True hacking. Just to see if it can be done; not to do anything malicious. Even though it ranks low on the evolutionary scale as far as hacking is concerned, good work, kid :)

..the idea of the free software arena to free up my privacy; What I don't get is the reliance on a specific piece of hardware connected to the internet to do it. All I can see from this is history repeating itself. Remember the Gateway Connected Touch Pad, the ePods, the Websurfer Pro, et al... these were all dedicated internet appliances. The business plans all failed miserably; however, they all made nice, cheap (and in some cases, free) pieces of hackable cumputing hardware.. I should Know... I own all of the above, and more :)

Hrmmm, on second thought, bring on that wall-wart thingy.... maybe I can turn it into a nice little tftp server :)

Please send in your constructive comments.

Signed,
A Canadian

Dear Super Bowl lawyers,
Blow me.
Signed,
The internet.

..for this to show up on ThePirateBay :)

...wait until my boss starts nagging me about something... then, I know it's time to think about getting to it...

...somewhere around December 20th, 2012.

Great.... Aluminum prices just went up. Let's se... that covers cars, house wiring and oh yeah... beer cans.. Damn!

""The idea that people can't capture their own lived experience is a losing proposition."" ... No one's saying you can't capture your experience... just don't broadcast your experience to the masses. Not that I agree with either argument, but let's stay on track with the issue here.

I just picked up a standalone GPS for $88 Canadian (US equiv = $75.50). You call that expensive? And as for inconvenient, WTH are you talking about? You trying to tell us a dedicated machine is more inconvenient to use that an add-on app for a cell phone?

One thing to keep in mind... In North America, at least, the entire telephone/telecom/internet functionality relies on the GPS satellite system as its timing source. I work for a major North American phone/cellular/ISP service provider, and I can tell you that we have what's called a Bits Clock (which receives it's timing from a TimeSource box, which is fed via GPS signals) and without it, the entire communications system would begin to fail after about 30 days of no GPS service.

This timing provision is critical to the operation of all telecommunications.

We used characters from Looney Tunes: Daffy, Daisy, Bugs, Tweety, Sylvester, etc. Granny was the VPN server guardian :)

FTA "he faced many difficulties in obtaining specific metals such as aluminum that are not allowed into Gaza."

So... he has an alternate fuel source, and a new invention to cook with, but no means to mass-produce the new invention because you can't import aluminum into Gaza??? Where's the breakthrough?