contract is up in June. Please have this fixed by then, or else.

Wondering if I should uninstall their app from my iPhone.

It's not .NET's fault. It's the people he's been looking at.

The deal is, if you're a commercial software company, the thing you really want to keep is control over as much of the stack as possible. Why? Because when you've got a hairy performance problem you don't want to find out that it's because of code generated by some "easy to use" wizard. That is now deeply intertwined in 1/10th of your classes.

The sort of developer you want is someone who has been severely burned by wizards in the past and is now a devoted follower of the KISS principle. Someone who walks out of product demos when the salesdroid says "And look! I didn't have to write *any* code at all!"

Chip H.

Depending on your state & locality, not all of your motor fuels tax is going towards road construction & repair. In North Carolina, about 25-30% of that money is being diverted into the general fund.

So when a politician calls for an increase in tax "because we need good roads", ask him where the rest of the money he collected went that was supposed to have gone to replacing bridges in imminent danger of collapse.

Chip H.

This guy keeps getting smarter and smarter.

Just too many "Hero" games in too short a time period. IMO, Activision did it to themselves.

Well, at least they don't have access to PowerPoint.

MC Hawking, infamous gangster scientist nerdcore hip hop star, has already laid claim to the "GTA was written about me" idea. And did it ten years ago in "GTA3" on "A Brief History of Rhyme: MC Hawking's Greatest Hits"

Anyone who needed ZDNet to tell them this clearly hasn't been on Digg very long.

What this says to me is that Amazon is routing/tunneling the traffic from the web browser on the Kindle through their servers. If the browser on the Kindle (WiFi/3G) were to access banned sites directly, they'd be hitting the Chinese content firewall.

Chip H.

Now comes with Science Rock !